Stacey
@staceyberkheimer.bsky.social
Shape-note singer, camp counselor, dancer, reader, walker, accountant. Reading lots of post-apocalyptic fiction, just in case.
I'm reading The Quaking of America, by @resmaa.bsky.social
"The Reckoning is here.
I live in a time of great peril and great possibility.
I do not and cannot know what will emerge.
As the future unfolds, I will act from the best parts of myself."
"The Reckoning is here.
I live in a time of great peril and great possibility.
I do not and cannot know what will emerge.
As the future unfolds, I will act from the best parts of myself."
January 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I'm reading The Quaking of America, by @resmaa.bsky.social
"The Reckoning is here.
I live in a time of great peril and great possibility.
I do not and cannot know what will emerge.
As the future unfolds, I will act from the best parts of myself."
"The Reckoning is here.
I live in a time of great peril and great possibility.
I do not and cannot know what will emerge.
As the future unfolds, I will act from the best parts of myself."
Duluth, MN. There's a paywall, so you might not be able to read the story, sorry about that.
www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/d...
www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/d...
Duluth snow artist pays tribute to Renee Good
Former School Board member Harry Welty is known for his front-yard snow sculptures, which can sometimes get political.
www.duluthnewstribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Duluth, MN. There's a paywall, so you might not be able to read the story, sorry about that.
www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/d...
www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/d...
"Do you want to unwind by watching movies where innocent people get thrown into detention centers or abducted from their homes by masked government agents or slaughtered by domestically deployed shock troops? Does that feel like 'horror' to you, or does it feel like news? I’m genuinely asking."
Over at the newsletter: A bit on George Romero's "The Crazies," and more on how weird it feels to write about horror movies during a time of actual horrors: jude-doyle.ghost.io/the-craz/
The War at Home: The Crazies (George A. Romero, 1973; Breck Eisner, 2010)
What happens when the scares start catching up with reality?
jude-doyle.ghost.io
January 19, 2026 at 4:28 PM
"Do you want to unwind by watching movies where innocent people get thrown into detention centers or abducted from their homes by masked government agents or slaughtered by domestically deployed shock troops? Does that feel like 'horror' to you, or does it feel like news? I’m genuinely asking."
I'm not sure if this link will work, but here's my 2025 reading wrap-up from StoryGraph.
app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025...
If anyone wants to be friends on StoryGraph, I love to see what other people are reading.
app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025...
If anyone wants to be friends on StoryGraph, I love to see what other people are reading.
Sign In | The StoryGraph
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January 1, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I'm not sure if this link will work, but here's my 2025 reading wrap-up from StoryGraph.
app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025...
If anyone wants to be friends on StoryGraph, I love to see what other people are reading.
app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025...
If anyone wants to be friends on StoryGraph, I love to see what other people are reading.
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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
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Honestly, until like the 1970s or 1980s, people have held the attitude that adult men having sex with teenagers is "normal" and "biologically wired." They still believe it, they just learned to stop talking about it openly at some point.
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Honestly, until like the 1970s or 1980s, people have held the attitude that adult men having sex with teenagers is "normal" and "biologically wired." They still believe it, they just learned to stop talking about it openly at some point.
I am genuinely confused about why people think that the Epstein files will make a difference.
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I am genuinely confused about why people think that the Epstein files will make a difference.
No kings. Sacramento CA.
October 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
No kings. Sacramento CA.
"Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control." -Roxane Gay. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control." -Roxane Gay. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
"...that there is such a thing as a “through” - that eventually, we’ll come out the other end. And I'm no longer quite so sure that is the case. Instead, I think we need to talk about the long haul. The wandering in the wilderness without a clear endpoint in sight."
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
How To Be A Resilient Writer
First and floormoose,1 I have a book that comes out in two weeks. It’s called Lessons in Magic and Disaster and it’s about a witch named Jamie who decides to...
buttondown.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"...that there is such a thing as a “through” - that eventually, we’ll come out the other end. And I'm no longer quite so sure that is the case. Instead, I think we need to talk about the long haul. The wandering in the wilderness without a clear endpoint in sight."
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
It's kind of refreshing to have somebody come out and say it:
"... But that ain’t why “we” lost. It’s time for this country to reckon with the real reason America lost with one indisputable fact:
More people wanted Donald Trump as president."
open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...
"... But that ain’t why “we” lost. It’s time for this country to reckon with the real reason America lost with one indisputable fact:
More people wanted Donald Trump as president."
open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...
June 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It's kind of refreshing to have somebody come out and say it:
"... But that ain’t why “we” lost. It’s time for this country to reckon with the real reason America lost with one indisputable fact:
More people wanted Donald Trump as president."
open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...
"... But that ain’t why “we” lost. It’s time for this country to reckon with the real reason America lost with one indisputable fact:
More people wanted Donald Trump as president."
open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...
#shapenote #sacredharp #shapenotefriends
All day singing from the Shenandoah Harmony, in northern Wisconsin, on Saturday June 7. All all welcome, details on Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/share/19ZLec...
All day singing from the Shenandoah Harmony, in northern Wisconsin, on Saturday June 7. All all welcome, details on Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/share/19ZLec...
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May 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
#shapenote #sacredharp #shapenotefriends
All day singing from the Shenandoah Harmony, in northern Wisconsin, on Saturday June 7. All all welcome, details on Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/share/19ZLec...
All day singing from the Shenandoah Harmony, in northern Wisconsin, on Saturday June 7. All all welcome, details on Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/share/19ZLec...
Happy Easter.
Today is a great day to remember when a tyrannical ruler conspired with law enforcement agents & scholars to have a former refugee arrested for “blasphemy” during a campus protest
To be fair, he WAS affiliated with the “disciples”
To be fair, he WAS affiliated with the “disciples”
Feds Arrest Undocumented Immigrant Who Led Campus Protest
It's not a good Friday for well-known activist Yeshua Ben Yosef.
dlvr.it
April 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Happy Easter.
The tyranny of gender and a direwolf called Khaleesi: they couldn't call it "Ghost" because IT'S A GIRL DIREWOLF.
slate.com/life/2025/04...
slate.com/life/2025/04...
How Could the Scientists Bringing the Dire Wolf Back From Extinction Mess This Part Up?
Come on, do you even know your Game of Thrones lore?
slate.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The tyranny of gender and a direwolf called Khaleesi: they couldn't call it "Ghost" because IT'S A GIRL DIREWOLF.
slate.com/life/2025/04...
slate.com/life/2025/04...
For Trans Day of Visibility I became a paid subscriber to @assignedmedia.org.
April 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
For Trans Day of Visibility I became a paid subscriber to @assignedmedia.org.
Current mood: My tears have left mine eyes.
#shapenotefriends
#shapenotefriends
March 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Current mood: My tears have left mine eyes.
#shapenotefriends
#shapenotefriends
Minnesotans: It sounds like Amy Klobuchar may be voting with Republicans and Schumer to support the continuing resolution. DC and Mpls offices lines were busy, but the Rochester office line was taking messages: 507-288-5321.
Email: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...
Email: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...
Email Amy - U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar
www.klobuchar.senate.gov
March 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Minnesotans: It sounds like Amy Klobuchar may be voting with Republicans and Schumer to support the continuing resolution. DC and Mpls offices lines were busy, but the Rochester office line was taking messages: 507-288-5321.
Email: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...
Email: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...
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It's almost like obeying in advance doesn't work, won't keep you safe, and only emboldens totalitarians to be worse!
The irony of Columbia being the first target after being at the vanguard against its own students and faculty exercising their right of free speech.
Shafik’s unnecessary and preemptive appeasement totally backfiring
Shafik’s unnecessary and preemptive appeasement totally backfiring
The Trump administration is threatening to cut tens of millions of dollars in federal funding for Columbia University, making the school the first major target in its effort to root out what it considers antisemitic harassment on college campuses.
March 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's almost like obeying in advance doesn't work, won't keep you safe, and only emboldens totalitarians to be worse!
I have quite a lot of days where I don't buy anything, so this is not going to be too difficult. It seems worth a shot. And yes, it's nice to have a good visual.
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
February 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I have quite a lot of days where I don't buy anything, so this is not going to be too difficult. It seems worth a shot. And yes, it's nice to have a good visual.
"You have to be the adult in the room now.
...
Which is scary as hell."
Umair goes long, I usually sort of skim through. But I generally agree with him.
(Being a camp counselor is a good way to work on being the adult in the room. That's how I learned it.)
www.theissue.io/what-kind-of...
...
Which is scary as hell."
Umair goes long, I usually sort of skim through. But I generally agree with him.
(Being a camp counselor is a good way to work on being the adult in the room. That's how I learned it.)
www.theissue.io/what-kind-of...
What Kind of Person to Be In an Age of Collapse
I’m Umair Haque, and this is The Issue: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported publication. Our job is to give you the freshest, deepest, no-holds-barred insight about the issues that matte...
www.theissue.io
February 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"You have to be the adult in the room now.
...
Which is scary as hell."
Umair goes long, I usually sort of skim through. But I generally agree with him.
(Being a camp counselor is a good way to work on being the adult in the room. That's how I learned it.)
www.theissue.io/what-kind-of...
...
Which is scary as hell."
Umair goes long, I usually sort of skim through. But I generally agree with him.
(Being a camp counselor is a good way to work on being the adult in the room. That's how I learned it.)
www.theissue.io/what-kind-of...
I signed up to become a monthly donor to www.familytreeclinic.org, a clinic in my neighborhood that provides gender-affirming and reproductive care and education.
Family Tree Clinic
www.familytreeclinic.org
February 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I signed up to become a monthly donor to www.familytreeclinic.org, a clinic in my neighborhood that provides gender-affirming and reproductive care and education.
Liking this book! I love @annaleen.bsky.social's fiction - but I don't read much nonfiction, and propaganda didn't sound interesting to me. But I'm very interested in stories, and maybe this helps me figure out why so many people are believing the wrong stories now. bookshop.org/p/books/stor...
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
bookshop.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Liking this book! I love @annaleen.bsky.social's fiction - but I don't read much nonfiction, and propaganda didn't sound interesting to me. But I'm very interested in stories, and maybe this helps me figure out why so many people are believing the wrong stories now. bookshop.org/p/books/stor...
What this week is like: It feels like they're trying to get us into full Mad Max dystopia, as fast as possible. (Images from The Road Warrior -- I wasn't brave enough to watch the new ones.)
January 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What this week is like: It feels like they're trying to get us into full Mad Max dystopia, as fast as possible. (Images from The Road Warrior -- I wasn't brave enough to watch the new ones.)
What a relief to see someone saying, "we will not comply with an unlawful order to discriminate". More of that, please. Family Tree Clinic is in my neighborhood in Minneapolis, I've donated before, and just sent them another contribution.
January 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
What a relief to see someone saying, "we will not comply with an unlawful order to discriminate". More of that, please. Family Tree Clinic is in my neighborhood in Minneapolis, I've donated before, and just sent them another contribution.