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Karen Meisner
@whatnext.bsky.social
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And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry
And I said to myself: What next big sky?
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Morning, sunshine
Tiny Yorkie looking up from golden blankets gets tummy rub from a hand which is roughly the same size as the entire dog
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Wait there’s a glamorous French heist boom in progress? Please let the thieves be the Robin Hood fox and, I dunno, this
Cate Blanchett in Ocean’s Eight, striding sapphically down the street in a glittering emerald green jumpsuit
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Burlington, Vermont showed up with autumn leaves & protest! #NoKings
An American flag carries a sign that reads: “this flag is anti-fascist. No dictators. No Nazis. No fascists. No klan. No grifters. No Trump!”
October 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I began reading Catherine Lacey’s BIOGRAPHY OF X and this first paragraph (just 3 sentences) was so good I needed months to recover before I could come back to the book.
A paragraph of text photographed from a book. The first sentence reads, “The first winter she was dead it seemed every day for months on end was damp and bright – it had always just rained, but I could never remember the rain – and I took the train down to the city a few days a week, searching (it seemed) for a building I might enter and fall from, a task about which I could never quite determine my own sincerity, as it seemed to me the seriousness of anyone looking for such a thing could not be understood until the body needed to be scraped from the sidewalk.”
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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This little face keeps me believing in goodness
Tiny Yorkie pup face peeks out from a green fuzzy blanket snuggled around her
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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So I just tried this and it’s real and omg little kids full of optimism will make you feel better about pretty much anything 🥹
If anyone needs a little motivation today, call (707) 873-7862. It’s a school project for kindergartners give you a peptalk.
September 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I read a picture book for kids and it got me in the feels. Recommended for readers of any age who want the reminder that staying on a straight path is not the only way to navigate a deep, dark forest. SEVEN WAYS THROUGH THE WOODS, by Jenn Reese and Devin Elle Kurtz 🌿
A picture book stands on grass with an oak tree behind it. On the cover is a dark-haired girl smiling as she turns to walk into a forest, with a griffin glimpsed flying through the trees. The title is SEVEN WAYS THROUGH THE WOODS, by Jenn Reese, art by Devin Elle Kurtz
September 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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So, I want to say a couple things about this book SUNWARD, by @willalex.bsky.social, which comes out in a few days. (If you pre-order it right now, it will be waiting for you when it drops!)
Cover for the book SUNWARD by William Alexander: a sun in eclipse shines out in the darkness between the surfaces of a moon and a red planet
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Tweet by Angela Dennis / @angeladwrites : Racism and racist ideology is not a “political view.“ It’s not about left or right it’s about right and wrong. Framing them as a difference of opinion is dangerous because it minimizes the harm, violence, and inequality it produces. Political debates are about policy. Racism is about stripping people of humanity and reading their existence. Don’t confuse the two.
September 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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A close-up of an adorable chaos, demon, large eyes brimming with the woes of the world, ready to wreak havoc upon it
August 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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This is one of The Gorinsky’s wee sugar gliders eeeee
I’m standing in a blue room smiling at a wee sugar glider perched on my forearm
August 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Cinnamon feeling very pleased with herself after doing zoomies around a creature who slipped across the veil from some gothic eldrich wolf shadow world. Seriously these two dogs are working in entirely distinct genres here
On a grassy slope, a cream-colored bichon leaps excitedly toward the camera, mouth wide in a huge happy grin, while behind her looms the eerie figure of a great wolflike dog with staring ice-blue eyes, whose fur seems to drip shadows
August 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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this could be the cover of any book I read passionately from age 9 through 14
On a grassy field, a cream-colored bichon dog and beautiful black pony touch noses through the wide poles of a fence
August 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Every strange new animal is just a fren she hasn't met yet
Cream-colored bichon dog running back and forth in front of a fence she could easily slip through, at which a black pony gracefully lowers her head to greet this barky critter
August 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Cinnamon knows nothing of the world's horrors and simply lives the liberation of, and wild romping with, all sentient beings.
Very excited cream-colored bichon dog crouches in play position while a huge tawny dog who is 80% fur, and possibly a bear, leaps into the air above her
August 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Mine also has baths and yet somehow
Scruffy Yorkie bathing in a river like a ruffian
August 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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ancient crone witch sending her three grandwitches out into the world to do witchy shit

#plantsky #plants
Three spiky thistle stalks topped by purple flowers rise from a thatch of soft cream colored fluff
August 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Also these babes like caterpillars trying to fly
A bunch of — damn, I really need to learn the right terms for plant biology. Ok so they are golden fluffy tails on tall stalks sticking up in a wild green field with the sun shining through them
August 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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This raw beauty. Plantsky, can you tell me what kind of plant it is, and also what the soft spray part is properly called? I’d like to find the words
A fuzzy green plant with grasslike leaves against a deep blue sky, with one soft seeded spray catching the sunlight
August 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Have begun reading THRUST by Lydia Yuknavitch and before I even hit page one, the dedication’s got me emotional
Book dedication reads: this book is for Miles Mingo, sun of my life. And for every child who will cross the threshold next, every kind of body and soul, every orphan and misfit, every immigrant and refugee, every gender imaginable, every lost or found beautiful being looking for shore, home, heart. That space between child and not: imagine it as everything. Hold it open as long as you can. You are right. You are the new world.
July 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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this tiny creature
Tiny Yorkie curls in a sleepy bundle against bedding of cream, light green, and raspberry pink. Her eyes are dark and bright, her tongue protrudes in the smallest blep.
July 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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No fate but what we make
Scene from T2 where you can practically hear Arnold’s voice as the Terminator telling Sarah Connor: Grok becomes antisemitic at a geometric rate
July 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Every day some fresh bullshit reminds me of these observations by @zeets.bsky.social
Zito: What's become apparent in the last few years to me, is that a lot of people find the idea that they should have a responsibility and obligation to other people around them, highly oppressive. It's a level of egocentrism that even children would be admonished for. It seems that every time that any adjustment in behavior or endurance of friction was required for the greater benefit of everyone, people have reacted as if that sort of consideration is the equivalent of stripping them of their rights. It's been incredible to see.
July 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Well. Where do we go from here.
Tiny Yorkshire terrier stands on a path of grass mown through overgrown wild fields. The path stretches out before her toward trees. She has turned to look back at the camera.
July 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Big sis checking in with lil sis
Tiny Yorkie squints as the fluffy head of a cream-colored dog looms into frame to gently boop snoots. The other dog looks gigantic in proportion to the Yorkie though she is actually a 14 pound poodle.
July 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM