Anna
@graving.bsky.social
Libraries, books, cemeteries, museums, local news, public transit, slow bicyclist
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Rival CDC in Avignon
Breaking: Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to announce on Monday that California has hired two former CDC leaders who accused the Trump administration of abandoning scientific standards.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
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California Hires Former C.D.C. Officials Who Criticized Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Rival CDC in Avignon
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The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation
I live in DC. You think “official Washington” didn’t care what Trump administration 2 was likely to do?
Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious.
And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.
Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious.
And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation
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I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.
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you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt
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it would be kind of metal if the Isabella Stewart Gardner team had just been lying in wait since the 90s training for this and finally struck a second time
Idc, "4 people disguised as construction workers heisted the Napoleon family jewels from the Louvre in 7 minutes by rolling up to the second-storey window on a basket lift" is an objectively hilarious event
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
it would be kind of metal if the Isabella Stewart Gardner team had just been lying in wait since the 90s training for this and finally struck a second time
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It's not a Storrowing unless it's on the native concrete of Boston. Otherwise it's just a sparkling truck peeling.
September 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's not a Storrowing unless it's on the native concrete of Boston. Otherwise it's just a sparkling truck peeling.
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Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
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It took me a very long time to learn "do your best" does not mean "give 100% effort even at the expense of your physical or mental health" or "give A+ effort even when it is clearly not appreciated or valued". Sometimes doing your best is heating up a can of soup and going to bed early.
April 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It took me a very long time to learn "do your best" does not mean "give 100% effort even at the expense of your physical or mental health" or "give A+ effort even when it is clearly not appreciated or valued". Sometimes doing your best is heating up a can of soup and going to bed early.
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*big steam whistle goes off* day's over, boys. walk away from your work computers and get on home to your loving home computers
May 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
*big steam whistle goes off* day's over, boys. walk away from your work computers and get on home to your loving home computers
Currently staying up too late at night reading Woodworking, and it is SO. GOOD. Run, don't walk, to your local bookstore/library! Congratulations, @emilystjams.bsky.social
I hear there is a trans rights readathon happening from now until the end of the month (TDOV). If you are taking part, might I suggest my book for your stack?? I think you will like it!!
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Woodworking
Check out Woodworking - <p><b>"Big-hearted and hilarious, an ode to authenticity and a must-read in our current times." --Shelby Van Pelt, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Remarkably Bri...
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March 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Currently staying up too late at night reading Woodworking, and it is SO. GOOD. Run, don't walk, to your local bookstore/library! Congratulations, @emilystjams.bsky.social
@thatandromeda.bsky.social amazing talk at Code4Lib! Informative and hilarious, plus engaging for the livestream crowd as well. Great job! 📚
March 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
@thatandromeda.bsky.social amazing talk at Code4Lib! Informative and hilarious, plus engaging for the livestream crowd as well. Great job! 📚
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There's this potentially weird dystopian cyberpunk future where the Internet Archive loses all its copyright battles while OpenAI wins all of theirs, and our only record of the history of the Internet-that-was is locked up inside the unreliable narration of obsolete large language models.
January 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There's this potentially weird dystopian cyberpunk future where the Internet Archive loses all its copyright battles while OpenAI wins all of theirs, and our only record of the history of the Internet-that-was is locked up inside the unreliable narration of obsolete large language models.
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perhaps the screams from the modems in the 90s were pleas to take the internet no further
January 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
perhaps the screams from the modems in the 90s were pleas to take the internet no further
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Big Spatula really got me with this one, i already tossed and replaced my favorite spatula
Hey, so it turns out that paper on black plastic was a bit blown out of proportion by a simple math error.
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
A study warned that people were being exposed to a toxic chemical from kitchen utensils. But the researchers misstated the safe daily limit
nationalpost.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Big Spatula really got me with this one, i already tossed and replaced my favorite spatula
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wrote a fun little something for Food & Wine about how bowls are still the ideal serving-ware vessel, and almost always the best one, even as the era of bowls being cool likely comes to an end. there’s maybe some stuff about hosts and guests and generosity and grace in here, too
Throw Out All Your Plates and Free Yourself
Pasta bowls, soup bowls, dinner bowls, blates, bowl-plates, plate-bowls — really any kind of bowls — are so much better than plates. Not just for serving, but for eating almost any kind of food. One w...
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December 5, 2024 at 3:02 PM
wrote a fun little something for Food & Wine about how bowls are still the ideal serving-ware vessel, and almost always the best one, even as the era of bowls being cool likely comes to an end. there’s maybe some stuff about hosts and guests and generosity and grace in here, too
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A very “you don’t pay me enough to donate back to you” Tuesday to all my fellow nonprofit, GLAM, and academic friends
December 3, 2024 at 1:39 PM
A very “you don’t pay me enough to donate back to you” Tuesday to all my fellow nonprofit, GLAM, and academic friends
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LL Bean stands for ladies love bean
December 3, 2024 at 12:00 AM
LL Bean stands for ladies love bean
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the Netherlands once I become prime minister for life
November 14, 2024 at 12:33 PM
the Netherlands once I become prime minister for life
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[IRS waiting room]
Me: [chanting] taxes, taxes-
Other people: taxes, TAXES
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TAXES, TAXES, TAXES!
Me: [chanting] taxes, taxes-
Other people: taxes, TAXES
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TAXES, TAXES, TAXES!
June 19, 2024 at 2:26 AM
[IRS waiting room]
Me: [chanting] taxes, taxes-
Other people: taxes, TAXES
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TAXES, TAXES, TAXES!
Me: [chanting] taxes, taxes-
Other people: taxes, TAXES
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TAXES, TAXES, TAXES!
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Wrote about the election, what comes next, mourning lives you won't get to lead, and (of course) Walt Whitman.
episodes.ghost.io/election-202...
episodes.ghost.io/election-202...
November 7, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Wrote about the election, what comes next, mourning lives you won't get to lead, and (of course) Walt Whitman.
episodes.ghost.io/election-202...
episodes.ghost.io/election-202...
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November 6, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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November 5, 2024 at 3:29 PM
As always, Emily's writing makes me think about things from a new perspective. Very, very helpful read
The death of the monoculture has had many side effects, but perhaps the worst is that many Americans now live in a world where politics IS our monoculture. And that makes politics seem a bit fictional at a time when that's an incredibly dangerous notion to hold.
episodes.ghost.io/politics-mon...
episodes.ghost.io/politics-mon...
October 23, 2024 at 9:23 PM
As always, Emily's writing makes me think about things from a new perspective. Very, very helpful read