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Aimee Knupsky, PhD
@aknupsky.bsky.social
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Cognitve psychologist. Friends of the Library President. Queer, crip bibliophile and coal patch kid.
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Princess and the Pea.
JoJo, a golden pit bull-boxer mix with white patches on chest, lays in a nest of blankets and pillows.
October 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Recently finished. Library new fiction shelves for the win.
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Book laying on table, Moderation by Elaine Castillo. The cover has scene of man and woman in regency (?) dress sitting side by side, their heads warped.
August 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Back on Bluesky after a two week healing-hiatus. This guy personifies the news horrors that were butchering my heart. Plan to be more careful and take more breaks. PS. I found him (and left him) at a local antique store. He has been calling to me ever since. Should I go back or is it a trap??
A carved wooden statue of a surgeon in green scrubs with a face mast, holding an anatomically correct heart in his left hand and a butcher-looking knife in his right.
August 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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"Wonder tales cultivate our capacity to be humble and act humbly; as such, wonder is both the trigger and the product of transformation, ours and the world's.
Brown, black, white tabby looking directly at camera with white paw stretched in front of a green book. Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the 21st Century.
July 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"The speaker in this case
is a middle-aged witch, me--
tangled on my two great arms,
my face in a book
and my mouth wide,
ready to tell you a story or two."
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Book lays, cover up, on tan leather footstool. Transformations by Anne Sexton. The cover has an illustration of old woman and a crow peaking through a hole.
July 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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"That anyone could feel happiness during the great pestilence and the years beyond was an indication that human kind had either a remarkable resilience or an inability to comprehend the desperateness of their lives."
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Screenshot of the audiobook cover for The Alewives by Elizabeth Andersen Blue background with brassy illustration of a pitcher and two frothing mugs.
July 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Currently reading...about fears we've apparently always had and about how the world will go on, perhaps happily, without us.
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Book cover for The Last Man, Mary Shelley. The cover shows an opening through which green, forest plants hang down.
July 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Met a powerful, playful, sardonic woman writer from Argentina who was said to be of the "Big Bad Wolf school" with stories "demasiado crueles." What a trippy joy.
From Report on Heaven and Hell: "Be careful. If you choose more things from Hell than from Heaven, you may be sent to Heaven;
Book lays face up on orange blanket. Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina OCampo. The cover is the painting Les Feuilles Mortes by Remedios Varo which shows red haired woman in green dress sitting and twining a ball of blue string that seems connected to ghostly figure.
June 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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"All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side...
The book, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf sits on an orange blanket in front of a tabby cat that is looking directly at the camera.
June 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Robin Williams smiling in Good Will Hunting
June 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Thank the gods for space family during times of apocalypse.
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A black book sits face up on orange blanket. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambersburg.
June 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Two amazing scholars, both gone in the blink of an astronomical eye. I hold both of them in my heart, in my curiosity. Their works sit side by side on my shelf. May the spirit of their wonder guide all of us who believe the world is more and, also, just enough.
Two books face-up, side by side. On left, A Responsibility to Awe by Recebba Elson. On the right, Wonder Struck by Helen De Cruz.
June 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Is it Friday?
Black, white, brown tabby cat with eyes closed, head laying on fluffy white blanket, with her paw tucked under her chin.
June 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Remember Trackers?
Short, boxy, bright yellow car-truck. Short, boxy, bright teal car-truck.
June 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Reading With Cat
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Black, brown, white tabby cat laying with white paw stretched out on open book.
June 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Like, jelly shoes and bracelets too.
Neon blue jelly shoes Neon blue, orange, lime green, yellow, and pink jelly bracelets.
May 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Mention Biden One. More. Time.
Mo Mo's big-mad look. Close-up of the face of a brown & white tabby. She is staring intensely at camera with fierce, green eyes.
May 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Mo Mo is on the front lines
A triptych of photos--brown and white tabby looking at empty bird feeder out window; profile of back of cat's head, looking out window at bird sitting on top of bird feeder; close up of brown and white tabby with pink tongue sticking out, up to her nose like a "lip smack" Note: no birds were harmed in the making of this series.
May 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I just something similar to my wife about this one who has been clinging to me all day...
Black, white, brown tabby cat with closed eyes. Furry, cute, and cozy.
April 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Hands off. Harrisburg.
Crows of people with protest signs on steps of Harrisburg capital. Crowd of people with protest signs Crowd of people with protest signs
April 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"You don't have to read about critical ignoring, mom. Just pay attention to me."
Black, white, brown tabby cat lays on top of article, looking off camera.
April 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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If you are in PA, time to call Fetterman and tell him we believe in free speech. We do not condone the disappearing of people who exercise free speech. It is NOT hard to understand that you can be against the genocide of Palestinians AND against antisemitism.
Senator John Fetterman D-PA, expressed support for the Trump administration's slashing of $400 million federal funding to Columbia. The senator alleged the ivy league university had, "let anti-semitism run a mock to cater to lunatic fringe and paid provocateurs. Leadership allowed those assholes to take over the campus and terrorize Jewish students. Now Columbia pays for its failure and I support that." The administration has not laid out charges against Mr. Khalil or any ties with Hamas.
March 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Post a photo with no context to bring some peace to the timeline.
Black, brown, white tabby cat sitting in orange chair. Half in sun, half in shadow. Looking at camera.
March 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Used book mail. From 2014, God bless. Pre-Rump times. Would love an update but also, goes to show.
Orange, yellow, and turquoise striped book cover sitting on blanket. The Impossible Will Take A Little While: Perseverance and Hope in troubled times. Edited by Paul Rogat Loeb. Contributions by Diane Ackerman, Maya Angelou, Wendell Berry, Audre Lorde, Pablo Neruda, Arundhati Roy and others.
March 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I have thought long and hard about a Defarge tattoo in homage to my dad's old book cover...
Book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens sits on a bronze stand. There is a black and white illustration of an old woman knitting (Madame Defarge) and an illustration of a guillotine behind her.
February 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM