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Miandy

@miandyreading.bsky.social
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Genre fiction fan (mystery, sci-fi, & romance). Highly organized, absent-minded, and dancing in the kitchen. She/her/hers

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 7h
Hey Massachusetts!
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"She's not dressed like a whore, you think like a rapist" is, oof. That's a lot of damn truth right there. *(Sarah Ironside, on Twitter)
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 8h
“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
She sits and slow blinks and purrs so hard it echoes in her tiny body. She prefers J at night—he doesn’t flip around like I do—and is basically stuck to me all day long. From a literal trash-eating hormone monster to a cuddle machine. It’s really rewarding to watch her grow.
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Jackie Kashian @jackiekashian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy Indigenous Day! Great cookbook by The Sioux Chef www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712577...
penguinrandomhouse.com
Turtle Island by Sean Sherman, Kate Nelson, Kristin Donnelly: 9780593579237 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more...
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Miandy @miandyreading.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As a fan of Columbo and Voyager, I can only wish there was a Mrs. Columbo movie starring them both. Totally plausible! ❤️
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
gm! at 10 I'll be live-tweeting the emergency TRO hearing in Judge Reyes's "courtroom" (this is on Zoom) in D.C. Preservation League v. Department of Interior, otherwise known as the golf course case
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think we missed a huge opportunity to normalize masking as a public health tool. We eradicated an entire strain of the flu with Covid prevention measures. Masking shows respect for those around you. It shows solidarity with the disability community. It shows you value long term health.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 10/10/2026
Trump administration counted on Minnesotans to believe, deep down, that immigrants and people of color aren't really American. They weren't expecting the reception they got.
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From Pushing Out ICE to Protecting the Midterms
In Minnesota, the Monarca project has trained 50,000 people in constitutionally protected observation.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026
America is many things, many of them terrible, and we cannot and should not deny that. But this is also America: the America that loves kids and their neighbors, and who will show up on a dime for what they believe is right.
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hello, Michiganders! I'll be doing a live chalk drawing from 11am-1pm this weekend at the Ann Arbor Artoberfest! I'll be at the corner of Main & Liberty, also selling/signing books, calendars, postcards, mugs, tote bags, and other nifty gift items all day to boot! www.annarbor.org/blog/stories...
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Celebrate Artoberfest in Ann Arbor, Michigan
A2 Artoberfest is a two-day festival celebrating artwork of all kinds in downtown Ann Arbor. Plan your trip and discover why Ann Arbor is an arts destination.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Article lamenting the “decline” of being able to have people over, conveniently forgetting that capitalism has left us no time to clean, no money to hire anyone, and more commitments than ever. Going on about how we used to have tidy houses without discussing women’s unpaid labor?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mamdani, in closing, on today's ICE shooting: "This is an agency that must be abolished."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.st
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today I found out that Harry Houdini was so pissed at mediums pretending to be real and preying on grief that he instructed his wife to try to contact him after he died. When they failed to produce the code he left her with, she was like “tada—for his last trick, Houdini proved you’re full of shit”
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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New comic: Out of control www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Out of control
A cartoon by Jen Sorensen.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I like either open ended shows with no serialization or light serialization OR limited series of pre-determined length (16 episodes or 200 but declare yourself) that is highly serialized. The USA approach of “everything matters, everything is connected but we also don’t know how long this will be”
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ICE took Luis and his son Andrés into custody together. Then, the agency separated them transferring the boy as "unaccompanied" to ORR, which cares for migrant kids with no parent or legal guardian. Andrés ended up in foster care. The new interior family separations w/ @samanthamichaels.bsky.social:
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Laura Morel @lauracmorel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alligator Alcatraz is closed. But in northern FL, another state-run immigrant detention center, nicknamed Deportation Depot, is still open. Here's what life is like inside. For @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Out of Sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot
Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz's worst.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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JUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
"The rash and the fever, that’s the tip of the iceberg. The majority of the damage being done is under the surface.” "It’s not possible to predict who will suffer the greatest harm."
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Miandy @miandyreading.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do the schools check whether the student has already received a flu shot or is checking not really necessary?
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026
Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie: 
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."
Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence 
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However, 
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most 
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans 
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism 
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize 
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who 
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see 
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and 
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and 
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the 
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 02/10/2026
Lemme just post another stellar quote: "Polarization is the country’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, and democratic self-government."
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They hate him. They really hate him.
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Pete Hegseth’s Ruthless Pentagon Nickname
They hate him.
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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Fuss @fusspot.rip · 30/09/2026
On the off chance I know a person in the Chicago area who can adopt two kittens, I got sort of a friend-of-a-friend who's emigrating in 12 hours and can't take them with. Please ping me if you or someone you know can keep them together.
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Miandy @miandyreading.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wednesday Sept 30 is the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation in Canada. it has been a federal statutory holiday since 2023, but it was informally observed for many years before then.
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MASHFanficChick @mashfanficchick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rabbi Tarfon said: “You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ahem: your lists of “toxic workplace behaviors” are generally ableism and misogyny with a healthy sprinkling of racism, and you can’t stop them if you can’t name them. You can’t smarten up a system that inherently degrades people for having fallible bodies and needs and punishes difference.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s punk rock to care, actually
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any stairway can be a stairway to heaven if your cats hang out there enough
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Miandy @miandyreading.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This graphic is so helpful!
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Miandy @miandyreading.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some trial attorneys are excellent at time math. Many old lawyers are persnickety about dress codes, although the clothing expectations relaxed during and after the pandemic. Can’t blame them too much because some judges didn’t allow women to wear pantsuits in the courtroom in 2011—skirts required.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are doing this! It is going to be SO! MUCH! FUN! Also Peter is a hero of men and deserves a nice full room. He brought me Pepto Bismol when I landed in San Diego, so I wouldn't keep feeling like I was actually about to die.
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Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 28/09/2026
Yeah a lot of people out here thinking that they're the Wizard in Fantasia and not Mickey. Also not realizing that they're in Fantasia.
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 27/09/2026
It’s notable that we are talking about VERY different educational structures — in theory, most UK students enter uni with a broad base that many US students don’t. And so a “core” set of courses are required (in theory) to give that base.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a perfect library joke 📚
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’s nice to know that, as a nerdy and insufferable kid with good standardized test scores, I could really have turned out a whole lot worse
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 27/09/2026
When asked why he doesn’t become an independent, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman responded: “Because I’m a lifelong Republican.” After realizing his slip-up, Fetterman laughed and said: “That’ll get clipped.” He then corrected himself and said he's a lifelong Democrat. #TribFest26
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Shared with me by @jjindc.bsky.social, in the Denver Post. Dana Miller, you rock. Flight attendants know what’s up.
Immigrants shackled for
DIA flights are at risk
It was good to see Denver International Airport's commitment to safety demonstrated by its full-scale emergency exercise Aug. 19. 1 was a flight attendant for close to 30 years and I am glad to see the exercise included realtime role-playing, not relying solely on simulated training scenarios.
I wonder if DEN included the consideration that Immigration and Customs Enforcement charters fly in and out of the airport frequently.
These ICE flights contain passengers who are shack-led. They are restrained by leg irons and handcuffs attached to a waist chain and stay shackled throughout the flights. The restraints prevent them from reaching for an oxygen mask if there is a decompression, and in the event of a water emergency, donning personal life vests would be nigh impossible.
It seems to me that specialized training would be necessary for first responders and firefighting crews. Evacuations and rescues of an aircraft full of shackled passengers could make a horrifying situation much worse.
- Dana Miller, Denver
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this is at least as responsible for the hostility to AI as anything else: forcing it into every corner of life even when it's just obviously not ready. It could be ready one day! But it isn't now and the people forcing it on us are not the ones who suffer arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Miandy @miandyreading.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😂
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