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Meryl Schumacker

@waybackgen.bsky.social
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Certified Genealogist, children's television writer, and owner of We Go Way Back®. Love the Cubs, native plants/gardening, and books.

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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On my local PBS station, Arthur premiered on my first day of third grade, which means canonically, Arthur is Bluesky years old.
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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's a funny one - I bought an old receipt printer on eBay and have been using it to print daily poems from the Early Black Press. Got a raspberry pi & button on the way. I'm gonna see if I can make a little poetry machine to take with me around town, events, etc.
A photo of a receipt with the poem "Bury Me in a Free Land" by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper. Just printing out a bunch more poems by Francis Harper in this photo of my Epson receipt printer
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We all get there eventually, alas
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On my local PBS station, Arthur premiered on my first day of third grade, which means canonically, Arthur is Bluesky years old.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
lake forever problems for now
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh nooooo
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don't hold out on us, Erin. Give us the gossip.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Happy pub day!!!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yay Skye! My family was way on the other side of the island and had pretty much all moved to the mainland by 1930. Probably no overlap with yours, but it's a fun thought.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Season 1 of Sanditon was truly spectacular. Then seasons 2 and 3 saw most of the staff and several of the cast change/become unavailable, and they turned it into a sad, weak knockoff of Bridgerton.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you for your work this season!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love that this America's Test Kitchen ad for butter makes it look like they are slathering a 1cm-thick layer on top of these cupcakes. Like why aren't we doing this already.
Ad for Plugrà premium European style butter, which is not the same as European butter and is in fact a product of the Dairy Farmers of America. A knife cutting through butter with the Plugrà logo in the corner. A spatula picks up a heap of butter from a mixing bowl, truly the largest hunk of butter you can imagine. A heart attack in a bowl amount of butter. Instant death.A closeup of a cupcake being iced with butter, which it turns out is actually buttercream, but it looks exactly like a butter-covered cupcake.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a snapshot from Charley Harper’s studio as he left it (and the origin of the title of my essay) 🐞
A hand painted sign leaning on a wooden garden chair in an art studio with the phrase LADYBUGS WILL SAVE THE WORLD in red paint on an ivory background
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love that this America's Test Kitchen ad for butter makes it look like they are slathering a 1cm-thick layer on top of these cupcakes. Like why aren't we doing this already.
Ad for Plugrà premium European style butter, which is not the same as European butter and is in fact a product of the Dairy Farmers of America. A knife cutting through butter with the Plugrà logo in the corner. A spatula picks up a heap of butter from a mixing bowl, truly the largest hunk of butter you can imagine. A heart attack in a bowl amount of butter. Instant death.A closeup of a cupcake being iced with butter, which it turns out is actually buttercream, but it looks exactly like a butter-covered cupcake.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 03/11/2025
FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ooh how is it?
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yours truly! From the Chicago Public library summer soirée!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hopefully Jed can trade him for some pine tar and a few bags of sunflower seeds.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most out of control at bat, with his weird ass contorted stance just adds to the whole vibe.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The only good thing about this game so far is that when I grumble about Jackson Merrill, it sounds like I'm talking about myself in the third person.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stirling Silliphant was the son of Lemuel L. and Ethel M. Silliphant. Holy alliteration, Batman!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rereading all of my favorite trivia about the 1978 cult classic film THE SWARM and its screenwriter, Mr. Sterling Silliphant (like sycophant, but sillier) rather than watching the Cubs so fantastically eat it on Peacock, in a game that was not deemed important enough to be on national television.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some of my all-time favorite film trivia is about this movie. Like did you know that all the bees were real? And that it was shot on the WB lot in the same neighborhood set as Gilmore Girls and the original Music Man?
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Were they always there, just hanging out in the bullpen like that?? I only noticed them in the last month or so, and it is weird as fuck.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I watched the movie! Feels very much in conversation with the BBC P&P in that they lifted so much directly from the book (which is honestly what you'd hope, but it's so rare with adaptations). Also delighted to see the actor from All Creatures as Mr Elliot!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@brenthor.bsky.social would Marmalade ever?
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Someone would HAVE to dress as a gigantic bell pepper
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Tami Wicinas @tamiwicinas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New sculpture in progress. Turtles have always had a special place in my heart. I’ve been wanting to make one for a while but it needed something special.
Unfired ceramic sculpture of a sea turtle next to a tree. The turtle has a tiny house on its back.Back view of the turtle. The house has tiny steps leading to its door. The tree has a tiny lantern hanging from a branch.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is! Truly one of the hazards of becoming a professional at something lots of people do as a hobby. It doesn't make it any easier to deal with, though. I'm sorry you're going through it. Fuck those people!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The number of people who have told me to my face "I could do your job better than you if I really put in the effort" while in the same breath asking if they could hire me is shocking.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Niceeee. I'd like to try foil someday, but you couldn't pay me to do sabre again. Those flesh wounds hurt like a motherfucker.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'll do that! If I can't find it streaming, they probably have the DVD at my local library.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah, I was reading a thing about how the people with jobs are all generally the good guys, while most of the landed gentry are buffoons. Quite a departure from her earlier work!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, I LOVED the characters. They felt so much more three-dimensional, even the minor characters, than the ones in some of her other books. Mrs Smith and Capt Harville esp surprised me with their depth. I'll have to check out the 1995 film, thanks for the rec!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Omg that INDIGO
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I feel like I've heard that a lot about this one! What do you like most about it? (For me, I'd say it falls somewhere in the middle.)
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just finished reading Persuasion by Jane Austen. If anyone wants to chat about it, I am all ears!! 📚💙
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@pilotv.bsky.social is this you (I kid, but also I could see you doing this)
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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
here's something that's brought me a lot of joy over the last two weeks while apparently pissing off some of my neighbors lol
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An Interview With the Person Who Put Hundreds of ‘Wedding Crashers’ DVDs in South Mpls Little Free Libraries - Racket
'It is 100% a queer art installation,' Sable Adelaide tells us.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've given this a lot of thought. The broadcasters with the best suits on Marquee Sports Network are: 1. Dexter Fowler 2. Cliff Floyd (the purple!) 3. Cole Wright (stepping it uppp) 4. Elise Menaker (the opening day red!) 5. Lance Brozdowski (but points for always wearing his correct color season)
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is traditional for Jews to rend their (our) garments in mourning!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very William Carlos Williams of you.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My last shred of admiration for Aaron Sorkin's writing really took a beating when I realized some of his strongest jokes on the West Wing were actually stolen from Car Talk.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 22/09/2026
The 1913 Jean Metzinger painting will return to the family of late art collector Emanuel Lewenstein, whose family was persecuted after Nazis took control of the Netherlands — and looted the work — amid World War II.
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Art Institute of Chicago to return looted Holocaust-era painting to family of persecuted art collector
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very much!!
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A PCA article with a focus on John Mallee is what I've been hoping to read all season. This was terrific. Thank you!
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Meryl Schumacker @waybackgen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thank god for Mike Park.
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