teresa
@teresatoro.bsky.social
Art, music, books, cats, community. cancer survivor, Latina, Irish optimist. #dyscalculic AF: you do the math.
https://linktr.ee/TeresaToro
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What a tremendous legacy!
The End of an Era at One of America’s Most Famous Artist Retreats
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What a tremendous legacy!
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable
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What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Well, she is one of our most celebrated immigrants!
New York Graffiti Shows ICE Arresting the Statue of Liberty
The artist says he drew inspiration from the subway art of Keith Haring.
hyperallergic.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Well, she is one of our most celebrated immigrants!
Truly, the folks at @nymag.com have outdone themselves this year. Thanks – I desperately needed this smile today. You're always one of my #ReasonsToLoveNewYork
Here’s to never knowing who you'll run into on the subway — and to #ReasonstoLoveNewYork, our 21st annual reminder of why (rent hikes, rat kings, and all) we wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. www.curbed.com/article/reas...
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Truly, the folks at @nymag.com have outdone themselves this year. Thanks – I desperately needed this smile today. You're always one of my #ReasonsToLoveNewYork
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Pleased to see DEATH OF THE AUTHOR on this Best of the Year list. 😊🇳🇬
The Best Nigerian Books of 2025
All the best Nigerian books that were published in 2025.
www.zikoko.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Pleased to see DEATH OF THE AUTHOR on this Best of the Year list. 😊🇳🇬
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One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
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How Museums Quietly Shape What We See and Believe
Museum walls shape viewers’ perception through the art of display, building context and prioritizing certain artworks over others.
www.thecollector.com/art-display-...
#museums #art
Museum walls shape viewers’ perception through the art of display, building context and prioritizing certain artworks over others.
www.thecollector.com/art-display-...
#museums #art
December 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How Museums Quietly Shape What We See and Believe
Museum walls shape viewers’ perception through the art of display, building context and prioritizing certain artworks over others.
www.thecollector.com/art-display-...
#museums #art
Museum walls shape viewers’ perception through the art of display, building context and prioritizing certain artworks over others.
www.thecollector.com/art-display-...
#museums #art
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Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library
by Use Lahoz
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
#books #librarians #publiclibrary
by Use Lahoz
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
#books #librarians #publiclibrary
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library
by Use Lahoz
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
#books #librarians #publiclibrary
by Use Lahoz
english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
#books #librarians #publiclibrary
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What makes Pooh Pooh? The answer lies not only in author A.A. Milne’s prose, but also in the quiet genius of E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations.
by Sterling Dudley
blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e...
At PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
#books #literature
by Sterling Dudley
blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e...
At PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
#books #literature
December 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What makes Pooh Pooh? The answer lies not only in author A.A. Milne’s prose, but also in the quiet genius of E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations.
by Sterling Dudley
blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e...
At PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
#books #literature
by Sterling Dudley
blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e...
At PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
#books #literature
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This may have been a year when Latin music exploded globally, but the Alt.Latino and El Tiny host also sensed a desire among musicians for softness and stillness. n.pr/4aIuWja
Anamaria Sayre's Top 10 Albums of 2025
This may have been a year when Latin music exploded globally, but the Alt.Latino and El Tiny host also sensed a desire among musicians for softness and stillness.
n.pr
December 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This may have been a year when Latin music exploded globally, but the Alt.Latino and El Tiny host also sensed a desire among musicians for softness and stillness. n.pr/4aIuWja
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“Like our bodies, the following reading list cannot be contained by labels. I’ve included novels, essays, poetry, and memoirs that in one way or another touches on disability identity.”
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11 Books About Disability as an Ethics of Care - Electric Literature
In these novels, essays, and poems, disability is a form of knowledge that can reshape an inaccessible world
electricliterature.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Like our bodies, the following reading list cannot be contained by labels. I’ve included novels, essays, poetry, and memoirs that in one way or another touches on disability identity.”
buff.ly/lfZsfqz
buff.ly/lfZsfqz
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“They don’t sanitize the disorientation, the self-doubt, the breakdowns that follow breakdowns; they resist turning mental illness into a metaphor or exotic spectacle.”
10 Books That Refuse to Dramatize or Sanitize Mental Illness - Electric Literature
These authors resist turning mental illness into a metaphor or exotic spectacle
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“They don’t sanitize the disorientation, the self-doubt, the breakdowns that follow breakdowns; they resist turning mental illness into a metaphor or exotic spectacle.”
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“If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones… After all, there are better ways to starve to death.”
Gabriel García Márquez, born on this day in 1889, on his improbable beginnings as a writer: www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/06/m...
Gabriel García Márquez, born on this day in 1889, on his improbable beginnings as a writer: www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/06/m...
Gabriel García Márquez on His Improbable Beginnings as a Writer
“If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones… After all, there are better ways to starve to death.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones… After all, there are better ways to starve to death.”
Gabriel García Márquez, born on this day in 1889, on his improbable beginnings as a writer: www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/06/m...
Gabriel García Márquez, born on this day in 1889, on his improbable beginnings as a writer: www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/06/m...
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Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
"As new federal scrutiny threatens the future of Black-led nonprofits, advocates warn that the assault on giving is really an assault on community power."
The New Political Attacks On Black Philanthropy — And How Communities Are Fighting Back | Essence
As new federal scrutiny threatens the future of Black-led nonprofits, advocates warn that the assault on giving is really an assault on community power.
www.essence.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"As new federal scrutiny threatens the future of Black-led nonprofits, advocates warn that the assault on giving is really an assault on community power."
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Even if next week's health care vote fails, lawmakers will continue working toward a deal.
Here are the different tracks they're exploring.👇
Here are the different tracks they're exploring.👇
Capitol agenda: The health care talks to watch
Many lawmakers now view Jan. 30 as the real deadline to figure out what to do about Affordable Care Act subsidies.
www.politico.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Even if next week's health care vote fails, lawmakers will continue working toward a deal.
Here are the different tracks they're exploring.👇
Here are the different tracks they're exploring.👇
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President Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking.
"Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."
"Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
President Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking.
"Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."
"Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."
Sigh... so much yes.
We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sigh... so much yes.
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“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
― Flannery O'Connor
― Flannery O'Connor
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
― Flannery O'Connor
― Flannery O'Connor
This is great on its surface but my Patreon app is now overwhelmed by "suggestions" (read: ads) to follow other creators. I wish you'd follow your own advice more @jackconte since I have been a Patreon member for a decade ❤️
Opinion | I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is great on its surface but my Patreon app is now overwhelmed by "suggestions" (read: ads) to follow other creators. I wish you'd follow your own advice more @jackconte since I have been a Patreon member for a decade ❤️