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Anybody else fattening up for the winter? It's fat bear week at our house.

I would pay money to get him on a Pilates Reformer. Just because I always feel like I'm going to die on it. He definitely would.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 9h

Some days you read the news and it takes every fiber of your being not to burn in anger. Righteous anger and the unmet desire for justice must find its outlet. Radical imagination is the first step to a more useful path. www.everydayactivismnetwork.org/archive/radi...

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How to Use Your Radical Imagination to Envision a Just and Equitable World — Everyday Activism Network

What is radical imagination? It sees the world not as it is, but as it could be: a healthy planet that is just and equitable for all. Radical imagination is the engine of social change movements. Rad...

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 30/09/2026

It's a first for me. I hope. I scrolled through all my messages to him to make sure it was the first time I'd done it!

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 30/09/2026

Made a brilliant start to the day when I texted my husband that I loved him & hoped he would have a good day with a heart emoji. Except I texted man with same name who was a building manager for my workplace. Just killer that he responded "thanks, but". I've sweat through my bra. This day is done.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 30/09/2026

Poverty isn't about going from having nothing to having something. It leaves scars. Imagine what a universal basic income could do. Imagine the possibilities of humans not living in the grip of fear and want. Imagine what that world could look like. #UBI

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 30/09/2026

and inheriting a family legacy of mental health issues, addiction, and domestic violence, that I could have gotten out. I'm one of the "lucky" ones and to this day have a scarcity mentality that I wrestle with daily and I will never outrun the feeling that it all could disappear in a minute.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 30/09/2026

Even worse, when you raise a family and there are others relying on you. I grew up in poverty and through military service, getting an education, and marrying someone who also scrambled upwards, I was no longer impoverished. I doubted there was any other way out, coming from poverty, being a woman,

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 30/09/2026

I think about poverty all the time. How it defines and limits a person's world and how increasingly difficult it is to escape it. How hard it is to sleep, think, engage in the world when you don't know where your next meal is coming from or how you're ever going to get out from under crushing debt.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 28/09/2026

Kangaroos are one of those animals that the more I stare at them, the less sense they make. My human brain and its limitations, I suppose.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 27/09/2026

You're a Strib expert, so I appreciate the take. I just dip in once and a while and get irritated.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 27/09/2026

I swear that the Star Tribune just hatches some of their writers who open their eyes and think they've discovered the sky.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 27/09/2026

as if I were the fount of all cultural knowledge or that it lent me some sort of posh, snobby pedigree. Curiosity is an amazing conversation maker and nothing is more fun than hearing someone, in this crabby old cynical world, feel some genuine excitement & love for a creative work.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 27/09/2026

and someone doesn't know about it, I try to share why I love that thing, instead of being an asshole. And when someone else has an earnest interest, I learned a lot time ago to not boast that I'd never heard of it or them,

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 27/09/2026

The "you live in a bubble if you don't know xyz" discourse is a conversation stopper, a salve for someone's unrequited enthusiasm for whatever thing they like at the moment. Happily there is so much art & creation in the world that our interests may not overlap. But when I'm excited about something,

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 27/09/2026

This dovetails well with my Spanish lessons - just ordered the book and the audio. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 26/09/2026

I clickety-clicked too fast on that one, much to my chagrin. Once you know the source, the questions become much more sinister. Lesson learned.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 26/09/2026

I'm fairly astute about internet bullshit, but took an online political test since someone I followed did. It was then shown to be linked to a weird ass race scientist substack. It's a reminder to fucking slow down with the clickety-clicks - even in this so-called "echo chamber". I'm mad at myself.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026

"Ever wonder why women over fifty become invisible? It’s not because society no longer values them; it’s because they’ve changed into superior lizard beings who can smell misogyny and then wedge themselves into a tight crevice until the threat passes." buff.ly/F8vQT1N

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I Can’t Wait Until I Turn Fifty and Morph into a Lizard Person

“Ever wonder why women over fifty become invisible? It’s not because society no longer values them; it’s because they’ve changed into superior lizard beings ...

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 26/09/2026

Apologies if you heard me screaming curses across the internet.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 26/09/2026

Wait until you can start upcharging for human-written, locally produced, hand-hewn writing. Of course you'll have to pay the government to be artisanally certified and there will price controls and special taxation. But it will all be worth it, just to be published, right? Right? (Need that meme).

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 26/09/2026

Now I don't feel completely out of the cultural zeitgeist. I've seen 12 of those shows (a few are my feel-good repeats). If I saw a list of novels or birds...different story entirely!

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Javier" is packing raspberries in Salinas CA. "The pickers bring them in buckets and we transfer them into the plastic baskets you buy at a store-making sure each one has the correct weight. We only get 6-7 hours of work a day and that affects our families' income." #WeFeedYou

A table where workers are packing raspberries

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 23/09/2026

Cue goose meme. Why is that dipshit? Why is that? Can't believe that conservatives are floating this dude as a potential 2028 presidential candidate - nothing but mediocre losers all the way down (or up).

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 23/09/2026

Working on not sliding into a depressive abyss and giving up writing altogether. Saw George Saunders at a reading/talk last night. I usually find my way clear when I get into the swampiness, but maybe not sharing the air with great writers should be the plan for awhile.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense but not irrational or naïve. Art invites us to take the journey beyond price, beyond costs into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be." ~ Toni Morrison

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 23/09/2026

Not to brag, but I also know how to do dishes. Repeatedly.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 23/09/2026

You have to work your ass off to be that offended. Good hustle, lady.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 22/09/2026

This is why I no longer donate throught ActBlue. I don't want a boring penpal for the next decade.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 22/09/2026

He does not understand the breadth, width, and exponential capability of human hatred. Or maybe he does. Regardless, I believe I'm up to the task of hating super intelligence or any bullshit phrase that pops out of his butthole of a mouth.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 22/09/2026

Just finished the lesson - it was so fun!

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 22/09/2026

Make it a "Never clink the heart or comment until you read the article" Day. Celebrate wisely.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 22/09/2026

Wonderful, but so disappointed I won't be able to hear this talk!

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 22/09/2026

The perfect crossover of my love of linguistics & birds. My Spanish teacher asked me to show her a few of my bird photos for class & I could practice describing them. I've spent 8 hours in the last week learning obscure bird names & body parts. I'm having a blast. I suspect she will have regrets.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 22/09/2026

My daughter went to college on a music scholarship. She was a barista, an EMT, and went through a zillion hobbies. She's now a neuroscientist. Sometimes it's hard to know what you want to do until you try things. I'd just encourage her to try as many things as she can. Something will find her.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 21/09/2026

In a couple of weeks once I have 2 days where I can feel like absolute crap and it won't impact anything. Do have to say I've never been more excited about getting shots. Public health is getting weird with those bozos in charge.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Community is needed and can be good but it is often invoked in a way that serves a deskilling agenda in terms of labor and jobs.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 21/09/2026

This is one of the few podcasts I listen to. Engaging, informative, and a balm at a time when it feels like all the dipshits are winning.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 21/09/2026

Principles are always easier when you have resources! I have to remind myself of this if I get judgmental about other people's choices.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 21/09/2026

My new reply guy mode: I hate AI AND golf courses. I learn so much about myself on here.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 21/09/2026

Man, who are these people talking to but themselves and their cronies? Fuck data centers AND golf courses.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 21/09/2026

except that I knew my husband & I would have the time, education & resources to fill in any gaps. If we did not have resources, that decision would have come with more consequences & perhaps we would have sent her to a school with more property tax support.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 21/09/2026

Your point before about socioeconomic status is true. We sent our daughter to the closest public school that was extremely diverse (white minority) with avg resources. I'd say it was a principled stand about my belief in public education and the importance of diversity,

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Just do it, badly. Just write the thing you need or want to write, that you are avoiding. That avoidance is costing you greatly, isometrically, and in general well-being. So can you find one measly hour, to write, badly?" ~ Anne Lamott

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 21/09/2026

Thinking about the hungry girls this morning. Reading the title story "All This Want (and I Can't Get None)", T Clark's short story collection, I vividly recall going to school hungry, being ravenous at friends' houses, jealous of full fridges & the vulnerability in that want. tinyurl.com/59ytpz9f

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All This Want (and I Can't Get None) - Penguin Random House Library Marketing

Curated lists of Library Marketing titles by theme and category, find your next community read and resources to design your program.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 20/09/2026

The pleasure of nonfiction is the journey to more ideas & sources. The Overseer Class by @thrasherxy.bsky.social has me madly taking notes on resources to read. Great footnotes & suggested readings if you're educating yourself on social justice issues. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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The Overseer Class

The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what ...

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 19/09/2026

Every time I read about someone's partner being radicalized into the red by YouTube, I lean over my husband's shoulder. I'm relieved to see that he's usually watching videos of old farmers working on their tractors or baby animals being rescued & returned to their moms. He's my kind of dude.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 19/09/2026

It seems like a marketing gambit. Instead of saying "this stuff isn't really working out like we said it would", they're going with "it's so good that it's dangerous". Catnip for C-suite edgelords.

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 19/09/2026

Kudos to the lady who walked into the bookstore with a t-shirt that read "I'm not angry. I just don't fucking like you." Same, sister, same.

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