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Creator, Pages Past, a podcast where your favourite people revisit their old favourite books. Editor, college instructor, library lurker, luddite. Opinions mine. Torontonian. Listen: https://pod.link/1753505445 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PagesPast

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 23d

New episode of the podcast with @annetheriault.bsky.social! Come sit on a beached whale (that’s what people did for fun in medieval Scotland) and listen to us talk about plucky heroines, actually scary witches, and a little light regicide! pod.link/1753505445/e...

Portrait of Anne (selfie with high bun and glasses) identifying her is a history and religion writer along with a picture of the cover of quest for a maid 1988

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 48m

"If WFP doesn’t feed us, and the authorities won’t support us, then please drop a bomb on us — because we can’t continue in this way.’”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 4h

I believe it's up to 31 as of yesterday

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 4h

loaf Jean Valjean would steal

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 6h

yep. I need to see #GBBO posts and I'm being robbed!!!

genna @genna.bsky.social · 6h

she's huge on tiktok, but those kind of algorithmic platforms, it's very possible to never see or know she's on there. She loves to comment booo (thumbs down) on tiktoks about people skipping school. it's hilarious

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 6h

Malala Yousefzi's mentioned on social media are full of Gen Z people who are shocked she's alive and were convinced she was a Civil-Rights era historical figure

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 19h

Never, ever mess with Presbyterians

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 19h

I really like that my own great-great grandmother was around for the first commercially available motor vehicle and the release of Super Nintendo

genna @genna.bsky.social · 22h

people love talking about Rosa Parks watching Shrek and Shrek 2 but that seems normal to me

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 23h

campbell's tomato soup with an egg poached in it and soda crackers on top

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

Police said that "family" was worried about her. But the only family member mentioned in the court records is her partner, who was arrested for abusing her and threatening her at gunpoint the day she took the pills, after which she left. He is the one who called the cops

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

my parents and I both have 3/4 poodle mutts. they're high-strung, not too bright, and riddled with health problems, but we love them and they are tolerable for my highly allergic mum!

genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

there's at least one catchy (in the sense of influenza) melody on the new taylor swift album. every time this goes through my head, it knocks a few IQ points out on its way by

Keep it one hundred on the land (Land), thе sea (Sea), the sky
Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Reading this thread while in my 3rd airport in 2 days (on my way to a 4th) and whether you travel a lot or not, it's an amazing read.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

Some things I've learned in my first few weeks:

1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.

Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

this is a very familiar pattern — police advertently or inadvertently colluding with abusers to criminalize DV victims — playing out in a horrifying new context. i.e., Gabby Petito

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

I know @jessicavalenti.bsky.social is rightfully losing her mind over this

genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

-Police said they surveilled the car of a woman who had an abortion because of health concerns from "family"
-They made that up for the media after the fact. They were trying to charge her with a crime
-The only "family" they talked to was the man she was fleeing from bc HE THREATENED HER WITH A GUN

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

there's no such thing as hypoallergenic! But they're much less allergenic than other dogs

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if it's greed so much as validation/wanting to break records. I can't get my head around what someone with that much money would do with more money