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Kirsti

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Librarian. Geek. Music is life. I block early & often. “Always fight for the user, never for the system.”— Cory Doctorow.

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South Seattle Emerald @soseaemerald.bsky.social · 6h
What can a tiny plant carry across generations? 🌱 At Georgetown's SlipStitch Studio, Iranian artist Nahal Entezam Nia uses sculpture, botanical scans, touch, and scent to explore Persian plant life, memory, and resilience. Read here: soseaem.org/4hgIa9W #Seattle
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https://southseattleemerald.org/arts-culture/2026/09/30/georgetown-exhibition-unearths-the-power-of-tiny-plants
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18h
When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 8h
Across Europe, governments are using criminal laws against climate and environmental protesters — a phenomenon that shows few signs of retreating. Donate to support our Protest in Democracy #GVSpotlight: globalvoices.org/2026/08/24...
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When the right to protest remains, but demonstrating comes at a price
Since the 1950s, Europe’s democratic and human rights system has developed through the gradual strengthening of protections for political expression, assembly and dissent.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 15h
OMG! This is is such a perfect summation: “Can women use this network to live their lives?”
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 20h
Yes, I'm fangirling about getting to see Nnedi Okorafor talk tonight
Photo of the author Nnedi Okorafor sitting in a chair at a library event
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 23h
This right here encapsulates why Week Without Driving advocacy is needed.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just spoke with my German host mother on the phone & I'm going to see her when I visit in November!!!!
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What would your life be like if you couldn't drive? This week is #WeekWithoutDriving which is all about understanding what it's like to be a nondriver. @devinsilvernail.bsky.social & I launched @nondriverpodcast.bsky.social to share these stories. Search for 'nondriver' wherever you watch/listen
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30% of people in the US & Canada can't or don't drive. nondriver is a podcast about the lives and stories of those people, hosted by Anna Zivarts and Devin Silvernail. Every episode, we talk to peopl...
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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
big news for the autistic non-binary exvangelical crowd! We got a book deal baby (and it's at an academic-minded press!!!!)
screen shot of publishers marketplace deal report for Raised to Obey by D.L. Mayfield and Krispin Mayfield
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regensbloggerin @regensbloggerin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just having another set of eyes to go over the instructions can be hugely helpful and move a voter from apathy to action. And some states suck and make it hard, so connecting the voter to help resources at www.votefromabroad.org can get voters over the hump. Thanks for reading my screed.
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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org
Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's some righteous anger.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 29/09/2026
In this month's edition of Undertones, we dive deep into a narrative used by leaders in the United States and other countries to delegitimize protests. Support our Protest in Democracy #GVSpotlight globalvoices.org/2026/08/24...
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Equating protest with terrorism: A narrative against dissent
In this month's edition, we dive deep into a narrative used by leaders in the United States and other countries to delegitimize protests.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I ended up watching an interesting take on zombie movies tonight-- a 2017 Irish film called The Cured. The film takes place at the end of an outbreak after a cure has been found when there's huge social unrest over over how-- or if-- the former zombies can be re-integrated into society.
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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we happily add lanes to roads in anticipation of future drivers, but when there are more people walking, bicycling, and scootering than fit into the leftover space available to them today, we do PSAs and shame campaigns
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Spouse made risotto with smoked salmon, dill, & hazelnuts yesterday. Recipe called for a bit of cayenne, which he amended to also include white pepper & Szechuan green pepper. It's intense but not in a bad way.
Photo of a bowl of smoked salmon risotto being held by a white person's hand
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Adam Shprintzen @veghistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reading for this week’s food studies reading group and…this book is reminding me why food is such an important field of study. (Read this. Read this now)
Chin Jou’s Captive Consumer’s
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't miss Juan Bazan's own comments downthread
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 28/09/2026
"Whereas his first administration took children from their parents at the border to deter illegal crossings, the second is separating families living in the United States as part of a purge. "
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My massage therapist, whose a friend of 30 years, tells me the owners of his clinic are talking about moving them to Shoreline. I have a sinking feeling the new location isn't going to be accessible via transit.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Decided to go through Ballard on the way home to get to the Elliott Bay Trail. Not sure I'm doing that again. Ballard Bridge technically has a pedestrian/bike lane on either side but it's so narrow it's incredibly unpleasant.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I rode my ebike all the way from South Seattle to N 103rd & 6th Ave NW yesterday for a massage. Transit app estimated 2 hours and I made it in 90 minutes. Don't know if I'm getting faster or if I just had better luck with the lights downtown on 4th.
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SPD stopped naming cops who shoot people when the consent decree ended, so we do that now. The cop who shot the woman in Beacon Hill is Jose Jimenez, and we did a deep dive on him. Read all about him:
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Cop who shot Beacon Hill woman identified
Officer Jose Jimenez, 34, had only been assigned to the SWAT team for less than a year. He was previously a member of the Community Response Group, SPD’s “problem-oriented policing” unit.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our cats are littermates, but don't normally interact much with each other. This is unusual for them.
Two cats curled up on a bed. The cat on the right has a front paw resting on the cat on the left.
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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're selling books you're publishing through Ingram or D2D, could you find a way to set your Kobo settings international? There have been a few books by friends I wanted to buy but couldn't because not available in my region. (I got some through smashwords but I prefer the kobo reader)
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Steph Noell (they/them) @librarianstebbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My buddy Beth has been fighting cancer and needs help covering living expenses during her treatment. Please donate/share! www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover...
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Donate to Help Cover Living Costs During Cancer Treatment, organized by Beth Daniel
In February 2026, I was diagnosed with triple positive breast cancer. It… Beth Daniel needs your support for Help Cover Living Costs During Cancer Treatment
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
TODAY: DIY-VestSPD Public Records Workshop Vera Project 3:30-5 pm price: Free! Learn esoteric public records secrets from your beloved community police watchdog
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kinda weird to read an article about Seattle tea shops & see a friend mentioned indirectly (ok, maybe not that weird): "One of the original owners had a Ren Faire clothing company and did the Ren Faire circuit...
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm listening to a German language podcast about Schlager songs in German culture. One of the speakers talked about how in 1920s Berlin, people had heard *about* jazz but hadn't heard jazz.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I know 2 people in the Puget Sound region who've tested positive for COVID in the last 2 days. I mentioned the current COVID wave to my adult kid who works in healthcare. He says his clinic will be offering vaccines to employees-- in November. 🤦‍♀️
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watch Nikole Hanna Jones' ONLY interview about " The Article" on ContrabandCamp's YouTube channel or at ContrabandCamp.com
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I went to the 1st listening session the City of Seattle is doing about the new police chief search. They had people sit at tables of 8-10 people & discuss 5 pre-set but open-ended questions. A person at each table took notes collected by the organizers at the end.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Found a new profile pic
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Conor Mahood @conorvoice.com · 25/09/2026
Maybe the below sounds callous. I hope not. It's just, two siblings and my best friend in three years, I'm kind of overwhelmed, washed out. I know life is like this and it accelerates as you get older, but man. It's rough.
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Speaking of techbros devaluing the knowledge of women, I strongly recommend everyone read WHO COOKED ADAM SMITH'S DINNER? Which is about how economics overlooks "women's work" too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Coo...
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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? - Wikipedia
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fun will continue later today when I help one of my libraries figure out what to do about the fact that no one can enter the library due to damage from a burst pipe & classes start Monday.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pulled a calf muscle & a thigh muscle (opposite legs) in the middle of the night making sure our elderly cat was throwing up on the towels on top of the bed, instead of on my only remaining bedsheets that replaced the sheets the cat had already thrown up on right before I went to bed.
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Frank Abe @frankabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BLOG POST: Congratulations to Densho on thirty years of service to preserve and share the history of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. It’s been a remarkable journey for them and one I’ve been pleased and proud to support. resisters.com/2026/09/24/t...
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Thirty years of collaboration with Densho | RESISTERS.COM: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Seattle Opera will host a free open house at the Opera Center on the Seattle Center campus from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, including tours of the costume shop, props department, and the broadcasting studios of Classical KING FM.
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Greg Halling @ghalling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A video shared by a YIRN volunteer shows a masked officer in an orchard saying, "we weren't trying to do a raid or anything." (Tammy Ayer & Joel Donofrio / Yakima Herald-Republic)
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6 farmworkers detained in Upper Yakima Valley, immigrant support group says
At least six undocumented farmworkers were arrested by federal authorities while they were working Wednesday morning outside Yakima, according to an immigrant support group.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
that time when black men from greensville sc enlisted for ww1 & their wives wanted to stay home & take care of their kids & other community folk in need but white officials "no, no, no!" & called them "loafers" and said they had to do domestic work for white folks or be fined or jailed.
newspaper headline saying "negro women to be put to work" or face severe punishment.
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Economic Opportunity Institute @eoionline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A top-paid public-school teacher in Olympia making $180,000 per year would have to work for 278 years to earn $1 million in annual pension benefits – this is impossible.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fascinating story
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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My first story set in my home of San Diego! The inspiration for this was a Twitter post I saw from a white pagan years ago who said with all seriousness “you can’t accuse me of oppression because I was a Black slave in a past life”.
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spouse showed up at his viola da gamba lesson this week & his teacher had a bag of apples waiting for him. They were from the apple tree(s) in her yard & he wasn't given the option to refuse. His teacher is currently inundated with apples & running out of things to do with them. We've eaten half.
Photo of a half full bag of apples on a counter. Behind the bag is a small cutting board with apple slices on it. Bonus cat to the right of the apples.
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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pleased to gift you with more phenomenal work from our very own @brentclambert.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Scoop the Forged in FIYAH anthology today for this and more Black SFF from some of today's finest voices!
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
❤️
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think @mcjulie.bsky.social would appreciate this thread
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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spouse made delicious cookies. There are 2 left & I'm leaving them for him since he made them. They're sitting out on the counter. It's like being in that marshmallow test in my own house!
Photo of a black plastic food container on a kitchen counter with 2 pinwheel cookies inside it.
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