Rhyan E. Romaine
@rhyanr.bsky.social
Let love rule-- Leonard Albert Kravitz. ❤️✌🏻
She/Her.
Literal tree hugger.
How can I be helpful?
#Maine
#grants
#HigherEd
📍 Occupied Wabanaki land (Maine, USA)
She/Her.
Literal tree hugger.
How can I be helpful?
#Maine
#grants
#HigherEd
📍 Occupied Wabanaki land (Maine, USA)
Spoiler: People aren't remembering.
Hopefully people are remembering that sexual assault victims can read what they’re saying
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Spoiler: People aren't remembering.
Phew.
❤️🧡💛💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤
❤️🧡💛💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤
Supreme Court won't overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage https://cnn.it/4nGnEiN
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Phew.
❤️🧡💛💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤
❤️🧡💛💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤
This is oddly one of those, "I remember exactly where I was when this happened" moments
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is oddly one of those, "I remember exactly where I was when this happened" moments
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Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Yeah. Up here, we're super interested in the opinions of "national Democrats"
They're doing a bang up job with that other important Maine race.
🙄
PS- Matt Dunlap is awesome
They're doing a bang up job with that other important Maine race.
🙄
PS- Matt Dunlap is awesome
That indicates a lack of confidence in State Auditor Matt Dunlap, who was running a primary against former candidate and current Rep. Jared Golden.
National Democrats are ‘actively recruiting’ a candidate for Maine’s 2nd District
The behind-the-scenes wrangling underscores the difficulty that Democrats will have in fending off former Gov. Paul LePage in a district won three times by President Donald Trump.
www.bangordailynews.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yeah. Up here, we're super interested in the opinions of "national Democrats"
They're doing a bang up job with that other important Maine race.
🙄
PS- Matt Dunlap is awesome
They're doing a bang up job with that other important Maine race.
🙄
PS- Matt Dunlap is awesome
An organic broccoli crown (just 1) was $8.99 this week. And I live in one of the states that actually grows it.
Things are going to get bad.
Things are going to get bad.
You know who knows if food is expensive? The parent who buys the same food every week or so for their kid and knows what it’s supposed to cost. Usually it’s the mom. Because how dare you, Welch’s Fruit Snacks? Y’all ain’t slick.
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
An organic broccoli crown (just 1) was $8.99 this week. And I live in one of the states that actually grows it.
Things are going to get bad.
Things are going to get bad.
FFS
US asks UN to lift sanctions on Syria's president ahead of White House visit reut.rs/47XDzVi
US asks UN to lift sanctions on Syria's president ahead of White House visit
The United States has proposed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that would lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.
reut.rs
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
FFS
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Today is Quintidi the 15th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate turkeys.#JacobinDay
More information on turkeys
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate turkeys.#JacobinDay
More information on turkeys
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Quintidi the 15th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate turkeys.#JacobinDay
More information on turkeys
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate turkeys.#JacobinDay
More information on turkeys
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Press Herald with an oops this morning. Poor Keith, lol.
November 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Press Herald with an oops this morning. Poor Keith, lol.
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I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.
Just watched an interview where Graham Norton was discussing the traditional Irish Halloween of his childhood.
"But we genuinely did Bob for apples, which is essentially water boarding for children."
🍎😆
"But we genuinely did Bob for apples, which is essentially water boarding for children."
🍎😆
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Just watched an interview where Graham Norton was discussing the traditional Irish Halloween of his childhood.
"But we genuinely did Bob for apples, which is essentially water boarding for children."
🍎😆
"But we genuinely did Bob for apples, which is essentially water boarding for children."
🍎😆
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When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers 'tis near Halloween." Beware the Beautiful Witch (1913) by Irish artist and illustrator Power O'Malley
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers 'tis near Halloween." Beware the Beautiful Witch (1913) by Irish artist and illustrator Power O'Malley
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Coulrophobia [KOHL-ruh-FOH-bee-yuh]
(n.)
- An abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns.
Example Sentence:
“From that evening forward, Johnnie suffered from what the school counselor, with professional detachment, labeled acute coulrophobia.”
(n.)
- An abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns.
Example Sentence:
“From that evening forward, Johnnie suffered from what the school counselor, with professional detachment, labeled acute coulrophobia.”
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Coulrophobia [KOHL-ruh-FOH-bee-yuh]
(n.)
- An abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns.
Example Sentence:
“From that evening forward, Johnnie suffered from what the school counselor, with professional detachment, labeled acute coulrophobia.”
(n.)
- An abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns.
Example Sentence:
“From that evening forward, Johnnie suffered from what the school counselor, with professional detachment, labeled acute coulrophobia.”
Yeah, as a Maine lady -- I choose the bear.
Platner's tattoo was a cause for concern; the way he has reacted to the completely legitimate concern over the tattoo has only caused additional concerns
October 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Yeah, as a Maine lady -- I choose the bear.
What my face wants to look like today, but can't because.... adulting.
something something to feel better... and offer some break from doom scrolling.
#TongueOutTuesday
#Photography #Mammals #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife
#TongueOutTuesday
#Photography #Mammals #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What my face wants to look like today, but can't because.... adulting.
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"If most major holidays commemorate particular events (think Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July), Halloween memorializes the occasion of death," Elizabeth Bruenig wrote in 2023.
This Halloween, Let’s Really Think About Death
Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July commemorate events. Halloween memorializes the occasion of death.
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"If most major holidays commemorate particular events (think Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July), Halloween memorializes the occasion of death," Elizabeth Bruenig wrote in 2023.
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"What began as a modest workplace amenity for public servants has metastasized into a taxpayer-funded citadel of privilege."
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"What began as a modest workplace amenity for public servants has metastasized into a taxpayer-funded citadel of privilege."
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Y'know how in Zoom, you can see the names of the other people on the call?
Well, someone in my last meeting looked at my name, processed it, and called me Rhonda.
This name of mine really breaks brains. 🤭
Well, someone in my last meeting looked at my name, processed it, and called me Rhonda.
This name of mine really breaks brains. 🤭
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Y'know how in Zoom, you can see the names of the other people on the call?
Well, someone in my last meeting looked at my name, processed it, and called me Rhonda.
This name of mine really breaks brains. 🤭
Well, someone in my last meeting looked at my name, processed it, and called me Rhonda.
This name of mine really breaks brains. 🤭
Why did I opt to make my food bank financial donation a recurring monthly gift?
Recurring gifts provide consistent and predictable income, allowing for better long-term planning, more efficient operations, and a more stable supply of food.
🦞🌾
#SNAPCliff
#DirigoCrew
#nonprofit
#Maine
Recurring gifts provide consistent and predictable income, allowing for better long-term planning, more efficient operations, and a more stable supply of food.
🦞🌾
#SNAPCliff
#DirigoCrew
#nonprofit
#Maine
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Why did I opt to make my food bank financial donation a recurring monthly gift?
Recurring gifts provide consistent and predictable income, allowing for better long-term planning, more efficient operations, and a more stable supply of food.
🦞🌾
#SNAPCliff
#DirigoCrew
#nonprofit
#Maine
Recurring gifts provide consistent and predictable income, allowing for better long-term planning, more efficient operations, and a more stable supply of food.
🦞🌾
#SNAPCliff
#DirigoCrew
#nonprofit
#Maine
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Phantasmagoria [fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh]
(n.)
- A crowd of phantoms; a series of shifting images or scenes.
Used in a sentence:
“From that whirl of light and shadow unfurled a phantasmagoria of forms — a solemn procession of the half-remembered and the long-dead.”
(n.)
- A crowd of phantoms; a series of shifting images or scenes.
Used in a sentence:
“From that whirl of light and shadow unfurled a phantasmagoria of forms — a solemn procession of the half-remembered and the long-dead.”
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Phantasmagoria [fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh]
(n.)
- A crowd of phantoms; a series of shifting images or scenes.
Used in a sentence:
“From that whirl of light and shadow unfurled a phantasmagoria of forms — a solemn procession of the half-remembered and the long-dead.”
(n.)
- A crowd of phantoms; a series of shifting images or scenes.
Used in a sentence:
“From that whirl of light and shadow unfurled a phantasmagoria of forms — a solemn procession of the half-remembered and the long-dead.”
As neighbors all around me head to church, I make cinnamon toast, light some candles, and put on Practical Magic.
a woman is looking at herself in the mirror in front of a candle .
Alt: Scene from the Practical Magic movie. Sandra Bullock is looking at herself in the mirror in front of a candle .
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
As neighbors all around me head to church, I make cinnamon toast, light some candles, and put on Practical Magic.
Even without the obvious error, how does this piece have an ounce of journalism?
Leave her alone.
Leave her alone.
The world of JoJo Siwa, the child star who became a pop star who became a TV star, is even smaller than it appears onscreen.The world of JoJo Siwa, the child star who became a pop star who became a TV star, is even smaller than it appears onscreen.
https://cnn.it/49l4N9w
https://cnn.it/49l4N9w
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Even without the obvious error, how does this piece have an ounce of journalism?
Leave her alone.
Leave her alone.