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Evan @ektidwell.bsky.social · 20d

Another day, another book 📖

A photo of the book ‘Soul by Soul’ by Walter Johnson

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 21d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Evan @ektidwell.bsky.social · Aug 8

You know what? I’m not gonna say all the hate was warranted, but maybe a little..

Evan @ektidwell.bsky.social · Aug 7

Finally watching Disney’s new Snow White. Time to see if all the hate is warranted.

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Evan @ektidwell.bsky.social · Mar 14

Is there anything friendlier than a newly bloomed pansy?

This is a photo of blue-violet pansies in a bed of black mulch.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Mar 9

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Feb 28

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.

I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

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Mark Barsotti @marconi451.bsky.social · Feb 16

And to ignore the existence of capital letters.
#humor #quotes #books #History #writers

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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · Feb 15

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · Feb 12

The term Gulf of Mexico verifiably began appearing on navigational charts and official written records in 1550. As a regional geographic feature, it predates the entire existence of the United States by over two centuries.

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NPR @npr.org · Feb 11

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

www.npr.org

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American Bar Association @americanbar.org · Feb 10

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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Hal Steiner @halsteiner.bsky.social · Feb 7

#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day

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WIRED @wired.com · Feb 7

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’

An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

wrd.cm

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Kristin Bruning MD🪷 @klbmd.bsky.social · Feb 6

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Feb 5

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:

Don’t accept a buyout.

Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.

And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?

Sincerely,

Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Feb 5

That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.

—
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.

“Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks
#everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth

Paul Robeson
BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS
That time
we all heard it, cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
The major Voice.
The adult Voice forgoing Rolling River,
forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge and other symptoms of an old despond.
Warning, in music-words devout and large,
that we are each other's harvest:
we are each other's business:
we are each other's magnitude and bond.

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Evan @ektidwell.bsky.social · Feb 5

Things were, in fact, not good in the neighborhood.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · Feb 2

Thank you, Canada!

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Feb 2

BREAKING: David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting just been elected Vice Chair of the DNC.

CONGRATS!

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Evan @ektidwell.bsky.social · Feb 2

Rewatching *The Sound of Music* and laughing at Maria’s fellow sisters reading her for absolute filth in the second scene 🎼🏔️🎻🦌☀️🧵🪡🎶🫖🍞 #SoundOfMusic #JulieAndrews

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Reuters @reuters.com · Jan 31

Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials reut.rs/3CuCEPs

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · Jan 31

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.

w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency

Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...

www.wired.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · Jan 30

A lovely thing about this era of gravestones from the Lamson family shop in Charlestown, Massachusetts is the occasional mix of carving depths. This stone (John Tufts, d.1728, Malden) is mostly carved in the usual deep style, but also has a lightly incised medallion that reminds me of embroidery.

closeup detail of a winged skull on a gravestone

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Evan @ektidwell.bsky.social · Jan 30

Just finished reading Gwendolyn Wright's 'Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America.' Definitely recommend. #Architecture #History #MaterialCulture #MaterialRhetoric

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