Aunt Rose Comfort
@notelling.bsky.social
Retired Arkansas teacher battling mosquitoes, tornadoes, and political rapscallions. You should be writing.
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This is an absolutely beautiful story, and beautifully written and photographed. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article)
This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This is an absolutely beautiful story, and beautifully written and photographed. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
That Arkansas State game broke my heart.
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
That Arkansas State game broke my heart.
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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The summer my daughter was 15, she participated in a science camp. And even though the camp bus dropped her off less than a half mile from our home, I had to pick her up from the bus stop. Because the camp required that parents pick up their minor children.
This post is not about a bus stop.
This post is not about a bus stop.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The summer my daughter was 15, she participated in a science camp. And even though the camp bus dropped her off less than a half mile from our home, I had to pick her up from the bus stop. Because the camp required that parents pick up their minor children.
This post is not about a bus stop.
This post is not about a bus stop.
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Happy 5th anniversary to the funniest thing that’s happened in the history of ever
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Happy 5th anniversary to the funniest thing that’s happened in the history of ever
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A couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about someone she knew who had been on maternity leave, and said she had taken "the full year." I said, "A whole year? Wow, what kind of fancy job does she have that gives her a YEAR of leave?" and my friend looked surprised & said, "... welcome to Canada?"
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about someone she knew who had been on maternity leave, and said she had taken "the full year." I said, "A whole year? Wow, what kind of fancy job does she have that gives her a YEAR of leave?" and my friend looked surprised & said, "... welcome to Canada?"
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This was $8.99 last year.
November 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This was $8.99 last year.
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I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period.
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
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It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
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2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money
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Could someone please ask him to recite "I put a curse on that plane. My sister is on that plane. I put a curse on that plane that it's gonna explode, burn on fire, and fall into the sea"?
Cuomo: Mamdani "gave the finger to the Columbus Day statue—that's what we call a DISGRAZIATO."
(turns to Sliwa) "Do you know what that means?"
(turns to Sliwa) "Do you know what that means?"
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Could someone please ask him to recite "I put a curse on that plane. My sister is on that plane. I put a curse on that plane that it's gonna explode, burn on fire, and fall into the sea"?
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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Total immersion! Televised!
“It either shows a lack of understanding about grace, or an admission he is not a Christian.”
FRANKLIN, TN Pastor Kevin Riggs reacts to Trump saying he won’t be going to Heaven 👇🏽
Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DPwDaHO...
FRANKLIN, TN Pastor Kevin Riggs reacts to Trump saying he won’t be going to Heaven 👇🏽
Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DPwDaHO...
October 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Total immersion! Televised!
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Anyone else find it suspicious that the clearly deteriorating Donald Trump is having a "routine yearly checkup" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center *6 months after* his last "routine yearly checkup" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center?
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w...
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Trump to visit Walter Reed for "routine yearly checkup" 6 months after annual physical exam
President Trump's annual physical examination in April showed his vital statistics were all within normal limits.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Anyone else find it suspicious that the clearly deteriorating Donald Trump is having a "routine yearly checkup" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center *6 months after* his last "routine yearly checkup" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center?
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w...
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It’s Banned Books Week! Did you know that Bette Greene’s YA novel “Summer of My German Soldier” was among the 100 most-challenged books of the 1990s? Read more about the most well-known work of this Parkin, Arkansas, native here: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/summ...
Summer of My German Soldier - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Bette Greene’s Summer of My German Soldier is a novel and a television movie set in eastern Arkansas during World War II. Both portray the Arkansas ...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It’s Banned Books Week! Did you know that Bette Greene’s YA novel “Summer of My German Soldier” was among the 100 most-challenged books of the 1990s? Read more about the most well-known work of this Parkin, Arkansas, native here: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/summ...
Thirteen months seems odd. So, I guess that puts Arkansas troops in Texas through the midterm election.
Nearly 120 Arkansas National Guard troops departed Sunday from Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock, Ark., for a 13-month deployment to the southern border in Texas to support U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Arkansas National Guard troops deploy to southern border for 13 months
Nearly 120 Arkansas National Guardsmen departed for a 13-month deployment to the southern border in Texas to support U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thirteen months seems odd. So, I guess that puts Arkansas troops in Texas through the midterm election.
Mamas, don't let your babies join the National Guard. Not right now.
October 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Mamas, don't let your babies join the National Guard. Not right now.
Shame they didn't roll in down I-40 from Little Rock. Between the orange barrels, 18 wheelers, and the creaky bridge the entourage might have thinned out somewhat.
MEMPHIS… Hegseth & Bondi rolling into town with an insane amount of cars in their entourage…
October 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Shame they didn't roll in down I-40 from Little Rock. Between the orange barrels, 18 wheelers, and the creaky bridge the entourage might have thinned out somewhat.
Jane Goodall is gone. What an amazing, full, and purposeful life. I was a tween when I read In the Shadow of Man, and it changed everything for me. She made my 1972 Arkansas world so much larger. The possibilities!
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Jane Goodall is gone. What an amazing, full, and purposeful life. I was a tween when I read In the Shadow of Man, and it changed everything for me. She made my 1972 Arkansas world so much larger. The possibilities!
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The Elaine Massacre of 1919 began September 30, 1919.
Also known as the Elaine Riots.
(Elaine, Arkansas is in Phillips County, south of Helena)
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Also known as the Elaine Riots.
(Elaine, Arkansas is in Phillips County, south of Helena)
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Elaine Massacre of 1919 - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the ...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Elaine Massacre of 1919 began September 30, 1919.
Also known as the Elaine Riots.
(Elaine, Arkansas is in Phillips County, south of Helena)
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/elai...
Also known as the Elaine Riots.
(Elaine, Arkansas is in Phillips County, south of Helena)
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/elai...
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It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”
September 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”
Trump looks rough today.
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Trump looks rough today.