Julie Curry
@curryj.bsky.social
optimist • fool • lapsed historian • soccer enthusiast and coach • USSF D, TOVO 7v7 and grassroots • team “feed it off an aux” forever
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Meanwhile, some personal news (I’m at the very bottom of the list)…
I’m grateful for the support I get, always, from the excellent people I find myself surrounded with, starting with my players, continuing with my co coaches and club managers and administrators. So very blessed
I’m grateful for the support I get, always, from the excellent people I find myself surrounded with, starting with my players, continuing with my co coaches and club managers and administrators. So very blessed
Follow @boltsmag.org. You know you want to do it.
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Follow @boltsmag.org. You know you want to do it.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
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Wait what
Agree to disagree
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Wait what
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The NWSL offseason is upon us, and news of player movement will soon be pouring in. Today we take a look at some of the biggest decisions and possible departures ahead for Washington Spirit this offseason.
The biggest challenges facing Washington Spirit this offseason
For Washington Spirit, 2025 was a successful year, even if their hope of an NWSL Championship trophy eluded them. Michele Kang has already promised her team will be back "louder and prouder in 2026," but every offseason brings change. Today, we'll look at some of the biggest decisions and possible departures awaiting the Spirit this winter. Roster overview The Spirit ended the season with 28 players under contract, ten of whom required international slots and five of whom were on maternity leave or season-ending injury.
thedistrictpress.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The NWSL offseason is upon us, and news of player movement will soon be pouring in. Today we take a look at some of the biggest decisions and possible departures ahead for Washington Spirit this offseason.
This is an excellent book. Highly recommend.
But Long story short, no good deed goes unpunished. IDEA was revolutionary and it created opportunities for #ActuallyAutistic students. But it also opened the door for a moral panic because some people can't do basic math. Anyway, I wrote a whole book on this. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
We're Not Broken
“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...
www.harpercollins.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is an excellent book. Highly recommend.
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Do you have a relative who keeps talking about how "RFK Jr. has a point about vaccines and autism?" Good news. My book We're Not Broken is on sale and Harper Collins has free shipping in the continental U.S. until December 8. Buy it here.
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
We're Not Broken
“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...
www.harpercollins.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Do you have a relative who keeps talking about how "RFK Jr. has a point about vaccines and autism?" Good news. My book We're Not Broken is on sale and Harper Collins has free shipping in the continental U.S. until December 8. Buy it here.
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
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stanford is on an unholy tear
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
stanford is on an unholy tear
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Here’s today’s remaining #WOSO games with a DMV rooting angle.
- #DCPowerFC ‘s Charlie Estcourt and Wales vs South Korea at 1 PM
- #WashingtonSpirit ‘s Leicy Santos and Colombia vs Bolivia at 4 PM
- Croix Bethune, Kate Wiesner, and the #USWNT face Sofia Cantore and Italy at 7 PM
- #DCPowerFC ‘s Charlie Estcourt and Wales vs South Korea at 1 PM
- #WashingtonSpirit ‘s Leicy Santos and Colombia vs Bolivia at 4 PM
- Croix Bethune, Kate Wiesner, and the #USWNT face Sofia Cantore and Italy at 7 PM
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Here’s today’s remaining #WOSO games with a DMV rooting angle.
- #DCPowerFC ‘s Charlie Estcourt and Wales vs South Korea at 1 PM
- #WashingtonSpirit ‘s Leicy Santos and Colombia vs Bolivia at 4 PM
- Croix Bethune, Kate Wiesner, and the #USWNT face Sofia Cantore and Italy at 7 PM
- #DCPowerFC ‘s Charlie Estcourt and Wales vs South Korea at 1 PM
- #WashingtonSpirit ‘s Leicy Santos and Colombia vs Bolivia at 4 PM
- Croix Bethune, Kate Wiesner, and the #USWNT face Sofia Cantore and Italy at 7 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The Pretenders
REM
B52s
Midnight Oil
Bonus: two of these were with Heather! ❤️
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The Pretenders
REM
B52s
Midnight Oil
Bonus: two of these were with Heather! ❤️
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
REM
The Replacements
The Ramones
The Pixies
B52s
REM
The Replacements
The Ramones
The Pixies
B52s
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Run-DMC & Beastie Boys
Prince
The Hold Steady
boygenius
Car Seat Headrest
the last 20-odd minutes of waiting to take turkey out / put sides in suuuuuuuuuucks
Run-DMC & Beastie Boys
Prince
The Hold Steady
boygenius
Car Seat Headrest
the last 20-odd minutes of waiting to take turkey out / put sides in suuuuuuuuuucks
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The Pretenders
REM
B52s
Midnight Oil
Bonus: two of these were with Heather! ❤️
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The Pretenders
REM
B52s
Midnight Oil
Bonus: two of these were with Heather! ❤️
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Are you suffering from #WOSO withdrawal? Are you looking for a game with a local angle to get you through the long holiday weekend? Check out our preview of the international matches featuring Washington Spirit and DC Power players.
International Preview: Spirit and DC Power Players Called Up For Their Countries
Are you feeling local soccer withdrawal with D.C. United, the Spirit, and Loudoun done for the year and D.C. Power off until December 6th? Well, you’re in luck. The final international window of the year is about to kick open and features 13 matches with 10 local players. The games are spread across what is traditionally a long holiday weekend for Americans.
thedistrictpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Are you suffering from #WOSO withdrawal? Are you looking for a game with a local angle to get you through the long holiday weekend? Check out our preview of the international matches featuring Washington Spirit and DC Power players.
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i got tired of "how to read more" advice from people who are book critics and don't own tvs and live in monasteries with no wifi, so here is some advice from someone with a terminal case of internet brain www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...
how to read more
from someone who actually struggles
www.shesabeast.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
i got tired of "how to read more" advice from people who are book critics and don't own tvs and live in monasteries with no wifi, so here is some advice from someone with a terminal case of internet brain www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...
Moving and true.
“It’s a sin…. It is the worst kind of failure and disgrace to steal, from people like myself, a world where we can find meaning and love and participation in a human community after we were given the chance to comfortably grasp it.”
“It’s a sin…. It is the worst kind of failure and disgrace to steal, from people like myself, a world where we can find meaning and love and participation in a human community after we were given the chance to comfortably grasp it.”
In which Zack Budryk perfectly captures the feeling many #ActuallyAutistic people feel in this particular moment of RFK Jr.'s resurgence: We felt like we were turning the corner on autism acceptance. And now we are seeing that door closed off.
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...
I will not give up that which I have tasted
Promotion of the myth
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Moving and true.
“It’s a sin…. It is the worst kind of failure and disgrace to steal, from people like myself, a world where we can find meaning and love and participation in a human community after we were given the chance to comfortably grasp it.”
“It’s a sin…. It is the worst kind of failure and disgrace to steal, from people like myself, a world where we can find meaning and love and participation in a human community after we were given the chance to comfortably grasp it.”
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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I have extensive instructions on spatchcocking a bird (and why) in COLOR TASTE TEXTURE!
(also highly recommend getting poultry shears)
(also highly recommend getting poultry shears)
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I have extensive instructions on spatchcocking a bird (and why) in COLOR TASTE TEXTURE!
(also highly recommend getting poultry shears)
(also highly recommend getting poultry shears)
Reposted by Julie Curry
🎁 For this holiday season, consider gifting COLOR TASTE TEXTURE! It’s a great primer for people of all ages with little to no experience cooking. If you have some neurodivergent friends and family, or parents of littles, they might love this! It’s not just a cookbook, it’s a new approach to food. 🎁
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🎁 For this holiday season, consider gifting COLOR TASTE TEXTURE! It’s a great primer for people of all ages with little to no experience cooking. If you have some neurodivergent friends and family, or parents of littles, they might love this! It’s not just a cookbook, it’s a new approach to food. 🎁
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Last call! This lovely, whimsical framed print set from Kansas is already on sale, but I’ll take an additional $25 off if you grab it this week! Last set available. www.sol-exposure.com/product/kans...
Kansas Polaroid Print Set – Framed
Two 8×10 prints, on true photographic paper, developed with chemistry (not an inkjet print). Part of my Kansas series. Matted in white 11″x14″ mats & framed in 11″x14R…
www.sol-exposure.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Last call! This lovely, whimsical framed print set from Kansas is already on sale, but I’ll take an additional $25 off if you grab it this week! Last set available. www.sol-exposure.com/product/kans...
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Restock! A great, loooong view of the incredible Mission Mountains, w/ a special guest appearance by a very little moon. www.sol-exposure.com/product/miss...
Missions Panoramic – Framed
An 9×12 print on true photographic paper (actual image is approx. 5×12), developed with chemistry (not an inkjet print). Matted in an 11×14 white mat & framed in a high quality b…
www.sol-exposure.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Restock! A great, loooong view of the incredible Mission Mountains, w/ a special guest appearance by a very little moon. www.sol-exposure.com/product/miss...
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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Report of the Gettysburg Address of 11/19/1863 in The Liberator. Note the applause.
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
![President Lincoln then delivered the following ded
icatory speech
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in
liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal. [Applause.] Now we are engaged
in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or
any other nation so conceived and so dedicated can
long endure. We are met on a great battle field of
that war; we are met to dedicate a portion of that
field as the final resting-place of those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a
larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it
far above our poor power to add or to detract. [Applause.] The world will little note nor long remem
ber what we may say here; but it can never forget
what they did here. [Applause.]
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work that they have thus far so no
bly carried on. [Applause.] It is rather for us here
to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last
full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve
that those dead shall not have died in vain. [Applause.] That the nation shall, under God, have a
new birth of freedom; and that governments of the
people, by the people and for the people, shall not per
ish from the earth.” [Long continued applause.]
Three cheers were here given for the President and
the Governors of the States.
After the delivery of this address, a dirge and the
benediction closed the exercises, and the immense as
semblage separated about 2 o'clock.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreifmymlb3mtcbdzsjakrupazwn33x7zhduhvofhbwdu5efdwtnd4b4@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Report of the Gettysburg Address of 11/19/1863 in The Liberator. Note the applause.
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
Gabriel’s Rebellion, by Douglas Egerton (1993). A unicorn of a book that is both a page turner and a scholarly exploration of race, violence, and small-r republican principles in revolutionary America and early national era. Well crafted and a great read
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Gabriel’s Rebellion, by Douglas Egerton (1993). A unicorn of a book that is both a page turner and a scholarly exploration of race, violence, and small-r republican principles in revolutionary America and early national era. Well crafted and a great read
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Can’t believe none of these have found good homes yet! They are all on handmade, recycled paper & made w/ sumi ink. All are name your own price! I’m currently running on a negative bank account & any sales are incredibly appreciated. Thank you for looking/sharing! <3
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Can’t believe none of these have found good homes yet! They are all on handmade, recycled paper & made w/ sumi ink. All are name your own price! I’m currently running on a negative bank account & any sales are incredibly appreciated. Thank you for looking/sharing! <3
Meanwhile, some personal news (I’m at the very bottom of the list)…
I’m grateful for the support I get, always, from the excellent people I find myself surrounded with, starting with my players, continuing with my co coaches and club managers and administrators. So very blessed
I’m grateful for the support I get, always, from the excellent people I find myself surrounded with, starting with my players, continuing with my co coaches and club managers and administrators. So very blessed
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Meanwhile, some personal news (I’m at the very bottom of the list)…
I’m grateful for the support I get, always, from the excellent people I find myself surrounded with, starting with my players, continuing with my co coaches and club managers and administrators. So very blessed
I’m grateful for the support I get, always, from the excellent people I find myself surrounded with, starting with my players, continuing with my co coaches and club managers and administrators. So very blessed