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Dara Barrett 🫐
@darabarrett.bsky.social
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Lover of books, science, the earth, helping folks, my kids (not in that order)
Hater of fascism and bigotry.
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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.

#booksky

#bookchallenge

Day 8/20
A blue hardcover book with golden guilt border. The book is titled The Annotated Brothers Grimm. The editor is Maria Tartar
February 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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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.

#booksky

#bookchallenge

Day 7/20
A black book with large, artistic red ombre flames. The title is written in a slashing light green font and reads “Philadelphia Fire.” The author’s name in the same font is “John Edgar Wideman.”
February 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
darabarrett.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.

#booksky

#bookchallenge

Day 6/20
A dark brown book cover with an image of an old white man with a long, pointed white beard. The title reads King Leopold’s Ghost And the author is Adam Hochschild
February 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
darabarrett.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.

#booksky

#bookchallenge

Day 5/20
A picture of a book. The cover is white and on the right hand side is an image of a black woman, side profile, wearing a vibrant, full red dress and head wrapping. The title in red to the left reads “Parable of the Sower” Across the bottom in black the author’s name reads “Octavia E Butler”
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
darabarrett.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.

#booksky

#bookchallenge

Day 4/20
A light brown book with the title “The Foxfire Book” in dark brown across the top. Below in smaller print it reads: hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, moonshining, and other affairs of plain living.
February 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
darabarrett.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.

#booksky

#bookchallenge

Day 3/20
A dark blue book cover. In the centre is. A silhouette of a woman’s head witj short curly hair. The silhouette is in green with darker green ferns and leaves growing in it. Across the top the title reads Sorrowland in a golden yellow printed font. The bottom shows the author’s name in the same font: Rivers Solomon.
February 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
darabarrett.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.

#booksky

#bookchallenge

Day 2/20
Cover of "Again and Again Tales," featuring vibrant illustrations of castles, knights, and whimsical characters on a bright red background.
February 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
darabarrett.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.

#booksky

#bookchallenge

Day 1/20
A book cover. The background is green with a yellow ombre circle in the center featuring a silohuette of a dod bird. Around the circly are small rodents, other birds and a flower arrange somewhat like a wreath. The title across the top says "The Song of the Dodo. Underneath the subtitle reads "Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction" and the author's name is David Quammen.
February 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Entered my notes app to jot down a riddle idea (16 yo loves them) and this is what greeted me.
I‘ve no idea when I wrote or dictated/pocket-typed this but it’s a pretty accurate portrait of my brain at least daily.
A screenshot of an iPhone Notes app entry. The first line says Cheese, with a captal letter C, The next 11+ lines are just the letter c in lowercase repeating.
January 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Perhaps instead of congratulating yourselves so broadly you might address a major issue of inclusion at your institution?
Post from Sean, @seanlucpicard including a screenshot from an associate professor, Eoin O‘Malley making a transphobic remark in response to a post from Gay Community News remarking on the gender distribution of the Cabinet. Sean tags Dublin City Uni and asks if such remarks are acceptable from an Associate Professor
January 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I’ve been following the drama - and horror - since the beginning!
A series of posts from Ze Frank about a new project First post says he wants to use dead bees to make a portrait of a board member of a company that makes neonictinoids. He reckons he needs 4000 bees. Next post says “It’s harder to procure dead bees than I thought.” Next post says “I think my last post will end up in a horror film for bees.”
January 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Is making a clay fox a week a good NY resolution?
An unpainted air dry clay figure sitting on red and white striped wrapping paper. The figure is a laying fox with tail wrapped its body and head resting on the tip of the tail
January 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Started the new year right exploring 300+ million year old fossils from a Pangean rainforest.
January 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Quote tweet with a movie that fucked you up.
A movie poster for a movie titled The Peanut Butter Solution. Tagline reads "A Hair Raiing Comedy Adventure" Poster background shows the top gables of a house against a night sky and full moon. In the foreground center a young boy, approximately age 12, wearing a red sweater has brown hair weaving out from their head and encircling or twining around a number of other characters. Above and to the right it circles two older people, one whose hair seems to blend into the boy's, the other wearing a hat. On the left there are three more children, at the top a young boy looking nervous, in the middle a young girl with hands on face and mouth open, at the bottom a slightly older child wearing a hat and holding a ball also looking nervous. In the middle of the poster a hand holds a glowing golden jar of peanut butter.
December 9, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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Maryse Leclair was the last woman killed. She was a top student, entering final year of the metallurgy program. She had acted in high school and junior college, but concentrated more on her studies in university. Creative & intelligent, the gifts she would’ve given this country are countless.
a red rose, bloomed and slightly flattened with green leaves above against a black background.
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Anne-Marie Lemay was 22. She would be 57 today. She was in 4th yr of mechanical engineering, part of a class of amazing women. She was an active member of clubs including the yearbook. Her friend, survivor and gun control advocate Heidi Rathjen remembers her as "a wonderful girl, total sweetheart."
a side on view of a red rose still blooming from bud with a green stem against a black background
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Annie Turcotte was the youngest. She’d be only 55 today. A 1st yr in metallurgical engineering, she and her brother rented a small apartment near the university where they supported each other as they pursued higher education.
a slightly top down view of a fully bloomed and vibrant red rose against a black background
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Annie St-Arneault was listening to a presentation in her very last class before graduation. She made sure to show up for her classmate even tho she could've easily ditched. She was also from a remote community and had made her way to the school through her own grit and smarts.
A fully bloomed and starting to fade red rose against a black, wood-grain background.
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Sonia Pelletier was the head of her class in mechanical engineering. A rural student, she came from a large family, all of whom were so proud that their sister was due to graduate the next day. She was looking forward to a job interview the next week.
A rosebud, partially bloomed with two leaves and stem against a black background.
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Maryse Laganiere was the only non-student killed. She was an employee at the university– a budget clerk. She was also a newlywed. She would be 60 today. An entire life spread before her and stolen before it had a chance to start.
A fully bloomed red rose with black-grey leaves against a black background.
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31, the oldest of the victims, was a first-year nursing student. She arrived in Montreal from Poland with her husband in 1987. She would be 66 today. She survived years of the communist regime in Poland, leaving with her husband when she was 29.
a front on view of a fully bloomed rose, petals have red tips and white inside, against a black background
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Michele Richard is the second year student who was presenting with Maud. She would be 56 today. Perhaps Haviernick would’ve inspired her to take her education even further, pursuing a second degree or Masters. Or perhaps she would’ve graduated and pursued a happiness of her own. We will never know.
a close up of a large, fully bloomed red rose with a fading stem against a black background
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Maud Haviernick, 2nd yr in metallurgical engineering would be 64 today. She already had one degree under her belt from UQaM (Environmental design) and was mentoring a student through their in-class presentation when she was killed. This was a woman who had a wealth of knowledge which is now lost.
a side on view of a partially bloomed red rose against a black background
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Anne-Marie Edward, 21, was in her 1st yr of chemical engineering. She loved the outdoors. With her chemical engineering knowledge and her affinity for outdoor pursuits, I imagine her pursuing a career in environmental protection or climate science, a field we all need more scholarship in.
A large red rose with stem and leaves against a black background.
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Barbara Daigneault, 22, was also in her final year of mechanical engineering. So young and only in an undergraduate program but already held a teaching assistantship position. The professor she assisted was her own father. Today, perhaps she would be the professor, her daughter or son at her side.
A slightly faded red rose and stem laying on its side against a black background
December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM