Stacey Burns
@wentrogue.bsky.social
Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder,” and now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. Much like Jimmy Carter, I want to have an unpleasant talk with you. she/her
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🎶 THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF MEASLES 🎶
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
🎶 THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF MEASLES 🎶
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But soft, what sound through yonder window breaks?
It is the rice cooker, singing its victory song
It is the rice cooker, singing its victory song
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
But soft, what sound through yonder window breaks?
It is the rice cooker, singing its victory song
It is the rice cooker, singing its victory song
Overlooked #EdmundFitzgerald50 story
It’s all connected! Patti Smith held Fred Sonic Smith’s funeral service in the same “musty old hall” mentioned in Lightfoot’s song. Also Lightfoot updated “musty” to “rustic” after actually visiting the place.
If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."
This is a fun piece:
This is a fun piece:
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Overlooked #EdmundFitzgerald50 story
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Memes/stills aside this is a fantastic film and you should see it if you ever get the chance.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Memes/stills aside this is a fantastic film and you should see it if you ever get the chance.
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Catherine my good bitch you guys are the only ones who do not know where the Republicans stand
Steve Inskeep: You think the Republicans voting with you here will not only agree to these measures, but actually try to do something if the administration ignores them?
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Catherine my good bitch you guys are the only ones who do not know where the Republicans stand
Steve Inskeep: You think the Republicans voting with you here will not only agree to these measures, but actually try to do something if the administration ignores them?
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Steve Inskeep: You think the Republicans voting with you here will not only agree to these measures, but actually try to do something if the administration ignores them?
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
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/80 When I open Microsoft Word, the only thing I want to see is a blank page and a cursor staring back at me. Why don't you "take a tour" of my nuts. What is any of this? I've never clicked on any of these but "BLANK DOCUMENT"
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
/80 When I open Microsoft Word, the only thing I want to see is a blank page and a cursor staring back at me. Why don't you "take a tour" of my nuts. What is any of this? I've never clicked on any of these but "BLANK DOCUMENT"
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The big lesson from the right wing capture of centrist media (eg the Washington Post), is that the quality of the product gets worse and the audience they are trying to appease are not going to tune in.
The BBC spends so much time bending over backwards to placate and whitewash the right, and it will never be enough because the British right does not want the BBC to exist.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The big lesson from the right wing capture of centrist media (eg the Washington Post), is that the quality of the product gets worse and the audience they are trying to appease are not going to tune in.
The youngest crew member on the Edmund Fitzgerald
🔔 Karl A. Peckol, watchman, age 20 from Ashtabula, Ohio
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The youngest crew member on the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Adonis would like to remind you to take care of yourselves and each other now more than ever
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Adonis would like to remind you to take care of yourselves and each other now more than ever
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Good! But not at all surprising. The media run-up to this was unnecessarily inflammatory.
Breaking news: The Supreme Court has declined to consider a challenge to its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court’s conservative majority to revisit one of the court’s most significant decisions in recent years.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Good! But not at all surprising. The media run-up to this was unnecessarily inflammatory.
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It’s all connected! Patti Smith held Fred Sonic Smith’s funeral service in the same “musty old hall” mentioned in Lightfoot’s song. Also Lightfoot updated “musty” to “rustic” after actually visiting the place.
If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."
This is a fun piece:
This is a fun piece:
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It’s all connected! Patti Smith held Fred Sonic Smith’s funeral service in the same “musty old hall” mentioned in Lightfoot’s song. Also Lightfoot updated “musty” to “rustic” after actually visiting the place.
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This is an outstanding piece. 💔
(I enjoy memes and jokes about the Fitz sometimes these days despite knowing it was a devasting tragedy and people are still feeling it to this day.)
(I enjoy memes and jokes about the Fitz sometimes these days despite knowing it was a devasting tragedy and people are still feeling it to this day.)
After years of living in Minnesota I felt I’d had my fill of the annual Edmund Fitzgerald stories, but @christalawler.bsky.social & @janahollingsworth.bsky.social found some new ones and tell them beautifully. No paywall:
50 years later, the mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald still haunts the children of its lost crew
“This time of year when the gales of November kick up, it’s almost impossible not to think of the men on the Fitz.”
www.startribune.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is an outstanding piece. 💔
(I enjoy memes and jokes about the Fitz sometimes these days despite knowing it was a devasting tragedy and people are still feeling it to this day.)
(I enjoy memes and jokes about the Fitz sometimes these days despite knowing it was a devasting tragedy and people are still feeling it to this day.)
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Far too many of you will post like bad outcomes have ready happened when they havent and not only is it demoralizing, it's wild confusing for people wondering if they still should be pushing to prevent the bad thing.
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Far too many of you will post like bad outcomes have ready happened when they havent and not only is it demoralizing, it's wild confusing for people wondering if they still should be pushing to prevent the bad thing.
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I'm starting to understand how Jamie Lee Curtis felt in that one episode of The Bear
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I'm starting to understand how Jamie Lee Curtis felt in that one episode of The Bear
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A reminder that if you’re thinking about Edmund Fitzgerald to also imagine the at least 10k fully preserved bodies floating in the giant space belly of Lady Lake Superior.
My body: Go to sleep.
My brain: Not now, honey, I have to learn about about the more than 10,000 preserved dead bodies are floating in the depths of Lake Superior like it’s outer space. www.unboundroots.com/lake-superio...
My brain: Not now, honey, I have to learn about about the more than 10,000 preserved dead bodies are floating in the depths of Lake Superior like it’s outer space. www.unboundroots.com/lake-superio...
Lake Superior: A Watery Graveyard
Lake Superior is home to hundreds of sunken ships on its cold, dark, rocky bottom. Are ships the only victims lying in this watery graveyard?
www.unboundroots.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A reminder that if you’re thinking about Edmund Fitzgerald to also imagine the at least 10k fully preserved bodies floating in the giant space belly of Lady Lake Superior.
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If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."
This is a fun piece:
This is a fun piece:
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."
This is a fun piece:
This is a fun piece:
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just three days of seeing firsthand how people are doing everything they can to kick ICE out of Chicago was honestly the most optimistic I have been since Zohran won the primary
i follow a lot of people covering ICE's terror campaign but it was eye opening to see irl how angry everyone is. every store has anti ice signs and know your rights brochures. there's anti ice graffiti everywhere. people are pissed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
just three days of seeing firsthand how people are doing everything they can to kick ICE out of Chicago was honestly the most optimistic I have been since Zohran won the primary
Imagine tending bar at the Anchor Bar and Grill in Superior, Wisconsin, where the song is on the jukebox 😵💫
‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ song is a tribute to the shipwreck and Lake Superior
Sit on a barstool along Lake Superior in November, and you might well hear Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad written soon after the ship sank.
www.startribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Imagine tending bar at the Anchor Bar and Grill in Superior, Wisconsin, where the song is on the jukebox 😵💫
After years of living in Minnesota I felt I’d had my fill of the annual Edmund Fitzgerald stories, but @christalawler.bsky.social & @janahollingsworth.bsky.social found some new ones and tell them beautifully. No paywall:
50 years later, the mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald still haunts the children of its lost crew
“This time of year when the gales of November kick up, it’s almost impossible not to think of the men on the Fitz.”
www.startribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
After years of living in Minnesota I felt I’d had my fill of the annual Edmund Fitzgerald stories, but @christalawler.bsky.social & @janahollingsworth.bsky.social found some new ones and tell them beautifully. No paywall:
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earworm (complimentary)
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
earworm (complimentary)
Another entry to the Library Card Hall of Fame!
My card should definitely enter that Hall of fame. There was also an option to have an Everton Football Club card (local rival club!)
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Another entry to the Library Card Hall of Fame!