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Grace Hill
@gracehill.bsky.social
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not as good as I once was, but sometimes as good once as I ever was
#actuallyautistic #audhd
parent, caregiver, spouse, wfh

📍 central Appalachia, because I'm too stubborn to leave

matriarch, [redacted]
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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3d
After Hours at Dooryard Books - Sebastian
Breakout Year - Casey
Mr Collins in Love - Welch
Goaltender Interference - Baran
The Pairing - McQuiston
Double Exposure — Gray
Lady Eve’s Last Con - Fraimow
Any Old Diamonds - Charles
gracehill.bsky.social
Country students can thrive!

Love this essay. There’s a lot in it, but what I saw was that teaching close reading can help empower students.
It was easy to compare the university to the state's mountains: a site of extraction, a public good that had been plundered by the wealthy and left as a shell. All of this is true, but it's not the only truth. Because several times a week I walked into classrooms of students. Nothing there was missing: my classes were full in every way. Where everything else everywhere else felt exhausted, the classroom was overflowing, plentiful. It was a space for analytic thinking, longform attention, clear expression, cooperative conversation- democratic society and a richer life. All we needed was a poem, a few hours each week, and trust in what we could do, in what we did do, together.
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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leftoblique.bsky.social
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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oliviawaite.com
Today is an excellent day to support your local indie bookstore and pre-order Nobody’s Baby, the second Dorothy Gentleman sapphic sci-fi mystery!

Bonus: the official fern shawl pattern from Violet’s yarn shop will be available around release day, entirely free!
Nobody's Baby
Check out Nobody's Baby - <p><b>Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a </b><b>formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective.</b><br><br><i>...
bookshop.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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amergina.bsky.social
ICYMI, since I posted late last night, I rereleased the Twisted Wishes series. New blurbs, new covers. They're in KU, since they've not been there before. Hopefully, I'll pick up the old reviews when the audio books link back up.
A newspaper-like image that says Twisted Wishes Returns! and has the covers of the books. Other text says New Covers, Same Queer Rockstars. Now in Kindle Unlimited. Paperbacks coming soon.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
Once again, I am pointing to this article, which makes it clear that Appalachians are paying the health prices for PJM’s electricity. Virginia wouldn’t tolerate that kind of filthy power generation, so they shuffle it over to us.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
Holding on tight' to coal The smoke from two coal plants near West Virginia's border with Pennsylvania billows over the city of Morgantown, adding a brownish tint to the air. Nearby sits the 502 Junction substation, connected to those plants and a third one about 43 miles away via existing power lines, which will serve as a terminus for a western prong of the PJM plan for new lines that will extend to another substation in Frederick, Md., then south into Northern Virginia. The 502 Junction substation, to which transmission lines are connected, in Mount Morris, Pa. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) The Harrison plant pumped out a combined 12 million tons of coal pollutants like sulfur and nitrous oxides in 2023, more than any other fossil fuel plant in the state, according to Environmental Protection Agency data. The Fort Martin plant, which has been operating since the late 1960s, emitted the state's highest levels of nitrous oxides in 2023, at 5,240 tons. After PJM tapped the company to build a 36-mile-long portion of the planned power lines for $392 million, FirstEnergy announced in February that the company is abandoning a 2030 goal to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions because the two plants are crucial to maintaining grid reliability. The news has sent FirstEnergy's stock price up by 4 percent, to about $37 a share this week, and was greeted with jubilation by West Virginia's coal industry.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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sevier.io
I won't type it all out here but who bears the cost - not $ but time, knowledge, and management - of an hour by hour grid pricing schema? Or even seasonal? Cursory review of the literature says women and other people who do most of the household labor. Grid rules made by men passed down to women.
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
I’m here again
gracehill.bsky.social Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 16d
if I see one more smug person from flatlandia snark about zipper merging, I'm going to write them as a villain in my next fic
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
I have established our own family tradition:
—Turkey for T-giving, b/c it’s easy
—Seven Fishes for C. Eve, for OH’s family traditions (no baccala)
—ham for Christmas, cloves & pineapple
—beef Wellington (secret holiday)
—lamb for Easter, b/c Greek style is the best & my folks raise(d) sheep
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).

I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
daveon.bsky.social DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 3d
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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themallkrampus.bsky.social
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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costasamaras.com
My posting plan for today
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
Sixteen years after the last one, I have now raised another child to adulthood.

Just a little while ago, this one was a preemie-sized, terrifying person, and now they’re sharp and kind and lovely.

“Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future”
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
My ranking of (sweet) pies:

1. cherry (Montmorency)
2. pecan (with dark chocolate & golden syrup)
3. cheesecake (NY style, with blueberries)
4. Meyer lemon curd tart
5. apple pie
6. pumpkin pie
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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geophotographer.org
Subsurface rock beneath the Appalachians shows a mantle heat mass that formed during the Greenland and North America split ~80 Ma. It migrated ~1,800 km and now lies ~200 km under New England.
#Tectonics
#MantlePlume
⚒️🧪
Paper
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
Giant hidden heat blob slowly travels beneath the U. S.
An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and North America 80 million years ago. Researchers suggest this slow-moving “mant...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
gracehill.bsky.social
The pecan pie is in the oven!! I toasted the pecans. I lined the crust with Ghirardelli dark chocolate. I put a pinch of apple cider vinegar in the mix to highlight the golden syrup. It’s going to be so good!!
gracehill.bsky.social Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 2d
I am making an apple pie purely to distract guests from the pecan pie.
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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noghiri.bsky.social
why would i base my thanksgiving menu around areas with a high rate of pension fraud
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 1d
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to mean delicious but unhealthy dishes. You can have flavor plus boost longevity with these five tips from blue zone researcher Dan Buettner. https://cnn.it/4rAnU6m
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
gracehill.bsky.social
5!

My mind is silent.
chrishallbeck.bsky.social Chris Hallbeck @chrishallbeck.bsky.social · 1d
What’s your score on the apple test?
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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aetataureate.bsky.social
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
peterbcounter.com Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 2d
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
You know what's amazing? Guests in my own home who have the gall to tell me to stay out of the room while they're visiting.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
sometimes my children ask me for things:
can you rewrite this as about you and papa Emily Zanotti  @emzanotti- 1h My children are not on the autism spectrum because I took Tylenol while pregnant. They're on the autism spectrum because I, a person who will wear only one type of shoe and can't eat food that is “too, potato-y.” had babies with a man who has an encyclopedic knowledge of European aristocracy but a limited ability to process social cues. Grace Hill 11:03 AM My children are not on the autism spectrum because I took Tylenol while pregnant. They're on the autism spectrum because I, a person who will only wear perfectly matching socks and can't eat food that is too spicy-hot, had babies with a man who has an encyclopedic knowledge of video game releases over the last three decades but a limited ability to process social cues.
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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amyhoy.bsky.social
as far as i’m concerned, this is witchcraft
justkeepskeeting.pro de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · 2d
this is mesmerizing
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
You know what? I have decided to put this on my “fuck it” list.

I have faithfully dealt with these fucking loans for a quarter century, bending over backwards to have all my i’s dotted and my t’s crossed, and now it’s years where following their ever-changing directions still fucks me over. 🤷🏼
gracehill.bsky.social Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 2d
I got a letter from Mohela this evening because, once again, they have lost a payment (and after a month, they still can't find the other two payments) and this is cruel and unusual use of the USPS. I just wanted ONE WEEK without money anxiety!! ONE!!
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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davidzinn.bsky.social
Edith takes notice of every breakthrough, no matter how small.
sidewalk chalk drawing of a mouse in a purple dress standing in front of a small flower growing out of a crack in the concrete
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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tatecurtis.bsky.social
Worker killed at West Virginia coal mine in early November was pinned by a supply car, MSHA says. Preliminary report was delayed by the 43-day government shutdown. www.weku.org/the-commonwe...
Coal miner killed in West Virginia was pinned by mine supply car, report says
A report from the federal government reveals more details about how a coal miner died in West Virginia earlier this month.
www.weku.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
gracehill.bsky.social
Unlocked a new grain of sand in my reading—I didn’t know how much it irritated me when these fictional parents don’t honor their children’s requests, seeing them as less legitimate than the parents’ idly made plans.
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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maxiemoosie.bsky.social
It’s a good pun, and it’s also true.

Butane has a density of 0.6 grams per cubic centimeter, water 1.0. So it actually is a lighter fluid.
drstevenhobbs.bsky.social The Doctor @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social · 2d
Which is heavier, a gallon of water or a gallon of butane?

A gallon of water.

A gallon of butane is a lighter fluid.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM