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Patricia Giles
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Native Mainer, Librarian, Scholar, Artist, Filmmaker, Foodie.
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nerd4cities.bsky.social
Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland
Hollywood farmers market
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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moma.bsky.social
Kai Althoff, Regulatory Reestablishment, 2000 #artbots #moma
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Gift of Beth Swofford
July 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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otters.hourly.media
July 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
A budget is a statement of moral priorities.
July 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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uabookbans.bsky.social
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
Take action today. Right to Read Day. April 7, 2025 #RightToReadDay. #DrawnToFreedom. Unite Against Book Bans. bit.ly/RightToReadDay. Above the text is an illustration by Nate Powell featuring people at a public library and various things you can do at the library.
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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daleivan.bsky.social
The latest sunspot parade continues. Imaged via my Dwarf 3 #astronomy #astrophotography #sun
Massive new group of sunspots in the upper NE of the Sun’s disk, with an even larger one upper center. A trail of smaller but still colossal spots run to the south.
March 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
March 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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theatlantic.com
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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raccoonhourly.bsky.social
An adorable raccoon.
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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jay.bsky.team
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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Have a good weekend! xx
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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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hyperallergic.com
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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numb.comfortab.ly
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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Love Foxes' by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator who lives/works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #womensart
Artwork featuring two sitting foxes together forming a heart shape in the gap between them, against a gold background
February 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
"A woman's place is in the struggle"
- Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panthers, c.1969
(image S. Shames) #BlackHistoryMonth
Monochrome photograph of the upper half of a Black woman leaning against a wall with posters while smokibg a cigarette
February 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
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
In a medieval manuscript illustration, a group of men look upset, scratching their heads and gesturing to something unseen before them.
January 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
pmgiles.bsky.social
A pile of ashes strewn against a stark white background with a quote above it that says An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. Quote attributed to the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu.
February 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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otters.hourly.media
February 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
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
Tiger Moth (Amaxia sp.) - A Yellow moth with red patterning that looks like something on a playing card. The moth is standing on bare rocky ground. Geometer Moth (Pityeja histrionaria) - An orange and white striped moth on the side of a tree. Tiger Moth (Hyperthaema sp.) - A bright red moth with four large white spots on its wings. It is standing on a worn board. Tiger Moth (Praeamastus minerva) - A moth with brown wing and an orange body. It is standing on worn wood flooring.
January 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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buitengebieden.bsky.social
Curious.. 😊
January 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM