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Biblioraptor, PhD
@biblioraptorphd.bsky.social
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English prof, mama & wife, reader/writer, 18C, pop culture, intersectional feminist, progressive, cyclist, hiker. NC. My views are my own. She/her
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The (small) children on a tiger at Tiger Town
Two children smiling and snarling on a tiger sculpture
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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W is being attacked by Pac-Man
Nephew in Pac-Man costume trying to eat W
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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My nephew is a KPop Demon Hunter fan
Saja Boys poster
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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My SiL’s aunt and uncle brought over their giant chocolate lab. He is currently splooting
A giant chocolate lab splooting on the floor
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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This is Loulou. She shares a name with everyone’s favorite French cyclist
A brown long-hared dachsund
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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The aforementioned carrot cake
Homemade carrot cake with leaf decoration
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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We are at my BiL and SiL’s house. The cousins are playing football. I have taken up my station by the cheese balls
Two homemade cheese balls and crackers
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The joy of 85 through Atlanta
Whole buncha cars in six lanes both directions
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The leaves had all fallen and obscured parts of the trail and it was way too warm for November but we went to the woods
A tree over a leafy trail A few leaves left on trees Leafless trees and blue skies Little green mosses growing from the leafy ground
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Delivered Thanksgiving food boxes to a few families this morning and thought a lot of things about income inequality
Boxes of food in the back of my Crosstrek
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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How did this 2022 episode of Make Some Noise know?
JIMMY KIMMEL THE COURT JESTER IS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE BEHEADED BY THE KING AFTER THIS SET
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Lazy lazy
A gray cat in a yellow chair Black cat on a green pillow
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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This made me laugh
A map of Charlotte with the caption: Myth: Charlotte doesn’t even border another country. Fact: Gastonia counts From The Charlotten
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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With alt text
"I want to make sure that Homeland Security can provide me with the definitive list of people who were detained, how long they were detained, whether or not they were released and, when property was damaged, whether or not they've been provided proper restitution," Tillis said, in the hearing. "We're the party of law and order, and I want to make sure that we're also orderly in the process of enforcing it."
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Senior art students presented their works in progress today so several of us went over to the gallery after faculty meeting to look and they are amazing
A painting in progress of a Mexican landscape Two maquetted combining American and Mexican pottery techniques A fired vase with flowers Three paintings of the mountains on the NC/TN border
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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This seems quaint now
Face the Nation tweets from 8 years ago: Sen. Tom Cotton on possible Roy Moore Senate expulsion if he gets elected: "I'm not going to speculate on hypotheticals." Cotton says sexual harassment has no place in Congress.
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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This is me moving books across the hall
Dinosaur holding a large stack of books sticker
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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She looks like one of the bats they wrap up in blankets
A black cat head sticking out of a fleece blanket
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Went to the woods. Lived deliberately. Sucked the marrow out of seven miles
Yellow leaves and a tree bent over the trail like a natural arch Creek full of fallen leaves Trees and leaves and rocks in a creek Yellow trees, a hiker, and a cool dog we met
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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They are giving the raids on Charlotte the name of a beloved children’s novel about disparate members of a community working together to save someone vulnerable 🤬
niner_times U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) will begin deportation raids in Charlotte as soon as Saturday, Nov. 15, says Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry L. McFadden. According to details obtained by CBS, the operation is called "Charlotte Web" and may only last a week. McFadden said that CMPD will not be "involved with any measures regarding enforcement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and CBP." It's unclear who exactly CBP will be targeting in these raids. "If we had absolute confidence that ICE was going to come here and they were going to go and find violent, dangerous drug traffickers and criminals and be targeted in their work, the city would welcome them with open arms," N.C. Governor Josh Stein said to the media on Wednesday. "We haven't heard from them, so we don't know what their plans are, but we have seen instances where ICE has gone after American citizens and detained them for up to days at a time."
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Somebody call this and see what it does #Pluribus
CALL US, CAROL Tap to call PLURIBUS
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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J told me to take a pic of “the President and VP” and I am so The Diplomat-pilled that it took me way too long to realize he meant student government
W (VP) and B (President) on the basketball court
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I want to go to there and also how does one become a professor of cycling studies (from Life After Cars)
Pecially when school gets out or at rush hour and the city fills with trom overtaking even the slowest cyclist. Riding on a fietsstraat, es people on bikes riding in every direction, is glorious. Ghent is calm yet lively, tranquil yet filled with pleasant sound. One resident went so far as to tell Filip Watteeuw he was "the best orchestral composer the city has ever had," because the noise created by excessive automobile traffic had been replaced by an urban symphony of people talking, bicycle gears cranking, and birds singing. While we were in Ghent, we stood at the intersection of two major bike routes. There we heard the joyful sound of children laughing and playing, presumably from a schoolyard or playground just out of sight. It was a beautiful reminder that cities aren't loud, cars are loud. Ghent's traffic circulation plan represents a complete inversion o the typical transportation hierarchy that puts cars at its apex, re gardless of the consequences. "The dominant paradigm of ot streets as places for car traffic really undermines the quality of li that our cities can afford to us," said Meredith Glaser, a professor cycling studies at Ghent University. "Whether that's enjoying sunny day outside or talking with your neighbors or getting to esst tial services like health care and education and employment, if
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Lounging geese and napping ducks
A bunch of Canada geese in the “lake” with the bell tower in the distance Ducks on the grass with their heads tucked into their backs
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Guess which route students take #UX
A bridge that is too steeply pitched and a small concrete causeway at the bottom
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM