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Host of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Story System on community radio WAKT toledoradio.org Sundays at 8PM
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talkwordy.bsky.social
ahem
AD-ROCK: Well this is just to say BEASTIES: OH HEAR IT COMES AD-ROCK: i gotta admit that i ate the BEASTIES: PLUMS AD-ROCK: that were in the ice BEASTIES: BOX AD-ROCK: next to the bagels and BEASTIES: LOX AD-ROCK: probably was your break BEASTIES: FAST AD-ROCK: please give me BEASTIES: FORGIVENESS AD-ROCK: but they were BEASTIES: DELICIOUS MCA: AND MIKE D: SO AD-ROCK: COLD
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Canadian TV show mocks Donald Trump.
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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shing.bsky.social
Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.
catacalypto.bsky.social Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 2d
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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astrokatie.com
The Doctor is right and correct
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
9000 words down, somewhere around 30,000 words to go.

This weekend I will be locking myself away to work on Chapter 1, which will be a highlight reel of animals commonly found in north American cities.
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12d
Big news: I’m writing a book!!

I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.

Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
A block of text that says “publishers marketplace deal report. Nearby nature by sarah mcanulty imprint:storey squid biologist and founder of Skype a scientist sarah mcanulty phd’s NEARBY NATURE, an illustrated guidebook on observing and caring for the natural world found right in our backyard from building bat houses to growing native plants to welcoming possums, to Kristin Hewitt at storey in an exclusive submission for 2027 by Eric Smith at neighborhood literary
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
beafoundart.bsky.social
Bald eagle fledglings practicing flying over the water
Bighorn Sheep
Bobcat
Wolverine
A crayfish in Michigan so big I never figured out for sure what kind it was. Some sort of field/stream aberration of its kind.
jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Serval
Caiman
Grey wolves
Whooping crane
African rock python
napaaqtuk.bsky.social Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 4d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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rtodkelly.bsky.social
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
beafoundart.bsky.social
The sun just came out for the first time in 3 days so that's nice. Takes a little bit of the sting out of the 22 degree real feel.

#PortCityLife
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
beafoundart.bsky.social
Why is this so gd funny?
😂
bpopetv.bsky.social Brandon Pope TV @bpopetv.bsky.social · 4d
When I’m visiting someone’s house and the streaming services have Ads
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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amandaweavernovels.com
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
beafoundart.bsky.social
A light snow is falling. The past two days of heavy windgusts have blown nearly all the leaves off the trees while blowing Lake Erie toward Buffalo.

Cooking the turkey from nearly frozen b/c I did it last year & it was the easiest and best turkey I ever made. Probably in top 3 I've ever tasted.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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dansmithweather.bsky.social
For the record, it's estimated that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 25-35 foot waves... and these figures below are for "significant wave height", or the mean height of the highest third of the waves. That translates to a good 15% of those whitecaps EXCEEDING those heights. 🌊

#GreatLakes #wind #waves
Top wave heights tonight (11/26 into 11/27): Lake Michigan 39 ft, Lake Superior 28 ft, Lake Erie 24 ft, Lake Huron 22 ft, Lake Ontario 19 ft.
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks By Kaleb Horton Let's say you come in from down south, and you're looking for an unsung movie landmark. So you fly in to LAX, rent a car, blow right past Hollywood, leave Los Angeles county heading north, go over the Grapevine, gape at the monumental hills and, wow, there really is a Smokey Bear Road, then you turn off the air conditioner when the sign tells you. Once you come down the grade too fast and see the world's loneliest Denny's, you're well on your way to what you're looking for – the middle of nowhere. You're going to Kern County to find the spot where Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of the greatest scenes in movie history, the crop duster sequence from "North by Northwest." It takes place in Indiana, of course, but the Indiana road sign and the imported corn field can't deceive this Bakersfield native. The parched and desolate heat of the scene feels too much like Kern County. The scene people know off-hand — Cary Grant running from an airplane — isn't why "North by Northwest" is a classic. The film's greatness, as was often the case for Hitchcock, lies in its build-up, its suspense, its mood. The plane moment is almost anticlimax. It is those five minutes before Grant's desperate escape that constitute a mathematically perfect suspense scene. So expert is Hitchcock's hand that he creates suspense, a slow burning dread, with no camera tricks and no music in broad daylight. Grant's character is a prototypical James Bond. His perfect suit, fast wit, high-alcohol tolerance and effortless charisma have got him out of every predicament so far. In the city, among people, he has powers. Take him away from people, put him nowhere, and he's just like us — totally helpless. He has no powers: His suit is no good out here; his million-dollar tailoring and perfect haircut is just vanity now. No amount of pretending can provide escape. Here, is the one place where he can die, and he gets by on the grace of God. All he can do is wait for what's coming. So when you seek the lost landmark of this scene, you're looking for an idea as much as a place. You're on Highway 99 now, going 30 miles north of Bakersfield, looking for an unassuming patch of dirt that carries spiritual weight. The scene was filmed neart Garces Highway to the west of Delano. You'll think there's a handy exit for it. There's not. You'll probably get lost in Delano, counting on a connection. You're at once a million miles from Hollywood and a hundred miles away. It's lonely. The horizon sprawls forever like there's nothing past it. There are broken down trucks on the side of the road, plumes of smoke from faraway fires. You'll find Garces eventually. You'll pass a bar called Rosy's Place, abandoned houses, an oil field, a prison, a cemetery, a sign that says "we clean headstones," and a whole lot of gold-on-brown punctuated by an occasional trailer or car going faster than you. You're looking for where Garces meets Corcoran Road. That's where this "North by Northwest" scene was filmed. You'll get a vague idea where it is but you'll never be exactly sure, since there's little impetus for clear signage 10 miles from a prison. Maybe Corcoran Road is unlabeled. Besides, that Indiana sign and the prop cornfield haven't been there in 56 years. If you're anything like me, you'll lose the light and call it a day, unsatisfied with the route you took. You return to I-5 northbound. From the 5, you'll meet Route 46, and go through a place called Lost Hills, then back in to the location from Corcoran Road instead. That's how Hitchcock probably did it. More intuitive. Still in the middle of nowhere, but on your way to Corcoran Road, you're right next to another Hollywood landmark: Blackwells Corner, James Dean's last stop. It's a glorified Texaco, and gas is 50 cents a gallon more than it should be. They sell Jelly Bellys and '50s kitsch artifacts — plates with Marilyn Monroe's face on them, and so forth. They really figured out how to cash in on death. You don't want to stop here. But I stopped. I asked the kid at the Blackwells Corner counter how to get to Corcoran Road. He gave me a look that said "there's no reason to go there," and then wearily told me where to go anyway. I was about 8 miles from the destination. Going there is a meditative experience. You're not just going to the middle of nowhere. You're going to the perfect nowhere. Going alone, in the hypnotic heat of the Central Calfiornia Valley, you might even forget what year it is. There is no reason to believe the road would be so well preserved for half a century, intimately tied to the career of an actor born in Bristol 111 years ago, but it has been. There's an abandoned house. A barn with a cross on it. But almost nothing has changed in 56 years. At some point new lines were added on the road. There's overgrowth where there didn't used to be overgrowth. A couple discarded Budweiser cans from who knows when, but mostly it's identical. This is the same sleepy loneliness that Alfred Hitchcock used to make great art in 1959. And that may sound dull, but tranquility is the point. You stand on that dirt and there's no distraction from what's in your soul. It's an inner destination, not an outer one. I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is. It emphasized the ugliness of James Dean's last stop becoming a place to sell T-shirts. It's about what we preserve, and what we don't, and what we remember, and what we don't. It's easy to find shrines to morbidity and hard to find meaningful places. For those, you have to go looking.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
beafoundart.bsky.social
How is it not 11pm already?

It's been dark for hours. It never even got what you could call "light" today.
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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dansmithweather.bsky.social
In addition, those 45-50 mph SW gusts will whip up waves around 10' by the Lake Erie Islands, and close to double that height the farther NE you sail (or would on a nice day... 0/10, do not recommend).

#GreatLakes #wind #seiche #weather
Waves up to 20' on eastern Lake Erie Wednesday PM/Thursday AM (5-10' by islands, Sandusky OH etc.)
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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spiegel.de
USA: ICE-Agenten nehmen Familienmitglied von Trump-Sprecherin Karoline Leavitt fest: Ein Familienmitglied der US-Regierungssprecherin Karoline Leavitt ist von ICE-Agenten festgenommen worden. Die Mutter des elfjährigen Neffen von Leavitt hatte seit der Verhaftung keinen Kontakt zu ihrem Sohn.
USA: ICE-Agenten nehmen Familienmitglied von Trump-Sprecherin Karoline Leavitt fest
Ein Familienmitglied der US-Regierungssprecherin Karoline Leavitt ist von ICE-Agenten festgenommen worden. Die Mutter des elfjährigen Neffen von Leavitt hatte seit der Verhaftung keinen Kontakt zu ihrem Sohn.
www.spiegel.de
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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cpsc.gov
Can't build a brand with you talking in the background.
An older adult sitting in a lawn chair in a kitchen while cooking thanksgiving dinner. His son calls from the other room, 'How's the turkey looking, dad? Lookin' good, kiddo! Can you keep it down? I'm about to go live. Dad. This is how you build a brand! HEY EVERYONE! IT'S POP-POP'S COOKIN' GOOD LOOKIN' AND WE'RE LIVE RIGHT NOW MY KID'S KITCHEN. SMALLER THAN MINE, WE'RE MAKING WORK! WE'VE GOT THE TURKEY IN THE OVEN AND BASTED IT JUST FEW MINUTES AGO so WE'RE UNLOCKING LOT OF FLAVOR RIGHT NOW. GOING SHOW YOU GUYS AN UPDATE IN A MINUTE, BUT FIRST LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS GRAVY... Overly attended cooking? No such thing. Stand by your pan this Thanksgiving!
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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dansmithweather.bsky.social
REMINDER: Not that there will be many boaters out there tomorrow, but by Wednesday evening, western Lake Erie could see lake levels drop 5-6 feet from their current (Tues eve) mark! That "seiche" will also make for a 10-12 ft difference between Toledo and Buffalo.
Wednesday PM forecast, western Lake Erie: 50" below low water datum. Exposed lakebed likely.
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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blackintellect.bsky.social
First full-time director of Black history museum near Ann Arbor wants to uplift local stories - www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
Lawrielle West is the first full-time executive director at the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, shown Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025.Jen Eberbach/MLive
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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mississippifreepress.org
“(Hendrix College is) very much into the liberal-arts experience,” 21-year-old Jake Nurkin from Hattiesburg said. “My freshman year, I think it was in the spring semester, I took an introduction to computer science kind of class, and I really fell in love with it—with the way that coding works.”
Jake Nurkin: Hattiesburg Native Places in Playwriting Contest
Hattiesburg native Jake Nurkin, a computer science major at Hendrix College, wrote a play that won second place in a student playwriting competition.
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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uaw.org
Congratulations to our UAW Region 1 family at Local 155 on voting by 99% to ratify their first contract with the Lear Corporation in Detroit, MI! After a long battle, members were able to win significant economic improvements, including major wage increases and strong healthcare gains. ✊💪
Photo of UAW Local 155 members who recently ratified their first contract with the Lear Corporation in Detroit, MI.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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niedermeyer.online
any system that showers hundreds of billions on this person for building zero sustainably profitable businesses is a bad system
wapplehouse.bsky.social Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 8d
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM