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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My brother has an associates in diesel mechanics and now works full time fixing combines for a company and then farms our family farm as a side hussle. He is now in his 40s and though his path has been a good fit for him, his back, joints, and other health are starting to become potential limits.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If I didn’t have a BA, I wouldn’t have the higher quality health insurance, access to financial and health literacy, and would not be able to work in a physical labor based job due to early medical disabilities. It’s hard for me to support the discourse that fewer of us should attend college

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We also had well water that was so poisoned with nitrates that the State of Minnesota had to create a massive rural water pipeline. I was the oldest of my siblings and I drank, cooked, and bathed in that nitrate water until the age of about 10.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I grew up on a family farm and was driving tractors and heavy equipment, handling Roundup, wrangling livestock--all before the age of 15. By age 45 I had a cancer dx and limited mobility due to major joint and back problems. Without a college degree I'd have far fewer employment options.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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rionchama 🖤💛 @rionchama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I only stop for the bread, potty and gift shop. Okay, sometimes that cafe over other building.

Painting has NDN driver looking at Kewa gas prices = Do you really want to know? (The sign)

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Museum of International Folk Art @folkartmuseum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Installation of Jesse Littlebird's "Petrol-glyph" for Route 66 Community Day, today, 9/20 11am-5pm. Thank you to artist, Jesse Littlebird, Petro-glyph's producer, Max Baptiste and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture for arranging to have it for the community celebration of 100 years of Route 66!

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gas in Taos, New Mexico jumped from 4.39 to 4.69 during the two hours I was in my book club, with all stations but one at 4.69. The one outlier was selling gas at 4.59.

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ANTIQUES ROADSHOW @roadshowpbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

30 years of delivering jaw-dropping moments later and we're finally experiencing a ROADSHOW reaction of our own! After 24 nominations, we are truly humbled and thrilled to receive our first Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program!

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Check out my new-fangled purring keyboard stand. My co-worker today decided he wanted all of my attention and desk space. While I hunt and peck gently with one hand, the other provides chin scratches when I use the mouse.

Very fluffy and looonnnngggg adult ginger cat sprawled across a desk's workspace. His head and shoulders are resting on the cordless mouse, and a wireless keyboard is resting on top of his body. This is the only way that I am able to work today, by gently typing on top of my cat, because he has decided he wants all my attention.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026

It's National Suicide Prevention Month, so you've likely heard a lot about 988 and the Crisis Text Line. This is different. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a guide to the numbers you can call before things get to the point of total despair: warmlines and other forms of peer support.

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Peer Warmlines and Specialized Support

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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A report released Monday by the nonprofit Animal Protection New Mexico details "systemic failures" in the north-central region of the state's animal services. Animal shelters struggle with high capacity, while rural communities lack shelters entirely. sfnm.co/4wYTUCF

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Report details 'systemic failures' in New Mexico's animal welfare systems, calls for new state agency

New Mexico lacks a consolidated state authority that is responsible for domestic animal welfare, the report says.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bauer Pottery out of Los Angeles bought the molds and glaze colors/ copyright to reproduce these! I have one of their new/old style ceramic pitchers in lovely lead-free, food-safe turquoise glaze.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Beware: these same arguments will be used to eliminate any field of study that uses qualitative or mixed method research design to understand power imbalances in culture and human life: Education, psychology, social work, economics, anthro, business, law, medicine…

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Anyone who has witnessed what happens to most octogenarians who receive heroic measures (various forms of life sustaining interventions, cpr, weeks of icu care) knows, at minimum, his health and cognitive abilities are likely profoundly compromised. Add on top of that a recent history of strokes…

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It seems like now there is a panacea, and providers don’t want to spend their 15-minute appointment time to listen, think critically, or work with complex patients. It feels as though providers are pushing me out of their practice because I am asking for more than the magic beans they are pushing.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It’s been brutal. I returned to eating disorder informed medicine for my primary care because appointments with providers from my dentist and eye doctor to the phlebotomist and my oncologist are using nearly 100 of the time allotted in appointments to convince me to use a GLP-1.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just saw it. No onscreen and only lightly implied sexy business—I know I still am embarrassed to watch any media that has nudity it with elders, and I’m 50… Recommend a pre-viewing brush up on backstory of main characters to catch important references, especially Helen, Clytemnestra, and Iphigenia.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy “Your Student Loan Repayment Amounts Tripled Day” for all those who celebrate. Today my student loan repayments went from $160/ month under the Biden admin’s SAVE plan to $475/ month under Trump’s RAP program. My middle income household now has $0 available for surprise expenses.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I personally do not have children, but my dental hygienist, mental health care provider, and a leader of a local non-profit all do. In all cases, they told me NM’s universal childcare means they could continue working full-time in my small town. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/legisla...

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Judge: New Mexico must halt universal childcare or contest ruling

A lawsuit filed by Republican gubernatorial candidate Duke Rodriguez seeks to invalidate rules expanding free childcare.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Long form, critically needed analysis on the effects the war with Iran has already had on the economies of several Asian countries, putting decades of economic and democratic(ish) growth at risk of quick collapse. Gift link article from today’s NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

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The Forces of Scarcity Hitting Asia May Soon Spread Across the World

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We got one of theirs too— it’s fugly, but it has held up well and I love it for movie nights. We got one that is a wall hugging plug in reclining sofa—even fuglier than the others, but it works great and fits our small space.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Fiver showing us all his gratitude belly

Super floofy ginger cat sleeping belly up in a wicker basket in front of a bookshelf.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

if you want any oil or fuel price posts myth busted, screen shot and post them. Don’t interact with them, it builds the hype for lies and misinformation and if you interact with it, it boosts the visibility of bullsh*t

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Thanks for continuing to follow USPS policy. I live in a remote, rural area where USPS is a literally a lifeline. Mail pharmacies are critical here as we’ve several lost full-time medical professionals and facilities in our region. Our local economy also heavily relies on USPS.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

On this #caturday I am building a LEGO wildflower bouquet and this sweet face is my assistant.

A ginger cat sits on a book shelf expectantly as he sniffs and inspects a LEGO bachelor button blossom presented to him.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

You know it’s gonna be bad if you’re watering the waterwise, native plants in the garden in April…

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The hail was brief, but we had enough to cover the deck—pea sized, but it still made a racket on our roof when it fell. Spring in Taos—one neighbor gets rain, next door it’s hail, and the guy across the road gets nada.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Wasn't it amazing to step outside and breathe in the grateful smell of sage after that rain? We had a giant, full rainbow after the hail in El Prado.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

No Lilies For Kitties is a great band name.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Feeling this so, so much in Northern New Mexico right now. Yes, we got a few tenths of an inch of rain this week, but the monsoon season is a long, long way off...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/04/2026

I like big buttresses and I cannot lie.

Massive flying buttress at Narbonne cathedral

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Santa Fe Public Library @sfnmpl.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We have received wonderful artwork from the community for Southside Library's #MailArtShow, including adorable pieces from Ms. Tammy's Pre-K class at Nye Early Childhood Center! It's not too late to send in your artwork and be a part of this gorgeous show for the month of April!

Love Brings Life garden poem painting with two mice in the foreground.

Floral image with spiral background and Buddha quote.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Would like to see a comically long, vaudeville style hook pull him off stage.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The rain today is so beautiful! My perennial, native plants are already up, and were so, so thirsty.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I'm also kind of thinking that this cheese bread might be tasty in a New Mexico-Minnesota cuisine fusion if one spooned some Hatch 505 green chile on top...

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Yeah, the cinnamon bread with cheese whiz is a bit too celebratory for a funeral. I’ve only had it at baby showers, 4-H club meetings, and graduation open houses. I recall liking it as a special treat as my mom would never buy cheese whiz (probably for the best, tbh)

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Consulted my home parish's church cookbook from 1979 which helpfully lets you know how much meat, vegetables, desserts, salads, coffee, and shortcakes to prepare to feed 50. Also included the recipe for Good Meat Hot Dish that feeds 250 from the same cookbook. Descriptions in alt text.

End page from the Our Daily Bread cookbook published by the good people of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Canby, Minnesota, first printing (of at least five known printings) from 1979. This is a conversion chart that shows the volunteers cooking in the church's basement kitchen how much meat, vegetables, desserts, salads, coffee/tea and shortcakes are needed to serve 50 people. It lists 5 different ways to quantify potatoes at scale depending on if they are mashed (2 pecks), boiled (1.5 pecks), creamed (10 pounds), escalloped (10 pounds) or chips (2.5 pounds).

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Consider adding Southwestern Minnesota Cookie Salad and "funeral hotdish" (macaroni noodles, canned peas, tomato sauce, and hamburger--sometimes included canned cream of mushroom soup because why not?) to your research. Those two dishes and ham buns with butter are church basement staples.

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I've never seen this served at a funeral or with olives, but cheese whiz on cinnamon swirl bread was served at 4-H meetings of my youth, placed next to a bowl of Southwestern Minnesota Cookie Salad (buttermilk, cool whip, vanilla pudding, fudge stripe cookies, and--GASP--canned mandarin oranges).

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Kelly Winters @ktwinters.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

6th generation Minnesota farm kid hot take: I don't know what fancy Midwestern funerals they're talking about here as I've never seen my people put olives on anything (Pimentos? Yes. Olives? No). Cheese whiz on cinnamon swirl bread was the usual snack at the 4-H meetings of my youth.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today's MPR show with Angela Davis is a conversation with faith leaders about their resistance to Metro Surge and it's really worth listening to. I'd especially recommend it to faith leaders out of state. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

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'For such a time as this': Faith leaders reflect on the federal immigration surge

When ICE surged into Minnesota in January, communities didn’t just face a legal issue. They faced a moral one. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, faith leaders who were on the front lines reflect on what...

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