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@nancymittens.bsky.social

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Fibercrafts, books. Still not much to say. Will block on vibes, still deciding about xylophones. Sometimes I take time to respond, because I am trying to be thoughtful. Has read but does not like Moby Dick. Still on Dreamwidth and Mastodon

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 8h

mmm, not how I learned it. But the whack fol, etc. is the same.

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 8h

Too rah loo rah loo rye aye...

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 9h

Woohoo! Go you!

nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 10h

I resent the airlines, not my fellow trapped humans.

nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 10h

I sent my Phileas to a cousin to sign her divorce papers.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 12h

So A) Yikes
B) Good job, Boeing for getting the front glass right
C) YIKES

And an aside: anyone have any idea what the obviously added emoji paperclips in the twitter images are supposed to mean?

arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah

“NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data.”…

arstechnica.com

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 10h

And it's ugly!

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 17h

Right? I actually think this is a good phrase to know!

nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 21h

Mizzle is a great word.

nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 21h

Sorry for your loss.

nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 21h

Puerto Rico too, if they want it.

nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 22h

High school French gave me:
- Calm yourself, Anne!
And
- Let us go to the pastry shop together!

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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 1d

Homework:

"Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world." -- Howard Zinn

www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...

I have tried hard to match my friends in their pessimism about the world (is it just my friends?), but I keep encountering people who, in spite of all the evidence of terrible things happening everywhere, give me hope. Especially young people, in whom the future rests.

Wherever I go, I find such people. And beyond the handful of activists there seem to be hundreds, thousands, more who are open to unorthodox ideas. But they tend not to know of one another’s existence, and so, while they persist, they do so with the desperate patience of Sisyphus endlessly pushing that boulder up the mountain.

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Even when we don’t “win,” there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that we have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. We need hope.

From: The Optimism of Uncertainty
By Howard Zinn •
ZCommunications • September 30, 2004; The Nation • September 20, 2004

An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.

If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

From:
The Optimism of Uncertainty
By Howard Zinn •
ZCommunications • September 30, 2004; The Nation • September 20, 2004

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 1d

I demand a one on one audience with Ackerman! You should too!

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 2d

Block list of US Gov Bluesky accounts. You don’t want them seeing your stuff.

QuyetPawz @quyetpawz.bsky.social · 2d

Here ya go

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 2d

I have blocked
the account
that you opened
In bluesky

with which
you were probably
hoping
to pwn me

Forgive me
it felt delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday!

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 1d

Same. Only 50.

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AEGomezjr @aegomezjr.bsky.social · 1d

Citizenship - we’re all in it whether we like each other or not.

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Anette @therandome.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve lives in blue pockets in red states (in one of the four Appalachian counties that went for Obama in 2008), and in Elyse Stefanik‘s district in Deep Blue NY. This collective assignment of culpability or worthiness is just nonsense in both directions

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 3d

What Nixon and Reagan stole from us by defunding public higher education: in 1957, Jean Childs Young was getting her Master’s at Queens College CUNY for $18/semester.

Minimum wage in 1957 was $1/hour, so you could get a semester’s worth of Master’s degree for less than a half-week of minimum wage.

A screenshot from the US Inflation calculator:
Inflation Calculator
If in 1957 (enter year)
I purchased an item for $18.00
then in 2025 (enter year)
that same item would cost: $207.53
Cumulative rate of inflation: 1052.9%
Calculate

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6d

2/2

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 2d

Reposting for anyone in the book trade who'd care to answer...

Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 3d

Friends: A question for those with writing/publishing experience. If one's ms (a novel) was requested by a publisher after a pitch, is it appropriate to ask about its status after some amount of time or is that not done? If so, is there a ballpark interval that's reasonable for a check-in? Thanks!

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