Alice M. Cole
@alicemcole.bsky.social
pen name of https://bonniers.wordpress.com. I write novels.
I like cats (and dogs, rabbits, bison, foxes, etc), art, birds, needlework, writing and writers, landscape photos, flowers...
I repost a lot of stuff I think people might be interested in.
I like cats (and dogs, rabbits, bison, foxes, etc), art, birds, needlework, writing and writers, landscape photos, flowers...
I repost a lot of stuff I think people might be interested in.
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#SundayYellow
Seen In Paducah
This quilt by Susan Stewart from Pittsburgh, KS, is insanely beautiful. She named the quilt "Tulip Fire." The quilt is foundation picked, machine embroidered, and free motion quilted. I have several close-ups that I will attach.
Seen In Paducah
This quilt by Susan Stewart from Pittsburgh, KS, is insanely beautiful. She named the quilt "Tulip Fire." The quilt is foundation picked, machine embroidered, and free motion quilted. I have several close-ups that I will attach.
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
#SundayYellow
Seen In Paducah
This quilt by Susan Stewart from Pittsburgh, KS, is insanely beautiful. She named the quilt "Tulip Fire." The quilt is foundation picked, machine embroidered, and free motion quilted. I have several close-ups that I will attach.
Seen In Paducah
This quilt by Susan Stewart from Pittsburgh, KS, is insanely beautiful. She named the quilt "Tulip Fire." The quilt is foundation picked, machine embroidered, and free motion quilted. I have several close-ups that I will attach.
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Today is the birthday of American novelist Willa Cather, who is particularly known for her depiction of life on the Great Plains. Her top-rated books on LibraryThing are "My Ántonia" and "O Pioneers!" Have you read her work? #WillaCather #💙📚 #Booksky
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Today is the birthday of American novelist Willa Cather, who is particularly known for her depiction of life on the Great Plains. Her top-rated books on LibraryThing are "My Ántonia" and "O Pioneers!" Have you read her work? #WillaCather #💙📚 #Booksky
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New deep-sea species discovered during mining test share.google/PhRUPiXwXAqq...
New deep-sea species discovered during mining test
There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new ...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
New deep-sea species discovered during mining test share.google/PhRUPiXwXAqq...
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Imagine you had millions of people in your life who ignored everything you ever said but would show up once a year and make a huge deal about your birthday, claiming they were your biggest fans.
Crazy, right?
Anyway…Merry Christmas.
Crazy, right?
Anyway…Merry Christmas.
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Imagine you had millions of people in your life who ignored everything you ever said but would show up once a year and make a huge deal about your birthday, claiming they were your biggest fans.
Crazy, right?
Anyway…Merry Christmas.
Crazy, right?
Anyway…Merry Christmas.
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It could take decades to recover from where we are.
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
It could take decades to recover from where we are.
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The parks were intended for everyone. The holidays are opportunities to make our parks and our history a part of growing up.
Help us get the word out to the superintendents. If this administration won't life em up, we will.
Keep MLK day and Juneteenth no fee days.
Its the right thing to do.
Help us get the word out to the superintendents. If this administration won't life em up, we will.
Keep MLK day and Juneteenth no fee days.
Its the right thing to do.
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The parks were intended for everyone. The holidays are opportunities to make our parks and our history a part of growing up.
Help us get the word out to the superintendents. If this administration won't life em up, we will.
Keep MLK day and Juneteenth no fee days.
Its the right thing to do.
Help us get the word out to the superintendents. If this administration won't life em up, we will.
Keep MLK day and Juneteenth no fee days.
Its the right thing to do.
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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Harriet Tracy US inventor. 27 patents, incl a crib, 17 sewing machines, cooking stove & fire escape. The Tracy Gravity Safety Elevator slowed descent in case of power outage, used in 1893 @ Woman's Building @ World's Columbian Exposition Chicago. b. #OTD 6 Dec 1834 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Harriet Tracy US inventor. 27 patents, incl a crib, 17 sewing machines, cooking stove & fire escape. The Tracy Gravity Safety Elevator slowed descent in case of power outage, used in 1893 @ Woman's Building @ World's Columbian Exposition Chicago. b. #OTD 6 Dec 1834 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...
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As our #ChefsForPhilippines response to Typhoon Kalmaegi winds down, WCK stopped by Garces Royal Garden Catering—our restaurant partner since day 1. Executive Chef Metzie shared how partnering with WCK helped expand operations and even help launch pastry-making classes led by Chef Metzie herself.
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
As our #ChefsForPhilippines response to Typhoon Kalmaegi winds down, WCK stopped by Garces Royal Garden Catering—our restaurant partner since day 1. Executive Chef Metzie shared how partnering with WCK helped expand operations and even help launch pastry-making classes led by Chef Metzie herself.
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The LA Taco daily memo is legit the best approach to covering these widespread, disparate raids, bar none. A simple, three minute roundup that gives you the sense of the scale of the terror attacks every day. Why every news org in a town getting hit *still* hasn't copied this is beyond me.
DAILY MEMO: Over 20 Kidnapped by ICE and CBP, Including Another U.S. Citizen, Amid Escalating Southern California Raids
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The LA Taco daily memo is legit the best approach to covering these widespread, disparate raids, bar none. A simple, three minute roundup that gives you the sense of the scale of the terror attacks every day. Why every news org in a town getting hit *still* hasn't copied this is beyond me.
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Born on this day in 1617, in Bergamo, Evaristo Baschenis. Painter of things musical. Here playing the spinet with his patron Ottavio Agliardi on the theorbo. Left wing of a triptych portrait of this musical family.
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Born on this day in 1617, in Bergamo, Evaristo Baschenis. Painter of things musical. Here playing the spinet with his patron Ottavio Agliardi on the theorbo. Left wing of a triptych portrait of this musical family.
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7 December 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Joan Vintura, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
7 December 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Joan Vintura, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
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We’re still hoping for a Christmas miracle for Ellie. 💔
URGENT, TEMPLE HILLS MD/SE DC——
Recent adoptee Ellie (formerly Molly) got out of her home at IVERSON TOWERS APTS in Temple Hills tonight. Her owners are heartbroken & searching. She was a longtime outdoor cat and extremely shy!! If seen please do not chase, contact us with location! She is chipped.
Recent adoptee Ellie (formerly Molly) got out of her home at IVERSON TOWERS APTS in Temple Hills tonight. Her owners are heartbroken & searching. She was a longtime outdoor cat and extremely shy!! If seen please do not chase, contact us with location! She is chipped.
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We’re still hoping for a Christmas miracle for Ellie. 💔
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It's been weeks since I had a great day of birding in Central Park. But today I got several good looks, including my local favorite--the Northern Flicker! I was surprised to hear its inimitable cry and thrilled to capture it in the morning light! 😎😎😎 #CentralPark #birding #Flicker
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's been weeks since I had a great day of birding in Central Park. But today I got several good looks, including my local favorite--the Northern Flicker! I was surprised to hear its inimitable cry and thrilled to capture it in the morning light! 😎😎😎 #CentralPark #birding #Flicker
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Boy with basket containing a masterful assortment of bread that he is not eager to share with you. By Evaristo Baschenis, 1650s.
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Boy with basket containing a masterful assortment of bread that he is not eager to share with you. By Evaristo Baschenis, 1650s.
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An all-too-common interaction I've had:
Scientist: Our research can help shape policy to protect this endangered animal.
Me: Neat! How? What policy? What is it now, and what should it be instead?
Scientist: Uhhhhh.....
Our new paper can help!
www.southernfriedscience.com/shark-scient... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
Scientist: Our research can help shape policy to protect this endangered animal.
Me: Neat! How? What policy? What is it now, and what should it be instead?
Scientist: Uhhhhh.....
Our new paper can help!
www.southernfriedscience.com/shark-scient... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
Shark scientists want their research to help save threatened species, but don’t know how. Our new paper can help.
Sharks are some of the most threatened animals on Earth, and accordingly many scientists who study sharks want their research to be useful for conservation. However, most scientific training does n…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
An all-too-common interaction I've had:
Scientist: Our research can help shape policy to protect this endangered animal.
Me: Neat! How? What policy? What is it now, and what should it be instead?
Scientist: Uhhhhh.....
Our new paper can help!
www.southernfriedscience.com/shark-scient... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
Scientist: Our research can help shape policy to protect this endangered animal.
Me: Neat! How? What policy? What is it now, and what should it be instead?
Scientist: Uhhhhh.....
Our new paper can help!
www.southernfriedscience.com/shark-scient... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
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Individual park superintendents should take a stand and offer free admission on MLK day and Juneteenth despite the administrations removal of their free day status.
Respect is what the parks are all about.
Lets not forget that.
Respect is what the parks are all about.
Lets not forget that.
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Individual park superintendents should take a stand and offer free admission on MLK day and Juneteenth despite the administrations removal of their free day status.
Respect is what the parks are all about.
Lets not forget that.
Respect is what the parks are all about.
Lets not forget that.
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There are 187 R1 institutions in this country and we have just rolled a nuclear bomb into their future for the stupidest possible reason
December 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
There are 187 R1 institutions in this country and we have just rolled a nuclear bomb into their future for the stupidest possible reason
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in a time where corporations trying to milk everything for cash is ruining everything, we still somehow have to explain to future generations how all the best English language cartoons of the 80s existed because Mattel wanted to sell toy figurines
December 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
in a time where corporations trying to milk everything for cash is ruining everything, we still somehow have to explain to future generations how all the best English language cartoons of the 80s existed because Mattel wanted to sell toy figurines
I’m awake! I’m awake!
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I’m awake! I’m awake!
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In Massachusetts and across the country, the Trump admin is turning the pursuit of the American Dream into an American Nightmare. This is wrong, this is immoral, and this is exactly why we must continue to fight back against Trump’s racist anti-immigrant agenda.
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In Massachusetts and across the country, the Trump admin is turning the pursuit of the American Dream into an American Nightmare. This is wrong, this is immoral, and this is exactly why we must continue to fight back against Trump’s racist anti-immigrant agenda.
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Advice of the Sorceress, a mosaic from the so-called Villa of Cicero in Pompeii, is an exceptional artwork signed by Dioskourides of Samos, whose name appears on the lintel above the scene, as in another small mosaic from the same villa.
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Advice of the Sorceress, a mosaic from the so-called Villa of Cicero in Pompeii, is an exceptional artwork signed by Dioskourides of Samos, whose name appears on the lintel above the scene, as in another small mosaic from the same villa.
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#ResistanceRoots
Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1
Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1
Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1