Jill S

Jill S

@outseide.bsky.social

Tea drinker, Seattleite, queer femme, erstwhile writer, dilettante, librarian, birder, renter, traveler. If you reply-guy me, I will block you. Pronouns: she/her www.slowbloom.com/blog

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What is wrong with me that I keep on scalding my mouth when I eat? Is it a genetic think? Excitement? I don’t know but I can guarantee this: as soon as it is healed, I will do it again.

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Looking for queer historical romance with sinister supernatural shenanigans? Of course you are. THE SECRET CASEBOOK OF SIMON FEXIMAL and SPECTRED ISLE are both 99p everywhere this week! (If sale isn't showing where you are give it time, includes Amazon and all the usual suspects, e only)

I am going to take up wearing sugarloaf hats and scarlet robes now

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

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hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

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Brazil rejected Bolsonaro. Serbia's students beat Vučić. Machado is home in Venezuela. What a day for democracy.

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Hello to all my English-speaking followers. I know this text is more than overdue. My mental health has become even poorer due to the Brazilian's elections and the fascist threat that comes with it. But I managed to turn my anger into text somehow. buttondown.com/haileykaas/a...

buttondown.comBrazilian Elections: Brazil on the edge of the abyssFROM THE WITCH’S DESK This text was originally written in Portuguese and translated into English as I was (am) extremely distressed to write directly in...

THERE IS A VACCINE FOR THAT

NPR@npr.org

Pennsylvania is the worst hit state, with at least 1,338 cases of measles confirmed in 44 counties so far this year, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. n.pr/4i4t0VJ

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The World Fantasy Awards are about to start! Whether E. Catherine Tobler receives a tree statue or not, I would love to know that Elise's needs are being met. If you could honor her with some support in her recovery from cancer, chemo, and complications, that would be a great and beautiful thing. 💖

The Deadlands@thedeadlands.com

we love see all the support for our Elise thank you thank you for all the shares, the donations, and the kind words about her--it means a whole world. if you can donate/share/send good vibes, we'd love to receive them still xo

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Went to the Puget Sound Mycological Society mushroom show today. IT WAS VERY COOL. If you are anywhere near Shoreline tomorrow with an hour or two to spare, highly recommend stopping b y.

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For those of you who just updated your settings in Libby (which is owned by Overdrive) … Robin’s thread is instructive.

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social

One of the things that makes me stop and investigate further is an audio narrator with only one name. I see this one (and the title made me think....don't worry, I won't!) Overdrive AI disclosure says: The publisher hasn't indicated whether contributions to this title were made by AI.

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No joke, maybe the most accurate movie ever made to portray how rail was destroyed in Los Angeles in favor of cars with the toons standing in for how minority neighborhoods were wiped out for freeways

This also has vague Chitty Chitty Bang Bang vibes. Especially Christopher Lloyd’s character. Creepy, like the toy maker.

For those of you who just updated your settings in Libby (which is owned by Overdrive) … Robin’s thread is instructive.

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social

One of the things that makes me stop and investigate further is an audio narrator with only one name. I see this one (and the title made me think....don't worry, I won't!) Overdrive AI disclosure says: The publisher hasn't indicated whether contributions to this title were made by AI.

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MLB pitcher Oscar Levis (Levy) was Black, and he was Jewish; a great new story. His WAR of 12.9 ranks 8th all-time among Jewish pitchers: Koufax (48.9), Fried (32.3), Holtzman (27.3), Roberts (23.6), Pelty (19.2), Stone (17.1), Mayer (13.5). www.jta.org/2026/10/23/s... h/t Brad Kolodny

jta.orgThe discovery of a Jewish Negro League star forces a rewrite of Jewish baseball history - Jewish Telegraphic AgencyAs the World Series kicks off, the revelation of Oscar Levis' heritage changes what we thought we knew about Jews in baseball.

The last sentence really nails it (in the coffin)

Elf M. Sternberg@elfsternberg.bsky.social

The CTO of Palantir says, "So many AI researchers are taking up smoking. Nicotine is a known powerful nootropic [drugs that boost thinking and creativity - Elf] and they're signalling that they firmly believe AI will find a cure for cancer before it kills them." www.cbsnews.com/news/shyam-s...

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In Preservation culture, asking payment for anything considered necessary for living (food, power sources, education, the feed, etc.) was considered outrageous, but asking payment for life-saving help was right up there with cannibalism.

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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

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just to spell it out: any company using the name Harry Potter or the names of the houses is not only providing advertising but literally has to give Rowling money for the rights to do that. Rowling uses that money to fund transphobic changes to government policy & to support transphobes

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I’ve started a movie that is definitely Watch On a Plane or else Watch While Sick In a Foreign Country (Down Low with Zachary Quinto and Lukas Gage)

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When Standing Rock's Wózu needed power for its buffalo barn, Native-led Indigenized Energy stepped in. Their solar and battery system powers the barn and shades the herd, with panels elevated and reinforced to withstand a buffalo rubbing against them.

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Yep, here it is, last Friday! So odd that the Seattle Times would just ignore my coverage—oh, wait, they literally always do, because they think they're the only legitimate news source in town! Read PubliCola and get breaking news a week before the local paper gets around to it.

publicola.comCop Who Encouraged Fellow Officers to "F___ People Up" At Pro-LGBTQ Counterprotest Gets Written Reprimand - PubliColaBy Erica C. Barnett Matthew Didier, the Seattle police lieutenant who was caught on body camera footage encouraging his fellow…

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it's not the only problem in the world but it seems very clear to me that better ADHD support leads to better real-world outcomes, and that the delta between outcomes for the well-supported and unsupported is frequently enormous

Ina Hallström@killedbyproxy.bsky.social

Systematic review relevant to the discourse on diagnoses and meds. "ADHD was associated with increased all-cause mortality, suicide mortality, unintentional or intentional injury mortality, and natural-cause mortality, whereas ADHD medication use was associated with reduced all-cause mortality."

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the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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