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Nicole
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Happy Halloween! 🎃
Have a homemade [if niche] treat:
A crossed out image of The Map from Dora the Explorer above a clip from 1999's The Mummy with the character Rick O'Connell saying, "Relax. I'm the map." An added text bar alludes to the fact that The Mummy premiered a year before Dora the Explorer.
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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What in the WHAT is this movie 😆
A shot of the whiteboard from the movie Cabin in the Woods (2011).
October 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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This is where I'm at mentally rn 😂
October 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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The Onion: ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown
October 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Gave away 27 of these this past weekend. 😈 Heat-activated color-changing PLA.

They're an easy way to tell who is... knowledgeable and who needs instruction.
3D printed anatomical objects with ribbon looped to make them into ornaments/décor
October 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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...💀
A shot of the full moon in the night sky, as seen from behind an 8 ft skeleton.
October 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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w/o downloading anything new- where are you mentally?
A capybara asleep on a pillow, with the caption "I need a little napybara"
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Marie avec rainbows. #WhiskerWednesday
A black tabby cat sleeps on a bed with paws outstretched. Small rainbow dots are on and surround her.
October 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Deciding whether this dress should actually go with me to Vegas again.

(And whether I should make it a little shorter)
Sparkly black sheath dress with glitter Back of dress, cowl to mid-back.
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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#Caturday post with Mac & Cheese
Two black tabby brothers are asleep facing each other & intertwined very adorably.
September 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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More writing 💜
This was inspired by a poem shared in a Patreon + recent life experience.
A poem entitled "Recognition" superimposed over a pool of water in sunshine. The ripples on the water are meant to mimic scar tissue. Scars flex, but pull And time has dulled the knife So when you thrust in my direction I split a little, didn't I. A nudge, a slap, a wake up call Not a pierce as deep or true; But lying would I clearly be If I claimed to be unmoved. With consciousness I settle And tend the wound with care Remind myself that once again I need only be aware.
September 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Rainy day cuddles and toe beans.
An all-black cat has a paw close to the camera, showing off his adorable toe beans.
September 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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This can live here, too. 💜

(I wrote 4 poems today. Is there something in the air‽)
A poem on a gray background. The text reads: Love isn't a verb like they say Love is a preposition Love surrounds Love is in actions, objects, pronouns Love is in the ingredients Love is in the making Love is in the eating and Love is in the clean up. Love is above, below Over, under For, before, and after When I say I love I choose it everywhere In everything And I hope you choose it too
September 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Post your favorite flowers.
Trichostema dichotomum (forked blue curls) -- among a sea of small green leaves, several flowers that are so blue they appear purple on film rise up on slender stems. Their bottom and side petals dip wide to greet you, and their upper petals are slender and curled into themselves, shyly dangling their anthers. Clitoria ternatea (butterfly pea flower). Vividly blue flowers shaped like the genitals they're named for. This is a mass of them I just harvested to use to make blue food.
September 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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01:00 reflection.
A view of the night sky in which only the moon, peeking from behind clouds, is visible. The only other object shown is the reflection of the same, forming a sort of moonlight colon punctuation mark.
September 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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+1 Corporate Armor.
European 4-in-1 with Byzantine weave for around the neck.
A necktie made of chainmail, worn by a person in a blue men's dress shirt.
July 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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#MeowMonday
#CatsOfBluesky

I can tell if I sit down, this cat has plans.
A black cat with yellow eyes looks directly into the camera. He is relaxed and has one paw slightly in front of him as he lays on a gray couch.
June 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#Caturday
Late night Maki cuddles💜
A gray tabby cranes his head so that his human servant can give him chin scritches. He seems well-pleased with himself.
June 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Just finished @ninajankowicz.com 's book How To Be A Woman Online. I've kept a low social media profile in the past due to the reasons she details, but I feel more empowered to speak up and out with what I learned 💜
The cover of the book "How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back", by Nina Jankowicz. The text is red sans-serif font, and the cover itself is light pink.
June 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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So glad my teachers gave us all those 'how to write directions' joke assignments... Second iteration of "Shower Instructions", now with *shaving*.

(Yes, they joked about whether a towel was required for #7.)

#Neurodiversity #Parenting
A laminated sheet entitled "Shower instructions". 1. Turn the shower on. Get wet. 2. Apply shampoo to your scalp. Use fingers or a tool and make small circles all over to wash. 3. Rinse! (Apply conditioner to the ends if needed.) 4. Wash your face & neck with face cleanser. Use your fingers or a washcloth. 5. Start at your shoulders and use the silicone mitt to wash your body with a quarter-sozed amount of body wash. *Pay attention to underarms, elbows, knees, and FEET. 6. Shave if you need to.* 7. Rinse, turn off the shower, and pat yourself dry. Then there are two memes; one is a gold star with the words 'yay you did a thing congrats' and the second is an image of a showerhead with the words "I did it. I survived taking a shower". At the very end, there's an asterisk referencing step #6: "Why at 6? Because the hair will have softened in the shower by this point, making it easier to cut."
May 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Birthday funderwear tradition complete at 23:58 (not the last literal minute, sooo... I'm ahead of schedule!)
This picture shows a set of three men's boxer briefs in different Doctor Who patterns. One is owls dressed up at the different iterations of the Doctor. One is the TARDIS repeated over and over. And the third is a blue and white TARDIS argyle pattern on a plain white background. The boxer briefs are laying on a cutting mat with some fabric rulers in the background.
May 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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We should try this again this year. *Reshoot*
A woman shoots at an archery target with a wooden recurve bow while wearing a baby on her back in a purple wrap sling.
May 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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My kids' enrichment program has a lot of learners who didn't see the point in phatic language, so I did a presentation about it. I ended with this meme (which went over well):
May 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Morning pollinator check in. Since I started letting Bidens alba grow along the outside of my vegetable garden beds, I've seen a large increase in beneficial insect activity.
A green sweat bee pollinates a Bidens alba flower (white petals with yellow center). A tiny green baby grasshopper with a yellow eye perches on a Bidens alba leaf.
May 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Part 4 of Internet language. The kids asked me to talk about algospeak as well, so we did.
This wraps Brain(/Language) Bites for the year! 😅
A meme with the text "Welcome to the Internet" along with Nyan cat, a happy crying face emoji, Rainbow Dash, Patrick Star (from SpongeBob), a bear, and another crying face (this time from cuteness). A presentation slide about typographic tone of voice. It juxtaposes two pictures of young women, one clearly angry with eyebrows furrowed and an open, yelling mouth with another who has her eyes closed and smiling. Both are captioned as "I'm not angry". In the center there are several variants of the phrase "I'm not angry" experimenting with different punctuation, capitalization, emoji, and spacing to convey a clearer intent/meaning behind the text. To translate for teen slang, typographic tone is the vibe from your message. This is a presentation slide entitled "It's the Vibe" of different vibes (laid-back, sardonic, enthusiastic, etc.) and an accompanying meme of Grogu (from The Mandalorian) with glitter emanating from his hand with the text "visual representation of me when i say "sending you good vibes"".
May 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM