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Writing and illustrating stories for young readers. Fond of books, animals, nature, and baseball. Northwestie. Hamline MFAC, #scbwi #C2C, #12x12
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It's a great evening for astronomy. Starting with Jupiter and its 4 Gallilean Moons in a line. (l to r) Callisto, Ganymede, Io and Europa #astronomy #astrophotography

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

Excellent Beetle wrap-up. It's just a pleasure to see them all.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1148 comments

Edward Gorey cover for Nineteenth Century German Tales

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

A thread of some of Edward Gorey's decorated envelopes in the collection of the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social. Art—Nature, 1948

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

This little thread.

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the PLR rules. I keep checking the mail eagerly waiting for this year's payment.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

How better to start the weekend than with some colourful, unabashed joy? Here's just a small selection of the Ophrys bee #orchids we'll be sharing with our guests on our popular Orchids of Rhodes tour in just a few weeks time.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

🖤 Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

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One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users. Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I love A.O. Scott's deep dive into poems @nytimes.com and this one is timely and so very beautiful. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

This calms me.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Listen to the whole speech.

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Such a great little concert for Friday afternoon. A master!

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*Slams dictionary shut til Monday*

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Pitchfest is open!! 📢 Several editors reached out to me after I placed second for my graphic novel, Cramming...and now it's being published! This year, the editor and agent list is super stacked, so highly recommend giving it a go if you want to publish a comic/graphic novel traditionally.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hurrah!

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I know there's dozens of things to contact reps about every single day, but today please contact them about keeping USPS independent. Privatizing USPS would be devastating for so many reasons, but personally it would destroy my small business if I can't have affordable/accessible service. 5calls.org

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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If any Hugo Awards voters enjoyed Lower Decks, it would be very cool to get a nod! Thank you for your consideration. This is our entire campaign. 🖖

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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I have started calling picture books that are fun and entertaining and a bit commercial with a subtle message or theme as "pickles". They're not really vegetables, but they are made out of cucumbers. Kids don't think of them as vegetables (but again, cucumbers). That's the PB I want #MSWL

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

An intriguing lichenous mystery in Phil Gates' @theguardian.com country diary today. #countrydiary #naturewriting

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