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Enchantra Sand📚🌻

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Reader and Recluse, Mother and Citizen. History📜, art, cookery, poetry, witchery, flora, fauna, music, literature, science, religion, anthropology, dogs, libraries. Maker of voluminous lists of books. Working class autodidact. No Fascists. #SlavaUkraini

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Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · Feb 18

I have ten thousand books on my TBR list. I am 70. If you didn't just win the Nobel, I am probably not going to get to your book.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 15h

It's the birthday of the musician who sang,
“There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes. Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose.”

Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and part bard, part jester for the confused and dispossessed everyguy, John Prine was born on this day in 1946.
#MusicSky #BOTD

A black-and-white photo portrait of John Prine, 1975.
Photo credit: Tom Hill | WireImage
Image source: Pitchfork

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p-8-4.bsky.social @p-8-4.bsky.social · 6h

They are now America’s Gestapo—this is really about race, and keeping the rich largely white guys (Repubs) in power forever if they can, so that they can squeeze the middle class and poor dry financially—then as the country goes down in financial ruin and social strife, take our money and run!

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Granuailynn @granuailynn.bsky.social · 8h

Article up:
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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 8h

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WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Wile E. Coyote's ACME Sales Rep @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social · 6h

#Howl-A-Ween
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

10/11 - Black

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tlS...

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Live at Madison Square Garden 1973) (Official Video)

YouTube video by Led Zeppelin

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 8h

'Our Lady of the Hills.' (1921) The word anathemata, as David Jones unpicks it in his introduction to what later became an epic poem, means a lifting up and a setting apart of something for our particular savouring. A precise reading of what art is and always should be.

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 8h

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay October 10th

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Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · 8h

Bottomless Lake

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 13h

The #folklore of the forest was used to provide protection 🧿
Recite this old Scots charm as you bind a rowan cross with seven inches of twine the colour of its deep red berries:
“Rowan tree and red thread / make the witches tine* their speed”
(*lose) #ForestFriday
📸 23 Sept, 2025 #Northumberland

A rowan tree copse in all its autumn glory

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 10h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 8h

If speaker, Mike Johnson told the truth, even one time, it would be one more than he has bank accounts in his own name.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 11h

Just felt like sharing this today. No reason.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 12h

Autumn markets once rang with the bleats of sheep, the bellow of cattle, and the hum of barter. Fair day was more than commerce. It was also reunion, gossip, courtship, and the year’s last great dance. #FolkyFriday

Art: Sebastian Vrancx

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12h

Rollicking peasant wedding dance to liven up your autumn day by my colleague Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today. Don’t confuse this with his father’s painting!

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Authors Abroad @authorsabroad.bsky.social · 20h

Who remembers The Magic Porridge Pot?

It's #WorldPorridgeDay which is as good an excuse as any to share this beloved story! What a classic!

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Cecilia @ceciliaspinto.bsky.social · Oct 10

🎉🥣 #WorldPorridgeDay 😋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #LanchinhoDaTarde #MingauDeAveia 🍯🌰

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11h

Happy #WorldPorridgeDay to all who celebrate! 🥣

Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer)…

—WN Herbert, “TO PORRIDGE”
#poem #poetry #porridge
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WN Herbert
TO PORRIDGE
'Auld claes and parritch...'

Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer):
oan ilka morn ye bring renewal,
thi stomach’s zimmer.

Ye greet us lyk a fu-fissed mune
and guarantee tae fill wir spune
wi fushion – see, ye’re cratert roond
wi seas o bubbles –
tranquillity is aa yir tune,
and ease fae troubles.

Grey revolutionary fur guts,
jump-starter fur thi slo-mo slutz
that sends us loupin fae wir cots
intae wir sarks
(a dram in you gets slob and klutz
back tae thir wark).

When snaa faas owre thi Border’s pale
and Southron bairns can plunk aff skail
then even English journos hail
wir Northern mannah –
are sudden experts oan oatmeal
tapped wi a sultana.

Ye’re like a clood-occludit sun
that casts grey licht oan ivrywun;
thi siller ash on grieshoch; grun
ablow thi slush
that derns oat-germs that sune will wun
thru Winter’s crush.

Tho Doctir Johnson caaed ye food
fur foals – mair fulmar him – ye’ve plooed
thru Scotia’s lard-imprisoned bluid
and freed oor veins:
dae mealie puddins dae us good?
Great Oat, explain!

Hoo dae we luve ye? Some wi cream,
wi hinny, spice or jeely reamed,
while Calvin’s crew hae sauty dreams
o fare of auld,
powred in a draaer fur bothy teams
tae slice oot cauld.

‘Auld claes an parritch’ gaes thi creh
wance we hae drunk thi Daft Deys dreh
and neath a sober, saft grey skeh
we view thi year –
we’re nae whit bettir, but we’ll treh
wi sic guid gear!

Editor's Note: Fushion—wholesomeness, strength; slutz—a leap in skating; sark—shirt; grieshoch—red-hot embers; dern–hide.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

As far as I can tell, the case with Letitia James is one where she told them a specific thing and the mortgage lender checked a different box and it didn't get caught.

This is the kind of shit that could happen to literally anyone, and I have two thoughts.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 10h

The world is engulfed by chaos and horror as the armies of Death arrive to incorporate the Living into their band. Perfect allegory for today from Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

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Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · 8h

They did do a lot of Death Squad training at Fort Benning, GA over the years

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American Woman @lov4all.bsky.social · 10h

Never forget Qatar provided safe haven for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, and allowed him to conduct terrorism training.

an aerial view of the twin towers with the words we will never forget 9/11

ALT: an aerial view of the twin towers with the words we will never forget 9/11

media.tenor.com

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