Lisa Noble
@nobleknits2.bsky.social
Spouse, mom, knitter, baker, bike commuter, paddler, learner, termite. Working with teacher candidates and running a #MakerSpace at Trent U School of Ed. She/They.
Great to see a new interview with Audrey in a Alexander Russo's weekly newsletter but it is a *wild* choice to put an interview with her directly below a clearly AI-generated picture. I'm fairly confident Marguerite Roza never posed for this picture. (Is the icon supposed to mean AI-generated?)
The Peace by Chocolate folks are quick out of the gate. Well done.
At some point in everyone’s life they should visit Quebec City and watch the big lake freighters pass by on the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez River.
I have a policy not to repost posts without alt text, but in this case I will make an exception @mapquest.com do better folks. Thank you MapQuest. The image in the post below is of a map showing Lake Ontario.
MapQuest@mapquest.com · yesterdayWe’re not changing it.
the trap in which JKR has placed herself is that she cannot simply say “Dolly was a good person” because Dolly said out loud that she loved trans people, and that is wholly incompatible with goodness in JKR’s moral calculus. but she ALSO can’t just say “Dolly was wrong,” because she is a coward
Alison@alicemerray.bsky.social · 2d agoYes, Rowling must know that, while I'm sure Dolly would have been civil to her if they met, she completely disagreed with Rowling's attitudes. And it's Dolly who is receiving pretty much unanimous adulation.
JKR had her chance at a future where she would be remembered forever for getting kids to fall in love with reading, and instead she will be remembered as a stochastic terrorist on the wrong side of one of 21st century history’s foremost civil rights battles, and I do think that’s somewhat sinking in
It’s been 150 years since the Battle of the Little Bighorn, one of the most famous and enduring events in U.S history. While Native Americans were victorious, the battle reshaped the government’s policy toward Indigenous people and still resonates so deeply for many today. https://to.pbs.org/4wND62e
How the Battle of the Little Bighorn reshaped U.S. policy toward Native Americans
It’s been 150 years since the Battle of the Little Bighorn, one of the most famous and enduring events in American history. While Native Americans were victorious, the battle reshaped the government’s...
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This is wild. Before the spit of land was extended out into the lake. The beach has a massive curve here now to that artifical headland.
Toronto Archives@torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca · yesterdayA view of Woodbine Beach and Ashbridges Bay from the summer of 1976. https://ow.ly/vpWa50ZmVW5
That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.
NPR@npr.org · yesterdayPresident Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada . n.pr/4wVcHyF
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · yesterdayA man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.
Christ on a cracker, will someone please put this fucking lunatic in a straightjacket?! Enough is enough already.
It’s been a minute since I was in Thunder Bay and looked out over Lake Bruce Springsteen at the Sleeping Giant.
I've been pondering this idiotic column all day and I think what I've landed on is that most people have been brain rotted people into thinking that political = partisan. We live at a time where people treat politics like a sport and if you don't declare a team, you're somehow apolitical. NOPE.
CNN@cnn.com · 3d ago"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
Dolly absolutely knew this. In that infamous Barbara Walters interviews (where Babs is the worst!) she flat out says that she performs exaggerated femininity as a means to disarm people and then they realize she's actually truly talented, smart and authentic. She was always winking at the audience.
Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d agoI genuinely wonder if the weird right wing insistence on her neutrality had to do with the fact that she performed hyperfemininity. They saw her makeup and hair and tight clothes and that excused her clearly progressive politics. I also wonder if Dolly knew exactly that would happen.
if you are a gay icon STAY INSIDE!!! it’s DANGEROUS OUT HERE!!!!!
Maybe the deadliest two days in modern history for figures who were straight people's introduction to drag aesthetics
of the many things to love about Tim Curry and Dolly Parton, here's one: It's as if every time they heard someone say, "you're going too big," they went BIGGER. Big presence, big hair, big charisma, big everything. Pouring one out for two artists who just WENT FOR IT and never apologized for that.
Writing "Don't worry about it" on tax form@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2d agoMaybe the deadliest two days in modern history for figures who were straight people's introduction to drag aesthetics
She was a pro-trans, pro-vaccine, pro-women's rights union member. This "analysis" from a senior writer should be retracted. There are too many corrections needed to salvage anything of value.
CNN@cnn.com · 3d ago"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
Nome, a town on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, is so remote, supplies need to be shipped or flown in. The living is expensive. Gas often tops $6 a gallon. Milk is $10 a gallon. There, 6 young women are collecting signatures to get a $25 min wage on the ballot in November. 19thnews.org/2026/08/nome...
The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska
Nome is one of the most expensive towns in America. Six young women there are hoping to get a $25 minimum wage initiative on the November ballot.
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Just saw in my local spotted group on fb that the village near my town that does the knitted postbox toppers has done this in memory of Dolly 🩷 How sweet. #RIPDolly
Cue up your favourite Dolly Parton songs, friends. Let's sing her on her way. She was such a badass. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes
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I want to play video game, i want to draw, i want to knit, i want to make bracelets, i want to think about ocs, i want to read, i need more brains and eyes and hands
I guess they needed to return home some assets that have been outed in the US government.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3d agoA US military C-17 transport plane has mysteriously landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport from Riga, Latvia, with Russia’s government claiming to have no information about the aircraft or its arrival. After landing, a US diplomatic motorcade was seen being escorted by police.
NEWS: Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, according to state health officials. They are Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in 35 years and the first reported measles deaths in the U.S. this year.
I have repeatedly said that even if every one of the allegations against him were true, it would not have justified the tactics taken by his accusers & the credulous embrace of those attackers by many media outlets. I still believe that, but also [primal scream].
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and other claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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