a Dory ashore
@doryashore.bsky.social
Maine from The County to the coast. Farmgirl, goldsmith, always crushing on Canada.
As long as proud grandparents have refrigerators, school photos will be a thing.
School photos are kitschy and expensive—but parents can’t seem to stop buying them. Annie Midori Atherton on the portrait’s enduring appeal:
What’s the Point of School Photos Anymore?
The portraits are kitschy and expensive—but parents can’t seem to stop buying them.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As long as proud grandparents have refrigerators, school photos will be a thing.
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⚠️🌬️❄️ MONDAY - Clarity in model ideas has helped iron out the snow potential on the way to #Maine Tuesday. UPDATE ► www.pinetreeweather.com/discussions/...
#HeyBangor #PortlandMaine #theloaf #MEwx
#HeyBangor #PortlandMaine #theloaf #MEwx
Monday, December 1, 2025
The 2 AM start times for me have begun. Every year, I ask myself if I want to keep doing this, and that all depends on funding from followers. I know there are many snow removal individuals and...
www.pinetreeweather.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
⚠️🌬️❄️ MONDAY - Clarity in model ideas has helped iron out the snow potential on the way to #Maine Tuesday. UPDATE ► www.pinetreeweather.com/discussions/...
#HeyBangor #PortlandMaine #theloaf #MEwx
#HeyBangor #PortlandMaine #theloaf #MEwx
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dig this guy's taste in art
IG casitamxhome
IG casitamxhome
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
dig this guy's taste in art
IG casitamxhome
IG casitamxhome
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"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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We're drowning in passwords & multi-factor authentication & chatbots & "unusually high call volume" & robots ignoring "representative!"
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We're drowning in passwords & multi-factor authentication & chatbots & "unusually high call volume" & robots ignoring "representative!"
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
“The fish rots from the head.”
Trump’s “Quiet, piggy” remark joins a preponderance of evidence suggesting “how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings,” @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues.
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“The fish rots from the head.”
Hot tip, don't ask chatgpt if cloud flare is down.
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hot tip, don't ask chatgpt if cloud flare is down.
I’m looking forward to watching this soon.
How do you make a documentary about a subject that predates the invention of photography? @kenlburns.bsky.social, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on what it took to film “The American Revolution”:
How Do You Film the Revolution?
What we learned making a documentary about a war so distant in time
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I’m looking forward to watching this soon.
This image posted with this headline is terrible. Terrible.
An American football coach featured in the hit Netflix documentary series "Last Chance U" has died after being shot in the head on campus u.afp.com/Snh7
November 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This image posted with this headline is terrible. Terrible.
Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band
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Exactly. Once you decide that lying and propagandizing is necessary, you're on the road to oblivion, because the other guys are not only better at it, but they will out you as being no better than they are
The risk of straying from the truth is that the opposition can seize on the falsehood, hyperbole, whatever, to attack you and convince others that you can't be trusted.
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Exactly. Once you decide that lying and propagandizing is necessary, you're on the road to oblivion, because the other guys are not only better at it, but they will out you as being no better than they are
When do the standards fall away to the point where it is a sponsored advertisement... is no longer journalism.
In October, 'Washington Post' editorials fail to disclose Bezos interests
My story for NPR
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
My story for NPR
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
When do the standards fall away to the point where it is a sponsored advertisement... is no longer journalism.
Good evening... I’ll email you the disclosure shortly. Let me know what you think.
"The sports are limited but the school is passionate about them"
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Good evening... I’ll email you the disclosure shortly. Let me know what you think.
I would love to hear @radiofreetom.bsky.social backstory/take on this bit of military and political history.
Late tonight in 1973, alarmed that the Soviet Union seemed to be preparing to intervene in the Yom Kippur War, Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger decided to order US forces to DEFCON 3—without President Nixon’s knowledge.
Opinion | Stumbling Toward Armageddon (Published 2018)
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I would love to hear @radiofreetom.bsky.social backstory/take on this bit of military and political history.
guided missile warheads
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
guided missile warheads
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Holy shit.
Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.
The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.
What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.
The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.
What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Ronald Reagan narrates a new anti-tariff ad from Canada
The new commercial is part of a $75 million ad campaign by Ontario aimed at Republican voters.
www.fastcompany.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Holy shit.
Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.
The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.
What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.
The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.
What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Hoping the movie rights are being negotiated now because this is already looking stylish as heck.
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Hoping the movie rights are being negotiated now because this is already looking stylish as heck.
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There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer.
Not one.
To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.
Not one.
To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.
October 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer.
Not one.
To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.
Not one.
To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.
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Spot Gold hits record high at $4,125.30.
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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This is a great story, folks.
/21 What, he barked without opening his teeth and disturbing the pipe, are you doing with that belt? All the distracting and evasive words of the English language poured into my head as I began to frame a response. I think I became a writer in that moment. You see, sir, I began.
October 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is a great story, folks.
Thank flipping goodness. This was getting beyond ridiculous.
The decision ends a stalemate between the city and Steven Farren over his asphalt roof, which mimics the appearance of cost-prohibitive slate shingles.
Bangor board approves historic slate roof replacement
The approval resolved a stalemate that began last year and highlighted how expensive it can be to maintain a historic home in Bangor.
www.bangordailynews.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thank flipping goodness. This was getting beyond ridiculous.
The Platner effect?
Credit where credit is due, schumer really kicked it up a notch.
October 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Platner effect?