Mary Anne
@pers1stence.bsky.social
Staff to Bit of Mischief (the cat). Occasional knitter. Geek.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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There's a lot of "so wild you'd think it's fake" factoids to come out of the late Edo period in Japan, but one of my favorites is that the first English biographer of Yoshida Shōin, teacher of many future Meiji oligarchs, was Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island.
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There's a lot of "so wild you'd think it's fake" factoids to come out of the late Edo period in Japan, but one of my favorites is that the first English biographer of Yoshida Shōin, teacher of many future Meiji oligarchs, was Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island.
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The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day.
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day.
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
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Sanderling against a burner sunset today!
I was hunting this motive for a while now 😳🥲🥰
I was hunting this motive for a while now 😳🥲🥰
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Sanderling against a burner sunset today!
I was hunting this motive for a while now 😳🥲🥰
I was hunting this motive for a while now 😳🥲🥰
@spiritsquadron.bsky.social kudos to you all --- we can hear you loud and clear on the broadcast!
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
@spiritsquadron.bsky.social kudos to you all --- we can hear you loud and clear on the broadcast!
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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this, all day right now
(unmute, it’s a bop)
(unmute, it’s a bop)
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
this, all day right now
(unmute, it’s a bop)
(unmute, it’s a bop)
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My politics are “we live in a society!” but unironically.
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My politics are “we live in a society!” but unironically.
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One of the things that bothers me about transphobia as a word - see also islamophobia etc. - is that, no, no it's not a *phobia* it's not arachnophobia or pyrophobia or things that actually relate to someone being scared, it's hatred and bigotry that is often finessed into a grift.
From @karleighchardonnay.bsky.social at Outsports:
Jennifer Sey, who said the NWSL had “several males” has issued a $10,000 bounty to the next player to “speak out like Elizabeth Eddy.” An anonymous donor added $5000. Clay Travis said he’d double it.
NEAT.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/14/2...
Jennifer Sey, who said the NWSL had “several males” has issued a $10,000 bounty to the next player to “speak out like Elizabeth Eddy.” An anonymous donor added $5000. Clay Travis said he’d double it.
NEAT.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/14/2...
Transphobic clothing brand feels every athlete has a price - Outsports
Anti-trans activewear XX-XY teams up with sports shock jock Clay Travis to pay athletes to speak out against trans women.
www.outsports.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
One of the things that bothers me about transphobia as a word - see also islamophobia etc. - is that, no, no it's not a *phobia* it's not arachnophobia or pyrophobia or things that actually relate to someone being scared, it's hatred and bigotry that is often finessed into a grift.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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@tressiemcphd.bsky.social has repeatedly observed that the MAGA feminine aesthetic, instead of aiming for a coherent beauty heuristic, is meant *only* to signal female willingness to self-subjugate to a male desire.
The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.
The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social has repeatedly observed that the MAGA feminine aesthetic, instead of aiming for a coherent beauty heuristic, is meant *only* to signal female willingness to self-subjugate to a male desire.
The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.
The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.
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A small heard of 15-20 insurance claims just sitting around in the dark, staring at you, waiting.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A small heard of 15-20 insurance claims just sitting around in the dark, staring at you, waiting.
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Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.
Listen in ⬇️
Listen in ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.
Listen in ⬇️
Listen in ⬇️
Proof of cat: The Bridge Crew, Spock and Uhura
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Proof of cat: The Bridge Crew, Spock and Uhura
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Unless I absolutely must for professional reasons, I will not be watching your nuclear war movie. I will not be watching your incredibly bleak and depressing murder show. I will not be watching your artistic despair. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t order water when I’m already bailing my boat.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Unless I absolutely must for professional reasons, I will not be watching your nuclear war movie. I will not be watching your incredibly bleak and depressing murder show. I will not be watching your artistic despair. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t order water when I’m already bailing my boat.
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It’s been a pretty good life philosophy for me and I see no reason to turn my back on it now
October 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It’s been a pretty good life philosophy for me and I see no reason to turn my back on it now
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I feel the societal expectations of wearing pants and not hissing at people who make eye contact are oppressing me personally.
October 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I feel the societal expectations of wearing pants and not hissing at people who make eye contact are oppressing me personally.
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By the morals of their times,
Slavers were hated by those they enslaved
Rapists by those who they raped
Murderers by the survivors
The morals of the past are the same as today. Assholes are assholes
Slavers were hated by those they enslaved
Rapists by those who they raped
Murderers by the survivors
The morals of the past are the same as today. Assholes are assholes
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
By the morals of their times,
Slavers were hated by those they enslaved
Rapists by those who they raped
Murderers by the survivors
The morals of the past are the same as today. Assholes are assholes
Slavers were hated by those they enslaved
Rapists by those who they raped
Murderers by the survivors
The morals of the past are the same as today. Assholes are assholes
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Someone brought their cat to an owl show. Owls have impeccable comic timing.
October 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Someone brought their cat to an owl show. Owls have impeccable comic timing.
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The people who’ve been calling you baby murderers your whole life want you to turn down the temperature.
October 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The people who’ve been calling you baby murderers your whole life want you to turn down the temperature.
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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
i am not much of a one for celebrity interviews but this is lovely
OK I've never seen this video before, but I'm not even halfway through and I cannot get over how much I respect John Cena for his ability to admit his faults, apologise sincerely, and commit with everything he has to being better. The man is just so PURE & we are so LUCKY.
youtu.be/i6afBmXWNK4
youtu.be/i6afBmXWNK4
John Cena Rewatches WWE, Barbie, Peacemaker & More | Vanity Fair
YouTube video by Vanity Fair
youtu.be
September 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i am not much of a one for celebrity interviews but this is lovely
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September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM