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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 4h

The sparrows are taking over the feeder #Birds

Small brown and grey bird with yellow beak looking left while larger brown bird lurks in feeder

Small brown bird with black marking peers curiously at the camera with one eye on a red platform

Small brown grey sparrow looks right to larger rounder sparrow while a brown bird occupies the feed space

Small tan and grey sparrow leans left while another brown bird occupies the feed space

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 5h

Ope! It's #LetterboxdFriday and these were my #LastFourWatched: Day of Wrath Je Tu Il Elle Misery Paris, Texas

Four movie posters: black and white Day of Wrath with a dark door on the left and grey shadows and a blonde woman in black peeking through a door, je tu il elle in black and white with two women in a torrid embrace, Misery in red type on a mountain background and Paris Texas with a man walking railroad tracks under a photo of a white young woman with a dyed blonde bob on the left and a young child on the right..

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Anyone who really cares about books must be curious above all, and must cultivate a willingness to try new things.” Maris Kreizman pushes back against recent awards season whining. buff.ly/aSIErTI

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In Defense of Literary Awards (and Longlists, and Shortlists)

It’s awards nominations announcement season, which means it’s also snarky opinions about awards nominations season. I love a hot take as much as anyone, but the truth is I have been and remain flag…

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, it's after midnight and I'm finishing Duolingo, but I got the mf'in duckie suit.

A screenshot of the Duolingo app showing a red headed cartoon person wearing blue glasses and a yellow duckie suit.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After my family saw Camp Miasma my younger said his fave gummy candy was Nerds Gummy Clusters. I have tried them, found them strange, sweet and sour and crunchy and soft, delicious and devourable and learned tthat Gummy Clusters + Kylie Jenner was an amazing business kaboom.

Pink purple packet of Nerds Gummy Clusters in Strawberry punch, a colored candy covered gummy.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I agree with all Cheryl says and I think they've potentially set themselves up for failure by adhering so closely to the formula and vibe of True Detective Season one.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/09/2026

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand-saw.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Started grad school in English Lit. Worried bc I love lit not theory. This morning: maybe I want to read Cixous on Freud's unheimliche in the original French to test my idea that she framed her critique of his bad argumentation teasingly as him being a bad lover. I think I'm in the right place.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of sparrow action at the bird feeder and turkeys in the 'hood. #Birds

Brown and tan sparrow, back to camera on red feeder and looking to right as if thinking deep thoughts

Grey bellied red capped sparrow waiting for a turn at the feeder on a blue perch on front of red platform. Round boi.

Four young dar wild turkeys on a lawn in a line

Two young black wild turkeys, behind the rest of their group, in a yard by a wooden brown fence.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is there anything more middle aged than an ice pack for 1 pain & heat pad on my back for another & watching a parade of birds at the feeder. I said to my kid it was like Panic at the Disco but frenzy at the feeder; he gave me a look of pity and literally backed away slowly from my old-person joke.

A griping grey black bird and part of a small brown one at feeder

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Obligatory nod to This is How You Win the Time War, Blue and Red. The Jay's color is vivid and the Cardinal's lighting makes it look like an oil painting. #Birds

Blue jay with bright blue feathers over a white belly w black accents facing right at the feeder w red platform

Male cardinal at dusk, head tilted and colors burnished in the late day sun, darker reds and shades of grey.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How it is #LetterboxdFriday already? Here are my #LastFourWatched Loved Distant Voices Still Lives. Loved the front half of Paris Texas but had strong visceral negative reactions on the back half.

Four movie posters: Man on a red cap walking train tracks with a photo of a blonde white woman super imposed upper left and a young blonde kid to the right. In red Paris Texas. Sepia brown with a silhouette of a white boy w brown hair and faint, annoyingly barely legible cursive script reading The Long Day Closes. Photo of three white people who look happy and to be singing, Distant Voices Still Lives. A mustached white man looking up at a vampimg white woman with a brunette bob on a blue background It Happened One Night

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NE Minneapolis: gas rupture around Lowry and Ulysses. We just got evac'd from our house. Guy showed up and said get out. They've been working on the gas lines on the block for weeks/months.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Time to give this book another look? One of the best titles ever.

A white book cover with black type: Julian Haynes
The Origin of consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

...he sinks the deep Where harmelesse fish monastique silence keep (John Donne, Elegie on Mris. Boulstred)

Paul Klee's Fish Magic a black background with multicolored fish And light and flowers

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reading Carmilla for a Victorian Ghosts class (thus living my best life) "She was slender & graceful...languid...Her complexion was rich & brilliant, her features small & beautifully formed; her eyes large, dark, & lustrous; her hair was quite wonderful, a rich very dark brown w something of gold"

A pale woman with long dark curly hair, dark eyes and red lips in gauzy golden clothes that fall away from her shoulders, gazing up and to the left against a gold background. It is a painting of the character Nadja from the Series What We Do in the Shadows and a riff on Regnault's Salome in the Metropolitan museum of art

Oil painting of a pale woman with long dark curly hair, dark eyes and smiling red lips in gauzy golden clothes that fall away from her shoulders, gazing up and to the left against a gold background. She sits on a crate, holds a wide gold colored pan in her lap, has bare feet and there is a spotted animal skin on the floor atop a patterned carpet. Regnault's Salome in the Metropolitan museum of art

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Female cardinal at the feeder, crest up! #Birds

Grey bodied female cardinal on red platform at feeder facing away with her crest feathers up and fanned out and translucent in the light

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's almost the end of #LetterboxdFriday And here are my #lastFourWatched: The Long Day Closes, Distant Voices Still Lives, It Happened One Night and Wings of Desire.

Movie marquee black letters on white wall: Now Showing Distant Voices Still Lives 7:00
The Long Day Closes 9:00

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026

minnesota: we’re the first in the nation to early vote, let’s show the rest of the country that this is another way we show up and stop the onslaught of violence against our neighbors. let’s get these fascists out of power. join people this friday, 10AM at the hennepin county government center.

THEY TAKE OUR NEIGHBORS, WE TAKE THEIR POWER.
Rally+Vote 10AM
Friday the 18th
Hennepin County
Government Center
I
Voted
Minnesota is the first state to early vote. Let's show up in record numbers make the fascists afraid.
We protect our neighbors.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Downtown Mpls swarmed w/red shirts; must be Target annual meeting. I was once one of them. Went to Target Center, got to see Destiny's Child & Diana Krall, w video clips of Patton & blowing up the competition. It was all very male and silly. Today I'm walking to my tutoring job. Much better life now

Beige cement and lots of ppl dressed in red and blue sky

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Got to participate in a Q and A for St Thomas students with visiting writer Percival Everett, who was introduced by Leila Renee. I was charmed by the contrast of his functional shoes (and socks with chickens!) and her fabulous ones. It was a great discussion too.

A smiling young Black woman in a black top and blue jeans seated and looking at paper with pointed toe metallic shoes and an older Black man in a beige dad jacket and blue jeans wearing sensible shoes.

Close up of footwear: young woman wearing metallic gold pointed toe low heels and a person wearing beige sensible sneakers and blue socks with a chicken design.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

OK, last #Birds tonight I swear. One of these things is not like another. The molting cardinal looks monstrous and the blue jay (my first in this set up!) looks suave and debonair and it's like This is How You Lose the Time War at the bird feeder

Scruffy molting male cardinal in shades of red black and grey, mostly bald with spikes at red platform on blue wire perch looking left

Scruffy molting male cardinal in shades of red and black, mostly bald with spikes at red platform on blue wire perch looking head on at camera down into seeds

Blue and white and black blue jay on blue wire perch in front of red platform looking.down and to left

Scruffy red male cardinal again at blue wire perch and red platform.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Baby house finch looking gawky at the feeder #Birds

Brown and tan small bird, looking at camera with another bigger browner bird in the seeds, at feeder on blue wire perch in front of red platform and seeds.

Small pale tan house finch with speckled chest peering around a lump of dark, parental house finch crouching dragon hoard-like in the seeds. Meep.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seriously photogenic sparrow. Like it was school picture day or something. #Birds

Brown and tan small bird, looking right at feeder on blue wire perch in front of red platform and seeds.

Brown and tan small bird, looking at camera and like it's smiling at feeder on blue wire perch in front of red platform and seeds.

Brown and tan small bird, looking pensively left at feeder on blue wire perch in front of red platform and seeds.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Brace yourself. Incoming #Birds some male house finch red beauty

Red/white grey small bird, looking left at feeder on blue wire perch in front.of orange platform and seeds.

Red/white grey small bird, looking at camera at feeder on blue wire perch in front.of orange platform and seeds.

Red/white grey small bird, looking slightly right as if asked to pose, at feeder on blue wire perch in front.of orange platform and seeds.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Grad School update. Applied in '22. Rejected '23. Tried again, got rejected 6x but accepted to dream program '24 but no $. Applied earlier '25; rejected in '26. In March gathered shreds of self esteem & sent 3 more apps. Three Ys, one w (some) $. First week went well. Cheers.

On an orange copper bar, a copy of James by Percival Everett with a black cover, yellow James and gold seals for awards, and a pretty pink non alcoholic cocktail with a grapefruit peel behind.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here are my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday Two Lane Blacktop, Shiva Baby, Ida, and Variety. Great week.

Four movie posters: white with a hitchhiker on yellow over a long haired guy in blue Two Lane Blacktop, Shiva Baby with a young woman with brown hair in a skirt made of cream cheese decorated with bagels and a schmear upon her head like a crown, Ida in black and white nun praying and black with red neon Variety with a bored woman in a ticket booth

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

First day of school, as tutor & grad student, again! English Lit at St. Thomas. Spent yesterday in my corner of the couch reading for class next to a tangle of baby Blahaj sharks. Planned out my route, food, outfit, charged my machinery, & packed my bag. Pre-class HW over Labor Day, tho? Not a fan.

Apple green couch with a spread of papers, pink date book, and headphones next to a pile of four plush blue Ikea Blahaj sharks, one large and three small over an orange wood lap desk.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A female cardinal with tall teased hair and a very suspicious little male house finch. #Birds

Light brown grey bird with a red crest and orange beak on a red platform with seeds and yellow corn

A red male house finch, crouching Gollum-like in the left corner, observing a brown bird on the seeds.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Grad school starting this week plus a couple for fun. The baby sharks are pretty psyched for this stack: The Carrying by Ada Limon The Portable Feminist Reader Ed. Roxanne Gay Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Writers & Lovers by Lily King Soft Spots by Leila Renee #Booksky

Three small IKEA Blahaj light blue and white and pink sharks in a triangle frame around a sack of books: Red cover The Carrying by Ada Limon
Black spine The Portable Feminist Reader Ed. Roxanne Gay
Purple cover and spine Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Black spine Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Purple and yellow striped spine Soft Spots by Leila Renee
On apple green couch cushion, with a glimpse of an orange Gritty plushie behind plus many other books

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Stayed up late last night to finish Lily King's Heart the Lover. The sharks approve, too.

Small blue plush Ikea Blahaj shark on green couch next to orange book w pink and white details Heart the Lover by Lily King

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think a more accurate response might be: oh, he was telling us all along. He wasn't just writing horror, he was BEING horror. They weren't just fictionalizing monsters, they ARE monsters. I think this applies to David Foster Wallace, too.

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Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's #LetterboxdFriday and these were my #LastFourWatched plus a whole slew of excellent stuff since I forgot to post last week (was recovering from trip to MN state fair)

Four movie posters: Shiva Baby has a dark haired white skinned woman holding a bagel and looking provocatively at camera wearing what appears to be a swath of cream cheese adorned with pastry and a hat of cream on her head. Ida is a black and white photo of a nun in a plain grey headless looking up And to the left. Variety is in neon red letters outlined in green on black background with a white woman staring out from a ticket booth. We Are All Going to the World's Fair had a pink and purple to fed young persons face staring out and reaching with a Black hand outlines in white.

A list of movies by dates with posters and ratings: white Bottoms, red Sunset Boulevard, white jagged My Own Private Idaho, white and light blue Shadow of a doubt, black and white Citizen Kane, yellow The Muppet Movie and black and pink Frances Ha

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