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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 3h

My library has agreed to order this, but because of B & T going out of business, the acquisitions and processing systems are in disarray, and it’ll be a little while before they can get to this title.

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 5h

Compare & contrast; discuss significance:

--characterization of 14-yr-old Epstein victims (as "women")
--characterization of 18 to 40-yr-old Young Republicans (as "kids")

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 5h

Compare & contrast; discuss significance:

--characterization of 14-yr-old Epstein victims (as "women")
--characterization of 18 to 40-yr-old Young Republicans ("kids)

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 5h

Thoughtful piece about Trey Reed. Whether his death was murder or suicide, "Behind the pixels and the headlines is a mother who will never hold her son again.... It is easy to chase the narrative. It is harder to hold the silence, the grief, the unanswered questions."

substack.com/@drstaceypat...

Dr Stacey Patton (@drstaceypatton1865)

The salacious spectacle around Trey Reed’s death says more about us than it does about what happened to him. Before the second autopsy results even dropped, social media turned this child’s death in...

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 19h

Would be nice if we could charge him with perjury, since he lied when he took his oath of office.

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 1d

From the morning walk. Summer is a-goin’ out, and I, for one, am glad.
I love autumn, and rejoice in its flowers and clouds. 30 minutes earlier, the clouds were electric coral, the sky cyan.
#beautyisresistance
#beautyasresistance

Reddish purple fall asters. Not sure what kind—they aren’t right for New England asters. The flower stems have fallen over, so many blossoms are facing downward. The backs are as lovely as the fronts.

A few flowers still on the sunflower beside the commuter rail line whose blossoms and visiting bees have appeared in other posts. No bees visible this morning. Maybe 52° is a little cool for them?9

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 1d

My family were strictly light roux people.

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 1d

This morning's walk was still affected by the departing nor'easter, so no photos. Here's last week's super moon instead.

#beautyisresistance
#beautyasresistance

October 6 supermoon sandwiched between a pale pink cloud above and a line of trees below. Theres a parking lot in the foreground, with large yellow trailers used for autumn leaf collection to the right, and a light pole (the light itself is not shining yet) to the left of center.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 2d

Amen

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 3d

Wish I could be one of them!
However, am looking for an animal hat or something similar to wear.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 3d

It would have to be, if the artist intends us to hear the lutes.

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 3d

Translation, for us who do not have Latin?

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 4d

This collapsing of a 300 year, international, multiracial mvt into a single racially identified political fragment makes me crazy.
At the same time, I am more and more suspicious that the whole mvt is tainted by its origins as an arm of British empire.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 4d

It is!

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 4d

By the way, they stream a recording if each concer about 10 days after the live performance. 10/24 to 11/6 for this concert.

www.piffaro.org

Piffaro, The Renaissance Band

Experience the intimacy and wonder of Renaissance music. Join Piffaro online, on tour, or at our concert series in Philadelphia, PA and Wilmington, DE.

www.piffaro.org

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 4d

I am about to head out to the first Piffaro concert of the season. Piffaro is Philly’s world-renowned renaissance music wind band. I’m gonna be rockin’ to shawms, sackbuts, krummhorns, & recorders! And don’t forget the ME bagpipes & trumpets!!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 5d

This looks like anti-Christian bias to me.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 5d

No good photo from this morning's walk, but here's one from Argyll's and my shorter afternoon walk.

#beautyisresistance
#beautyasresistance

A bright salmon colored tree surrounded by long afternoon shadows. There's a line of dark green trees behind it, and blue sky and fleecy white clouds above.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 5d

I usually have to catch the recording later, but this is rapidly becoming highlight of the week for me. I love hearing you laugh.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 5d

How come Pete Hegseth gets to have gender-affirming treatment and surgery (so he can look more “manly) while
while members of the military have been denied theirs and even kicked out for wanting it???

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 6d

What about female Jewish or Muslim persons with autism?

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 8d

I loved watching the buck spit the shells out one side of his mouth. And hearing the crunch as he chewed.
Very therapeutic!

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