Karen in Appalachia 📚🥾🎵
@karenwnc.bsky.social
Learning Spanish (B1) & French (A1), reading, hiking, singing, playing the ukulele & photography. Call the southern Appalachians home. #langsky #musicsky
This book should arrive tomorrow: Learning #French from #Spanish and Spanish from French. I couldn’t resist. (Description in alt-text) #languagelearning
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This book should arrive tomorrow: Learning #French from #Spanish and Spanish from French. I couldn’t resist. (Description in alt-text) #languagelearning
I was given some leftover flowers from a luncheon at work. I really need give myself flowers every now and then because each time I look at this little bouquet I smile.
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I was given some leftover flowers from a luncheon at work. I really need give myself flowers every now and then because each time I look at this little bouquet I smile.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I lost a pair of reading glasses, so I bought a pair of reading glasses which means I will soon find the lost pair. Some kind of unwritten rule.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I lost a pair of reading glasses, so I bought a pair of reading glasses which means I will soon find the lost pair. Some kind of unwritten rule.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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La Noticia in Charlotte's covering ICE enforcement actions today. It's hard to do journalism when you are not safe. Nationally, there's evidence of citizens and green card holders being caught up. I appreciate journalists doing this risky work.
Check out their work here.
lanoticia.com
Check out their work here.
lanoticia.com
La Noticia | Información y noticias de Carolina del Norte hoy en vivo
Noticias Carolina del Norte hoy. Última hora en Charlotte y Raleigh NC. Clima de 10 días, qué visitar y qué hacer. Agenda, temas y horarios.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
La Noticia in Charlotte's covering ICE enforcement actions today. It's hard to do journalism when you are not safe. Nationally, there's evidence of citizens and green card holders being caught up. I appreciate journalists doing this risky work.
Check out their work here.
lanoticia.com
Check out their work here.
lanoticia.com
Damn
Immigration enforcement surge begins in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials confirm
apnews.com/article/nort...
““I told them, ‘I’m an American citizen,’” he told The Associated Press. “They wanted to know where I was born, or they didn’t believe I was an American citizen.”
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““I told them, ‘I’m an American citizen,’” he told The Associated Press. “They wanted to know where I was born, or they didn’t believe I was an American citizen.”
Immigration enforcement surge begins in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials confirm
Federal officials have started a surge of immigration enforcement in Charlotte, North Carolina. Agents were seen making arrests on Saturday.
apnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Damn
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What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language
theconversation.com/what-ai-earb...
via @theconversation.com
#languagelearning #langsky
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via @theconversation.com
#languagelearning #langsky
What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language
AI-fueled technologies make communicating in other languages easier than ever, but it still can’t replace the transformative value of learning a new language.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language
theconversation.com/what-ai-earb...
via @theconversation.com
#languagelearning #langsky
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via @theconversation.com
#languagelearning #langsky
A very large #spider web on our deck this foggy morning. Some sort of orb weaver. #photography
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A very large #spider web on our deck this foggy morning. Some sort of orb weaver. #photography
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On a museum trip with his mom. Perfection.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
On a museum trip with his mom. Perfection.
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This all the way to the bone marrow. Find things that bring you joy and cling to them like the life preserver they are in the stormy seas of our present moment in history.
I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This all the way to the bone marrow. Find things that bring you joy and cling to them like the life preserver they are in the stormy seas of our present moment in history.
Recently I switched my Netflix icon to the Winona Ryder one. My son initially thought was me.
Bless his heart. If only.
Bless his heart. If only.
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Recently I switched my Netflix icon to the Winona Ryder one. My son initially thought was me.
Bless his heart. If only.
Bless his heart. If only.
The Doobie Brothers on @npr.org Tiny Desk 😊 youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ?...
The Doobie Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Doobie Brothers on @npr.org Tiny Desk 😊 youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ?...
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will remain open through Jan. 4, despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, thanks to a partnership between Tennessee’s state government and seven local entities.
www.bpr.org/climate-envi...
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As government shutdown drags on, locals pay to keep Great Smokies open through early January
Local and state government organizations in Tennessee are paying $80,000 a week to keep the park open through Jan. 4.
www.bpr.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will remain open through Jan. 4, despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, thanks to a partnership between Tennessee’s state government and seven local entities.
www.bpr.org/climate-envi...
www.bpr.org/climate-envi...
It's already dark o'clock in the cove. Hello darkness, my old friend... *sigh*
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It's already dark o'clock in the cove. Hello darkness, my old friend... *sigh*
Just finished reading The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social and let me just say that was quite a roller coaster ride.
November 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Just finished reading The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social and let me just say that was quite a roller coaster ride.
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👇🏾 THIS
Right?!? Just because I bought one thing doesn't mean I'm in the market for more things. Vendors, this was a one-and-done transaction - stop with the annoying emails. We are NOT besties.
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
👇🏾 THIS
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This is Minnie. She let out her first ever puppy bark today in an effort to bravely fend off her own reflection. 12/10 (TT: minnieandme11)
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is Minnie. She let out her first ever puppy bark today in an effort to bravely fend off her own reflection. 12/10 (TT: minnieandme11)
This makes me smile. 📚🌈😊
POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
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Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
October 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This makes me smile. 📚🌈😊
I joined a local vocal group. They only perform a few times a year and the practice schedule is not too crazy. Finding the bits of joy where I can.
October 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I joined a local vocal group. They only perform a few times a year and the practice schedule is not too crazy. Finding the bits of joy where I can.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
I wish Christmas could be Thanksgiving Part II. I simply want to spend time with family and eat delicious food. No gifts.
October 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I wish Christmas could be Thanksgiving Part II. I simply want to spend time with family and eat delicious food. No gifts.
JFC, definitely not a movie thing. 🙄
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
JFC, definitely not a movie thing. 🙄
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people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it
but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it
but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it
October 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it
but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it
but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it