Rachel Unkefer

@Runkefer
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Digital Elder, Silicon Valley Escapee. Co-Founder: Computer Literacy Bookshops (1983-1997), WriterHouse (Charlottesville, Virginia) non-profit community writing center (2008-), writer, reader, genetic genealogist, she/her

#writing #bookstodon #Geneadons #GeneticGenealogy #Charlottesville #genealogy #politics #knitting #archaeology #history #dna #fiction #science

 #antiracist #antifascist
#fedi22
Websitehttps://rachelunkefer.com
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Rachel UnkeferJan 23
Instacart search result for “driveway salt” #SearchFail #instaCart #OnlineShopping
Rachel UnkeferJan 17
I’m rereading this book from 1991 to see how it holds up. Unfortunately, all too well. The Backlash is ramping up again. It applies not only to misogyny, but racism, classism, and all the rest.
#books #bookstodon
#misogyny
Rachel UnkeferJan 2
The books I read in 2025, tracked using StoryGraph
Rachel UnkeferNov 13
Virginia #aurora
Rachel UnkeferSep 30
TFW you get home and take off your socks after spending a few hours at that house where the person makes everyone take their shoes off to keep their floors clean
Rachel UnkeferMar 16, 2025
#Mosstodon
Rachel UnkeferMar 5, 2025

First daffodils of 2025

#BloomScrolling #SpringTime #Daffodils #Gardening

Rachel UnkeferFeb 3, 2025
Look carefully—a brown bunny just paused among those brown leaves
#nature #bunny
Rachel UnkeferNov 17, 2024
Camellia season #BloomScrolling
Rachel UnkeferNov 9, 2024

“…authoritarians depend on people being isolated and lonely. So getting to know each other is resistance and part of building a better world for all of us.”

Boston Globe: For those reeling from divisive election, two friends in Jamaica Plain offer to sit and listen

https://archive.ph/2024.11.09-062255/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/08/metro/jamaica-plain-two-friends-listen-election-anxieties/