Robin Mohr

Robin Mohr

@robinmsf.bsky.social

Strategist, interpreter, gardener. California native, Philly resident, granddaughter of migrants. Avid reader of speculative fiction. Quaker, swimmer, writer.

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I voted in person today! Don't miss your chance!

Congressman Dwight Evans@repdwightevans.bsky.social

Hey Philly, there’s only ONE more day to request a mail-in ballot! Tomorrow, Oct. 27 at 5 PM is the deadline to submit your application. Apply online or in person at a Philadelphia City Commissioners’ Satellite Election Office today!

I have heard this song before and I like it. And I loved seeing Miranda Lambert in the video. So there. I don't get my political opinions from musicians. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... Most of the people complaining about this article are just proving the author's point.

rollingstone.comWhat Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard 'Choosin' Texas'Claiming to have never heard Ella Langley's record-setting country song 'Choosin' Texas' is similar to saying, 'I listen to anything but country.'

I am particularly enamored of her 20 rules for translators. Including the last one that starts, "Translation is difficult." And ends, "Keep going."

This has been an extraordinary week for me. Today I got a brief but private tour of the @sciencehistory.org library and museum. Including this book by #Quaker #scientist John Dalton, who came up with a modern theory of the atom in 1808. #amazing

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Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

I don't know how many poems Wendell Berry wrote that he called Sabbaths. This is my favorite: Whatever is foreseen in joy Must be lived out from day to day. Vision held open in the dark By our ten thousand days of work. Harvest will fill the barn; for that The hand must ache, the face must sweat.

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[read this without hearing an Aussie accent in your head] challenge 👇🏽

👻 Dead Chachra 💀@debcha.bsky.social

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

This tier should be just higher than all the other ones with swag. Perhaps accompanied by a thank you on the author's website or something equally non-tangible.

Al Kennedy@alkennedy.bsky.social

I can't co-sign this hard enough. I promise, I would rather know that the people who made the project are being paid more. I will not hang your print. I am not made of walls.

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An active-duty soldier experiences a sudden moral awakening that leaves him trapped inside the military machine he can no longer answer to. We go inside the barracks to discover the Quakers who are helping him get out. quakerpodcast.com/a-quaker-gui...

quakerpodcast.comA Quaker Guide to Leaving the MilitaryAn active-duty soldier experiences a sudden moral awakening that leaves him trapped inside the military machine he can no longer answer to. We go inside the barracks to discover the Quakers who are…