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Patricia Giles
@pmgiles.bsky.social
Native Mainer, Librarian, Scholar, Artist, Filmmaker, Foodie.
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Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland
September 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
July 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Kai Althoff, Regulatory Reestablishment, 2000 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137210
July 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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July 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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A budget is a statement of moral priorities.
July 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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It’s #RightToReadDay.
NEW data from @oif.bsky.social shows that 72% of book bans in 2024 were initiated by organized groups and elected officials. We need EVERYONE to #UniteAgainstBookBans & take action against these organized attempts today: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea... #DrawnToFreedom
April 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Beautiful Libraries series, Trinity College, Dublin (2012) by German photographer Candida Höfer, known for her interiors #womensart
March 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The latest sunspot parade continues. Imaged via my Dwarf 3 #astronomy #astrophotography #sun
March 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
March 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
theatln.tc
April 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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March 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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March 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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the feminine urge to
Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
mashable.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Have a good weekend! xx
Thank you for following ❤️
a black and white photo of a woman wearing a flower in her hair and earrings .
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman wearing a flower in her hair and earrings .
media.tenor.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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In a post-DEI art world, chaos presents an opportunity for institutions to get clear about their purpose and the people who matter to them.
Notes From a Post-DEI Art World
Even if DEI dies, arts organizations should still move toward the accessibility that has always been at the core of the effort. Here’s how.
hyperallergic.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...
February 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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'Love Foxes' by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator who lives/works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #womensart
February 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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"A woman's place is in the struggle"
- Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panthers, c.1969
(image S. Shames) #BlackHistoryMonth
February 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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wēa-gesīþ, m.n: woe-companion, a companion in misery or wickedness. (WAY-ah-yeh-SEETH / ˈweːa-jɛ-ˌsiːθ)
Image: Lament over the fall of Babylon in the Douce Apocalypse; England (Westminster?), c. 1265-1270; @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 180, f. 50v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
January 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
February 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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February 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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It's #MothMonday!

(rummages around hard drive)

Here are some nice moths for you.
Tiger Moth (Amaxia sp.), Geometer Moth (Pityeja histrionaria), Tiger Moth (Hyperthaema sp.), Tiger Moth (Praeamastus minerva) #inverts
Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
January 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Curious.. 😊
January 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM