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I am not a cat. I sure love them, though!
I love animals, nature, history, music (to listen to, I'm not a musician) and human rights. I have three adorable cats. I live in northern Alberta, Canada and work in remote sensing of the environment. See my nature (and cat) photos at pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/…

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River Otters in the Amazon

Artisanal gold mining in the Amazon causes more damage than you might think. Good news: Miners out, otters in.
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- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

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YAY!

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What does Thumb Down mean?

!Friendica Support
How should we use the Thumbs Down reaction emoji? To express our feelings about the content of the post (eg. oh god what has Trump done now) or to condemm the post itself as spam or inappropriate?

I've been afraid to use this thumbs down, but there are a lot of valuable posts I don't want to give a thumbs up to.

Are there any consequences to posts getting thumbs down i.e. are they flagged for moderator attention?

!Friendica Support

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Noam writes

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@fionag11 Good question. I think of it as "I don't like this post". But to be honest, I can't remember if I've ever used it. It seems rude and unhelpful.

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agree - that's why I don't use it unless it were blatant spam, which I've never encountered on here

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Gizmo Gadabout

in reply to fionag11 • 2 months ago from MacNaldo's • •

@fionag11 They're not flagged for moderator attention afaik. I've disliked things and haven't seen any reports, and I just did both a test report from my other account, and disliked something from my other account. The report showed up, but not the dislike. Feel free to give this a thumbs down to see if remote thumbs-downing functions differently, though.

As a user I don't use it much, I just scroll past most things. When I've used it it was just to mark things I didn't want to see again. Hell, you can like *and* dislike a post at the same time. Not sure what the function is, especially since the broader fediverse doesn't get them, though people on Friendica will on posts that come from Friendica afaik

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fionag11

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I gave you a thumbs down as an experiment. Thanks for looking into this.

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Matthew Exon

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Probably the most important consequence: Mastodon ignores thumbs-down, but treats thumbs-up as a "favourite". Or at least, that's what happened when I tested it just now. I've heard rumours of other platforms treating thumbs-down the same as thumbs-up or any other reaction. I almost never use thumbs-down, because if I'm going to use a standardised reaction, might as well use the lowest common denominator.

I guess the feature is in Friendica because Friendica consciously imitated Facebook. And Facebook has it because people demanded it for years. If you're reacting to a Friendica user, probably the appropriate semantics are whatever Facebook people use it for.

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Matthias

in reply to Matthew Exon • 2 months ago from [ˈloma] | Friendica • •

@Matthew Exon @fionag11
This feature is very relevant for other Fediverse projects. I also follow some mbin or Lemmy groups, where it is used according to the local definition. Since it is an option that the user must first activate, it should be rather inconspicuous. Furthermore, it is part of the ActivityPub standard.

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Interesting @Matthew Exon , because Facebook doesn't have the thumb down anymore. It has replaced it with a more expressive collection of emojis so one can express surprise, sadness, support, or anger at the content of a post without implying objection to the existence of the post itself. Maybe Friendica should move that way too - at it seems the thumb down is not very useful at all atm.

Not that we want to be toxic like Facebook, but I don't think there's that danger since we don't have their algorithm. I like giving and getting a reaction to show that a post is seen and appreciated, without making a comment just for the sake of making a comment. Otherwise it feels like posting into a void with no sense of community or engagement.

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Matthew Exon

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Ha, that's me humble-bragging about how long ago I gave up Facebook again 😂 I think "react with any emoji" like Akkoma is the way to go, especially since Friendica already supports displaying those.

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wilhelm

in reply to Matthew Exon • 2 months ago • •

and here's the open feature request for that: github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/12805

replace like / dislike with emoji post reactions

Currently Like and Dislike are the only post reactions allowed on friendica. Expected While this is very limited, it also creates tension and confusion: #12723 Replacing both options with emoji rea...

^{foss- (GitHub)}

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Shiri Bailem

in reply to fionag11 • 2 months ago • •

@fionag11 @Matthew Exon I believe it's in the works, there is support in the standard and in other platforms for emoji reactions.

Friendica has partial support currently for it, if you're on the latest version we can see those reactions but not make them yet. I imagine the biggest blocker there is the lack of front-end devs for Friendica, since that involves creating a new interface.

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Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)

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@Shiri Bailem @Matthew Exon @fionag11 nah, that's custom responses. That's different from the dislike option.

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Shiri Bailem

in reply to Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist) • 1 month ago • •

@Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist) uh... this is not only 5 days old but you missed that it's replying to a comment on the original?

The comment I was replying to was talking about the option of replying with any emojii like Akkomma and some other platforms, so I was telling them it's in the works...

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Steffen K9 🐰

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It's the same as thumb up but for Australians. 🙃

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Gizmo Gadabout

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@Steffen K9 🐰 Liking AND disliking this, just in case :P

@Steffen K9 🐰

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Michael 🇺🇦

in reply to fionag11 • 2 months ago • •

"thumbs down" is a dislike. It is mostly only processed by Friendica and Lemmy (although it is part of the standard). It is nothing bad and nothing wrong about using it.

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Random Penguin

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My understanding is it is like a down-vote, but Friendica doesn't rank posts, so maybe only Lemmy makes use of it? I don't know. Regardless you can disable showing it under Settings > Display > Content/Layout. It is weird that you can both "Like" and "Dislike" a post, you'd think they should cancel each other out but they don't.

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utopiArte

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@fionag11

Using it to show disagreement on content or to express dislike for the information itself.
It can be used for to vote on things.

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Roland Häder🇩🇪

in reply to fionag11 • 2 months ago • •

@fionag11 You can hide/disable that feature in your settings. Also an advantage of running your own instance, like I do. Go to /settings/display then choose Content/Layout, remove the check from "Display the Dislike feature" and click on "Save settings".

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Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)

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@fionag11 it's also used as the DOWNVOTE option when connecting to a group on a platform that supports such and uses it for prioritization, like Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed.

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utopiArte

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Actually, looking at the layout and the immediate one click options at hand, staring a post is way more useful as a tool than the few times one uses the thumbs down. I wonder if it wouldn't be reasonable to change the layout so the thumbs down is part of the drop down menue and staring at hand for a one click action.
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Hypolite Petovan

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Random Penguin

in reply to utopiArte • 1 month ago • •

It's not a "star" like starring things on Mastodon, which is a post engagement. Starring a post on Friendica is just "favoriting" or "bookmarking" it for yourself, which is why it is in the drop-down menu of actions you can take just for you regarding a post. A "dislike" is an "action button" post engagement that gets shown to everyone. They are categorically different things for different purposes.

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utopiArte

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@Random Penguin
Thx for explaining these details for those out here in the fedi that might misunderstand.

As pointed out:

staring a post is way more useful as a tool

This consideration is not about same categories but how often an option is used and how useful it is. Staring -> bookmarking, especially in combination with the settings for expiration of posts is quite important, and actually only available in initial posts, not answers. It deserves to be a one click option.

@Michael 🇺🇦 @Hypolite Petovan

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Random Penguin

in reply to utopiArte • 1 month ago • •

There's the problem with trying to arrange the UI. I've never starred anything on Friendica. I have disliked a couple posts. So what is useful for you is not what is useful for me. And someone else likely has yet another often-used control they want one-click access to.

We don't really have any way to know how most people are using Friendica though. And there are multiple themes with different User Interfaces. Without that usage data the organization of the UI needs to follow some logical order, like what category a tool belongs to, what purpose it serves, who the audience is, etc.

I've been working on a new theme and the hardest part has been trying to figure out how to organize the UI. Initially I had the Star with the Action Buttons because my starting point was Vier and that's where that theme puts it. But I ended up moving it to the "More" menu like Frio because logically as a personalized control for posts it belonged there with saving to a folder or adding a tag. Post actions only you see. While the Action Buttons are all things both you and ot

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utopiArte

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@Random Penguin

toyed with the idea of switching it from a star icon (which is confusing given stars mean something else on Mastodon) to a "bookmark" icon and then putting it on the top corner of each post (open if not yet bookmarked, solid if bookmarked, like on Bluesky).

Sounds good for me.
👍

Same goes for bookmark (Lesezeichen) instead of staring, somehow "to stare" is quite an anoying behavior.

Even tho I played around a lot with vier and quattro I ended up going for FRIO cause it looked to me that that is what @Michael 🇺🇦 in any case is using and I got the feeling that I couldn't figure out if everything was working in every UI.

Also, having few coders already and than distributing the efforts on several UI looked and looks like overkill. Actually I came

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 1 month ago • •

btw @Random Penguin, just saw that the term bookmark is used in /settings/display -> timelines.

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Reddit mods sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein are fighting a subpoena designed to unmask their real identities. They fear "sexual violence, extortion, fans showing up to their home, and endless years of harassment," asking judge to not grant it

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Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them

Klein has attempted to subpoena Discord and Reddit for information that would reveal the identity of moderators of a subreddit critical of him. The moderators' lawyers fear their clients will be physically attacked if the subpoenas go through.

^{Matthew Gault (404 Media)}

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Bee O'Problem

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I'm with the mods here. Whatever arguments there are to be made about fair or unfair treatment doxxing them is completely unnecessary for making that case.

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The value of #UK arms imported by #Israel reached a record high in June this year, exclusive FactCheck analysis of Israeli customs data shows. | Channel 4

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FactCheck: value of UK arms imported by Israel ‘reached record high in June’

Our exclusive analysis looks at 8 million rows of data from the Israel Tax Authority

^{Channel 4 News}

#israel #uk

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Just in the past few minutes, we had confirmation of a family evacuating on a road inside a vehicle when it was struck by a drone missile. Four people were reported killed on the spot.

Other people on the road rushed to the vehicle while it was still engulfed in flames, helping those who survived the attacks and transferring them to the hospital.

#Gaza
#evacuation
#news

#News #Gaza #Evacuation

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Ritual in Ruffled Flame

A single daylily bursts forth like a ceremonial flame—its petals ablaze in molten hues of orange, red, and maroon. The flower’s six ruffled petals curl outward with theatrical flair, each edge tinged with a whisper of gold, as if kissed by sunlight. Near the center, the maroon deepens into a velvet shadow, drawing the eye inward to the flower’s sacred core. There, six slender stamens rise like golden wands, tipped with pollen-rich anthers, encircling a central pistil that leans forward like a herald delivering news from the Ministry of Blooming Thresholds.

The background is a softened blur of green foliage, a quiet chorus that lets the daylily sing solo. The lighting is dramatic—almost enchanted—casting the petals in a surreal glow, as if the flower were lit from within by mythic fire. The image bears the watermark “© Swede’s Photographs” in the lower left, anchoring this botanical dispatch in sovereign authorship.

This is not merely a flower—it’s a radiant emissary of ephemeral glory, caught mid-ceremony.

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“We just want the bare minimum to survive and here in al-Mawasi we don’t even have that,”

“Even for water, we wait for hours just to get a single bucket.”

“We are piled on top of each other in a single tent – me, my husband, our six children, and my husband’s elderly parents – 10 people in a small tent. There’s no room to sleep in that cramped space … There’s no privacy.”

#Gaza
#alMawasi

#Gaza #alMawasi

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The judiciary’s dilemma: Protecting Nigeria’s whistleblowers without legislation
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The judiciary’s dilemma: Protecting Nigeria’s whistleblowers without legislation

"Because I decided to speak up, I am jobless. I was ostracized and frustrated to accept the norm. To remain silent is to be complicit..."

^{Global Voices}

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Americans wonder why tourism has plummeted when they have border officers like this.

I'm just glad I went and saw a rocket launch when I did.

Unknown credit for the video.

#cdnpoli #canpoli #uspol

#uspol #cdnpoli #canpoli

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The video begins with a view from inside a vehicle, showing a highway with multiple lanes and a gray sky overhead. The dashboard is visible, and the scene transitions to a white Ford F-150 truck with a person in a uniform driving. The text 'Never come to the US again' appears in orange, indicating a stern warning. The truck is seen driving on the highway, and the text remains on the screen. The scene then shifts to a view from the side mirror of the vehicle, showing the truck ahead. The text 'Honked at my Ontario plate and now on my ass 2 miles from border' appears, suggesting a humorous or ironic situation. The truck is seen driving away, and the text remains on the screen. The video continues with the view from inside the vehicle, showing the highway and the text '2 Speed' in orange, indicating a change in speed. The dashboard is visible, and the scene shows the truck ahead, with the text remaining on the screen. The video concludes with the vehicle continuing to drive on the highway, with the truck still visible ahead.

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TheOges

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Oh goodie, I work on the Canadian side of that port. I'm glad I let my passport expire in 2016.

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Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽

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Border dude annoyed that the driver was sitting in the left lane while not passing?

No excuse for border dude's behaviour, but Ontario, also Alberta, drivers sitting in the left lane for no reason is a pet peeve.

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Matt Hall

in reply to Chad • 2 months ago • •

The self-aware Americans are in no way surprised at the decrease in tourism. Some of us miss you all but if I didn't already live here there's no way in hell I'd bring my family here.

Stay home. Stay safe. ❤

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Becca

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Maybe Canada should hurry up and annex/liberate the US. Trump and Hegseth have made sure we don't have an effective military.

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Futuristic Robert [KJ5ELX]

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I want to say something encouraging but all I can do right now, sitting here in the US, is shake my head and try to keep going. Hopefully sometime in the future we can all get together as nations and say "hey, remember that time when."

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Life beside a liquid natural gas plant

Noise, smoke from LNG Canada plagues residents of Kitimat, B.C. | The Narwhal

Residents near LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., say the constant noise and toxic smoke is ‘hell’ — and threatens serious health impacts

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Alberta's Union of Health-Care Professionals want to share this

A dangerous shortage of paramedics in Alberta is leading to longer wait times, overwhelmed emergency services, and a decline in care quality.

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Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia
globalvoices.org/2025/09/22/so…

Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia

The climate crisis is causing increased extreme weather events in Southeast Asia. Could “sponge cities,” a city planning method engineered by Chinese architect, Yu Kongjian, help them weather the storm?

^{Global Voices}

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Happy autumnal equinox 🍂🍁🍂

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Sami dwelling

Traditional Sami dwelling made of turf with a few amenities: a window and, most importantly, solar panels. While most of these huts are now used as summer kitchens for smoking fish or baking bread, here an old herder prefers to live in his hut in summer rather than in a more modern house.
#Lapland (2008)

#photography
#Sami
#shelter

#Photography #shelter #lapland #sami

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Which of these steps have you done?

ethicalrevolution.co.uk/ #ethicalrevolution #TheOnlyWayisEthics

I am working my way through them. Some I had already done to some extent but there are always useful tips.

Would anyone like to do this with me and share their journey?

Welcome aboard the Ethical Revolution

Join the Ethical Revolution and take 26 step challenge to a better world from A-Z. The only way is ethics!

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#ethicalrevolution #TheOnlyWayisEthics

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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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MasterMischief

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Is anyone surprised? Right Wing media does this all the time. Anything that does not support their narrative.

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R. L.

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DOJ HIERARCHY 🙈🙉🙊

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Tracking the death toll of Israel’s war on Gaza

@palestine
#Gaza
#DeathToll

#Gaza #deathtoll @Palestine_Group

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Farhad

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Those numbers are ridiculously low.

The real numbers are at least 3 times, up to 10 times those.

Plus the entire population scared for life.
@palestine

@Palestine_Group

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Fiona Gregory

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Wondering if people have any #recommendations on online courses on #presentation skills for #Science, not just giving the presentations but preparing them, making professional looking #powerpoints. Seems standards in this are very high these days!

#science #presentation #recommendations #powerpoints

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Walk with Me: Book Review

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Colours in Her Hands - Book Review

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Colours in Her Hands - BookWyrm

A witty, layered and compelling novel about a woman with Down Syndrome, exploring textile art, sibling relationships, friendships, and good intentions gone awry.

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