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@sapindaceae.bsky.social
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Reader, mostly fantasy/sf, non-fiction, and poetry. Midwestern, middle-aged. Happy to eat all the olives. She/her.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/05/2026
the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's the TAKE OUT THE TRASH cycle. We may not get this opportunity again. Put these fucks out of work, do everything in your power to ship their asses.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...
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Donate to #FreeBlackMamas
With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
None of this stops until rich, powerful people — who steal from taxpayers and think they're above the law — start going to jail
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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.shop · 29/03/2026
For the first time in two and a half years every hex sign design is available in the shop! 🐦✨
Barn owl hex signNuthatch hex signCedar Waxwing hex signBlue Jay hex sign
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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Bluesky book club’s April Catch-22 read starts April 1! I am organizing it and maintaining the feed, so please message me if you’d like to join. Once I’ve added you, you can post to the feed with the helmet emoji 🪖 or #catch22. Feed is here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Favorite Friday C2E2 commission
Squirrel Girl doing a flip
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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 28/03/2026
Halloa 📖 As we finish up GE 🍰 I wanted to review upcoming schedules. Please respond with corrections/updates. April: 🔹️Bleak House cont. 🔒 @rnrhamster.bsky.social 🔹️Catch-22 🪖 @ellyzoe.bsky.social May: an Austen novel @laurenblish.bsky.social (I am also happy to take lead/support) 1/2
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Adam Solove @asolove.myatproto.social · 25/11/2025
Every American should have this in their wallet:
Business card with the text:

Know your rights! Interacting with Isaac Chotiner?
- "Am I being profiled?"
- "I exercise my right to be silent"
- Refuse to sign any statements.
- Do not offer express invitation to investigate further.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE
NEW YouGov poll:
Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States

50% support
39% oppose

Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE
Moderates +6

23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE
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Sapindaceae @sapindaceae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Patricia McKillip N.K. Jemisin Dorothy Dunnett Barbara Hambly Megan Whalen Turner
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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 23/02/2026
Secrets caught in a daydream. Melting into the details of this vibrant, blooming atmosphere. Beautiful painting by @kaylamayart.bsky.social "Faint Whispers" Acrylic on Linen #beautifulbizarre #vibrantart #contemporarypainting #surrealart #artcollector
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BART @bart.gov · 19/02/2026
Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. A man shivers in bed while a smiling lady in a red mask shows off her bandage on her arm.

Text: Noses are red
Ice packs are blue
I'm vaxed so miss me with severe symptoms of flu.A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Two lady scientists shrug lackadaisically. Text reads: My love for you can't be explained by science. Just like the new federal vaccine guidelines.A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Protesters in Minneapolis wear thick clothes and hold signs of support for immigrant neighbors. Text reads: To the health departments in the Twin Cities:
Love unites us.
Our hearts are with you.
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Anne Bronte's book signing www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VXn...
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Anne Bronte's Book Signing
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise
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Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New #poetry from Michael Blaine: "Bark".
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Bark | Rust & Moth
We name the forest— trend, pattern, significance— as though a word could hold the ache of a single pine stripped by beetles, or the birch that bent in last year’s storm but did not break. Fixed...
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Cavy Core @rnrhamster.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Communion, by Rob Hardy 📓
Communion

There's no bread.
The bakers have gone into hiding.
The seats at the table are empty.
The Twelve are out marching with the thousands.
The streets are filled with a new song.
Only Judas sits at Target Plaza, counting his silver,
while Pontius Pilate issues a carefully-worded statement. Meanwhile, the centurions have quotas to fill.
But out on the streets there's a Communion.
Jesus takes the city in his hands and says, "This is my body, broken for you."
Rob Hardy February 2, 2026
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
turns out it's not so much Democracy Dies in Darkness but more WaPo Dies in a Billionaire's Pocket
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Sapindaceae @sapindaceae.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A concise, spare poem.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
More attention here, please.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social
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Poll Shows Massive Participation in Minnesota Shutdown Against ICE
1 in four Minnesota voters took part in January 23 day of action, or had a loved one who did.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's a great opinion by Judge Ana Reyes (and sound on the law—Noem was too busy posting to follow even the basics of the statute). Worth a read, and don't skip the footnotes.
Alexander Moritz Frey was the first to use “shithole” as a descriptor of a “wretched place,” doing so in his seminal antiwar novel, The Cross Bearers (1930).  See Shithole, Oxford English Dictionary, https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=shithole.   Frey’s life story confirms the role democracies can play in welcoming, as George Washington did, “the oppressed and persecuted.”  Frey, a prolific author and pacifist, served as a medic in the trenches of World War I alongside Adolf Hitler.  Hitler later tried to convert him to Nazism, but Frey staunchly refused.  He fled Germany in 1933, as Nazis burned his books, raided his apartment, and issued a warrant for his arrest.  He lived his remaining years in exile, first in Austria and then in Switzerland.  See Von David Gordon Smith, Eye-Witness Account of Hitler’s WWI Years Found, Spiegel International (April 30, 2007), https://www.spiegel.de/ international/zeitgeist/ rediscovering-alexander-moritz-frey-eye-witness-account-of-hitler-s-wwiyears-found-a-478359.html [https://perma.cc/RU49-2Y4U].
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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
New #poetry from Ariel Machell: "When Professor [ _ ] Says My Poor Memory Is Why I’ll Never Be Great".
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When Professor [ _ ] Says My Poor Memory Is Why I’ll Never Be Great | Rust & Moth
I am not remembering how oikos and logos join hands in The Song of the Earth, I am remembering the way my breath made frosted fairies in the air outside of the coffee shop on 14th avenue where I first...
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Sotrue Bestie @cheatlines.co · 01/02/2026
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
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B. Kenn @crashtheschedule.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Who recruits him recruits horse and foot… //he can make every word he speaks draw blood... //Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light…he turns the pivot with his finger Walt Whitman’s poet as the original Chuck Norris figure. 🌿
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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
New #poetry from C. Sessums @csessums: "Patience".
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Patience | Rust & Moth
Light tears itself apart over the lake— the Perseids dragging their bright incisions. I believed you. I believed the lake could swallow a man like a fish swallows the hook, could hold him under fifty-two...
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Ren, spooky-listenin' freak @laurenblish.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Pining the end of #monthofdick? We start Leaves of Grass tomorrow! 🐋🌿📖
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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
New #poetry from Ron Stottlemyer: "Note Found with the Urn".
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Note Found with the Urn | Rust & Moth
Too heavy to pick up, impossible to carry. It weighs down the chest of drawers upstairs. My hands hold each other still while you’re a whirling sky, a night of rustling leaves, starless as the chosen...
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E. A. Fredericks @efredericks.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Poet Mary O'Malley is one of my favorites, and she had this response to recent events in Minneapolis in the Irish Times yesterday. 📚💙
Poem The Lie

By Mary O'Malley

The lie that a protester shot dead by ICE in Minneapolis was a terrorist, the lie that killers set loose on their own cities are victims, the lie that a poem is a gun.

A poem is not a gun, though a poem from the pen of Akhmatova or Neruda or Mandelstam, not one of whom ever to my knowledge fired a shot, might

in certain conjugations of the stars lodge in the heart and spread out across mountains and borders across languages and the sea and you

can't shoot it down, or lock it up or alter its pixels. It is played on the hollowed reeds of dead bones. A poem like that is a bomb.

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Mary O'Malley's most recent collection, The Shark Nursery (Carcanet), was winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Taylor Rehmet is our last 2025 @runforsomething.net still in elections this year -- he signed up in our pipeline years ago; this was the moment he decided to run. KEEP AN EYE ON THIS.
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Sapindaceae @sapindaceae.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🐳Many thanks to @jacobharr.is and all the other Moby Dick readers! I read this once in my 20s on my own and it was so much more fun--and I got so much more out of it--reading it with the bluesky bookclub crew!
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Sapindaceae @sapindaceae.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🐳I am still boggled by the image of Ahab in yesterday's reading as a centipede. Who says that? What on earth would make you choose that way to describe your soul? Anyway, now imagining him saying all his final iconic lines as a centipede, so there's that.
An image of a centipede with the text "To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
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Chris @ary.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Whoa, @ryannorth.ca and @ericafails.bsky.social's Squirrel Girl is on Webtoon now! www.webtoons.com/en/graphic-n...
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Wolverine, Deadpool, Doctor Doom, Thanos: There's one hero that's beaten them all-and now she's got her own ongoing series! (Not that she's bragging.) That's right, you asked for it, you got it, it's ...
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Andy Karl-Son of Wolfman @andykarlson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Almost done with Moby-Dick & the sense of momentum and purposefulness in the penultimate chap has me mulling over false leadership; specifically how fascism & con artistry depend on imposing a meaning-making structure which takes on an addictive momentum... More tomorrow if thoughts come together. 🐋
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Sapindaceae @sapindaceae.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🐳Ch 131, I rolled my eyes, sniggered, and said, "Come ON, Melville," at this line: "snatching Perth’s levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming—'Look ye, Nantucketer.'" Ch 132 If legacy media slapped a headline on this chapter, it'd be about how Ahab was pivoting to a new tone.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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Sapindaceae @sapindaceae.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Aw, fuck.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 30/01/2026
Asked if he is pulling immigration agents out of Minnesota, as his border czar indicated this morning, President Donald Trump said: "No, no. Not at all."
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Live: Trump now says ‘nothing will change’ on immigration enforcement in Minnesota
Border czar Tom Homan said a “withdrawal of law enforcement resources” is in the works. Trump indicated otherwise Thursday night.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/01/2026
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-bein…
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
And by "the theater," Tom Homan (paid by us) means the occupation (paid for by us) by state agents (armed & paid by us) of a state that annually sends $44 million more in taxes to DC than it gets back in federal support for the 5.8 million Americans who live there - or, as they might say, "us."
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29/01/2026
In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.
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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
After 133 chapters, we finally meet the title character. 🐋
A meme featuring a picture of a whale and the caption, "Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In his lane. Focused. Flourishing."

The picture is called sperm whale #3 and is ny Juan Bosco. It's a drawing of a white sperm whale against a tan background. Unlike many Moby Dick-esque images, this whale has a serene expression, with its mouth slightly open in an almost-smile.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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Sapindaceae @sapindaceae.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🐳 Ch 126: "thus the first man of the Pequod that mounted the mast to look out for the White Whale, on the White Whale’s own peculiar ground; that man was swallowed up in the deep. But few, perhaps, thought of that at the time." Whaling journeys: So routinely dangerous that omens could mean anything!
The meme of the guy pressing a cloth to his forehead while he surveys two buttons to decide which to push. In this case, the Crew of the Pequod decides whether the guy dying is an omen of "the fulfillment of an evil already presaged" or "a foreshadowing of evil in the future."
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