Lynne Ann Morse
@morselya.bsky.social
Married, SF fan, cat lover, canine compatible, serial crafter.
It's okay - you don't have to follow me. I'm unlikely to follow back. Don't worry about unfollowing, either. I know how tastes can change.
New followers: your posts = CV. Nothing there? Bye!
It's okay - you don't have to follow me. I'm unlikely to follow back. Don't worry about unfollowing, either. I know how tastes can change.
New followers: your posts = CV. Nothing there? Bye!
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Gord's not here anymore, so we have to remember them for him; since he showed us the way.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nobo...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nobo...
Nobody Knows What Sank the 'Edmund Fitzgerald.' But Its Doomed Final Voyage Will Always Be America's Defining Shipwreck
Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ballad it inspired—still haunt the popular imagination
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Gord's not here anymore, so we have to remember them for him; since he showed us the way.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nobo...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nobo...
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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Companies and institutions have given up on the idea of service generally. Now, it’s all about training the customer to do the work for them – and most of us don’t want to work for the companies we’re paying for service.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Companies and institutions have given up on the idea of service generally. Now, it’s all about training the customer to do the work for them – and most of us don’t want to work for the companies we’re paying for service.
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If you've ever wanted to zoom in nigh-infinitely on the massive, complex works of Hieronymus Bosch, ultimate purveyor of medieval WTFery, I highly recommend
boschproject.org
boschproject.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you've ever wanted to zoom in nigh-infinitely on the massive, complex works of Hieronymus Bosch, ultimate purveyor of medieval WTFery, I highly recommend
boschproject.org
boschproject.org
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This is what bullies want you to think, and it's why they get stronger
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is what bullies want you to think, and it's why they get stronger
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We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.
1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
The Government Lawyers Database
glowlaw.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.
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Free Sarah Kendzior.
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Free Sarah Kendzior.
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That's the thing... the past 40 years have seen an amazing change in how the world looks at queer folks. Which is why the attacks on Trans people are so heinous.
The same people who hate them hate all non-conformity.
You can't reason with them. There are no accommodations to make.
The same people who hate them hate all non-conformity.
You can't reason with them. There are no accommodations to make.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
That's the thing... the past 40 years have seen an amazing change in how the world looks at queer folks. Which is why the attacks on Trans people are so heinous.
The same people who hate them hate all non-conformity.
You can't reason with them. There are no accommodations to make.
The same people who hate them hate all non-conformity.
You can't reason with them. There are no accommodations to make.
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And he gave the royalties to the families.
When he died they rang the bells 30 times at the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIq1...
When he died they rang the bells 30 times at the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIq1...
Mariners’ Church of Detroit honors Gordon Lightfoot with Tuesday ringing of bells
YouTube video by Detroit Free Press
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2024 at 5:46 PM
And he gave the royalties to the families.
When he died they rang the bells 30 times at the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIq1...
When he died they rang the bells 30 times at the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIq1...
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What the everlasting fuck
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
What the everlasting fuck
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WHY THE FUCK DID @moderation.bsky.app BAN OUR FAVOURITE LAWYER FROM GAZA.
If anyone has been missing the Madi family, Adham is here again. Feel free to reach out to him and his own again.
Anyway, can we help a family out?
You know the drill. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
gofund.me/f12016ef2
Anyway, can we help a family out?
You know the drill. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
gofund.me/f12016ef2
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
WHY THE FUCK DID @moderation.bsky.app BAN OUR FAVOURITE LAWYER FROM GAZA.
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The minority doing the most damage to the USA is billionaires.
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The minority doing the most damage to the USA is billionaires.
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I don't want Chicken to have to sell his beloved bear (which I made), so I'll make a FREE custom bear for anyone who sends me proof they donated at least $75 to this. (Customs normally start at $100.) Any character. Free shipping within the US. Perfect for gifting.
Let's do something good.
Let's do something good.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I don't want Chicken to have to sell his beloved bear (which I made), so I'll make a FREE custom bear for anyone who sends me proof they donated at least $75 to this. (Customs normally start at $100.) Any character. Free shipping within the US. Perfect for gifting.
Let's do something good.
Let's do something good.
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This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social did a fantastic series on that reality recently.
acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industria…
acoup.blog
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
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Few things have made more more mad over recent months than the attention given to this while the Supreme Court is actually taking step after step to make life more difficult for trans and nonbinary people.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
www.lawdork.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Few things have made more more mad over recent months than the attention given to this while the Supreme Court is actually taking step after step to make life more difficult for trans and nonbinary people.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
There's always letting go of that Senate position *now*...
In an emotional excerpt from his new book, Sen. John Fetterman said he should have dropped out of his 2022 senatorial race while severely battling depression after his stroke.
John Fetterman said he ‘should have quit’ Senate bid in an excerpt from his new book
John Fetterman gave an emotional look into his struggle with depression in an excerpt of his new book Unfettered.
www.inquirer.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
There's always letting go of that Senate position *now*...
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UR has released the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the mass arrest of 646+ the night after the 2020 elections. The videos show officer interactions & tactic discussions while illustrating MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...
Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest - UNICORN RIOT
UR is exclusively releasing 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the largest mass arrest in MN history of at least 646 people in Nov. 2020.
unicornriot.ninja
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
UR has released the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the mass arrest of 646+ the night after the 2020 elections. The videos show officer interactions & tactic discussions while illustrating MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...
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When I was in the ER in July, there was one doctor working. One. Patients were leaving because the wait was so long. It was 12 hours before I saw the doctor for the IV antibiotics I knew I needed.
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
When I was in the ER in July, there was one doctor working. One. Patients were leaving because the wait was so long. It was 12 hours before I saw the doctor for the IV antibiotics I knew I needed.
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But it's all part of the same pattern and it's bad and I hope people recognize all the new small and large points of friction in their lives, new pain points, new troubles, and link them up to correctly blame the Republicans.
That's our best hope.
That's our best hope.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
But it's all part of the same pattern and it's bad and I hope people recognize all the new small and large points of friction in their lives, new pain points, new troubles, and link them up to correctly blame the Republicans.
That's our best hope.
That's our best hope.
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I had an uncle who was a printer and he worked in the days of hot metal. He had some of the most blood-curdling anecdotes about industrial accidents I have ever heard.
Something to think about as people are cheering on the return of manual labor.
Something to think about as people are cheering on the return of manual labor.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I had an uncle who was a printer and he worked in the days of hot metal. He had some of the most blood-curdling anecdotes about industrial accidents I have ever heard.
Something to think about as people are cheering on the return of manual labor.
Something to think about as people are cheering on the return of manual labor.
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It’s a fucking joke
Watching RFK Jr. press conference about menopause hormone therapy (MHT). He doesn't even get the name of the therapy right. Uses old misogynist label HRT.
Get your info from experts like
@drjengunter.bsky.social.
chatelaine.com/health/hormo...
Get your info from experts like
@drjengunter.bsky.social.
chatelaine.com/health/hormo...
What You Need to Know About Menopause Hormone Therapy - Chatelaine
Dr. Jen Gunter debunks five common myths.
chatelaine.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It’s a fucking joke
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Yeah and they refused to listen to people on the ground too, endemic from national to local outlets
The decision-makers in public media... rarely looked at concrete audience data or thought about the need to diversify the audience to boost listenership...
Instead, their notions about the public radio audience seemed to reflect donor event attendees and the social circles of (often white) editors.
Instead, their notions about the public radio audience seemed to reflect donor event attendees and the social circles of (often white) editors.
“I know that I was hired to help us diversify our airwaves, help us diversify our audience. But I literally had a news director tell me — I made a pitch — and they literally asked me, ‘Why do white people care?’”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Yeah and they refused to listen to people on the ground too, endemic from national to local outlets
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If you felt good last Tuesday, Wednesday, remember none of that depended on current democratic senators. That's the vibe to hold.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If you felt good last Tuesday, Wednesday, remember none of that depended on current democratic senators. That's the vibe to hold.