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A. Pie
@apie.bsky.social
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Artist, cat lady, pie lover. Nonprofit architect working on housing justice and novel approaches to the built environment. Throwing away everything I can to be able to see what matters.
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

(I'm not a serious person.)
December 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Just a few days ago I woke up to find this goofus had slowly slid down the pillow in his sleep so that my nose was right against his soft, sweet forehead.
A photo of a three month old gray tabby kitten lying on his back between two pillows, relaxed in sleep. He has soft gray fur and a white tummy with black spots. His little front paws are bent over. He has gigantic feet which surely bodes well for a future as a chonk.
August 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The milkweed patch is finally mature enough that we have a real population of monarchs in the garden.
A small monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant.
July 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I want to feel as accepting of where I am as these pigeons.
Photo of the upper floors and tile roof of a derelict building in Lisbon, Portugal. The windows are broken and pigeons have taken up residence. The building is masonry with blue and white patterned tiles on the facade, and wrought iron Juliet balconies. Two pigeons are sitting on a window sash.
June 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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I went to Curious Flora in El Sobrante with a couple friends and it was lovely. Annie's Annuals was one of my favourite places and I'm so happy they managed to save the nursery. They have fewer plants right now than Annie's at its height, but are well worth a trip.
Curious Flora nursery in El Sobrante, tables of plants in 4 inch pots on broad tables under a vast netted shade structure. This is one of the best places to get good, healthy plants suited to Northern California gardens, and they grow a number of plants that are difficult to find elsewhere. They also do mail order.
March 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The magnolia petal drop is always lovely.

As a note, the alt text always contains more context for my photos in addition to just an image description.
A magnolia tree in spring bloom, large pink flowers over the entire tree. Petals have started to fall onto the ground, where the tree is surrounded by a flagstone patio and a stacked stone bench. In the background are the Victorian homes of the neighborhood. The tree is Magnolia x 'Jon Jon', bred by the late John Gresham, believed to be M. soulangeana crossed with M. x veitchii. It is a late bloomer, so it adds colour to the neighborhood weeks after other magnolias have finished their bloom. This tree is 23 years old and fully grown. I have it aesthetically pruned every year.
March 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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I ran around at lunch stealing French fries from my friends and causing chaos. Also a very hot costume.
Look, this adult woman in a seagull costume is clearly working through something.
March 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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I put sunglasses on the sun.
Grown-ass woman in an inflatable sun costume wearing sparkling sunglasses.
March 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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I was briefly a lobster but the costume was too hot.
Adult (legally) woman in bright red head to toe lobster costume.
March 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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I’m back from my annual week of chaotic good.
Sunrise over the Fort Lauderdale cruise port. There is not much wind so the water has only small rippling waves and a glossy surface. The sky goes from dark orange at the horizon, just above a distant bank of fog, to gold then pale yellow, then fades into the gray dawn sky.
March 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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The last 24 hours was without a doubt the most insane travel day I have ever had. I drove from Tacoma to Oakland, and in those hours I was sideswiped by a joyriding car thief, startled by a deer in a rest stop bathroom, locked out of my accommodations, and helped a lady give birth at a rest stop.
A view of Mount Shasta from the vista point on Southbound Route 5. Low hanging clouds obscure most of the mountain, so it looks like a mesa.
February 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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This is door blocked
A brick industrial building with boarded-up windows, and a air of metal doors opening onto a raised loading zone. The door on the left says "THIS" and "IS" while the door on the right says "DOOR" and "BLOCKED". Because of the spacing of the words, it reads as "This is door blocked" instead of, as intended, "This door is blocked." In Chehalis, Washington.
February 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Moose has decided that when I am in an online class, she needs to perch behind me and attack my head if I talk. This has added an extra frisson of excitement to Portuguese class.
A light skinned latin woman (that's me) in an orange jumper sitting in front of a green screen. Perched on the back of her chair is a black cat in mid-frolic. The woman's hair is messed up because the cat has been biting her head for most of the online class she has been in for nearly two hours. The jury finds this cat innocent on all charges.
February 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Hello, peacock!
A peacock standing on an Oakland lawn.
January 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Sunday knitting time. #knitting
A sweater in progress. Yarn is light fingering mystery animal fiber in a rainbow color way, pattern is a top- down raglan made large to be an over garment, made up as I go.
January 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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The fig is ready for spring. It looks like I need to invest like 4000 hours to get the rest of the garden weeded and cleaned up.
Close up of a fig tree branch getting ready for spring budding. Little tiny baby figs cling to the end of the branches, rusty brown and firm. In the background my totally chaotic and unruly garden lounges sloppily over its beds.
January 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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We had heavy fog a couple days ago and this is one of my favourite photos of it.
Suburban street with heavy fog backlit by the sunrise. The fog turns everything shades of gray. Dark outlines of leafless plane trees make it look very spooky.
January 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It’s dark as fuck in Germany right now and I’m here for the Christmas lights. Need to remember to skip the awful hot wine though
December 17, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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I'm calling this trip "The Autists Go to Germany" and it is going about as well as one might expect. We have the anxious autist crying over having to do things like eat dinner. We have the wild autist wandering off into markets alone. We have the orderly autist trying to manage everything. Yup.
A photo taken from an upper story looking out over a European cityscape with a canal and a cloudy sky and rain. Also a Hard Rock Cafe.
December 9, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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And of course apple pie
Apple crumb pie. It’s somewhat sloppily made and underfilled, but this is my favorite pie. I haven’t made pie since my ex traumatized me two years ago so this also means hope to me
November 29, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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The best thing about the process of rebuilding myself after 22 years of an abusive relationship is getting to make mashed potatoes the way I like: creamy and soft and full of butterfat.
A mixer bowl full of mashed potatoes. Skin on, well cooked, with butter and cream and a little salt. The way god intended.
November 29, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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I love when you see things from a plane that you could not see anywhere else.
View out a plane window of clouds with a fully circular small rainbow reflecting from the top of them
November 17, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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I hate the early sunsets and also I love the early sunsets
Sunset over the USS Hornet with a crescent moon
November 13, 2024 at 1:07 AM