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Grrrrrr

I’ve never had Google serve something like this to me nearly next to each other on the same page.
These days it feels like if it’s not content thieves then it’s AI-Slop. And little else.

I want BlogRolls back so I can avoid algorithms!

Butterfly bookmarks Simple and quick! I took the pink butterfly and some of my other tatted bookmarks and jewelry to the consignment boutique where I sell s...

Looking for butterfly tatting patterns, I found this from 2007: yarnplayertats.blogspot.com/2007/04/butt... but then I found this from 11 years later needlework.craftgossip.com/tatting-patt.... Am I wrong, or is the second one taking content from earlier bloggers and repurposing it as their own?

Books Make the Best Gifts! It's getting colder: time to curl up by the fire with a good read.

Reader, I married him.

(and only partly because he’s a lovely writer)

open.substack.com/pub/brokenha...

Yes please!

@nytimes.com Headlines I hope to see above the fold: “Taxpayer dollars spent since January 20th on unnecessary demolition of government property…” or “Taxpayer dollars spent (wasted?) since January 20th on Unnecessary deployment of troops/National Guard…” please share your hoped-for headline.

I have one left. Mansfield Park…no date yet, but it’s there…

Office Depot fires employee for refusing to print Charlie Kirk posters, calling them ‘propaganda’ Office Depot has fired an employee from one of its Michigan locations after the heartless worker was caught on camera refusing to fulfill an order of posters to honor Charlie Kirk.

@marcelias.bsky.social — do you know if anyone is legally representing the workers who were fired for following store protocol? nypost.com/2025/09/13/u...

Oh! And near the end—about 16 min left—a character will talk about society at the time the book was written (1925) that will either make you very happy to know that nothing’s changed since 1925 or quite freaked out that it hasn’t.

That was SO MUCH FUN! I was just thinking about you this weekend! 🥰

The Secret of Chimneys Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds...

Free on Audible right now. Narrated by the OG Arthur Dent, this is the oddest-Evelyn Waugh-esque Agatha Christie I’ve encountered to date. There are several free mysteries now—most read by Richard Armitage 🥰 www.audible.com/pd/B08YKG7BT...
Oh. It was written in 1925–with all that goes with that 🤦‍♀️.

Apple tree

Possibly crab apples?

Crabapples? Eastern PA, apple tree in our neighborhood but no one has been here long enough to remember what kind of apple. I peeled one and tasted a bit—not super sour. Anyone know what kind of dinky apple this might be?

Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era Continuing unemployment claims jumped to 1.97 million in late July, according to a Labor Department report, highlighting a weakening labor market.

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.

Hell, just paint the damn things with fake gold spray paint! He’ll buy thousands!

YouTube video by CraftLit — the Annotated Audiobook Podcast Epstein, Adrenochrome, and the Power of Narrative

I’m a bit chuffed about my latest non-book video youtube.com/watch?v=u9PI...

If you missed it, here’s the link to the full ​⁠​⁠interview that @jordanklepper.bsky.social did in 2022. Excellent discussion!

youtu.be/kvtf2TYmuw8?... Love me some @thedailyshow.com

open.substack.com/pub/brokenha...

Reader, I married him.

(I hope this post makes manifest my decision 30 years ago…I feel pretty damn good about it!)

Can other countries PLEASE start using whatever human/humane connections they have left in the US to arranged to send masked bandits in to “steal” these things before they’re destroyed?

SOMEONE must want the credit for helping the world while we kill it.

YouTube video by Aaron Parnas NEWS: Trump orders destruction of products meant for women in crisis zones.

Is this destruction truly being spun as a ‘compassionate’ thing —b/c the IUDs were nearing their expiration date?!?

And people BELIEVE this?!?

We’ve cut Bush’s AIDS program, now this?

So now we’re explicit? USA wants raped->pregnant->dead women and babies?

youtube.com/shorts/Mf43l...

Yes please!
(Or even annotated classic audiobook podcasts—for when you need to escape for longer than the length of a review).

YouTube video by John Castillo Why dial up sounds like that #90skids #internet #funfacts

If you’re GenX and wondered what those noises were, here you go: youtube.com/shorts/dEXAg...

"Special treatment": How Republicans bought Lisa Murkowski’s vote - Salon.com The GOP budget passed by the Senate on Tuesday is filled with special carve-outs for Alaska

I hope Alaska benefits significantly from Murkowski's craven vote, b/c if it's the only functioning state in the country, I imagine there will be a slew of new Alaskans—*almost like an invasion!*
(Oh wait, no. I forgot. She sold her state out for short-term peanuts.) www.salon.com/2025/07/02/s...

3:17 just think—if you’re a MAGA Rep and vote no on the BBB, you will have 71% of the Country LOVE YOU (at least for a little bit).

I need this book! Lol 😅🤣😂

Srously

🤦‍♀️

Hope the DNC is gearing up to post billboards in EVERY RED DISTRICT w/countdown timers for “Date When Trump Steals Your Medicare” & a ticker for “How much more ICE agents make now than a teacher…a fireman…a CPS wrkr”

I’m sure the @democrats.org are TOTALLY going to keep this top of mind.🤣🤣🥹🥹😒😒😤😤😭😭

Can’t wait to hear what you think! I finished an hour ago and am still in post-book-dreamy-haze.

I, too, am a sucker for a good footnote (or footnoterphone)

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

this will sound corny, but I know there are very unhappy lonely young men out there right now, looking for connection. If you have one at home, pls pick a place that needs volunteers and go there TOGETHER.
We’re going to need to rely on each other more than we have since Victory Gardens were hot.

Please share—widely.