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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · 9h

I turned on the fireplace for Barney.

A black cat is curled up on a folded astronomical quilt in front of a gas fireplace.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 2d

a great 🧵

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...

Tripitaka Koreana - Wikipedia

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 3d

Man on bike shoots at woman on bike near Danehy Park in Cambridge but misses
www.universalhub.com/2025/man-bik...
#CambridgeMA #crime #guns

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Local folks, be careful. (I’m safe at home)

Shelter in place at Harvard over report of bicyclist shooting at person near campus

Harvard University issued a shelter-in-place order Friday for a report of a person on a bicycle opening fire elsewhere in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve been leading a weekly Bible study for a group of friends since 2020. Tonight’s session was on Daniel 3, which lead one attendee to discover that the Beastie Boys were sampling this Sly Stone bop.

Loose Booty

YouTube video by Sly and the Family Stone - Topic

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · 8d

I’m proud of you, friend.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14d

Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · 17d

I’m hosting a Three Sisters Potluck tomorrow for Indigenous People Day. Prep this morning included roasting a kabocha squash, making corn pudding, and putting some flor de junio beans in the instant pot.

A baking dish filled with corn pudding next to a cookie sheet with roasted chunks of kabocha squash on a gas stove top.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21d

If you didn't want Puerto Ricans speaking Spanish in the US, you should've thought about that before you colonized the island and forcefully made it a part of the US.

A screenshot of a tweet from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG). The tweet reads:
"Bad Bunny says America has 4 months to learn Spanish before his perverse unwanted performance at the Super Bowl halftime.

It would be a good time to pass my bill to make English the official language of America.

And the NFL needs to stop having demonic sexual performances during its halftime shows."

The tweet was posted at 10:48 AM on October 6, 2025, has 144.4K views, 954 replies, 1.2K retweets, 7.3K likes, and 70 bookmarks.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27d

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know

learning is good

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · 26d

This was one of the readings at my wedding.

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · 26d

I needed to use a bunch of kale, chard and herbs that I grew, so I made spanikopita.

A tray of spanikopita, cut into eight pieces.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · Sep 10

Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral

Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · Sep 5

My pacifist Christian faith tells me that we should let our yay be yay and our nay be nay, to be honest and straightforward in our speech.

But it also tells me that the peacemakers shall be called the children of God and that so much as it is within my power, to live peaceably with everyone.

Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · Sep 5

But I think it’s pretty clear that Trump wants the US to appear more aggressive and normalize the idea, at home and abroad, that we will *start* wars and that’s not something I can get behind.

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · Sep 5

I want a much, much smaller department of defense that only does actual defense. I want peace through real peacemaking, not peace through military force and domination.

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · Sep 5

My initial reaction to renaming the DoD the Department of War is actually kind of positive. “Defense” implies that we’re only protecting ourselves, when the DoD is often used to proactively “defend” special interests by waging war.

Let’s be honest about what we’re doing and then change!

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NPR @npr.org · Sep 3

In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165 million years ago.

A spine-tingling discovery: This dinosaur had spiked body armor

In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165 million years ago.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you're willing to throw the trans population to the wolves you're willing to throw every other group that's not you to the wolves too, they just aren't howling loudly enough for them yet.

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Sweetadelinevt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you’re in the middle of applying for citizenship in Massachusetts and would be open to talking to a reporter today, shoot me a DM.

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · Aug 23

I had a book club like this over a decade ago. It was fantastic. I would absolutely do it again.

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · Aug 23

Just encountered a very cool idea for a book club! Each person reads a different book & annotates it. They pass it to the next person in the club, who annotates it, & passes it on. Rinse & repeat! It's a different kind of conversation AND creates a very cool art object at the end!

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · Aug 23

I had a book club like this over a decade ago. We read popular books that we saw people reading on the subway that we knew we would hate. It was great. I loved seeing the different annotations from different people.

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Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s fixed! I can catch airplanes again!

Screen shot showing 515 coins, with options to purchase 10, 100, or 500 more coins.

Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · Aug 22

I’ve really been enjoying the game, but this renders it pretty much unplayable. You need to use coins to play for more than a couple minutes at a time.

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