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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

Portland peeps! I'll be at Powell's City of Books tonight with the fabulous @jennykiefer.com to interview her about her new book, CRAFTING FOR SINNERS. Come find out just how dangerous a craft store can be!
www.powells.com/events/jenny...

Jenny Kiefer in Conversation With Wendy N. Wagner Event

The Legendary Independent Bookstore

www.powells.com

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 1d

Just read these, and they were a lot of fun.

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for your service, and eww.

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I wondered about that, too. Missionary twice a week, or. . . ?

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

I first read that as "golden watch and barn," and I thought, yeah, that tracks, building something crazy in a barn. . . .

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

Seen them four times since the 90s, and it's always a great show.

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

That's the exact weight of my almost-6-years girl. He's a growing boy!

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

His big ole paws!

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 13d

Nothing to see here? Think again! These sphinx moth #caterpillars are two MONTHS late emerging, due to a tardy monsoon.

They generally are a food source for migratory birds in EARLY summer. The migrators are gone. What did they eat? Changing weather patterns impact so much.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 11d

It's not often we get two #ringtails in frame on a #cameratrap. These lovelies were photographed in the Galiuro Mountains, another fantastic Sky Island of Arizona.

In this mountain cameratrap images (black and white) - the most visible sights is striped tail and eye shine. A close look shows a smaller, repeat replica behind -- a baby ringtail, a tiny half-cat, half-racoon-looking critter.

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, how wonderful. It would be a dream to see these nocturnal creatures.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 9d

When you mine out there in the mountains, you imperil the southwest's last free-flowing river down here. First you steal from the San Pedro's tributary, #CopperCreek. Then you'll steal subsurface H20 from the river. And you, foreign #mining company, get our precious H20 for free.

The San Pedro River flows in the foreground after monsoonal rain last week. In the background are the majestic Galiuro Mountains and gorgeous cumulus clouds against a blue sky. This part of the range has a visible "saddle" that carves out an impressive, flat-topped mesa. Doesn't get any more 'southwest' than this.

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

"Beavers with the stick" also works.

Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

Good call.

Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

I've never seen a close-up of a juvenile before. Very cool.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck!

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous photos of one of my all-time favorite birds. I love when they start showing up in my forested backyard (Portland, OR) at this time of year.

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 3d

Adapting Ned Blackhawk's National Book Award winner for young readers has been both an honor and a pleasure. I learned a lot while writing the adaptation, and I am looking forward to sharing this book with the world in Fall 2026.

Cover of The Rediscovery of America for Young People, by Ned Blackhawk, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff, with a multicolored illustration of Indigenous Americans against a parchment-colored background.

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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 4d

Insects and falling leaves feels like the intersection of two seasons, but it's interesting to me that their flight images are so similar. Great patterns.

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Jen Willis 💫🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 5d

Happy book birthday to me!

"Poison Pen" (Haunted Coast 5) brings a celebrated author to the Oregon coastal hamlet of Grady — along with fireworks, surfers, special election shenanigans, a Tom Wolfe wannabe, and of course murder.

Also, there are recipes in the back!

books2read.com/u/3JBkNQ

The cover for "Poison Pen," Haunted Coast book 5 by Jennifer Willis. A young woman stands on the shore with the stars and a disgruntled ghost behind her.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 4d

If you love a supernatural mystery, don't sleep on this series!

Jen Willis 💫🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 4d

Had a great brainstorm with @rstefoff.bsky.social and @wnwagner.bsky.social. Now I'm extra excited to start first-drafting Haunted Coast book 8 next month!

. . . Book 5, Poison Pen, just released today, in case you like murder, mystery, and cranky ghosts at the coast! :)

books2read.com/u/3JBkNQ

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 4d

“The global economy is a depressing conveyor belt of self-destruction: resources go in, nothing comes out. Everything disappears forever into a black hole of extinction”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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Jen Willis 💫🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 4d

Had a great brainstorm with @rstefoff.bsky.social and @wnwagner.bsky.social. Now I'm extra excited to start first-drafting Haunted Coast book 8 next month!

. . . Book 5, Poison Pen, just released today, in case you like murder, mystery, and cranky ghosts at the coast! :)

books2read.com/u/3JBkNQ

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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