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💜🩶🖤🤍 Poster-crone for late bloomers.Writer. Editor. Bike rider. Portlander. She/her

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John Smillie's avatar John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social
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Bonkers. Still lab scale, but a team has created an anode free, solid state, sodium battery. It's basically just sodium and an aluminum (some powdered) current collector. Huge theoretical potential for abundance, fast charging, high density.

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.

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Good book. Happy birthday to your sweetie.

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It's incredible that anyone thought of this.

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A 1912 nickel embedded under the front doorsill (county records show the house constructed in 1906).

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Does anyone else hear this ridiculous piece being read in the voice of Niles Crane?

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For the last 4 years I’ve worked to bring Sigrid’s Schultz’s work to life. On August 6, I finally get to share her story with you.

Stay tuned for more updates and sneak peeks from “The Dragon from Chicago! amzn.to/3xOGsZt 🗃️

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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I spent some time reading the speech aloud just for my own pleasure at its beautiful, damning periods, imagining what Douglass himself must have sounded like, and how increasingly uncomfortable his audience must have become as the speech went on.

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Hey folks!

I became technologically brave today and launched a YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

It's in its early teeny tiny phase. Not much on it yet. But it's there if you want to subscribe!

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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Congratulations! We're watching from across the water and hoping for something similar.

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Thanks for the link. I went looking for it yesterday because I wanted to donate without bidding. Now I have! Good luck!

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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"Were the nation older, the patriot’s heart might be sadder, and the reformer’s brow heavier. Its future might be shrouded in gloom, and the hope of its prophets go out in sorrow." 😔

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I'm 68 and I lost what little extemporaneous speaking ability (nerve? memory?) many years ago. I work really hard at not sounding like I'm reading, but dammit, a script results in better delivery of my ideas.

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All of DC (and Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery & Reagan National airport - DCA) are currently under a boil water advisory. Check for updates, Tell your people.

www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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And the effect--my anxiety at violent, gory shows--gets worse the older I get. I've let friends down so many times by my real inability to watch good shows they want to share with me.

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Well said. I feel exactly the same way. Even Jensen Ackles joining the cast wasn't enough to draw me back in, but yes, I'm glad it exists.

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I have a couple of those in addition to the main units. I never again want to be stuck indoors for days, half afraid to breathe.

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Yes, I thought the same thing when I saw one. Tacky as crap

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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Suffered through that, and had a mini-split installed the following winter. $$$ but a survival necessity now.

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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Because what we need in Portland is leaky roofs. 😐

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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Preordered! Hope to meet in person one day so I can get you to sign my copy. Can't wait to read it!

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I am really looking forward to Pamela's book, The Dragon From Chicago. Coming soon!

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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I'm so sorry for your situation and your frustration.

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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Well hang on...en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Clark He helped get the MAX developed.

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I don't really remember. He was mayor during the big TriMet, transit mall development, and he was kind of cool and fun. He rode a bike, as I recall.

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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Them too! Vera was great I love her little statue on the Esplanade

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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Fellow native Portlander here. That peak period we're both thinking of owed so, so much to Sam Naito.

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Memories... That rings a bell in my mind.

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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I don't know but I suspect that the change had something to do with hostile architecture against the unhoused

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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A couple of them had coffee bars or pastry shops in them, too, as I recall.

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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I loved and commuted from the Purple Rain quadrant of the city. That whole system was cool.

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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I think my asexuality and aromanticism might be protecting me here. Nothing could interest me less than an "attractive stranger" saying hi.

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Anne Hawley's avatar Anne Hawley @annehawley.bsky.social
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Ohhh. Weird, but that at least explains it. Thanks.

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