Jennie
@thistle48.bsky.social
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Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*
What It Feels Like, Right Now
When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …
terribleminds.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*
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In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing.
Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...
Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...
February 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing.
Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...
Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...
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Favorite paragraph from this:
February 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Favorite paragraph from this:
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This, from John Green, is worth a watch (re: tuberculosis, and the importance of USAID) --
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBjQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBjQ...
What's at Stake
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This, from John Green, is worth a watch (re: tuberculosis, and the importance of USAID) --
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBjQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBjQ...
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Environmentally positive impact, AND they worked out how to make it financially advantageous to industry so companies actually implement it! Hell yes!
U.K. firm cracks the code to convert harmful methane emissions into useful hydrogen and graphene https://cbsn.ws/42Ld0Ax
U.K. firm cracks the code to convert harmful methane emissions into useful hydrogen and graphene
Methane is one of the climate-damaging gases emitted by industry, but a British firm has found a way to give it a major makeover.
cbsn.ws
February 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Environmentally positive impact, AND they worked out how to make it financially advantageous to industry so companies actually implement it! Hell yes!
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The Library Company of Philadelphia announces the donation of a collection of more than 1500 volumes on the history of sexuality. 📜
(via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...
(via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...
Announcing an Unparalleled Gift from Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg – The Library Company of Philadelphia
librarycompany.org
February 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Library Company of Philadelphia announces the donation of a collection of more than 1500 volumes on the history of sexuality. 📜
(via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...
(via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...
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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling
#upcycling
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling
#upcycling
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Whatcha doing ma?
January 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Whatcha doing ma?
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Just a reminder that there are real human beings, with families, who are having their financial and professional lives turned upside down tonight by the richest man in the world, who has a string of his own families he’s abandoned, and who was not elected to anything.
January 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just a reminder that there are real human beings, with families, who are having their financial and professional lives turned upside down tonight by the richest man in the world, who has a string of his own families he’s abandoned, and who was not elected to anything.
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These are Emergency Times.
Instead of being a snarky critic of someone busy trying to actually do work towards creating less suffering in this world, spend YOUR time doing work to create less suffering.
Organize. Fundraise. A wealth of ways to help.
"Reply guy" isn't a helper role, though. FYI
Instead of being a snarky critic of someone busy trying to actually do work towards creating less suffering in this world, spend YOUR time doing work to create less suffering.
Organize. Fundraise. A wealth of ways to help.
"Reply guy" isn't a helper role, though. FYI
find your place on deck
another world is possible-- but we must start living into it today
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
These are Emergency Times.
Instead of being a snarky critic of someone busy trying to actually do work towards creating less suffering in this world, spend YOUR time doing work to create less suffering.
Organize. Fundraise. A wealth of ways to help.
"Reply guy" isn't a helper role, though. FYI
Instead of being a snarky critic of someone busy trying to actually do work towards creating less suffering in this world, spend YOUR time doing work to create less suffering.
Organize. Fundraise. A wealth of ways to help.
"Reply guy" isn't a helper role, though. FYI
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Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
January 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.