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Leslie DuPree

@vivalorine.bsky.social
651 followers 1.1K following 37 posts

Retired journalist and college webmaster. Gardener, vegetarian, feminist, Prius-driving, NPR-listening and taking no s---. Hanging on in Iowa.

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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A lot of unintentional humor at the grocery store today. In the baking aisle, I hear a man talking to presumably his wife on the phone. He says, "I don't think they have baking powder. Won't baking soda work just as well?"
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Grimm overlooks his domain.
Black and white cat lying comfortably on a white blanket with window s behind him.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
open.substack.com
Bird flu is endemic to a concentrated, consolidated food system
Bird flu is back, if it ever left.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
RIP to one of the good ones. #iowa
iowapublicradio.org
Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach dies at 82
Iowa’s longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Leach has died at 82 years old. Leach was born and raised in Davenport and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 until 2007.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
#booksky📚💙
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
edtibbetts.substack.com
Republican telework claims aren't remotely true
Joni Ernst and others are spinning tall tales
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
creators.com
Don't Want Green Energy Jobs? We'll Take Them, by Froma Harrop
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Sign the petition! Iowa needs help cleaning up its water. #iowa
actionnetwork.org
Iowans deserve transparent water quality information!
The Environmental Protection Agency, who oversees the Department of Natural Resources, has told the Iowa DNR that 7 impaired water segments have been overlooked and should be added to the 2024 Iowa Im...
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Ilinois' growing marijuana market for out-of-state buyers, which is raking in record tax revenue, poses challenges for Iowa and other Midwest states. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...
desmoinesregister.com
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
news.artnet.com/art-world/no...
news.artnet.com
Norman Rockwell's Turkey Feast Is a Thanksgiving Touchstone—Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About 'Freedom From Want'
Norman Rockwell's 'Freedom from Want' is a classic image of Thanksgiving. Here are some facts you might not know about it.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Jess Piper cannot be silenced.
open.substack.com
Political Retaliation
Pull up a chair...
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
theintercept.com
The Intercept’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines
The Intercept’s lawsuit argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents OpenAI from stripping a story’s title or byline.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please think hard before you use the word "countless" when you are talking about a large quantity or many, or a lot. If something is countless, it means it can't be counted. I can't think of anything that we can't count except maybe on the galactic level.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Heather Cox Richardson: "For all Trump’s claims of power, he is a 78-year-old man who is declining mentally and who neither commands a majority of voters nor has shown signs of being able to transfer his voters to a leader in waiting."
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Corrected link from 2013 www.fastcompany.com/3021522/mit-...
fastcompany.com
MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch
The Tangible Media Group at MIT's Media Lab has unveiled a futuristic display made of atoms, not pixels.
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Santa Claus🎅🎄 @officalsantaclaus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you like and retweet this post, you are on the nice list. (Only HAVE 24 HOURS) If you don’t well… you might be on the list that no one wants to be on. 🎅🫡
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Yesterday, I posted about an Arkansas horse stable that is accepting voucher money to pay for horse riding lessons for homeschoolers. They ended up getting so much pushback that they deleted the entire post. This is what we mean when we say do not obey in advance. Push back.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Do you have an annoying younger sibling?
Black and white cat and spaniel puppy walking together on leashes.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I got a free Christmas cactus last year. It came in from its outdoor vacation this week and promptly bloomed. 🍃🌸#GardeningFeed #flowers #garden #gardening #flower #iowa
Pink Christmas cactus blooming in front of a small replica of the David head by Michelangelo,
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Good morning from Iowa!
Cloudy sky over the Mississippi River with a white bridge in the background.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Grimm, my grandcat.
Black and white cat seated on a chair looking across a kitchen table.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Today we planted three kinds of hard neck garlic. Will harvest next summer. #iowa #gardening #organic
Two children bent over a row in a field, planting garlic.
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I feel her.
theguardian.com
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started a...
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Leslie DuPree @vivalorine.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_Y...
en.m.wikipedia.org
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Wikipedia
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