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sam
@wisconsam.bsky.social
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Born 2 blog. Covering climate. Professionally nosy. News & UX u can use. Friend-aunt. Knitter. Of the prairie.
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Pieeeee
A pecan and a pumpkin pie
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Everyone thinks wisconsin is about beer and cheese but it's actually about wild rice and cranberry.
A Bag of Hand Parched Wild Rice A cranberry sauce recipe from the Sioux Chef cookbook
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I don’t like cooking meat but we got a little turkey from the conscious carnivore and are gonna make Sean Sherman’s roast turkey, wild onions, maple squash, and cranberry sauce recipe.
Photo of the Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen cookbook by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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???
A flyer for a show called “MAMMA MAGI! The Panto” the text is stylized like Mamma Mia! There are also silhouettes of three football players pointing at a slice of Swiss cheese
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Went to a wedding on an island in the Mississippi and couldn’t help noticing that five of the nine times the venue has flooded were since 2000
Flood lines on a wall. The lowest line is 2023, then 1993, then 2019, then 2014, then 2023, then 1952, then 1997, then 2001, then 1969 which was about as tall as a doorway, then the highest was 1965.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I took a reusable gift bag sewing class tonight
Two drawstring bags one in a pink floral fabric and one in a marbled purple. They both have dramatic gold cords as the draw string
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Went to a collage class this morning with the intention of making something pretty and colorful and fun and then this made itself
A collage with black white and red images featuring a woman with string wrapped around her hands, black and white illustrations of mushrooms, a dogwood flower, a tree, and a woman lounging in a bath. There are also several text elements that read: what is a life without constraints. We save us. What happens when more than half of the content you see and hear online is fake? Classical / heretical. Hit the streets. The sacred.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Second, we counter their apocalyptic narratives with a far better story about how to survive the hard times ahead without leaving anyone behind. A story capable of draining end times fascism of its gothic power and galvanizing a movement ready to put it all on the line for our collective survival. A story not of end times, but of better times; not of separation and supremacy, but of interdependence and belonging; not of escaping, but staying put and staying faithful to the troubled earthly reality in which we are enmeshed and bound.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Every year these people shove their heterosexual skeleton lifestyle in our faces
Inflatable skeletons engaged in physical intimacy. To make sure we know they are straight, the lady skeletons have long hair
November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I made dumplings
Shaped, uncooked dumplings Cooked dumplings in yogurt sauce with mint and pita bread
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Climate change made Hurricane Melissa stronger, and the people in the middle of its wind and rain right now are experiencing a climate justice disaster.
Like many in frontline communities, Jamaicans produce a very small amount of the pollution that is changing our climate. 17.34 t CO2eq/cap - U.S. greenhouse gas emissions per capita. 3.22 t CO2eq/cap - Jamaica greenhouse gas emissions Como muchas comunidades fronterizas, los jamaiquinos producen muy poco carbono dióxido que sabemos está cambiando nuestro tiempo y clima. 3.22 toneladas de CO2 eq/cap - Emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero per cápita de Jamaica 17.35 toneladas de CO2 eq/cap - Emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero per cápita de Estados Unidos
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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this piece is still so good

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. It is terrifying in its wickedness, yes. But it also opens up powerful possibilities for resistance. To bet against the future on this scale – to bank on your bunker – is to betray, on the most basic level, our duties to one another, to the children we love, and to every other life form with whom we share a planetary home. This is a belief system that is genocidal at its core and treasonous to the wonder and beauty of this world. We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line. Our opponents know full well that we are entering an age of emergency, but have responded by embracing lethal yet self-serving delusions. Having bought into various apartheid fantasies of bunkered safety, they are choosing to let the Earth burn. Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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My local food bank hit its Thanksgiving meal request capacity in just five hours. If you have any extra cash right now, please send it to a food pantry in your community.

If you're in Madison, support Goodman's Thanksgiving Basket Drive: secure.qgiv.com/for/thanksgi...
Screenshot from an email that reads: We just closed registration for community members wishing to receive a Thanksgiving Basket, which provides all the groceries a family needs to cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at home. Last year, we were surprised when we filled the list in just over a day. This year, we knew it would be fast, but we hit our capacity of 4,000 families in less than five hours. The need for food assistance in our community is greater than ever! Now, we need your help! We made a commitment to those 4,000 families to get them the food they need, and we cannot fail them. Anything you can give — food, funds or sharing the word with friends — will be a tremendous help.
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Took my mom to the more accessible suburban rally in Middleton where of course I didn’t see a single cop bc it’s the west side but probably at least 500 people out there despite us being 20 min from the big one on the square
A protest sign that says trans kids belong
October 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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and, importantly, coal has a white working-class narrative. But the coal itself is femininized, something to be owned and exploited
October 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Did the wisconsin historical society’s LGBTQ+ walking tour of Madison and loved it
The hotel that Cardinal bar is in A flyer for an “urgent lesbian meeting”
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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happy spooky szn from me & @climateconnections.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Maples barely starting to turn in Peninsula State Park, Door County
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Anyway my kite is coming along well
September 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Log off and do an Active Hope spiral (spend 2 min on each prompt)
An image of a spiral worksheet with seven prompts from the book active hope. The prompts are: 1. I love.. 2. I’d like to thank… 3. Looking at the future we’re heading into my concerns include… 4. Facing this concerns what inspires me is… 5. Looking at the future we are headed into, what I deeply hope for is… 6. A part I’d like to play in support of this is… 7. A step I’ll take toward this in the next week is…
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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I keep a notes app doc of unhinged things I’d write about if someone gave me an op ed column. Just added a new one
Hot takes / Trunk or treat is destroying the fabric of neighborhoods Madison doesn’t have municipal compost bc upper middle class white people are uncomfortable with death and decay Teens wear big clothes to adapt to climate change The rise of pickleball is connected to the rise of fascism If trees had social accounts our online communities would be healthier
September 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Man I love Madison
The east wash bridge over the yahara river Photo of a baguette. Someone gave me a baguette on the bike path
September 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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City officials want to give Buffy a state-of-the-art crossbow and add a holy water creek for humans to paddle to the club. But state officials prefer opening the hellmouth wider. (h/t
@citycastmadison.bsky.social)
What’s the Answer to Reducing Crashes on Stoughton Road? City and state officials agree that something needs to be done to reduce the number of car accidents on Stoughton Road between Highway 30 and the Beltline. But they differ on how to accomplish that task. City officials want to reduce traffic speeds and add a multi-use path to make the road safer for pedestrians and cyclists. But state officials prefer adding additional lanes to improve traffic flow. Over 1,200 crashes have been recorded on the four-mile stretch of road between 2017 and 2021, more than four times the statewide average on similar thoroughfares. [Cap Times]
September 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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ur pulling a diamond out of the earth in 2025?? couldn't be me. Get one from a lab at the very least, girl.

FWIW, we got vintage rings from
- Cival in Milwaukee
- Filigree in Minneapolis

Mine here was my fiancée's grandmother's. Hers (the yellow gold) is from Cival. Photo by Amber at oneAMmedia
August 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Look at this dog I saw at halong bay last night
August 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM