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Mindy
@11catslovebooks.bsky.social
Books, cats, beer, ex-library staff, boomer, worried about...almost everything, I think. I have 11 delightful cats(they have me) and I read pretty much all the time. Please don’t DM me if we haven’t chatted beforehand.
@landis_melinda
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November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I’ve actually taken the Civil Service exam several times. I passed each time but some was really hard. Best know keyboarding. People Are Required To Answer These 12 Questions To Become Postal Workers — Can You?

www.buzzfeed.com/audreyworboy...
People Are Required To Answer These 12 Questions To Become Postal Workers — Can You?
What "should" you do when you get mail addressed to someone else?
www.buzzfeed.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Geeze, I’m going back and forth from FW to Indy once or twice a month…to have my teeth worked on. Will I get on a list because I have weird travel patterns and stickers on my car?
apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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“Search history,” a poem (by me)

How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.

Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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If you're angry at democrats for telling the military to refuse illegal orders, it's because you're issuing illegal orders.

That's it. That's the only reason.
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Oh, I have stories to tell and stories to read. I’m going to do some reading now—The Rose Field, Philip Pullman, I have been waiting so long it seems, and then I’ll tell my strange today story.
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Those were scary times that we’ve nearly forgotten. We think we’ve got it made…all we need do is be in excellent health, have good immune systems, not allow any old virus to get it’s…corona on us. Roight.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Covid inquiry: Doctor's goodbye letter to family amid virus fears
The Covid inquiry is set to deliver its judgement on how Wales responded to the pandemic.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Really smart today. Don’t worry, it will go away.

I scored 260 in today's Slate Quiz. Think you can beat me?
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Oh, I’m smart this morning.

I scored 220 in today's Slate Quiz. Think you can beat me?
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I read a Wikipedia article about Epstein. Really knew little about him. It was surprisingly boring. I had wondered where he came from, how’d he get to be who he became. There wasn’t much there. Was his whole purpose just to fulfill a need a bunch of rich jerks had, or was he extremely charismatic?
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
One of those days you should have called in sick.

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November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
They forgot Cat Stevens’
Oh Very Young:
They will vanish away like your dads best jeans
Denim blue, faded up to the sky
And though you want them to last forever
You know they never will
You know they never will
And the patches make the goodbye harder still

www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...
What we can learn about Kurt Cobain, Freddie Mercury and Beyoncé from their denim
An exhibition at Levi's San Francisco headquarters highlights how jeans can offer surprising insights into the lives and legacies of the artists who wore them.
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I wish we lived in a land where if journalists heard the president call one of their colleges "piggy" or suggest another of their colleagues, who was butchered for what he wrote, in some way had it coming, they would close their laptops, leave as soon as possible, and ask to be reassigned.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
@jamesloganauthor.bsky.social Just finished the Blackfire Blade. It’s…like really good. I’d read the first book long enough ago that it took me a little while to catch up but once I did…needless to say I’m eager to read number three. I’d like to see more of Clank, they need more words.
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I think if one dies naturally there’s no reason biologically to not eat what’s left. I’m sure animals kill and eat the weaker. Sort of a trolley problem, really. Do you let one die to save many?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A Victorian-era cannibalism case poses a simple but profound question
“The custom of the sea” ended with a landmark conviction in Britain after a shipwreck.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“ There is no information to say this is anything other than all the ordinary visiting comment, which happened before in 2017 in 2019, and now in 2025," he said.
”Visiting “comment “ ? Freudian slip?

www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/w...
What's this about the intergalactic 3I/Atlas, Earth and December? Here's what we know
For four months, social media has drawn skywatchers and lovers of galactic lure to a speck spotted in July.
www.cbsnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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FACT CHECK: TRUE
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Can’t remember if I updated, but I went to the School of Dentistry and had 8 teeth pulled on Wednesday. All uppers so now I have no grinding surfaces. More fun to come. Uppers weren’t too bad, very little pain so far.
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
@timsullivanauthor.bsky.social I just read all of the George Cross books and enjoyed immensely. I love his utterly literal interpretation of all our social greased. “Nice day”. No comment, because it was a true statement. Try them. George will annoy you in a great way.
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Nothing like coloring your hair and then doing a closeup to remind you that you’re almost older than dirt.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM