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Joe 🏊🍺✨
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gen x midwest kid in the south
nature, family, kindness & love

Hit The Drink 🏊: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhsbe63mq2msrtaxgix7g73y/feed/hit-the-drink

Home Brewing 🍺: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhsbe63mq2msrtaxgix7g73y/feed/home-brewing
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Joe 🏊🍺✨ @j2woolums.xyz · Aug 1
What do I see when I swim? 🏊‍♂️👀

It's not just the black line marking the center of the lane, a static point of reference as I go back and forth each lap.

It's also the dance of sunlight and water, constantly moving, shimmering on everything below the surface - beauty in motion ☀️🌊✨ 😌

#swimming
underwater photo of the bottom of an outdoor swimming pool; the black tile line marking the center of the lane, and shimmering all over from sunlight passing through the moving surface of the water
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that moment when you try to click the "search post buttons" but accidentally hit unfollow and have to follow them back hoping they don't notice.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Home Brewing 🍺 is a feed about brewing your own beer (also mead, cider, etc.)
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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The grill stayed hot for a while Sunday afternoon/evening - smoked chicken and apples for dinner tonight 🐓🍎🧀🫘🍺 and smoked sirloin tip roast (beef) to use later this week 🥩 are What's Cooking 🍽️ here.

#WhatsCooking #BBQmunity #FoodSky
upper left: chicken breasts and honeycrisp apples smoking on a charcoal grill. apples are seasoned with brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter. upper right: apple, baked beans, chicken, and cheese (cheddar and colby-jack) on a red plate. a glass of homebrew pumpkin ale is next to the plate. lower left: sirloin tip roast (beef) smoking on a charcoal grill. lower right: smoked sirloin tip roast sliced on a cutting board.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Flavors of fall are What's Cooking 🍽️ here for a different twist on my usual breakfast - half a toasted bagel with spiced pumpkin goat cheese, dried figs, and smoked salmon on top 🍂

#WhatsCooking #FoodSky
Half a toasted bagel with spiced pumpkin goat cheese, dried figs, and smoked salmon on a small blue plate. A coffee cup is next to the plate on a wooden table.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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November 13 is World Kindness Day. Its goal is to encourage acts of kindness. (After all, one kind day is better than none.) Here's a look at the nature and nurturing of human kindness. n.pr/49S06UX
If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!
November 13 is World Kindness Day. Its goal is to encourage acts of kindness. (After all, one kind day is better than none.) Here's a look at the nature and nurturing of human kindness.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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modbloomart.bsky.social
Buy yourself the flowers. You deserve it. ❤️
A red vase full of red and yellow flowers. The bouquet includes roses, carnations and mums.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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With cool autumn weather in mind 🍂 chili and cornbread are What's Cooking 🍽️ here tonight, accompanied by pumpkin ale homebrew 🍅🫘🌶️🫑🧅🧀🌽🎃🍺

#WhatsCooking #FoodSky
Homemade chili in a green bowl with melted cheese on top. Cornbread on a small blue plate, a bottle of Tabasco pepper sauce, and a glass of homebrewed pumpkin ale beer are next to the bowl on a wooden table.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The smiling will continue until your morale improves
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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We're excited to share the name of this year's penguin chick — Tater! 🐧 🥔 A recent blood test revealed that our newest Gentoo (hatched in May to parents Carla and Big Foot) is male. The name was chosen by the winning bidder of our annual fundraising auction.
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Hit The Drink 🏊 is a feed about swimming - for recreation, fitness or competition - in a pool or open water
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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itsamusred.bsky.social
This smiley-face sky and I are wishing you a happy #SkySunday. 😊
White puffy clouds form the shape of two eyes and a smiling mouth against a blue sky. Beneath are the tops of green trees. There are the tops of a yellow and white tents at the very bottom.
November 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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In celebration of autumn 🍂 Pumpkin Ale is What's Cooking (Brewing) here 🍽️🍺 This amber ale began by steeping pumpkin puree with malt to convert pumpkin starches into fermentable sugars 🎃🫧, and finished with a bit of pumpkin pie spices 🥧😋

Cheers! 🍻
#beer #homebrew #BskyBeer
A glass of homebrewed pumpkin ale beer sitting on a wooden porch railing. The ale is amber in color and has a frothy head. Three small pumpkins sit on the railing next to the glass. A forested ridge is visible in the distant background.
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Another rainy lunchtime lap swim here 🏊🌧️

Not a problem, though. This outdoor pool is heated (look close and you might see steam rising from the water). And the feeling and sound of raindrops keeps it interesting 😁

#swimming #fitness
View just above the surface of an outdoor swimming pool on a rainy day. Ripples from raindrops are visible on the surface of the water in the foreground, and steam can be seen rising from the water due to the cool air temperature. The black lane marker line is visible on the bottom of the pool, and lane lines are at the surface on both sides of the lane. The pool deck, lounge chairs, wall of the fitness club building, trees, and nextdoor office building are visible in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I enjoyed reading Hit The Floor by @dawnruhnaybrown.bsky.social 😊

Mystery and drama, along with some humor and relatable characters, plus a feel-good ending ☺️

⚡📚💙
#BookSky
cover of Hit The Floor by dawnruhnaybrown
October 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I feel like I can relate to this avatar - watching all the vibrant creativity going on here, and even being inspired a bit myself 👀✨

Thanks @graze.social for helping folks do cool stuff!
Image clipped from Graze Social's new brand artwork. Clipped image shows a little white character with a pointy nose sitting on something that looks like a leaf, watching all the thriving creativity going on at the top of the scene.
October 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Some of my favorite moments while swimming are the few seconds each time I push off the wall for backstroke. Looking to the sky from underwater, light bending and dancing through the moving surface - it always seems magical 🏊🌤️🌊✨☺️

#swimming
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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You can be damaged and still be beautiful 🌱
A small cluster of blanket flowers (I think these are Gaillardia pulchella) with vibrant red petals tipped in golden yellow. Several of them lost petals to heavy storms, insect bites and time.
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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(sharing to BookSky 😉)
slessard.bsky.social Stefan Lessard @slessard.bsky.social · Oct 21
Perfect time for a spooky read 🎃

Loved this page turner
Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi #fonzybookclub
October 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Rejected by the harshest critics 😭 My kids did NOT appreciate the pumpkin spice pancakes I made this morning 🎃🥞🍂🍽️

#WhatsCooking #FoodSky
pumpkin spice pancakes cooking on a stovetop griddle, with finished pancakes stacked on a plate in the background
October 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Happy Homebrew Legalization Day! 🍻

On this day in 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill legalizing (on the federal level) home beermaking in the USA, which was outlawed in 1919 during Prohibition.

Home Brewing 🍺 is a very niche feed I created - you might enjoy it too 😉🍻
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Grab a friend and let's go birding!
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Birds of the World - October Big Day—11 Oct 2025
Now's the time to prepare for October Big Day on 11 October! Grab your friends, your coworkers, your community and go watch birds!
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October 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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commitments in the office kept me from my usual lunchtime lap swim today 😮‍💨

but I made it to the fitness club after work and had the entire pool to myself 😁🏊

#swimming #fitness
View just above the surface of an outdoor swimming pool under a cloudy evening sky. The water is still with slight ripples on the surface in the foreground. The black lane marker line is visible on the bottom of the pool, and lane lines are at the surface on both sides of the lane. The pool deck, lounge chairs, wall of the fitness club building, trees, and nextdoor office building are visible in the background.
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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might update my bsky bio to "Heartland kid in Southern Appalachia" 😉
williamhazen.bsky.social William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · Oct 7
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
Cultural Regions of the US
October 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM