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Are Marathons and Extreme Running Linked to Colon Cancer?

Ultramarathons being a Group 1 carcinogen would be so freaking weird. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...

YouTube video by MTV Sabrina Carpenter Performs "Tears" | 2025 Video Music Awards

Sabrina Carpenter says TRANS RIGHTS at the VMAs

Love the title and the cover!

Every time I head down the stairs to go to the library I find myself singing the 1989 classic "Library Song" by Tom Chapin

*I'm going down to the Library,
Picking out a book, check it in, check it out.
Gonna say Hi to the Dictionary,
Picking out a book, check it in, check it out*

Fear Street Saga when I was like 7-8 years old and Ivanhoe when I was 10

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

I fear it's being overlooked that next term, the Supreme Court will likely strike down:

•what's left of the Voting Rights Act
•all bans on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors
•the last remaining pillar of McCain–Feingold's campaign finance reform

... while upholding bans on trans student athletes.

YouTube video by Stephanie Canada Sewing a WHIMSICAL vintage dress, but it's JUMANJI

Do you like SILLINESS?

Then do I have the project to show you! I took on making the Jumanji board game INTO A PLAYABLE DRESS!

Come spend a little time with me and relax into the whimsy of it all. ❤️

Sewing a WHIMSICAL vintage dress, but it's JUMANJI
youtu.be/nbg-tjfS7o0

Countess A queer Caribbean COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO in which a betrayed captain is set on a journey of revenge against the interplanetary empire that has subjugated her people for generations.

I wrote a science fiction novella that parallels what's happening today but especially with immigrants, colonies, prison and the treatment of Caribbean WOC in empire and it earned out.
People want SF and I think they want diverse stories.
Try it! You might like it?

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Massapequa NY is refusing to comply with a state order banning racist Native mascots in schools. Now Trump is weighing in, threatening to investigate the state.

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Found my yarn needle so now I have to come up with a new reason to put off grafting the toe of my second sock #soclosetofinishing

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

I've been spending too much time on the sock knitting feed here instead of finishing the sock I'm working on 😅

Made it 😁

Will try not to read 18 books in March or I'll feel pressured to do it every month lol

‘Mindless culling’: Crowd protests DOGE layoffs at Boulder NOAA campus • Colorado Newsline The terminations were part of a wave of mass firings carried out by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

‘Mindless culling’: Crowd protests DOGE layoffs at Boulder NOAA campus

If I read 4 more books in February, I'll match the amount I read in January.... 🤔

#sotempted

We live free here in #Estonia 🇪🇪 thanks to brave men and women who stood up to tyranny and declared all peoples have the right to self-determination.

That’s why on Estonian Independence Day, as every day, we #StandWithUkraine.

Got a moment? Let us tell you a story. 🧵

For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

My quilt about women’s reproductive rights has been banned from all American Quilters Society shows this year. It’s been part of a traveling show with SAQA. My artist statement is too long for here. It’s on my website: laurashaw.net/quilts#/your-mother

#quiltsky

Four books fanned out on a yellow, pink, and blue pastel knit blanket. The books are: Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong, black nature: Four centuries of African American Nature Poetry edited by Camille T. Dungy, Human Acts by Han Kang, and Oreo by Fran Ross

Picked up my library holds ☺️

And I just borrowed 3 more ebooks 😬😅

Currently have 9 books checked out from the library and another 4 ready to pick up...I'm going to have to do a lot more reading the next three weeks 😅

RIP Jules Feiffer. I adored his art in The Phantom Tollbooth, a big influence on me as a young artist. I still have the copy I bought at a book sale at my local library in Brampton. #BookTok #KidLit #BookSky

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All the Storygraph challenges are just so tempting to join! So far I have limited myself to 4 which is maximum of 37 books. We'll see how well my planning and intentions work out XD

are you this old?

The American Dialect Society Word of the Year: RAWDOG

To rawdog: taking on life without the usual protection, preparation, or comfort. Whether it’s diving into a challenge unprepared or skipping the safety net, rawdogging is about embracing risk, stone-cold sobriety, and rolling with it. #LSA2025

Goodreads screenshot: 2024 My Year in Books 34,596 pages read and 107 books read

Storygraph screenshot: 2024 5 Star reads Covers of the following 22 books A Thousand Recipes for Revenge by Beth Cato The Village Healer's Book of Cures by Jennifer Sherman Roberts Broadway Butterfly by Sara Divello A Feast For Starving Stone by Beth Cato The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, translated by Yuri Machkasov Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi The Bronzed Beasts by Roshani Chokshi Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

Did a lot of reading in 2024! Ocean's Godori and The Gray House were two of my favorites