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Nelson

@nappell.bsky.social
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Public Librarian, current Library Director. MoBookFest co-chair. Bibliophile. Long Covid. Cooks, bakes, writes, sketches. Dumb Bluesky jokes. Sounders. AI sucks.

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 9h
A thing about artists that's hard to understand if you don't know them is that they will make the art whether anyone sees it or not. But a thing about people is that they will want to see good art because it connects them to the person who made it
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cool mornings means the back #cat deck is open for fresh air and morning sunshine.
Two brother cats sunning themselves on an open window, to the backdrop of a wildly overgrown garden that took advantage of the heat driving the gardeners indoors.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Listening to Kate Quinn’s Briar Club for book club. This one is terrific. #booksky
Cover o f Briar Club by Kate Quinn
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We bought some local beef this year. Some may be Christmas gifts the way this is going.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is true.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“My illnesses don’t show up on lab tests, nor do they affect my appearance. Some people think this makes them less real, but a few strong supporters keep me going.”
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I look fine, but dealing with chronic illness is my full-time job
Jennifer McCalla doesn't look sick, but living with long COVID and POTS is a full-time job. She writes about invisible illness and the fight to be believed.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
American White Pelicans on the Mississippi, south of Nauvoo, Illinois on the Great River Road. #naturesky #birdsky
Pelicans on the Mississippi Pelicans on the Mississippi Pelicans on the Mississippi
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A weeekend visiting The utopian communities of the Midwest. Here is Temple House Village in Nauvoo, Illinois. Location of the the tomb of Joseph Smith. Near the Mississippi River.
Joseph Smith memorial Temple Village house and signs pointing to important citiesTemple House village catsTomb of Joseph Smith, closed on Sundays
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
go.bsky.app/G8j8ZNQ
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Am I in the hog capital of the world? Yes I am.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every sentence hits.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We've seen a distinct drop in interest in these conditions as people have memory-holed COVID; they'd like to forget infection-associated chronic conditions, but they're impacting everyone, including kids. I'm the Scientific Director at #MEAction, and I advocate for #MECFS, #LongCOVID, & other IACCs.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m down for the Red Apple Truther movement!
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Astrid Meyer-Knutsen @astridmeyerknutsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I got #ME/CFS after an EBV infection. 30 years later I still don't have access to a doctor who is knowledgeable about my illness. The situation for my patient group is if anything getting worse, not better. Read this excellent column by George Monbiot and help us break through the indifference:
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 23/09/2026
You can always quit
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The life advice articles are growing very dark.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Crepes is what’s on the menu! #foodsky
Crepe in the pan cookingFinished crepe
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Treehouse books are popular in our library. RIP Mr. Denton.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 22/09/2026
Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really should be a 'dead bear.'
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As bears ‘spin out’ in southern Montana, wildlife managers are at wit’s end - High Country News
Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really…
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The winning bid.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s part of the close-reading movement. We’re in it for the linguistic depth.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Librarians and anyone who loves books - great interview with Tasslyn Magnusson for the first podcast of Liberating Lits.
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Episode One: Tasslyn Magnusson — Liberating Lit
Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson has been tracking book bans since 2021. But her work is much more than simply counting–it’s helping motivate other people nationwide to get to work protecting the right to read. ...
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Asters are putting on a show; it’s a #pollinator party. The #inverts are everywhere in the yard.
Monarch on asterBee on an asterA skipper on asterA carpenter bee on aster
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A library book sale find. The title, “when women were birds,” caught my eye. The inciting event is stark & filled with possible meaning - a Mom passes and bequeaths her lifetime of diaries to her daughter. The journals are all, each and every one, blank. By Terry Tempest Williams. #booksky
Cover of “when women were birds” by Terry Tempest Williams
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I picked this one up at the library, and I was shocked at the quality and creativity. This is a book to slow down and savor. It’s fun too! The Dungeon Book by @mytholder.bsky.social Shelve this one next to @travisbaldree.bsky.social’s Legends and Lattes books. #booksky
Cover of The Dungeon Book: As Told by Cornelius the Skull by Gareth Hanrahan
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m listening to this audiobook on a recommendation. I knew that it was a crime/mystery. Didn’t have any idea it was as mashing up Sci-fi time travel, too. I am really enjoying it! Frozen People by @ellygriffiths.bsky.social. #booksky
Cover of The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy #batmanday! I enjoy the creative teams on both these Batman series, so looking forward to this mashup.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
[insert witty, snarky comment] This is so obviously dumb, but we’re going to allow this tool to exist anyway. At least for awhile.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I had this oversized Buck Rogers book when I was a kid. Found this copy at the library used book sale - 2nd printing, 1970. It’s gonna need a little love. Im afraid I may be entering my nostalgia era of life. #booksky #comics #graphicnovels
Buck Rogers oversized book Some interior pages of Flash Gordon, the Sunken City of Atlantis storyline
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Comparing the U.S. to her Australia: "In fact, I saw different communities from different backgrounds sitting very uncomfortably alongside each other." "We have been able to achieve multicultural Australia not by erasing people's differences but by giving them space to belong..."
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Of her experience traveling with the poor (Greyhound busses) in the U.S. she says, "I saw disconnection as a human condition rather than a political constituency. And people were simply not interested in the institutions and the organisations that ostensibly are there to represent them..."
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James Asmus @jamesasmus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh my god he admit it www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
Microsoft director privately admits AI was "largest theft of labor in human history"
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Newswise: 'New Clues Link Long COVID and POTS' 'Almost two-thirds of long COVID patients also met the diagnostic criteria for POTS.' www.newswise.com/articles/new...
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New Clues Link Long COVID and POTS | Newswise
Dizziness, fatigue, brain fog and a racing heart. They’re commonly associated with Long COVID, but new Adelaide University research suggests that for some people, these symptoms may also be indication...
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think I neglected to share in July, but a large proportion of UK crime novels have female victims. I find this disturbing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... #booksky ⚡📚
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Nine out of 10 bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered
Author Wendy Jones highlighted the trend in an Instagram post: ‘What is going on here?’
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Phineas and Ferb have entered the mainstream. (Technically, Dufenschmertz.)
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a bad idea.
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Fresno County to study privatizing its libraries
After debating LGBTQ materials at the Fresno County library, county officials are studying cost saving from a switch to private management.
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Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Omg omg omg omg omg omg omg
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So it continues
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Son of a %{#[*}* f#]{~ing god*]>{* mother-}^{*}>_
Heat advisory warning until Friday Sept 18, currently 95 degrees out
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“We are experiencing higher than normal call volumes.” I’m just forced to go along with the lie.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ok so by far the funniest response to these photos was a comment from a pal who said we look like we’re starring in a soap opera called “As the World Burns” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/09/2026
Look, intellectually I understand there are situations that call for unsalted butter instead of salted butter, but emotionally there is never a time I want to be in one of those situations.
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Katie @katiejmcnamara.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stop minimizing manga and graphic novels as entry points to reading. This discounts the reader is cognitavely doing. AND a traditional print reader cannot automatically read manga and graphic novels. Vistual literacy is real. #TLSky #EduSky
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“we are currently experiencing higher than normal call volumes”
Elizabeth Holmes “why would I deceive you” meme
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m already a fan of this show. The Un-Muppet Show.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It feel like this is a precipitating event. This fellow should be anointed King of All Scandinavia and immediately call for an Althing. Hail, King of the Vikings!
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another hoard of Viking coins is found, this time in Finland: www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #MedievalSky
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Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered by metal detectorist — and it has thousands of coins and pieces of jewelry
The largest Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Finland was unearthed by a metal detectorist north of Helsinki.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have purchased books personally and professionally (for a public library) from bsky posts.
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wow. BA.1 Omicron lineage is the wave that left me with long COVID.
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