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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

Over 200 years old, Braille is an amazingly engineered system of reading and writing. And yet it remains foundationally inaccessible to most (mostly aging) people who could benefit from it, including basics like reading elevator buttons or emergency signage. stanforddaily.com/2024/10/06/b...

Despite braille's 200th anniversary, there is a braille literacy crisis

Fahim shares her research team's insights into why braille literacy is less than 25% in the U.S. and why braille remains relevant in an audio age.

stanforddaily.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20h

Old Norse had a special word for the blue-black color ravens are: bloð (pronounced bloth with a voiced th like this or with).

It’s also the color Odin wears, and the color Hel is on the dark half of her body. In sagas it’s the color you wear when heading out to die on a vengeance quest.

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 18h

Sticking out of the hall closet, taking up most of the living room...

je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 20h

Choral performance by Coro Lux. Today Sun 10/12 4p in Albuquerque

www.tickettailor.com/events/corol...

Buy tickets – Considering Matthew Shepard – Immanuel Presbyterian Church

Considering Matthew Shepard – Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Sun Oct 12, 2025 - *Tickets to the October 11th performance of Considering Matthew Shepard must be purchased through the Lensic box office: ...

www.tickettailor.com

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 20h

No that's rational. Alliteration or get out

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Alison Withonel @withonel.bsky.social · 1d

That moment when the sauce spills out and runs down the flutes is so sexy it should be illegal

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

OnlyFlans

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 21h

O. M. (ancient) G.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Okay everyone!!! Here is the paper miche canopic jar piñata my husband and mother-in-law made for the twins’ ancient-Egyptian-themed 9th birthday party!!! A dozen kids smashed it to pieces A++++

A giant paper miche canopic jar sitting on a wooden table

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ManSolo @betheljoe.bsky.social · 23h

Right now. Mesa above Ghost Ranch and the Chama River canyon, northern New Mexico.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 23h

one big hint that the Anglo Canadian French education system doesn't give a shit about actual functional understanding is that it teaches Metropolitan French rather than Québecois French

you know, the primary version of French that's *actually spoken* in Canada

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 22h

Check to see if you have a halal market in your area, they usually sell US lamb and it's often actually pretty local. Not having one nearby has cut me off from my most reliable source of extra cash.

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1d

do i know anybody looking for a 3 bedroom house to rent in south salem oregon. the house itself ain't much but its next door to fun people. i think its like 2400. dm me

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 1d

No suite shots, thx

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 1d

Laying the foundation

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Anthony Tackles Dead Cows @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 1d

New Idiot Dog had some minor surgery and has to wear the t-shirt of Shane again. Maybe I'll make her a different mask this time around

A golden retriever in a Bonnerichthys t shirt wondering why her dad is so weird

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 1d

early fall exists; aftertaste, afterthought;
seclusion and angels exist;
widows and elk exist; every
detail exists; memory, memory's light;
afterglow exists; oaks, elms
junipers, sameness, loneliness exist;
eider ducks, spiders and vinegar
exist, and the future, the future

Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 1d

Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 1d

A friend gleefully related how her ex roasted eggplants without stabbing. He looked in the oven window right as one went BANG!

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

Unlawfully fired from your job at HHS or CDC protecting the public health? Want to talk through how to tell your story in the press? I'm happy to help you think through messaging strategy.

I’ve spent years doing public health comms and talking with reporters. You can see my work at matthewcort.land

Matthew Cortland

Matthew became a lawyer by necessity. Now they use their training in public health and law to help others.

matthewcort.land

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 1d

Saturday's sky.

Blue sky with clouds and haze. Near the center of the photo, one cloud has an intricately detailed edge.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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dvdnvl @dvdnvl.bsky.social · 1d

Suggestion if you happen to have an extra Chicago flag sitting around

Chicago flag with “ICE GTFO” painted on it in dark red, layer out on a kitchen counter, mid-painting project

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 1d

Balloon ride scratched this am. Went to Volcanoes to see the sunrise.

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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a perfect morning for practicing on the porch.

A photo taken through the strings of my lever harp, with the harp’s frame framing the picture. We’re outside on the front porch, overlooking my marvelously messy garden. But the star of the show, the real focal point, as seen through the harp strings. is a gigantic black pot of orange marigolds atop a red and white cooler.

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord, it looks like it's got ears

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 1d

Tools!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

No adjusted light in these cedar waxwings photos. I like conveying what it was like to see them with little glints off their magnificence. What a wonderful flock to see. 4/4

several cedar waxwings on the branches of a fir tree

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