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Reader's Advisory Librarian. Books, travel, gardening, vegan, klutz. Episcopalian. Student of grief. Expressing multiple attitudes simultaneously (she/her).
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
Always enjoy Sy Montgomery's writing & her boundless, fearless desire to connect with animals. Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur 📚 symontgomery.com/birdology/
Sy Montgomery: American naturalist, author, and scriptwriter who writes for children as well as adults.
Sy Montgomery: Sy Montgomery: Author of A Good, Good Pig and The Soul of an Octopus.
symontgomery.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Always enjoy Sy Montgomery's writing & her boundless, fearless desire to connect with animals. Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur 📚 symontgomery.com/birdology/
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“Somewhere within the murky snowfall and frost, evening is falling, and the April darkness squeezes between snowflakes that pile up on the man and the two horses.” Read from Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s novel The Sorrow of Angels, translated by Philip Roughton.
The Sorrow of Angels
Somewhere within the murky snowfall and frost, evening is falling, and the April darkness squeezes between snowflakes that pile up on the man and the two horses. Everything is white with snow and i…
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Somewhere within the murky snowfall and frost, evening is falling, and the April darkness squeezes between snowflakes that pile up on the man and the two horses.” Read from Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s novel The Sorrow of Angels, translated by Philip Roughton.
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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Upshots:
1. Talarico ties his campaign to faith, so this is a thing if he’s hoping to win over some conservative TX Christians
2. The campaign also uses this account and appears to follow folks w/big followings, which changes the story a lot
3. Fascinating theological reply from the campaign here
1. Talarico ties his campaign to faith, so this is a thing if he’s hoping to win over some conservative TX Christians
2. The campaign also uses this account and appears to follow folks w/big followings, which changes the story a lot
3. Fascinating theological reply from the campaign here
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Upshots:
1. Talarico ties his campaign to faith, so this is a thing if he’s hoping to win over some conservative TX Christians
2. The campaign also uses this account and appears to follow folks w/big followings, which changes the story a lot
3. Fascinating theological reply from the campaign here
1. Talarico ties his campaign to faith, so this is a thing if he’s hoping to win over some conservative TX Christians
2. The campaign also uses this account and appears to follow folks w/big followings, which changes the story a lot
3. Fascinating theological reply from the campaign here
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i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”
There is a lady on TikTok pretending to have a baby that has gone without formula all night — she is calling churches around the country to ask if they can help.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”
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*stares at the collection of 200+ DVDs that I've had in storage for the last eight years*
*stares at the increasing price and declining quality of streaming services*
*stares back at my dvd collection*
...you thinking what I'm thinking?
*stares at the increasing price and declining quality of streaming services*
*stares back at my dvd collection*
...you thinking what I'm thinking?
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
*stares at the collection of 200+ DVDs that I've had in storage for the last eight years*
*stares at the increasing price and declining quality of streaming services*
*stares back at my dvd collection*
...you thinking what I'm thinking?
*stares at the increasing price and declining quality of streaming services*
*stares back at my dvd collection*
...you thinking what I'm thinking?
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"So long as we regard a tree as an obvious thing, naturally and reasonably created for a giraffe to eat, we cannot properly wonder at it. It is when we consider it as a prodigious wave of the living soil sprawling up to the skies for no reason in particular that we take off our hats."
GK Chesterton
GK Chesterton
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"So long as we regard a tree as an obvious thing, naturally and reasonably created for a giraffe to eat, we cannot properly wonder at it. It is when we consider it as a prodigious wave of the living soil sprawling up to the skies for no reason in particular that we take off our hats."
GK Chesterton
GK Chesterton
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Please help us to keep publishing brilliant, multilingual, community-driven stories from all over the world! We really do run on a shoestring, but with all the funding cuts even that has become difficult. If you appreciate our articles, please support!
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November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Please help us to keep publishing brilliant, multilingual, community-driven stories from all over the world! We really do run on a shoestring, but with all the funding cuts even that has become difficult. If you appreciate our articles, please support!
globalvoices.org/donate/
globalvoices.org/donate/
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
All this, plus moka pots make great coffee and are easy to clean up. Just be careful as they get hot & the handle is small!
A moka pot is $15. Get fine ground coffee, gently pack the grounds into the filter, fill the bottom with water, screw on tight, and put on the stove.
While that's going, heat milk in the microwave then use a $10 frother on it.
Syrups are $5 for a giant bottle.
DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE.
While that's going, heat milk in the microwave then use a $10 frother on it.
Syrups are $5 for a giant bottle.
DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE.
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
All this, plus moka pots make great coffee and are easy to clean up. Just be careful as they get hot & the handle is small!
Some days I just don't like living in NC. But then I go work in the gardens at church where I encounter meaningful conversations & amazing beauty... and I'm grateful. #autumn #FallFoliage
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Some days I just don't like living in NC. But then I go work in the gardens at church where I encounter meaningful conversations & amazing beauty... and I'm grateful. #autumn #FallFoliage
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This…is frickin’ good.
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This…is frickin’ good.
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
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More like Novem-brrrrrr! The Fall's first pre-winter blast arrives this weekend and sends temperatures plummeting across the eastern U.S. into early next week, along with the season's first flakes for some in the Great Lakes through New England!
weather.gov
weather.gov
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
More like Novem-brrrrrr! The Fall's first pre-winter blast arrives this weekend and sends temperatures plummeting across the eastern U.S. into early next week, along with the season's first flakes for some in the Great Lakes through New England!
weather.gov
weather.gov
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BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
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CO voters decide feeding kids is the right thing to do.
And in my county Douglas. Four progressive school board candidates with 36+ combined years of public education experience resoundingly beat four alt-right fear-mongering candidates with ZERO years of experience in education.
And in my county Douglas. Four progressive school board candidates with 36+ combined years of public education experience resoundingly beat four alt-right fear-mongering candidates with ZERO years of experience in education.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
CO voters decide feeding kids is the right thing to do.
And in my county Douglas. Four progressive school board candidates with 36+ combined years of public education experience resoundingly beat four alt-right fear-mongering candidates with ZERO years of experience in education.
And in my county Douglas. Four progressive school board candidates with 36+ combined years of public education experience resoundingly beat four alt-right fear-mongering candidates with ZERO years of experience in education.
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This is huge — and in general it was a blue wave here. Also kicked our ICE-loving sheriff to the curb!
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This is huge — and in general it was a blue wave here. Also kicked our ICE-loving sheriff to the curb!
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
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Bluesky readers, I need books please. Here are authors I love. Can you recommend anyone similar?
Fantasy: T Kingfisher, VE Schwab, Katherine Addison
SciFi: Becky Chambers, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie
Romance: KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Courtney Milan
Here’s an enchanting scene to say thank you!
Fantasy: T Kingfisher, VE Schwab, Katherine Addison
SciFi: Becky Chambers, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie
Romance: KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Courtney Milan
Here’s an enchanting scene to say thank you!
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads).
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads).
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Nameless Land is out today!
How did I miss author Kate Elliott for so many years? Then I read Unconquerable Sun ("genderbent Alexander the Great as space opera") & was hooked! I'm still working thru her blacklist, but HIGHLY recommend The Witch Roads & forthcoming sequel, The Nameless Land- EXCELLENT fantasy duology 📚 👏🏼 👏🏼
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Nameless Land is out today!
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The rise of @blockclubchi.bsky.social and the way its journalists have kicked ass up and down the blocks of Chicago is a rare bright spot in the present-day media landscape. I've been impressed from the jump, and they've just gotten better and better. Kudos!
So proud of the @blockclubchi.bsky.social team! We're nominated for 12 Chicago Journalists Association awards, inc. Best Immigration Coverage.
We do this for our readers, not awards. But it's an honor to be nominated.
Thanks for trusting us w/ your stories chicagojournalists.net/2025/10/31/c...
We do this for our readers, not awards. But it's an honor to be nominated.
Thanks for trusting us w/ your stories chicagojournalists.net/2025/10/31/c...
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The rise of @blockclubchi.bsky.social and the way its journalists have kicked ass up and down the blocks of Chicago is a rare bright spot in the present-day media landscape. I've been impressed from the jump, and they've just gotten better and better. Kudos!
"Loving an old dog is so different to loving a young one." 💔 (It is with this understanding I plan to care for/adopt only elderly rescues from now on. It is, as the author says, such a privilege to care for an elderly pet, with or without years of memories together.) Cc @itbodes.bsky.social
Terri is right - Melissa Harrison has written a beautiful, incredibly touching, sad and fierce paean to her very old dog.
This piece by Melissa Harrison is simply gorgeous. My beloved dog Tilly also had pancreatitis in her last year, and taking care of her was privilege, not a chore. She'd spent her whole life taking care of me, after all. I still miss her with every breath. mzharrison.substack.com/p/loving-an-...
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Loving an old dog is so different to loving a young one." 💔 (It is with this understanding I plan to care for/adopt only elderly rescues from now on. It is, as the author says, such a privilege to care for an elderly pet, with or without years of memories together.) Cc @itbodes.bsky.social