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Beth Winegarner
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social
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✏️ Journalist & author: bethwinegarner.com 📚 "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now! 🎧 Coming soon: Dead Reckoning podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-reckoning/id1812728990 👩🏻‍🦰 She/her.
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · Jul 31
🪦 Welcome to Dead Reckoning, the podcast where death isn't the end of the story! 💀

Hosted by Beth Winegarner and Courtney Minick of Here Lies a Story and produced by Carolyn Kissick and HLAS, our conversations take place at the crossroads of death, history, and social justice.
Dead Reckoning
History Podcast · The podcast where death isn’t the end of the story.
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 2d
Woody LaBounty writes about one of my favorite former rail lines through SF (and has some amazing photos to go with). And yes, I have a favorite former rail line. What do you think I am, neurotypical?

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Goodbye Dolores Bridge
When trains passed second-story windows in San Francisco's Noe Valley.
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 3d
By the mid-19th Century it was illegal to advertise abortion services directly and "astrologer" was one of the code words that abortionists would use. I can't tell if the newspaper knew this (you'd think so). SF, 1871.
Newspaper text reads: "LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN. — One Simon M. Cohen, an astrologer by occupation. He was arrested with Dr. C. C. O’Donnell and Arabella Knapp for the murder of Eugenie Chauvet, by procuring an abortion. He was subsequently released on $10,000 bail, his bondsmen being A. Rafael, L. Peyser and H. Bockheim. The Grand Jury found a true bill against him, but a bench warrant has been unsuccessful in reaching him. It is stated by some that the astrologer has “gone to the Springs;” others that he seeks the spot “where the woodbine twineth,” there to make lunar observations, and to hold communion with his lucky star. Go hence base maligner: would you insinuate that there “ain’t $10,000 ‘n the case, and that it ain’t cheap at the price that will be realized?”"
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The Writers Grotto @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social · 5d
This course will cover the building blocks of short-form memoir and personal narrative writing.

Thursdays, Oct. 9th - 30th, from 6:00-8:30pm PT. Via Zoom.

www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...

#memoir #memoirwriting #creativenonfiction #writing #writingcraft #writingclass #writingworkshop
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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 7d
this is our cracker barrel moment
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the FRIGHTENING marnix @dragom.bsky.social · 7d
WHY DID THEY GENTRIFY THE AUDACITY LOGO
the regular audacity logo on the left (a waveform between two headphones) and the REAL NEW audacity logo on the right (flat style red headphones, where one of the headphones is a half-circle to fit with the rest of musehub's design Thing. It simultaneously looks extremely generic and like a sperm cell is flying out of a semicircle)
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 7d
Devastated.

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Míle Buíochas, a Chara: Manchán Magan — Beth Winegarner
I was devastated to learn last night that Irish writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan died on Oct. 2 . It seems impossible; he was only 55, and had so many plans ahead of him.  I first encounter...
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 7d
Do you know what happens to people when they die in poverty and estranged from family? In the new episode of Dead Reckoning, we talk to writer and advocate Amy Shea about her book, “Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins."

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Interview with “Too Poor to Die” author Amy Shea
Podcast Episode · Dead Reckoning · 10/02/2025 · 1h 11m
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 8d
Such upsetting news. I loved his books, his talks, his devotion to bringing Irish language, culture and folklore to the present and future.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55
The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 8d
"The Bay water on my tongue is saltier than it’s been for most of the past millennium. That’s a big problem for some organisms, including humans, and climate change is making it worse. By immersing myself in the Bay, I’m getting a taste of things to come."
Swimming in the Bay: Salty Autumn - Bay Nature
Autumn in San Francisco Bay is a halcyon moment between the punishing winds of summer and the frigid swells of winter.
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 8d
"All 16 species of long-jawed orb weavers (Tetragnatha) on the Hawaiian Islands are descended from a single spider that arrived in Kauai 5 million years ago. That ancestral spider shares a suspicious amount of DNA with Tetragnatha currently residing in California."

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How Spiders Fly - Bay Nature
Darwin saw them ballooning. Without any wind. Eventually some scientists figured out their electric secret.
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 9d
Beautiful, Linda!
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L. Michel-Cassidy @lmichelcassidy.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks to the editors of the New Orleans Review for choosing this romp of a poem:

www.neworleansreview.org/feint-burrow/
feint & burrow
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 9d
On Wednesdays we wear black.
Theda Bara in a black strapless dress, holding her hair out with her arms.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9d
Breaking: Babydog is not with Senator Jim Justice today
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 9d
"Now, I realize that the land was trying to tell me this story." New piece by me for the Missing Witches zine.

www.missingwitches.com/sequoia/
Sequoia
By Beth Winegarner
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 10d
“A lot of people think hair art is morbid but it’s really about love."

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They’re Not Morbid, They’re About Love: The Hair Relics of the Midwest | The Order of the Good Death
Leila collects art that’s made of human hair and displays it to the public at a museum bearing her name in Independence, Missouri.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 11d
Forecast models point to an unsettled stretch, with two systems capable of wringing out spotty but intense rainfall.
Bay Area could see sudden downpours as unstable storm system passes
Forecast models point to an unsettled stretch, with two systems capable of wringing out spotty but intense rainfall.
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NPR @npr.org · 12d
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the large-scale attacks involved nearly 500 strike drones.
Large Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv kills 4 and wounds at least 10
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the large-scale attacks involved nearly 500 strike drones.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15d
Headline tweak: “Dean of Harvard School of Public Health Sells Out Pregnant People for $150k” 😡

How do people like this sleep at night?
Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid $150K to give evidence against drug maker
The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’
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glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social · 15d
telling all of the countries in the world, at once, that they are going to hell for accepting immigrants from each other.
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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 16d
In a few weeks, for the first time in the history of partitioned Ireland we could have a South led by an Ulster Protestant and a North led by a Southern Catholic.
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my demon totoro @woj.bsky.social · 18d
yet again, i am on the wrong coast. that sounds amazing!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18d
1. Turns out caving to fascists is a terrible fucking business model, never cave to fascists, not even once

2. I am happy this is resolved because now I will be able to watch the final episode of Alien:Earth

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Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show’s Controversial Suspension
The Walt Disney company in a new statement says the move was made "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 18d
Part of what will have to get reported out is what agreements, if any, were made by what parties to make this happen.
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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 18d
Kimmel is back on Tuesday:

DISNEY: "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18d
Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.
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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 18d
You could hardly find a more on-brand October event: Me, Amy Shea and @morbidloren.bsky.social at the SF Columbarium on Oct. 16. Registration link below!

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Promotional flyer for an event titled "A Book Tour of Cemeteries: A Conversation with authors Amy Shea, Loren Rhoads, & Beth Winegarner." The event is scheduled for Thursday, October 16th, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the SF Columbarium, 1 Loraine Ct, San Francisco, CA 94118. The flyer features headshots of the three authors and their respective books: Amy Shea with "Too Poor to Die" Loren Rhoads with "Still Wish You Were Here" Beth Winegarner with "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries" The description highlights that the authors will discuss cemeteries as spaces that reveal community stories, cultural history, and personal reflections. It emphasizes the themes of death, memory, erasure, and storytelling. At the bottom, it notes: "Books will be sold by Green Apple Books!" The background is light blue with dark blue and white text.
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