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Abby This is Not Normal
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Helping underserved youth gain access to current STEAM education.
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They may appear to be smiley socks to you, but they question every decision I make.
An ankle sock with smiley faces on either side of the cuff. When viewed from the wearer’s perspective, one eye from each opposite smiley face is visible in the front, creating a new set of eyes. Half of each opposing mouth is also showing, but upside down they appear to be eyebrows: Frowning, judgy eyebrows over two eyes.
April 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Lilacs still looking and smelling lovely after two nights of freeze warnings.
A vase of lilacs sits on a desk.
April 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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March 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Our flowering trees are incredible this year in the KC area.
#photosky
#spring
March 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I had to call in sick.
Generic gray tabby cat, only with extra derp, because Lucy. Lucy is sitting on a black purse on a bed. She’s looking at the camera with a vacancy that conveys her one brain cell, bouncing around her empty skull like a game of perpetual pong.
March 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Lu mad because I interrupted her game of Super Lucy for a selfie. No regrets.
#catsky #catpics
March 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Milkweed seeds.
A close up of a brown milkweed pod with two milkweed seeds hanging from it. The seeds are brown and they dangle from feathery wispy white floss designed to carry them in the wind.
March 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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He’s been grooming his eyebrows all day and they deserved a photo.
#caturday
March 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Sunset tonight behind an icy Missouri River.
In the background a brilliant bright orange sun is a half circle, setting behind the bank of an icy river. The sun reflects in the water and highlights the large chunks of ice flowing by.
February 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I don’t know who needs this, but seeing it today gave me life.
The alliums are coming, y’all. Nature is oblivious to the shitshow and the alliums are coming.
#nature
A stem and four small, green allium leaves poke through a shallow blanket of icy, white snow. It is contrasted by several long, dry, brown stems left over from the previous year.
February 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I love this cat more than reason.
Linus the cat, with his adorable face peeking out of his donut cave. His muzzle and bib are creamy white, highlighting a pink nose and the slightest hint of gray trails down from each corner of his mouth giving the slightest impression of fangs. His whiskers are impossibly long and extend outside the frame of the photo. One silky white paw crosses over another in the lower left portion of the frame in a way that appears knowing, regal, relaxed, and deeply captivating. His ears aren’t visible, but his bewitching green eyes peer right at the camera, conveying passion, integrity, and pride. Beautiful, lighter tan shades of fur frame his eyes, blending out into darker gray fur on his face. He has the answers, if only you would ask.
February 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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What’s worse is that the biggest holder of our debt is us.
February 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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A cheeky birb?!?

Ha ha. No silly! It’s a paw!
A close up of a white cat paw where the fur is so downy soft it could easily be confused with the head and neck feathers of a white bird and the paw pads look like a bird’s eyes, beak, and moth. The illusion is made more realistic by the placement of the unusual and beguiling pigment in the cat paw. The two outer paw pads are black, providing a perfect contrast for the white wispy “feathers” which give the imagined bird a distinctive, quirky, disheveled appearance but, when seen as the literal puffy, ephemeral quasi-carpet hair they are, makes them even more beautiful. Perhaps most remarkable is the main paw pad, for it makes possible the entire illusion. What the short-sighted might simply describe as charcoal gray, this paw pad contains shadows which lend themselves to think the two rounds of the paw pad’s bottom sides look darker, as a mouth turned downward, while light works up the inside lines until the bottom center is seen as a beak. until you look. It’s like a really bad photo of a really cool, white bird-like muppet. Or a paw.
February 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Tell me it’s not an inspiring bean for a Sunday.
In this strikingly beautiful toe bean photo, the pinkie toe bean looks black, both middle beans are pink, and the last bean is multi, with black on the top 1/3 and black on the bottom 2/3. The big pad underneath is black. It is surrounded by white hair emerging from the toe beans at all angles, but also like if angels did cat beans. Attached cat, aside obviously the highest example of raw purity a paw could hope to become.
February 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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An offering:
Linus’ Beans Are the Greatest Beans, A Formal Analysis in Sunday Morning Photos.

BEANS!
A photograph of the mostest handsomest boi ever lookin’ seepy on the sofa. Hims has shades from porpoise gray to hippopotamus gray to rhinoceros gray to squirrel gray to elephant gray and they swirl and mingle in ruffles and dips and waves of harmony and then, impossibly stop in hard lines of contrast with porcelain white (or frost, or powder, or cloud or cotton white) around hims muzzle and feetsies, where furry white wisps rise and spread between toe beans like gentle fog lifting at daybreak. Those same thin, downy tufts spring up from his inner ear and then bend perfectly sideways and back like rising air caught in a jet stream. Hims whiskers are impossibly long and bend softly upward towards a mind that has bent itself around topics of deprivation and longing that humans cannot conceive. Hims seepy eyes barely mask a deep, unseen malice like an open wound upon his heart borne of a mania which, so far, love has been no salve. It also kinda looks like he’s waving, “hi”.
February 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Lucy likes to jump
A cat jumping in front of a sliding glass door. The view is of the outdoor deck and large trees. The picture makes it appear that the cat’s front paws are around a branch and she’s hanging from it.
January 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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What a beautiful few days in Chicago. We had clear skies and we had snow. Such a photogenic city.
January 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Because when a member of Congress or a news outlet publishes absolute garbage lies, the the public critically needs to know they’re lies?

JFC, we’re watching it in real time and the rapid adoption by every greedy CEO is horrifying beyond my worst (already low) expectations. Who’s deleting FB?
January 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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It’s taken a couple of weeks for us to get to know one another, but this morning it produced a double-shot with perfect crema that was so damn good it made my toes curl.
January 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Textured cardboard ftcw! (for the cat win)
January 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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It stalls commerce, disrupts work and school, is hard on infrastructure, creates accidents, and is downright dangerous.

I’m still giddy at the thought of hitting the upper ranges here in KCMO #teamsnow!
A weekend snow threat graphic for the KCMO region showing snow totals from 2-6 inches in areas south of the metro near Butler, MO, 6-12 inches in the KC metro, and 10-15 inches around St. Joseph, MO east to Chillicothe, MO.
January 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Redemption on a homemade crust
January 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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DOGE employee Handbook cover
Tesla cybertruck burning in front of the trump tower hotel in Las Vegas
January 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Been a while since I’ve beaded, but these turned out nicely, I think.
A hand-beaded bracelet and necklace
December 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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‘I’d never dream of pulling this tree down and it hurts that you feel the need to bring a water gun into this situation’ - Linus
December 9, 2024 at 3:28 PM