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V. G. Anderson, MFA
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V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social · Nov 13
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Higher Ed retaliation is real.

The fact that so many survivors stay silent isn’t proof that it doesn’t happen—it’s proof of how well universities suppress it.

🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Hedwig Kohn: Measuring Light, Defying Erasure
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Radiometry #Spectroscopy #Flamespectroscopy
Hedwig Kohn: Measuring Light, Defying Erasure
A German-Jewish physicist recounts her 17-year wait for academic recognition, her dismissal by the Nazis, and her brother’s murder in the Holocaust. She discusses how 70 international letters…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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✱NEW EPISODE✱ Hayley and Kayla discuss “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig. Join us for some philosophizing!

www.subcpodcast.com

#bookclub #books #matthaig #themidnightlibrary #magicalrealism
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Today on #BookBreaks: Keisha N. Blain discusses "Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights." This is a free online program for history enthusiasts of all ages. Join us at 2 pm ET! Register here: https://ow.ly/oeGt50Xsnbo
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Your weekly dose of vigilante librarianism.

#BannedBooks
#ReadFreely #LittleFreeLibrary
#Books #BookSky #VigilanteLibrarianism
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Aimee's entire canon of songwriting is amazing but any top 20 of hers that does not include "Coming Up Close" is one I have beef with

(Although the choices here are really good, I mean, what did I say about her songwriting being amazing)

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!
Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter
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November 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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A #SŌLSËËD Joint 🌻
#PoetryCommunity
“A prompt, a pulse, a purpose
of the soul —to water a seed.

Join #NovNov #November
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MONTHLY PROMPT #SÕLSËËD | NOVEMBER #PROMPT Nov 1-5 • Giving tree week theme: abundance Nov 5-10 • Friendsgiving week theme: gratitude Nov 10-20 • Fallen leaves week theme: indigenous Nov 20-25 • Prayers week theme: Harvesting Nov 25-30 ・ Bountiful week theme: Harmonious #SOLSEED "A prompt, a pulse —a purpose of the soul to water a seed."
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Mapleton, UT - United States #LittleFreeLibrary #lfl #books #reading
Mapleton, UT - United States
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I knew movement before I saw it, slight play on light, not shadow, flicker. A now familiar spider, near transparent,
legs barely thicker than silk she makes for transportation,
visits every morning as I make coffee, we both like warmth,
blocked in with ice and snow, in silence.
#WIPSnip #prompt
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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✨ Multi-genre perk: You’ll never get bored. Sci-fi one day, poetry the next, romance on Sunday. Writing is a buffet, eat well. 🍽️
Website in bio
#MultiGenre #WritingTips #AmWriting #WritersLife
November 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Good Morning!
It's chilly! In September! Unthinkable in London! It's BLISS! 😊
#autumn #writerslife #coffee
September 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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IRAS 04302: Butterfly Disk Planet Formation
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Webb; Processing: M. Villenave et al.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...
This butterfly can hatch planets. The nebula fanning out from the star IRAS 04302+2247 may look like the wings of a butterfly, while the vertical brown stripe down the center may look like the butterfly's body -- but together they indicate an active planet-forming system. The featured picture was captured recently in infrared light by the Webb Space Telescope. Pictured, the vertical disk is thick with the gas and dust from which planets form. The disk shades visible and (most) infrared light from the central star, allowing a good view of the surrounding dust that reflects out light. In the next few million years, the dust disk will likely fragment into rings through the gravity of newly hatched planets. And a billion years from now, the remaining gas and dust will likely dissipate, leaving mainly the planets -- like in our Solar System.
September 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Dearest Martha,

The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.

Yours in glaze,
National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme
August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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AMEN
cheetovoodo.bsky.social Cheeto Voodoo @cheetovoodo.bsky.social · Jun 19
Can I get an AMEN?
June 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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New #RSOS paper: The impact of temperature on the reproductive development, body condition and mortality of autumn migrating monarch #butterflies in the laboratory: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Frances Woodworth Wright (1897 – 1989) was a US astronomer based at Harvard University.
During World War II, she taught celestial navigation to military officers and engineers.
🔭 #WomenInSTEM
Black and white photo of Frances Woodworth Wright, seated, at a telescope at Harvard College Observatory.
August 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Creative, your identity is NOT tied to that one project that didn’t work.

Creation is never one static state. No art, good or bad, can ever define you; they’re just little monuments you built on the path along your way.

#2rulerecovery #writers #artists #poets #composers

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Creative, your identity is NOT tied to that one project that didn’t work.
YouTube video by Ruthanne Reid
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August 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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medianoche.bsky.social
movie night:
the life aquatic
with steve zissou

needing a cleanse and a good cry. like owning a catte is the closest i will ever be to parenthood.

she was the grant to my sherman and i was the sherman to her grant.

waiting for the dead cat bit. if it keeps on rainin the levees gonna break.
July 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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CHARGING UP
June 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Little kids, scared over bringing a book to school without advance approval.

It has come to this.

#Booksky
May 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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" We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

I like this quote because it speaks to a basic fact of being a writer. We are always learning and honing our craft.
#WritingCommunity #amWriting
A fountain pen leans against a bottle of ink. There is a quote from Ernest Hemingway. " We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master".
May 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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michmom1035.bsky.social
Courage is not about being unafraid.
It’s about waking up each day,
facing the shadows that follow,
and saying,
“I am still here.”
It’s knowing the world may never be soft,
but stepping into it anyway,
heart trembling,
hands steady,
choosing to live.
#poetry #poem #art #digitalart
April 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Prodigiosa, Byrophyllum pinnatum, in Yoruba Ewe Abamoda, it is often called Prodigiosa or Yerba Luisa or Yerba Bruja in Spanish. Each leaf is capable of making numerous plants! Medicinal, magical, spiritual plant. #herb #eweOsanyin #Lucumi #WitchSky
Photo of my indoors Prodigiosa, Byrophyllum pinnatum, in bloom
April 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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You say hello I say goodbye
#Writer
#AskAnAuthor
#Amwriting
#QOTD

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March 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM