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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 2h

the cat is super cute though!

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 2h

sauntered right past me, LOLLL

Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 2h

I am finding this tempting, for when my reading glasses just aren't cutting it.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 2h

whoo!

I mean, it's not my favorite shirt because the saying kind of ignores bell hooks Appalachian Elegy book, but it does convey a certain je ne sais quoi about JD Vance, LOL

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 2h

All my shoes live in a cardboard box on top of my cutting table because our dog will do something like brush past me while I'm sitting at the dinner table and take the shoe I just idly slipped off while eating dinner.

Not even an ounce of shame. As soon as it's off my foot, it belongs to him.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4h

Welcome, new Bluesky users! Please check out the thread below for tips on setting up your account, making your feed more interesting, finding old Twitter friends, search, privacy, stats, and more (and please ask questions if you have them)

(I'll have to rewrite & update the thread soon!)

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 17

🦋 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! I recommend exploring our custom feeds, which are a little like hashtags but more interesting. We have them for academic and professional subjects, sports, cities, hobbies (e.g., gardening, baking), and many more. Search them in the sidebar under Feeds. 🧵

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Erin Sherman 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think the xitter exodus has found me but just as a reminder, there is a starter pack of accounts that post about North American native plants. These are mostly not pro naturalists or landscapers or horticulturists, just humans who are really into plants. 🌱 go.bsky.app/MWY25jQ

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 2h

Weird! It’s the Appodlachia store on TeePublic, if that helps

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3h

I am also reminded that if I had wanted to be a nurse, I would have done it. I am hot and sweaty and my back hurts.

But, now I can get her out of the house in case of emergency, which is a *huge* deal.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3h

Well, tonight I learned how to use an electric patient lift, and practiced getting mom into her power wheelchair.

— things that were never on my bingo card when I was younger

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3h

You sure can!

www.teepublic.com/stores/appod...

T-Shirts by Appodlachia - TeePublic Store | TeePublic

Shop t-shirts, phone cases, hoodies, art prints and mugs created by independent artists from around the globe.

www.teepublic.com

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3h

Here!

www.teepublic.com/stores/appod...

T-Shirts by Appodlachia - TeePublic Store | TeePublic

Shop t-shirts, phone cases, hoodies, art prints and mugs created by independent artists from around the globe.

www.teepublic.com

Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 4h

Wore my “No Elegy Needed” while running errands and got a random “fuck JD Vance!” 😂

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 5h

I got to adulthood before I saw a non-immigrant doctor for primary care. In the way children do, I sort of halfway believed that most doctors were either Filipino or Indian. 😂🤷🏼

Now, as an adult, I realize that there was a special visa program for foreign-born doctors who worked in rural areas.

But staffing rural health care has also gotten tougher. For many decades, the U.S. has relied heavily on foreign-born doctors; half the country's oncology workforce, for example, comes from overseas. Now, in large part because of the Trump administration's cuts to science, medicine and research funding, as
well as new immigration policies, fewer physicians can - or want to - come to the U.S.

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Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 20h

* audiobook giveaway * The audiobook of my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE is out today from Tantor Audio, read by the amazing Joel Leslie. To win a free Audible download code, repost this post and I'll pick a winner in about 12 hours.

www.amazon.com/Mr-Collins-L...

Audiobook cover of Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch, read by Joel Leslie and published by RB Media. Cover is green, with ferns, white potato flowers and red raspberries, also a blackbird in flight and a horse and gig.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 7h

Truly this is the “hold my beer” level of S-tier P&P retellings — took about three pages to get me from the classic “ugh, that horrible little Collins man” to “I would lay down my life for him”

Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 20h

* audiobook giveaway * The audiobook of my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE is out today from Tantor Audio, read by the amazing Joel Leslie. To win a free Audible download code, repost this post and I'll pick a winner in about 12 hours.

www.amazon.com/Mr-Collins-L...

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 6h

Person A is an educated, trained, licensed professional who pulls in approximately twice my annual salary, who when specifically asked for a procedure, cannot articulate the basic requirements.

We are so fucked as a society.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 6h

Why are people so bad at the basic tasks of their job?

Person A: Can you do X?
Me: Sure, what is the procedure?
Person A: Do X and take Y to person B

Person B: I can’t accept Y. You have to obtain L from me, do X, and then return it.

Would have been nice to know 90 minutes ago!

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 7h

And now someone else is having a phone call.

Never have I ever wanted out of a waiting room so badly.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 7h

In a medical waiting room (not for me) and the clashing sound tracks of multiple people watching on their phones without headphones is like auditory sandpaper.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 11h

THE NOISE I MADE. everyone please get fuckin hyped, because Micaiah Johnson is a treasure, a queen, an icon of the genre, and this book sounds incroyable wow wow wow wow wow

Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

It’s official! Book news appropriate for the season

Publisher’s Marketplace posting. Publishers in dark blue font with Marketplace in red font. “Deal Report” on the right side of the heading, also in dark blue.

Text below reads:

THE UNHAUNTING By Micaiah Johnson
Imprint: Putnam
October 13, 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize finalist Micaiah Johnson's THE UNHAUNTING, in which a young Black woman joins her friends to renovate a Confederate-era plantation house, where past and present begin to blur uncomfortably, pitched as Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE meets Toni Morrison's BELOVED, for fans of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, to Ruoxi Chen at Putnam, at auction, for publication in fall 2026, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).
Foreign: rokumura@penguinrandomhouse.com
Film/TV: Josie Freeman, CAA

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 8h

French—I buy their hypoallergenic bar soap and it’s very nice. One of the few that makes bathing bearable for my youngest. Thinking about going with this the next time I need hand soap:

alamaisondeprovence.com/collections/...

Honeysuckle Liquid Hand Soap 16.9 FL OZ

Traditional French Milled liquid soap made with Coconut, Olive & Argan Oils for a long lasting & lathering feeling; with no palm oil, no SLS & no parabens/phthalates. Softer to the skin th...

alamaisondeprovence.com

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CoyoteWallace @coyotewallace.bsky.social · 9h

Sitting at #142 in Western Horror Fiction - let's see if we can't bump that up a bit!

Get your kindle preorders now and pick up a physical copy of Sarah Corbin's Bloody Revenge on November 7th. Do not delay! You are going to absolutely love this gritty supernatural tale of revenge.

#BookSky

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 9h

Yes.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 11h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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