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Jo Henn
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Ret. NY Labor ALJ | Dem | Bookworm (SFF, mystery, NF, romance, & F), painting, genealogy, history, civil rights/social justice, cats, tea, endless curiosity | Chronic pain/illness, mental illness | Introvert| She/her (I don’t auto F4F.)
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Listen, if you’re a man / bot newly joined who is only following women, don’t bother to add me. I’m not your demographic and I’m only going to block you anyway. [Though I am going to mine your follows for more genealogy people and authors I like before blocking you.]
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The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.

The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
#genealogy #history #maps Anybody know an answer to her question or have an idea of where to search?
Odd question and I'm not sure if there's an answer. In the U.S., once Rural Routes were put in place for post delivery, many people would just have the address "RR1" or "RR5 Box 178". Is there any way to find out these old routes? I do have some land records, but I am looking at people who rented.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Steve has recommended three websites for anyone seeking info on railway accidents in, or affecting people from, their #OnePlaceStudies:

Railway Archives
Railway Work, Life & Death Project@rwldproject.bsky.social
Railway Fatal Accidents – Steve’s own website

#OPSConf25
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Today is the 103rd anniversary of the explosion and fire which destroyed the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, in the opening engagement of the Civil War. To mark the date, we are releasing over 175,000 historical documents on our site. Read more here:

virtualtreasury.ie/2025-new-rel...
June 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
#history people recommend your own writing or someone else’s
For the What's History Feed 🗃️.

This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.

✍🏽📚📄
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Just realized I’m way behind in following interesting people who’ve followed me (& weeding out bots and harem seekers), like months behind. This is going to take time to catch up; but if I dedicate a half hour or so a day when I’m online, I should catch up soonish.
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The Starling flock is now at a size where estimated numbers are meaningless. It's a big #murmuration - image is unmodified.

You count them if you want to😁

#Nikon #photography #nature #UKbirds #birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding #wildlife #birdsinflight #murmuration
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Some of my paintings...✌️💙😎

#art #painting #landscape
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Social media is the reason a lot of people with chronic illness or disability don't feel so alone.
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Celebrating #NationalTreeWeek with some #tree #paintings.

It's the start of the tree planting season where the conservation sector and tree fans plant thousands of trees in the UK | karinacoghlin.com

#conservation #art #paintings #watercolour #watercolor #landscape #landscapepainting
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Fiddle Tune Friday, in solidarity with pardoned turkeys everywhere, presents Turkey In the Straw by Jim Stone and other family members recorded by John Harrod in Mount Sterling, Kentucky (Montgomery County) sometime in the [1980s]. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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🦃 BOOK GIVEAWAY 🦃

The Arcane Society Hidden Legacy Special Edition Box is up for grabs on the #IlonaAndrews blog! Gorgeous hardcovers, sprayed edges, stunning art 📚

📦 open to US only
🖋️ Enter only on the IA blog ilona-andrews.com/blog/an-arca...

Good luck all!
An Arcane Hidden Legacy Giveaway - ILONA ANDREWS
House Andrews have received their author copies of the Arcane Society Hidden Legacy Special Edition Box, which contains Nevada's trilogy: Burn for Me, White Hot and Wildfire. They are stunning hardcov...
ilona-andrews.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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📬During WWII, mail from home meant everything to the 16.4 million Americans serving overseas. From heartfelt letters to innovative V-mail that saved precious cargo space, wartime communication was a lifeline.

Read the blog by Dr. Jim Seaver here:
https://ow.ly/5m3v50XvO9f
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Auch dieses Jahr gibt's wieder den #ArtAdventCalendar , initiiert von @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca , für alle zum Mitmachen, Gucken, Accounts finden.

Keine Prompts, eigene Arbeiten (Bilder, Skulpturen, nähen, basteln..), mehrere am Tag mögl., keine KI/AI ! 📷🖌️

#Art #kleineKunstklasse #ArtChallenge
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Bald eagle
Armadillo (alive)
Rhinoceros and calf
Rock hyrax
Brown bear
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I think today is a good day to share my second piece for the Magic: The Gathering in Miniature III exhibition that'll be in Gallery Nucleus Jan 31 - Feb 15, 2026:
Elspeth in Bloomburrow with sweet pea wings! 💖 This is done in acrylics on the back of a Swords to Plowshares artist proof.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Starbucks baristas are on strike and the No Kings Alliance stands with them. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers fight for fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting: nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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St Paul MN crowd shouting “shame shame shame” at ICE officers www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrj5JVxs/
A large crowd gathered in a St. Paul neighborhood Tuesday morning amid a federal law enforcement operation that protesters believed was an ICE raid. The crowd had gathered outside a home in the area o...
TikTok video by FOX 9 | KMSP
www.tiktok.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM