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All about books and libraries, plus nature, gardening, museums, science, fiction, media literacy, lowcountry and SC stuff. Anti-authoritarian, anti-hate, pro-democracy. I like logical thinkers but also a bit of magic.

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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You don’t have to frame news in terms of trump. The ballot ruling affects us more than it does him but you’ve all forgotten how to report that way.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Media: you do not have to frame news in terms of trump. Fixed it for you 👇
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Azalea appreciation! So much pink in my yard right now 🩷🌱🌺
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I will inundate you with spring blooms soon. I hope. From last year #flowers #blooms #spring
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Very cool. I’m just a little dot in the teardrop of progressive American democrats. Couldn’t find the librarians or bookish folk, oh well
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is just performative politics and will only result in lawsuits. We’ve been under Republican rule for decades now. The result: we’re ranked near the bottom of all states in education, health care, economy, etc. Republicans would do better to address real issues, not manufactured ones.
SOUTH CAROLINA RANKED IN THE BOTTOM 12% IN NEW
"BEST STATES TO LIVE" STUDY
• August 20, 2025 • Charleston Daily • 0 0 Lowcountry,
By Mark A. Leon
Postsat to and rear analyaro latcome at tub has released is latest study faugust, 2023) on the
'he methodology for this study included affordability, economy, education & health, quality of life, and safety as their categories of measurement.
Here is how South Carolina ranked in each category:
• Affordability: 9th
• Economy: 39th |
• Education & Health: 42nd
• Quality of Life: 34th |
• Safety: 46th |
• Overall Score (out of a possible 100): 45.65
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I would love to see a correlation study between conservative media audience size and Trump approval ratings. I have to say, these two stats give me a teeny bit of hope. Viewership is down over the last year. But what causes what?
Graph from US TVDB shows Fox News Channel viewership down 24% from Dec 2025Graph from US TVDB shows Newsmax TV Channel viewership down 13% from Dec 2025.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
And another Epstein email about Donald’s finances
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From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 1/6/2018 9:20:31 PM
To: Michael Wolff
Subject: Re:
It looks to me as you might have driven him over the edge. DJT: 'I do things proper !!/ " im really, like. smart.!! sounds like elizas father- donald dolittle... or dopey donald or demented donald. as I told you his
statement from camp david was laced with "he has made billions and billions of dollars. he is reportedly petrified that his bluff will be called.. His 100 million dollar plane he said be bought from paul
allen, is really a 1991 boeing 757 previously used by a mexican airline. repainted. His- ladder capital| finance 11c, - ladder capital 1 finance 11c, deutsche bank trust co americas. chicago unit acquistion. (
says "springing loan" over 50m -I never even heard of the term. as part of june 17 disclosure form he owes each more than 50 m apiece. but of course, not disclosed just -how much more.. declared the revenue
of his real estate as INCOME without deducting expenses or taxes. all a sham
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Michael Wolff <
> wrote:
I feel he truly must be 
off his rocker. Could there be a strategy here?
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 3:39 PM jeffrey E. wrote:
how does it feel to have the president of the united states. at camp david. focus on you.. ! . please note
The information contained in this communication is
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Look at how Epstein cleaned up his image
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Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Results
Importance: High
Jeffrey,
The bats did the sweep. Here are the new results taken as of a minute ago.
You have only one negative article left on front page of google, which is the Huffington Post article. The Huffington Post is extremely hard to move, because it is so powerful, has millions of links to it, and uploads massive new and original content it on a daily basis with posting from out side readers. We managed to push it down the page, as it used to be at the top. If we were able to post original content to both the science and the org site (absolutely not a single word to this day by Jessica, just talk), we would have been able to push it down even further, and off the page. WE did manage to get rid of the daily beast article, which is now far removed, inspite of their own efforts to keep it prominent.
Toxic suggested search engine terms that popped up automatically when you typed in your name are also now removed.
Wikipedia was an important victory, as it will always be at the top of the search engine results. ow the head lines do not mention convicted sex offender or pedophile. Instead, Philanthrophic work, Epstein Foundation, Promotion of Scientists. We have stopped the hacking on your wiki site, and that was a major effor. Your wiki entry now is pretty tame, and bad …and that was a major effor. Your wiki entry now is pretty tame, and bad stuff has been muted, bowlerized, and pused to the bottom. Careful editing and wording has muted the effect immensely. We hacked the site to replace the mug shot and caption, and now has an entirely different photo and caption. This was a big success.
We pushed the Edge all the way up to the front page, where it was previously buried on page 5 of google search.
We have promoted the other jeffrey epsteins, and other pages are also filled with your material.
And, while the sites are up, and in the direction we hoped, they are still new, and subject to volitility, especially if new original content is not added on a minimum of a weekly basis. I have been forbideen to add new content to the philanthrophic site as well as the science site, and therefore, as a result our rating slipped down (still on the first page, but would have liked them (and some of the articles to been able to push Huffington off page). We also helped with you images, and the first images that come of you on a google search are not of your mug shot, etc.
Your daily beast foe is still at it, and trying to promote her sites against you in the same way that we try to depromote you.
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 022216
As far as this site is concerned, and the continuation of this, I do not know what you wish to do. Clearly vou have no interest in my continuing. …As far as this site is concerned, and the continuation of this, I do not know what you wish to do. Clearly, you have no interest in my continuing.
And, I am not sure if you want to continue the project at all. If the latter, and you stop, eventually it will just go into the way of entropy, and it will return to the old form. The major work has been done, but it needs to be maintained. For it to get better results, it needs to have constant input and supervision, and that means generating proper content, not just editing and grammatical fixes. Writers need to know what to write. THe philanthrophy site is at the bottom of the page precisely because you have not allowed us to add any content to it, and as a result it suffers.
You paid Mike $2500, which he applied for the purchasing of his replacement servers, but his fee of $7500 balance is now due if you want to continue. Please let me know what you want to do. I need to inform him, and if you are not going to use him, he needs to take on his other clients and devote his time there.
This needs to be contrasted with what we started with, which was a search on your name, which had nine/10 very toxic prominent stories, and toxic Wiki article and headline.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Here’s another one. Reading these Epstein emails is quite interesting
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I don’t know anything but it does occur to me that the Epstein Files will reveal quite a lot about Trump’s finances 👀
Excerpt from Epstein files talking about “how he paid for Mara lago”
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It’s based on this book and the author had a post on threads saying how much she liked it so that’s promising. I’m looking forward to watching it!
Photo of the book cover:
A Tale of MADNESS.
MEDICINE and the
MURDER of a PRESIDENT

DESTINY of the REPUBLIC

CANDICE MILLARD
Bestselling author of THE RIVER OF
DOUBT
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I thought the trump administration was told to remove this propaganda? Or did I make that up?
Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse.
President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.
HEADER:
USDA
Economic Research Service
MENU:
Home › Data Products › Ag and Food Statistics: Charting the Essentials › Food Prices and Spending

Food Prices and Spending
Updated: 9/29/2025
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Nice! Charleston showed up for No Kings too—even though we couldn’t be downtown.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings - N. Charleston, SC
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A little moment of peace in this decade of chaos #flowers #insects
Photo of a bright pink clover bud with a brown and green beetle on it. Background of green leaves
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I’m trying to think of something hopeful to post. Oh well, here’s a cat on a car #photography #NotMyCat
A photo of a cat in the hood of an old car with a cool airplane hood ornament
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The ICE tip line is (866) 347-2423. Do with that what you will
The ICE tip line is (866) 347-2423
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
FYI, I don’t know if this image is staged or real but it is from 2017, not from LA in the last few days. (It’s not clear from your post if you thought it was from the LA protests but always nice to have clarity.) #factchecks #tineye #reverseimagesearch
Results of ribeye.com reverse image search

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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I ran a reverse image search on the photo through tineye.com. It is from 2017
Results of a reverse image search using tineye.com

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twitter.com
Filename: DlejSNgVoAASRRI.jpg - 994 x 746, 191.3 kB
beaupatrick - Oct 27, 2017
afwaller - Sep 15, 2017
twitter.com
Filename: DlejSNgVoAASRRI.jpg - 994 × 746, 191.2 kB
WordMercenary/status/90286985616867.. - Nov 10, 2017
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Filename: DlejSNgVoAASRRI.jpg - 994 × 746, 191.3 kB firmeaqui/ - Aug 31, 2017
ryanholiday.net
Filename: image5.jpg - 994 x 746, 191.3 kB stop-watching-the-news/ - Jan 17, 2018
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
You can contact Colonel K. Chad Mixon at Fort Bragg to complain about the soldiers’ behavior. I couldn’t find a direct email but Public Affairs is usarmy.bragg.usag.mbx.public-affairs-requests@army.mil.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
All of us can contact Colonel K. Chad Mixon at Fort Bragg to complain about the soldiers’ behavior. I couldn’t find a direct email but Public Affairs is usarmy.bragg.usag.mbx.public-affairs-requests@army.mil
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
You can contact Colonel K. Chad Mixon at Fort Bragg to complain about the soldiers’ behavior. I couldn’t find a direct email but Public Affairs is usarmy.bragg.usag.mbx.public-affairs-requests@army.mil
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
You can contact Colonel K. Chad Mixon at Fort Bragg to complain about the soldiers’ behavior. I couldn’t find a direct email but Public Affairs is usarmy.bragg.usag.mbx.public-affairs-requests@army.mil
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I just need something funny and mindless to watch, I thought as I opened @kanopy.com. Thank you Kanopy! Bbye Bluesky, zoning out.
Kanopy highlighting comedies in June
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Dandelion appreciation post #weeds #nature #plantsky
Dandelions gone to seed. Three white flowers against a fuzzy green background
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Looks like it’s popular! Ill try back later
Screenshot: 429 Too Many Requests notification for https://twigbit.itch.io
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hopping in here for #MountainMonday #ArtChallenges #photography #Maleny
View of mountain top with clouds settling in the valley near Maleny, QueenslandSunday’s shining on mountaintop as clouds settle in valley below
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Tracking people in real time. Linking social security numbers to ICE departments. Our dystopian future is now. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
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Palantir also recently began helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement's enforcement and removal operations team, according to two Palantir employees and two current and former D.H.S. officials. The work is part of a $30 million contract that ICE signed with Palantir in April to build a platform to track migrant movements in real time.
Some D.H.S. officials exchanged emails with DOGE officials in abruary about merging some Social Security information with records kept by immigration officials, according to screenshots of the messages viewed by The New York Times.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Oh boy, bluesky political posters are extremely doomy today. So I’m here to add to the dystopian vibes. Let’s go full-on dark today! I rarely agree with David Brooks but he’s nailed it here: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
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The use of the word "scum" in that context is called dehumanization. It is a short step from dehumanization to all sorts of horrors. Somebody should remind Trump that you don't love your country if you hate half its members.
People who are more theologically advanced than I have a name for that kind of dehumanization: spiritual warfare. All of us humans have within us a capacity for selfishness and a capacity for generosity. Spiritual warfare is an attempt to unleash the forces of darkness and to simultaneously extinguish the better angels of our nature. Trump and Vance aren't just promoting policies; they're trying to degrade America's moral character to a level more closely resembling their own.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Just playing around with my phone yesterday. Stokes’ Aster and lavender 🌱 #gardening #bloomscrolling
Closeup of brilliant purple stokes’ aster bloomCloseup of brilliant purple stokes’ aster bloom with a smaller spent bloom that now is green next to itLavender buds in front of a out-of-focus garden sculpture Out-of-focus lavender buds in front of a whitish-gray garden temple sculpture
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
And it’s actually interesting! 2000+ people are watching right now. We need more NOAA, not less
How important is release of carbon from melting permafrost?
Carbon Uptake
NOAA data show that arctic and boreal ecosystems have been acting as growing sink for CO, in recent decades
Brutailer et al (2021) Current Cimate Change ReportsNOAA - Global Monitoring Lab flask network
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Oh dear. Is it possible he’s .. *whispers* .. in it for the money?
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I’m glad @washingtonpost.com is covering this but .. unnoticed? It was all over news and social media a month ago.
Screenshot of Google search results listing numerous news stories covering the Americorps layoff news:

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Most of AmeriCorps staff members have been placed on leave after DOGE cuts
AmeriCorps placed most staft members on administrative leave with pay this week effective immediately, according to a staff member and an internal memo.
1 montn ago
States Sue After AmeriCorps Cuts Leave Communities
Scrambling
The termination of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants from the agency has left its programs, which address an array of neods....
1 month ago.
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Trump administration cuts to AmeriCorps causing "damage and chaos," groups say
A CBS News review of the list of 1000 terminated programs show that half are in red
3 weeks ago
• KTVB
'Unheard of': Idaho nonprofits suddenly lose AmeriCorps volunteers, scramble to adjust
The federal government canceled grants totaling more than $1.3 million across idaho programs, impacting 133 AmeriCorps members in the state.
3 weeks ago
Knoxvile News Sentine
Beardsley Farm loses half its staff in AmeriCorps layoffs:
'This impacts the most vulnerable population'
The department of the Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee runs about 25 gardens and everything grown there is distributed to…
Georgia Public Broadcasting
Georgia Today: Americorps workers laid off; New police training; Flannery O'Connor paintings exhibit Orlando Montoya: He says there are about 300 AmeriCorps volunteers in Georgia.
Their dismissals are a result of the Trump administration's.
-Arkansas Times
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Sure is pretty 🌱 #bloomscrolling
Photo of bright yellow bird of paradise bloom with a background of varied green leaves
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Kudos to Jackson County, NC residents who are fighting hard against library haters. Their arguments are well-stated. Use them! #Libraries #Propaganda www.thesylvaherald.com/top_stories/...
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"I understand the need to protect children," Ruebel said. "I helped raise three daughters knowing that one in five girls are sexually assaulted before they are eighteen."
Ruebel explained the book, noting that it accurately depicts reproductive organs with correct names and explains how bodies work through colorful drawings.
"It has pictures of penises and vaginas - which is something we all have," he said. "I's an owner's manual for a human body, which every single person in this room has. It's not porn."
He cited accredited research that children who receive sex ed have healthier attitudes towards sex and understanding boundaries, but it does not encourage sexual activity.
Ruebel then took on the porn issue, saying many children don't get sexual education until they are teens but by age 10, nearly 90 percent have been exposed to actual porn.
ou know where that comes from," he asked. "Your cell phone, your computer at home, not libraries. Kids don't go to libraries for porn."
He suggested opponents spend less time attacking libraries and more time monitoring computer use if they wanted to really protect children.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
From @npr and kpbs San Diego, it costs the government ~$200 per day to house a detained immigrant at the private CoreCivic detention center. A deaf/mute man has been held there for 85 days even though his sister wants to house him. $18,000 from taxpayers to CoreCivic for what? Both cruel and stupid.
Photo of CoreCivic signIt costs an average of $200 per day per person to detain immigrants $18,000 for one deaf/mute man being held for 85+ days
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I love how it includes the sources in the analysis. Very impressive. Also, it takes the “well actually” factor out so now I can fact-check without sounding holier than thou. 😉 Here’s part of what Claude gave me using the SIFT toolbox after re-examining its work.
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The History of the Doorknob v
shows that:
1. Doorknob technology was already established by 1837 - the patent assumes glass doorknobs already existed and focuses on improving attachment methods
2. The commonly cited "first" patents from 1878 were actually incremental improvements to technology that had been patented decades earlier
3. The evolutionary timeline is much longer than typically acknowledged
This discovery reinforces the core conclusion that doorknob development was
evolutionary rather than revolutionary, but it pushes the documented patent history back much further than I initially found. The 1837 Robinson patent appears to be the earliest documented U.S. patent specifically addressing doorknob technology, making claims about later inventors being "first" even more inaccurate.
Thank you for sharing this primary source - it's exactly the kind of specialized historical documentation that reveals gaps in general patent searches and significantly improves the accuracy of the fact-check.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
still using your toolbox. But my point in all this is to point out the very common error people make with Google. When an answer shows up numerous times, they take it for fact. In reality, it often means websites have copyied the same wrong information. It becomes an error repeated into “truth” ⬇️
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It may suronise you to leam that the nist cocumented invention of door knobs, as we know them, was in 1878 by a man called Osbourn Dorsey. Osbourn Dorsey was an African American man who invented the doorknob to change the culture of people using unorthodox means of keeping their doors closed.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
So, being an ex-librarian, naturally I looked it up. The joke’s on all of us because “by the short hairs” refers to the hair on the back of the neck. I found multiple sources contradicting the AI summary. Lesson: never trust an AI summary See pic below and this: www.cracked.com/article_1610...
From phrases.org.uk:
Caught by the short hairs (or short and curlies)
Meaning
Trapped by an opponent in a situation you can't escape.
Examples
I knew he had been stealing but he was the boss's son. If I said anything he would get me sacked - he had me by the short and curlies.
Where did it originate?
Britain, late 19th century. People assume this expression has a vulgar origin but, in fact, when coined the hairs referred to were those on the back of the neck.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What do you think? Corruption?
Screenshot of Cornell LawSchool definition of corruption:

corruption
Corruption is a dishonest, fraudulent, or even criminal act of an individual or organization, using entrusted authority or power to make a personal gain or other unethical or illegal benefits. Corruption happens not only in political fields but also in social and economic fields, such as business, education, media, and so on. A lack of transparency and effective regulations are often the main causes of corruption.
Corruption 1) undermines institutions' reputations, instability, and working efficiency, 2) prevents economic development and wealth collection, 3) distorts individuals freedom and rights, and 4) attacks democracy and justice .
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I don’t think so. Corruption is much broader: www.law.cornell.edu/wex/corruption
Definition of corruption: 

corruption
Corruption is a dishonest, fraudulent, or even criminal act of an individual or organization, using entrusted authority or power to make a personal gain or other unethical or illegal benefits. Corruption happens not only in political fields but also in social and economic fields, such as business, education, media, and so on. A lack of transparency and effective regulations are often the main causes of corruption.
Corruption 1) undermines institutions' reputations, instability, and working efficiency, 2) prevents economic development and wealth collection, 3) distorts individuals freedom and rights, and 4) attacks democracy and justice .
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.law.cornell.edu/wex/corruption
Screenshot of definition of the word corruption:

corruption
Corruption is a dishonest, fraudulent, or even criminal act of an individual or organization, using entrusted authority or power to make a personal gain or other unethical or illegal benefits. Corruption happens not only in political fields but also in social and economic fields, such as business, education, media, and so on. A lack of transparency and effective regulations are often the main causes of corruption.
Corruption 1) undermines institutions' reputations, instability, and working efficiency, 2) prevents economic development and wealth collection, 3) distorts individuals freedom and rights, and 4) attacks democracy and justice .
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I think we all know what the Trump presidential library foundation really is #emoluments
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Everyone should go ahead and save this website as a pdf right now because it most likely will disappear soon. Here’s a screenshot:
Screenshot of this site: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Factsheet_ByTheNumbers.pdf?VersionId=CqK4KW39D4nNtO_xZRKkhyGznH659z4hPage 2 screenshot of this site: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Factsheet_ByTheNumbers.pdf?VersionId=CqK4KW39D4nNtO_xZRKkhyGznH659z4h
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Sadly, not true. A Twitter user did the markup, not Harvard. We haven’t learned much about sourcing stories and spreading rumors during our century-long use of social media, have we? smh
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Ugh. We need a soothing picture. Here’s a soothing picture #nature #GlassHouseMountains #photography #sunset
Photo of the Glass House Mountains at sunset near Maleny, Queensland. Colorful clouds in the sky with a light mist in front of the mountains. In the foreground, a lot of very green rolling hills.
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ReadThinkBeGood @readthinkbegood.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
#SouthCarolina allows one parent—not a librarian, teacher, or education administrator—to decide what books all South Carolina students cannot read in school. I wonder if the law allows one parent to decide which books can be read? #BookBans
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The ten books voted onto the list of banned titles were all challenged in Beaufort County School District in 2023. Each was voted on by the school review committee and allowed to remain on district shelves. One parent, Elizabeth Szalai, was behind the demands to remove nearly 100 titles challenged in Beaufort County Schools, including the above-listed titles just banned by the state. With South Carolina's new law, she and others like her now have the opportunity to take their complaints beyond their own school district and potentially have books pulled from all public schools in the state. Szalai was also behind the complaints that led to the state banning four books in February.
One single parent has had outsized power to have books banned across an entire state. One parent has been responsible for revoking the right for students to access books in every public school in South Carolina.
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