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I am coming over here from the bird-gossip site. Under construction. Uggh I hate moving.
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Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
A poster from a county fair where you could write something you wished for. I took a photo where someone wrote, "I wish for a apple." Above this, someone else wrote, "I wish for Two Apple." Above this, yet another person wrote, "I wish for Three apple."
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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This is what happens when I finally have time to work on grad school
A white woman in a bathrobe with a large cat and small dog sharing her lap. The pets are both beige.
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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#pairedtexts
The movie poster for the film "Sinners" The cover of the book "dread nation" by Justin ireland
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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This post made me realize that my recurring donation to my regional food bank stopped happening in August when someone made fraudulent charges on my card and I needed it replaced. Set up a new recurring donation. This foodbank helps support my more local one in Alliance, OH, where my MIL volunteers.
A screenshot of the message you get when you donate online to the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank. President/CEO Daniel Flowers expresses gratitude alongside an image of a little girl holding milk and flour. At the bottom you can start to see the donor's amount and date of amount, but the screenshot cuts off before getting into too many specifics.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Mr. Louis Sachar sure had my number back in 1991.
A photo of a page of a book. It is page 89. The words are: "There was a book report due in first period. This was the first time Gary had hears about it."
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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#PairedTexts
The cover of the book "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" by Alison Pugh A screenshot of Spotify playing "Thank You" by Icelandic musician Daði Freyr.
October 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Trying to internalize the wisdom of Jake the Dog.
Two characters from Adventure Time on a white background with a quote at the bottom. Jake the Dog is telling Finn the Human, "Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something."
September 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: Autism exists, is not inherently bad, and no one is inherently less for having it.
A screenshot of a Fox News graphic and chiron stating "AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT - AUTISM BREAKTHROUGH" with images of Trump and RFK jr.
September 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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This is what doing grad school looks like for me
A selfie of a white woman in pajamas seated in a recliner. There is a laptop to the side, open to some digital art and code that she is trying to write a response to. There is a small beige dog curled up in her lap. There is a larger beige cat relaxing against her chest, requiring her to use one arm to prop him up.
September 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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My chihuahua banana is muppet potato stoic unemployed 0% wolf.

The "tremble vs. stoic" thing throws one off, because on the whole chihuahua are very tremble, but banana gets reviews that she is a surprisingly stoic individual.

Photo of banana for tax
A beige deer head chihuahua in a dog bed with a blanket. She looks at the camera, ears pert. She is wearing both her collar and a tiny neck tie with a banana pattern on it. She got that as a gift from the groomers at the local pet supplies plus, where they let newbies practice on her because she never even barks or resists even though she is clearly miserable the whole time she's there.
August 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Ben got this fortune in his cookie. And he was like, "Yes, of course. Because on Friday we will have the new Donkey Kong video game."
A photo of a fortune cookie fortune. It says, "Your Friday will be filled with love and happiness."
July 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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And this one shows genres I have read. I don't feel like this is entirely accurate. For example, I know I have read novels in verse and I am not sure whether the app tags them as poetry (or whether it should). Also wondering about the difference btwn fantasy and scifi and sometimes horror.
Genre chart. Over 30 of the books I have read this year are considered fantasy. The next largest categories are romance, young afult, lgbtqia+, middle grade, contemporary, children's, graphic novel. My least read genres are dystopia, psychology, poetry self-help, reference, and comics. Around the middle of the chart are horror, thriller, mystery, literary, historical, and crime.
July 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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This screen shows length of book/duration of audiobook. There is a similar chart showing fiction vs. nonfiction I've read, but I read vastly more fiction which is obvious from my genres so it seemed superfluous.
This screenshot shows book pace (slow, medium, fast) and page number (over 500 pages only has one book; about two thirds of the books I read were under 300 pages, about one third of the books I read were between 300 and 499 pages.)
July 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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This week I finished my 100th book of this year, so I decided I would share some of my reading stats. I use @thestorygraph.com for this.

This first screenshot shows how many books/pages I've read and how many audiobooks/minutes I've listened to. It also shows the book "moods."
A screenshot from my storygraph stats. It shows I have read 101 books; 18,752 pages; and listened to 166.75 hours this year. It also shows my book moods. The primary ones are lighthearted, emotional, adventurous, and funny. Mysterious and dark also have big slices. Hopeful, reflective, and tense also make good showings. Present but skinnier in slice are sad, inspiring, relaxing, informative, and challenging. Text at the bottom indicates that I could click on any slice to view the books categorized in each mood.
July 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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My dog banana
A blonde deer head chihuahua looks at the camera with alert ears. She is laying down on a pillow with her front legs, but standing up on a sofa cushion with her back legs. She is pretending she did this on purpose when it's actually because her butt slid off the pillow when she was cinnamon roll shaped.
July 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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This is not immaterial!
A graphic from the National Education Association (NEA). It is a chalkboard on a brick background with white text. It says: The Republican budget bill will: [X] Drain public fund to expand private school vouchers. [X] Narrow eligibility for SNAP. [X] Gut Medicaid for millions. [X] Hurt students & working families in every community. [X] Give massive tax breaks for billionaires.
July 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Kids around the corner are selling balloons. (Last year they sold paper airplanes.) I had no cash but they insisted on giving me a freebie, so now I am walking the dog all over the the neighborhood while carrying this lovely, um, sword.
A photo. In the background, a yellow deer head chihuahua is sniffing out a good place to pee amongst grass and gravel. In the foreground, a Caucasian hand holds a curved pink balloon sword that doesn't NOT look phallic.
June 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Ash Ketchum from Pokemon Gene Belcher from Bob's Burgers McLovin from Superbad Kimmy Schmidt from the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
May 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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You know kids will become obsessed with the Titanic disaster or the Bermuda Triangle or whatever? I would like to thank @firemuseummd.bsky.social for making my nephew into a Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 kid.
A photo of my nephew (face obscured by an emoji) in front of the Great Baltimore Fire - 1904 exhibit at the Fire Museum of Maryland.
April 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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This is what happens after you tell me to have a good night.
A screenshot of a health tracking app. It gives a sleep score of "excellent 96" with an image of a celebrating lion.
March 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I already enjoyed the whole book, but I especially enjoyed this last paragraph of the acknowledgments at the end.

(the book is "Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot" by Preeti Chhibber)
A photo of a paragraph in a book. It says, "Lastly, to the kid who spent two hours talking to me at a party in 2003 only to end the night by offering me up to his Indian friend, whom he had not mentioned and who was not at the party... thanks for filling me with enough spite to write a book. I'll never forget you. #AriesEnergy." The book it's from is "Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot" by Preeti Chhibber.
February 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Mood for early elementary today
February 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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How I've been spending my snow day. (Alt text in reply skeets.)
January 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Huge cozy flex
A messy-haired white woman in pajamas and a bathrobe posing in front of stacks of borrowed library books like she's some kind of trophy hunter. There is a caption at the top of
January 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I went to bed at eleven, so I am replying to all "Happy New Year" texts with "Good morning" over coffee and cinnamon rolls.

My resolution is to take this year one day at a time.
A snapshot of the top of my "Goals 1/1/25" list handwritten at the top of a yellow notepad. The first item, "read for pleasure," is starred. The second item, "prep activities for Monday," is bulleted.
January 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM