bluebelletrist 📘🖌️
@bluebelletrist.bsky.social
Writer, former prof, sometime forest witch. Work in Blue Earth Review, Belletrist, Sierra Nevada Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, AJC. Books, coffee, & dogs.
Democrat, not a felon.
Democrat, not a felon.
Pinned
I think we're all feeling a bit like this little Jesus abandoned in the rec center parking lot.
I had to go to the mall and omg, Iowa people are the worst. Iowa nice? Nopenopenopenope.
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I had to go to the mall and omg, Iowa people are the worst. Iowa nice? Nopenopenopenope.
Fucking clowns.
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Fucking clowns.
Poppy says it's still snowing!
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Poppy says it's still snowing!
Southern friends, please note this pretend mac & cheese atrocity. Also, those rolls 😱
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Southern friends, please note this pretend mac & cheese atrocity. Also, those rolls 😱
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
dolphin
antelope
buffalo
red fox
barred owl
dolphin
antelope
buffalo
red fox
barred owl
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
dolphin
antelope
buffalo
red fox
barred owl
dolphin
antelope
buffalo
red fox
barred owl
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Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
Never show respect for those who don't respect you.
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Never show respect for those who don't respect you.
It is gonna snow for 36 hours with 25+ mph wind. Anywhere from 10--16 inches of snow expected. I live in the polar version of hell.
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is gonna snow for 36 hours with 25+ mph wind. Anywhere from 10--16 inches of snow expected. I live in the polar version of hell.
Breakfast of champions. My chocolate pie (new recipe) was an epic fail, but this is always perfection. (Except for the time I forgot the sugar.)
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Breakfast of champions. My chocolate pie (new recipe) was an epic fail, but this is always perfection. (Except for the time I forgot the sugar.)
I feel okay about this. Growing up with parents who didn't entertain/socialize, I always feel like I'm behind.
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I feel okay about this. Growing up with parents who didn't entertain/socialize, I always feel like I'm behind.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Jake is watching all the extra house-cleaning and other prep and he is worried.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Jake is watching all the extra house-cleaning and other prep and he is worried.
Why not be whimsical?
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Why not be whimsical?
This. The rage I feel when those things start up all around me...
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This. The rage I feel when those things start up all around me...
Please tell me no one harms the fluffy white dog in The Beast in Me?
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Please tell me no one harms the fluffy white dog in The Beast in Me?
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
Libraries are indispensable. And magical.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Libraries are indispensable. And magical.
Why would anyone read anything by Nuzzi?
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Why would anyone read anything by Nuzzi?
A walk in the country is a balm for the soul.
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A walk in the country is a balm for the soul.
Just enjoy.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Just enjoy.
It was the worst of times. It was the stupidest of times.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It was the worst of times. It was the stupidest of times.
We all know what's useless here and it ain't the Tylenol.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
We all know what's useless here and it ain't the Tylenol.
Northern Lights over SE Iowa!
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Northern Lights over SE Iowa!
Soooo much of today makes sense to me now.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Soooo much of today makes sense to me now.