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Thérèse Purcell Nielsen

@nyreader.bsky.social

I used to be disgusted, now I’m just (sort of) amused. (I used to be a lawyer. I used to be a librarian. Book reviewer. NBCC. Be nice to your mail carrier, they’re out there and you’re not.)

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She looks…different.

12.08.2025 17:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like we say in NY: “who knew?”

07.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I accidentally frizzed my gin and didn’t notice right away.

28.07.2025 16:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That would get a “Nopes!” from me.

15.07.2025 22:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Totes agree with you😂

15.07.2025 20:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Words have meanings, dammit!

25.06.2025 00:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Understated and elegant conclusion.

24.06.2025 20:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mine takes 30 minutes; we need to talk.

17.06.2025 14:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What does your sign say?

13.06.2025 14:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😬

18.05.2025 18:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

!

07.04.2025 13:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mets/BBQ chicken pizza here

05.04.2025 01:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

been thinking more of the “bite me” response to those remarks but a more measured approach is probably the way to go…

14.03.2025 12:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Courtesy of Bart Simpson I hope?

14.03.2025 00:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At least it’s all good for the stock market.

13.03.2025 19:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Fire Island National Seashore Lighthouse

Fire Island National Seashore Lighthouse

Support the NPS!

01.03.2025 17:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Purple croci blooming

Purple croci blooming

26.02.2025 21:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

😬

26.02.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Waiting to hear about what I will hear.

21.02.2025 00:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every day, we reach new heights of low.

13.02.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stock up on elderberry, troops!

13.02.2025 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Obits are the Irish Sports Pages

13.02.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are we also going to let our little lights shine?

06.02.2025 01:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I tried to lure you out with pie on Secular Pie Thursday and had almost given up all hope!

04.02.2025 20:05 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.

03.02.2025 18:56 — 👍 1307    🔁 304    💬 29    📌 24
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Curacao 2025

26.01.2025 15:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But I cannot recall the horse’s name? (Sadly, I must admit I sat on the rocks and listened to them many years ago when the Schaefer concerts in Central Park were a thing…guessing you were not in the LIRR with me on the way there?)

14.01.2025 23:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How far we have fallen.

29.12.2024 21:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter.

Bless him for a life well lived in the service of others.

29.12.2024 21:13 — 👍 1014    🔁 137    💬 12    📌 8

Thanks, President Carter.

29.12.2024 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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