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Alyssa Pepper
@alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
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I’m just here for the books, the food, DEFINITELY the dogs.
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Alyssa Pepper @alyssapepper2020.bsky.social · Jan 21
Again-all of this is relative-do what you can, when you can, as well as you can. Not everyone can do all of this and some of it or sometimes is better than nothing, done never. Love always wins ❤️
alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
Today I got like 10 emails letting me know that the jobs I applied to with the Feds (OPM, Dept of Energy etc) were “removed” or the “vacancy was filled.” Only one I didn’t was an Army related position.

I have never in the last six years of applying received these & definitely not so many at once.
January 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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NASA employees were sent this email verbatim today from our acting director.
mattshuham.bsky.social Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · Jan 22
The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "[email protected]."

chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. Day 11-posting a bit early as I’m having surgery! Also, if you’ve read this one, I need to know if you also pictured Gwendolyn Christie (like from GOT) as Mab in the eventual movie. I can’t see anyone else

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
January 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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What to do: get your library card & physical copies of books (esp banned ones). Stop using Amazon, meta & ByteDance owned apps. Delete your accounts first. Move your money to a local credit union from your bank. Stop shopping at big box stores. As much as you can even if not all the time.
January 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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In honor of it being FREEZING outside please enjoy this video of Jethro having a popsicle #dogsofbluesky trust me, I’m aware popsicles are not for dogs 😂 you’re welcome to help me try to convince my mom not to spoil her granddog too!
January 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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#dogsofbluesky a photo of baby Jethro! Nine years ago, give or take a few months.
January 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr., a beacon of hope and justice. His vision for equality and nonviolent resistance transformed the civil rights movement. Through his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, King inspired generations to fight for justice and unity. Let’s honor his legacy today.
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January 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
January 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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#dogsofbluesky this is Jethro, he’s a 9 year old Lhasapoo!
January 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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#booktok #bookstagram #booksky📚 💙

Hi! I’m Alyssa. I’m an avid reader of MANY diverse and inclusive genres and authors. I’ll read anything from romantasy to sci fi to romantic comedies to non fiction to historical fiction and anything in between. I’m open to sharing recommendations ❤️
January 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Good morning #booksky

Just a friendly reminder that Audible, owned by Amazon/Bezos, supports the tech giant. Libro.fm offers an alternative, letting you buy audiobooks while supporting independent bookstores. Choose where your dollars go and align your listening with your values.
Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores
Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.
Libro.fm
January 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7 (sorry I took a break lol)

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
January 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6

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#Books
#BookChallenge
November 23, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5

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#BookChallenge
Mirror earth by Michael d lemonick. The background is black with a blue planet peeking upwards in the shadow of the corner of the book
November 22, 2024 at 6:15 PM
alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 21, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3

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#Books
#BookChallenge
The complex PTSD workbook, by Arielle Schwartz. Tagline reads “A mind body approach to regaining emotional control and becoming whole” it’s a white book, while the bottom right corner is made of blue puzzle pieces trailing off into the top left.
November 20, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Howdy #Medsky #CognitiveScience folks, #machinelearning folks, #neuroscience folks. @jzacks.bsky.social and colleagues at WashU are figuring out how the brain encodes and handles everyday events. 🧪 🩺 source.washu.edu/2024/11/the-...
The main events: How scenes from life shape consciousness, build memories
Brain science researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are studying how the brain perceives, processes and remembers everyday events. Their goal is to create an intervention that could improv...
source.washu.edu
November 19, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Epigenetics coming back to bite us...
erictopol.bsky.social Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Nov 18
A mechanism for why durable weight loss is so difficult: epigenetic memory of fat cells
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 18, 2024 at 10:10 PM
alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
The novel “Eve” by Cat Bohannon. How the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution.
November 19, 2024 at 1:16 PM
alyssapepper2020.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1: a bluish grey cover of the novel “the three body problem” by Cixin Liu. It’s dominated by a large pyramid structure, and at the very bottom you can see a person, although it’s very dark/not detailed.
November 18, 2024 at 12:11 PM