N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her)
@nrlines.bsky.social
Romance writer • delightfully subversive • mental health advocate • spoonie • gen-x • debut ami • fan of: tea, Rush, BTS, kpop, knitting, Vancouver Canucks, Leverage, kindness, HEAs • she/her• 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈
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Hello new followers! I'm your auntie who likes to remind you that you are enough.
I swear, I knit, I read and write romance and read almost anything, I am chronically ill. I post about anything and everything and fangirl over BTS and many other kpop groups. Kindness matters. Remember that.
I swear, I knit, I read and write romance and read almost anything, I am chronically ill. I post about anything and everything and fangirl over BTS and many other kpop groups. Kindness matters. Remember that.
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Dreamhaven, in fact. A classic SFF bookstore here in the Twin Cities
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Dreamhaven, in fact. A classic SFF bookstore here in the Twin Cities
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I wasn't able to figure out how to do captions without training a slop machine 🥲 apologies for the lack of accessibility here. If anyone can advise me on how to add captions, I'd be happy to take tips
Wonderful message from one of our hardworking canvassers, Chris, about why he is participating in the recall petition. We are so glad to have Chris on our team, and his sincere message is inspiring. #yyc #ableg #abpoli #alberta #RecallMickey #OperationTotalRecall
January 25, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I wasn't able to figure out how to do captions without training a slop machine 🥲 apologies for the lack of accessibility here. If anyone can advise me on how to add captions, I'd be happy to take tips
I love how hard he's working to be transparent and communicate clearly about the infrastructure of his city during a snow emergency. This is how it should always be done. Always.
One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.
January 25, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I love how hard he's working to be transparent and communicate clearly about the infrastructure of his city during a snow emergency. This is how it should always be done. Always.
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if I could get everyone to do one (1) book related thing right now, it would be to preorder Prince of Storms from Tropes & Trifles in Minneapolis.
1) I mean preorders make me look fancy
2) they are an amazing bookstore dedicated to hope & happy endings in a city going through it.
1) I mean preorders make me look fancy
2) they are an amazing bookstore dedicated to hope & happy endings in a city going through it.
Prince of Storms by Kit Rocha | Tropes & Trifles
Ancient gods reborn battle against terrifying new adversaries in Prince of Storms, the thunderous finale of Kit Rocha’s tantalizing tempest of polyamorous fantasy, dripping with political intrigue and...
www.tropesandtrifles.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:36 AM
if I could get everyone to do one (1) book related thing right now, it would be to preorder Prince of Storms from Tropes & Trifles in Minneapolis.
1) I mean preorders make me look fancy
2) they are an amazing bookstore dedicated to hope & happy endings in a city going through it.
1) I mean preorders make me look fancy
2) they are an amazing bookstore dedicated to hope & happy endings in a city going through it.
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They know each other because they're fucking neighbors. If they don't know you can get breathing protection at a hardware store, one of their neighbors knows it because their neighbor does woodworking or welding or shit like that, and their neighbor is like "oh yeah let's go to Lowes."
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 PM
They know each other because they're fucking neighbors. If they don't know you can get breathing protection at a hardware store, one of their neighbors knows it because their neighbor does woodworking or welding or shit like that, and their neighbor is like "oh yeah let's go to Lowes."
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btw about this: enough people have asked that (since I DO pay for the commercial license, in spite of the designer telling me not to pay him lol) I'm going to put some tiny whistle packs up in our shop. I know not everyone needs $100 & some just want something cute from me.
And a final reminder: we do not sell whistles. We take requests from between 100 - 1000 (or more if you're a local organization w/ high distro capacity) and we print & ship them free. Always free.
Thanks to the folks who have allowed us to scale up while keeping that true.
Thanks to the folks who have allowed us to scale up while keeping that true.
January 25, 2026 at 2:57 PM
btw about this: enough people have asked that (since I DO pay for the commercial license, in spite of the designer telling me not to pay him lol) I'm going to put some tiny whistle packs up in our shop. I know not everyone needs $100 & some just want something cute from me.
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Gladys West, GPS pioneer and mathematician, dies at 95 : NPR share.google/U5s40iULPmx1...
Gladys West, mathematician whose work paved the way for GPS, dies at 95
A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.
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January 25, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Gladys West, GPS pioneer and mathematician, dies at 95 : NPR share.google/U5s40iULPmx1...
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So many terrible things are happening all the time, but people still need to eat, people still need to make rent, people still need to keep the heat on. I know we're all stretched thin now, but even a little bit helps!
I know the world is on fire, but I need help covering $605 of utilities/bills for Feb or I will overdraft. I do not ask lightly.
I'm a disabled queer trans artist medically unable to go back to gig work & humbly asking for for help.
TYSM!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
I'm a disabled queer trans artist medically unable to go back to gig work & humbly asking for for help.
TYSM!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
January 25, 2026 at 5:15 AM
So many terrible things are happening all the time, but people still need to eat, people still need to make rent, people still need to keep the heat on. I know we're all stretched thin now, but even a little bit helps!
When I tell you that @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is keeping me sane because of her joy and her adhd cults and posts like this. I laughed so hard the dam inside me broke, and it needed to break. I needed to purge and the tears needed to fall. Bree, who barely knows me, is doing so much for me. Thanks
the best part of this post is the roughly 17% of you who thought a harbor seal was holding back the apocalypse and is either metaphorically or literally cracking
thank you for your service to us on this day
thank you for your service to us on this day
Seeing the NYT switch to active voice feels like watching a seal holding back the apocalypse crack
January 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM
When I tell you that @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is keeping me sane because of her joy and her adhd cults and posts like this. I laughed so hard the dam inside me broke, and it needed to break. I needed to purge and the tears needed to fall. Bree, who barely knows me, is doing so much for me. Thanks
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If anybody needs a dose of 80s fantasy heroism to steady their heart, both The Dark Crystal (1982) and Ladyhawke (1985) are free on YouTube right now.
January 25, 2026 at 8:15 AM
If anybody needs a dose of 80s fantasy heroism to steady their heart, both The Dark Crystal (1982) and Ladyhawke (1985) are free on YouTube right now.
For a brief moment joy infused my heart and the rage receded and I felt love.
January 25, 2026 at 5:46 PM
For a brief moment joy infused my heart and the rage receded and I felt love.
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Does everyone have a warm bed?
Does everyone have enough to eat?
Does everyone have a place to be safe?
Whose getting snatched in the night?
- Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"
Does everyone have enough to eat?
Does everyone have a place to be safe?
Whose getting snatched in the night?
- Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"
lims.minneapolismn.gov
January 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Does everyone have a warm bed?
Does everyone have enough to eat?
Does everyone have a place to be safe?
Whose getting snatched in the night?
- Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"
Does everyone have enough to eat?
Does everyone have a place to be safe?
Whose getting snatched in the night?
- Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"
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I really need people who see this to ask themselves what good reform is going to do. Another law on the books? A constitutional amendment?
What does that matter when the people in charge of the agency are hyping them up and telling them to do violence and that they are inherently immune if they do?
What does that matter when the people in charge of the agency are hyping them up and telling them to do violence and that they are inherently immune if they do?
We should not fund DHS without serious reform. We could return CBP to border. We could require warrants for immigration arrests. We could beef up training and require identification.
The list of possible reforms is long. What's unacceptable is the current lawless status quo.
The list of possible reforms is long. What's unacceptable is the current lawless status quo.
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I really need people who see this to ask themselves what good reform is going to do. Another law on the books? A constitutional amendment?
What does that matter when the people in charge of the agency are hyping them up and telling them to do violence and that they are inherently immune if they do?
What does that matter when the people in charge of the agency are hyping them up and telling them to do violence and that they are inherently immune if they do?
This is so beautiful
Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
January 25, 2026 at 3:27 AM
This is so beautiful
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there are days my heart breaks and reading that woman's statement, knowing she's terrified to go home, knowing we can't tell her that she's wrong to be terrified...
I believe we are going to win.
I will hate them forever for making us fight.
I believe we are going to win.
I will hate them forever for making us fight.
January 25, 2026 at 1:51 AM
there are days my heart breaks and reading that woman's statement, knowing she's terrified to go home, knowing we can't tell her that she's wrong to be terrified...
I believe we are going to win.
I will hate them forever for making us fight.
I believe we are going to win.
I will hate them forever for making us fight.
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what can i use to caption a video that won't train someone's slop machine?
January 25, 2026 at 1:09 AM
what can i use to caption a video that won't train someone's slop machine?
I'm going to go stand out in the cold and light a candle for those we've lost today, last week, last year, since white people first stepped foot on this continent. So much loss. So much collective pain. A candle isn't enough but in this moment it's what I have.
January 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I'm going to go stand out in the cold and light a candle for those we've lost today, last week, last year, since white people first stepped foot on this continent. So much loss. So much collective pain. A candle isn't enough but in this moment it's what I have.
*points at post*
It is way past time to do better, fellow white people.
It is way past time to do better, fellow white people.
Please don't use the phrase "circling the wagons" uncritically, fellow white people
January 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
*points at post*
It is way past time to do better, fellow white people.
It is way past time to do better, fellow white people.
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For those who can, here are links to donate directly to local efforts on the ground resisting ICE's terrorizing of Minneapolis. Let me know what you donated to where, and I'll match it until I get a panicked call from my bank!
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
@mplsmutualaid | Linktree
Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
linktr.ee
January 24, 2026 at 11:48 PM
For those who can, here are links to donate directly to local efforts on the ground resisting ICE's terrorizing of Minneapolis. Let me know what you donated to where, and I'll match it until I get a panicked call from my bank!
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
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So jist for people who seem confused or newish
An agitator is someone who is pushing for violence, and it's often phrased as 'you oughta' or '"we" oughta' but they're never the ones. They're just trying to rile up others.
It doesn't mean your friend who's having a meltdown, there you reach out.
An agitator is someone who is pushing for violence, and it's often phrased as 'you oughta' or '"we" oughta' but they're never the ones. They're just trying to rile up others.
It doesn't mean your friend who's having a meltdown, there you reach out.
You should also always block agitators.
January 25, 2026 at 12:21 AM
So jist for people who seem confused or newish
An agitator is someone who is pushing for violence, and it's often phrased as 'you oughta' or '"we" oughta' but they're never the ones. They're just trying to rile up others.
It doesn't mean your friend who's having a meltdown, there you reach out.
An agitator is someone who is pushing for violence, and it's often phrased as 'you oughta' or '"we" oughta' but they're never the ones. They're just trying to rile up others.
It doesn't mean your friend who's having a meltdown, there you reach out.
I'm holding you close even as my own heart cries in an eternal scream. I am walking with you even as my legs collapse from the weight of my tears. And I am demanding of the divine for more better angels than hateful hearts. I am holding you close cuz steel-laced compassion and solidarity must win.
January 25, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I'm holding you close even as my own heart cries in an eternal scream. I am walking with you even as my legs collapse from the weight of my tears. And I am demanding of the divine for more better angels than hateful hearts. I am holding you close cuz steel-laced compassion and solidarity must win.
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one of the things that makes today hard is that yesterday felt, for such a brief moment, hopeful.
January 24, 2026 at 11:51 PM
one of the things that makes today hard is that yesterday felt, for such a brief moment, hopeful.
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Or after you have left.
Speaking from experience.
Speaking from experience.
Abusers are always most violent when you try to leave.
January 24, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Or after you have left.
Speaking from experience.
Speaking from experience.
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Abusers are always most violent when you try to leave.
January 24, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Abusers are always most violent when you try to leave.
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Live as you like, your life is yours anyway
- Fire
- Fire
January 24, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Live as you like, your life is yours anyway
- Fire
- Fire