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Alice M. Cole

@alicemcole.bsky.social

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pen name of https://bonniers.wordpress.com. I write novels. I like cats (and dogs, rabbits, bison, foxes, etc), art, birds, needlework, writing and writers, landscape photos, flowers... I repost a lot of stuff I think people might be interested in.

bonniers.wordpress.com.

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 4h

Not so far. Just a lot of wind.

We usually only get t-storms in the late spring through summer.

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 4h

Aw thanks.

These days being nice feels kind of inadequate to the situation…

Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 4h

Looks like the setting for a Victoria Holt novel.

Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 20h

Standing stones from the Menec alignments at Carnac, Brittany, beside an abandoned house. #StandingStoneSunday

📷 June, 2023

Rows of standing stones beside an abandoned house.

Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 4h

We’re getting a big rainstorm now. It’s great!

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 5h

Cool sketches!

Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 5h

Not odd at all. You’re one of the cool kids.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 15h

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫,

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 5h

Happy thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends!

Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 5h

My dyslexic brain read “handsome testicle” before realizing the context doesn’t work. Going back to try again.

Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 5h

This is a big part of the pitch the Jehovah’s Witnesses people gave me that time I made the mistake of talking to them…

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 5h

The truth is, at bottom, I’m just a boring person.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 5h

If you sign up for my Patreon, you'll not only help me stave off the terror of existence, you'll gain access to my weird affirmations and Mothman's monster-based etiquette advice.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

fabric art, weird little guys, puppets

www.patreon.com

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Aidan aka. S. Park @sparkblade.bsky.social · 6h

So somehow I filmed a whole hour of me rambling on about things while repotting plants. Lol. No idea if anybody would watch the whole thing, but hey, it exists?

An oncidium, a dendrobium, and an aloe vera into new pots, plus baby repotting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNWw...

Repot and Ramble, orchid and aloe edition

YouTube video by Aidan's Miscellany

www.youtube.com

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 6h

I guess it’s not whether a person reads any particular books or genres, but whether they read more and keep thinking.

I think about what I believed when I was 21, and I want to hide.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 6h

That makes Biden strike three, I guess.

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Nadiia Omelchuk🇺🇦 @ukrainianart.bsky.social · 7h

I am a craftswoman from 🇺🇦Ukraine, I create handmade jewelry, but my products go unnoticed. I put my heart and soul into it, but there are almost no views and orders🥺

Please share, leave comment, or make a order, it will be a huge help!
I'm waiting for you on Etsy or DM📩
www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ...

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Sheila Jenné @jennelikejennay.bsky.social · 7h

Buy this person a pup and earn PUP CONTENT FOREVER. Heck of a deal!

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 8h

If Bluesky bought me this pup, I would post pup content in exchange

That’s all I can offer?

But these times are BLEAK

It’s not the worst offer

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

Utterly disgusting and sadly very indicative of this shameful, current moment in our history.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Archangel Beth @archangelbeth.bsky.social · 7h

Surely that's DARTH Unipiper!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 6h

Note that however blue Massachusetts might be, our cops are just as bad as cops anywhere else.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 8h

If you haven't heard yet, stopice.org is a fake website made BY ice themselves and it would be a shame if they received thousands of submissions under Stephen Miller's name

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