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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · 11h

a speck of good news! radio.wpsu.org/2025-10-13/w...

WPSU lives another day. Penn State board approves transfer to WHYY

WPSU-TV and radio will become part of Philadelphia-based WHYY, under a plan Penn State trustees unanimously approved Monday, a month after the board's finance committee rejected a similar proposal but...

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · 5d

I think of this essay this time every year, a very specific kind of haunting. "I never thought, when I started doing IVF treatments, that a byproduct of those treatments would be that I would actively start to hate Halloween." longreads.com/2018/10/31/d...

Dress You Up in My Love - Longreads

Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · 7d

go look at the moon

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🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 11d

An orange bowl of Halloween candy sits on a gray stoop step. It's filled with copies of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and has a note taped to it that says "one copy per child thx"

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · 11d

i misspelled "gap" so my brain is already plenty rotted

Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · 11d

we out here

Neil P Bardhan @neilpbardhan.bsky.social · 11d

Rise and shine, let's Thursday scream!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · 12d

most annoying symptom of my first cold of the season is forgetting all grid and flexbox tailwind classes

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Courtney Pasko @cpasko.bsky.social · 13d

Hell yeah, it's central PA lit:

"She exhaled a big sigh. 'But the truth is, every place is like Buckle if you live in it long enough.'"

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 13d

Got a new story from @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!

"The People Who Live Inside" by Sarp Sozdinler

"My mother called me on a Tuesday afternoon to say that my Uncle Frank had been seen climbing into the old grain silo at the edge of town again."

ashortstorylong.substack.com

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Sep 12

truly dreading this conversation

jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · Sep 12

thoughts and prayers to all of you who have to explain what a groyper is to your parents

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Sep 12

This is a book everyone should read, ASAP.

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics [Reeve, Elle] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

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Mighty Mouse Moore 👻 @meghin.bsky.social · Sep 12

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY AWFUL NEWS

Jaxon White @jaxonwhite.bsky.social · Sep 12

Penn State to shutter WPSU, board declines transfer to WHYY

whyy.org/articles/pen...

Penn State to shutter WPSU, board declines transfer to WHYY

In voting down a proposal to transfer the station to WHYY, trustees expressed concern over a $17 million subsidy and wanted a commitment to hire staff.

whyy.org

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Sep 11

Last night's anxiety dream contained bee disease and death, and a replacement queen that was somehow loose in my bedroom.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · Jun 21

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Jun 21

i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.

sarah @inmywoodshop.bsky.social · Jun 21

It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Sep 10

Forget "I had a college class I forgot to go to/write papers for all semester" dreams. I am now having "I have entire bee hives I forgot about all season and they were demolished by really big sheep" dreams. Love this for me.

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Sep 10

omg WHEN will i get a letter like this? truly cannot wait.

Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Sep 9

Amused by how delightful it is to have a gaggle of little kids pounding on your door demanding to know where the rest of your family is. These kids are a hoot.

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Sep 4

I could learn world trade or try to map the ocean

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Sep 4

You might want to check on your local Philadelphia millennial because they’re currently facing an impossible choice.

Rilo Kiley, Haim or Eagles vs. Cowboys? What’s a Philly Millennial to do on Thursday?

Haim? Rilo Kiley? The Eagles? What's an aging hipster to do?

inquirer.com

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Sep 4

There is only one thing more cringe than “God Bless our First Lady. She, of course, is wiser than all of us” and it is “I am the U.S. Energy Secretary and I talk to ChatGPT about how to cure cancer.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm working every day on using AI to figure out how to cure cancer or launch fusion energy or understand dark matter. Our Defense Department is trying to figure out how to keep America safe. God bless the First Lady. She of course is wiser than all of us."

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Sep 2

libraries are just the coolest

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · Jan 24

i went to a Chicago Public Library branch that I had never been to before and happened across these very cool Archival Grab and Go Kits with an invitation to archive your stories

a picture of four archival boxes on a shelf with a sign from Chicago Public Library with an invitation to archive your stories

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Aug 27

it's kind of startling to me to even need to ask this question, i cannot believe how much time has passed since we lived there. llama tooth + union transfer used to be our regular combo.

Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Aug 27

Philly friends, where would you go for dinner before a show at The Met (with an agreeable infant in tow)?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 20

"The goal is to strategically bankrupt yourself physically, financially, and emotionally in order to become a parent. Average playing time is anywhere between two and ten years, but can last even longer, depending on your willingness to be mistaken for grandparents."

Rules for “Infertility: The Board Game”

PLAYERS: Infertility can be played alone, in a couple, or with a friend who promised that if you were still single at forty, they’d hook you up. OB...

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Aug 19

sam altman keeps chewing through my insulation to build his nest. sick of this

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · Aug 18

maybe this just happens to adult farm kids who don't make it home to do sweet corn too many years in a row

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