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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

sooooouppppp

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

I struggle with this. It is has always felt important to me to know what my *specific* white ancestors did and what bad things they were responsible for, but it’s possible this is a scrupulosity anxiety thing and not a useful one.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

I had been too lazy to do this up until this point but I just did it. Maybe the AI bubble will burst in a year and I won't have to worry because I'll be training my birds to fly to you all with shitposts

a screenshot of the Update & Security menu, showing the Windows Update and the Enroll Now option to enroll in an extra year of security

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

or three quarts of chicken if you, like me, cannot face down a freshly roasted chicken without eating a goodly amount of it IMMEDIATELY

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

VOILA FOUR QUARTS OF CHOPPED CHICKEN AND TWO QUARTS OF STOCK

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

not a hack, per se, but a thought:

buy 2 costco broilers for $10
come home from work
put in foil pans on top of baking pan
sprinkle with salt, pepper, butter
bake for 2 hours at 350°F
cool in fridge
next morning, pick meat and chop; throw corpses in hot water for 90 minutes

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 2d

although it doesn't have quite the immediate impact of Donor's Choose, I also recommend supporting Books Not Bans! This tiny org in SF packages and sends out boxes of LGBTQIA+ books to places all over the country.

www.booksnotbans.org

Books Not Bans

www.booksnotbans.org

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 2d

whenever I feel really terrible about this awful country, I like to look through donor's choose and look for teachers who just want books for their classroom.

This is a school near me, only needs $222 more to fund a set of Ghetto Cowboy books.

www.donorschoose.org/project/ghet...

Ghetto Cowboy Novel Set for 6th Grade, a project from Ms. Smith

Help me give my students a class set of the book, Ghetto Cowboy. I truly appreciate your support. The books in my cart are important to my 6th-grade students, as they will help broaden their unders...

www.donorschoose.org

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 4d

Dark Academia dares to answer the age-old question "what if a genre was just vibes" and I have arrived, the hero this city needs, to tell you which of all the vibey books are the very vibeyest

my latest for @nytimes.com!

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

www.nytimes.com

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

AAAAA

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🧟‍♂️ Sharin’ Zombies 🧟 @sharonz.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just sensible to stock up on sardines. And the Ortiz tuna. And the As do Mar tuna. And the smoked kippers. And the smoked trout. And the salmon. And the mackerel. And the anchovies.

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

TOAST SUPREMACY

also have vague hopes of improving my HDL????

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 4d

this book is delightful, you should acquire it in whatever format is accessible to you

gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 5d

there are still two copies of A BLOOMY HEAD at Lovestruck Books, for anyone who wants a cheesemaking Regency romance about a widowed farmwife and a doctor, with bonus MURDER

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

yessssss

get that heart-healthy fish

gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

WE WILL BE SAVORY IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

“how many cans of sardines have you eaten RECENTLY, Sharon?”

six! because 1 can of sardines + 1 egg + 1 big carrot grated + 2 tbsp flour makes six fish fritters or two lunches.

gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

also sardines are a nice thing to put in the little free pantry.

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

it is not doomerist to have 30 cans of sardines in my basement. sardines are tasty.

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

okay! it’s fine!

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t walked around Minneapolis, but my theory is that it’s virtually always a mindset thing. Boston is a walking city, ergo I walk places. Omaha is not a walking city, ergo I drive places. (Downtown Omaha is basically fine to walk with a few exceptions around interstate on-ramps.)

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

oh boy time to check the credit card charges I’ve racked up buying sale sardines

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

that’s . . . a good point

I am basically a walking shell of social anxiety and it would never occur to me to turn to chatgpt for online dating

gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 2d

you are so regular with your newsletter, and yet every time I see that there’s a new one, I go !!!!! QUELLE SURPRISE! POUR MOI???

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 2d

This Word Suitcase is about the word "condom," the novel Beast by Judith Ivory, and a couple of lines of poetry by Baudelaire

French letters and English hats

condoms, romance novels, rivers of forgetfulness, and loving monsters

www.feliciadavin.com

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