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Hollie Beg
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Professional editor nerd. #PokemonEmployee, opinions my own, repost ≠ brand approval. Queer, fat, vaxed. She/her. @hvbeg everywhere I have a social, but this is my primary. Header by @hexsharpe.
And this is from a completely different song, and the shipwreck in this one is fictional, but it’s been in my head all day so I’ll sign off with it:

Hear me call across the waves
If I don’t come home tonight
I will make it home someday
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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One more skeet for Edmund Fitzgerald Day. Behind this historical marker is the famed Whitefish Bay. Today the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Mich., rang the recovered bell 31 times, 29 for the victims of the wreck, once for all Great Lakes shipwreck victims, and once for Gordon Lightfoot.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay
If they’d put fifteen more miles behind her

💙
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: To mark the anniversary of the wreck of the 'Edmund Fitzgerald' on Lake Superior (November 10, 1975), here's Gordon Lightfoot's famous song about it—as covered even more hauntingly by the Punch Brothers, including Chris Thile singing and on mandolin. See you around.
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Today I Learned (from an NPR hourly news segment) that Lake Superior has been thwarted in its shipwrecking ambitions since the Edmund Fitzgerald. The industry tightened safety standards, and no freighter has gone down in any of the Great Lakes since.

Heck yeah.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I quite enjoyed the first two episodes of All Will Be One Except Kim Wexler.

#Pluribus #Plur1bus
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Another successful platelet donation at Bloodworks Northwest, while watching a new Elsbeth and an old Leverage. 😄 Local supplies of all negative types (particularly B-) are low right now, and every pint is needed—consider helping out if you can! 💖
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.

Listen in ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
For (I think) the first time since I got to stitching again a few years ago, I’ve had to put down a project before it was finished, because this one has a deadline. Another donation piece for the Northwest Associated Arts Cabaret fundraiser in February. 😄 #CrossStitch
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
ok I know I JUST said this but Snake-Eater is on First Reads for cheap…can anyone who’s read both this and The Twisted Ones offer a scariness comparison? 😄
OK so based on this experience I know two things to be true.

I definitely want to read more T. Kingfisher books.

I definitely do NOT want to read another T. Kingfisher horror story.

Fortunately there are lots of others, and I’m putting Clockwork Boys on hold right now. 😄
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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MoPop is my favorite Hanson song
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Couldn’t do this on Actual Halloween because the photos only just came in, so I’ll borrow something else from #Elsbeth and celebrate Halloweek. 😄
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Woke up today to the news
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
OK so based on this experience I know two things to be true.

I definitely want to read more T. Kingfisher books.

I definitely do NOT want to read another T. Kingfisher horror story.

Fortunately there are lots of others, and I’m putting Clockwork Boys on hold right now. 😄
I SURVIVED
Stopping there was a Very Good Plan. I read more yesterday—over lunch at the office, in daylight, with other people around, totally monsterproof—and still had trouble sleeping many hours later.

Book is good and I am determined to finish it…just gotta do that within very specific time windows. 😅
November 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I SURVIVED
Stopping there was a Very Good Plan. I read more yesterday—over lunch at the office, in daylight, with other people around, totally monsterproof—and still had trouble sleeping many hours later.

Book is good and I am determined to finish it…just gotta do that within very specific time windows. 😅
Just got to a part in a @tkingfisher.com book that made me reconsider reading it late at night when I’m home alone sooo we’re just gonna put that down until daylight then 😅
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The team I was rooting for just won during regulation and I didn’t think that was allowed this weekend
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I must remember, this afternoon when it’s getting dark before 5pm, how nice it was to see sunlight this early.

Why can’t we have both somebody look into that
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM