Raspberry Cordially
@raspberrycordially.bsky.social
Book lover (especially kidlit, cozy mysteries, time travel, romance, and fun nonfiction). Fan of musicals, movies, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, and Schmigadoon. Enjoyer of trivia and goofiness. Erstwhile Toastie.
Pinned
I was naive when we were paired
You'd never leave me, you declared
but now I know that vanity runs through ya
Peach-colored was your chic ascot
You walked as if onto a yacht
You prob'ly think this lyric here sums you, yeah
#AltHallelujah
You'd never leave me, you declared
but now I know that vanity runs through ya
Peach-colored was your chic ascot
You walked as if onto a yacht
You prob'ly think this lyric here sums you, yeah
#AltHallelujah
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Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
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Best literary analysis ever
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Best literary analysis ever
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A horror story, via r/marriott, of the sudden nationwide Sonder shutdown.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A horror story, via r/marriott, of the sudden nationwide Sonder shutdown.
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This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
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Separated by sixteen years in terms of publication; edited by the same genius (Ursula Nordstrom). My students and I are talking more about white space in picture books than I anticipated and it's good!!!
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Separated by sixteen years in terms of publication; edited by the same genius (Ursula Nordstrom). My students and I are talking more about white space in picture books than I anticipated and it's good!!!
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Margaret Wise Brown's 'Goodnight nobody' is a dizzying leap into the void, bridging consciousness and unconsciousness, reality and dream. The whole world vanishes in a page turn. Sendak's 'and it was still hot' is home, safety, care, forgiveness. This page holds and contains both Max and the reader
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Margaret Wise Brown's 'Goodnight nobody' is a dizzying leap into the void, bridging consciousness and unconsciousness, reality and dream. The whole world vanishes in a page turn. Sendak's 'and it was still hot' is home, safety, care, forgiveness. This page holds and contains both Max and the reader
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Last week I posted that the image on the left was one of the single greatest pages in twentieth century literature, and I stand by that! But look what I noticed for the very first time: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are closes with an almost-identical page layout, to wildly different ends
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Last week I posted that the image on the left was one of the single greatest pages in twentieth century literature, and I stand by that! But look what I noticed for the very first time: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are closes with an almost-identical page layout, to wildly different ends
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The verses are lit, so the song was a hit
(regardless of some research errors)
No tune's ever held quite so many enspelled
By a ballad of freshwater terrors
(regardless of some research errors)
No tune's ever held quite so many enspelled
By a ballad of freshwater terrors
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The verses are lit, so the song was a hit
(regardless of some research errors)
No tune's ever held quite so many enspelled
By a ballad of freshwater terrors
(regardless of some research errors)
No tune's ever held quite so many enspelled
By a ballad of freshwater terrors
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
And he didn't want it named after him! He gave a bunch of other suggestions instead.
Also, the Edmund Fitzgerald the ship was named after died in 1986, meaning Edmund Fitzgerald got to hear the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, about the Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And he didn't want it named after him! He gave a bunch of other suggestions instead.
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from one year ago today -
For many years I assumed that the Edmund Fitzgerald song was about a shipwreck in like, 1843. But Gordo wrote it the month after it happened! News you can use.
Its November 10th, aka Combination Death of the Edmund Fitzgerald / Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
from one year ago today -
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mRNA vaccines are the closest thing to *actual sorcery* we’re seen in medicine since the inteoduction of antibiotics or organ transplantation.
The fact that the US govt is willingly throwing away all investment in researching them, for idiotic culture war reasons, is spectacularly boneheaded.
The fact that the US govt is willingly throwing away all investment in researching them, for idiotic culture war reasons, is spectacularly boneheaded.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
November 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
mRNA vaccines are the closest thing to *actual sorcery* we’re seen in medicine since the inteoduction of antibiotics or organ transplantation.
The fact that the US govt is willingly throwing away all investment in researching them, for idiotic culture war reasons, is spectacularly boneheaded.
The fact that the US govt is willingly throwing away all investment in researching them, for idiotic culture war reasons, is spectacularly boneheaded.
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KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
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The Trump administration tells the Supreme Court it can’t be compelled to fully fund SNAP because paying out the money would “irreparably harm” the government, while SNAP beneficiaries … *won’t* be irreparably harmed by going hungry? The balance of equities here is completely upside down.
November 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Trump administration tells the Supreme Court it can’t be compelled to fully fund SNAP because paying out the money would “irreparably harm” the government, while SNAP beneficiaries … *won’t* be irreparably harmed by going hungry? The balance of equities here is completely upside down.
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Steve Vladek's thoughts give me something to cling to... but yeah. FOOD FOR CHILDREN.
I hate SO MUCH that we can even be forced to TALK about "strategy" when we're talking about feeding our own citizens.
I hate SO MUCH that we can even be forced to TALK about "strategy" when we're talking about feeding our own citizens.
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Steve Vladek's thoughts give me something to cling to... but yeah. FOOD FOR CHILDREN.
I hate SO MUCH that we can even be forced to TALK about "strategy" when we're talking about feeding our own citizens.
I hate SO MUCH that we can even be forced to TALK about "strategy" when we're talking about feeding our own citizens.
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If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
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If I was really rich, I would not complain about mayors refusing to meet with me; I would just buy a lot of Lego sets and spend extended periods in Tokyo, Italy, and France
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If I was really rich, I would not complain about mayors refusing to meet with me; I would just buy a lot of Lego sets and spend extended periods in Tokyo, Italy, and France
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This is HUGE
This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is HUGE
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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is that a lot
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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November 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
is that a lot
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The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day
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November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day
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"So you had hand-cranked espresso grinders in your classrooms?"
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"So you had hand-cranked espresso grinders in your classrooms?"
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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noteworthy context, though the disproportionate distribution of risk relative to credit still stands.
Many tellings of her story imply her only involvement was involuntary and without her permission (via the infamous 'Photo 51').
In fact she was MUCH more involved than this, including absolutely bodying one of Watson and Crick's first models because it was chemically inept.
In fact she was MUCH more involved than this, including absolutely bodying one of Watson and Crick's first models because it was chemically inept.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
noteworthy context, though the disproportionate distribution of risk relative to credit still stands.