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Macie hates it here
@macie.bsky.social
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Symbolist art, recycled body parts, metal music, bad crafting, travel, gardening, WWDITS, Discworld. She/her. Lifelong Michigander.
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DOLLY PARTON: STAR OF THE SHOW 🌟📖

Thank you for being such an extraordinarily generous, kind human being, Dolly Parton! 301 million books (and counting) gifted to kids all over the world through the Imagination Library 💛✨

Congratulations on YOUR new book! We are thankful for you 😊💜
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Five bands I’ve seen more than five times:
Olivas-era Savatage
Tool
Refused
Puscifer
Bloodywood
flyingtrilobite.com Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · Nov 29
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to

Nine Inch Nails
KennyHoopla
The Beaches
Garbage
KMFDM
earthandsand.bsky.social Anna Howard @earthandsand.bsky.social · Nov 29
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to

Soundgarden
The Monkees
The Prodigy
Faith No More
W.A.S.P
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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I’m back from Japan, but my brain is not getting the message and I’m still sleeping about twelve hours off. Anyway, here are a few pics from the Lucky Cat Temple in Tokyo for #Caturday.
An eki stamp imprint from Gotokuji Station depicting a group of lucky cats in red ink. A tiny sample of the many, many statues in a variety of sizes at Gotokuji Temple, which portray a white cat sitting up and beckoning with its front paw. A bronze statue of a seated cat raising its right paw at Gotokuji Temple. A sign at Gotokuji Temple of a white cat sitting up and beckoning with its right front paw. It wears a red collar with a bell and has red inner ears.
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I’m in Tokyo (!) and just spotted Zohran Mamdani on the Shinjuku giant cat billboard. Good job to folks back home!
The Cross Shinjuku Vision LED billboard has a photo of Zohran Mamdani with Japanese text.
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Share your favorite covers as a timeline cleanse.

(Any excuse to share Bloodywood.)
September 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The Flint Institute of Arts has an exhibition “MI Ink: The Art of Tattoo” highlighting Michigan talent and tattoo history. It’s pretty fun and not what you’d typically see at an art museum. I was so excited to see a What We Do in the Shadows tattoo!
A framed split photo shows the front and back of a sleeve tattoo of scenes and characters from the movie What We Do in the Shadows. The bottom of the sleeve has characters from the movie Hocus Pocus. Artist: Aaron Ruby, North Main Tattoo Studio, Plymouth. Client: Amy. Bert Grimm’s ink on paper piece “Flash,” ca. 1940, has rows of traditional tattoo designs. The sheet of flash is still covered in protective plastic and has price stickers listed next to each tattoo. A full-room installation shows a typical tattoo parlor layout, with walls covered in flash. A quote posted on a wall in black text says, “A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.” — Don Ed Hardy
September 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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I couldn’t decide which was funnier tonight, a grasshopper jump scaring me or catching a couple in the act, but I was just picking arugula leaves in the near dark when a raccoon came around the corner and we were almost face to face before it took off. I’m not sure which of us was more startled! 🌱
Grasshoppers mating on a coneflower. A bumblebee on an oregano flower. A grasshopper and a small spider on a squash leaf.
September 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Street art edition
An eye spray-painted on a red brick arch. Below the arch, a green lawn with palm tree shadows. A woman's eye with the blue from its iris running down her cheek. An eye that kinda looks like a snail, spray-painted on a white brick wall.
September 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Another Flint mural. This is by Kevin Burdick/Scraps Design and is in the alley next to the Capitol Theatre, one of my very favorite places.
A large mural of a sandhill crane with wings outstretched and one leg raised in dark water that fades down to reflected pinks. In the bottom right corner is a 29 cent postage stamp depicting two people in a boat fishing.
September 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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New mural going up behind Blackstone's in Flint.
A painting of a giant golden frog on a black background covers the back of a building.
September 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This evening’s garden wildlife sightings. 🌱
I think a wolf spider on a yard waste bag. It was pretty big. A tiny spider stowaway in a metal colander with fleabane. It took a long time to help it out because it kept trying to escape through the holes, but it was too big. A shed cicada exoskeleton on a mostly dead coneflower. A bumblebee on an oregano flower.
September 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Join us on Saturday from 8:30-10:30pm for public night at the MSU Observatory!
Visit our website for FAQs: web.pa.msu.edu/astro/observ...
Address: MSU Observatory, 4299 Pavilion Dr, Lansing, MI 48910
August 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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If you’re at #DragonCon, stop by and say “hi” to Jody!
stablechaos.bsky.social jody @stablechaos.bsky.social · Aug 28
Set up for Dragon Con 2025 Booth 2802. Woohoo! We are ready for you to visit, peruse and chat as is your wont.

Can’t wait to see you all!
A booth at Dragon Con 2025 with tables containing various nerdy t-shirts, stickers and laser cut toys for the undiscerning gamer. In the back of the booth has shelves full of t-shirts.
August 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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After wrapping up a mess of a project (months of working as fast as I can, tons of extra hours, firehose of updates), last night I had Kerrygold butter on graham crackers for dinner and watched an embarrassing number of Pyaari cat dress up videos. Please send an adult.
August 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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My kitchen has become endless ever-changing piles of drying herbs and flowers, especially for salts and teas. Cookie sheets in the stove, cutting boards layered on pans, half-filled jars everywhere. It smells wonderful. 🌱🍜
Parchment sheets covered in raspberry leaves, mint leaves, echinacea leaves and petals, lemon balm, and fennel pollen in various stages of drying. Bowls and jars with sage, dried lemon balm, mint, oregano flowers, and echinacea are around the countertop. A big pile of lemon balm and smaller piles of echinacea leaves and petals on sheets of parchment paper
August 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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My first time harvesting fennel pollen, although I have no idea what I’ll use it for. I left lots for the wasps that are all over the plant. 🌱
A black (potter?) wasp on a bronze fennel flower. A parchment sheet covered in yellow-green fennel pollen. A small fennel flower is off to the edge of the paper. Lots of fennel flowers. A little wasp is hidden among them.
August 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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looks effin delicious!
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16. #aughost: bad
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#aughost2025 #ink #art #drawing #puka #öhrchen #kleinekunstklasse
an ink drawing of puka looking curiously at a bottle of poison with a striped straw in it. on the bottle is a skull and the word poison, around the bottle and puka is kind of poison-green steam
August 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I continue to drag my poor partner onto every carousel we encounter. He’s very nice about it.
Close up of a slightly mad looking carousel horse’s head. Two additional horses are in the background.
August 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Cute little pollinators at Crossroads Village in Flint.
A hummingbird clearwing moth shown from the side approaching a butterfly bush. A hummingbird clearwing moth with wings open perched on top of a very tall butterfly bush. A swallowtail butterfly hanging out on a butterfly bush on a sunny day.
August 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Seeing the sights of Bay City, Michigan. Got excited about bats decorating a building, but on closer inspection they were just eagles.
A riverbank landscape across water. A brick building with a sign that says Not Guilty Gower Law PLC. The word not is underlined. A painted brick building with black and red trim including eagles, not bats.
August 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Super quick garden haul since the air quality is so bad. 🌱
A couple colanders hold thyme, rosemary, oregano flowers, sage, a few kinds of small tomatoes, two kinds of peppers that I’ve forgotten, a few blackberries, and a zucchini.
August 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Timeline cleanse

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Rescuers Lift A Fallen Branch And See Hundreds Of Eyes Staring Back At Them
They got the help they so desperately needed ❤️
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August 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I voted! Yay and hooray!
A white round sticker on a blue shirt says I voted yay in red handwriting. A second sticker has an adorable hand drawn critter saying I voted! in all caps with colorful confetti around it.
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Last day of Gen Con 2025. I got to meet and talk with so many cool people. So much fun. Thanks all so much!

If you have the energy and time, stop by the Gamer Concepts booth 1317. We may have something you might like.
An exhibitor booth. Covered in T-shirts, laser cut boxes and all sorts of gamer paraphernalia. The back of the booth is lined with shelves full of T-shirts. A cute little purse in the shape of an owl. The sign on the purse reads, “Superb Owl Purse $35.” A wood laser cut kit featuring a single dungeon room with three classic dungeons and dragons monsters. A Bulette, an Otyugh and a Big Eye Meanie.
August 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Definitely not helping with the air quality in mid-Michigan.
A massive bonfire. Hazy sunset over a corn field.
August 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM