Rachel Miller
@rachelmiller.bsky.social
Quaker, Choctaw, vegetarian, cat lady. Former librarian, currently disabled by ME/CFS.
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It is 9:30am and I have been to the dentist twice and the pharmacy twice today. That really ought to be enough for today, but I also have a doctor’s appointment downtown after lunch.
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It is 9:30am and I have been to the dentist twice and the pharmacy twice today. That really ought to be enough for today, but I also have a doctor’s appointment downtown after lunch.
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Today is Native Women’s Equal Pay Day. It symbolizes how much longer Native women have to work to earn the same amount white men earned the previous year. Native women are paid $.52-$.58 on the dollar compared to white men, and over their careers lose out on an average $1 million...
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Today is Native Women’s Equal Pay Day. It symbolizes how much longer Native women have to work to earn the same amount white men earned the previous year. Native women are paid $.52-$.58 on the dollar compared to white men, and over their careers lose out on an average $1 million...
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Remember 5 years ago when people thought there were coded messages in the Wayfair catalogue so elites could traffick children in giant cabinets? Anyway it turns out they just send emails like "hey it's me, your best buddy Pedophile Jeff, come do sex crimes at my house"
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Remember 5 years ago when people thought there were coded messages in the Wayfair catalogue so elites could traffick children in giant cabinets? Anyway it turns out they just send emails like "hey it's me, your best buddy Pedophile Jeff, come do sex crimes at my house"
My husband and I headed over to the local middle school where we vote to look for the aurora over the baseball field. Success!
Attn: @universalhub.com
Attn: @universalhub.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
My husband and I headed over to the local middle school where we vote to look for the aurora over the baseball field. Success!
Attn: @universalhub.com
Attn: @universalhub.com
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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they began capering about most obstreperously
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
they began capering about most obstreperously
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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a great 🧵
when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...
Tripitaka Koreana - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
a great 🧵
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Man on bike shoots at woman on bike near Danehy Park in Cambridge but misses
www.universalhub.com/2025/man-bik...
#CambridgeMA #crime #guns
www.universalhub.com/2025/man-bik...
#CambridgeMA #crime #guns
October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Man on bike shoots at woman on bike near Danehy Park in Cambridge but misses
www.universalhub.com/2025/man-bik...
#CambridgeMA #crime #guns
www.universalhub.com/2025/man-bik...
#CambridgeMA #crime #guns
Local folks, be careful. (I’m safe at home)
Shelter in place at Harvard over report of bicyclist shooting at person near campus
Harvard University issued a shelter-in-place order Friday for a report of a person on a bicycle opening fire elsewhere in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
www.nbcboston.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Local folks, be careful. (I’m safe at home)
I’ve been leading a weekly Bible study for a group of friends since 2020. Tonight’s session was on Daniel 3, which lead one attendee to discover that the Beastie Boys were sampling this Sly Stone bop.
Loose Booty
YouTube video by Sly and the Family Stone - Topic
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’ve been leading a weekly Bible study for a group of friends since 2020. Tonight’s session was on Daniel 3, which lead one attendee to discover that the Beastie Boys were sampling this Sly Stone bop.
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I’m hosting a Three Sisters Potluck tomorrow for Indigenous People Day. Prep this morning included roasting a kabocha squash, making corn pudding, and putting some flor de junio beans in the instant pot.
October 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I’m hosting a Three Sisters Potluck tomorrow for Indigenous People Day. Prep this morning included roasting a kabocha squash, making corn pudding, and putting some flor de junio beans in the instant pot.
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If you didn't want Puerto Ricans speaking Spanish in the US, you should've thought about that before you colonized the island and forcefully made it a part of the US.
October 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you didn't want Puerto Ricans speaking Spanish in the US, you should've thought about that before you colonized the island and forcefully made it a part of the US.
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actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know
learning is good
learning is good
September 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know
learning is good
learning is good
I needed to use a bunch of kale, chard and herbs that I grew, so I made spanikopita.
September 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I needed to use a bunch of kale, chard and herbs that I grew, so I made spanikopita.
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
My initial reaction to renaming the DoD the Department of War is actually kind of positive. “Defense” implies that we’re only protecting ourselves, when the DoD is often used to proactively “defend” special interests by waging war.
Let’s be honest about what we’re doing and then change!
Let’s be honest about what we’re doing and then change!
September 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My initial reaction to renaming the DoD the Department of War is actually kind of positive. “Defense” implies that we’re only protecting ourselves, when the DoD is often used to proactively “defend” special interests by waging war.
Let’s be honest about what we’re doing and then change!
Let’s be honest about what we’re doing and then change!
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In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165 million years ago.
A spine-tingling discovery: This dinosaur had spiked body armor
In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165 million years ago.
n.pr
September 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165 million years ago.
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If you're willing to throw the trans population to the wolves you're willing to throw every other group that's not you to the wolves too, they just aren't howling loudly enough for them yet.
August 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
If you're willing to throw the trans population to the wolves you're willing to throw every other group that's not you to the wolves too, they just aren't howling loudly enough for them yet.
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If you’re in the middle of applying for citizenship in Massachusetts and would be open to talking to a reporter today, shoot me a DM.
August 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If you’re in the middle of applying for citizenship in Massachusetts and would be open to talking to a reporter today, shoot me a DM.
I had a book club like this over a decade ago. It was fantastic. I would absolutely do it again.
Just encountered a very cool idea for a book club! Each person reads a different book & annotates it. They pass it to the next person in the club, who annotates it, & passes it on. Rinse & repeat! It's a different kind of conversation AND creates a very cool art object at the end!
August 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I had a book club like this over a decade ago. It was fantastic. I would absolutely do it again.
I’ve been playing Sky Cards, which is like Pokemon Go for airplanes. And then some punk figured out how to bet negative coins in the battle function and quit a battle with me, causing me to lose around 1227000 coins.
If you’re playing Sky Cards, don’t play Battles until they fix this.
If you’re playing Sky Cards, don’t play Battles until they fix this.
August 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I’ve been playing Sky Cards, which is like Pokemon Go for airplanes. And then some punk figured out how to bet negative coins in the battle function and quit a battle with me, causing me to lose around 1227000 coins.
If you’re playing Sky Cards, don’t play Battles until they fix this.
If you’re playing Sky Cards, don’t play Battles until they fix this.