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Kristen HG
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I write about literature at https://wingbackworkshop.com/ and I run with my dog Mabel. I just earned my master's in English, and I'm working on a biography of Ancrene Wisse, a medieval text for women.
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i-find-planets.bsky.social
I have discovered a planet. It is where the comets roam. Occasionally, a tiny purr is heard. What a good planet.
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Skills for the Future

The proliferation of "cheap intelligence" (more code, text, and images than ever before) means that the skills of discernment, evaluation, judgement, thoughtful planning, and reflection are more crucial now than before.
Skills for the Future
The proliferation of "cheap intelligence" (more code, text, and images than ever before) means that the skills of discernment, evaluation, judgement, thoughtful planning, and reflection are more crucial now than before.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Solidarity forever!
Oregon's senators demand Starbucks 'stop union-busting' and negotiate with striking workers
Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden signed on to a multi-state letter demanding that Starbucks "stop its illegal union-busting campaign."
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November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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wafflecut.bsky.social
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024 INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.
FORM A CROWD STAY LOUD PROTECT EACH OTHER CODE I: ICE NEARBY BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM: PRE-PRE-PRE! → ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA. ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS • A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS. • LOUD. RECOGNIZABLE. IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE. • OUR VOICES ARE STRONGER TOGETHER. WHISTLES GUIDE PEOPLE TO: • FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS • CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD • ALERT NEIGHBORS TO JOIN IN NOISE = VISIBILITY. CODE 2: CODE RED BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS: PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE! → ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE. FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD. DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT. WHY IT WORKS • INSTANT ALERT SYSTEM • FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA • TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY ACTION ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY: WHAT YOU CAN DO • WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK TEACH FAMILY EIGHBORS TH CODES • USE IT WHEN ICE IS SPOTTED • PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE. FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD. THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY: PROTECT RP • @PROTECTRP_
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
kristenhg.bsky.social
I've lived in this city for decades, and here's the thing: we are notoriously not big dancers. We'll sing along at the drop of a hat, but dancing? Not so much. That's how war-ravaged we are, we are resorting to dancing in our puffy animal costumes. Trying times. Love us so much.
courtneyvaughn.bsky.social Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · Oct 8
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I read a lot in August, some for work, some for research, some for fun.

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#booksky💙📚 #books #literature
August 2025 Reading Roundup
It was a month of short books, so it looks like a read a whole lot, which I guess I kind of did. A few of those books were read quickly and with a particular purpose. And as readers of my sort-of-secr...
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September 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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drreznicek.bsky.social
Quick reminder:
Writing is labour
Rewriting is labour
Editing is labour
Reading is labour
Teaching is labour
Syllabussing is labour
Thinking is labour
Academic work is labour
August 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I love how everyone is all "Tag yrslf, I'm "Smoking, current and former." 😂
August 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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sheldricktrust.bsky.social
Korbessa flew into our lives as a tiny calf and has blossomed into a confident lady!

Keeper Joseph remains by her side every step. Raising newborn orphans requires years of hands-on care, providing love and guidance for their eventual wild lives.

Korbessa has come so far already: swt.bio/korbessa
August 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I keep forgetting Bluesky exists. Sorry, everybody. But you can see what I have been reading instead of skeets (is that what we're calling them?) in today's newsletter. #booksky 💙📚

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July 2025 Reading Roundup
July kind of sucked, everybody. There was a medical emergency with my aging cat that we're mostly out of, and my friends and family had a dizzying array of struggles that I could only sort of help wit...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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New post on the Wingback Workshop about my reading last month, delayed by a day because I fell and skinned my knee yesterday and it was a tragedy.

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#books #literature #booksky
June 2025 Reading Roundup
I planned to write this post yesterday, but I tripped over a tree root during my hike with the dog yesterday and scraped my knee and tore a tiny hole in my favorite multipocket tights (from Janji, FYI...
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July 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I just want to say to the authors who are promoting their books On Here and probably feeling weird about it: every time I see a post with a new book breaking up this hellscape timeline, I am delighted. I want to know that people are making art. Share that shit. 💙📚
June 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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RuPaul's Drag Race star Ginger Minj on her autism diagnosis: "I’d heard the term masking for so long but didn’t realize that’s what I did daily. Now, I understand myself so much better. That’s what held me back on my other seasons of Drag Race."

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'RuPaul's Drag Race' queen Ginger Minj reveals autism diagnosis after 'All Stars 10' psych exam
'RuPaul's Drag Race' queen Ginger Minj reveals to EW that she was diagnosed with autism after the 'All Stars 10' psych exam prompted her to get evaluated: 'I understand myself so much better.'
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June 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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hcexvangelical.bsky.social
All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.
A map of Los Angeles with a tiny red dot where the protests against ICE are happening. A map of the tiny section of LA where the federal building is and where the protests are happening. There is a small square around the building where the national guard is deployed and lines showing that there are only 7 roadblocks around the area.
June 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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My latest review is a must-read for anyone curious about translation and inventive literature. I didn't know much about Yoko Tawada going into this review, but now I am a genuine fan.

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Review: Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
Review: Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue Yoko Tawada New Directions, on sale June 3, 2025   We are living in a time of great concern about borders. This is most prominent in the United ...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Would you like to read a book?? Vogue calls Woodworking, my debut novel, “A testament to the power of intergenerational trans stories . . . dazzling.” I don’t know, that sounds great to me!!

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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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June 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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i-find-planets.bsky.social
We have discovered a planet. It is a world devoid of drought -- but with cats. A mountain rises, huge and constant, amidst the beaches. Will you go there with me?
June 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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sheldricktrust.bsky.social
Surely there’s nothing happier than a baby elephant. Little Lenny always takes it to the next level, footloose, fancy-free, and full to the brim with bravado!

Meet the 76 known ‘grandchildren’ born to our Orphans’ Project:
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/calves

#WildBornBabies
May 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Fairy puff! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1912.
Black and white photo of an adorable puffy white kitten standing proudly under a flowing bush like a sassy little fairy creature. One of its eyes appears significantly lighter than the other. This could be weird lighting, heterochromia, an injury or infection, who knows. Very pretty!
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Are you in Portland? Are you planning to be? Because Two Rivers Books in the St Johns neighborhood has all three volumes I've translated (so far!) of Mogador's Memoirs of a French Courtesan.

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Memoirs of a French Courtesan Volume 3: Luck
"Listen, Céleste, I love you very much, but I'm not rich enough to keep you along with all these responsibilities. If you want, my chateau is unoccupied. Bring your furniture; you won't have to pay re...
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May 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I am working on, like, three essays this week, and none of them are ready for readers, so here's a post about some wee changes to the Wingback Workshop, plus an invitation to a guided discussion.

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Housekeeping
Sadly for you, dear readers, this is not a post about Marilyn Robinson's novel Housekeeping, which I have been meaning to read for years and have not. This is about the Wingback Workshop and some chan...
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May 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM