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Bourbon Planning, AICP
@bourbonplanning.bsky.social
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Urban planner, gardener, hiker, bourbon appreciater, ex-Southerner. He/him/his. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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since it apparently #InternationalCatDay and the boy is being exceptionally cute (and hell, we could all use some cat photos I think), I present: purrobouros
Dark gray tabby cat sleeping on an unmade bed, curled into an adorable ball, whiskers to tail, with his white paws peeking out.
August 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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My cat Freddy, with like 70% of the toys bought for him: 😐🥱

Freddy, with the curly ring-pull from a can of frozen orange juice, literal trash: 😻😺🤩💕😄💓😍
A gray and brown tabby cat with white paws stretched out on a parquet floor. A few inches from him is a small white curl of plastic packaging, clearly a favored toy.
February 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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my niece wanted to make (and decorate) a gingerbread house. Pretty happy with how it turned out!
Gingerbread house with icing shingles, cookie trees, a window of yellow frosting like light from within, and a chimney with marshmallow “smoke” coming out Gingerbread house with icing shingles, a door, a transom window of yellow frosting like light from within, and two gingerbread people on either side of the door Closeup on the side of a Gingerbread house with green cookie trees on either side of a window of yellow frosting like light from within and icing icicles hanging down from the roof eaves Gingerbread house in the process of construction, with just the four walls held together with white frosting
December 24, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Moi aussi, Lin. Moi aussi. And this day just started
Duolingo character saying “I’m tired” in a speech bubble, with the words Je suis fatiguée entered in answer box below
November 5, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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Okra flowers are so gorgeous. these ones are just going bananas in the garden right now 🌱
An okra plant that has a beautiful creamy yellow flower with a dark purple center, along with another flower still furled up. Background is a garden and brick wall
September 1, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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some fantastically villainous-sounding names for a weed that honestly deserves it (those prickles are SHARP and ALL OVER the damn plant)
Screenshot from a plant website: “Devil's Tomato Solanum carolinense Other Common Name(s): Apple of Sodom; Bull Nettle; Carolina Horse-Nettle; Devil's Potato Horsenettle; Horse Nettle; Poisonous Potato; Thorn Apple; Wild Tomato Previously known as: Solanum floridanum Solanum godfreyi Phonetic Spelling so-LAN-num kair-oh-lin-EN-say This plant has high severity poison characteristics.
August 25, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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A friend had sent me this:
Tweet by m@thew (@tweetpotato314): I saw this documentary seven years ago and I think about this line every day With a still image of an allegedly-criminal penguin with a rock in its beak and closed caps reading “All penguins have criminal tendencies”
August 16, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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POV: you work with a bunch of engineers and there’s an ongoing Jenga tower in the breakroom that keeps getting taller
A Jenga tower with a rather absurdly narrow base and heavy top, balanced on a single piece on a stone counter. Background has fake flowers and plants and a windowed atrium.
August 15, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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this cat is so much more rambunctious than my previous one (RIP lil dumplin) was at the same age. I’m having to get toddler-proof cupboard locks and a suction-cup water bowl. (when he gets the zoomies & careens around he often knocks his water over.) but then he does this right next to my desk:
An grey-brown striped tabby cat with white paws, curled up like a shrimp and hugging his leg, sleeping adorably on a blue and tan rug.
July 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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From the garden today. Go on, bee, pollinate that cucumber!
A honeybee pollinating a yellow flower surrounded by green leaves
July 20, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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there’s a single, tiny watermelon growing in the garden where I volunteer! fingers crossed it actually survives long enough to harvest…rats or squirrels have already nibbled on a couple of cukes (and a soaker hose)
A perfectly round, green striped watermelon, about the same diameter as the handle of a pair of scissors placed for scale, growing on a chicken wire frame
July 14, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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friends had to cancel 4th of July plans but I grilled the balsamic-marinated tofu & veggie kebabs anyway. great with some couscous, feta cheese, cucumber, and extra balsamic drizzle, plus a grilled pecan-stuffed apple for dessert (I was too hungry to take more pictures) 🍽️
Three metal skewers with grilled onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, and marinated cubes of tofu, on a yellow and white plate with a mound of couscous next to them.
July 5, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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Update: Freddy is probably 8-9 months old and “seriously, very cute” according to the vet. He likes to keep me company, whether it’s on the couch, on the rug doing yoga, or in the mysterious place with the water.
A very cute tabby cat, asleep on his back cuddled up next to his human on a light gray couch. He has white paws and a white spot on his chest. The same gray tabby cat curled up on a black and white striped rug, right next to a white guy (me) with short, dark blond hair and a beard. He is smiling at the camera and wearing a blue t-shirt with a red and white design. A white door. A black and gray tiled floor, as one might find in a bathroom from the 1960s. Sticking out from the gap between door and floor is a single, plaintive cat paw with dark toe beans.
June 7, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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His name is Freddy.
An adorable grayish brown tabby cat sleeping with his head and front paw resting on the leg of his human (me) in a teal armchair. My gray tabby cat standing on the arm of a teal chair sniffing the forehead of his human, a white guy with short, dark blond hair and a beard looking towards the camera with a bemused expression.
June 6, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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lol, that’s cuz I’ve been too busy hanging out with this cute little guy
A gray tabby cat with white paws lying on a striped black and white rug. He is very cute. A gray tabby cat with white paws, lying on a beige and black shag rug. He is playing with a colorful felt string toy
June 6, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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also the van reminds me of this:
May 23, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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My favorite farmer’s market vendor had a $25 for a pick-your-own flat of plants deal today…so of course I had to.

The marigolds and a couple herb seedlings will go to the community garden tomorrow. 🌱🪴🥰
A flat container jam-packed with plants: pink impatiens, yellow and orange marigolds, succulents, and other seedlings I don’t know the name of. Background shows a trowel and part of a planter, on a cement floor.
May 18, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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(they also make me about an inch taller, though that’s more of a plus for me than for some 😆)
Two pairs of thick-soled shoes on a parquet floor. One pair is darker brown oxfords with laces, the other a lighter brown slip-on loafer.
March 1, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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super spooky fog over the water tonight, I love it
A foggy nighttime scene of a dark river with faint lights obscured by haze on the opposite bank, beneath low clouds A foggy nighttime scene of a haze-shrouded river beneath low gray clouds, with a white metal railing and dark bare tree branches in the bottom & left foreground
January 26, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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WMATA y’all know your target audience, I LOVE this. It’s Spotify wrapped for transit geeks: wmata.com/initiatives/...
Shows an infographic called "Your 2023 Metro Report" which totals how many DC metro rail and bus trips I took, how many stations I visited, how many miles I rode, and the amount of CO2 saved over driving.
January 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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this is what happens when you fire humans and rely on AI (a friend spotted this on Google Maps)
January 3, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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I’m sick so this liminal spacemas is lasting longer for me
January 1, 2024 at 7:03 PM