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🇺🇦a Lily with Thorns🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @alilywiththorns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We don't deserve this incredible planet and it's real inhabitants.

Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes. Newly minted phuds should be allowed time for their diss to sit & simmer, and like good chili, get far better/more complex. I am glad I did NOT rush to pub my Hephaistion diss. When the Heph/Krateros book I'm writing now does come out (30 years later)? It'll be different...and SO much better.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ha. I heard from Borja that the weather there is nuts. Hope it clears up soon.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Parents took me to a drive-in double feature; 1st show was something banal I don't even recall, suitable for a 4-year-old. 2nd feature, by which I was (supposed to be) asleep: a Western. I woke up RIGHT at the end, as the bad guy was shot, dead center of the forehead. STILL remember that.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I saw folks discussing trades as hard on the body w/ no real future advancement opportunities past a certain point, compared to white-collar jobs. I may've misunderstood but "reach-a-certain-point-and-nowhere-else-to-go" is how I'd define a dead-end job. Not sure that fits the trades, quite.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

...so (7/6, extra!) rather than saying, "Trades are a dead-end!" let's start thinking about them in wider context and present them as a perfectly viable option w/ good pay that may not end up as a long-term career. BUT can provide a bridge that (comfortably) allows people to chose a 2nd job later.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

...he's an electrician, (6/6) but wants to be a writer and/or lit agent, so is interning at an agency, w/ no pay. He can DO that because his union job supplies him the paycheque + health care. Eventually he'll leave the trades to do something else w/ the BA he got while finishing trade school...

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

...plus (5/6) it may be a perfectly respectable choice for some of them, at least for a while. A lot of trade workers DO eventually go back to college, and they make great students once older. They may then transition into a different job altogether. My son (now almost 29) is one of them...

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

...(4/6) who may 1) not have an interest in jobs that involve college-type education, and/or 2) are not ready (yet) FOR college. Ergo letting them consider trades while in high school AND not making it sound like it's for dummies/the lesser choice is smart. "Dignity" is not a rotten word...

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

...and that's (3/6) not dissing them. It's seeing them real. Furthermore, a lot of kids are just not ready to go to college immediately. They do better after a few years of maturation (esp. boys). The reasons for that we can debate all day, but in the meantime, we need concrete options for kids...

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

...for whom (2/6) college wasn't in the cards. But speaking as a college professor for the past 30 years, I see a LOT of kids who shouldn't be in college. Not their bailiwick. They were funneled there as "but of course," then do poorly and feel "stupid" when they crash out of a place not for them...

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I agree...and I don't. (1/6) My father was also a lineman (telephone), who made enough to put me through college, but around 40, he also moved to a desk job due to the strain on his body. Essentially taught himself engineering because he was Just That Smart. Child of the Depression & WWII vet...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

but my educated (no pun intended) guess is that pretty much every university administration is generating (pun intended) the same statements about putting genAI everywhere to prepare students for the future, making the same confused gurgling noises about its risks, and leaving the fallout to faculty

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Steph🧢⚓ @11thgenvirginian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It feels like we’re five weeks from a dangerous precipice - people vs. corporations! 😬

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love your cat's name, btw. And he's a tuxedo! The ghost of ATG would approve.... (I was once asked what sort of cat ATG would be, if he were a cat. Weird question, but hey. Students are fun. I immediately replied: a tuxedo. They're the smartest, and fearless.)

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good lord, that's absolutely disgusting looking (and bonkers, too). It's unfair to compare that to Dolly Parton (even if she was joking).

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You might swat me. 🤪 How goes Sun 3?

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Nancy Ann ❌👑 👍🏻🐸 @nancyannn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This face is what’s suggests every rethuglican member of the judiciary committee was in on the scheme to make Smith perjure himself and elevate Schmitt to possible 2028 vp status. She was first to recognize they’d based their attack on a game he didn’t attend. www.al.com/politics/202...

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Katie Britt’s face says it all when Jack Smith hearing goes off the rails

Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he caught Smith in a lie when the Republican confused the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3xs Cy Young winner, the great Justin Verlander. My 2nd favorite Tiger of all time. (The immortal Al Kaline is 1st; I got to see him play as a little girl.) So glad they brought him back and he got to retire in a Tigers uniform. (Even if they didn't get a W that night.)

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And appropriately in a Detroit uniform. So glad they got him back before he ended his career. Super sweet way to go, too, with his daughter.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Indeed, the cruelty is the point. Also, the cis gay men and lesbians who abandoned the trans & intersex communities... yeah, they're coming for you too. (Fortunately most of the queer folk I know, cis or not, are well aware of that, but a few believe it won't happen to them....)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump had $400 million in his PAC and he STILL decided that he needed to steal taxpayer money to pay for campaign ads for the midterms.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Agreed! (I lucked out and found one on sale. It's their smaller model, good for a single person. But moka pots work too.)

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

American coffee generally is bad. I've spent too much time in the Mediterranean and after I came home the last time, finally broke down and bought a LavAzza machine (and coffee, of course). I gotta be desperate to drink American coffee these days. (And I do love tea, as well, so will opt for that.)

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It should not be lost on any of us that Cornell University swiftly suspended students for peacefully protesting atrocities against women and children, but allowed men who drugged and gang-raped a woman for seven hours to write an essay and continue with their education.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Video in response to a viewer's question about whether I intended to continue Alexander the Great's story in further novels. The short answer is "I hope to," but there are some caveats, mostly to do with publishing itself. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #AlexandertheGreat

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Publishing Realities: Historical Fiction

YouTube video by Let's Talk Alexander the Great & Ancient Macedonia

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy Caturday from Beatrice. While pulling basil leaves to make pesto, she had to get up on the counter to inspect. I let her sniff my fingers and all I can say… She’s not a basil fan. Funniest disgusted face. #SiameseBluesky #Siamesecats

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Dolly Parton Day

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BlueSky really needs a "wow" like option.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Corporate Dems care about corporate donors and not the will and best interest of their constituents and democracy. This is CATASTROPHICALLY STUPID advice. Dem establishment determined to claw defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI

Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Moreno is not a bad scholar by any means. But he’s a bit more inclined to assign names to figures better termed “young man.” 😜

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Actually "many scholars" don't. ;-) I think it's Moreno who suggested it. A *number* of others disagree.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Roxana, not Cassandra. ;-) But yes on Hephaistion, who is "carrying the torch" for him as what we'd today call his best man.

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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is an excellent discussion (imo) from Parkrose Permaculture (video). As absolutely awful as some of these people are, the collapse of small and smaller farms is not good overall, and simply accelerates a problem already in the offing.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.