Ivis Bohlen

@ivisbohlen.bsky.social

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Black Lives Matter. Lived in London, Munich, & Fieberbrunn (Austria), now in North Carolina. Retired UNC Press. Episcopalian. Gardening, music, reading. kdrama addict. she/her

Cartoon of the hind end of a dinosaur with a professor carrying a giant thermometer to do a rectal temperature check. The caption says An instant later, both Professor Waxman and his time machine are obliterated, leaving the cold-blooded/warm-blooded dinosaur debate still unresolved.
Actor Ji Chang-wook playing a prosecutor in kdrama Suspicious Partner
Photo of a US dollar bill with an image of George Washington's head in the middle.
Image of US soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima during WWII
Marines raising US flag on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II
Two fan art covers of "Rogue Korean" magazine introducing Huntrix and Saja Boys in the style of Vogue magazine
Sister Monica Joan from Call the Midwife sitting in front of a television saying "I await the news, so I might decide which cataclysm to pray for."
Billboard reads "Yes, everyone can hear you singing Golden in your car"
Two lead characters from Crash Landing on You in parachute
Neon sign that reads: Another distraction for the Epsteinth time
North Carolina Actually Has 12 Seasons: Winter, Fool's Spring, Second Winter, Spring of Deception, Third Winter, The Pollening, Actual Spring, Summer, Hell's Front Porch, False Fall (you are here), Second Summer, Actual Fall
An email from Medicare featuring Dr Oz as new head of Medicare announcing emails with health tips.
Front of canister of Florida Crystals Regenerative Organic Raw Cane Sugar. It reads "Farming to help save the planet"
Painting of the Supreme Court with all but the three liberal justices having Trump's face.
quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made""
I grew up on the Space Coast during the race to the moon, watched rocket launches from my back yard, knew more space jargon than Walter Cronkite, thought I was having a normal childhood.
Photo of Emil Bove in 2017. He has more hair but not smiling.
caption: When a new librarian questions the knowledge of an old librarian who used card catalogs. Photo of lion with quote from Narnia books: Do not cite the deep magic to me Witch; I was there when it was written
Screenshot of "Oprah" doing an online ad. Possibly AI generated
A gray striped tabby is on a window ledge inside, looking out and meowing loudly as I arrive at home. He is hungry, always hungry.
Poster for Armed Forces Day includes a woman and people of color to represent the different branches of US military. Was created before the Space Forces existed so it's not included.
Photo of Trump meeting with Saudi leaders in a room with a giant picture of the Saudi leader's face on the wall behind them
Photo of Yarvin with long scraggly hair, glasses, and double chin
Cartoon dog sitting at a table drinking coffee while surrounded by flames. Everything is fine.
A small christmas tree with colored lights in a window.
cartoon showing short person asking for help from tall person who is happy to help
Picture of Santa with laptop. Text: Sanda has been reading your posts all year. Most of you are getting history and civics books
screenshot of my laptop showing a moving "invitation to join conversation" with no way to get to the comments, whcih are now called a conversation.
Painting of 19th C writer overlaid with these words: When someone disagrees with hou online and deminds you prove your point to their satisfacetion by writing a logically sound defense...you can save a lot of time by not doing that. At bottom: Dude, I've known you for 10 seconds and enjoyed none of them. I'm not taking homework assignments from you.
Photograph of Elsbeth, main character of tv show by the same name.
Austrian Airlines avatar is a rainbow flag.
Photo of robot woman from Metropolis film
Shows a decal on the backwindow of a car with the word Stay and a semi-colon. Also a decal of a butterly with a semi-colon for its body. Project Semicolon promotes advocacy of mental health wellness and its focus as an anti-suicide initiative
musical score that indicates "decrescendo poco a poco maintain killer bee intensity"