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contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
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local nerds, I just finished this book, which is both expansive and compact plus funny and weird, and I have a feeling this author event tomorrow at PSB Cambridge is going to be delightful. see you there?

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

finishing a book in the park at sunset: yes standing up and turning around to see a cybertruck: no thanks

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

some work days end with precisely enough mental energy to look at the sunset for awhile

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this week’s farmers market flowers are filed under “do one thing and do it well”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

okay, maybe just this one king

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against what felt like all odds I just got an actual check in the mail about this. it is for less than the amount of my bounced paycheck from 2 years ago but it’s also not nothing. I do not have time to have a feeling about this and also I might not have a choice.

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in retrospect I should have thought about the fact that the friend whomst I bullied into sending me this soup recipe has three teenage sons

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

tiny museum goer was a champ and joined her adults’ enthusiasm for the Stanley Whitney exhibit

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

OK! First person to use the coupon code THANKSJOHN at check out, will get Strange & Perfect Account from the Permafrost (which is an incredible book) for FREEEEEE! & you can get it signed next week! www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9789533...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Rainy in Maine, but enjoying our morning reading too, especially this @ssacks.bsky.social @wsj.com review of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost!

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And you can meet Donald Niedekker here! (Do you think if we skeet @themountaingoats.bsky.social we can get a repost/send him a signed copy?) www.portersquarebooks.com/event/donald...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

ok it’s allowed to be saturday

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wish fulfillment dreams are not my subconscious’s area of expertise, but last night I did dream that I was supposed to go to a party that started at 10:30pm and the people I was supposed to go with bailed before I did

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the real masterpiece is the pivot table I made to figure out how much yarn to buy for this temperature blanket (the only thing I’ve ever crocheted besides a provisional cast-on)

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

i’m maybe the third or fifth most important thing in this house, definitely behind the catnip pickle

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I’m worried I haven’t made you all listen to enough Louis Andriessen bandcamp.com/rachelhands/...

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MA is listed as “Self-Identification as a State Sanctuary Jurisdiction” which our current governor will be the first, middle, and last to tell you isn’t the case

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