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@andreainthepnw.bsky.social
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Reader, hiker & backpacker, attendee of comic cons, recently started playing D&D. Born & raised in Nova Scotia, living in Oregon; History PhD, working in accounting -long stories...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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cathmckenna.bsky.social
Mike Myers playing Elon Musk on SNL and then busting out a CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE SHIRT at the end of the show is exactly the energy we need right now. 🤛❤️🇨🇦
March 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
Just saw the “conversation” between Trump and Vance and Zelenskyy and came away with one thing:

Trump and Vance are fucking assholes.

Not a new realization, but it was strongly reinforced.
March 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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My wife has given me a Valentine's Day envelope addressed to "pudq'snH," which any true devotee of Star Trek will tell you is a Klingon term of endearment, meaning "The One I Will Kill Last," introduced in the classic Next Generation epis-

What?

(flips envelope 180 degrees)

Ohhhhh riiiight got it
A red envelope with the word "husband" on it, placed upside down on the keyboard of my desktop computer.
February 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
This guy seems to have summed it up very well.
February 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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chrisdornan.bsky.social
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
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February 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Break time.

Not entirely sure why, but this dude makes me happy. You?
January 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
First cross country ski day of the season for me today, at Teacup, near Mt. Hood. The snow is great!
December 16, 2024 at 1:03 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20

#BookSky
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Cover of The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, edited by Martin Gardner. Image of an illustration from the original version, of Alice holding a bottle labeled "drink me."
December 14, 2024 at 1:29 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 19

#BookSky
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Cover of The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. A boy and girl are surrounded by a crowd of shadowy people, while being observed by tiny creatures riding dragonflies.
December 12, 2024 at 7:03 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18

#BookSky
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Cover of Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers.
December 10, 2024 at 6:57 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17

#BookSky
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Cover of Sabriel by Garth Nix. A young woman with dark hair dressed in medieval-like clothes with a bandolier of small bells and a sword scabbard. In the background a shapeless, misty black face looms with a sinister expression.
December 7, 2024 at 6:59 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle. A man in fantasy-garb on a white horse, watched by a woman in a long dress, with a high castle in the distance.
December 6, 2024 at 2:06 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
I'd like to be Jadzia. I'd probably get cast as a Vulcan though.
December 5, 2024 at 4:32 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Ringworld by Larry Niven. An image of a giant band encircling a star at a distance similar to Earth's from our sun, its vast inner surface facing the star and habitable for life.
December 4, 2024 at 6:26 AM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of A Wizard of Earth sea, by Ursula K LeGuin. Three men dressed in medieval-like clothes, and one has alarmed the rest by transforming his entire upper body into that of a bird of prey.
December 1, 2024 at 11:15 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
The cover of My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. A boy is riding in a donkey, accompanied by a dog, as his mother, sister and two brothers walk together in the distance.
November 29, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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mollyploofkins.bsky.social
In case you are lost...
November 28, 2024 at 7:53 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Spending US Thanksgiving in Poland. I need to learn the story behind this sculpture in Novy Targ..
Metal sculpture of two goats embracing while wearing cylinder-like armor.
November 28, 2024 at 9:35 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 28, 2024 at 3:06 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Shows a richly dressed beautiful woman, with soldiers and a castle in the background.
November 25, 2024 at 10:39 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde. Image of a book with an illustration of a piece of bread with mold giving it the image of a face.
November 24, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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fsannas.bsky.social
I am going to remind myself of this regularly in the coming years!!!
dworkin.bsky.social Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · Nov 24
I love this.
A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.
November 24, 2024 at 3:09 PM
andreainthepnw.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
Cover of The Mahabharata, a modern rendering by Ramesh Menon. Background is an ancient carving of a battle.
November 23, 2024 at 11:41 PM