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ljmagai.bsky.social
Novelist, historian, retired house restorer and medievalist with a penchant for magic and witchery. Gardener and novice wood-worker. Inherited a bunch of bonsais with instructions to do nothing but not kill them. So far, so good.
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After a run of misses, it appears that the pie fairies have smiled upon me today

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I just finished "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu" by Joshua Hammer. LOVE learning new stuff, and this was a revelation. Abdel Kader Haidara and his team, who saved 377,000 manuscripts from Al Qaeda, are the best kind of heroes the world could have. Great great read!

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I can't wait to go to chemo this week in my deep red area and announce loudly that federal funding for cancer research has been canceled. And that the Medicare supplements for the ACA are going away. Wish me luck--it'll be...interesting.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Okay as @theeghammuseum.bsky.social and @romanpalace.bsky.social informed us that it's #handwritingday we're pulling out the big guns. A letter from 1597 signed by Queen Elizabeth I. 👑

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

For Booksky 📚 Everyone should have library access. Queer Liberation Library: free membership with ecard, accepts donations. Internet Archive: non-profit library with free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Non-resident library card ⬇️

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Jimmy Carter’s funeral really feels like a callback to a nation guided by decency and honor. And it’s also a rebuke to our current state of politics. Oh, what could have been! What we could have been.

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I’m sitting in a nearly deserted Chinese restaurant and the two Trump guys behind me have never been acquainted with me concept of indoor voices.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Supervisor kitty doing her job with diligence and an occasional corrective slap to the worker.

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The full moon setting over the Massanutten Mountains at dawn. What a way to wake up!

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Laser-eyed cat level unlocked, sense of quiet achievement gained.

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In the early fall morning, the tied-up grasses look rather like giant bunnies, browsing for a breakfast.

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HEY EVERYONE I THINK WE'VE FIGURED OUT WHEN EVERYTHING WENT WRONG

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

A reminder that Who Goes Nazi? is up on the Harper's website for anyone to read at any point, and it is always worth taking the time out of your day to read it again harpers.org/archive/1941...

submitted 134 days ago • 11 comments

It stands for "Banishing Ritual of Fuck Right Off."

submitted 264 days ago • 13 comments