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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 Next stop: Vibes & Scribes, Cork! A treasure trove of new, second-hand and bargain books. The sort of place where you never know what wonderful discovery is waiting on the next shelf. A family-run Cork institution since 1991. ❤️ Keep the magic alive! vibesandscribes.ie

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Vibes & Scribes Ireland | Shop Online | Wool, Fabric, Books and More!

Your one-stop shop for knitting, sewing, or crafts projects in Ireland: wool, fabric, fine art & craft supplies. Buy new, bargain, and second-hand books online!

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 Next stop: Kenny’s Bookshop, Galway! A family of booksellers since 1940. Generations of stories, discoveries and conversations. New books, old books, rare treasures — and people who really know their books. 85 years of keeping the magic alive. ❤️ kennys.ie

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 Next stop: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway! Over 100,000 books! New, old, rare, forgotten treasures. Shelves everywhere you look. The sort of place where you go in for five minutes and emerge two hours later. A book lover’s paradise. ❤️ Keep the magic alive! charliebyrne.ie

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 First stop: The Book Centre, Kilkenny! A beautiful bookshop on High Street, in a building with centuries of history. Imagine all the stories that have passed through those doors. Next time you’re in Kilkenny, call in and discover something wonderful. ❤️ Keep the magic alive. thebookcentre.ie

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

SI will always be the Smithsonian Institution to me — Super Interesting in all its forms and functions

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks for speaking up as a compassionate and principled member of the birding community, and for encouraging the Cornell Lab to do this.❤️

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you prefer to comment individually rather than through an organization, search Docket# IRS-2026-1189 at regulations.gov

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me too! And Tyron Guerrero. Let’s hope Roman Anthony is ok.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow will be better. Sonny Gray will be great. Just gotta heat up those bats.🤞⚾️

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our cat Josephine (RIP) had her litter box in the bathroom. After using the litter box, she would modestly unroll just enough toilet paper to cover the evidence. She was a very genteel lady.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s hard to capture all details in this brief clip, but please don’t be against ALL money going overseas: We need to restore humanitarian aid that has been obliterated by this administration. When you get to the Senate, you & fellow Dems can make that happen!

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you value America’s public lands, please consider submitting your comment in opposition to federal rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule that protects 45million acres of our national forests. Search Docket# FS-2025-0001 at regulations.gov Deadline for comments is 10/6/26.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wishin’ and hopin’ Thinkin’ and prayin’ Plannin’ and dreamin’ Won’t get the job done, so we’re writing postcards to voters across America to get out the vote and turn the House and Senate Blue. Here’s just one example. #GOTV @tovoters.bsky.social @deniseforcongress.bsky.social

Color photo of the front and back of postcards to get out the vote. The partially-shown lower left corner of the front displays a general message in blue and red ink: “Don’t forget to vote.” On the back, in blue, red, green, and purple ink, is a message specific to a Nebraska campaign for U.S. House: “Elect Denise Powell to Congress and turn NE-02 Blue. Healthcare you can afford, lower everyday costs, and an end to insider trading. Be among the first to vote early starting October 5.” In the lower corners are brief notes: “Your vote is your voice!” and “Thanks for being a voter!”

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you haven’t already consulted it, John Bunker’s book, “Apples and the Art of Detection” is an informative, copiously illustrated, and fascinating account of adventures in hunting & identifying old apple varieties. Available from Fedcoseeds.com

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you enjoyed the SciAm article about solving the mystery of America’s Apple heritage, you might like the book “Apples and the Art of Detection,” by John Bunker. It offers profiles of old Apple varieties and lively stories of how they’ve been discovered throughout Maine. Available from Fedco.

Photo of the colorful cover of a book, “Apples and the Art of Detection,” by John Bunker. Almost the entire cover is taken up by a stylized painting of an apple tree. Two trunks rise from the exposed roots. The branches are bare against a blue sky, but there appear to be red, green, yellow, orange, and even blue apples falling from the branches. Many more apples, mostly red, lie on the ground. A wooden harvesting pole reaches from lower right corner up toward the tree; its small basket holds one red apple.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To encourage participation by those who prefer to submit comments individually rather than thru an organization’s portal, please include docket number and deadline for comments in the original post.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That looks like a cupboard full of inspiration! Leave the doors open and let the yarn tell you what it wants to become 🧶

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just saw that extension - thanks for pointing it out. Time for more people to weigh in.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Those who wish to submit a comment on the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule should search Docket# FS-2025-0001 at regulations.gov The deadline is September 21, 2026.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Positioning in prep for a blue wave, perhaps: suddenly on the side of the angels?

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Submit your comment on the administration’s rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule, search Docket# FS-2025-0001 at regulations.gov The deadline for comments is September 21, 2026.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’re so lucky to have catbirds in our yard here in Maine all summer long, but were surprised to discover they’ve just hatched a new clutch this late in the season. Lots of raucous demands emanating from the little “kittenbirds” in our lilac bush these past few days!

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

To submit your comment by the deadline September 9, 2026, 11:59pm, search Docket# OSTP_FRDOC_0001 at regulations.gov. Expert comment is encouraged, but any member of the public knowledgeable or concerned about this proposal’s abandonment of valuable climate models can submit a comment.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Freedom trail, Red Sox game, Mus of Fine Arts, or just stroll around town to see architecture history & interesting cemeteries. Or hop on the Red Line to Cambridge/Harvard Square for many bookstores including Grolier on Plympton St= all poetry, Schoenhoff’s on Mt Auburn St=international bks, etc!

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh, it would have been so much more zen-ish if my eyes hadn’t been drawn to the invasive purple loosestrife blooming on the riverbank. So pretty, but so not right. Sigh.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And oh by the way, there was a game going on. Eat on your own time. Glad NESN crew will be back in the booth tomorrow.⚾️

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some agencies have jumping ahead to implement OMB’s rule by issuing “guidance” of their own. Unclear whether the pause to OMB rule applies to individual agencies. The comment period for NSF’s has past. It looks like NIH is now pursuing the same objective, but haven’t found docket# for comment yet

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Submit your comment on rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule by searching for Docket# FS-2025-0001 at regulations.gov

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Looking forward to your book’s release in US soon!!!

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If this EPA proposal is currently open for public comment, it would be helpful if you would please provide the docket number so folks can submit comments.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” — Wendell Berry “The Peace of Wild Things” (poem)

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is NIH, like NSF, jumping to implement OMB proposed rules before they have been finalized and although they are facing Congressional backlash.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A meditation offered by Wendell Berry, one of his loveliest, published in the slim volume “Openings” (Harvest/HBJ 1968): #poetry #WendellBerry

Poem by Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things.

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the green heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
Waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What a lovely man was Wendell Berry: Craggy and weathered, with strong hands to drive his team of horses, deep thoughts to shape his novels and essays, and beautiful voice to share his poems. Rest in the power of poetry, dear man.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As we suspected. Submitting public comment on this administration’s proposed “correction” to NCA5 might make little (if any) difference, but at least it will show that their actions are under scrutiny and they will be held accountable, by the People, as well as by the planet

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Have you seen language of the proposed amendment to NCA5, and can you please explain the significance of this “correction”? One might guess at political, rather than scientific intent, but it would be helpful to know for sure what, if anything, is at stake. Open for comment only til 9/9/26.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Submit your comment directly by 11:59pm EST today, August 24, 2026, by searching Docket# NSF-2026-OTR-0001 at regulations.gov

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For those wishing to comment independently rather than thru an organization, directly submit your comment by 11:59pm EST today, August 24, 2026, by searching Docket# NSF-2026-OTR-0001 at regulations.gov

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Infuriating. Lived thru a version of this during the bad old days of 2008 recession: NSF proposal, high rating, actually approved for funding, but fed $$$ frozen at last minute so project had to be cancelled . At least it wasn’t thumb-on-scale by ideological appointees at the agency.

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

To submit your comment before the deadline of August 24, 2026 at 11:59pm, visit regulations.gov and search for Docket# NSF-2026-OTR-0001

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hoping to see this broadcast in the U.S. at some point!

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

To submit a comment by the deadline, 11:59pm on August 24, 2026, search Docket# NSF-2026-OTR-0001 at regulations.gov

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To comment on NSF’s new guidance implementing proposed OMB rule, search Docket# NSF-2026-OTR-0001 at regulations.gov Deadline August 24. It might not restore these critical funds but will contribute to the sci community’s formal argument against further politicization of NSF

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You might have seen or read “Tell Me More: Listening to Learners Explain”, also by Eleanor. There’s a Critical Explorations group of educators that has grown out of her teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Education. They gather to share ideas and experiences in teaching & learning

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Comments can be made until 11:59pm August 24 by searching Docket# NSF-2026-OTR-0001 at regulations.gov

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Those who prefer to comment directly rather than thru an organization link can search for Docket# NSF-2026-OTR-0001 at regulations.gov

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mainegirlagain.bsky.social @mainegirlagain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You would probably enjoy “The Having of Wonderful Ideas” by Eleanor Duckworth, if you haven’t already encountered her writings. She, David & Frances Hawkins, and others were part of a pioneering project that supported children’s science learning through exploration. Inspiring & empowering!

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