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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 2h

handy suggestion from one of my favorite meadmakers

Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 7h

Here is my recommendation:

Buy some of these. They're cheap. Use them when you think you should you should use them. Give them to people you love. Share them in neighborhoods where they might prevent collisions with oncoming "boats."

Spread the word. Go.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2d

Timeline cleanse:

This guy hanging out with his pet kittens

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 1d

It'd be wonderful if we had this weather on Saturday.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 1d

It's a cool, crisp October day, just gorgeous. I'll finally be bottling up the sweet nutmeg and the dry meadowsweet metheglins (herbal meads). I had hoped to do it last Monday but was too zonked from vaccinations.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 2d

Hooray! Issue #9 of Fiddler's Green & Peculiar Parish magazine has arrived! Plus a few essay chapbooks. I do love a (fancy magical) zine!

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 2d

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hail, Saint Loba
Diane DiPrima
the only war that matters is the war against the imagination/
all others are subsumed in it
www.innergarden.org/en/waronimag...

www.innergarden.org

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 3d

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 3d

Viva la rana!

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 3d

HEY YOU GUYYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!!

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 22d

"The Hearing Trumpet", however, is a great story. 5 out of 5 stars.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · 22d

"The Stone Door" by Leonora Carrington is exactly what I was expecting "The Hearing Trumpet" to be. It's a rambling multi-layered mostly nonlinear dreamscape filled with intensely personal (to Carrington) symbolism. It's interesting for a few pages, but ultimately I'm just not that interested.

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 28d

Now that saw someone say that ai art often has "Thomas Kinkade lighting" I can't unsee it

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 9

American English - ize
-realize
-organize
-specialize

British English - ise
-realise
-organise
-specialise

The ‘ize’ ending is the older version.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hail, Saint Loba
Diane DiPrima
the only war that matters is the war against the imagination/
all others are subsumed in it
www.innergarden.org/en/waronimag...

www.innergarden.org

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · Sep 9

particularly "Entangled" (A Trick ot the Tail)

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · Sep 9

Its raining with some heft now, just started. Now I want to turn all devices in the house off and play some early Genesis and just feel the rain-breeze, stare at the clouds.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tell you what, Seattle Rep has got their hospitality game down. What a lovely bunch of people. And their nicely detailed show documentation is going to make it so much easier for me to adapt it to our house when we do "The Play That Goes Wrong" in January. Until next time, which I hope is soon!

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · Sep 8

I am from Missouri and do politics for my job, and am just now learning of this sit-in to protest attempted RW seat-stealing.

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · Sep 6

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either.

This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem

This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now
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Missouri House Democrats plan to continue sit-in over weekend

Missouri Democrats have surpassed 24 hours of their sit-in on the House floor protesting a special session.

www.kfvs12.com

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Sep 7

Goodnight.

two stills of a man in a suit,wearing glasses and smoking a cigarette
When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive.

It is strategic and necessary.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · Sep 7

I also rankle a bit at the (IMO) overuse of the word "hate." Certainly there are those whose destructive actions towards others stem from that emotion. More often the cause appears to be indifference, fear of otherness, and pursuit of social or financial reward that are sources of so much cruelty.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · Sep 4

Extremely disappointing, @powells.bsky.social Portland, OR is full of skilled artists who could be hired to create much better imagery that AI crap. I mean, aren't we kind of famous for being a city full of artists? Not to mention how incredibly destructive AI is for the environment. Gross.

Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · Sep 1

Powell's Books have new merchandise that uses AI. Workers raised concerns and were given the run-around.

www.reddit.com/r/askportlan...

Powells Book t-shirt that uses AI art, a wolf in this case.

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Bonnie HW @jackbirdarts.bsky.social · Sep 4

That is so disappointing. They'll be hearing from me about it.

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