Kate
@dubchi5.bsky.social
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Kate
@dubchi5.bsky.social
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Finally getting the bug to work on my photography and design again. Honestly just so I can order notebooks with some of my own photography and art, but you know. www.redbubble.com/people/dotla...
I tend to prefer Ireland/UK covers over US, but this is one I really like the US cover.
U.S. vs U.K./Ireland covers for Oyinkan Braithwaite's Cursed Daughters.
Thoroughly enjoyed this multi-generational novel of flawed women navigating family superstitions and secrets, a twist on nature vs nurture, men compounding and confounded by an inherited curse.
Thoroughly enjoyed this multi-generational novel of flawed women navigating family superstitions and secrets, a twist on nature vs nurture, men compounding and confounded by an inherited curse.
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I tend to prefer Ireland/UK covers over US, but this is one I really like the US cover.
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U.S. vs U.K./Ireland covers for Oyinkan Braithwaite's Cursed Daughters.
Thoroughly enjoyed this multi-generational novel of flawed women navigating family superstitions and secrets, a twist on nature vs nurture, men compounding and confounded by an inherited curse.
Thoroughly enjoyed this multi-generational novel of flawed women navigating family superstitions and secrets, a twist on nature vs nurture, men compounding and confounded by an inherited curse.
November 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
U.S. vs U.K./Ireland covers for Oyinkan Braithwaite's Cursed Daughters.
Thoroughly enjoyed this multi-generational novel of flawed women navigating family superstitions and secrets, a twist on nature vs nurture, men compounding and confounded by an inherited curse.
Thoroughly enjoyed this multi-generational novel of flawed women navigating family superstitions and secrets, a twist on nature vs nurture, men compounding and confounded by an inherited curse.
I lost someone to COVID and most people I know lost someone. I have never understood why people were so eager to have collective amnesia rather than acknowledge grief and trauma. That would also mean though that people would have to evaluate how they contributed to the mass death by their choices.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I lost someone to COVID and most people I know lost someone. I have never understood why people were so eager to have collective amnesia rather than acknowledge grief and trauma. That would also mean though that people would have to evaluate how they contributed to the mass death by their choices.
This is the second time in less than 24 hours I’ve seen/heard Ulysses referenced. What portent is this.
I am reading Ulysses by James Joyce and as it turns out I don't know how to read
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This is the second time in less than 24 hours I’ve seen/heard Ulysses referenced. What portent is this.
This is just a continuation of previous atrocities committed against women in detention in the US, particularly women of color. This is not new. It’s awful, and cannot continue.
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is just a continuation of previous atrocities committed against women in detention in the US, particularly women of color. This is not new. It’s awful, and cannot continue.
Every time I feed my sourdough starter I hear, “Feed me Seymour.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Every time I feed my sourdough starter I hear, “Feed me Seymour.”
My friend gifted me sourdough starter and while I am so grateful for the internet to help learn how to use sourdough, there are some days I wish I had family to be there and teach me instead of learning from a random website.
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
My friend gifted me sourdough starter and while I am so grateful for the internet to help learn how to use sourdough, there are some days I wish I had family to be there and teach me instead of learning from a random website.
I am looking myself but does anybody have any must see bookstore recommendations in Nashville? Or around Nashville? I was looking at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social and Landmark Booksellers but would love to hear other recommendations.
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I am looking myself but does anybody have any must see bookstore recommendations in Nashville? Or around Nashville? I was looking at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social and Landmark Booksellers but would love to hear other recommendations.
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It’s embarrassing that anyone actually believed the rich people would actually leave their nice elite enclaves in highly-developed states
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It’s embarrassing that anyone actually believed the rich people would actually leave their nice elite enclaves in highly-developed states
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It's time for #FishOfTheWeek and today I want to talk about a really cool fish that has become much maligned (not without reason) in North America. That's right, today we're gonna talk about the so-called Frankenfish. The snakehead
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November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It's time for #FishOfTheWeek and today I want to talk about a really cool fish that has become much maligned (not without reason) in North America. That's right, today we're gonna talk about the so-called Frankenfish. The snakehead
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
I swear to all that is holy I am getting a flip phone and getting rid of email if I get one more, “we need to fight back,” “money please,” email from the dems. People struggled for over a month and a calculated number of retiring dems shot any progress or leverage in the foot. The time to fight back
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I swear to all that is holy I am getting a flip phone and getting rid of email if I get one more, “we need to fight back,” “money please,” email from the dems. People struggled for over a month and a calculated number of retiring dems shot any progress or leverage in the foot. The time to fight back
I used to be so strict on spelling until I realized how messed up English is and how language use to change all the time (and still does). It wasn’t standard. The history of the language we use today is fascinating.
Incidentally, this is why I’m against strict spelling. Words should be spelled the way they sound & we spell words as if we’re speaking Middle English for ridiculous class reasons
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I used to be so strict on spelling until I realized how messed up English is and how language use to change all the time (and still does). It wasn’t standard. The history of the language we use today is fascinating.
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Incidentally, this is why I’m against strict spelling. Words should be spelled the way they sound & we spell words as if we’re speaking Middle English for ridiculous class reasons
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Incidentally, this is why I’m against strict spelling. Words should be spelled the way they sound & we spell words as if we’re speaking Middle English for ridiculous class reasons
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
There’s still magic and hope in this world.
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
There’s still magic and hope in this world.
Or they’re worried about how their donors are going to stop funding them if this goes on any longer. Can’t wait to see financial disclosures.
Also, being blamed is temporary if they can deliver something they will be loved for. These fucking cowards apparently have no stomach for uncertainty or their own capacity to get anything done.
Loser behavior through and through.
Loser behavior through and through.
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Or they’re worried about how their donors are going to stop funding them if this goes on any longer. Can’t wait to see financial disclosures.
Every Dem senator who did not do more should be primaried. Every single one. Not just those who caved. No more voting for incumbents. No more keeping these people in office for life. We have had checkpoint after checkpoint that they could have done literally anything and they’re taking the easy road
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Every Dem senator who did not do more should be primaried. Every single one. Not just those who caved. No more voting for incumbents. No more keeping these people in office for life. We have had checkpoint after checkpoint that they could have done literally anything and they’re taking the easy road
Just posted asking if the Dems who caved are really republicans and then saw this. Huh.
Fucking disgusting
fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Just posted asking if the Dems who caved are really republicans and then saw this. Huh.
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Like the elves, as his light fades, he must travel west, to Undying Lands in Valinor . . . or, y'know, Galway.
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Like the elves, as his light fades, he must travel west, to Undying Lands in Valinor . . . or, y'know, Galway.
1000%. People were willing to stay furloughed and regular people were willing to help their neighbors with food. If it meant something. There was finally a battle where real change and immediate wins could be seen. Instead Dems again caved. Are they republicans at this point because they really seem
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
1000%. People were willing to stay furloughed and regular people were willing to help their neighbors with food. If it meant something. There was finally a battle where real change and immediate wins could be seen. Instead Dems again caved. Are they republicans at this point because they really seem
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You can’t convince me that Dem leadership gives a fuck about a single part of their platform. They’ll say compromise advances immediate goals like it’s not a veil of morality shielding platitudes and placation, but, in truth, all this party does is lose the long game, faster and faster, to oblivion.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
You can’t convince me that Dem leadership gives a fuck about a single part of their platform. They’ll say compromise advances immediate goals like it’s not a veil of morality shielding platitudes and placation, but, in truth, all this party does is lose the long game, faster and faster, to oblivion.
The thing that worries me most about this is these Dems that caved, they’re kicking the can and hoping that people like them don’t exist in the House. The senators are not losing their healthcare or their salaries. There’s a lot of pain about to come. A lot of pain for regular people.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The thing that worries me most about this is these Dems that caved, they’re kicking the can and hoping that people like them don’t exist in the House. The senators are not losing their healthcare or their salaries. There’s a lot of pain about to come. A lot of pain for regular people.
I don’t always immediately pre order books the second they’re announced, but when I do, it’s something by Katherine Arden.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don’t always immediately pre order books the second they’re announced, but when I do, it’s something by Katherine Arden.
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Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Takes whatever signs and portents you need from that fact.
Takes whatever signs and portents you need from that fact.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Takes whatever signs and portents you need from that fact.
Takes whatever signs and portents you need from that fact.
I really hope @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov do not vote for this bill. People are just now getting their updated premium notices with no APTC. OEP began 11/1. The whole healthcare industry needs reforming and APTC is only one piece… but it’s something that can have immediate impact.
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really hope @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov do not vote for this bill. People are just now getting their updated premium notices with no APTC. OEP began 11/1. The whole healthcare industry needs reforming and APTC is only one piece… but it’s something that can have immediate impact.