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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye (photo by me)

Portrait-oriented photo featuring a wooden post with a rusted hanger hook jutting out of it, and standing atop the post, triumphant and at least slightly indignant, is a plump little bluebird. The bluebird is a male, and we see the electric blue of his head, but the predominant part facing us is the coppery-orange and pale white front. He is standing amidst little pink-and-red tree blossoms, but I like to imagine these are instead the extracted organs of his enemies. So let's just pretend this bluebird stands vengefully astride a scattering of viscera -- gobbets of gore taken as a prize from his unnatural and invasive foes. I'm sorry I've really made this a gross photo. It's actually quite nice. Kind of a dreamy vibe to it, what with the wall of yellow forsythia blurring in the background, and here I am adding drippy bits and internal organs. I'm sorry. I'll do better next time. Probably. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I’m just a girl, standing in front of the religion she was raised in, saying, “Um, on second thought…no thanks.”

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Unraveled

If the sweater doesn’t fit, take apart the stitches and make something new.

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

March reads. 💙📚 And no, you cannot make me pick a favorite. 🧶

A collage of books, each alongside a crocheted granny square in the colors of the book’s cover. Water Moon by Samantha Soto Yambao, Entangled Life by Merlin Sandrake, Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho, Woodworm by Layla Martinez, Gathered Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, We Do Not Part by Han Kang.

A collage of books, each alongside a crocheted granny square in the colors of the book’s cover. Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield, The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman, Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos, They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

One of my favorite reads of 2024!

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 03/02/2025

It's #LibraryLoversMonth and libraries rock ❤️ They: ➡️ Offer free materials ➡️ Host events ➡️ Build community and life-long learning ➡️ Are safe spaces & makerspaces ➡️ Provide life-saving resources & ESL support ➡️ Boost critical thinking ➡️ Aid in career development ➡️ Have LIBRARIANS!

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This. (Including the follow up in the thread.) I will make room for anyone who actually wants to educate themselves and contribute to change. But if you just want me to feel bad for you because he didn’t make your life better like he promised and you have regerts? Nah.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 31/01/2025

Out on the town tonight....

Drawing of a crow and a pigeon bathed in the pink glow of a storefront window filled with pastries.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Happy Friday here’s a pep talk from gay icon Samwise Gamgee youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?...

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LOTR The Two Towers - The Tales That Really Mattered...

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Final reads/squares of January. (One pro of it being such a never-ending month is I managed to read 9 books). Little Weirds felt like a very timely read in many ways (and I loved Slate’s style of writing). Two of my favorite quotes in a thread below... 💙📚 🧶

The book Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar sits on a tile floor surrounded by a hammer, a folded white tarp, a flashlight, and a granny square made of blue, pink and yellow yarn. The book’s cover has an illustrated silhouette of a man and a woman in a yellow canoe floating on dark blue water, with a light blue background and raindrops and clouds in bright blue and pink.

The audio book of Little Weirds by Jenny Slate is shown on an iPad sitting on a gold wire shelf. To the right of the iPad is a houseplant with broad green leaves in a white pot that’s shaped like a face wearing glasses. In the left is a yellow glass candle jar shaped like a beehive and a crocheted granny square in white, pink, blue, green, brown, gray, and yellow yarn. The cover of the audiobook features a wreath of green leaves dotted with random objects, such as a hot dog, a brontosaurus, flowers, a seashell, a bra, a beer can, and a hamburger.

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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I appreciate this statement from Police Chief Day very much. I’ve been asked this question a lot so I’m adding this in good faith for my constituents - if you see an officer collaborating with ICE, you can file an anonymous report through the Independent Police Review. Translation is available.

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Costco is for rotisserie chickens and giant boxes of goldfish that will barely last a month in the hands of your teenager. Your local indie is for books (and sharing in communal joy and rage).

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I really cannot adequately express the amount of joy this book blanket project is bringing me right now. Not only do I look forward to reading the books, but I’m so excited to make my little squares afterward. It’s like treats on treats. 💙📚 🧶

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I really love the relationship between @powells.bsky.social and the @thornsfc.com. Books + women’s soccer forever. 📚 ❤️ ⚽️

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

One of my greatest joys in life is being able to enter a bookshop and see my friends’ books. In this case, @jamiepacton.bsky.social! I can personally attest to how wonderful her (and Becca’s) books are…so go preorder! It’ll make you happy and look gorgeous on your bookshelf. 💙📚

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

One of the many reasons I love my city.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Seems like a good day to reshare this image that I made back in 2020. Don’t forget to to make joy and rest part of your resistance. But if all you feel right now is grief, that’s okay. #art

On a red background, over an illustration of an orange tree with white blossoms and oranges in its branches, Scrabble tiles spell out the words “Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum.”

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The nose! The pose! The tail wrap! What a distinguished little gentlecat.

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This book was a fever dream (see: the blurbs on the cover using phrases like “bonkers novel” and “absolutely mental”) that I read in two days. It’s honestly not the type of novel I always enjoy, but my experience highlights the importance of books and their potential impact. A 🧵… (1/5) 💙📚 #books

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I think we can change the world by having protected bike lanes and secure bike parking everywhere.

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Mossy PNW winter walks are the best.

A clump of moss in the shape of a bird clinging to a thin tree branch.

Moss and tiny succulents cling to a rock wall.

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Book 2 (and granny square 2 🧶) of the year: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk. Finished this one a couple days ago and I’m still thinking about it. This story was so unexpected - beautifully layered, thematically pointed, and quietly spooky (with one hell of an author’s note). 💙📚 #books #crochet

A photo of a book, sitting in a small birch-colored wooden tray. The cover of the book is beige with a bright orange portrait of a woman’s head and torso. She wears a Victorian style dress and a large flowered hat. Superimposed over her face is a greenish-gold colored skull. The title is The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk. Also on the tray is a tall, corked, green glass bottle lying on its side, a small tumbler made of smoky grey glass, and a crocheted granny square that is orange in the center, surrounded by mossy green, then beige. The tray of items sits on the ground surrounded by lush green moss, clover, ferns, and scattered bright red leaves..

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

maybe it's the residual evolutionary urge to hunt and gather, but it's so much more fun to pursue infinite sources and collect extraneous tidbits than it is to close my tabs and just write the damn thing. please, i just want to be in the rabbit hole. don't make me crawl out.

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I’ve loved Danielle’s poetry since I came across it on Insta. It’s real and beautiful and fiery and empowering. I want to add more poetry to my reading this year, so I just preordered her upcoming collection, “If Adam Picked the Apple.” Check it out - link is on her profile! 💙📚 #books #poetry

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

First book of 2025 (Wool by Hugh Howey, amazing, 5 stars 💙📚) and first square of my year-long craft project! For each book I read this year, I’m crocheting a granny square in the colors of the book’s cover. By the end of the year, I should have enough for a cozy book blanket. 🧶

A photograph. The book “Wool” by Hugh Howey (the cover is red with an orange staircase spiraling around black letters which spell “Wool” down the center) sits on top of a folded blue jumpsuit. The book is surrounded by three balls of yarn (red, orange, and black), and a crocheted granny square in the same colors lies next to the book.

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Ashley Martin @paperpages.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I haven’t made a first post on a social media platform in over a decade. Is this what it’s like to be the new student having to introduce yourself in front of the class? (As a former homeschool kid, I’ll take it as part of my attempts to reclaim the childhood experiences I never got to have.)

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