Stefanie Norlin
@stefanienorlin.bsky.social
Writer, fiber artist + zine maker | Little Free Library curator | #penpalooza letter writer | Adoptive mom + infertility advocate | Words in Catapult, Brevity, trampset, etc. | Big #EldestDaughter energy | She/her.
More here: https://linktr.ee/sabnorlin
More here: https://linktr.ee/sabnorlin
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Hi, old/new friends. A little intro of sorts: I love French fries, historical romance novels, gardening, art journaling, knitting, writing letters + anything Mary Shelley related. Here for the cute dog pics and anyone who wants to talk about books.
Reposting for my new friends here! Still here for the cute dog pics and anyone who wants to talk about books and writing 😀
Really looking forward to this event with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @redwineblueusa.bsky.social. Still time to sign up! social.redwine.blue/s/9gF1deep
Sign up here.
social.redwine.blue
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Really looking forward to this event with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @redwineblueusa.bsky.social. Still time to sign up! social.redwine.blue/s/9gF1deep
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"I read The Lorax aloud. By the end of the book, all the kids are radicalized and collectively devise a plan to dismantle capitalism."
A Day in the Life of a Woke Third-Grade Teacher, as Imagined by a Far-Right Politician
The alarm blares, and I wake up with a renewed vigor to indoctrinate America’s youth. I ride my bike to work, smugly turning up my nose at real Ame...
buff.ly
August 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"I read The Lorax aloud. By the end of the book, all the kids are radicalized and collectively devise a plan to dismantle capitalism."
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one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
August 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
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We're interviewing for two roles at Literary Mama: Publisher and Marketing Director. LM staff are volunteers. Click on the link below for details, and please share!
Opportunities
Literary Mama is an all-volunteer organization that brings mamas and mama supporters together through literature. Over the years, our staff has included mamas of all sorts, reaching across identities ...
literarymama.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We're interviewing for two roles at Literary Mama: Publisher and Marketing Director. LM staff are volunteers. Click on the link below for details, and please share!
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Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
July 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
"The newly identified tomb was a 'major, interesting discovery,' especially for the evidence it provides that Hatshepsut was 'a really pivotal ruler' of her time."
Archaeologists Find a Pharaoh’s Tomb, the First Since King Tut’s, Egypt Says
The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his death, was the first excavation of a royal tomb near the Valley of the King...
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"The newly identified tomb was a 'major, interesting discovery,' especially for the evidence it provides that Hatshepsut was 'a really pivotal ruler' of her time."
If anyone is looking for some Girl Scout cookies, we've got you covered.
January 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If anyone is looking for some Girl Scout cookies, we've got you covered.
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Yup
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Yup
Reposted by Stefanie Norlin
Gun-makers’ clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself for staving off efforts to track who owns firearms in America. Read more ⤵️
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm…
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Gun-makers’ clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself for staving off efforts to track who owns firearms in America. Read more ⤵️
I want to ask for "new-to-me" poetry collections for Christmas. Who should I check out? Bonus points for #smallpress collections!
a man wearing sunglasses and a watch is making a funny face and says poetry snaps .
Alt: a man wearing sunglasses and a watch is making a funny face and says poetry snaps .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:32 PM
I want to ask for "new-to-me" poetry collections for Christmas. Who should I check out? Bonus points for #smallpress collections!
Realizing this morning that Sesame Street is like SNL for toddlers.
December 3, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Realizing this morning that Sesame Street is like SNL for toddlers.
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Hands are unbearably beautiful.
They hold on to things. They let things go.
—Mary Ruefle, from "The Cart"
They hold on to things. They let things go.
—Mary Ruefle, from "The Cart"
November 30, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Hands are unbearably beautiful.
They hold on to things. They let things go.
—Mary Ruefle, from "The Cart"
They hold on to things. They let things go.
—Mary Ruefle, from "The Cart"
Reposting with my five favorite reads this year:
— Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
— The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
— Sh*t Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
— Funny Story by Emily Henry
— The Mystics Would Like a Word by Shannon K. Evans
— Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
— The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
— Sh*t Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
— Funny Story by Emily Henry
— The Mystics Would Like a Word by Shannon K. Evans
Reposting with my five favourite reads of this year.
R. F. Kuang - Yellowface
Helen Garner - This House of Grief
Richard Powers - The Overstory
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls, Fat and Thin
R. F. Kuang - Yellowface
Helen Garner - This House of Grief
Richard Powers - The Overstory
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls, Fat and Thin
Repost with your five favorite reads of this year.
Brian Merchant - Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Victor LaValle - Big Machine
Paul Lynch - Prophet Song (as of Tuesday, also the most relevant)
Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
Benjamin Labatut - The MANIAC
Brian Merchant - Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Victor LaValle - Big Machine
Paul Lynch - Prophet Song (as of Tuesday, also the most relevant)
Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
Benjamin Labatut - The MANIAC
November 26, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Reposting with my five favorite reads this year:
— Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
— The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
— Sh*t Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
— Funny Story by Emily Henry
— The Mystics Would Like a Word by Shannon K. Evans
— Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
— The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
— Sh*t Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
— Funny Story by Emily Henry
— The Mystics Would Like a Word by Shannon K. Evans
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Relatedly, everyone should know about the @bombmag.bsky.social list of residencies they put out seasonally! bombmagazine.org/discover/fel...
Fellowships & Residencies
BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.
bombmagazine.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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One of my favorites, @chenchenwrites.bsky.social!
hello, good evening, my name
is chen chen, i’m a poet, and you may know me from such poems as this, “i love you to the moon &”
is chen chen, i’m a poet, and you may know me from such poems as this, “i love you to the moon &”
November 23, 2024 at 12:06 AM
One of my favorites, @chenchenwrites.bsky.social!
Still thinking about this piece of flash by Christina Cooke that I read in this month's @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Wow.
What Happened Was — Split Lip Magazine
Here is a fact: at sixteen, I watched my father take our pictures off the walls and clothes from their drawers as he packed up my brother and sister and took them away from our home in Jamaica.
splitlipthemag.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Still thinking about this piece of flash by Christina Cooke that I read in this month's @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Wow.
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Poems remind us of our humanity because, sometimes, the lines break. Just like humans do.
And what comfort to know you can break and still be understood.
And what comfort to know you can break and still be understood.
November 21, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Poems remind us of our humanity because, sometimes, the lines break. Just like humans do.
And what comfort to know you can break and still be understood.
And what comfort to know you can break and still be understood.
This is so tone deaf considering all the news swirling around Sarah McBride and the anti-trans bathroom ban. I’d rather see these leaders (and others in congress!!) live out these values instead of just posting on social. Embarrassing.
November 21, 2024 at 5:49 AM
This is so tone deaf considering all the news swirling around Sarah McBride and the anti-trans bathroom ban. I’d rather see these leaders (and others in congress!!) live out these values instead of just posting on social. Embarrassing.
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There are so many ways to love God.
The city of Saint Paul has purchased and abolished $40 million in medical debt from 32,000 residents, aiming to eventually reach $110 million. Amounts canceled this round range from $268 to $105,000
www.kare11.com/article/news...
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Thousands of Saint Paul residents will soon receive notices of medical debt cancellations
The city of Saint Paul is using funds from the American Rescue Plan to cancel roughly $110 million in medical debt for residents.
www.kare11.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:50 PM
There are so many ways to love God.
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November 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Time is ticking down fast on The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Just FOUR hours now to enter. Get your entries in before midnight NYC!
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
a close up of a half moon with a black background
ALT: a close up of a half moon with a black background
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Time is ticking down fast on The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Just FOUR hours now to enter. Get your entries in before midnight NYC!
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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I wrote about how the Resistance is dead, and also very much alive:
The Resistance Is Dead. Long Live the Resistance?
The women who set out to bury Donald Trump are doing things differently now.
nymag.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I wrote about how the Resistance is dead, and also very much alive:
From James Clear:
5 steps of the creative process:
Discover - Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice.
Collect - Record anything that strikes you.
Generate - Build on your notes to brainstorm lots of ideas.
Combine - Connect previously unconnected ideas.
Refine - Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.
5 steps of the creative process:
Discover - Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice.
Collect - Record anything that strikes you.
Generate - Build on your notes to brainstorm lots of ideas.
Combine - Connect previously unconnected ideas.
Refine - Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.
a man in a black shirt and tie is holding a pen and saying noted forever
ALT: a man in a black shirt and tie is holding a pen and saying noted forever
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:17 PM
From James Clear:
5 steps of the creative process:
Discover - Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice.
Collect - Record anything that strikes you.
Generate - Build on your notes to brainstorm lots of ideas.
Combine - Connect previously unconnected ideas.
Refine - Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.
5 steps of the creative process:
Discover - Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice.
Collect - Record anything that strikes you.
Generate - Build on your notes to brainstorm lots of ideas.
Combine - Connect previously unconnected ideas.
Refine - Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.
Excited to dig into this new issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social today with a cup of coffee by my side.
Please help us welcome our gorgeous new 💫 NOVEMBER ISSUE 💫
https://buff.ly/2Z36noR
Sending LOVE & THANKS to our contributors 💖
WORDS: C. Russell Price, @christinajcooke.bsky.social , Victoria Hood & Thomas Kearnes
ART: Zhuo Xiong
PLUS: @alhs.bsky.social reviews Sarah Ghazal Ali’s THEOPHANIES
https://buff.ly/2Z36noR
Sending LOVE & THANKS to our contributors 💖
WORDS: C. Russell Price, @christinajcooke.bsky.social , Victoria Hood & Thomas Kearnes
ART: Zhuo Xiong
PLUS: @alhs.bsky.social reviews Sarah Ghazal Ali’s THEOPHANIES
November 15, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Excited to dig into this new issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social today with a cup of coffee by my side.