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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 9h

These people are vile and profoundly ignorant

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 9h

My neighborhood, Bryant, in south Minneapolis

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 9h

Disgusting

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 2d

World Fantasy Awards Coming Soon!

As promised, I have read all the novels short-listed for the 2025 World Fantasy Awards. The awards will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention, held this year in Brighton UK on Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2025. If I only had the time, I'd read all the other nominated…

World Fantasy Awards Coming Soon!

As promised, I have read all the novels short-listed for the 2025 World Fantasy Awards. The awards will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention, held this year in Brighton UK on Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2025. If I only had the time, I'd read all the other nominated works, but I don't. So I'll do what I love most, read novels and talk about them.

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 2d

I’m certainly not getting on a plane until I feel sure the skies are as safe a possible. But how will I know, with all the lies, the obscuring and deleting of data, the buffoons and know-nothings in charge?

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 2d

I need to read this!

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 2d

since I’ve seen several of her poems shared today, let’s also account for how Louise Glück could really write the hell out of a book, and how putting these poems next to each other is such a powerful “move”

Field Flowers

BY LOUISE GLÜCK

What are you saying? That you want
eternal life? Are your thoughts really
as compelling as all that? Certainly
you don’t look at us, don’t listen to us,
on your skin
stain of sun, dust
of yellow buttercups: I’m talking
to you, you staring through
bars of high grass shaking
your little rattle— O
the soul! The soul! Is it enough
only to look inward? Contempt
for humanity is one thing, but why
disdain the expansive
field, your gaze rising over the clear heads
of the wild buttercups into what? Your poor
idea of heaven: absence
of change. Better than earth? How
would you know, who are neither
here nor there, standing in our midst?

The Red Poppy

By Louise Glück

The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,
were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered.

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 3d

🤪

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 3d

That’s what I was going to guess

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 3d

Thought “The Saint of Bright Doors” much more accessible.

janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 5d

Stay away from me, Bob and Clippy

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 6d

He’s so stupid

janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 6d

It’s horrible. I felt worse than I did when I had Covid. Get that shot!

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Tom Powell Jr @tompowelljr.bsky.social · 6d

Share this to piss off a Trumper

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 6d

Really, just when I think I may resubscribe. . .this.

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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 6d

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 7d

Enshittification of the Internet. No doubt due to a stupid reliance on AI.

janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 9d

Completely lost my trust. Never getting it back. This is pretty pathetic.

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Rosanna Landis Weaver @landisweaver.bsky.social · 10d

Other fun part of reposting this is that it's a reminder of the original Robert Kennedy

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 11d

Michelle Lujan Grisham❤️❤️❤️❤️

janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, sorry, misunderstood your post. Yes, vaccinate & booster up—makes long Covid & severe illness less likely

janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you, Ms. Smith.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 12d

^a rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings"

From the Clydeside to you...

Hailed by the NYT as the finest speech since the Gettysburg Address.

speakola.com/political/ji...

Jimmy Reid: 'A rat race is for rats. We're not rats', Rectorial address, Glasgow University - 1972 — Speakola

short excerpt of speech at 4.27, a longer excerpt is on Education Scotland website When this speech was reprinted in the New York Times, it was described as 'the greatest speech since Presid...

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janemcfw.bsky.social @janemcfw.bsky.social · 12d

Just to let you know that several friends of mine survived Covid but struggle with long Covid. They are not well. They may never be well. And I’m just one person. I imagine others know friends who suffer too.

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