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Literature Lady, Ph.D.

@literaturelady.bsky.social
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Emod women's lit, books, history, food, gardens, IT, hard of hearing. AKA The Literature Lady of Twitter.

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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Heads up. Remember the supply chain issues during Covid that led to empty shelves? It is going to be that way for the USA in two weeks. My sister who works for a major US company with products in many big box stores is telling me that they are just about out of product. Time to stock up!
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I'm meeting friends tomorrow at a local coffee shop to write our elected reps and vent. I've been doing this once a month. It has been a great way to stay connected with loved ones while putting pressure on politicians. Political activism doesn't need to be boring or painful. Go have fun with it!
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The SAVE Act just passed the house. This is a dark day for voting rights, especially for married women, the poor, and deployed families abroad. A passport here STARTS at $160, and with DOGE cutting so many services, many wouldn't get their passports in time for the November election. By design.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Holy shit. 😳
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The GOP cut welfare funding because the poor are lazy, but they also support these tariffs that are tanking our retirement funds, which will require us to need welfare programs when we retire, but we'll be denied access because we didn't pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Did I get that right?
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the millions of people going to one of the many Hands Off 2025 events tomorrow: May you have a safe, peaceful, and successful protest!
media.tenor.com
a close up of a man 's face with the words this is a dictatorship below it
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
TikTok is going belly up on Saturday in the US unless a miracle occurs. Where is the #resist crowd migrating to? I feel like I'm playing social media musical chairs these days.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker is a goddamn hero.💙
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This.👇
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'm a civil servant now and I want to post about my work SO BADLY but I can't BUT I will assure everyone that all hands are on deck and we are doing everything we can to mitigate the damage and preserve access to services/info. We feel so helpless as the good work we do is unraveled by the regime.☹
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Are we in the Bad Place? It feels like we are in the Bad Place.
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a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
Alt: a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Watching the GOP defend and gaslight the group chat debacle is so freakishly cult-like that I am gobsmacked. If we ever survive this facist phase of America, we are going to have to hold our own version of the Nuremberg Trials to hold these people publicly accountable. Live are literally at stake.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It is like we are watching the rise of Shitler 2.0 but on a Monty Python timeline.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I'm in the middle of a bad Hashimoto flair up and my daughter and husband are very sick so I am nursing them and I noticed we caught a mouse in a trap but when I picked it up it disintegrated into a black sludge and now I have to do a hazmat cleaning AND we have a dictator is in charge. Send help.😭
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I just got a memo from the FDA announcing that whip-its are bad, in case you are wondering how Trump's pick Dr. Marty Makary is doing as head of the FDA.🙄🙄
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Ugh. Sen. Gary Peters (D), my senator, was one of the turncoats. He's not running for reelection so I have no idea why the hell he didn't stand up to this budget. We are very displeased.☹
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
When Musk says AI will replace human workers, everyone should be fighting back. I work in IT and have tested several AIs. Even the best ones screw up and need human oversight. We just aren't there yet. Musk's AI "Grok" is fucking terrible. He is *NOT* qualified to create AI for anything.
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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Sorry to be sharing more of this stuff, but it bears repeating: do not travel to the U.S.
theguardian.com
‘Like a horror movie’: Ice detaining German tourist in California indefinitely
Jessica Brösche has spent more than a month in detention center after being denied entry at San Diego from Mexico
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I know this is a result of the boycotts and protesting, but I'd like to mention how it also coincides with the rise of #WitchTok. I'm just sayin'...😉 #SpellsDontWorkUnlessYouDo #Resist
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It's that time of year when Mother Nature tries to kill me.😭 #allergies #asthma #spring
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a cartoon of a woman sneezing in a garden of flowers
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Girl dinner: 40-something addition.
Homemade meatloaf with au gratin potatoes and sweet peas with an ibuprofen chaser.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Girl dinner tonight is tteokbokki and soju. @maangchi.com has the best recipe for it IMO.🥰
Tteokbokki is a spicy, comforting Korean dish. It is a great late night/drunk food.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Elon suffers from chronic projectile dysfunction. SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program
Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I can't decide if this is better than recommending horse tranquilizers to treat covid or if this is worse. Their stupidity never ceases to amaze.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Al Greene did everything right last night. He stood up to a tyrant. He called Trump out, peacefully disrupted the tyrant's business, and forced the GOP into the situation of having to drag him off the floor. Dems should be doing shit like that, not just coordinating colors and holding demure signs.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'm visiting my folks and we are watching Felon 47's address to Congress. I've had two beers and a glass of wine just to get to the opening of this shitshow. Send help. OMG the parade of fools that just walked in. I can't believe these under-qualified, deplorable people are in charge.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My perfect vacay:
Sitting by a pool in a tropical location reading an Oxford Press book entitled "Daughters of Hecate: Women & Magic in the Ancient World", edited by Kimberly Stratton and Dayna Kalleres
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Majestic Twelve (plus one for spooky szn) @majestic12.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A meme with a picture of the head of the NRA holding a rifle. 

Text reads:

NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against
Tyrannical Government
An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I know someone, somewhere, is going to appreciate my Yatzee score from last night:
I somehow managed to roll 4 yatzees in one game and I got the top bonus so my score ended up being 637 points!
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I am so freaking embarrassed that we have two toddlers as president and vice president who think it is okay to throw fits and have a meltdown on television. At least when a toddler bullies a friend in preschool, there are consequences. This is fucking insane.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Spending a relaxing day filling the new spice jars I just got. There is a lot of chaos right now. Remember that self-care and joy are acts of resistance too.❤
Photo of spice jars and a bit of my library. The flowers I got from valentines day are still going strong!
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We interrupt your doom scrolling to remind you that homemade fried green tomatoes are freaking amazing and you deserve to treat yourself. Self care is essential, y'all.✌
Fried green tomatoes with a cajun mayo dip.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
To whoever needs to hear this: Elon Musk is not, contrary to popular belief, a technology guru. He buys tech-y companies and runs half of them into the ground. He knows *shit* about cyber security and is 100% unqualified to be in our government systems. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone
DOGE site is apparently not running on government servers.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I found myself on abuela TikTok and these beautiful grandmas are sharing the most amazing recipes. I made one tonight and it was INCREDIBLE. How anyone is anti-immigrant is beyond me. They brought the most amazing food, music, languages, and celebrations to our country. LOOK. AT. THIS. FOOD.
I have no idea what the name of this is because I don't speak Spanish but it is basically a chorizo smash taco with guacamole, queso fresca, red onion, sour cream, cilantro, and lime. It was a life-altering food experience! And it took 30 minutes. Way better than box kit tacos!!
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm chaperoning a school trip to DC this summer. I feel like Indiana Jones going into Berlin.
Indiana Jones: "You want me to go back to Berlin? Into the lion's den?!"
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
nytimes.com
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This is brilliant. Trump is a narcissist. How fast do you think he will fire Elon if we all refer to Musk as president?🤔😅
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dear friends in Canada, Mexico, Panama, Greenland, &other countries, I am so sorry that Orange Shitler is picking fights with our closest friends. Please know that there are 341 million American citizens. The overwhelming majority did not vote for him. America loves u! We will keep fighting! Xoxo
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Absolute heroes.✊
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
hey quick question does Goliath win in that story
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I am deleting my Twitter. We had a good run, and I will miss the good old days. Fuck Musk. Fuck Trump. Fuck Nazis. And fuck fascism. 🖕
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We are on the stupidest timeline by far. Who the hell picks a fight with Canada?!?!? I'm in Michigan and they are our BFF. This tariff war is SO DUMB. I don't blame Canada one bit for retaliating in kind. A big chunk of America needs a wake up call.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Remember that many of his executive orders are in direct conflict with existing law. He can't just wave a magic wand and undo laws that Congress has passed. The shock and awe is the point. It is his wish list. He wants to see what we let him get away with. We can challenge & ignore unlawful orders.
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Shalesha @shalesha.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A Black professor accidentally started an HBCU on TikTok called HillmanTok. Now other professors have joined in and are teaching actual courses with some offering certs that can be added to your resume Some courses being offered ⬇️
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
So suddenly after several days of eerie silence I've gotten my FDA, Dept. Of Ag., and NIST newsletters. I guess the federal gag order has been lifted for some agencies? This is all very chaotic, which, of course, is the point. Shock and awe is one of the first steps of facism in power.
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Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
That moment when your hearing aids automatically connect to a random iphone and you start hearing voices...😳 #HardOfHearing #HOH
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