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Liz F.

@elizfreed.bsky.social

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Book-loving, cat-adoring human. Exuberantly not normal. Trying my best to be kind.

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Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · 2d

Me: I am enjoying this anime a lot, I can't decide what it is about it. The art and visuals? The LGBT overtones? The well-trimmed story?
Wikipedia: creator says she was inspired by Studio Ghibli and Sailor Moon.
Me: That'll be it.

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · 2d

What a variety of shapes haha! They look really tasty

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Vox @vox.com · 3d

Earlier this week Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — a public-private partnership that does more than any other organization to get vaccines to people in poor countries — reported that its vaccines saved a record-breaking 1.7 million people in 2024. That’s 400,000 more lives saved than in 2023.

2024 was a record-setting year for lifesaving vaccines

Vaccines delivered by Gavi saved the lives of 1.7 million people in poor countries

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サイバー酔っ払いかえる　Cyber drunkard FROG🍺 @techpyon.com · 14d

おやすみBluesky🌃

#AIart

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · 13d

A great deep-dive into viewers' true opinions!

Manya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social · 14d

How did "731", one of the most anticipated recent Chinese war films, go from patriotic hype to online backlash? I dove into official narrative, audience reception & everything particular about this movie - that was a "10" but dropped to 3.1 acc to IMDb: www.whatsonweibo.com/evil-unbound...

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · 13d

There are so many catch-22s with disability. Like:

Disability makes every day different for me: I may wake up in pain, or I may wake up feeling incredible.

Disability ALSO makes it hard for me to handle the lack of a routine due to my unpredictable body 😅

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16d

@bostonglobe.com I fixed your headline for you.

Added “^FALSELY” to the original headline saying “Trump links Tylenol to autism.”

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · 13d

Well, I guess my plans to buy a chair just got moved up...

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · 13d

Breathtaking!

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 13d

Amazon will pay $1.5 billion to customers tricked into Prime membership

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Sep 1

Behold, the bunny army!

I've gotten into origami lately, and for an upcoming party my mom asked if I could make bunny party favors. They don't get any less cute with time.

Ten origami bunnies in various colors on a wooden table, surrounding several large origami tulips.

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Jul 16

Normal request in our household:

"When the Spider Slayer has a free moment, could she come in here to push back the forces of doom?"

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Jun 6

Who needs a train crash when there's things like this in the world

Tony Cliff @tangocharlie.bsky.social · Jun 6

Okay I know you all are watching some sort of train crash, BUT

our 4-yo just marched into the room and said
“You know what? I LOVE BOOKS.
I love books more than probably anyone.”

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Jun 6

This is why I reread books. <3

Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · Jun 6

#BookSky

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Jun 6

I imagine a world in which all my doctors are like the few who treat me like a human, and themselves like humans, the two of us being flawed humans who are figuring out my body's problems together. A person can dream.

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Jun 6

Somedays, I just wish all doctors would be willing to say, "I'm sorry," or, "It turns out I'm wrong."

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Jun 6

the two of us being flawed humans who are figuring out my body's problems together. A person can dream! (2/2)

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Apr 26

Man, I hate the whole "for legal reasons, don't post about this online." My dude, I wanted to get internet strangers' thoughts on this and you are cramping my style. 😂

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Apr 24

(3/) This is not the lack-of-emotion from being overwhelmed, panicked, traumatized, or compartmentalized. I am aware that my mother could've died, but she didn't, so I don't feel upset. I'm sad she's hurting. But I'm not sad/scared like Dad, or like (according to books & media) most people would be.

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Apr 24

(2/) Last week, my mother was the victim of a serious auto crash, and was in the trauma center for several days. I mostly feel...not much of anything. My head is full of "what to do next" and "how to ease the burden on my father."

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Vox @vox.com · Apr 9

What’s a tricky moral choice you’re struggling with? From how to use tech ethically to how to talk politics with family you disagree with, Sigal Samuel’s advice column Your Mileage May Vary can help. Ask away here:

Let us know what moral dilemmas you’re grappling with. You could be featured in the next Your Mileage May Vary column!

I'm Sigal Samuel, a senior reporter for Future Perfect, Vox’s section about how to do good in today’s confusing world. My advice column — Your Mileage May Vary — offers people a unique framework for t...

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ReneePaints @painthike.bsky.social · Apr 9

#NationalLibraryWeek
#LiteracyMatters

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Apr 10

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Apr 10

I love Telehealth for many, many reasons. Some of them:
1. The doctors are less likely to be late
2. When they are late, it's fine, because I'm sitting at home and can get things done

Liz F. @elizfreed.bsky.social · Apr 3

Public libraries are an essential service to communities, as places of information and providing services especially to vulnerable populations.
I don't have a lot of energy for the outrage I know many people feel. I mostly feel exhausted. (2/2)