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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄
@joylamb123.bsky.social
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👋Human, known as B. B. Calais
💭My opinions are my own
🇺🇸Public servant, necessarily subversive
🦄I write, dance, and love complex music (ex.jazz/thrash)
🌍My favorite animals are other humans
✨ Pagan
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ally
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Had a visit from this good boy last night to celebrate the new year with us! 😍

He's definitely the good-est.
Older adult English springer, named Nelson, sitting on an oddly spotted rug, which covers a maple colored oak floor. String lights and tinsel in the background, and other random, less important junk. Nelson is a really good boy and behaved very well when he visited us last night.
January 2, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Super proud of this log cake I made ☺️
January 1, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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View of Ventura Harbor from the docks at the Village.
December 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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I made this Kiev cake from scratch to standard Soviet specifications. I can't decorate with frosting to save my life. The Karl Marx factory would have fired me on day one.
#homemade #kievskiy
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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It's my birthday today. I went poling like every Friday. Did not quite get to the suicide spin. Next time. 🤞
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Which idiot stretched the definition of an acronym to make up this bullshit from CMS today?

"GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid (GENEROUS)"

Wtf is this Trumpcare shit???
Screenshot of email from CMS that reads: "CMS Announces New Drug Payment Model to Strengthen Medicaid and Better Serve Vulnerable Americans The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tackling high drug prices and protecting the American taxpayers through a landmark Innovation Center initiative designed to lower prescription drug spending in Medicaid, improve health outcomes by increasing access to critical medications, and strengthen the Medicaid program overall. State Medicaid programs that choose to participate in the GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid (GENEROUS) Model will be able to purchase drugs included in the pilot at prices aligned with those paid in select other countries, allowing Americans to benefit from fairer, more competitive pricing." This phrase is highlighted in yellow: GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid (GENEROUS)
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Witching.
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Local duck pond at sunset. Sky, trees, and brush reflecting in the water. Low fountains on either side of a small island of trees and brush. It's calm. Geese, ducks, coons, and other such birds reside here, but they're not very visible in this specific shot.
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Got tired of all the negativity all around.
Went rogue at work this morning. Getting good engagement and fun reactions 😁
#positivityintheworkplace
#goodtrouble
#resistanceisnotfutile
#givethanks
#bekind
Blank office wall of light grey with a simple wall clock showing about 10:35 in the morning. On the wall, there is a makeshift banner with a fall leaves border, saying "Wall of Thanks." Below it, there is an instruction sheet that's ot readable in the picture, but it just provides people with instructions on how to leave thanks for their coworkers. All around the wall, there are pastel coloured post-it notes that people had added to the wall. Since the time I took the picture, the number of notes has increased and continues to grow.
October 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Lots of passive aggressive things happening in the women's bathroom this morning. 🎪
Taped to bathroom stall: a red sheet with black text that reads "Please Make Sure EVERYTHING Flushes Before You Exit!" and a yellow sheet below that with red text that reads "This Includes SEAT COVERS! PLEASE Be Courteous of Others!" In this last sentence, "of" is crossed out with a black pen and "TO" is written below it.
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"So she was considering in her own mind..., whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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It's Halloween season: an excuse to misuse makeup like I'm 5.
A selfie of me bending down and looking very stern. I drew tribal-like lines and dots with black eyeshadow, red lip liner, and silver eyeliner on my face.
October 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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This tree likes to pretend we get fall in SoCal.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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My least favorite part of grief is that it just doesn't end. Time does not heal like people say - it's a myth. I just go on and play pretend like the gaping hole isn't there.
Selfie of me, pretending like all's dandy.
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I am super proud of my breakfast today: a warm bowl of chorizo and nopales (cactus)! ☺️
October 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Eyes on Moldova today as the country votes in the most pivotal parliamentary election in recent history.
Post on X from Maia Sandy, President of Moldova. Sept 26, 2025, 10:10 am: "This Sunday, Moldova heads into its most consequential election. Its outcome will decide whether we consolidate our democracy and join the EU or whether Russia drags us back into a grey zone, making us a regional risk. Moldova's future must be decided by Moldovans, not Moscow."
September 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Ok, y'all. I'm ready for the rapture shit. Bring it.
September 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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ABC News has developed a stutter.
Screenshot of ABC News Web page article with title "Trump directs Pentagon to prepare options to use to use force against against drug cartels: Officials."
August 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Watched JCS at the Bowl tonight. Everyone was great. Cynthia Erivo, as fabulous as she was, did not sell her version of Jesus to me, quite honestly, which was a big let down. Production was disjointed. Overall, this was worst performance I've seen there of all the summers I've spent at the Bowl.
August 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Fire prevention by goats in progress in Oxnard, CA
July 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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🥰 Thanks, Reader's Favorite! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Screenshot of Reader's Favorite review page of "Dolly" by B. B. Calais (That's me!). Book Review Reviewed by Luwi Nyakansaila for Readers' Favorite Dolly by B. B. Calais is a poignant story that follows Dolores, a high school student who tends to keep to herself and lives in silence. The narrative explores her tumultuous inner world and her struggle to find stability amidst trauma, societal expectations, and personal pain. When Cas, a new boy at school, takes an interest in her, Dolores finds herself entangled in a conflict with Liz, the popular girl who appears cheerful but has her own secrets. Dolores faces ridicule and attacks at school, causing her world to turn dark. However, with the support of Julien, a Frenchman who owns a dance studio, Bev, a girl who draws broken things, Cas’s companionship, and a mysterious person who sends her paper cranes, Dolores begins to rediscover herself. Dolly is a moving story that addresses various teenage issues and trauma. Dolores’s journey is about healing, acceptance, and finding a sense of belonging. Her experiences and narration feel dreamlike, marked by pain and intensity. The story is unpredictable, filled with twists and turns that engage readers. We all carry deep-seated trauma that we may not wish to verbalize, and like Dolores, when we choose to run and hide, it continues to eat away at us and damage our souls. Although Dolores feels like she is drowning, I am glad she has people who see beyond her quiet demeanor and help her find peace. Her journey is not linear; she experiences breakdowns and ostracization, but she perseveres, reminding us of the importance of resilience. B. B. Calais addresses serious issues such as bullying, sexual assault, suicide, and violence, which may be triggering for sensitive readers. Nonetheless, it is an essential read that offers profound lessons about confronting trauma, emphasizing that healing both physical and emotional wounds requires hope, patience, and resilience.
June 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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“As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” Abraham Lincoln Letter to Joshua F. Speed August 24, 1855
June 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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An odd-angled selfie at the Juneteenth at the Palm Springs Villagefest - pedestrians and vendors galore in a place that was dead from 110F heat just a few hours ago.
June 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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The Tuskegee "Red Tails" & the restored P-51D "Bunny" at the Palm Springs Air Museum.

#Juneteenth
June 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM