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Carissa
@carissamcqueen.bsky.social
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I thought I wanted to be President, but it turns out I just really like an Aaron Sorkin walk-n-talk. Script Sup (871), ADHD, Auntie, possibly three raccoons in a trench coat.
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Asked the iChing a question. This is the response. No changing lines.

LEZGOOOOOO!
Screen grab of iChing hexagram 49: Revolution.
October 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Why don’t I go to Yosemite every year? Its so beautiful and special. I should go every year.
A meadow in Yosemite valley. A tall pine stands frame left. In the distance, granite cliffs stretch into a blue sky with a dusting of pale white cirrus cloud.
September 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I spent three years growing a lemon tree and finally got my first lemon and it was gonna be ripe in like a month and my landlord trimmed that branch when pruning vines on the other side of the fence.

It brought me so much joy every day. Perhaps I can still use it in a martini this evening.
Photo os a small variegated pink lemon with raindrops pooling on it.
September 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Snuck up to a lookout, then drove home just in time to catch the finale from my car. Blasting Barracuda on my car stereo.
A shot of the san fernando valley from a promontory, grasses in the foreground and fireworks in the distance. White and red fireworks, taken from inside a car.
July 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Oh hey there #bluesky
July 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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The way folks put out boxes of their garden produce just to share. 🥰
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I’m just a girl, refreshing the AMC app, asking for additional showings of Sinners IMAX 70mm.
April 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Apparently in 2023 PG Tips discontinued rhe pyramid teabag. I was unaware. They said it was for a “quicker brew” but I think its cost cutting. The tea is not as good as it used to be and the brew sucks. The pyramid bag is far superior. RIP PG tips.
April 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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12,000 calls out of 4.5 million. Come on, y’all. Protect trans kids! This is the bare fucking minimum. The 5calls app makes it dead easy to contact your reps. Download it, hit that issue, and make that call.
February 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Why Trump won:
An online conversation. Cathy says “buy US products” Kate says “vanilla cannot grow in the US” Cathy responds “I didnt know that”
February 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Its brutal out here in LA. Lived my whole life here and this is a top 5 wind event.
January 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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This is what inattentive ADHD looks like, this time with alt text!
Handwritten small monthly calendar on a dot grid style page. The days of the week are indicated across the top (MTWRFSS), and below that, the days of the week are numbered starting from 1 and continuing to 32. No month has 32 days.
January 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Just a little blue sky and the hollywood sign for y’all.

And yeah, this was my office today.
A wide angle of Griffith Park overlooking a ravine and up to the Hollywood sign. The sign is small but the sky is huge! Clouds streak toward camera in pink, yellow, and grey hues.
December 13, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam.
Jagged Little Pill album cover. A woman’s face in close up, overlaid with a collage of texture and color. Deep red, pale green and indigo.
December 11, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge

6/20
A regency era illustration of a woman in a red coat standing in front of a low wall by the sea, telescope to her eye. Its a penguin vintage classics book cover for Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
December 7, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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Good morning!! It was wonderfully foggy when I woke up, so I took my turkey broth for a walk around the neighborhood.
A photo of a modest neighborhood in southern California. A few cars are in driveways. Two large maybe-sycamore trees stand golden, the yard below carpeted with bright yellow fallen leaves. A few palm trees one street over are just visible through a the thick fog. At the top of the frame, a hint of blue sky. Another hour and the fog will have burned off.
December 4, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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I took way longer than I wanted to to get this done. And I hope I can make the process more transparent and supportive for those who come behind me.
A screen grab of part of an email from the IATSE 871 local office. It reads “you are now a member of Local 871, Congratulations! Your member card will arrive in 4-6 weeks. Please be sure to log into our website to look at your profile and explore all the options available to members.” Below, I have written So excited to be official with IAlocal871. The background is a deep teal with golden line drawings of peonies.
December 3, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Joshua Tree, winter 2018.
December 2, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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We should’ve been more concerned when so many people didn’t understand this perfect joke.
Margot Robbie as Barbie sits in a hot pink disco cowgirl outfit outside a middle school. Tears stream down her face as she recalls that the mean bratz girls called her a fascist. She muses “I’m not a fascist, I don’t control the railways or the flow of commerce”
December 1, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Could have spent many hours appreciating these playful pups and watercolor sky. #anacapa #channelislands #sealion
December 1, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Happy leftovers day!!! #foodsky is that a thing?
A yellow plate holds piles of Thanksgiving feast foods. Apricot stuffing, cranberry relish, bacon mashed potatoes, turkey breast with crispy skin, gravy, garlic shoyu green beans, balsamic brussels sprouts. A kindle balanced on a green laptop shows a page of a romance novel.
November 30, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge

5/20
The entire scene is inked in black and grey, richly textured. Across furrowed rows of an empty field, a small house with a light on in a second story window. In the middle distance, a large figure looms. It has branches for hands and fingers, twisting vines for arms, a gnarled head, and more branches jutting from its head. It lurches toward the house. A full moon illuminates billowing clouds. This is the cover for A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness based on a story by Siobhan Dowd, and Illustrated by Jim Kay.
November 30, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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But have you ever seen such photogenic sheep? 📷
A spotted-faced ewe looks to camera with her black faced lamb standing in front, facing counter. Just literally the most photogenic sheep you’ll have ever seen. The ewe and lamb are standing on green green grass with small white flowers here and there. There are tufts of longer grasses behind them on the hill. The sky is a vibrant blue.
November 28, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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Good morning! We wrapped on Wrong Place Wrong Time yesterday. Feature #7 on the year.

I am exhausted and an absolute chili pot of emotions. At the end of the day, no matter how bonkers a production is, its the people that matter. And this one had some incredible people.
A golden stream of sunlight through tall palm trees along a large, red cement driveway. A shiny black Escalade is parked in the right. Desert plants line the left side. The sky is mostly streaky stratus and cirrus clouds with some peeks of pale blue. Its about 30 minutes before sunset.
November 26, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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I always think of myself as Not a Photographer. And then I see these two photos. I took one of them, then I showed a friend exactly where to hold the camera to get the shot for me.

Im not sure why she didn’t follow my instructions, but its a nice reminder to myself that I CAN in fact frame well
November 25, 2024 at 6:38 AM