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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Found this, while attempting to answer the inevitable questions. JOHNSON! JOHNSON!! JOHNSON!!!

The dramatis personae of the 19th century play Too Much Johnson which concludes with the lines

ACT I—JOHNSON!
ACT II—JOHNSON!!
ACT III—JOHNSON!!!

Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

“You cannot be neutral. You must either join with us who believe in the bright future or be destroyed by those who would return us to the dark past.”—Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin. Suffragist, civil rights activist. Recruited Thurgood Marshall to the NAACP. Make her proud. Vote.

Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin. A portrait of a Black woman with short hair, looking up and to the right.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Inez Milholland toured to agitate for women’s right to vote. Despite having pernicious anemia and against the advice of her family, she persevered. She died at 30 after collapsing in the middle of a speech. Her last public words were “how long must women wait for liberty?” Make Inez proud. Vote.

An image of Inez Milholland, a White suffragist wearing white on the back of a horse. She is holding a banner saying “forward into light.” Above and below the illustration, the words “Inez Milholland Boissevain, who died for the freedom of women.”

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

The blue ones are Blue-capped Cordonbleus, the flappy one is a Crimson-rumped Waxbill, pretty sure the sparrows are Swahili Sparrows, and there’s a Fischer’s Lovebird poking its head in on the side. Tanzania.

A whole mess of birds, identified in the post, congregating at a small water feature in Tanzania. Most of the birds are brown with a spectacular splash of blue. One is a multi-colored parrot.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Here’s a Secretarybird and a Tawny Eagle sharing a thorny tree in Tanzania

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

You seem very unbothered, yes. This is how an unbothered person acts. This place is full of marginalized people, and marginalized people have a hair trigger on listening to stuff that marginalizes them more. It seems like maybe this isn’t your scene. Perhaps you’d be more comfy over here:

Weenie Hut Jr.’s from Sponge Bob. It’s a restaurant shaped like a cupcake with a smiling hot dog on the front. The hot dog is wearing a propeller beanie.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

About 8% of trans Americans have already changed states because of bigotry. That’s 130k-260k people. If each of those brought just ONE family member on average, that’s 260k-520k people. These are Oregon Trail numbers (about 400k went to OR/CA/UT on the trail). Will we get a video game and monuments?

A green and black screenshot from the 1980s computer game Oregon Trail. It shows a covered wagon being pulled by an ox and some mountains. There is text that says “You have died of hate.”

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

And I’m not interested in arguing the point over in the dogpile but I saw this and…

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

And here is a reading order chart by sub-series, which is my preferred/suggested route. I think the City Watch novels are the best starting point but you can make a strong case for any of them!

A sub-series based reading guide for Discworld. There is too much text here to fit in alt text, so I suggest the Discworld Emporium for an alternative reading order page that should be screen reader compatible.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2023

Grocery loans are *now* a Thing

Washington Post headline clipping: “Americans using ‘buy now pay later’ apps to contend with high grocery prices”

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

In the 50s there was an experimental “Air Conditioned Village” in Austin to test residential AC. They found residents slept better/longer, got less sick, and spent less time cleaning. (and because it was the 50s, this was sold as “your wife will have more time to cook for you!” 😬)

Air Conditioned Village information center, photo courtesy Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

Daily Walrus Fact 🧪 : Sometimes walruses roam away from home. This walrus, Wally, got on boats. The new boats were overwhelmed by the sudden walrus mass on top of them, and the boats sank. He then moved on to different boats and sank them too. This is not a metaphor, why would you think that?

Wally the Walrus sinks a boat. Photo Paul O’Sullivan, Bristol Post.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

Walrus fact of the day 🧪 : Walruses spend a lot of time in cold water and on the beach, so they need a strong temperature regulation system! They change their blood circulation on land, which is why Mr. Dozer here is pinkish. When they get back in the water they turn grey as they redirect blood.

A giant slightly pinkish walrus. Photo Point Defiance Zoo

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2023

I’m also going to do a week of walrus facts, because walruses deserve it. Someone wanted to know if walruses have a prodigious appetite for oysters, like in the Lewis Carroll poem. Most of a walrus’s diet is bivalves, the family of clams and oysters. So… yes! They suck the meat right out. 🧪

A big walrus in the sea. Photo Allan Hopkins on Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 14/06/2023

Oh to have this problem. (also if anyone knows WHY the IRS can’t accept a single check bigger than 100 million dollars please enlighten me)

A screenshot informing US taxpayers that the IRS cannot accept single checks bigger than 100 million dollars

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 14/06/2023

🎶If they’ve got jaws in their neck, which is cool as heck, that’s a moray🎵 (it could also be a cichlid, but it’s probably a moray) Moray eels use their pharyngeal jaws to pull prey down their throat! 🧪

Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation (after Rita Mehta, UC Davis); Ryan Wilson (pbroks13) • CC BY 3.0

A diagram of a moray eel’s pharyngeal jaws

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2023

Time for a WALRUS FACT! 🧪 Walruses don’t usually eat fish, unless they’re in a zoo. They use their whiskers to feel around on the sea floor for clams and other invertebrates. Then they suck the meat right out of the clam, thousands a day

A majestic walrus on a beach with long straight tusks. Photo by claumoho, CC BY-2.0

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 08/06/2023

Clownfish socially and biologically transition! When the dominant female in a group dies, the dominant male immediately socially transitions followed by a biological transition. Their gonads change to ovaries and in time they’re fully female. One of the smaller fish becomes male in her place 🏳️‍⚧️ 🧪

A clownfish. Photo by Teddy Hartanto on Flickr, CC-BY 2.0

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

Glad to see public institutions coming out hard for Pride, like this lecture tonight at the British Library about queerness in nature. Love it. 🏳️‍🌈

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 29/05/2023

That’s all we want! When the aforementioned dolls get pissy (justifiably) it’s because sometimes people *demand* answers or come in “asking questions” that are like this:

Kelly Kapoor from The Office saying “I have a lot of questions. Number one: how dare you?”

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2023

Meanwhile, those shitbags over at The American Conservative say:

A headline for an article entitled “Yes, The Homeless Are More Violent”

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 20/05/2023

English teachers everywhere despair.

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2023

My arm is slowly gathering a sleeve of songbirds. The other arm might eventually be sea creatures. Here’s my favorite: a female Pyrrhuloxia above a cracked egg. I’m so grateful to have found an artist who is willing to get bird details right!

tattoo of a female pyrrhuloxia bird above a cracked egg

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2023

If I got promoted in the game will Bluesky hire me to trust and safety? 👀

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Penelope @penwrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

not quite a butt fact but close: Blackpoll Warblers (the little cuties shown here, photo Anna&Victor CC-BY-NC) have to fly a long long way in the fall. Much like your dad on a road trip they don’t stop for snacks. So to make room for extra fuel they DISSOLVE THEIR INTESTINES pre-flight.

A small bird perched on a branch, facing right. It is striped with a striking black cap.

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