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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨

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I write and I draw. Navy brat, cancer survivor. Memoir BAD FIT about surviving 9 tech layoffs OUT NOW. Get yours: marycarnsauthor.com

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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 19h
now I want some coffee milk
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He’s dealing truths and facts.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good news, but Ben Cline in the 6th needs to go too! He was really proud of voting for the BBB 1 yr ago Funny, a bunch of anti-redistricting signs around here this spring saying that gerrymandering is wrong, "don't Fairfax my vote", etc. Why do they think gerrymandering is wrong all of a sudden?
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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Jasmine @feistybunnygirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember when they kicked an entire girl’s softball team out of the championship game because a player posted a private Snapchat where she was flipping off the camera? It’s funny how they never worry about ruining girl’s futures.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This makes me wonder what the men (you know they’re all men) who gave the essay assignment did in college. If you scratch that surface you’ll likely find out why they think SA isn’t a big deal.
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hi BookSky 💙📚this is an odd intersection but if any of you are on Product Hunt, you can now give my book an upvote: www.producthunt.com/products/bad...
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Bad Fit: A Memoir: How Tech Work Broke Me and How I Repaired Myself | Product Hunt
You can be right and still lose your job. Over fifteen years, Mary Carns kept ending up on the outside of companies that said they valued insight. The issue wasn't performance or effort. It was being ...
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A side effect of the mess in DC is that there are now many mini Trumps in small towns wreaking havoc cardinalnews.org/2026/09/28/h...
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Haysi Town Council asked for the state police investigation that led to fraud charges against the longtime mayor
The members have been calling for months for his resignation and plan to take steps to remove him if he doesn’t step down now, the vice mayor says.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 27/09/2026
Shoutout to @bostonglobe.com for following up on our Life Surge reporting with this news about Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/26/s...
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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People need to get madder about them just flaunting it so hard
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The best sign in the history of everything.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Drag queens ain't done shit to you
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
GOP has been doing this 💩 my entire adult life. I'm 57.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It takes a special kind of geopolitical maestro to stand before the United Nations, threaten to wipe a sovereign country off the map, and then seamlessly pivot to treating the whole bloody spectacle like a pending real estate transaction, but
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📚 Now that my memoir is out, I took another look at Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People. We both worked in cultures that reward looking the other way, but made different choices. My latest on @medium.com medium.com/design-bootc...
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I needed the health insurance, too
Careless People is the story of an insider who stayed silent for eight years. I just published the story of the other choice.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
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Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gisele Pelicot was drugged and raped by her husband for TEN years. During that time she saw countless doctors for memory loss, STIs, headaches, confusion & vaginal bruising. They all dismissed her. Some diagnosed her with dementia. They could have helped stop the abuse.
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Over 40% of women say health issues are holding them back in the workplace | CNN
Many women have struggled to get their healthcare needs met, according to a new national poll.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A 250-foot monument to one man. Drones inside. Ammunition in storage. Now ask yourself what it’s actually for. There’s a rule I learned back when I was writing ads for my business over a three-decade period: Nobody ever tells you the truth in the headline.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nan Goldin is still THAT bitch. Respect! 📷 apple.news/A5tPC5Zx6QB6...
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Nan Goldin on the War in Gaza: “It’s the Holocaust on Our Phones” — Vanity Fair
In an exclusive excerpt from Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Benjamin Moser bears witness to Goldin’s public display of dissent while receiving an award at the Rencontres...
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
When people ask why diversity matters in organizational decision making, show them this.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mamdani: what if we just did basic shit people think the government is supposed to do and then make a video about it? dem establishment: what dem consultants: stop it voters: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Senator L Louise Lucas @momalou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Early voting starts TODAY in Virginia, and you know I was #1 in line. 🗳️ Vote like your life depends on it, because this is the most critical election of our time. Make your voice heard. VOTE.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i want a full throated usa, usa, usa push behind clean energy. biden started there on substance but he didnt do the pr part. i want patriotic ww2 posters about Great Americans installing car chargers and Patriotic Citizens driving coast to coast without causing CO2 pollution
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," they say. Ah, and why does one sometimes *have* to do that? Because someone else, who could have chosen opposition to evil, instead opts to become a lesser evil for their own perceived advantage—leaving others to bear the burden of that choice
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026
stone cold classic
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's pretty incredible the Speaker of the House thinks the votes are there to impeach the Secretary of the Defense (same party!) and his only play is to run away
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This isn’t funny. Commodities traders only do this when they’re in extreme distress
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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From last year. A good history lesson.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” — Elie Wiesel I’ve spent a lot of time playing music on the road, and have been performing with the “opening act” many times. Each
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #womensart
Collage resembling a fun blue patterned elephant facing left with a smaller gray elephant under its trunk
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I've been told many times to write a book, so I did. 📚💙 First though, I had to live through working in tech as a #UX #designer and getting fired nine times (!) Finally it's here, launching for 99 cents as an eBook. Get it here: www.amazon.com/Bad-Fit-Memo...
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Bad Fit: A Memoir About How Tech Work Broke Me and How I Repaired Myself
Bad Fit: A Memoir About How Tech Work Broke Me and How I Repaired Myself - Kindle edition by Carns, Mary. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bad Fit: A Memoir About How Tech Work Broke Me and How I Repaired Myself.
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Roanoke VA needs this kind of approach to address its homelessness issues 👇 anyone who lives here can see it’s a mental health crisis too
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Mary Mahling Carns ✍️ 🎨 @marycarns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🖤🤍 youtu.be/38rvtcwhuw4?...
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Angine de Poitrine: Zugzegk | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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