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Briar in Blue

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · Mar 6

That face when Lucy Calkins' name is dropped disparagingly in a local school board meeting.

a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .

Alt: A tight zoom into Robert Redford's face in the film "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972). Robert has blond shaggy hair and a full beard. He's wearing a brown jacket. As the camera comes in, he slowly nods and a smile crinkles his eyes at the corners.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 18h

I just want to weep at the cruelty of this.

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 18h

I will never forgive any dyslexia "advocate" who tried to pretend it wasn't about politics. It's always been about politics.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know blasphemy could make me this angry.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 3d

“Charlie only had 31 years,” Paxton said in Lubbock. “Even though we’re sad that he’s gone, some of our most impactful people in the history of the world lived about the same amount of years. Matter of fact, Jesus Christ. 33 years…Look at history after Jesus.”

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Ken Paxton Compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus — Then Used Him as an Excuse to Crush Free Speech

Hours after announcing ‘undercover operations’ into leftist groups, Ken Paxton compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus at a Turning Point USA event.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 9d

Like, Spuds MacKenzie? America's glorious past is SPUDS MACKENZIE?

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 9d

I swear to god this is like one of those soft rock radio station commercials:

*Amy Grant plays in the background*

"Playing the hits from your childhood to justify our murderous regime with less talk and fewer commercial breaks!"

A screen shot from the Wikipedia for How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley. It reads:

Content: the ten pillars of fascism
1. The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.

2. Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and division.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 11d

There are two wolves inside of you.
#booksky #Romancelandia

From left: a Kobo ereader with a lock screen image of Miranda Neville's romance novel "The Dangerous Viscount." On the cover, a half naked man gently places his face into the bosom of a dark haired woman dressed in bedsheets and lying back across a bed, her eyes closed. Because it's e-ink, the cover is black and white.

A hardback edition of "Silver Pigs: A Detective Novel in Ancient Rome" by Lindsey Davis. The cover is slightly torn and features a Roman bust and an ink well full of red ink that is so red it resembles blood.

Both books are framed on top of a honey oak background.

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 20d

It's a Harlequin Historical about a young member of the gentry whose mother is murdered and who seeks refuge with her widower neighbor. They set out on an adventure across Tudor England (he works for Henry VIII, you see) to solve the murder and protect the lady's inheritance. I did read it haha.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah, I know. I would be one of the aforementioned Romance girlies. And I like to think that I have a brain.

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 20d

All of us are honorary Romance girlies in times like these.

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 20d

I'm not surprised romance readers are reading the book; I'm surprised that it broke the algo. Usually, these recc lists are more about content vs what people are reading, but this has clearly hit a tipping point toward the latter.

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 20d

I was tongue-in-cheek and referring to myself as a "girlie."

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21d

I'm not a full-blown go-to-Disney-every-year adult, but I'd be lying if I said the Disney Renaissance and the classic fairytales didn't turn me into a romance lover.

a man and a woman are dancing in a forest

Alt: A gif of the Princess Aurora dressed in her Briar Rose outfit twirling with Prince Phillip deep in the forest of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959)

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21d

I am one of them, so. Literally, who do you think enjoyed "A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune"?

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21d

I mean, GR doesn't recognize what DNF is, so it will recommend books like those as it just sees it as another shelf you have. I have never seen a book so completely unrelated to the "you liked" book recommended before. I mean, A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune is a Harlequin Historical.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21d

three older women are standing next to each other and the word same is on the bottom

Alt: three older women are standing next to each other and the word same is on the bottom

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah, it's a journey across Tudor England, and it's a marriage of convenience with a neighbor to protect her from a villainous cousin. It's cute and short.

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 29d

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · Sep 12

One of the bullets had Italian brainrot engraved on it? Am I understanding this correctly?

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · Sep 7

Don't get me wrong, Twitter is and was The Bad Place, but I think I would have spiraled if I hadn't found people that had already experienced what we went through and had actual advice.

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · Sep 7

Every year, a distraught mother comes to TikTok because she's just learned her (insert number) grader isn't reading, and every year this discourse on that app is how that mother is a lazy, uneducated moron.

And every year, I'm glad I didn't have TikTok when that happened to me.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · Aug 22

The world is terrible, but Maine exists.

A view across Eagle Lake in Acadia National Park in Maine, USA. The sky and the lake are almost the same bright blue. Rolling mountains fill the background. The foreground is framed by summer green foliage. There are several rocks jutting out of the lake close to the shore. The clouds are wispy and few.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · Aug 17

For those inclined, here's the pattern. It makes a 12" finished block. It's kind of an Ohio Star. #quilts

A diagram patter on graph paper for an ohio star variation quilt block. The outlines and shading are all in blue. The pattern calls for:
1 4.5" square in a square block
12 2.5" neutral squares
4 2.5" neutral/color half square triangles
4 2.5" x 4.5" main goose color flying geese
4 2.5" x 4.5" main goose neutral flying geese

Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · Aug 17

I promise I didn't mean to do this, but the spirits of Merryweather and Flora must have possessed me while I was picking out the fabric for this project. #quilting #quiltingsky #sewingsky #handmade

Two Ohio Star variation quilt blocks. On the left is an unfinished block. Its main color is a very vibrant pink. On the right is the same block, finished, with the same fabric as the pink, this time in a vibrant blue colorway. The colored fabrics feature a snake motif. The neutral fabric in both blocks is an off-white wildflower print with blue blossoms and brown leaves and flowers. It's giving "make it pink, no make it blue".

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · Aug 10

The real answer is "it's ingredients don't contain gluten, but be wary of cross contamination as it is not certified gluten free." Not "it contains an ingredient not on the label."