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Listening1
@patnan.bsky.social
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Dogs, democracy, and little kids. Educational psychologist and professor of early childhood ed. Gardener, fabric collage creator, kitchen adventurer, wrangler of aging springer spaniels. Enjoying life in Seattle.
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MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
January 23, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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artrapnell.bsky.social
4 million watch Colbert nightly. More will see this on SM.
Share this clip everywhere.
January 8, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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"Autism doesn’t destroy families. Ignorance does." #McSweeneysTop25of2025
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
Our 11th most-read article of 2025. - - -Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children a...
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January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
patnan.bsky.social
I’ve been listening for a long time here. I’m what we Ed Psych folks call “slow-to-warm-up” and there’s no cure for that. Eventually, we cautious types venture out a bit, say a few words. That’s my intention this year: to create conversation instead of just listening. We’ll see how that goes.
"Mother and Child" - Helene Schjerfbeck, 1887 A child is peeping tentatively over a woman's shoulder
January 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that?

"How does a culture of abuse end?

"What is our part in ending it?"

www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
Cult(ure) of Abuse
How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?
www.the-reframe.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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aclu.org
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

There’s only one way to interpret the 14th Amendment: exactly how it's written. Birthright citizenship isn’t up for debate.
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
patnan.bsky.social
We're up & breakfasting at 4:30 because dogs believe in the constancy of timekeeping. Over the next two weeks, I shall endeavor to encourage them to sleep a few more minutes each day. *sigh*
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
patnan.bsky.social
Nothing makes birds fall silent quicker than opening the Merlin app.
September 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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jdickerson.bsky.social
Our essay on the complexity of monsters: substack.com/profile/5411...
September 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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estherrose.bsky.social
This is Republican billionaire John Paulson. Why won’t the media report on his name in the Epstein files?
September 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
patnan.bsky.social
Please take a look at Lumina Creative's video post from today, on the power of even personal creative action to shift culture. youtube.com/@liminacreat...
Limina Creative
Welcome to Limina Creative — a creative space at the edge of performance, where making becomes a path of personal growth, meaning, and transformation. This channel is for makers, artists, and deep th...
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July 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
patnan.bsky.social
The dogs are very excited this morning about the bit of snow in Seattle.
Two black and white springer spaniels on a walk in an inch of snow in the dark before dawn.
February 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
So, I read smart people.

There is a playbook for this next chapter.

I believe we can do this. It won’t be easy, but the map is there.

Featuring resources & wisdom from Dr. Erica Cheoweth, @prisonculture.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @jaclynf.bsky.social & more.
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 11, 2024 at 1:30 PM
patnan.bsky.social
Excellent and insightful article.
matthematics.com Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · Jan 1
Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
celestemdavis.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
patnan.bsky.social
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
December 20, 2024 at 1:23 AM
patnan.bsky.social
I was thumbing through a book right now and this stopped me in my tracks: "Everybody has a secret place that no one else knows of." I'm trying to think if I have a secret place, or if I should find one...do YOU have a secret place?
December 12, 2024 at 9:27 PM
patnan.bsky.social
I'm grateful to President Biden for pardoning his son and relieving Americans of the trauma that would have resulted from Trump's persecution of Hunter Biden.
December 3, 2024 at 3:28 AM
patnan.bsky.social
Successfully cut the few tiles that needed shortening for a bath wall project, using a tile saw from my local tool library. A lot wetter than I remember tile-sawing to be. Wore my rain gear, LOL.
November 30, 2024 at 10:29 PM
patnan.bsky.social
A marvelous thread...
courtneymilan.com Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Nov 28
BRUSSELS SPROUTS APPRECIATION THREAD

I know a lot of people don’t like Brussels sprouts. And maybe you legit don’t! Many people do not. But remember, Brussels sprouts are basically broccoli, and so if you like the one you COULD like the other.

This is how I make them.
November 28, 2024 at 9:50 PM
patnan.bsky.social
I just added "chili powder from Mexico" to my grocery list and realized I might want to stock up now on staples from outside the U.S. while things are still available and affordable. 🫤
November 24, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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AMERICAN GIRL
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October 30, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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Wherever you live and vote:

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October 29, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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A powerful speech. 40 minutes of hard truths wrapped in compassion. Wonderful.
FULL SPEECH: Michelle Obama rallies for Harris in Michigan
YouTube video by ABC News
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October 27, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM