Meg Frank
@peripateticmeg.bsky.social
artist and baker and jewelry maker.
they/them/tired - NYC
megfrank.com
they/them/tired - NYC
megfrank.com
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gonna start calling this writing style a LinkedIn Bark
😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
gonna start calling this writing style a LinkedIn Bark
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Meg is bringing the blues this season. Whether you see the sea or deep space, you won't want to miss these incredible pieces.
✨💙✨
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
✨💙✨
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Meg is bringing the blues this season. Whether you see the sea or deep space, you won't want to miss these incredible pieces.
✨💙✨
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
✨💙✨
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
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This collection is SLAYING me. Especially @peripateticmeg.bsky.social 's pearl pieces, which I want ALL OF PLEASE, but the whole collection is just stunning. Set your clocks!
A reminder. We preview our collection drops so people can make informed, timely purchases. There are 11 of us, our collections have over 300 items. You can preview the Black Friday collection AS WE BUILD IT here 1/2:
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
Black Friday | Peculiarity Shop
The Peculiarity Shop Black Friday Collection, 11/28/2025, 12pm EST.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This collection is SLAYING me. Especially @peripateticmeg.bsky.social 's pearl pieces, which I want ALL OF PLEASE, but the whole collection is just stunning. Set your clocks!
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Leaves on your lawn? Good. Leaf them alone. 🍂
Leave the Leaves!
One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.
xerces.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Leaves on your lawn? Good. Leaf them alone. 🍂
🙃🙃🫠
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
In the U.S., Nothing Says Human Rights Abuse Like Ensuring Reproductive Freedom!
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🙃🙃🫠
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Hey y’all Sydette really needs a boost. Can you help her out right now?
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share
gofund.me/a5ee0064
gofund.me/a5ee0064
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hey y’all Sydette really needs a boost. Can you help her out right now?
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
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Buses have been free in Tucson for years now. City check: still standing.
Well, well, well, imagine this:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Buses have been free in Tucson for years now. City check: still standing.
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Scientists have pinpointed how the brain generates ‘aha’ moments. Neuroscientists have identified a clear brain pattern behind the phenomenon of sudden insight, by scanning volunteers as they deciphered hidden images. buff.ly/pW93qmK
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick | Quanta Magazine
A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Scientists have pinpointed how the brain generates ‘aha’ moments. Neuroscientists have identified a clear brain pattern behind the phenomenon of sudden insight, by scanning volunteers as they deciphered hidden images. buff.ly/pW93qmK
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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just saw someone on tumblr describe HP as “the first fandom” like. I know you people are desperate to keep funding a transphobe bc the thought of reading any other book is too hard for you but this is housewives writing kirk/spock fanfic in carefully xerox’d fanzines erasure and I won’t stand for it
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
just saw someone on tumblr describe HP as “the first fandom” like. I know you people are desperate to keep funding a transphobe bc the thought of reading any other book is too hard for you but this is housewives writing kirk/spock fanfic in carefully xerox’d fanzines erasure and I won’t stand for it
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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“[Book banners] do not want safe children -- they want obedient children, and they think they can accomplish that by deciding what books are allowed to be on the shelf.”
On Saturday, @authorsabb.bsky.social won the ALAN Award at @ncte.org, and I was honored to accept it on our behalf.
This is the speech I gave.
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/11...
This is the speech I gave.
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“[Book banners] do not want safe children -- they want obedient children, and they think they can accomplish that by deciding what books are allowed to be on the shelf.”
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
I have another wire wrapped pendant now if any of you have a NEED for a shiny purchase today ✨👀✨
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I have another wire wrapped pendant now if any of you have a NEED for a shiny purchase today ✨👀✨
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
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just use the fucking library.
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
just use the fucking library.
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
oh man, @hillarymonahan.bsky.social takes such good photos of my work
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh man, @hillarymonahan.bsky.social takes such good photos of my work
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
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"The lives of the Black artists who make up Black excellence were shaped by the institutions of the past century, which were rooted in a belief in a common public good and a deep appreciation for the history of artistic craft. We are living through the destruction of all that."
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"The lives of the Black artists who make up Black excellence were shaped by the institutions of the past century, which were rooted in a belief in a common public good and a deep appreciation for the history of artistic craft. We are living through the destruction of all that."
HER snuggle jacket
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
HER snuggle jacket
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Donald trump meeting Zohran Mamdani:
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Donald trump meeting Zohran Mamdani:
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“It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects" was such a simple message that was so thoroughly and viciously rejected, but i think many of you still need to learn it
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects" was such a simple message that was so thoroughly and viciously rejected, but i think many of you still need to learn it