Nancy Craighead
@ncraighead.bsky.social
🏳️🌈📚🧩🐕🐈🧪🎧🚶♀️🧑🍳🥖— in no particular order.
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Does the news reflect what we die from?
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Does the news reflect what we die from?
I wonder who’s behind the curtain?
September 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I wonder who’s behind the curtain?
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A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
July 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
My best girl. Turned 10 this month.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My best girl. Turned 10 this month.
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For folks who enjoy archival photos, Texas Highways did a nice #Juneteenth piece documenting celebrations over the past 160 years. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #BlackTexasHistory
texashighways.com/travel-news/...
texashighways.com/travel-news/...
The History of Juneteenth in Photos
Junteenth commemorates the issuance of General Order No. 3 in Galveston, informing enslaved people of their freedom and the end of the Civil War.
texashighways.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
For folks who enjoy archival photos, Texas Highways did a nice #Juneteenth piece documenting celebrations over the past 160 years. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #BlackTexasHistory
texashighways.com/travel-news/...
texashighways.com/travel-news/...
Not sure which I like more, making it or eating it.
June 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Not sure which I like more, making it or eating it.
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Holy guacamole, guys. This is beyond splendid, Qu'est-ce que c'est? youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Official Video)
YouTube video by Talking Heads
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June 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Holy guacamole, guys. This is beyond splendid, Qu'est-ce que c'est? youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...
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#RecipeOfTheDay is Gemelli – though you could easily use fusilli or penne instead – with Anchovies, Tomatoes and Mascarpone. I implore you to check out the wonderful comments beneath the recipe, as there is an unmissable one that is an absolute corker! www.nigella.com/recipes/geme...
Gemelli with Anchovies, Tomatoes and Mascarpone
Quick, simple and — much as I hate the word — tasty. I know no self-respecting Italian would let tomato seeds sully a sauce, but I do so very happily, and it’s the gloop inside the halved cherry tomat...
www.nigella.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is Gemelli – though you could easily use fusilli or penne instead – with Anchovies, Tomatoes and Mascarpone. I implore you to check out the wonderful comments beneath the recipe, as there is an unmissable one that is an absolute corker! www.nigella.com/recipes/geme...
Great list
Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time. From Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Wars – the list has it all this time, we hope…
Our favourite science fiction books of all time (the ones we forgot)
Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time. From Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Wars – the list has it all this time, we hope…
www.newscientist.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Great list
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How has daily median income changed since 1994?
🔎 Visual Capitalist
🔎 Visual Capitalist
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
How has daily median income changed since 1994?
🔎 Visual Capitalist
🔎 Visual Capitalist
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In two decades of doing what I do, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty and substance perish out of print. Because the most valiant way to complain is to create, introducing Marginalian Editions
Introducing Marginalian Editions: Extraordinary Forgotten Books Brought Back to Life
I have become a person on the pages and in the margins of books. In nearly two decades of reckoning with my reading in writing, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty an…
www.themarginalian.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In two decades of doing what I do, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty and substance perish out of print. Because the most valiant way to complain is to create, introducing Marginalian Editions
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The main ingredients of Caesar salad—anchovies, garlic, olive oil, black pepper, toasted croutons, and Parmesan cheese—are naturals when reimagined as two different pasta sauces.
Caesared Spaghetti
The main ingredients of Caesar salad—anchovies, garlic, olive oil, black pepper, toasted croutons, and Parmesan cheese—are naturals when reimagined as two different pasta sauces.
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April 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The main ingredients of Caesar salad—anchovies, garlic, olive oil, black pepper, toasted croutons, and Parmesan cheese—are naturals when reimagined as two different pasta sauces.
Don’t give him any more bright ideas.
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Don’t give him any more bright ideas.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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How the United States expanded over time through various treaties, purchases and conquests.
March 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
How the United States expanded over time through various treaties, purchases and conquests.
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and named it
History.
—Clifton
History.
—Clifton
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
and named it
History.
—Clifton
History.
—Clifton
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Took time to make homemade pasta. Please enjoy the ASMR rain sounds in the background (cooking sausage).
March 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Took time to make homemade pasta. Please enjoy the ASMR rain sounds in the background (cooking sausage).
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This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
www.newyorker.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
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“Try never get drunk outside yr own house.”
—Jack Kerouac’s list of essentials: www.listsofnote.com/p/belief-and...
—Jack Kerouac’s list of essentials: www.listsofnote.com/p/belief-and...
Belief & Technique for Modern Prose
Jack Kerouac's list of essentials
www.listsofnote.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Try never get drunk outside yr own house.”
—Jack Kerouac’s list of essentials: www.listsofnote.com/p/belief-and...
—Jack Kerouac’s list of essentials: www.listsofnote.com/p/belief-and...
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Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Wow. He nails it.
As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.
February 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Wow. He nails it.
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Shame on every "journalist" writing shit like this.
Shame.
Shame.
Canada as the 51st state? Trump thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump’s Idea Favors Democrats.
Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely to cost Republicans.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Shame on every "journalist" writing shit like this.
Shame.
Shame.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
Baking brioche and scones. Dog is scared of the oven—it sometimes makes the smoke detector alarm. And there isn’t any meat involved so she just doesn’t even see the point.
February 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Baking brioche and scones. Dog is scared of the oven—it sometimes makes the smoke detector alarm. And there isn’t any meat involved so she just doesn’t even see the point.