Erica Goode
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Erica Goode
@scousepower8.bsky.social
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Waiting to get my club back #rctid, hugging trees, loving my cats and dog, hating fascism, racism, misogyny, and neo-nazi scum. Nature created us with the ability to see green because She wanted us to care for plants and trees like no other creature can.
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I used to be very selective about when I lit these up, but now I realize that is insane. Do what brings you joy now. 🎄⛄️🦌
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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I only rake leaves from the paths (which doubles as dog poo removal). Then I put the leaves around the saplings and trees, and I like to imagine that I am tucking them in for a long winter's slumber. 🌲🪾💤💤💤
A wooded area with trees and ferns visible from a deck, with an open area covered with orange and yellow and brown leaves The same area with the leaves gone and the gray gravel revealed (also you can see more of the deck stairs)
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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In two days, I have competed 95% of the outdoor decorations, and 85% indoor (no tree yet, obviously). He arrived from Grandma's and declared, "This is the best you've ever done, Mom." #MrsClaus 🤶
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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It has begun (in a hurry to surprise the LB when he comes home from Grandma's). 🎅⛄️🎄
An entry way to a covered walkway with a red neon Santa face, lit garland with baubles, and a family of lit deer with red bows The walkway descending with snowflake lights on the left, lit wreaths on the gold faces of the roof, and a large cartoon snowman in a red scarf and hat on the right
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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The trees are finally changing in my yard. Trying to enjoy it and not freak out that it is so late into fall.
A hillside with a gravel road covered in fallen brown and yellow leaves and lined with lush, verdant ferns and tall trees with green and yellow leaves
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Last year, two Japanese students at Reed reached out about a book they were thinking of writing. They wanted to make the incarceration history available to people in Japan (it's not widely known there) and needed help with resources and understanding the history.

This week, I got my copy. 🤗
A book cover with a young girl on the left holding an elephant stuffed animal with barracks behind her, and the older version of her in the right standing in front of a building with a sign reading, Ikoi no Kai. Title of the book is, The Things We Took With Us. The same book cover but the words in Japanese. This is the back of the book in America but the front of the book in Japan. Book versions of the book meet in the middle.
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Autumn is truly the most beautiful.
A path ending through a line of trees on both sides, with fallen yellow and brown leaves upon it
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The tiny items you sent, @thecemeterygates.bsky.social, are the purple chihuahua with the ghost family, the frog beside the bird bath, and the food the skeleton is eating.
Front of a wooden haunted house with black fencing, lit street lamps along a path to the purple front door, with bright green moss on the ground and dragons and a mummy and yellow and red trees A side view of the same haunted doll house with the one of fall foliage trees leading to a headless gentleman on the side of the house The back of the haunted house with a orange patio set with cute little ghosts eating donuts, a stand with fresh pumpkins, a scarecrow, and a bird bath An interior room of the haunted doll house with a LEGO skeleton sitting in a large white chair in front of a table with coffee, eggplant, red pepper, and bottle of beer
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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This morning, before the rain hit, we engaged in a very important activity for our mental health. 🍂🍁🍂
A boy with a backpack on kicking his way through a long line leaves alongside a street
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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The Transition (because I don't want to have to put up the wreaths later when I already have the ladder out now)
A covered walkway of descending stairs with a Christmas wreath in the foreground and Halloween spider webs, white spiders, a hooded jack o'lantern, and black and orange baubles
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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"Monetised inattention" - what a perfect way to describe current culture. (Also sad to think about it in those terms.)

www.ft.com/content/0a90...
In other words, these technologies help create a sort of music that no one needs to listen to, and films no one needs to watch. Culture in the 2020s is shaped by the so-called “attention economy” — but it’s a peculiar phrase, considering what is often being monetised is not attention, but inattention. For Spotify’s part, this has made it all the easier for the company, at times, to fill its popular lean-back playlists with anonymous stock music licensed at a discount. On Netflix, it has created conditions for the rise of generic, low-quality films optimised towards user searches.
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Figured out what to say when surrounded by kids - "Bad word ICE!"

Saw an old white dude dressed in king regalia and yelled, "No Kings!"

Some idiot asked "Is this a political thing?" YES, IT IS.

Little kids loved it and gave me hugs & high fives. Start 'em young. 🎃 🐸

Happy Halloween and fuck ICE.
A person in an inflatable green frog costume standing on a street with trick or treaters visible in the background
November 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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It's really impossible to measure the damage to children's lives - the irreparable harm that we are witnessing at the hands of our own government.

They don't even feel safe to play soccer with their friends and peers.
Immigration Enforcement & Our Development League   Dear OYSA Members, Over the past several days, we have heard from several of our member clubs who have made the incredibly difficult decision to withdraw from their scheduled Development League matches. Their decision was not made lightly. It comes amid deeply distressing reports of immigration enforcement activity in local communities, which has caused fear and uncertainty among many families — families who are, and have always been, at the heart of our game. These clubs have expressed that their priority must be the safety and well-being of their players, parents, and communities.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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When this bubble bursts, the economic carnage will be catastrophic.
For more evidence that we are in the middle of the “we’re going to be ruefully laughing at this in the future” stage of the boom just look at the increasingly incestuous relationship between the AI companies themselves. Even Morgan Stanley’s analysts have conceded that the AI industry has become “increasingly circular”, with suppliers funding customers, customers investing in suppliers, and vendor-customer revenue sharing agreements.
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Had another get-together with some crafts for adults. 🎃🖌
A dining room table with multiple settings with newspaper under a ceramic plate and a paper plate with a wooden craft to be painted, with crackers and cheese and carrots and other snacks in the middle, and a plastic witch's hat with paint pots around the brim
October 31, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Finished up the pumpkins just in time. 🎃 🕷 🕸
A covered walkway at night with bats and purple lights hanging down and spiderwebs along the railing; and jack o'lanterns on top of the railings on both sides, with fog machine smoke in the air.
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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A person biking in the forest called out as she passed, "The fog will protect you today!"

Still not sure what she meant, but fog absolutely portends a good day.
A two lane street lined with fallen leaves on the ground and tall trees in a line with green and yellow leaves, and thick fog hanging in the air
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Last year, he was a samurai. This year, a shinobi. At this rate, wondering if he'll be Shōgun next year.
A boy in a Japanese assassin black costume with red accents and a large, circular wicker hat, and two katanas
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I am always just stunned at how perfect this is. I have not and will never grow tired of it. #IchabodAndMrToad
A lanky, big eared and big nosed cartoon man in 1700s American clothing laughing and hugging a gray cartoon horse, who is also laughing
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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These were absolutely what I needed to find this morning at Safeway.
Three cereal boxes: Wheat Chex with Linus from Peanuts, Corn Chex with Charlie Brown, Rice Chex with Snoopy and Woodstock - all Christmas themed
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Little Baby never comes down to the couch, because there are either two young cats who like to scrap or Haku who likes to chase. Right now, the cats are in bed, and Haku is with the LB sleeping. She came down within 10 minutes. 🥹
An incredibly beautiful brown tabby cat with luxurious dark brown striped fur nestled into a gray blanket on a couch
October 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Too toast to get out the ladder and turn off the floating jack o'lanterns.
A dark ceiling with hanging papier mache pumpkins with faces carved into them and tea lights inside
October 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I made a jack o'lantern out of snack cups of orange things (goldfish, cheezits, honey BBQ chips, cheese popcorn, cheese balls) and black things (dark chocolate wafer cookies, black licorice, chocolate-covered pretzels, Dots "coal" candy). The stem was orange slices candy.
The aforementioned orange and black snacks in cups arranged to show a smiling jack o'lantern.
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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#Halloween party morning is always full of such hope and happiness.
A stone wood stove fireplace with a curved stone bench below it, with a black Halloween tree with orange lights surrounded by pumpkins and a short chibi Jack Skellington. The mantel has pumpkins and woodland animals and lit leaf garland with handmade pie slice garland and paper bats all over the wall.
October 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The AI bubble is going to hurt when it bursts, but that it taking away investment capital right now from green energy projects is something I hadn't thought about. 🤬🤬🤬
Instead the president has focused on fossil fuels and the AI boom. Missing out on the huge productivity and cost improvements in renewable energy is a bad idea on pure economic grounds: the idea that green principles cost money is definitively being disproved. Even worse, a huge amount of capital has been poured into AI projects — equipment for data centres is a non-negligible part of US imports — which are yet to show returns. A bursting of that bubble will probably have consequences for US growth far bigger than the tech bust of the late 1990s.
October 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM