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Alicia
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Professional sicko living on the Great Marsh

Banner: Door sign that reads “Mollusk Department Unionidae”

PFP: painting of me, a white lady in glasses with brown hair. Just add 10+ hag years
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My husband after just one day of listening to me talk about the Siege of Boston knowing I won’t stop until Evacuation Day 2026
Winona Ryder as Veronica in Heathers. She’s just survived the bomb so her face is streaked with soot and blood, her hair is frizzy, and a cigarette is dangling from her mouth
April 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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10 years ago today
Tweet from @Politico: "'Bees are good,' Obama says as children scream." There's a link to the story and a Getty photo of Obama in business casual reading a book to children outdoors at the White House Easter Egg Roll. Posted on 4/6/15 at 4:59 PM
April 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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And a painting of Bill Clinton jogging in a Mi Tierra t-shirt for good measure
A nearly life-sized painting of a labored Bill Clinton jogging in a Mi Tierra t-shirt, red shorts, and sneakers. Around the painting are numerous American flags, red and white ribbons, and white floral sprays with red, white, and blue fairy lights. Why not
March 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Painting of Selena at Mi Tierra Cafe y Panaderia in San Antonio
A large painting of Tejano star Selena. She's wearing a white body suit and holding a white rose as she sings into a microphone. Surrounding the frame are festoons of purple and white roses, white doves, purple floral sprays, and purple fairy lights. There is a large statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the lower right, and a statue of an angel and more flowers on a table in front of the painting
March 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Got my copy of The Portable Feminist Reader edited by @roxanegay.bsky.social So many great selections including the Guerrilla Girls 📚💙
The cover of The Portable Feminist Reader edited by Roxane Gay from Penguin Classics. Above the Penguin logo and title is a painting by Nina Chanel Abney featuring highly abstracted depictions of four women layered over colorful blocks and symbols.
March 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Muting IRL
A February edition of The Onion newspaper with some of the current world’s worst people’s names and photos covered by yellow post it notes
March 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Hope they enjoy their payment by check
A portion of a medical bill showing a co-pay amount of two cents
March 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Found a photo in the National Portrait Gallery (US) that matches the national mood
A black and white photo from c 1860-70 of a white woman in a voluminous dress seated and leaning against a table with books. On top of the print someone has made a heavy vertical black mark that obscures half of her face and extends down her torso. It looks almost like a conceptual artist has gotten hold of the print and altered it. On the lower part of her dress is thinner black mark, also drawn over the top of the image, in the form of a looping squiggle. The photo is from the Matthew Brady Studio in Washington, DC
February 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Trying to remember if I ordered this tortie while insomnia eBay-ing
A beautiful brown, tan, and orange mottled tortie cat curled into a tight ball in a cardboard box. She’s snuggled into the paper packaging which is making crinkly noises with every breath
November 12, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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There’s one poppy left in my garden that has failed to read the room. 2024’s last #FlowerReport 🌱
A red poppy with four round petals and tiny black seeds hovering around its stigma (?). Its thin, fuzzy green stem is visible but out of focus. There are yellowing hosta leaves in the background and brown leaves scattered on the ground below
November 8, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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In these shitty times I recommend a Seasonal Affective Disorder light therapy box that’s big enough to read an X-ray film
A 12 by 15 inch light box sitting on a desk being huge. It has a white plastic cover and a black base and is turned off for the sake of everyone who has any degree of visual perception
November 8, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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I’m in a rural area and I need this candy to go in other people’s bodies
Two post its on a candy bowl that read TAKE PLENTY! IF FORCED TO EAT THESE LEFTOVERS WE WILL DIE
October 31, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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This year’s pumpkin is my favorite character from Ooblets, CLICKYCLAWS
A carved pumpkin sitting on a blue table surrounded by votive candles. Clickyclaws has round eyes, grumpy slanted eyebrows, and a frowny mouth. Their carved face is centered in a light yellow oval A picture of Clickyclaws from the Ooblets video game. They’re an orange critter with a round head and tiny horns. Their body has a peplum shape at the bottom and their limbs are like little sticks. They’re SO MAD but they’re still going to win this dance battle for you
October 31, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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Last year’s pumpkin based on the gravestone of my neighbor (d. 1762) who owned the land my house is now on
A relief carving on a pumpkin of an 18th century winged skull, lit from inside. It’s highly stylized, using only a few lines to suggest a skull, round eyes, a tented nose, two rows of extremely square teeth, and wings on either side of the head with feathers
October 31, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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This weekend I went to a Bernese Mountain Dog draft test and the dogs were adorably eager workers. They loved having a job because they don’t pay bills
A pair of Bernese Mountain Dogs pulling a red cart loaded with metal milk cans through a green field. Their handler is next to them while a small audience watches from the right behind a roped off area. In the background among trees with turning leaves are two barns, one with brown shingles and one with red-orange clapboards. The blue sky above is completely clear A photo of a white board with a diagram of the draft exercises the dogs are doing. They are hitched to their cart in the lower left, make a right turned circle around a lamb statue, maneuver their cart through a narrows, stop to pick up a load (a large, stuffed Bernese Mountain Dog lol), make a left turned circle around another lamb while someone waves a giant Swiss flag as a visual distraction, stop to let their handler remove an obstacle, make another left turn next to someone with an electronically whinnying hobby horse as an audible distraction, and then to the middle to reverse their cart. The dogs have to stay in one spot while their handler hides behind a minivan for THREE MINUTES (they hated this) AND THEN the dogs take their cart with a load on a half mile walk in an open field. Better them than me
October 22, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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This is me and my autoimmune disease, too. This is the dollar amount my insurance company was allowed to place on my life pre-Affordable Care Act
A portion of one of my Explanation of Benefits from 2010 showing my Medical Lifetime Maximum of $5,000,000.00
October 22, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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If you want to be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty man your male wife
So for my personal point of view
Get a middling guy to marry you 🎶
A screenshot from PsyPost (whatever that is) with the headline “Very attractive and very unattractive men show the highest hostility towards women” by Vladimir Hedrih on October 19, 2024
October 21, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Strikingly modern jet jewelry I saw on display years ago at MHS. Perfect for when you're officially in mourning but are going to the 1870s version of Studio 54 because your husband can longer stop you
Two pairs of jet black earrings laid on raised stands in a museum exhibition display case. The first pair is three graduated dangling spheres increasing in size from top to bottom. They have small raised black spikes all over them like an enveloped virus. The other pair is a dangling set of concentric circles hanging from a small ball. In the lower left corner of the display case is a Daguerreotype in a gold hinged case of a woman and a small child in black mourning clothing
October 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Saw Comet A3! It’s faint but it’s there if you open the pic. The Super Hunter’s Moon was so bright we cast shadows 🌕
A very faint but visible Comet A3 in the sky above the horizon, about an hour after sunset. Its brightest point is facing down toward the earth and its tail is streaking after it at a slight angle. To the right is Arcturus, the only star visible at this moment in the Boötes constellation. Below is a wide field of golden grass illuminated by the full moon behind the camera. The moon is so bright my husband and I cast shadows in the immediate foreground An open field with a horizon of shadowy trees covered in bright moonlight from a glorious Super Hunter’s Moon. The moon, offset to the right of the photo, is casting a yellow glow through a thin sheen of clouds
October 18, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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Here is a nice tree. Maybe you also need it for your sanity. I took this while peeing in the woods lol
A full and beautiful autumnal tree whose leaves are mostly golden yellow with flecks of bright orange and some remnants of green. The dark trunk and creeping branches stand in stark contrast to the leaves
October 16, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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This person knows
A bumper sticker with a cartoon hummingbird, frog, worm, and snail that reads “I BRAKE FOR TINY GUYS” A bumper sticker on the same car that reads “THIS IS A SAFE SPACE FOR EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWNS.” It has cats, rainbows, birds, stars, and flowers facing one another in a mirror image and they’re all crying
October 16, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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LOOK AT THIS GREEN-ASS SWAMP
A sunny swamp completely covered with bright green algae. The trees on the horizon and the vegetation on either side of the water are all varying shades of red, orange, green, and brown
October 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Rode about 13 miles on the rail trail in my new saddle which is GREAT no agonies 🚲
Tall trees line each side of a path dappled in sunshine and strewn with fallen leaves
October 11, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Aurora over Mass with Jupiter in the lower right
A nearly vertical shaft of bright pink light against a darker purple sky. To the right of the aurora, above silhouettes of trees, is a very white Jupiter
October 11, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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A nice memento mori in case you were feeling uppity about being alive:
My friends behold this silent grave
Remember mortal like we all are made
Though now in health you all may be
Prepare you soon to follow me
The bottom half of a young woman’s slate gravestone which is peppered with lichen. In addition to the above memento mori, it reads “died March 4th 1802 Aetat 24” in a spare script
October 10, 2024 at 4:29 PM