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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 4h

My grad school and scholarship application are IN. By the early scholarship deadline which is 85 days before the usual one. I am tired but pleased.

A glowing laptop screen that reads University of Cambridge applicant portal and something like "your application has been received. The tiny pic is too small and I can't even read it. But they received the application. The laptop has some shark stickers on it.

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, @samtschida.bsky.social has a new book coming out and there's a release party at Tropes and Trifles!

Book release party! Sam Tschida's UNDEAD AND UNWED | Tropes & Trifles

tropesandtrifles.com

K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes the #Birds are photogenic. Other times, they look like dinosaurs. 🪶

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 2d

Damnit, I cannot read this book now, I'm in the midst of one, have another due at the library and have a huge deadline in 2 days. Curse you, vile tempter.

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 2d

I actually said mine aloud at a dinner recently and my 22yo son took me aside after and said, Mom, you can't say things like that. He asked me not to say it aloud again. Which makes it sound like it was racist which it was not, but it was unhinged. So, to honor how sweet he was about it, nope.

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 2d

This pic seems pretty but is actually upsetting. Walking down the street on 13 October in Minneapolis and THE LILACS ARE IN BLOOM? AGAIN? I was so perturbed I plucked the lower left tuft and kept smelling it to reassure myself of its wrongness. Oh, climate change. You scare me.

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 2d

Hello kind people of Bluesky. Today & tomorrow I'm toiling on my app for postgrad English study & a scholarship, due Wed. I've got a fair amount of anxiety. I'd sure appreciate any kind words or cute pics anyone can send my way. Here is a cute sparrow and a bumblebee hard at work. #Birds 🪶

Brown and grey sparrow looking to left with yellow beak on red platform of birdfeeder, rather dapper except for the giant seed on his beak. Greenery behind.

Pink flower with a yellow and black fuzzy bumblebee working assiduously to gather every scrap of pollen on this mid October day in Minnesota. Green lawn and sidewalk behind.

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting how there is a willful ignorance to speculate on what might be causing many of the ills on the front page of today's Star Tribune. Also, while "dubious boondoggle" is a poetic and amusing phrase, isn't it also redundant?

Front page of Star Tribune paper with headlines about lack of innovation, shootings, food price surges and lack of childcare.

Headline reads "Anoka County sues MNDOT over 'dubious boondoggle' of a project"

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, hello, good morning, this seems very promising for the Star Tribune, who is not something I've felt in...a while.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

When Trump was elected, I decided I would try to put my column writing energy towards somewhere local. I wanted to write in my communities about stuff that was happening.

Not all plans work out, but this one seems to be so far. I am looking forward to a slightly more formal process.

Meet the 4 new contributing columnists we’re adding to our refreshed roster

Strib Voices is welcoming writers who will focus on Gen Z perspectives, menopause, disabilities and other issues. They will join four voices from our inaugural group returning for a second year.

www.startribune.com

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 4d

A black capped chickadee today, plus a sparrow pulling a pose. #birds 🪶

Small black and white bird looking left, on red platform with greenery surrounding.

Small light brown sparrow, looking up and to the right, on red platform, with greenery surrounding.

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 5d

"We could find no reason for marrying x except the luxury of a bath every day." 131 I am continually delighted by Bella's comments in The Juniper Tree! #NYRBwomen25

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 5d

The sharks have joined the protests. Wonder for no reason how much an inflatable shark suit costs

Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 5d

A blow-up polar bear and shark are talking to one another

Caption: After our interview, the frogs were joined by a couple of unicorns, a polar bear, an axolotl, a raccoon and several more characters

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 5d

The Juniper Tree is giving serious Jane Eyre vibes: the Mom as Aunt Reed, Bernard as Rochester _and_ St John, Tommy as Adele, Bella as Jane...I'm excited to see how this ends! #NYRBwomen25

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 5d

In other good news, we finally have a full complement of yard signs, hooray!

Yard signs for Omar Fateh, Jazz Hampton, Dewayne Davis, Minneapolis for the Many, and Elliott Payne.

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 5d

From the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, the clip from October 8, 1985 of the golden wedding anniversary of Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane + commentary on it from the next day. Cheers to the happy couple, who just celebrated their 90th, are still in print & beloved! Join the DLS Society! www.sayers.org.uk

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 5d

It's #LetterboxdFriday and here are my #LastFourWatched all at the @trylon.org with the end of the summer Nazi series and the start of the October Nixon horror series. All first watches for me!

4 movie posters: Hour of the Wolf, black and white with pink band, man in stage makeup with hands forward. The Stepford Wives with blue white and yellow bands under an image of Katharine Ross's head and hand, as if chipped from a mannequin. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, white with a yellow doorway on the right with a guy bursting out holding a chainsaw. The Keep, in dark blues, violets and pink, in giant letters on a hill with two figures framed in a small glowing yellow door

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K.J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social · 5d

Perfect porch weather in Minneapolis today. Reading and loving The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns, the last pick for #NYRBwomen25 with coffee and a few friends from the shiver. #FridayReads What are you reading today?