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Mik Rosenhofer
@mikrosenhofer.bsky.social
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Formerly Mik Everett. Author of MEMOIRS OF A HOMELESS BOOKSTORE OWNER. Believer in hope & holobionts. My W.I.P. is called either LAND OF PLENTY or BANANALAND depending on my mood.

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Pawpaws are in bloom in south central Kansas! They don’t leaf out until the flowers are pretty much done, to make it easier for beetles to find their blossoms.

#asiminatriloba #northamericanpawpaw #nativeplants #kansas
A branch in the foreground is bare of leaves, but has two downward-turned, bell-shaped, maroon-colored blossoms on it. More trees and a blue sky are in the background. Two more downward-turned maroon flowers on a bare branch in the foreground. The flower on the right is particularly bell-shaped, while the one on the left is a darker maroon, almost black in some places. An upward view of a thin tree, bare of leaves, with dozens of maroon blossoms visible dotting rhetorical branches.
April 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Weird how you tried to use Trump as “gotcha” evidence that democratically-elected officials can be fascists or dictators, then.

Moreover, it’s been this way a lot longer than 10 years— more like 245. The common people have little to no say in the candidates. The U.S. is not a democracy.
Screenshot of jccust’s reply from earlier in the thread stating that “Trump was elected too, does that mean he’s not a fascist/ dictator?” and the preceding post
March 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Sometimes people exaggerate on the internet for humorous intent.

This is not one of those times.
Inside of a trunk, three large cardboard boxes are stacked. They say “Mama Lupe’s white corn tortilla 5.75”— 75 oz. Case count: 6/80 ct.” on them. On top of the boxes are two extra 80-count packages of Mama Lupe’s white corn tortillas.
March 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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This is the advice I write down for myself, because I wanted to remind myself to think of these snippets of advice when I felt like giving up. I don’t know if any of them will as be helpful to you as they were to me, but I included an image description in case you can’t read my handwriting
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -Arthur Ashe “We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourself we can love.” - Lori Deschene “You deserve to show up exactly as you are.” “It's OK. We’re all fucked up somehow, but that’s not the only thing we have in common.” —Aurora Killpoet “Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.” “Let this RADICALIZE you rather than lead you to despair.” —Mariame Kaba “Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” - Voltaire “You feel like you don’t fit in in this world because you are here to help create a new one.” “You are not obligated to complete the work, neither are you free to abandon it.” —Rabbi Tarfan “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.” —Maya Angelou “The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. -Rabindranath Tagore “Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does.” —Sukhraj Dhillon “Building trust with genuine compassion and mutual aid will bring people to our side. Listening does more than persuading.” “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to Know the difference.” - Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr “There is always something you can do. Rest Counts. Do it intentionally.” “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day that says "I will try again tomorrow."” - Mary Anne Radmacher
March 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Gonna start describing my mood using photos I’ve taken of illustrations in my toddler’s picture books. This one is from Tad and Dad, illustrated by David Ezra Stein.

Gonna do my best w the image descriptions but tbh idk if I have enough artistic vocabulary to get to the heart of the illustration.
A watercolor illustration in muted tones with heavy black outlines that are sketchy and vary in thickness, giving the appearance of being drawn very quickly and haphazardly. A wide, flat frog fills the bottom of the image. His mouth is as wide as the page and his body and nearly completely horizontal, void of emotion, while his eyes are round, wide, and appear hastily-drawn, with one black pupil a little more elongated than the other, giving the frog an extremely uneasy or overly-caffeinated appearance. The text above the frog reads “Is it morning already?”
February 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Look at this majestic photo of a bald eagle I took today. #naturesky #birdsky
A photo of a landscape with a riverbed and banks in the bottom third of the picture. The rest is blue sky, with heavy clouds across the middle of the photo. In the center, there is the silhouette of a bird in flight from the back, essentially just a black smear resembling the laziest possible single-line doodle of a bird in flight.
January 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I love books that can be read like that ❤️ My mother-in-law gave me that one a few years book and I still haven’t taken a crack at it yet, but I need to. My toddler has, though 😂
A photo of a baby in a diaper sitting up and looking down at a book in their lap. The baby’s face is not visible. The book is open to a page with the painting “Judith Slaying Holofernes” by Artemisia Gentileschi and the baby is touching the page. To the right side there is a rug with wavy striped and a discarded rag doll.
January 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Reminds me of another poem I wrote once. #boredhousewifepoetry #writersofbluesky
A screenshot that says: he left her. he left her and he said, "I go to work every day. You didn't do enough." and now she walks around the track and I'm scared to stop doing the dishes. #personal #my parents' divorce 15 notes Feb 7th, 2012
January 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Processing wild #persimmons is SO stressful because you just gotta do it by the batch, there’s no way around it, but if ONE SINGLE persimmon with an astringent spot makes it into the batch, then all the pulp tastes like if fire were made out of desiccating powder.

#foraging #holidaymealprep
From left to right: a blue Tupperware lid with a single squashed persimmon (soft, orange-colored fruit a little smaller than a golf ball) on it; a mesh strainer over a tall glass bowl; and a clear Tupperware container with 10 more persimmons in it. The mesh strainer is full of pawpaw fibers and seeds, and the glass bowl has a pile of bright orange persimmon piled pulp under the strainer. There is a wooden flat-ended kitchen utensil sticking out of the strainer with the seeds and fiber, and all 3 receptacles are on a chipped wooden surface. There are some black kitchen appliances in the background.
November 27, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Give #BookshelfPosting a lil break and hit me with your #SpiceRackPosting pics. I wanna see what you’ve got and how you’re storing it. #kitchensky

Here’s most of our collection: (not pictured: our Tony Chachere’s and our daily-use salts and peppers, which just live next to the stove)
A turquoise wire spice rack with onion powder, ancho chili powder, oregano, filé, cream of tartar, mushroom & company, turmeric, ginger, dill weed, lemon pepper, curry powder, smoked paprika, garlic, cumin, cinnamon, sesame seeds, and white pepper. To the right of the shelf are an unlabeled vial with pale green powder, rosemary, cloves, cardamom, allspice, anise, nutmeg, chili powder, furikake, and cocoa powder. A wooden spice rack with geometric motifs used by indigenous nations of the Southwest. It is full of jars of spice, mostly Penzey’s brand.
November 25, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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This video is basically what my life looks like right now on a daily basis.

I can’t tell if it is going to upload with sound or not, but I hope it does because the sound adds to the number of things going on in this video. #momsky
November 25, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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While I’m sharing pages from YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US by Kashmir Hill, this is something that should be on your radar in the coming years. The Bill of Rights doesn’t protect anyone from actions by private vendors, and cops are happy to pay private vendors for intel regardless of how it was gathered.
A photo of a page from YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US by Kashmir Hill, saying that Clearview is part of a trans the ACLU was seeing, where private vendors sell law enforcement agencies the fruit of surveillance methods that would likely be unconstitutional if deplored by the government itself.
November 15, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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For people who aren’t clear on the context, this is a passage from YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US, by Kashmir Hill. If I recall correctly, Peter Thiel also paid for lawyers for several others who were suing Gawker, not because Thiel cared about any of their cases, but because he wanted to destroy Gawker.
A photograph of a page of a book. The text on this page is too long to fit in the image description, but it summarizes a lawsuit Hulk Hogan filed, and won, against Gawker for reporting on a sex tape. It turned out that Peter Thiel paid for Hulk Hogan’s lawyers, not because Thiel cared about Hulk Hogan, but because he wanted to destroy Gawker.
November 15, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Like on your own post to the top of your own profile? If so, then yes! Tap on the three dots in the bottom right corner of your post, and “pin to your profile” is the first option.
A screenshot of Blue Sky. A post with a cat is visible behind the pop-up menu. The first option, “Pin to your profile,” has been circled in red. The other options are Translate, Copy post text, Send via direct message, Share, Mute Thread, Mute words & tags, Edit interaction settings, and Delete post.
November 13, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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I think probably this was my biggest moment on Twitter. Everyone loves this damn cat. And his other various exploits, like breaking into our neighbor’s house. (Before anyone comes to tell me that cats should be kept indoors, I KNOW! We couldn’t stop him! He’s a tank!)
A screenshot of a tweet by @momunism, with a profile picture of Kurt Cobain. The tweet says “Every single day my long-suffering husband straightens our rug, and every single day our cat pulls the rug back up so that he can fold it over and lay on the wrinkle like this.” There are two images, both of a very large, long-haired tuxedo cat laying on a long runner rug. There is a wrinkle across the width of the rug, and the cat’s front paws are resting over the edge of the wrinkle. One picture is taken from above the cat, emphasizing his massive size, and one is closer to the cat’s eye-level. The date on the tweet is 9:31 PM on 8/24/21, and the tweet has 108 comments, 3,500 retweets, 17,000 likes, and 199 saves.
November 12, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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Found a cool witch’s butter the other day
A branch the approximate width of a baseball bat is down the center of the photo, foreshortened so that it takes up more of the width of the photo at the bottom of the photo than at the top. Underneath the branch are yellow-tinged maple and elm leaves. On the branch a wrinkled, gelatinous fungus is growing. It is a dark maroon color that is almost black in some parts, but is brighter where the sunlight shows through it.
November 12, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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Head’s up: If you get this error message when you try to create a skeet with an image with alt text, it means that your phone is out of memory, probably because apparently Apple lets your toddler re-download dozens of apps from the Cloud, right from your Lock Screen even when your phone is locked.
An error message on BlueSky that reads: “Writing image data to the file has failed: You can’t save the file (long string of letters and numbers) because the volume “User” is out of space.”
November 11, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Still working my way through FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, by Nicola Twilley. Still think it should have been called FREEZER BURN. It’s an incredible book though! I love history and science of food and agriculture.
Photo of a white book cover with the text: “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, by Nicola Twilley.” There is also a picture of a rectangular chunk of frozen, freezer-burned assorted berries on the cover.
November 11, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Planted another pawpaw seedling today. One of the things that brings me joy 💚

#northamericanpawpaw #asiminatriloba #nativeplants
A bucket full of seedling trees with large oval leaves, next to a hole dug in the ground A seedling with long, broad, green oval leaves in the ground with fresh mulch around it The same seedling and fresh mulch as the last picture, but at a lower angle so that it emphasizes the height of the seedling (about 12 inches) rather than the surface area of the leaves.
November 9, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

I couldn’t pick just one.
November 6, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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I forgot Raven’s other favorite nesting place in the basement: this creepy shelf under the stairs. My kid calls it the “deep dark dusty place.” It is so gross and cobwebby and nasty and he loves it. Because he’s a little gremlin troll.
Very large tuxedo cat laying inside of a homemade-looking shelf that is dirty, dusty, and has peeling paint.
November 5, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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The top of the basement stairs is Raven’s all-time place to lounge, however. The architectural quirks of the stairs in our 1925 house (that has seen at least 2 amateur construction workers move the location of the stairs in a way that is very much not up-to-code) are like a natural cat tree for him.
A very large long-haired tuxedo cat is sitting at the top of a flight of basement stairs. The photo is taken and lit from above, and the stairs descend into darkness. The cat is sat like a person on his behind with his feet forward, and he is hunched very far to reward. He is looking straight at the camera. A cat is seen peeking out of a hole in the floor that appears to be an architectural mistake. The same cat is peaking out of the same hole as in the previous picture, but the angle is different and the lighting is brighter. A mostly black cat is laying on a laminate floor with his chin on a raised portion.
November 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Now that the beloved rug is in the basement, does he lay on the rug wrinkle there, you ask? No. In the basement, he prefers to lay on a two-by-four on the cement ground in our unfinished basement bathroom.
A very large long-haired tuxedo cat is pictured facing the camera, with his front paws together and his elbows resting on top of a two-by-four that is laying horizontally on the ground. There are also vertical two-by-fours attached the the horizontal piece on the floor.
November 5, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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Oh wait! I actually found one more of Raven and his beloved rug wrinkle. But, like, laying on the wrinkle really stupidly.
A very large long-haired tuxedo cat is laying on his side, with his bottom shoulder resting on top of a small wrinkle in a runner rug. His head is slightly lifted to look at the camera and he looks very uncomfortable.
November 5, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Share your mug

I got this in 2008 at a “networking event” for high school seniors that was funded by a for-profit private college and Monster Dot Com. Remember Monster Dot Com? I feel old. Anyway it was the first dish of my own that I ever owned, and it gave me hope that I’d be independent soon.
A pale hand holding a pale green mug with a chipped base. The green glaze is absent for the logo for Monster.
November 5, 2024 at 12:35 PM