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Nancy Martira

@nancymartira.bsky.social
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Strategy for humans. www.ClewStrategy.com RI -> NYC -> SEA -> ABQ Lives in New Mexico, emotionally invested in Rhode Island. Wonder Work, monthly email newsletter. clew.kit.com/profile

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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I salute you, fellow traveler.
Saturday afternoon on the couch with a sleeping pug and a nearly finished crochet project in natural wool.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Put on the new Tommy & Tuppence on BritBox. Within the first five minutes they referenced “the ‘gram.” 🥺💀🔪👵🏻
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So many shoes destroyed …
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fostering rescue dogs is the best. Glad to see it’s bringing you so much joy.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the cover image I was greeted with. Absolutely nailing it.
Landing page for America.gov. The headline reads, "Hello, America. Whatever you need from government, start here." There is a search box with a pre-loaded question: "Try 'Which military service is best for me?'" Photo of two young looking people standing in an apartment? Very unclear.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wish Jeopardy! had an interactive feature that allows you to see where a contestant bought her dress. Maybe if we ask @kenjennings.bsky.social very politely … share.google/b2aztEWcqNtH...
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Maine ‘Jeopardy!’ champ on the show’s magic, and the question she should have gotten right
UMaine alum and former Bangor Daily News reporter Emily Burnham won the trivia game show Wednesday night.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BTW Sandoval County is particularly looking for people bilingual in English and Navajo/Diné. Spread the word.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Then, it makes it easy to complete an application with your local county clerk's office. I just applied to be a poll worker in Sandoval County. The initial process took two minutes.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you are even a little bit curious about serving as a poll worker, Power the Polls is a great starting place. After you enter your name and zip code it will provide information like requirements, trainings, time comittment, and potential compensation for your County. www.powerthepolls.org
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Power the Polls
Poll workers power democracy. We help recruit them! Sign up now to make sure we have safe, fair, efficient elections for all!
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Alas, we never do get to the bottom of why Laura Lippman's grandmother watched a VHS cassette of Gary Marshall's Pretty Woman every single day for years. 🤔
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's good to remember that even cool girls like @lauralippman.bsky.social sometimes lose themselves in relationships and that it's never too late to return to loving things on your own terms. oldster.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...
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I Don't Know Why #12
My grandmother watched Pretty Woman every day during the final years of her life and I have turned this into a story about baseball.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's a gem from @emckean.bsky.social's Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things: "Noctuary is to night as diary is to day."
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of the real downsides of life in New Mexico is that we have so few rainy mornings. How am I supposed to double down on my regrets when it’s 85 degrees and sunny? Today is perfect.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another rainy day in the desert readalittlepoetry.com/2012/12/13/r...
Rain
Raymond Carver

Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgiveable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just caught up on this story from July 2026 about Chinese immigrants trafficked into forced labor on canabis farms in New Mexico (Farmington and Estancia). www.hcn.org/issues/58-7/...
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The Chinese immigrants trafficked on New Mexico’s weed farms - High Country News
From Monterey Park to New Mexico, Chinese migrants were recruited into remote cannabis grows where silence and jurisdictional gaps sustained abuse.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today is a good day to think about connection. From the Ann Friedman Weekly: "The success of this phishing scheme just proves a longstanding truism that is only getting truer: No one wants to do the inviting, but everyone wants to be invited."
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Long Story Short #33 🟦🟦⬜🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Cut a sentence to five of its own words. sheets.works/s/btic6
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Long Story Short #33
Cut a sentence to five of its own words. A daily word game.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
After you solve the puzzle, there's a nice rationale about what words they kept and what words they cut ... I'm a fan.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you've got ths soul of a copy editor, you might enjoy the new daily puzzle Long Story Short. Long Story Short #31 · solved in 1 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Cut this sentence into a headline, with five of its own words. Make sure no details are lost. sheets.works/lss/s?n=31&t...
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Long Story Short #31 · solved in 1
Cut this sentence into a headline, with five of its own words. Make sure no details are lost.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New Mexico is a funny place. I don’t think any of the people I see driving around in pick-up trucks with bumper stickers professing their undying love for their assault rifles are interested in changing the name of our home, but I can’t be certain. I’ll ask the next one I see. #po’pay
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Please say more about this game.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's a Gold Star Day, i.e. I added both featured books in the most recent edition of @maris.bsky.social's newsletter to my TBR: Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley and The Responsible Party by Claire Carusillo. The Responsible Party appears to be so completely my jam, I'm purchasing it on Libro.fm
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" — Pop-Tarts Brand Manager, probably. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Pop-Tart-flavored BuzzBallz are coming soon. See the flavor lineup
Pop-Tarts and BuzzBallz are teaming up to serve fans a sweet cocktail fusion. Here's what we know about the new beverage.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
But … neither of the subjects are knitting.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For anyone who hates the idea of self-promotion, here is a compassionate and empowering perspective from my conversation with @wynneleon.bsky.social
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nhi Mundy totaled up the amount she spends on "fix-it beauty" interventions in a year. The total was north of $11,000. www.allure.com/story/quitti...
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At 46, I Decided to Stop Fixing Myself
Here’s how I feel (and look) 13 months after quitting Botox, lasers, and GLP-1s cold turkey.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got 21 of 21 points on Rabbithole 🐰 Aug 17, 2026 🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕 www.theatlantic.com/games/rabbit...
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Rabbithole - The Atlantic
Go down a tunnel of trivia where each answer turns into the next question.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Lies are a lot like gourds. They come in hundreds of different varieties, sizes, and bulbous, twisty shapes. Some are off-puttingly spiked and prickly, while others remind us of fall childhood memories."
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm not in a hurry to read this because I can already taste the dread formenting in my gut, but damn this opening: www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Happy Birthday, Peaches! For your gift, I’m going to calculate how long it would take to fly from Albuquerque to Cairo on commercially available passenger flights.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Assuming you mean 100 random men in the United States, I could go as high as 9. A random global sampling would be even more depressing.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Smush score 319 from August 12, 2026. Pangram, clean plate, no hints, 4-day 
streak.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Close, but no cigar.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is awesome but a special shoutout to the brave Amazon … subcontractors? … putting their faces and stories behind this campaign.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“The arrest comes as Philadelphia homicide detectives, with more time and resources amid a striking decline in violence, continue to work through a backlog of unsolved cases … “
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Lord, I read that as “PhD campaign.”
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
@vermontgmg.bsky.social Please write your next meticulously-researched serious book about the Essex Community Players. www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
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VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We love to see it. Good job, South County.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We joined the Cult of Pug in February. This little girl was picked up as a stray in El Paso and sent over the state line. Thought we were getting a bewildered couch potato, instead we invited a chaos demon into our home. Behold: Margot.
A silver-fawn colored pug lays in tall grass. She is wearing a neon orange harness with her name in all block capital letters: MARGOT. The harness makes her look like a crossing guard. She looks happy with her mouth half open because she has just been eating something an owl coughed up.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Were we ever so young?
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just trying to sext with my husband, i.e. tell him about a new flavor of Skyr when my phone had an unfortunate autocorrect. “New flavor of slur just dropped!”
Photo of Icelandic Provisions brand creamy skyr yogurt: new flavor Salted Caramel & Banana 4oz cup
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It must take incredible restraint not to make that your profile pic for everything.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
That’s an awesome photo of your Grandma.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Opus sectile of tigress attacking a bull, 331 CE. Basilica of Junius Annius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill, Rome. For #worldtigerday
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I still don't know what a "Rave Sprout Clip" is, and that's fine.
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Nancy Martira @nancymartira.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In the span of 2 minutes I went from "What the hell is a Trinket Box?" to "Of course Trinket Boxes would descend into finger-pointing chaos." Trinket Box Purveyors Are Melting Down - defector.com/trinket-box-...
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Trinket Box Purveyors Are Melting Down | Defector
Who among us has not attempted to start a whimsical community-oriented project, only for it to devolve into a site of small-scale authoritarianism? It happens all the time! It even happened in my own ...
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