ScoutWater
@scoutwater.bsky.social
Food Pantry manager; travel lover; Akita mom; book reader; stargazer. Embracing life with curiosity and enthusiasm.
Screaming into the void. I manage a Food Pantry in Dumfries, VA and can't get through a day without being emotionally overwhelmed by the desperate need. Everything's more raw now as we pinball from one new cruel policy to the next. If you can, please donate to your local food pantry. We are hurting.
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Screaming into the void. I manage a Food Pantry in Dumfries, VA and can't get through a day without being emotionally overwhelmed by the desperate need. Everything's more raw now as we pinball from one new cruel policy to the next. If you can, please donate to your local food pantry. We are hurting.
💙📚Sharing a simple idea with profound impact "The Serviceberry" by Robin Wall Kimmerer explores gift economy as it exists in the natural world in contrast to consumer capitalism. The concept to be content with enough and share overabundance warms my heart. Lovely read.
September 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
💙📚Sharing a simple idea with profound impact "The Serviceberry" by Robin Wall Kimmerer explores gift economy as it exists in the natural world in contrast to consumer capitalism. The concept to be content with enough and share overabundance warms my heart. Lovely read.
💙📚 Left gobsmacked by Florence Knapp's "The Name." Three timelines follow one family over 35 years each based upon the name Cora bestows upon her son. At the center of each timeline is the far reaching effect domestic violence has on the family. An amazing read!
September 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
💙📚 Left gobsmacked by Florence Knapp's "The Name." Three timelines follow one family over 35 years each based upon the name Cora bestows upon her son. At the center of each timeline is the far reaching effect domestic violence has on the family. An amazing read!
I really wanted to love "Time of the Child" by Niall Williams. Beautifully written prose, colorful characters, set in a small small Irish town, with many a delightful turn of a phrase. Hard as I tried though I just could not get into it. Maybe it is more of a cozy winter read than a summer read. 💙📚
August 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I really wanted to love "Time of the Child" by Niall Williams. Beautifully written prose, colorful characters, set in a small small Irish town, with many a delightful turn of a phrase. Hard as I tried though I just could not get into it. Maybe it is more of a cozy winter read than a summer read. 💙📚
I admit I delayed borrowing "Godkiller" by Hannah Kaner more than a few times in Libby. Turned out to be a fun read. Think "Last of Us" only instead of the infected protagonists are battling knights, demons, and gods. 💙📚
July 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I admit I delayed borrowing "Godkiller" by Hannah Kaner more than a few times in Libby. Turned out to be a fun read. Think "Last of Us" only instead of the infected protagonists are battling knights, demons, and gods. 💙📚
"The Wedding People" began as a slow burn for me but I am really glad I stuck with it. I grew very fond of all the characters in it and at the predictable end wished them nothing but the best. 📚💙
July 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"The Wedding People" began as a slow burn for me but I am really glad I stuck with it. I grew very fond of all the characters in it and at the predictable end wished them nothing but the best. 📚💙
"Raising Hare: A Memoir" by Chloe Dalton (illustrations by Denise Nestor) was a lovely, sweet, and gentle read. We follow along as the author takes in a days old leveret raising it to adulthood. I'd never heard the word leveret before but now will always associate it with peace and a quiet grace. 📚💙
July 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Raising Hare: A Memoir" by Chloe Dalton (illustrations by Denise Nestor) was a lovely, sweet, and gentle read. We follow along as the author takes in a days old leveret raising it to adulthood. I'd never heard the word leveret before but now will always associate it with peace and a quiet grace. 📚💙
May as well fast track the Trump pardon
BREAKING: The man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and killing one of them has been caught, a source says.
Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers caught, AP source says
The man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one of them, has been taken into custody, a law enforcement official said..
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June 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
May as well fast track the Trump pardon
📚💙 Blown away by "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert" by Bob the Drag Queen.
Harriet Tubman arrives in modern times and hires a producer to help her and four enslaved people she led to freedom create a hip hop album and concert to tell their stories of strength, faith, and resilience.
Harriet Tubman arrives in modern times and hires a producer to help her and four enslaved people she led to freedom create a hip hop album and concert to tell their stories of strength, faith, and resilience.
April 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
📚💙 Blown away by "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert" by Bob the Drag Queen.
Harriet Tubman arrives in modern times and hires a producer to help her and four enslaved people she led to freedom create a hip hop album and concert to tell their stories of strength, faith, and resilience.
Harriet Tubman arrives in modern times and hires a producer to help her and four enslaved people she led to freedom create a hip hop album and concert to tell their stories of strength, faith, and resilience.
This is such a great idea!
Since this regime was sworn in, people have talked about building community, this is where that would come to play.
April 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is such a great idea!
Perfection.
April 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Perfection.
@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social keep it going!
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social keep it going!
Has anyone stopped to consider Waltz really meant to add acclaimed actor Jeff Goldblum to the chat?
“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen. theatln.tc/AHkpb39A
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Has anyone stopped to consider Waltz really meant to add acclaimed actor Jeff Goldblum to the chat?
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Enthusiastically recommend "The Bright Sword" to anyone who is as besotted with the Arthurian Legend as me. Loved the fresh take and the modern tone. It's long, took me two borrows through Libby, but thoroughly engaging in a can't put down way.
Enthusiastically recommend "The Bright Sword" to anyone who is as besotted with the Arthurian Legend as me. Loved the fresh take and the modern tone. It's long, took me two borrows through Libby, but thoroughly engaging in a can't put down way.
March 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Enthusiastically recommend "The Bright Sword" to anyone who is as besotted with the Arthurian Legend as me. Loved the fresh take and the modern tone. It's long, took me two borrows through Libby, but thoroughly engaging in a can't put down way.
Enthusiastically recommend "The Bright Sword" to anyone who is as besotted with the Arthurian Legend as me. Loved the fresh take and the modern tone. It's long, took me two borrows through Libby, but thoroughly engaging in a can't put down way.
Enjoy this gift article.
These "entitled, rogue bureaucrats" of the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) are writing the playbook on what to do when DOGE come a 'knocking. They are the very definition of do not obey in advance.
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These "entitled, rogue bureaucrats" of the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) are writing the playbook on what to do when DOGE come a 'knocking. They are the very definition of do not obey in advance.
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DOGE staffers bring U.S. marshals to small federal agency that denied them access
The show of force by Trump administration officials and federal law enforcement resulted in a frantic and “traumatizing” scene, several officials of the aid agency said, and sparked a lawsuit from its...
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March 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Enjoy this gift article.
These "entitled, rogue bureaucrats" of the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) are writing the playbook on what to do when DOGE come a 'knocking. They are the very definition of do not obey in advance.
wapo.st/4bxVVMI
These "entitled, rogue bureaucrats" of the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) are writing the playbook on what to do when DOGE come a 'knocking. They are the very definition of do not obey in advance.
wapo.st/4bxVVMI
Absolutely loved this escapist gem of a book. Full of wonderful characters and remarkable animals it was a sweet vacation in Tuscany of a book. 📚💙
March 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Absolutely loved this escapist gem of a book. Full of wonderful characters and remarkable animals it was a sweet vacation in Tuscany of a book. 📚💙
February 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This article on Westminster Dog Show and Fashion Week all happening within four blocks of each other is truly a gift! Sharing so everyone else may enjoy this break from doomscrolling as much as I did!
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At Westminster and Fashion Week, dogs and models have one job: Walk
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show overlapped with New York Fashion Week in midtown Manhattan, where Monty the giant schnauzer took best in show Tuesday.
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February 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This article on Westminster Dog Show and Fashion Week all happening within four blocks of each other is truly a gift! Sharing so everyone else may enjoy this break from doomscrolling as much as I did!
wapo.st/4hAIUEz
wapo.st/4hAIUEz
I found this article disturbing. It really brought home how much schools drive a sense of community and what is lost when schools close. westvirginiawatch.com/2024/12/11/w...
WV school board approves more school closures, counties struggling to fund public education • West Virginia Watch
The state school board on Wednesday approved another round of school closures in West Virginia because of declining student enrollment.
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December 12, 2024 at 1:03 PM
I found this article disturbing. It really brought home how much schools drive a sense of community and what is lost when schools close. westvirginiawatch.com/2024/12/11/w...
Yep, 💯. Never saw one, certainly never met one.
November 16, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Yep, 💯. Never saw one, certainly never met one.
Been watching the Maori haka in New Zealand’s parliament on repeat today—it’s such a powerful show of passion and protest. Imagine if Democratic Senators and members of Congress brought that kind of energy and unity to their dissent in the years ahead. It could really make a difference.
November 15, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Been watching the Maori haka in New Zealand’s parliament on repeat today—it’s such a powerful show of passion and protest. Imagine if Democratic Senators and members of Congress brought that kind of energy and unity to their dissent in the years ahead. It could really make a difference.