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Elaine
@uselaine.bsky.social
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I’m here because you went here, I love you, and I want to see you. 💛

Most of my attention goes to mastodon because it is what I think the internet is supposed to be.

Profile pic is from 1995.

Banner: some Zuri dresses.
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"Cuz I'm leavin' on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again."
Pope Leo speaks into a microphone as he stands facing seated reporters in a jet.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I'm sure this has been pointed out before, but Alan Hale Jr. was 43 when he was cast as the Skipper.
publicity photo of Alan Hale in character as The Skipper on Gilligan's Island. He wears a polo shirt and a captain's hat, and has an open mouthed grin.
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Close look at a purple corduroy jacket over a purple and blue batik dress. The significance is that it is the same Zuri brand dress that Crystal wears in the video.
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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He's a man
With a plan
Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand
He's Misstra Know-It-All
Playin' hard
Talkin' fast
Makin' sure that he won't be the last
He's Misstra Know-It-All
Makes a deal
With a smile
Knowin' all the time his lie's a mile
He's Misstra Know-It-All
Pope Leo appears to sing into a mic, holding it between both hands, with his eyes closed. He wears his customary white garb while black-clad priests and journalists seem to move about behind him.
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
diagram comparing figures of a masked ICE agent and then a criminal kidnapper. The figures are exactly the same.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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My favorite variation on Waldorf salad.
Waldorf Salad Supreme recipe
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Hang on, when did reading become performative?
Pope John Paul reading in what appears to be a church service.
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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My pal, Gilbert, says Yes on 50 to Californians
a black and white dog has a Yes 50 sticker on his harness, as he stands on the sidewalk.
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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He liked this one much more.
The Pope with a big smile holding up a tshirt that says Da Pope.
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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overhead look at a white and brown fluff dog on a green leash, next to some pink lilies by a sidewalk.
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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What's up, you ask? Begonias are up! Rise and shine up! These are at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.
Two large yellow begonia flowers hang from a suspended pot. The filtered sunlight sets off their softly ridged texture.
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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New at a local farm stand today.
a wooden bin full of purple kohlrabi bulbous stems with green leaves still attached. it's all covered with drops of water.
October 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Portrait of a young Eleanor Roosevelt.
October 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater as a kid.
Vintage one-sheet for the movie The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
September 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Magenta colored snapdragons in a garden pot.
September 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Looking down at my new Zuri over a slate gray trouser leg and brown shoe.
September 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Age verification:
I used IBM punch cards to register for my selected classes in high school.
Long rectangular Manila paper card with various holes punched in rows.
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
Kids modeling surgical scrub costumes with examination masks and stethoscopes.
September 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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2/2 And he’s next to the Pope in this photo.
Three black-garbed priests look at something on a phone screen while seated at a dinner table. Pope Leo looks on from one side.
September 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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There’s an Augustinian who shows up in photos with Prevost/Leo, without any indication of rank or whatever, and I wonder if you know who he is. He’s at the left hand of Pope Francis here:
Pope Francis seated among an assembly of Augustinian brothers, with Robert Prevost at his right wearing a large cross as their prior.
September 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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He claimed to know nothing about color so, I mean…
September 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I love farm stand carrots.
A single carrot root with four visible branches resting in a bowl of seasoned Greek yogurt.
September 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Whale under construction at the North Coast Brewery. #MendocinoCoast
The north wall of a brewery building is about a third of the way through a life sized mural of a California gray whale. The remainder has an outline filled with words pertaining to the whale species and the various beer names the company makes. Today, the same wall has almost all of its cyan colored background as well as more of the black and gray whale body filled in. A couple of people stand at its base near an open door in the wall. Off to the right, an adjustable scaffolding vehicle sits undeployed for the time being. Detail of the whale tail on the cyan wall. A small picture of the intended finished product is taped to a masked window square.
August 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Just a fluke. #MendocinoCoast
August 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM