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Birdie, Blanket-Burrito
@srslymagenta.bsky.social
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Ridiculous feminist bluestocking crafter. BLM, ACAB, LGBTQIA+ fren. That ♿ chick. Nerd. Early 50's (I guess!), cishet single in SC. Dev Editor for manuscripts/dissertations. Mouth w/ no 🛑. AuDHD and PDA friendly. barrowediting@gmail.com for 📔 queries
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Birdie, Blanket-Burrito @srslymagenta.bsky.social · Jun 21
For all my extra gifted 80's and 90's kids who are discovering they are tired, burned-out adults:
Ordinary My love, what if you were not Nietzsche and I was not Gloria Steinem. And I was not Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and you were not Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived Ordinary lives, here and there, foraging for mushrooms in the swamps and children's minds and sometimes find ing chickory root for inflammation, poke for lymphatic tincture, honey for mead. What if sometimes you sang in the kitchen while making bone broth from chicken feet, and played happy snippets on the violin, and I periodically baked bread in a clean (ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and sometimes, we held hands in the grocery, took kids to the Asian market, watched Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned in bed, and weren't the next Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic Wunderkind, surprise New York Times Best-selling magical fairy child. What if we went wild: Mowed lawns. Got mail. Refused to live up to the potential somebody wrote on our report cards long ago, and instead utterly wasted our lives on loving and living and loving and refused to yield to the expectations that anything less fiscally responsible is imprudent. What if what we saved did not end up being millions, my sweet, but our own souls? And all along there will be enough for the movies sometimes, enough for croissants and soft pretzels, and enough to sit and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight. What if instead of being memorable, we make memories, responsible to not the whole world but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and we are inordinately enough. Heather Harris-Bergevin Ordinary My love, what if you were not Nietzsche and I was not Gloria Steinem. And I was not Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and you were not Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived Ordinary lives, here and there, foraging for mushrooms in the swamps and children's minds and sometimes find ing chickory root for inflammation, poke for lymphatic tincture, honey for mead. What if sometimes you sang in the kitchen while making bone broth from chicken feet, and played happy snippets on the violin, and I periodically baked bread in a clean (ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and sometimes, we held hands in the grocery, took kids to the Asian market, watched Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned in bed, and weren't the next Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic Wunderkind, surprise New York Times Best-selling magical fairy child. What if we went wild: Mowed lawns. Got mail. Refused to live up to the potential somebody wrote on our report cards long ago, and instead utterly wasted our lives on loving and living and loving and refused to yield to the expectations that anything less fiscally responsible is imprudent. What if what we saved did not end up being millions, my sweet, but our own souls? And all along there will be enough for the movies sometimes, enough for croissants and soft pretzels, and enough to sit and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight. What if instead of being memorable, we make memories, responsible to not the whole world but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and we are inordinately enough. Heather Harris-Bergevin
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rawstory.com
Convicted health care fraudster Elizabeth Holmes is being held up as a "perfect martyr" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" movement.
Famous fraudster Elizabeth Holmes embraced as MAHA's 'perfect martyr'
Convicted health care fraudster Elizabeth Holmes is being held up as a "perfect martyr" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" movement.MAHA influencers have taken up the Theranos founder's cause, with widely read mommy blogger Jessica Reed Kraus writing a highly sympathetic Substac...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
srslymagenta.bsky.social
Yes. It is. It's a nightmare without.
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The science around hormone therapy to treat menopause has changed a lot since the FDA issued warning labels 20 years ago. Now the labels are being removed, here are 6 things to consider. n.pr/43p2sXz
Is hormone therapy for menopause right for you? 6 things to know
The science around hormone therapy to treat menopause has changed a lot since the FDA issued warning labels 20 years ago. Now the labels are being removed, here are 6 things to consider.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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motherjones.com
Then they came for the Dreamers.

Read @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social's heartbreaking look at the fear and chaos the Trump administration has wrought onto the lives of young people brought to the United States.

"A real betrayal."
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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japantimes.co.jp
Commentary: Venus Williams’s candid admission that she returned to tennis for health insurance spotlights the deep flaws in America’s employer-based system.
Venus Williams exposed all that's wrong with U.S. health insurance
U.S. policymakers have made clear that rather than rock this boat, they’d prefer to wait for health care to tip over on its own.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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watanabetakao.bsky.social
Today I saw a kingfisher for the first time in a long while. The overcast sky made me feel like I truly saw the inherent beauty of its body.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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oarfishingdaily.bsky.social
Today's Oarfish comes from Phoebe Dee! She's a freelance illustrator based in Bristol, UK with a love for layering color and texture! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife #drawing
Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing red frills. This is a digital drawing of one made with pastel colors. There are white accents on the borders of the image.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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trahias.bsky.social
Rebecca Holton (British, b.1977)
"Crumbs,"
Oil on board
40 x 50 cm
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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jennilafleur.bsky.social
Hi #heartsky! This is 7hrs 20mins of work so far and it’s literally just his face 😩 Worth it though!!! I love it so far! 🥰 And the red is slowly starting to look less weird.. 😅 Oh and LOOK what came in the mail today!!🥹❤️
#kitconnor #fanart #art #artist #artsky #joelocke #wiccan #heartstopper
An unfinished coloured pencil drawing of Kit Connor from his photoshoot with Damian Foxe for Flaunt Magazine Copies of one of my drawings of Nick and Charlie and my coloured drawing of Wiccan, both autographed by Joe Locke
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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adaspota.bsky.social
Jean-Paul Jérôme, painter, designer, sculptor and co-founder of Les Plasticiens, a group of painters who founded the pictorial movement in Quebec in 1955.

La course sous le vent, 1974
#Contemporaryart #Abstractart
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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bghansom.bsky.social
little worm! 🪱
#comics #webcomic #art
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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tamvmat.bsky.social
I wasn't going to share this in WIP form..but I know the colouring will be a challenge for me.
We watched @realgdt.bsky.social's magnificent Frankenstein film this weekend and it was beautiful 💚 Something made me need to draw The Monster in Art Nouveau style.
#Frankenstein #ArtNouveau #ink #WIPs
A patchwork man in art nouveau style, elements of the Frankenstein movie surrounding him. Ink drawing
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
srslymagenta.bsky.social
I find validation in art that looks like me. 💜
anuxiii.bsky.social anuxiii.bsky.social @anuxiii.bsky.social · 12h
Lenalia from Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment.

Wanted to draw the big elf lore lady.

#art #TheLegendofZelda #AgeofImprisonment #Lenalia #Chubby #Bbw
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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katieaki.bsky.social
bad luck after bad luck after bad luck
#art
a very simple cartoony digital drawing of two black cats in mirrored positions, hissing after one another. They form a kind of circular shape. Opposite corners have a broken heart and the word “jinxed” arranged in a triangle.
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
srslymagenta.bsky.social
Duuuuuuh
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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thecontinent.org
The Grand Egyptian Museum has finally opened its doors to the public. Construction began 20 years ago, weathering several national storms including 2011’s Arab Spring.
Photo Essay: The museum of unstolen history
The Grand Egyptian Museum has finally opened its doors to the public. Construction began 20 years ago, weathering several national storms including 2011’s Arab Spring.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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1011now.com
Supreme Court is expected to say whether full SNAP food payments can resume
Supreme Court is expected to say whether full SNAP food payments can resume
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to say Tuesday whether the Trump administration must start complying with lower-court orders that require full payments in the SNAP food program.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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theguardian.com
Musk is paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat | Steven Greenhouse
Musk is paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat | Steven Greenhouse
We may be in a golden age for the super-rich – but it doesn’t feel that way for the 42 million Americans who use Snap
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November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
srslymagenta.bsky.social
#poetry time? Good morning!
When it happened and I didn't die, at least not, with any permanence, I faced my own confused future with a grin, each year becoming a trophy to set upon shelving and dust, it being award for exceeding expectations- that thing at nineteen I thought perhaps could not, at twenty five considered impossible, at thirty two knew would be cut short. It is an odd thing, to trespass upon your own grave, sit down within it, kick your legs at the edge, measure a bit- have I grown since last Death and I had our ongoing danced coy flirtation? We lie down together, we two, caress each other's limbs, become acquainted with one another's sallow cheekbones. We are friends, beloved, and yet I refuse their advances, daily, prolong the anticipation of our eternity embrace. I have so many words piled upon one another, plied upon digital notebooks, struggling to be birthed into a world of lies and trauma, each poem a gift of relentless doomed optimism, that they alone can tightrope the chasm between myself and my future captor. May 7, 2021 Heather Harris-Bergevin
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
srslymagenta.bsky.social
So far today I've:

Taken kid 2 to work. Gone by bank in the dark. Dropped off SNAP forms. Come back to house, rested ten minutes. Taken kid1 to work. Refilled car tank.

I figure this isn't bad for 8AM. Imma need a nap today, though.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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lilithepunk.bsky.social
Question Two of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Bedrooms and Beds. Bonus folklore: It's said Casanova used half a squeezed lemon like a cap as his preferred method of contraception 😬🍋 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz. Question Two Of Bedrooms and Beds. Which of the following has NOT been considered a reputable contraceptive at some point? A. Holding the hand of a male corpse for two minutes. B. Inserting a pessary made of crocodile dung. C. Applying poppy seeds to the penis. D. Sneezing at orgasm
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
srslymagenta.bsky.social
Good morning to my kid's extra loud and piercing alarm that is ringing from the bathroom while he showers so I can't turn it off, and to it only. 🥱
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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abstractica.bsky.social
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Entrance light (one of two) to the Powhatan Apartments, Chicago — Victor S. Pearlman & Co. [designer], 1929
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November 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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jaythenerdkid.bsky.social
joyce carol oates is the sole living human being who can well and truly claim to be chaotic neutral
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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theguardian.com
‘I opened up like a giant elevator’: the seven sly, savage stages of a £100,000 romance scam
‘I opened up like a giant elevator’: the seven sly, savage stages of a £100,000 romance scam
Last year, romance fraud rose 52% for over-55s in the UK. Victims often feel they’ve made a terrible mistake and are at fault – but really, they’ve been expertly groomed by criminals
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November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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#b3d #art #pokemon
3d render showing 2 cyndaquil; one is napping cozily under the kotatsu, while the other is balancing a persimmon on its head. two other persimmon are on the floor next to it, along with a few fluffy pillows scattered around. there's a large bowl of persimmons on top of the kotatsu, along with a hot cup of tea.
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM