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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 20h
Side hüstle?
Side by side IKEA hanging signs:

Sleeper sofa
The home for your business
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Young night heron on Spring Creek, at the north edge of Jamaica Bay. These creeks are so large where they enter the bay, but now only a few blocks long. It must have been tremendous before everything was paved. A few of these guys, a great blue, a great egret and a snowy, a darting kingfisher.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Many people think the Tuskegee Experiments involved infecting Black men with syphilis. But what they did was more like this: they didn't give the men syphilis, they instead withheld treatment despite having effective medicine, just to see what happened. This is unethical and disgusting.
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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages. granta.com/contributor/...
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yesterday I visited my 12yo's new public but extremely hard to test into middle school in Manhattan. (If a name popped into your head, yes, that one.) This place is justifiably revered for its teaching. People who can afford $70k private schools send their kids here instead if they get in. 1/
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Up early because today is the day the kids at my daughter's school stay home and the adults go to class. Very excited about it except for being up this early.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ranger Rick. I was about 3, lying on my parents' bed holding it above my face. The cover was a tiger, which was a little scary. But whenever the cover was scary, the back side was something nice, like a kitten, so I flipped it over. A COBRA. Right above my FACE. I threw it across the room.
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two guys who love each other for loving New York. Sigh. 🥰😻
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The version of this that sticks with me is Bernice Johnson Reagon's. She of the songs and the Sweet Honey and the activism. Toshi's mom. If you are in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Settling in with the West Wing for my second colonoscopy prep in 2 months. I did not expect to have a habitual colonoscopy prep comfort watch.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
like where is the part where she rallies these kid's parents? where does she meet with New York City leaders? where she gets on TV or WRITES AN ARTICLE SOME POINT IN THE LAST TEN YEARS ABOUT THIS?? even all her solutions for her child's struggles are individualized. it's just bizarre.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This one sure hits close. My older kid is a year younger; we live in walking distance (though a different school district). I felt VERY torn about moving him from our zoned school when it was not serving him. It's hard to justify, given my politics. And yet. 1/
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I once spent a long period watching a Great Blue try to eat a ?drowned? robin...feet first. Things would be going along, then the wings would splay out, halting progress, and there would be a great flurry of coughing it back up. Rinse, repeat.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Inspired by @tkingfisher.com's long wall sticks, I decided to Just Start with one of the pieces of cedar I found in the trash. Now it has a woodpecker and a sun. To be continued.
Close up of part of a length of cedar plank. The thin kind, like you use to line a closet. There are knots and swirls. You might decide you see a bird with a crest and a long beak, in profile, beneath a sweltering sun. The same morsel of lumber, on the same beaten down wooden outdoor chair. There are woodcarving tools, and a curving line carved into the plank, where the back of the bird's head might be, if you thought there was a bird. The same plank. Now the bird and the sun are carved out. Irregular concentric rings. That section of the board has been rolled in blue ink, so the bird and the sun are rings of reddish cedar surrounded by the blue. The woods to either side is not inked. 

The plank is lying on a large brown drawing board. Above it are two prints of the image, the reverse of the plank. A tool with a round surface is next to them.-- the barren, used to press the paper against the inked wood.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Briefly, I did wholesale telemarketing of prepackaged vegan donuts. This was a second business scheme/probably MLM for the owner of a clothing store, and I worked alone in the back of the store during its closed hours, cold calling from a stack of lead cards. 1/2
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Atlantic Beach Pie is wildly superior to Key Lime Pie. It's high time restaurant menus reflected this objective fact.
It's that Norman Rockwell man, speaking truth to power.
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you liked the Chicago Rat Hole, you’ll LOVE the Brooklyn Potato Chasm
A pothole full of potatoes
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wadsworth sun, Frank-N-Furter moon, and, somewhat surprisingly, Rooster rising.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This right here. This is why I call myself queer and not just gay.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They really did turn it on exactly at 9:25.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And I'm crying all over again.
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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
From the Empire State Building Observation Deck: Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton.
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(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026
Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Great thread on marriage and deliberately short historical memory. Once again, "traditional" norms means 1950's US/industrialized capitalism. Funny how it always seems to.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Smol Frog Sunday
A field of dappled browns and greys and blacks. It's a rotting log, but rotting so beautifully. In the center, a tiny, pale green frog. It is the same frog! Closer! It has a golden eye and faint lines crossing its back.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Then I went and made a bunch of cyanotypes at lunch:
Four blue, square images drying on a board. Some of the shadows are recognizably leaves. One looks like a sea plant, but it's just really old cabbage. On a yellow table in the sun, two slices of baguette, surrounded by crumbs, on a square of blue paper, on a round wooden cutting board. Around that, orange peels, some desiccated red cabbage. A silver envelope. The tip of a knife. There is a bowl of brown eggshell shards.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you see this, post your blue art! 💙
Tiny watercolor of a snowy slope with clusters of trees, under cloudy skies. The only color used is a dark grey blue.Watercolor portrait of Stacy Abrams, looking at the viewer and half-smiling. Her face and hair are rendered in a range of blues.Large watercolor of a small sailboat, moored, no sails. The sky is a clear blue, fading to near white at the horizon. Process photo of the sailboat one. The shape of the boat and mast is white, floating in a gradient of blue, darkest at the top of the page and lightest at the bottom.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Indeed I showed my daughter this comic the first time she heard the song, ensuring this effect Larry's lasts at least another generation. (Yes, she sings it this way.)
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ok this might be the cutest political ad I have ever seen. I just watched it 4 times in a row. www.instagram.com/reel/DaxwmZM...
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Instagram: "My family’s roots in mid-Michigan trace back to the early 1800s. I lived with Grandma and Grandpa during my time at the University of Michigan. And they’ve always had...
187K likes, 1,328 comments - abdulelsayed on July 14, 2026: "My family’s roots in mid-Michigan trace back to the early 1800s. I lived with Grandma and Grandpa during my time at the University of Michi...
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Act 2 of Death Becomes Her has what I missed in Wicked. Two women who are obsessed with each other realize they don't need anyone else. The fuck-off vibes are impeccable.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In a just world, Jellicle Ball would run at least as long as Cats.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
Don’t make me write a newsletter about how Emily Wilson is allowed to be an expert, you guys
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You (too) might be perimenopausal if it took you a looong beat to realize that's not what this post is about. HRT for everyone! Cheers and etc!
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today someone at work showed me how to get rid of all the AI crap in my Google results. I'm a medical editor, and it had gotten so hard to quickly check terms. I felt a genuine and bodily sense of relief when my searches started turning up actual sources again! Like settling into a warm bath.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am lightly dead of fangirl. 😍😍😍
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/07/2026
The number of posts I see of folks reading Radiant Star and going "But I actually DO want to know about the city's water purification and reclamation system!" is giving me life. Y'all were the reason I put that sentence in. It was just for you, my gift. I was thinking of you as I wrote!
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Feeling a bit seen/called out by this paragraph of @annleckie.com 's Radiant Star.
I greatly fear that if I spent the next paragraphs detailing the operation of Ooioiaa's water treatment and reclamation facility (or, more accurately, facilities-there were of course three separate systems, one for each precinct), you would find it tedious. And even if you, specifically, were to say to me, "But no! I am fascinated by water treatment systems and would in fact appreciate the information," I would strongly suspect that you were something of an outlier.

I will, therefore, not describe Ooioiaa's water treatment facilities in detail.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
FINALLY hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 26 718 pts · PERFECT 💯 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
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Smush
A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Went to the beach this evening. We should do this every night.
Small watercolor painting held over a beach blender, with paints and the edge of a book visible. The painting is of a white woman in a hat, sitting on the beach, watching the ocean.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Not all heroes wear capes. Some meant to but wind up in gorilla masks instead. Thank you to Joyce Kozloff and all the other Guerrilla Girls, whether or not you ever come forward. What you did was so, so important.
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Founding member of Guerrilla Girls reveals her identity
One of the founding members of feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has revealed herself to be American painter and sculptor Joyce Kozloff.
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Zombiekaffee @zitronenkaffee.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026
small — #ArtRepostJuly
Watercolour and ink painting of a mouse
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I've been enjoying people's #ArtRepostJuly pictures so much! Today's theme is Large. This isn't huge by most standards, but at 12x16 it was by far the largest watercolor I'd ever made. It's the view from a place we used to visit in Maine. The mountains are #Acadia Nat Park.
Watercolor painting bending up slightly on a sunny deck floor. The image is distant blue mountains reflecting in calm water. In the foreground, yellow green seaweed floating on the surface of the water. In the middle ground, a peninsula of dark pines and its reflection.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Latest batch of little Swallows getting ready to fly. We have had four successful broads this season, more than other years. They are so amazing to watch around the garden.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I will never understand soccer foul logic. Guy runs straight into your path and it's your fault. Kindergarten logic.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I came up with a joke about Lethe, but I forgot it.
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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Well I didn't expect to cry like that. This is genuinely moving.
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