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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This has me weeping at the breakfast table today.

Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Carrie R. Moore says Make Your Way Home is full of “characters who have made lives and long traditions, some for generations” in places that NY and the West Coast “don’t think of as real.”

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Cover of Carrie R. Moore’s book of short stories “Make Your Way Home “

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

TIL about Gordon Lish's editing of one of my favorite short story collections - Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." I'm mortified. Is how to survive this kind of dismemberment the thing that people with MFAs know that I do not know? Serious question, y'all.

Paperback cover of Raymond Carver's book "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"

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anti-zionist dog 🇵🇸 @puppydoggaming.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Medullary thyroid cancer is rare: 0.22 of every 100,000 people. GLP-1s aren’t prescribed should not to people with a family history. Some docs prescribe it off label for anti inflammatory effects in arthritis, insulin resistance for people with PCIS/pmos, ME/CFS and long COVID remission.

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mclordselasi.bsky.social @mclorselasi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Everything beautiful had to grow somewhere it wasn't invited. Save this for the day you forget. #poetry #resilience #healing #wildflower #mclordaselasi

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Even the pope wants you to finish that screenplay

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Mam left two daughters on a Tennessee mountain during the Red Summer of 1919. You’re the last soul to hear the story of what she left behind. “Mam’s Testimony” is from my forthcoming story cycle Blue Tip Match, and appears in the anthology Resistance, out now: www.ohiowriters.org/items/resist...

ohiowriters.org

Resistance | Ohio Writers

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NPQ (Nonprofit Quarterly) @npquarterly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

What’s changed since 2022? Join us for a live discussion as we revisit @mauricewfp.bsky.social's seminal article "Building Resilient Organizations"on May 28 with @mistinguettes.bsky.social, Allison Conyers and Rebecca Epstein: info.nonprofitquarterly.org/revisiting-m...

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'm never exactly *happy* about a price increase, but I am grateful that Duotrope is planning for sustainability. Thirteen years without a pay rise is a very long time...

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Still open to submissions until 1/11/126

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🧵end WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS: So you can get in where you fit in. Can you give $$? Give time? Can you cook? Keep good records? Have a flatbed truck? Can your strong back haul bags of groceries? Are you a good table host? A great greeter? Find your right place. Your neighbors need you NOW.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🧵MEAL SITE = Local. Provides communal hot meals or brown bag takeaway lunches. Think: soup kitchens, elder group meals, afterschool programs. Need volunteer cooks, servers, cleaners, distribution staff, and people w/ trucks to pick up food, which is primarily sourced from food banks. Also need $.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you want to give to a food pantry: Donations of $$ help them buy the meat or butter needed to make a meal of food bank supplied dry goods. If you want to do a food drive/give donations of food, ask what *specific* foods your pantry needs to make their grocery bags complete meals for families.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🧵FOOD PANTRY Local. Distributes bags of groceries to individuals and families. Food mostly comes from food banks, supplemented by food and $$ donations. Mix of staff and volunteers. Need volunteers for stocking, distribution, people with trucks to go to the Food Bank.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🧵FOOD BANK = Warehouse that collects literal tons of govt surplus, farm gleanings & chain grocery donations. Distributes food to pantries, meal sites, & childcare programs, not individuals. Staffed by tractor-trailer and pallet jack drivers. Give $$: $1 donated to a food bank buys $7 worth of food.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Do you want to help with the current and expanding food emergency? Is that a food bank? a food pantry? a meal site? Here are some words that can help you find the place you want to connect 🧵

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is why it’s important to use old-fashioned plain words, like “racial segregation” instead of DEI.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Krystal, thank you for this frequent prompt. Could you include a link to “how to do this” next time? Not your job, but for effectiveness. I trusted your voice, so when you gave the prompt + the how-to, I actually changed my behavior. Now always use ALT-text! Offered with much appreciation

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Former food bank administrator here. Food banks are giant warehouses that receive & distribute government surplus and bulk purchased food to your local emergency food pantry & meal sites. This survey determines how food banks are funded. This means no govt cheese or PB, no community meals.

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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Over the span of 14 days, nearly 200 people marched from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in defense of democracy. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

abcnews.go.com

160-mile march for democracy arrives in Washington from Philadelphia

Over the span of 14 days, nearly 200 people marched from Philadelphia to Washington, D

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

More to the point: Fuck them so I can be safe. Sacrifice them so I can be safe.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

OH resident here. I think the subtext is “sacrifice women/Appalachians/etc so that coastal metros can keep their freedom, comfort, and sense of superiority” e.g. maintain the liberal status quo

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It is always clarifying to say “Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” Most Americans don’t understand this political prison is not in the U.S.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Thank you for beginning this conversation long ago, with your cemetery tours and research to write your novel Spider In A Tree. Northampton once lived in denial that it had residents held in slavery. You are a part of the illumination and rememory of their precious lives in that place.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

So do I have this right? The current regime’s plan: Restore white supremacy by (1) Removing working class Latinos to prison camps & traumatized silence thru Dirty War means, while (2) Creating massive middle class Black unemployment to force them into the “Black jobs” for which they are “qualified”

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Katie Kitamura @ Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator writing conference is generous,sonorous and inspiring.

Author Katie Kitamura at Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator conference

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Got mine last weekend. So hard to find in Ohio.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’ve spent decades building community groups and shifting distribution of $$$ towards building a more just future. I have 12-15 people I call to check on. I have 0.5 people who check on me. It feels like “weak sauce” if you’re held in community, but not if you’re the one doing the holding.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It’s important to amplify every example of our refusal to submit to brutality and oppression

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I don’t know which newsletter you mean, but I sure could use some uplift

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

If anybody “already gave at the office “ it’s her.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Oh,good grief. Thanks for translating. Some days even journalists have no words for this bullshit.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The phrasing in this post it’s so confusing that I have read it three times and still can’t understand what it says. Please consider rephrasing and reposting.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

So grateful for this post. Pretending that what I do at my job is relevant is psychologically exhausting. I feel hopeless and sleep too much, but I don't think I'm depressed. I think this is a normal response to this level of terror and dread.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

You are doing something. I am shaking and hiding. My Senator just sent an email bragging that he voted to massively increase ICE presence on our “northern border” — in Ohio.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Ending white supremacy is entirely about having a different story

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I just watched a robin chase a red squirrel for a quarter mile, repeatedly diving to peck the rodent’s head. I’m taking this as my cue from nature to continue to resist petty tyrants.

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Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

After each visit, I wonder if this is the last time I will ever see this place, this colleague, this friend.

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