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Keith Chaffee
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Retired librarian. Love books, movies, TV, music. He/him.
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Finished another crochet blanket, made of the Pinwheels square (designed by Soledad Iglesias Silva), from the book THE ULTIMATE GRANNY SQUARE SOURCEBOOK, which collects 100 square. They're all one of two specific sizes, providing lots of mix-and-match opportunities.
A crocheted twin-size blanket of bright multi-colored pinwheels on a white background. Close-up of a single pinwheel square from the same blanket. It's got a blue center edged in red and pink stripes, centered on a white square.
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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First crochet project I've finished in more than a year of experiments, stops and starts, and abandoned plans. The pattern is "Something Different," designed by Ineke Mooijenkind. Xmas gift for a nephew who's just moved into his own home for the first time. Photo #2 shows the center motif.
A large afghan is draped over a chair so that you can see everything from the center to the edge. The design ("Something Different," designed by Ineke Mooijenkind) is mostly made up of square corners and sharp angles, with a zigzag edge. Colors are white, medium gray, and two shades of muted blue. A closer view of the center motif of the same afghan.
October 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Well, since we're all sharing... 🎥
A "100 Best Movies of the 21st Century" Reader's Choice ballot, listing Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hundreds of Beavers, I Saw the TV Glow, Inside Out, Melancholia, Mysterious Skin, Parasite, Tears of the Black Tiger, and Up.
June 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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<Neutrality helps the opresor>
May 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Librarians are the best.
June 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Shit’s so bleak that Shirley Jackson has been put in charge of the Powerball
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Hmmm. Well… let’s find out.

How about a little informal poll?

Hey everyone, let’s see what the party wants…

If you want Schumer to STEP DOWN from leadership, REPOST THIS.

If you want Schumer to remain in his leadership role, LIKE THIS.

(Please don’t do both, lol)
March 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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@charliejane.bsky.social has been sending galleys of her forthcoming novel, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER, to some of her newsletter subscribers, and I was lucky enough to be on that mailing list. Y'all have got a treat waiting for you when the novel arrives in August. #booksky 1/2
Book cover: "Lessons in Magic and Disaster," Charlie Jane Anders. The author/title, written in large bright yellow letters against a muted photo of tree branches against a dark purple background. A few bright white and yellow daisies drift down in front of the lettering.
March 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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January reading (1/3):
The New Voices of Science Fiction, Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman, eds.
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret, Benjamin Stevenson
Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree
Book cover: "The New Voices of Science Fiction," Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman, eds. An adorably clunky robot sits facing us; behind him is a blue background and a list of some of the authors included in the book. Book cover: "Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret," Benjamin Stevenson. A Christmas-red curtain is open to reveal a stage. A string of multi-colored Christmas lights hang above the stage. Scattered about the cover are various objects relevant to the mystery, most prominently an ax and some feathers. Book cover: "Legends & Lattes," Travis Baldree. Two women smile at us from behind a pastry-covered table. The taller, more muscular woman (she's an orc) is green with fangs and pointed ears; she holds a coffee pot and a coffee cup. The shorter woman is bring pink with devil horns; she holds a cake on a platter.
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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💙📚 November reading (1/2):

The Big Bite, Charles Williams
The "I Don't Want to Cook" Book, Alyssa Brantley
A Lot Like Christmas, Connie WIllis
Book cover: "The Big Bite," Charles Williams. A woman leans out of the front passenger window of a car, facing away from us; the background of the cover is a bull's eye in shades of teal, getting lighter towards the center. Her head is silhouetted against the white center ring. Book cover: "The 'I Don't Want to Cook' Book," Alyssa Brantley. A cartoonish illustration of a fried egg spilling out of an eggshell that has been cracked in two. The title is written on the white part of the egg; the O in the word "TO" is a yellow circle -- the egg's yold. There's a fork in the upper right corner and a whisk in the lower left. Book cover: "A Lot like Christmas: Stories," Connie Willis. An extreme close-up photograph of a few branches of a Christmas tree. We see five or six ornaments dangling. Those in the background, slightly out of focus, are standard ball-shaped ornaments in red and gold. In sharp focus in the foreground are ornaments shaped like a small rocket and a robot, both rather old-fashioned looking, as if they came from the cover of a 1952 pulp SF magazine.
December 2, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Name a show you're positive no remembers but you:

THE TWO OF US (CBS 1981-82). Mimi Kennedy as a single mom/morning TV host; Peter Cook as her butler; Dana Cook as her daughter; Oliver Clark as her agent; Tim Thomerson as her pompous co-host. Loose remake of the British show TWO'S COMPANY.
blainecapatch.bsky.social The Blaine Clause @blainecapatch.bsky.social · Nov 19
name a show you're positive no one remembers but you

BIG JOHN LITTLE JOHN
with
Herb Edelman and Robbie Rist
November 19, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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💙📚 October reading (1/3):
Book cover: "Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show," Tommy Tomlinson. A woman in a purple jacket and skirt, seen from the chest down, holds the leash of the dog standing to her left, a beautiful and majestically silly-looking Afghan hound. Book cover: "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film," Alonso Duralde. Against a black backdrop, a series of rainbow-colored spotlights shine towards the top of the book. In each, a different iconic actor is shown. I am very bad at facial recognition, but I believe they are Tab Hunter, Divine, Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Laverne Cox. Book cover: "A Desolation Called Peace," Arkady Martine. A lone figure stands in front of a large window/viewscreen, through which we see a spaceship made up of concentric rings, against a backdrop of gray/white/red clouds.
November 1, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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September reading (1/2):
Death of an Old Sinner, Dorothy Salisbury Davis
xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths: ed. Kate Bernheimer
The Endless Vessel, Charles Soule
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi
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October 2, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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First 10% is pretty good for me. I'm not usually an early adopter of anything!
September 16, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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No one from my high school is even remotely famous. I got mentioned in an LA TIMES theater review many years ago, and was quoted in a VOX article once, which gives me as good a claim as anybody.
jimhenleymusic.bsky.social Jim Turkey Music @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · Sep 10
who wants to play the “most famous person from your high school” game?

Jimmy. Stewart.
September 10, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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In the 1960s, computer chip factories were built on Navajo land in New Mexico. At his blog, Ken Shirriff looks at the connections between computer chips and traditional Navajo weaving.🧶

www.righto.com/2024/08/pent...
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...
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September 2, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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What I read in August (1/3):
From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF, Fredric Brown
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older
A Comedy of Murders, George Herman
The Four Profound Weaves, R. B. Lemberg
September 2, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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Finished today: "The Alchemy of Stars," two collections gathering the winners of the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Award from 1978 to 2018. A wide range of styles and topics, and most of it easily accessible even to someone like me, who doesn't read lots of poetry.
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Book cover: "The Alchemy of Stars," ed. by Roger Dutcher & Mike Allen. In the upper left corner, a large round object with light escaping around its edges, perhaps a planet eclipsing its star. A smaller rock -- an asteroid, or a meteorite? -- floats nearby against red and white clouds of space dust. Book cover: "The Alchemy of Stars II," ed. Sandra J. Lindow. An abstract painting that might be interpreted as an alien landscape -- a craggy dark pink landscape at the bottom, curving upward at the sides as if seen through a distorting lens. Above that, puffy clouds in cotton-candy blue and yellow pastels.
August 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Finished today: "Jackalope Wives and Other Stories," T. Kingfisher. Delightful collection, strong influences of American folklore and classic fairy tales. Wide range of styles/tones, from creepy to madcap. There are witches, gods, enchanted animals, and narwhal turds. What's not to like?
Book cover: "Jackalope Wives and Other Stories," T. Kingfisher. The background is an ornate wallpaper-style print in muted shades of brown and gray. Against it is a bordered panel showing a desert landscape, from that panel, a jackalope leaps out, breaking the borders of the landscape.
August 25, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Sum up your father in 5 bands:

Hank Williams
Johnny Cash
Loretta Lynn
Charley Pride
George Jones/ Tammy Wynette

Not much variety there, but he could surprise me with his appreciation for non-country acts. "She sings that stuff pretty good" after hearing Beverly Sills on The Muppet Show.
tyburr.bsky.social Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · Aug 10
Sum up your father in 5 Bands:

Gilbert & Sullivan
Beethoven
The 1812 Overture
Tom Lehrer
Petula Clark

Dad was born in 1910.
uncannyxcerpts.bsky.social Uncanny X-Cerpts @uncannyxcerpts.bsky.social · Aug 10
Sum up your father in 5 Bands:

The Doors
The Beatles
The Everly Brothers
Supertramp
Roger Miller
August 10, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
1/20
Book cover of Susan Palwick's "The Necessary Beggar;" a photo of a hand gripping a chain-link fence
August 6, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Working on a crocheted sweater, and very happy with how this cable panel is turning out; it's not a complicated pattern, but the simplicity is part of what I like. This panel will run up the right front and back of the sweater, meeting at the shoulder.🧶
Crocheted cable panel in cobalt blue, part of the body of a sweater in process. The cables form a vertical chain of overlapping hearts, with 2 thin vertical stripes on either side of the hearts.
July 18, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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I've been wanting to get more into Tunisian crochet. I know the basic stitch, but nothing more advanced. Can anyone recommend a good book/stitch guide? I learn better from text/photos than I do from videos, so I'm not looking for YouTube suggestions.
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June 1, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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My Oscar BP ranking:

10. The Zone of Interest
9. Maestro
8. Past Lives
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Oppenheimer
5. The Holdovers
4. Poor Things
3. Barbie
2. American Fiction
1. Anatomy of a Fall
davidkuhne.bsky.social David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · Mar 10
My Oscar BP ranking

10. Maestro
9. Barbie
8. Poor Things
7. Anatomy of a Fall
6. Past Lives
5. Oppenheimer
4. The Holdovers
3. American Fiction
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
1. The Zone of Interest
March 10, 2024 at 6:42 PM