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Tracey C

@tanac.bsky.social
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Librarian living in the mountains of WNC w/partner and 4 cats. Into SF/F, quilting, confectioneering, and leaving the world a better place. (PipingLibrarian in the Bad Place)

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hwæt! We Capūlets in gærdagum þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða Montagūen ellen fremedon
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/09/2026
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/08/2026
"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5
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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It’s whiplash inducing for the Senate to all vote for the Epstein transparency bill, for Blanche to flagrantly violate its terms, and then vote to confirm him
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 04/08/2026
This is such a fun book!
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Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Los Angeles Public Library unveils the world’s largest pop-up book" Replies to this are about evenly divided between "So cool!" and "But WHY?" Which may be teaching us something about humanity.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
But, this was a man who deliberately and with full consent of will chose political power over the possibility of love and connection. And he seems to have died as he lived.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/06/2026
If you can’t tax billionaires & trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity. If it’s not real enough to tax—it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage. Abolish billionaires—Protect working people.
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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
NPR needs to do a study asking if the minimum wage that hasn't gone up in over a decade while the cost of living has increased significantly might be preventing people from wanting families they can't afford to feed. It's not cellphones.
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Tracey C @tanac.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
RSD is a bitch. (Sigh)
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Frankly, I want to divest SCOTUS of jurisdiction to enter *any* orders reversing a lower court without a complete elaboration of the reasons why. They are the least busy judges in America with a self-selected workload. If they can't bother to explain it, they should not do it.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/05/2026
Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.
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Tracey C @tanac.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Screencap of post by Synexdoche @amor_fatti

women in PHLEGM (poetry, history, language, english literature, ghost stories, music)
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19/03/2026
This is heartbreaking, and beautiful.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
May these possums shouting in Werner Herzog's voice bring comfort to your day.
An alaskan woman calmly scruffing a screaming virginia opossum inside a red-walled brooklyn restaurant. "I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk."
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/02/2026
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
standwithminnesota.com
Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota
Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas
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dropkickCHARNEL @dropkick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/01/2026
I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is: "My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities." 1/14
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it
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steviebaby🫡 @steviebaby.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
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Tracey C @tanac.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
@beamjockey.bsky.social Happy Birthday!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
me, learning about all the assholes joining ICE en masse who are never going to see a dime of those $50,000 bonuses they thought they were getting:
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Scholars & organizers stress that the most important thing for pro-democracy movements to do is to peel away a regime’s “pillars of support.” Breaking companies from ICE is a winnable struggle that can put serious pressure on the Trump regime, raising the political cost of their actions. 👇 👇 👇
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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
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Kavita @brittexkavi.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The act of deportation requires the person who is expelled to be of a foreign nationality. To be from elsewhere. They didn’t deport a US citizen. Masked criminals illegally detained, kidnapped, & trafficked a US citizen to a foreign country based on the color of their skin.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/12/2025
“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 24/12/2025
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
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There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
To add insult to injury today, THIS is the Bondi fascist witch hunt list. More than 1/2 of the country will bear the brunt of her chaotic extreme paranoid nonsense. For what? For exercising our right to free speech to criticize and petition our government? Simply put, this IS anti-American.
The Washington Post v @washingtonpost
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The Trump administration is trying to root out what it sees as rampant left-wing domestic terrorism, raising concerns among security experts and lawmakers that broad categories of Americans' speech could come under surveillance. wapo.st/3МK2QKH

A memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi said these agendas may merit a federal investigation:
• "anti-Americanism"
- "anti-capitalism"
- "anti-Christianity"
- "opposition to law and immigration enforcement"
- "radical gender ideology"
- "hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality"
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Tracey C @tanac.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Nuffles quickly adopted the most comfortable chair in the room at the neighbors’ house. (They allowed me to bring all 4 cats over while our house was being shown to a prospective buyer. They are angels.)
A dignified orange cat sits in a cozy chair in front of a fireplace decorated for Christmas.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
If ICE gets to decide against all evidence that your documentation is fake, just because they say so, then there is no law. For anyone, but especially for Black and brown people the Supreme Court has declared are warrantless arrest targets.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
IT'S TIME. Gifts For People You Hate, 2025: Boycott-Friendly Edition. naomikritzer.com/2025/12/11/g...
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Gifts for People You Hate 2025: Boycott Friendly Edition
Once again, I started working on this before Thanksgiving and once again it’s now well into December and I still haven’t gotten this up. Look, it’s been a busy couple of weeks tha…
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Enormous shout-out to the Australian and Kiwi librarians standing up to Elsevier. This is killer.
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Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Within just a few hours of getting this feedback, the student *emailed the fucking governor*. Her mom is all over Xitter posting like mad. I mean, are you new here? This coordinated RW attack is a pattern, and if you aren't paying attention to this context, I can't take you seriously. Do better.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/12/2025
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Bro replied to a question about child predation by saying he views it as an opportunity, these people are so sick in the head they are completely divorced from even what pretending to not be a psycho cannibal looks like
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I saw screenshots this morning of Trump threatening members of Congress with death for this video but I hadn't seen the video. So if, like me, you've been inadequately online this week, this is what Trump thinks is worthy of EXECUTION.
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