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Jennifer Eastman
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Copyeditor, quilter, birder, gardener. Currently recovering from being a full-time caregiver for an elderly relative with dementia.
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I just noticed the do-not-enter sign in your profile picture! I took a bunch of photos of similar signs in Italy about 5–7 years ago. I did take a lot of photos of Roman ruins, etc., but then there are my photos of street art.
Photo of a do-not-enter street sign in Rome, Italy. It is a red circle with a horizontal white stripe in the middle. It has been altered by a street artist, so that there is a stick-figure of a person standing on the white stripe (as if the stripe is white pavement). The stick-figure is swinging a sledgehammer over their head. Near their feet is a crack in the white stripe. They are slowly breaking through the white stripe, and the red background is starting to emerge.
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I tried preparing the banana in the chopper-thing, but it wouldn't fit, and (to be honest) I don't think I have the peeling attachment.
Photo of half of an old banana partly squished into a food processor.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Too busy trying to peel this thing! This takes longer than it should!
Photo of an elderly (that is, one with logs of brown spots), partly sliced into slices with the peel still on them, with the slices THEN being peeled.
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Managed to get the kitchen organized this morning!
Photo of a small bowl, a plastic cup, an unmatched soup spoon and salad fork, and an elderly banana.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This barred owl is watching you to ensure that you do not buy Starbucks coffee during the strike. Owls have excellent hearing, so it'll know if you cross the picket line. And they fly nearly silently. You'll never know what hit you.
A mediocre photo of a beautiful barred owl—photo taken last March behind my house. It is a pale owl with dark eyes sitting on a branch in an oak tree at the edge of the woods. It is looking directly at the viewer with an expression that says, "If you don't support the Starbucks strike, I will rip your face apart—or at least continue to stare at you until your guilt becomes overwhelming."
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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First snow of the winter. Northern New Hampshire, USA.
Photo taken this morning of the edge of the woods in my backyard in northern New Hampshire in the USA. There is an inch or so of snow on the ground. Snow also slightly weighing down the branches of a pine tree and coating the branches and twigs of a large oak tree. The oak tree still has a few orange-brown leaves on it. In front of the oak tree is an ornamental shrub with a smattering of small but very bright red leaves. Overall, it looks very peaceful and quiet, which contrasts with what was going on inside the house when I took this photo—where the cats were loudly demanding their breakfast like a bunch of fucking velociraptors.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Last fall, NH had a selections of stickers to choose from, all designed by elementary school students in the state. It was awesome. This was the one I chose.
A New Hampshire "I Voted" sticker from the autumn of 2024. It is a round sticker with "I VOTED" in green across the top, with the "O" replaced with an outline of the state. Below that are a couple of mountains (one with snow at the top) and a good New Hampshire wooded area, in autumnal colors (yellow, orange, red, and green). In the foreground, standing on a rocky peak of some sort, is a moose looking calmly toward you. This was one of the "I Voted" stickers designed by NH elementary school students for the 2024 election.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Today in Bad Bird Photos: Ruffed Grouse Edition! There are two ruffies hanging around the woods behind the house. This makes me inordinately happy.

Photo taken with crappy old iPhone through good binoculars. Actually a pretty good photo (for me).
#birds #birdsky
A photo of a ruffed grouse. It is a lovely bird. The color pattern on its feathers help camouflage it among the fallen leaves. It has a pale belly with dark speckles, a brown head and back and upper chest, slightly tinged with rusty overtones—almost exactly the colors of the fallen oak leaves on the ground around it.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A tiny cup of espresso on a black marble table. The cup and the saucer beneath it are white, and there is a little spoon for stirring in sugar (if one has sugar with one's espresso). The espresso in the cup is fresh and a little frothy in the best kind of espresso way. Photo was taken in a little bar in Italy. Nothing especially fancy or elegant about any of this. Just a nice little espresso in a lovely place.
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Real cats are so much better. Like this little guy, such a goofball that you have to assume he's somehow part orange cat.
Photo of a young black and white tuxedo cat, maybe 7 months old. He has managed to stuff himself under the corner of a small dresser. The space under the dresser is so low that you wouldn't think a cat his size could get under it, but he managed somehow. His tail and back legs are sticking out from under the front of the dresser, and his head and front legs are sticking out from under the side of the dresser. He has a goofy look on his face, as if he's wondering, "What the hell just happened?"
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Peterborough, NH, came out for No Kings!
Photo of someone in an inflatable frog costume holding up a sign saying "RELEASE THE DAMN FILES."
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Such a beautiful cat! Very happy for you both that he's better. I have a cat named Artemis too. She says hello to a fellow Artemis from one of her favorite top-of-the-bookcase perches in the place where we used to live.
Photo of a stunningly beautiful black cat lounging on the top of a tall bookcase. She is dangling one front leg down in front of the books (just in case she has to swat a passerby). She looks very intelligent and curious. And she is (rightly) ignoring the ugly wallpaper on the wall behind her (that wallpaper came with the place—definitely not my fault).
October 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I saw this sign at the local No Kings protest in June.
A man holding up a large handmade protest sign that says, "I'M GERMAN. THIS IS HOW IT STARTS! NO TO FASCISM AND KINGS." There is a swastika drawn between the I and the T of "it." Elsewhere on the sign there are other things written: "1933–45" "Never again" "Free press for a free people."
September 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Timeline cleanse / moment of peace and beauty, in case anyone needs it. The Connecticut River, between Vermont and New Hampshire. Broad and blue and calm.
A photo of the Connecticut River (between Vermont and New Hampshire). It's a wide river with a very gentle current here, so the water shows just the tiniest of ripples from the current. On either bank, there is just trees and bushes. And ahead, where the river bends, you just see more green trees. The photo was taken from a kayak in the middle of the river.
September 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Just an idea here. Surely some clever person can come up with an envelope to go with the stamp.

Still one of my cherished possessions. The Nixon Envelope (1995) by Tricky Envelopes in Santa Cruz, CA.
In 1995 the US government issued a postage stamp with a smiling face of Richard Nixon. Some extremely clever people in Santa Cruz, CA, produced an envelope to go with it—which makes Nixon appear behind prison bars. It is brilliant.
September 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Going to have to read this one:
Photo of the title page of an old paperback book. "Clement Wood and His Loves: How a Good Boy of Methodism Turned Pagan," by Clement Wood. The table of contents of the same book. There are seven chapters: 1. Recipe for a Philanderer, 2. Galahad Skids, 3. The Merry Wedding Belles, 4. Girls, Girls, Girls, 5. Miss Gate Legs, 6. Mated at Last, and 7. Not to Brag About
September 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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"in a world of AI-generated conformity, use *our AI* to stand out"

F that. In a world of AI-generated conformity, here's the world's worst photo of a bunch of wild turkeys in the yard. Still 100% better than AI crap. 🪶
A photo of 7 wild turkeys wandering around the yard. I took the photo through a screened window, and my phone focused on the screen, not the turkeys, so the photo is actually of very clear photo of a stupid screen with 7 extremely blurry blotches outside that——trust me!——are turkeys.
September 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Can confirm that cats can still breathe when their necks are updating their operating system.
A photo of a black-and-white tuxedo cat lying on his side on a small shelf on a desk, but his head is hanging off the edge of the shelf in a dramatic way—it looks like his neck is broken. He was fine—just sound asleep.
August 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Also from the Onion:
A screenshot of an article from The Onion. There is a photo of a white woman wish short dark hair washing dishes in a kitchen sink. There are a pair of large windows just above the sink. The title of the article is "Mom Spends Beach Vacation Assuming All Household Duties In Closer Proximity To Ocean."
August 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Here's something that's pretty cheap, super easy to prepare, and really tasty, in case you're interested. And it's healthy.

It's from Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone."

I usually make it in an easier way than how it is written in the original recipe:
Recipe for red lentil soup with lime. Ingredients: 2 cups red lentils, rinsed 1 T turmeric 1 large onion, chopped 4 T butter 2 t. ground cumin 1 t. ground mustard cilantro lime juice spinach some cooked rice top with yogurt
August 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Lovely! I've never seen one.

And it's not a clear photo (taken through a window with a screen), but I sometimes get cute little bobcats wandering through the back yard.
A slightly blurry photo of a bobcat walking across some grass behind my house. It's larger than a housecat, but not really big (this one was maybe a little less than 2 feet tall at the shoulders). It's a soft light brown, but you can see that the inside of its legs are pale, almost white, with dark stripes.
July 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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When you live in northern New Hampshire, you get can get a slice of Italian pizza (as opposed to the other kinds of pizza) at the Casa di Pizzeria.
Photo of a food booth at a local town fair in northern New Hampshire. There are no people in the photo (mostly because I took the photo before noon on a weekday, so there weren't a lot of people at the fair at that time. The food booth is called "Casa di Pizzeria" and it advertises that it is selling Italian pizza and calzones.
July 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I just won a blue ribbon for a quilt at the local fair here in northern New Hampshire. It's a small quilt (about 2' x 3'), pieced and quilted by hand. On the surface, it's pretty simple (just a straightforward 9-patch pattern), but the quilting is entirely little circles of various sizes, some
Photo of a small quilt. The pattern is "nine patch"—each block is simply nine two-inch squares. Each block features a different fabric in various colors—blue, green, yellow, burgundy, etc. Attached to the quilt is a blue ribbon, indicating that it was the absolute BEST (and, to be completely honest, almost certainly the ONLY) quilt in its class and division in the contest.
July 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A plaque outside the train station in Padua, Italy. It is supposedly a map of where you are and where important things are in the station (ticket counter, tourist info desk, tram, etc.), but the map is so bizarre and incomprehensible that you can't really figure out where anything is, and after staring at the map for a while, you feel you're in trapped in a Franz Kafka story.
July 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Not sure about the second film in a double feature, but one of the primary films would be either Z (1969) or A Dream of Passion (1978).
Screen shot from the 1969 movie "Z." A white man in a suit is standing in a street—we see him only from the back—in front of him are a bunch of military policemen. A screenshot from the movie "A Dream of Passion" (the original title in Greek was "Kravgi Gynaikon"—"Cry of Women"). In the screenshot, two women are talking to each other with prison bars between them.
July 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM