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Gadfly | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🧡🤍🩷 |🐓&🐶 Lover| Proud Parent of 6 adults, Grandparent of 4 | Ridiculously in Love Since 2001 💖 | Online Community Geek & Social Media Manager by Day, Unfiltered Weirdness by Night. (ok, day too, but here it is all me) 📚💙

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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Male privilege in an article about public toilets
Man suggesting you flush a toilet and leave the stall for 30 seconds before returning and using the toilet.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Have you never wondered why your world is so small?” They want to keep you sick and stupid. Because the sick and stupid are easier to control than the healthy and enlightened.”” — Blood Circus by Camila Victoire a.co/6qYS1HR
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I chortled. I’m a southerner. How could I not? #BookQuotes 📚🦋
“I left here nine years ago, had Adam’s baby and never told him.” She paused and drew in a breath. “Now I’m back and I’ve brought home his child. What would you call it?” “Fine Southern drama.””

— A Dad for Billie by Susan Mallery
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I’m thinking the second sentence can’t be true.
“Problems belong to all people. Solutions belong only to the chosen few.”

— The President's Shadow: A Shadow Thriller by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Mom life
“One time I asked her why she was so obsessed with what I was thinking, and she got angry and yelled: ‘Because I want to know what’s happening inside you! Because you happened to me! You happen to me every second I’m alive!’ ””

— My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.” — My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman a.co/5ckDPNd
“Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”

— My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We’ve been calling this security cam regular a fox for a year… until last night it jumped and we got a better look. Taller. Built different. Not the same as our front yard fox. So now we’re asking… what is it?
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
““Don’t let anyone treat you like a regular fruit snack. You are a Gusher.””

— The Three Lives of Cate Kay: Reese's Book Club: A Novel by Kate Fagan
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Some days the poison feels faster.
“It’s like being slowly poisoned, to know something’s unjust and not be able to do anything to correct it.””

— The Hellion's Waltz: Feminine Pursuits by Olivia Waite
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“I was tired of it. Just once I wanted to be able to do something as simple as meet with an accountant and not have it require a monumental act of courage. Just once I wanted to be a normal person, without having to worry about a reaction to my very existence.”

— You're Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) by Louise A. Blum
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
You are never yourself again. Your heart will break and break, and your children may be lost to you, but in the end you are still a mother.”

— Call Me Home: A Novel by Megan Kruse
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Ahead of Pride Month marketing monstrosity: Pride isn’t a brand moment. If you’re not LGBTQ-owned or donating all profits to orgs like GLAAD, Trevor Project, or Lambda Legal, I’m not buying. Rainbow capitalism won’t get my cash.
No LGBTQ Ownership? No LGBTQ Donation of All Profits from the sale of the pride merch? No queer or ally dollars. Pride is protest, not a promo.
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“Every choice one makes has consequences, like a rock that falls from the top of the mountain.”

— Clytemnestra: A Novel by Costanza Casati
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It is noble to be gentle, to save others from pain. But it is also dangerous. Sometimes you have to make life difficult for others before they make it impossible for you.”
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
When the tide recedes and leaves something on the sand, one mustn’t worry. Sooner or later, the water will climb again and take it back.”

— Clytemnestra: A Novel by Costanza Casati
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“nothing lasted forever—no bliss, but no sadness either. Happiness followed pain and pain followed happiness, and all you could do was hang on and feel every bit of it for as long as this world would let you.”

— One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
““I mean… there have been moments when I’ve read something in a book that feels like it was written just for me. Like the author reached inside my brain, took all the thoughts I didn’t know how to express, and put them into a perfect paragraph. And in those moments, I’ve felt so utterly connected to a person I didn’t know that it made me think, ‘Yes, the world can be hard, and people can be awful to each other. But there is also such beauty in the fact that we can recognize each other like that.’ ” She fiddled with her straw. “I want to be able to give that feeling to other people.””

— One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
stop writing happy endings and start writing stories that change the world.””

— Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
many people in America believe poverty is a moral problem having to do with sloth or some other sin we can blame on individuals. But I believe poverty in America is an economic problem that can be solved…”

— Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Judgmental cat with a text box that says if your vote threatens someone's right to exist, then yeah I judge you based on your vote. Also a translucent rainbow ribbon at the top of the text box
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“The script is unfinished. But we believe the story we’ve been telling ourselves about who we are and where our life leads. The story isn’t written yet. Your life. You know?””

— I See You've Called in Dead: A Novel by John Kenney
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This line is so evocative.
“The duct tape that had been holding me together of late had begun to lose its grip.”

— I See You've Called in Dead: A Novel by John Kenney
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“family can cause pain and make mistakes, it is never a burden. Never.””

— A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes Book 4) by Sabaa Tahir
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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“You are broken. But it is the broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is the broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated.””

— A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes Book 4) by Sabaa Tahir
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“Choose what makes you happy. Things, places, people. Only choose the ones that bring that delight to you. Don’t be a hostage to duty or obligation. I didn’t carry you and birth you and raise you to waste your precious life on anything except unbridled joy. Choose joy.”

— If the Shoe Fits: A Meant to be Novel by Julie Murphy
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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But life cannot be experienced one emotion at a time. It is a tapestry of sensation, a braided rope of feeling. We must allow for reflection even when we suffer. We must reach for compassion even when we triumph. If you spend your days waiting for your sorrows to end so that you might finally live”—he shook his head—“ you will die an impatient man.””

— All This Twisted Glory: A Thrilling Fantasy Romance for Young Adults (This Woven Kingdom Book 3) by Tahereh Mafi
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Y’all are reading this right? 💙 📚
“By way of explanation, I tell Joel that I understand that some board members think fascists could solve our regulatory issues and we need to cozy up to them right away. And that I’d expected more pushback from the rest of the board. Other than that, Joel tells me, great review!”

— Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Just in case you thought Meta/Facebook folk didn’t think social media was dangerous for kids…
“Parents at work talk about how they don’t allow their teens to have mobile phones, which only underscores how well these executives understand the real damage their product inflicts on young minds.”

— Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Truth
“when a home was not found, it was forged; indeed it could be fashioned even from nothing.”

— This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
““Never said you couldn’t love him.” He squeezes my shoulders gently. “You can still love someone after you let them go. But you have to tell me there’s a line where you will let him go. Because if there isn’t one, it’s not just him we’re going to lose,”

— Onyx Storm (The Empyrean Book 3) by Rebecca Yarros
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
📚💙 I know I’m probably the last to read this.
“I think we’re just figuring out how to survive a world on fire… that it’s okay to be alive.””

— You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel by Akwaeke Emezi
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A swoon-worthy line to start Thursday. 💙📚
““Ain’t this our song?” Edith smiled at me through her sand-brown curls. “You say that about all the love songs.” “That’s because they’re ours. Come on; dance with me.””

— Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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“Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human: Either way, the ill are treated as fundamentally other because the social order is frightened by what their frailty reveals about everyone else’s.”

— Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Nonfiction John Green to begin the week. 🦋📚💙
“But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.””

— Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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“Curse this world for what it does to the mothers, for what it does to the daughters. Curse it for making us strong through loss and pain, our hearts torn from our chests again and again. Curse it for forcing us to endure.”

— A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes Book 3) by Sabaa Tahir
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This cheese is magnificent. Now in love with it.
A wheel of softripened cheese with a chunk taken out of it with the label Blow Horn from the farm at doe run
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Found at Books-a-Million with 12000000 other magazines for swifties
Taylor Swift Cooks magazine
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.””

— A Torch Against the Night (An Ember In The Ashes Book 2) by Sabaa Tahir
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Me coughing, hoarse and gross all day. Oh maybe it’s pollen..let me look
High levels of pollen for my area for tree and grass
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“Fear can be good, Laia. It can keep you alive. But don’t let it control you. Don’t let it sow doubts within you. When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible, to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.””

— An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
““There are two kinds of guilt,” I say softly. “The kind that’s a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It’s damaged, but it’s there.”

— An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head.”

— An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
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Tarrant @tfiglio.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“There’s no such thing as “just” a story. A story is a form of magic. It changes you from the inside and you are never the same after. Once you know about other lives. So it’s no wonder that King Aldred insisted on burning the books.”

— Under the Same Stars: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick by Libba Bray
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