Lorraine Berry
@lorraineberry.bsky.social
Used to have a decent career writing about books prior to Nov. 2024.
Trained as a historian.
Grew up in the PNW.
Dead chuffed ‘bout owt.
Stop mithering.
Trained as a historian.
Grew up in the PNW.
Dead chuffed ‘bout owt.
Stop mithering.
Mama, we’re all Calibri now.
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Mama, we’re all Calibri now.
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ALA is disappointed and concerned with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lower court ruling in Little v. Llano County stand. This decision will significantly restrict the freedom to read in public libraries across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/48HOSAl
Our statement: https://bit.ly/48HOSAl
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
ALA is disappointed and concerned with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lower court ruling in Little v. Llano County stand. This decision will significantly restrict the freedom to read in public libraries across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/48HOSAl
Our statement: https://bit.ly/48HOSAl
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Pretty rich coming from a Comic Sans administration.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Pretty rich coming from a Comic Sans administration.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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Hodgepodge is quickly becoming the de facto community-building space, in no small part because of the amazing staff culture. We're so happy to have it, and we were so happy to have you join us for a night of laughs and conversation.
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hodgepodge is quickly becoming the de facto community-building space, in no small part because of the amazing staff culture. We're so happy to have it, and we were so happy to have you join us for a night of laughs and conversation.
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All I tried to say is why are society's most traumatized able to bear witness to suffering globally. Why are society's poorest. Why are the disabled. And your ass paying a mortgage can't.
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
All I tried to say is why are society's most traumatized able to bear witness to suffering globally. Why are society's poorest. Why are the disabled. And your ass paying a mortgage can't.
I had a joke about Galatea but it was too stone cold.
I had a joke about Sisyphus that made me pretty happy. Rbuthl (roll boulder up the hill laughing.)
I thought I had 3 jokes about Cerberus, but I was getting ahead (and ahead and ahead) of myself.
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I had a joke about Galatea but it was too stone cold.
I’m boarding an early Amtrak but let me just say, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was a delight!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
Thanks Hodgepodge Books and Taproom for a great event at St Mary's Episcopal Church tonight here in Eugene, Oregon. And thanks to @lorraineberry.bsky.social for being a wonderful in conversation partner.
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m boarding an early Amtrak but let me just say, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was a delight!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
Your umpteenth reminder not to forage mushrooms if you do not know what you are doing.
apnews.com/article/pois...
apnews.com/article/pois...
California officials warn against foraging wild mushrooms after deadly poisoning outbreak
California officials are warning foragers about a deadly outbreak linked to wild mushrooms. The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely from death cap mushroo...
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Your umpteenth reminder not to forage mushrooms if you do not know what you are doing.
apnews.com/article/pois...
apnews.com/article/pois...
I’m still trying to figure out if “Jay Kelly” was intended as satire, or was I really supposed to feel anything new because a guy in his 60s discovers that he ignored all his friends and family in pursuit of his work?
Why not just make me listen to “Cat’s in the Cradle” over and over again?
Why not just make me listen to “Cat’s in the Cradle” over and over again?
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I’m still trying to figure out if “Jay Kelly” was intended as satire, or was I really supposed to feel anything new because a guy in his 60s discovers that he ignored all his friends and family in pursuit of his work?
Why not just make me listen to “Cat’s in the Cradle” over and over again?
Why not just make me listen to “Cat’s in the Cradle” over and over again?
A friend and I cried like babies as this story came out.
We will remember Dec 6 1989 and the lives of these folks cut short because of hatred for humans marked as female/feminine
December 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A friend and I cried like babies as this story came out.
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From the team that brought you Touching Fentanyl Can Get You High and Yes You Can Get AIDS From A Toilet Seat comes Painful Pot Vomiting Definitely Real
It was a pain worse than childbirth, said a TikTok mom as she described bouts of uncontrollable vomiting after marijuana use.
‘Scromiting,’ or uncontrollable vomiting due to marijuana use, is on the rise | CNN
Uncontrolled, explosive vomiting after marijuana use, called “scromiting,” is on the rise in the US, including among teenagers. Here’s what you need to know.
cnn.it
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
From the team that brought you Touching Fentanyl Can Get You High and Yes You Can Get AIDS From A Toilet Seat comes Painful Pot Vomiting Definitely Real
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SO PSYCHED to have Foxglove up at @therumpus.net: longing for the lost "wild" homes I shared with my great-grandfather (+ our irregular hearts), a healthy dose of mothering, health anxiety, and suburban yard maintenance!
Take your Kali arsenicosum before you read it!
therumpus.net/2025/12/04/f...
Take your Kali arsenicosum before you read it!
therumpus.net/2025/12/04/f...
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
SO PSYCHED to have Foxglove up at @therumpus.net: longing for the lost "wild" homes I shared with my great-grandfather (+ our irregular hearts), a healthy dose of mothering, health anxiety, and suburban yard maintenance!
Take your Kali arsenicosum before you read it!
therumpus.net/2025/12/04/f...
Take your Kali arsenicosum before you read it!
therumpus.net/2025/12/04/f...
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An incredible statement to make in a land that still wears the scars of genocides by multiple centralized states
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
An incredible statement to make in a land that still wears the scars of genocides by multiple centralized states
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Turkeys are coming down from the hills to fatten up for winter.
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Turkeys are coming down from the hills to fatten up for winter.
Sesame Street absolutely saving my sanity this morning. Beignet Blanc combines Daniel Craig levels of yumminess with French pastry.
youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...
youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
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December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Sesame Street absolutely saving my sanity this morning. Beignet Blanc combines Daniel Craig levels of yumminess with French pastry.
youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...
youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
Smile. You’re on Cat-did Camera.
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Smile. You’re on Cat-did Camera.
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For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?
![Red cover with the silhouette of a child with a missile falling from above with title ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL ALWYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS, author Omar El Akkad "Author of American War"
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times
"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn’t anymore. Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it." —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of Wandering Stars and There There
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.
As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.
This is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, his most raw and vul…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jvhw6v6rt4motcndq4gh5qo7/bafkreieuaku7fvqyktelutykflyzanjmna6j3oiiqfkdxvgebund6pdz2e@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
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25th Amendment now.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
25th Amendment now.