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Anne Libby
@annelibby.bsky.social
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I do not want to be saved by a good billionaire. Stupid white hippie. No, the tent should not be that big. Newsletter: annelibby.email; it’s about managing people and the workplace.
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Against all odds, my petunias aren't exactly thriving, but they are still trying to bloom. We've had several frosts, a few inches of snow, and a couple of sub-freezing nights. (Chicagoland: zone 5b/6a)
Slightly raggedy dark purple petunia, against a backdrop of weathered blue deck railing. Foreground, still pretty vibrant petunia greens/buds, and brown leaves that have fallen into the planters.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Right wing vernacular for, "You remind me of my mom, when she's mad at me."
White lady with glasses, shoulder-length red-brown hair, wire-rimmed glasses, raising her brow in a furrowed manner, in front of a mic, looking off to the side - presumably at a NY Times pundit who I just can't even. Red/grey/light grey blurred background. Over the photo, the headline, Opinion, in bold "Opinion." Below the photo, "What is 'Toxic Feminity'?"
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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And those who platform him. Here's how it was in my face when I looked at @nytimes.com this morning.

(Yes, NY Times, we takes screenshots of you, my bros. Because you're not trustworthy.)
Screenshot from this morning's NY Times, 11/6/25 at around 7:30am CST. Header, all caps, light grey: "Interesting times with Ross Douthat" Headilne, in black text, "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" wtf NYTimes
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Patrick Bateman has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo
Headshot of Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. -- a really handsome white dude -- brunette, pale skin, white teeth, wearing a sardonic look of surprised delight. Background, a blurry kitchen, with stainless steel cabinets. Over a white buttondown shirt and tie, he's also wearing a waterproof semi-transparent nylon raincoat like your Grandma might have had folded up in an envelope made from the same material, in her purse.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Yes! Not so much this year, for whatever reason? But some years they have just been teeming on the plants. They're very....metal.

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Extreme closeup of 8-10 vivid black and orange milkweed bugs massing on a milkweed pod. Blurry background, other light green pods and darker green leaves in the foreground. There's also a brown thing I can't identify, maybe it's a dying stem from a torn off leaf?
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Photo of assault of a postal worker by #ICE/#CBP or whichever of Trump's goons rolled up in their mom's minivan in Buffalo Grove IL on 10/30, apparently looking for landscapers. Captured via Ring camera, video to follow.
Social media post by a neighbor, a mail carrier goes flying at the hands of one of Trump's goons. Peaceful street scene in Buffalo Grove IL, colorful autumn trees -- reds, greens, and golds. Beautiful sunny day, a neighbor's home in the background. Cars Landscaper truck and another car nearby. In the foreground, another goon has a landscaper (their target) near the goon's mom's minivan.
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Petunias don't know it's almost November.

We've had at least two frosts -- don't know about last night, and it's about 41F at the moment.
Petunia greenery, entangled with red-brown autumn leaves, against a background of weathered, blue-painted wood. In the upper left corner, some leggy maroon/green coleus. In the upper right corner, an abundant blooom of purple petunia blooms. A yellow marigold blossom peeks out from underneath the petunias.
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Best I could do in time allotted. As we were leaving, a neighbor who joined us passed it on someone arriving without a sign.
Sign made from a piece of a brown cardboard box, in the backseat of a messy car -- a red nylon case behind the sign, resting on a beige seat. More cardboard, other bits of the front seat of the car and the floor of the car also visible. In messy bubbly handwriting (black sharpie,) the sign says, "Tomorrow there'll be MORE of us - LMM"
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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@gammacounter.bsky.social no spoiler but grrrr
NY Times Spelling bee game grid -- white background, with 6 grey hexagons comtaining the letters E, Z, I, O, B, M. A yellow hexagon containing the letter L. The (actual) word, "EMBOLIZE" in black and yellow text. A black text box with the text "Not in word list" above the game grid. Ovals below the game grid containing the words "Delete" and "Enter," surrounding a circle with two rounded arrows describing the circumference of the circle.
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Nope
NYTimes Spelling Bee grid — 6 grey hexagons containing letters M,D,I,Y, C, and O, arranged around a yellow hexagon containing the letter T. White background. The word MITOTIC in black and yellow letters above the puzzle grid. Black box at the top of the screen, containing white text, “Not in word list.”
October 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Fall weather on our deck, 57F in Chicagoland. Good weather for jacketed coffee drinking. My container garden is extremely happy — hoping to get the petunias to bloom one more time this year.
Purple petunias, coleus —maroon/green, white/green, pink/white/green — pink and white impatiens, red beginias, all witha lot of their greenery
August 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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After dropping off some donations at a local thrift, we went in to peruse the goods. I'm feeling some regret for having passed up this mint condition Jax Teller/Sons of Anarchy tote.
Tote bag being held by a woman, her hand visible on the upper corner. Tote is adorned with an airbrushed B&W portrait of Charlie Hunnam as Jax Teller (with some fiery highlights) from Sons of Anarchy, pulling on a cigarette. End of the cigarette is a fiery highlight, Hunnam is wearing two large square brass monogram rings, one bearing the initials SO, the other NS. Honestly, I have never seen anything like it.
August 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Screenshot from NYT Spelling Bee -- letters are HTIDAIR, letters arranged in grey hexagons around the central hexagon on a white background. Attempted word is "HABIBI," to which the ruling from spelling bee puzzle powers that be is: "Not in word list," which is displayed across the top of the screenshot.
August 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Will read!
Garden flag, made with quilter’s cotton print; yellow-gold print crown, with a red/white/blue print x seen over it. White background, to border is the same RWB fabric as the X. No kings! Flag is planted in a bed of green leafy ground cover.
July 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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We still have a few apparently mutant pansies that have survived an awful lot of 90F weather.
Pansies in window boxes on a suburban deck. The flowers are lavender, with dark purple centers. Lots of greenery in the background, window boxes are hunter green, decking is a light blue-grey and honestly the deck needs a paint job.
July 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Not my best craftspersonship, but I repurposed my Biden/Harris --> Harris/Walz garden flag in time for today's celebrations. #NoKings
Garden flag in a garden setting -- lots of green and yellow ground cover, slightly mangy grass in the foreground, treetrunk in the background. Flag bears a yellow quilt-fabric crown; red, white, and blue print fabric X over the crown; white background, the top border is the same red, white and blue fabric as the X. NO KINGS.
June 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Welcome, June; it’s a beautiful 45F morning in Chicagoland.
Sun shines on pansies in a blue window box: pink, dark orange, purple, green foliage. Various shades of green bushes and trees on one side of the window box, and an as-yet flowerless flowerpot on the blue deck floor on the other side. I’m imagining the pansies are shivering a bit, as it is below 50F and crisp.
June 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Different Costco (not far from the first,) at 11:42 am today, day whatevereth of the current regime. I thought I'd have a clear run of the aisles due to Passover, and Palm Sunday church services. I was wrong.
April 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Hooray! I received my postcard from @marc-fischer.bsky.social today. If he still has some on offer -- he sold out last time I tried -- I'm going to order some to mail out myself. halfletterpress.com/say-no-to-us...
My hand (that of a nice white lady) holding a postcard, black background, with text "TRUMP wants to KILL the US POSTAL SERVICE", followed by image of the USPS eagle, more text "Say NO to USPS PRIVATIZATION." Background: wood floor; floral rug (ivory background, grey, blue, rose, pattern.)
March 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Um, yup.
March 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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And I'm trying so hard not to be cynical, but the deadpan description of Cory Booker's social media strategy presentation. I just can't.

For the love of our country, please get @aoc.bsky.social and her digital strategists on the case.
Screengrab from NYT article, here's the text: "...Last week, Mr. Booker delivered a PowerPoint presentation to fellow Democrats about how to deliver their message online. In the slides, which were obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Booker offered his colleagues guidance on how often to post on each platform. Instagram: once or twice a day. Facebook: once a day. LinkedIn: three to five times a week. X: two to five times a day. TikTok: one to four times a day..."
January 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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My garden flag is complete! 🧵
Handmade "Harris-Walz 2024" garden flag, surrounded by partly sunlit garden greenery. Flag is off-white canvas, edged in red, white and blue print: "Harris" in blue fabric; "Walz" in camo; 2024 in red.)
August 10, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Coming soon
Screenshot of power point slide, white background, WALZ in large-all-caps font.
August 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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It was supposed to be a Biden Harris garden flag. Sigh.
July 21, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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July 21, 2024 at 6:05 PM