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mercow, cow of the sea

@meredithcounts.bsky.social
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I write, slowly, in SE Michigan. I’ve worked in higher ed, marketing and a titch of journalism but now I seem to be an archives and museums person. I make two tweens try new foods and listen to Bo Diddley.

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
have you tried incorporating claude into your workflow
yes i work with clod all the time
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Andrew A. Gill @andrewagill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I thought Kix are for Trids?
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you remember 🌍 🌬️ 🔥
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One thing I miss about having babies and young children in the house is that their toys are very fun to play with. The big kids don’t want to play with baby toys with me any more!
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Jännät @jaennaet.fi · 20/07/2026
Meme, 2 parts.

In the left part, titled "Me, grabbing everyrthing I see in a game", there's a drawing from what I figure is a Tarot card, of some dude in a fez carrying 5 swords and eyeing two more that are sticking up from the ground.

In the right part, titled "Me, having to make space in the inventory", there's a drawing of someone sitting upright in bed and crying, with 6 swords on the wall behind them
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Sara Habein @sarahabein.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
ME: I wonder if it's going to rain today? [sees someone on Marketplace list their couch for free on the curb] ME: Ah yes, the @meredithcounts.bsky.social Rule of Weather: If upholstered furniture is free on the curb, it'll rain within 24 hours.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Trump says his life was better before he became president. Dude, everybody's life was better before you became president.
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Rebecca Rauber @defeatthefascists.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The passive voice always shouts when law enforcement is involved
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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This plus the generic "faith" of the subtitle reminded me of Susan Sontag's essay "Piety Without Content," which is critical of "a religiosity without either faith or observance" that features "nostalgia over the loss of the sense of sacredness and relief that an intolerable burden has been lifted."
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
📚🏆🍿 Watch the #PENLitAwards live!
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Yesterday YMCA popped into my head and it’s not a song I ever think of. I thought perhaps a famous YMCA liker had kicked the bucket and set the song free. Alas…
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
can we have a matriarchy as a little treat
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“Do you know what the teacher uses to detect AI,” my kid asks. “More AI!” I guess if it’s just built into work submission software I can see it, but it makes me feel like a relic that I used just read student work and be able to tell whether it was their voice or not.
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The raccoons yearn for the information sciences! (And the comments on the OP are wonderful.) 📖 🦝
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Technically we elected him, then elected someone else, he staged a coup, the coup failed, he faced no consequences, then we elected him again after he vowed revenge on us.
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John P. Hussman, Ph.D. @hussmanjp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world. We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“god grant me the serenity to stay silly when life gets hard” kneeling knight illustration
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Sick of this dystopian tech overlord men with no panache and bad haircuts enabling a pants shitting president and bald hitler wannabe trying to undo things that can’t be undone ass reality we are living. They are so tedious and venal. It’s galling.
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I need to read more rock and roll, music histories written by women or non-binary people because sometimes the men folk are so dismissive of stuff it would not occur to me to snub. What’s not even making it on the page?
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 02/02/2026
Cartoon:
Groundhog Day 2026
ICE with their guns drawn at Phil
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Tom Homan has deleted Greg Bovino’s Disney+ profile on the DHS shared account
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Maybe a subscription is more valuable than a one-time purchase, I’m not sure, but it seems like a good time to buy and show off merch from all the newsrooms doing hard, crucial work right now stribstore.com 🧢 📰 💥
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Surely even the people who like the president of the US realize he’s unfit? Or they just think he’s trolling us and don’t mind the casualties, or they ignore the news entirely?
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Something about being at home is that you can’t usually eat garlic dip in bed at the office
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Are we in for a news bomb w Epstein files today, or more delays? (Screenshot from a Dec 31 pbs story I’ll put in a reply).
“The Justice Department has more than 400 attorneys assigned to the review, but does not expect to release more documents until Jan. 20 or 21, according to the person briefed on the letter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.”
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A tween who spends all but one hour of the day in their room has saved up so much sass for that one hour, omg
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If you profit off war, you shouldn’t be within a mile of decisions about it.
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Ramones providing the soundtrack for the ad about older folks getting the pneumonia vaccine…
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Went on a quick Ontario trip across the border with my BFF and I probably should have bought myself one of these little stuffed Timbit souvenirs.
“Hockey Timbits Plush” donut hole stuffed toys were on a store shelf at Tim Horton’s in Tecumseh, ON. They’re smiling brown globes wearing red helmets and they have little dangling feet with ice skates.
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I am reading Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man for the first time and it is making me a nervous wreck. This poor guy. Not great at choosing reading that lessens my stress but it does better inform my stress, and sure keeps me turning pages.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
JB Pritzker: “They're going after people for being brown & black. They're going after people who are U.S. citizens — they're going after people who've done nothing wrong. They do it under the guise of saying that this is about the worst of the worst — but it isn’t”
JB Pritzker speaking to reporters at a press conference
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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In Minneapolis
A Baptist church sign reads Blessed Are the Whistle Blowers for They Play the Music of Salvation
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Made it out to our local protest today. In the works: fundraising for Dem billboard messages.
7 protesters on the sidewalk of a cold Michigan highway overpass. People in coats and winter gear hold signs. Someone has an American flag.
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Scum.
WHAT KIND OF MAN
CALLS A WOMAN A 
“FUCKING BITCH”
AFTER SHOOTING 
HER IN THE FACE?
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
😂
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Madeleine Vasaly @madeleinevasaly.com · 08/01/2026
Minneapolis.
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
purchase a copy here: www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/hold-y...
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Hold Your Own by Nikki Wallschlaeger - Copper Canyon Press
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Judges hate this one simple trick (horse lawyer)
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My little kids were at home on Jan 6, 2021 and I called them into the living room to watch the news unfolding, then wondered if we were going to see violence we wouldn’t be able to unsee. Never in a million years did i think we would re-elect the stupid, callous culprit.
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We miss baseball
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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We are looking at uncharted territory here where the acting Archivist of the United States is poised to become the acting head of a foreign government.
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I feel gatekeep-y about Truman Capote, as a former fifth grader who read In Cold Blood and who bothered my grandparents to describe what Capote was like on the Dick Cavett show because I could tell there was something they weren’t telling me
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this is a doomscrolling checkpoint. leave an offering and go drink some water (image is a black cat)
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mercow, cow of the sea @meredithcounts.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
These kids sleeping til noon are going to have a literal rude awakening when school starts Monday. On NYE they had a friend over and they were up til SIX. That’s when they get UP.
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