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Just a Pumpkin
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Pumpkin graphics from Cat's Cafe Comics https://linktr.ee/catscafecomics
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Semi relevant, the Bonne Maman labels remind me of the old House of Webster cursive script they used to put on everything. You still see them sometimes on product they make for others like this sweet potato butter
16.5 oz jar of sweet potato butter spread. Made for Vanzant Fruit Farms, Lowell, AR The label is plain white with dark blue script, giving a hint of handwritten even though it clearly is not It's on the counter next to the tiny, blurry Bonne Maman jar Tiny empty Bonne Maman jar, red plaid lid. Wild blueberry - maple syrup spread. Net wt 1 oz (28g) Similar label. Plain white, no picture, black script meant to invoke handwriting. Like it's Grandma's home canned jelly (it's not)
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Making mischief
A pile of green garland, wrapped with red bells and thin red garland, and a pair of hand held jingle bells (D-shaped). Ready to make some seasonal noise
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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TIL "automatic card refresher"

Get fraudulent charges, call bank, close card, get new card, activate... And the damn cc company helpfully forwards your new card info on to the scammers

TY Reddit, now I can maybe have a productive call with the fraud dept
Recurring Charges Fraud CreditCards wiki credit_card_fraud If you do experience fraud on your card, make sure to monitor your new card for any unrecognized charges. Some fraud can "follow" onto the new card because of some overall customer experience attempts to make it easier for seamless and uninterrupted card payments. This means that merchants with your stored card info can get updated card information (use case: you got a new card and don't want Netflix/utilities to stop working). which can occasionally lead to more fraud from a previously-exposed card number. In order to stop fraud from following onto a new card number, call your bank and ask for them to: Delete all existing device tokens (this removes all existing device-based instances of your card like the card in Apple Pay on your iPhone, the card in Apple Pay on your Apple Watch, etc) Delete all existing network tokens (network tokens are stored card numbers that get tokenized by merchants, and they look the same as normal card on file to an end user) Remove your card number from the card network's automatic card refresher: • American Express calls it Card Refresher • Discover calls it Account Updater • Mastercard calls it Automatic Billing Updater (ABU) • Visa calls it Visa Account Updater (VAU) THEN send you a new card with a new card number That should break the cycle and remove any possible link to the old card. You may have to ask for supervisors or escalate to get someone who knows what these things mean and can actually do them.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I do not know how you feel about haunted houses, but this year's new build at Haunted Overload is the vampire dollhouse which just seems very your thing
A two story Victorian house, all black with red curtains. Fancy porch trim, steep gable roof with dormer window. Set in the gorgeous fall New England woods. Except it's a set at Haunted Overload, not a real house at all.
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I live (barely)

Survived another Halloween

Home haunting is rough

And I'm tired
Black t-shirt with white screen print Pixel art skull MY FLESH MY BONES MY BODY OUCH
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Translation: fuck you, give us all your money

What a scam, I hate football

Take your loser coach and your loser program and your hella shady foundation and shove it

Fund academics.
Screenshot from my RSS reader 4029 top stories Arkansas AD calls for about support to boost football program in SEC "I think there will be people across this state that will step up for us."
September 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
Skeleton sitting on its bed, hands pressed to its face, crying When you love Halloween with your entire being but you're too low energy to celebrate much this month * Cries but attempts to do it spookily * Yes I'm aware it's mid September. It's gonna be here soon and I really need to get it together
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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New ominous favorite

www.tumblr.com/knighthawkch...
Tumblr screenshot User thedeafprophet: I saw some weird ass conspiracy video thing today of like 'we were never meant to have access to yeast, that was cultivated in a lab and it harms us' bullshit and I was like well first off there's no such thing as 'meant to' and second of all um? the long history of acquiring yeast from beer foam stretching so far back ?????? Reply moniquill: ....you can acquire yeast FROM THE AIR. If you want to make sourdough started from scratch, the process is 'mix water, flour, and maybe sugar if you've got it, then WHIP IN AS MUCH AIR AS YOU CAN' and let it sit. And this works. Because there's yeast there. In the air. Reply turtlesandfrogs: Not only is there yeast in the air, it's on a bunch of fruits, too. Ever rubbed a blueberry, plum, or grape, and it was slightly darker underneath? That thin film is wild yeasts. There is also yeasts that live on human skin (and not just pathogenic ones!). We are never without yeasts. Reply supreme-leader-stoat: Edited Twitter screenshot from user milk @dasani_bottle You are not alone. There's yeasts The word yeasts has been edited in Reply nighthawkchapter: You do not have access to yeast; yeast has access to you.
September 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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I love Tumblr, always have. The culture and humor is like nowhere else on the internet

www.tumblr.com/canvoid/7847...
Tumblr post from user microsoff, may 22 The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed. There was a shimmer - a demon appeared. "Curious. What ritual is this?" "I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!" "I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil. Continuing the thread, a reply from user canvoid, May 27 "I-- I don't understand! I followed everything it said --" "Your first mistake was entrusting your work to the hallucination machine." It reached down to pinch the mixture, give it a sniff. "Potassium chloride? What ash is this?" "Um." The disciple nudged a bucket with their boot. "Tastes like ... maple. And potatoes. Blech." It wiped its fingertips clean on their robes. It paused, rubbing its tongues against the roof of its mouth. "Damnation, what did you anoint the candles with? Is that ... PAM?" The disciple whimpered. "It wasn't specified." "Pfft. Of course not." It sighed, and extended its tri-fingered hand. "Let me see that incantation." Shakily, the parchment was extended, and snatched with irritation. " 'Bene! Ecce incantatio initiorum ...' What the seven hells is this? You didn't even trim the auto response." "Well, I don't speak Latin..." Part 2 The demon snorted. The parchment sailed over its shoulder to a candle and hovered there, alight, then disappeared in a puff of ash and smoke. "Right. Legally I could take at least a limb for this, but hey, you like your limbs, right? Pretty attached to them, you'd say?" The disciple desperately nodded. "Great. So here's what we're gonna do: you're going to write me an essay --" "What?!" The disciple gasped, paled. "Wait, no, maybe an arm would be okay..." "-- shut up. You're going to hand-write a 2,000 word essay -- listen, no -- and you're going to write it on the perils of sourcing research from generative AI. You are going to source this in MLA format -- yes the fuck you are --" tired of the protestations, the demon's hand loosely threatened the human's throat, and quickly made its point, "and you will do this and turn it in in two weeks' time, with a proper summoning ritual. And -- and this part is very important, mind you -- you are going to tell all your little demon-summoner buddies that if this ever happens again I will simply eat your fucking souls and be done with it. Do you understand me?" The disciple nodded again, with wetter pants. Part 3 "Good. Fine." The demon roughly patted the student on the head and retreated back to the ruined glyph where it stood expectant, hands on what must have been its hips. "Alright. Banish me and call me up properly in two weeks. Don't make me come looking for you." "I -- uh -- well, that is to say, I don't... um." The demon's shoulders dropped. "You don't know how to banish." "I don't know how to banish, no." The demon let loose a series of deep, frustrated grumbles that had some resemblance to speech, enunciated with emphatic gestures, and gave the vague impression of a dinner getting cold. "Get a pen." "What? Oh, I --" "GET A PEN" (In the corruption type font, indicating both irritation and magic)
September 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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YES
A sheet pan of pumpkin spice cookies and a muffin pan of brownies, both topped with Pillsbury Halloween pumpkin sugar cookies
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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She's back! 🥰
My Singer 99k sewing machine, cabinet repaired and glossy, back in my room where it belongs, ready to use. I even dusted. No sign of previous water damage to the finish
August 31, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Ah yes, I'm being reminded it's #Caturday night
Bats the black cat, loafing on my bed. Nice close up portrait, looking off to the right, ears alert. Good clarity for once on his one singular eye, it's blue and scarred from infection as a kitten, but today it looks like a world globe. Halloween star quilt in the bg as usual
August 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I made eyes instead
A pair of eyes, paper irises glued to the back of clear glass gems. Not even whole eyeballs, just two big fake corneas laying on the table waiting to be installed. Halloween stuff in progress
August 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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#InternationalCatDay
Two black cats laying on a Halloween star quilt. Bats, left, is looking right at us. Barbacoa at right is more shapeless, back towards us. They are touching front paws which is very cute
August 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Perfectly matched seams when sewing - corner points or pattern matching
4 corners meet on a quilt top, very satisfyingly aligned and crisp Halloween fabrics. Two orange with black cats sitting, one orange with black spiderweb, one contrasting purple with orange spiderweb Very close up of a seam in a whole cloth quilt top, where the pattern has been matched so the seam is VERY hard to see if you're not specifically looking for it. The fabric is a leafy coleus print with a lot of pattern from Kaffe Fassett
July 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Oh I'm in trouble

There is SO MUCH good stuff

Look at this border print
Gorgeous quilting fabric that resembles fancy tile work, all in vintage looking Halloween shades, black and orange and cream. 5 different border stripes, geometric shapes, mostly diamonds and squares, running vertically
July 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Still working on my Halloween quilt too #Quiltsky
A quilt top, in progress, hanging on the wall next to a giant plush black cat holding a pumpkin The quilt top is all in shades of orange with black and a little purple accent. There's a large center panel that says Trick or Treat with an old haunted house and various jack-o'-lanterns, and a pieced border
July 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Eventually I will finish this thing

Filling in the letters, working black thread on black fabric, is SO BORING. And cross stitch just takes forever anyway. I started last Nov or Dec, and I keep avoiding it

#CrossStitch
Season's Screamings cross stitch wip The green wreath monster from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Big yellow eyes and bigger pointy teeth, wearing a big red bow with Jack Skelllington on it I've filled in the letters for Season's Scre- and yet to do -amings Threaded needle on magnet at the bottom left
July 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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The Hinges. Are on. The Outside. Of. The Door.

Come on now
Clip from Leverage Redemption. Parker is talking to Eliot about the security system panel next to a locked door. The middle hinge on the door is clearly visible as she walks past "It's no good. She's too complex. I could spend days with her and not get past her first line of defense. I love you" (to the security system)
July 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Bonus. I've got the weird foot pedal controller with the button
Closer view of the motor and light Foot pedal, kinda. It's not a normal pedal. It's a solid block with a button and a bump to rest your foot on. Rather than press down, you actually tilt your foot sideways Underside of the pedal, showing the label. Sewing motor controller part no 196131
July 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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My grandmother's 99K, bought new in 1954. I have the original documents. Let me know if there's any specific details you're interested in
Singer 99K, a ¾ size sewing machine mounted in a cabinet. It's lovely black with gold decals, "eye" design. 2nd gen lever stitch length adjuster. Front view View of the front of the wooden cabinet, lid open off to the left. Little tilt-out drawer with wooden knob Close up of the badges. Logo, 99K, and serial number EJ162255 Back view, with motor and light. And my skeleton buddy sitting in my sewing chair in the background
July 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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NOPE

Still tastes like swamp

Tempted by novelty

A fool parted from my money once again
A brand new box of blue cotton candy flavor Liquid IV electrolyte drink mix
July 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Welcome to Disability Pride Month

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabil...
The disability pride flag. A muted black field with five diagonal stripes in red, yellow, white, blue and green. Intentionally low contrast to be more accessible
July 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Pro tip for removing bandaids or other adhesives:

Micellar water

Specifically Garnier, the blue one that's for waterproof makeup. With the oily layer, you need to shake before use.
A small bottle of Garnier Skin Active micellar cleansing water, all in 1 waterproof formula with the blue lid Label text reads Removes makeup Even waterproof mascara + Cleanses + soothes No rinse, no harsh rubbing Face, lips, eyes All skin types, even sensitive No oil, alcohol, fragrance Dermatologist tested for safety 3.4 fl oz / 100ml
June 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Explain your @

I burn a pumpkin every year for Halloween. It's kind of my thing
June 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM