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Hope Henderson
@hoperhenderson.bsky.social
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writer & scientist
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berkeley, california
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writing in river teeth, electric lit, rumpus, hobart, phoebe, & more

scicomm for @innovativegenomics, views my own
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nonfiction book: salt: a world history

author: mark kurlansky

topics: historical anthropology, technological history, food history

recommendation: yes, a compelling read about salt's place in politics, history, cuisine, and even etymology 😋. interesting and non-stressful
cover of book: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky The cover is black with whtie text and the image of a salt shaker
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Caroline Bird
HOW WAS EVERYTHING The vulture circles like waitress on rollerskates asking have you finished with that?
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Octavio Paz
Homage to Claudius Ptolemy I'm man: I exist briefly and the night is enormous. But flook up: the stars write. Without understanding I get it: I'm writing too and in this very instant someone is spelling me out.
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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through the kalix
Photo taken through an open bookshelf, revealing a black cat on the other side
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Jack Clarke
It took me just six million years to get here with enough oxygen to breathe the sun and now you want me to give it up and go back to that starry night
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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nonfiction book: the ghost map
author: steven johnson
topics: epidemiology, john snow, cholera, managing human waste, waterways, city planning, engineering
recommendation: hard yes, a compelling read about an underdog tracing the origins of an epidemic & old-timey waste management practices
Cover of book reads STEVEN JOHNSON THE GHOST MAP The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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that HMO feeling
in rockridge (oakland)
Halloween plastic skeleton wearing a shirt that says “Kaiser Permanente Thrive”
October 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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existential halloween decor in rockridge (oakland)
Orange halloween decoration in the shape of a gravestone engraved with “see you soon”
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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novel: songs of no provenance
author: lydi conklin
status: DNF
who might enjoy this more than me if: folks who like feral/“bad”/taboo-breaking female characters, folks into the underground music scene, fans of tampa by alissa nutting, water-sports enthusiasts
book cover for songs of no provenance by lydi Conklin
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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ICE is in the Bay – some advice from Berkeley’s mayor
If you think you are witnessing an ICE action in Berkeley or Alameda County, please contact the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership (ACILEP) for verification: (510) 241-4011. To avoid spreading fear, please do not share information that has not been verified with ACILEP. If you do report to ACILEP, be sure to share as much information as possible, including a physical description of individuals or vehicles, etc.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Jack Gilbert
Rain BY JACK GILBERT Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray and yellow a terrible amber. In the cold streets your warm body. In whatever room your warm body. Among all the people your absence. The people who are always not you.
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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novel: convenience store woman
author: sayaka murata
themes: societal expectations about what makes a good life, comphet, authenticity vs belonging, work as a source of life meaning. autism?
recommended: if you particularly like a quirky narrator and an easy-to-read texture
Cover of book Convenience Store Woman which shows a little human face made of rice and seaweed
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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her nose
Close up of Haley, a black cat, showing a stippled nose texture
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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novel: true biz
author: sarah novic
themes: Deaf community, ASL, mixed deaf/hoh and hearing families, language deprivation, coming of age, BASL
would recommend: yes – thoughtful, nuanced, informative, engrossing
caveat: unsatisfying ending
Book cover for True Biz by Sarah Novic. There is an illustration of a hand making a sign
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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so-called peanut pumpkin at berkeley bowl
A light orange pumpkin with protrusions that look like peanuts in shells
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Jason Shinder
At Sunset BY JASON SHINDER Your death must be loved this much. You have to know the grief-now. Standing by the water's edge, looking down at the wave touching you. You have to lie, stiff, arms folded, on a heap of earth and see how far the darkness will take you. I mean it, this, now— before the ghost the cold leaves in your breath, rises; before the toes are put together inside the shoes. There it is—the goddamn orange-going-into-rose descending circle of beauty and time. You have nothing to be sad about.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I love Pete
Orange and white cat on its back looking very cute
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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my second-favorite lichtenstein
Painting of the sun coming up
October 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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wild flour bakery in sebastapol
Sign reads: got Meyer lemons? We trade bakery credit for Meyer lemons
October 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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she
Profile of a beautiful black cat (my beautiful black cat)
October 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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X screenshot from user @lexlisbon •1d i'm chronically online in a different and more sophisticated way than you are
September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Jamie Fitzpatrick
Whenever I am in one conversation I am thinking about another. Whatever room I am in my heart is not. Before a mirror, which face is true: the one that moves or the one that is moved? I flip a coin and wish for the opposite. Life, friends, is whoring A warning a man mistakes for intimacy. When I miss my madness, which I mostly don't, I miss how totally I was inside it, the idea I could not get out.
September 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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evergreen
Painting of woman surrounded by coffee cups
September 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Kim Addonizio
I know my friend is going, though she still sits there across from me in the restaurant, and leans over the table to dip her bread in the oil on my plate; I know how thick her hair used to be, and what it takes for her to discard her man's cap partway through our meal, to look straight at the young waiter and smile when he asks how we are liking it. She eats as though starving-chicken, dolmata, the buttery flakes of filo— and what's killing her eats, too. I watch her lift a glistening black olive and peel the meat from the pit, watch her fine long fingers, and her face, puffy from medication. She lowers her eyes to the food, pretending not to know what I know. She's going. And we go on eating.
September 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Joanna Mociejewska
waly snack sized mouthfuls "I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so thát | can do my laundry and dishes. " Auhor and videogome enthusiast Joanna Mociejewska
September 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM