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@scoutee.bsky.social
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problem-solver, cat whisperer, WNC

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026
bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures & people who wish to live as machines.” ― Wendell Berry, "Life is a Miracle"
Wendell Berry
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
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Joseph Illidge @josephpillidge.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC from @boom-studios.com leapfrogs over the impotent vigilante story of obvious heroes and villains to throw us into a world almost exactly like our own, examining America's growing tensions with thoughtfulness, crystalline clarity, and a starkly real perspective."
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/07/2026
By popular demand, I have turned my 'if i am dead, look here' list into a fillable template: (Almost) everything someone wrapping up your estate needs to know about finances, how to access your accounts, and other fun things. www.realsesmith.com/the-list
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
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2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute
Literacy Statisitics
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks! Here’s some great advice he gave me back he was a wee lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/06/2026
this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...
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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...
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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yet another historical irony is how that labour movement of 100 years ago used to constantly refer to "workers, by hand or brain" because the movement was acutely aware that limiting itself to a narrow definition of worker was a loser stance.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thys hath been shared recentlye by several folks on thys syte
A quotation -- Author Kurt Vonnegut on telling his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.”
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
being a human is naturally confusing, it's like you're riding in the passenger seat of a car, and you look over and you're also driving, but you can't convince the driver to go where you want, and you are also the car itself
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Just saw over on Instagram that @firestorm.coop, a really awesome worker-owned radical bookstore and mutual aid hub in Asheville, NC, is struggling financially and needs support to stay open. I highly recommend buying books from them, and becoming a sustainer on Patreon if you can!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2026
if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things
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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 26/03/2026
One of the most powerful and profound articles we have published "We dehumanise -and, indeed, demonise- our young as a projectionist salve to our own unspoken, sublimated sins: The very same they stand as living testaments to, and therefore become the vessels of." @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social
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Frankenstein (Or The Modern Prometheus): The Horror Of Being: A My Life In Horror - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is more than gothic horror. This analysis unpacks its brutal themes: consciousness, creation, and the moral weight of bringing life into being.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
it's funny
It’s funny, Connor. I used to be
demanding of our corporate
artists. Change this, do this,
don’t do that. But as soon as
“AI” came out,
I’d let any old
dogshit go to
print. It turned
out that all I
wanted the
whole time was
to be in charge.
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/03/2026
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A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart".
Horizontal axis categories:
Contents purist: Must contain books
Contents neutral: Must contain information
Contents rebel: Can contain anything
Vertical axis categories:
Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian
Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone
Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody

Examples represented on the grid:
Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library
Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library
Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library
Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library
Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library
Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library
Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library
Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library
Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 01/03/2026
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
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Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 13/02/2026
The Boston Public Library unwisely made a wager with the Seattle Public Library over the results of Super Bowl LX. Now, thanks to the Seahawks’ win over the New England Patriots, Boston readers are getting a dose of Seattle culture.
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Seattle Public Library intercepts Boston readers after Super Bowl bet
The real winners of Super Bowl LX are the Boston readers who will now be exposed to some Seattle culture.
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
new pins are now available in my shop! 🦐 🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art Reshares appreciated! ❤️
An image showing 3 differently colored isopod enamel pins arranged in a stack on my fingers. From top to bottom: dark brown and yellow, black and white, and orange and light orange. A photo of a colorful teal and green peacock mantis shrimp enamel pin with red legs, orange stripes along the body, and dark blue markings. It is photographed against a dark purple amethyst crystal. A photo of an enamel pin featuring 3 garden eels hanging out together. Two of the eels are a light green with black spots, while the larger eel behind them is orange with white stripes. They are photographed on a dark purple amethyst crystal.
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Mike Somes @illiterature13.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
As is probably visible with my attempts to “post through it,” I’ve been circling around the idea that Erik Hane just went ahead and found the prefect words for. Essential reading. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
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There is no such thing as other people’s children
It is intolerable
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16/01/2026
"Last summer, the city of Portland paid millions to descendants of Black families forced from their homes by racist urban renewal projects." "It was an effort decades in the making." "And one of the driving forces was a local librarian." #Oregon #USA #Housing #Courts #Slavery
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A local librarian's research helped secure a settlement for descendants of displaced Black Portlanders
Byrd took her research and family history and created 'wearable history.'
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𝚕 𝚒 𝚋 𝚋 𝚢 🩷💛🩵 @feral-libra.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
do not mistake my silence for forgiveness. some things i simply stopped explaining. [sometimes closure is quiet] #poetry #micropoetry
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
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These Stories Teach Us How to Fight - Uncanny Magazine
Chicago, October 2025. I need you to know we tried. I bought whistles and saline eyewash for my friends, students. The theatre bought 150 whistles. They were gone in days. A neighbor 3D-printed hundre...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/01/2026
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
3) The effort is the juice! The effort is the high! Mastery of a skill is an unparalleled buzz. "Having written" is nice yes, we all joke about that, but *the making is the pleasure*. Men who've never experienced that, trying to steal it because ironically *they do not know its value*, is a sin.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
2) That adrenaline dump, the release when you're done, or where I was today, looking at my watch, thinking I was running out of time but only an hour had passed, in complete flow state, just hacking away at sentences, solving problems, and we both said: "Why would you give that up?"
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A lot of time and effort has gone into survey research around what is the best protest sign slogan, message, wording etc and to be frank the research is pretty clear the most effective things you can do at a protest are express joy and express camaraderie, don't overthink it
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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The Focus Poster by Wendy Macnaughton and Courtney Martin
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
angry every day that of all countries the U.S. thinks it has the moral standing to say who should or should not have nuclear weapons. ask the 38,000 children who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the U.S., of all nations on the earth, has any right to pose as a moral arbiter here
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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 22/05/2025
Im just starting to dig into the just-released "Make America Healthy Again" children's health report (link below). I'll live-skeet my impressions, which are already very complicated. (1/n) static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/05/2025
something to think about
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What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/05/2025
on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“Griffen concedes” as if he had a %#!? choice. Will never ever forget these assholes. He shouldn’t be able to eat a fried shrimp in this state ever again. No one should help his wife find the right size at any store. May his grandkids grandkids only ever have middle school.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
if you see him on the streets, no you didn’t. Social death for all. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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IT’S OVER: Republican Jefferson Griffin Concedes in North Carolina Supreme Court Race
Read more here.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/04/2025
If you have a dictionary that you don't show love Oh, yes, son, we're talking to you.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
ignore the bog of hands reaching out to pull you down into this feeling of worthlessness, they are fake. they are an illusion. the only truth is that we are ALL the greatest, and the real journey is simply an internal one where we finally arrive at knowing this
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
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Mighty Haunter @mightyhunter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.
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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you've been meaning to try my books, nows the time. Walk with me. My FIRST BUNDLE is available now! The first book in 4 of my different series on sale for $5*! Sale ends in 3 days! 🥳💕 payhip.com/RWBirthda... (link includes 2025 Birthday Bundle) #booksky #romancesky #romancelandia #blacksky
FIRSTS BOOK BUNDLE
Retro 70s graphics on a pale yellow background. RAFE, FIT, SO SWEET and HAVEN. The first books in 4 of my series. You can get this bundle for $5 or you can pay more if you love me

Rafe - A young heart surgeon and her new male nanny
FIT - a tv producer and her new trainer (bdsm elements)
So Sweet - a recently unemployed HR clerk and the billionaire sugar daddy who folds like paper napkin
Haven - a fashion media maven on the run for her life saved by a grumpy recluse (bdsm elements)
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 26/02/2025
Realistically, what's happening is that people advocate for Dems to do a thing and then hope it will work when the Dems follow suit. When it doesn't actually work, they'll then assume that either the Dems Did It Wrong, or that they're malicious. But they did everything right here.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 26/02/2025
They did what you called for. Stood united. Moved heaven and earth to be there and *be* united. Instead of taking the W and claiming that your advocacy worked in pushing the Dems, some people are intent on deepening their doomerism and not realising they're doing propaganda for Trump in the process.
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