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weirdlilctydweller.bsky.social
bread and roses (and hoping)
@weirdlilctydweller.bsky.social
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Mostly Alexandria gossip, snark, and bitching about HUD stupidity.

Alexandria is cooler than where you live

gender = nope, they/them🌈

opinions all mine, etc etc
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A tardigrade playing the world's smallest violin
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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The public bathrooms at the Hotel Roanoke
Fancy mirrors, wall scones, and faucets in a large bathroom with marbled walls and granite countertops
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Real helpful Metro (at Gallery Place)
A Metro digital arrivals sign that says: 1. ? 8 [car] Train 2 min 3. GR 8[car] Train 3 min
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Here, have some recent night photos
A view down an empty four lane street with red stoplights all the way to the horizon Alexandria's Christ Church at night as seen from the east side of its cemetery An abstract image of blue and white lines horizontally across a landscape oriented photo. It's the construction site of the old Landmark Mall at night, but with the camera panning during a long exposure, resulting in the blue lights on the cranes and the white lights of the building under construction blurring.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Very ow. Much metal. Later pretty. Wow.
A tattoo of the coat of arms of London: two dragons rampant supporting a shield with St. George's Cross, topped by a helm with a bat wing for a plume. The dragon on the right is drawn in a traditional style; the dragon on the left is skeletal and modern looking.
October 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Here, have some night photos, too.
The Washington Monument seen across the Tidal Basin at night. The white monument against the black sky is perfectly reflected in the black water. A Halloween display featuring a skeletal devil with horns and bat wings standing over a grate with hands reaching out of it. The devil is flanked by the skeletons of a three-headed dog and a goat. The scene is lit from below in orange-red light
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Miniature World submissions entered! With pricing that takes into account how much of a pain in the ass finding the right size frames and getting the correct size photos was.
A set of four coasters, each of a door knocker. The doors are all different colors and the knockers are all different shapes A row of four miniature gold picture frames. In each is a small photo of a different door. A picture of a colorful door. In front of the door is the same door in progressively smaller sizes A grid of nine small photos. Each photo is of a different door, which range from a bright blue rectangular door to an arched wooden door with elaborate carvings on it.
October 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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This is when you say, "This is not a pipe," and drop the mic.
A riff on Magritte's The Treachery of Images: a painting of a pipe with the caption, "This isn't what it looks like. "
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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My tattoo artist loves me: I have four different ones planned and they are all artistic challenges for him. This is the first one:
A person's left thigh with the coat of arms of Paris tattooed on it in the style of Henri Matisse. Within a shield, a white sailboat on a red background floats on blue water. Above it is a wide strip of blue with three fleur-de-lis in it. The shield is crowned by three castle towers linked by battlements. Around the shield are green leaves that look a little like kelp.
October 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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The finished product is going to be the coat of arms of London, but we only finished the center today. The supporting dragons will happen in three weeks. One side of arms will be traditional and the other side will be a pared down modern version.
A tattoo of a white shield quartered will a scarlet cross. There is a small upright scarlet sword in the top right quarter. Atop the shield is a knight's helm facing right. There is a dragon wing quartered by a scarlet cross on top of the helm. To the left of the helm are two feathery shapes that are scarlet on one side and ermine on the other. To the left of the helm is simplified version of the feathers, done in black with shading to make them look slightly three dimensional.
October 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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So if the theme is "The Mini World" which version does it best?
A door set in a bright blue wall. The door jams, transom, and step are all painted white. The door itself is green around the exterior with a large center rectangle made with frosted glass overlaid by the outline of a large diamond the same green as the exterior of the door. The left upper corner of the frosted glass is lavender and the right upper corner is teal. There are three increasingly smaller versions of the door nested in each of at the center of the original door. The same door as previous, but the nested doors are now aligned center-left. The same door as previous, but the nested doors are aligned bottom left.
September 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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The scary posting will continue until someone tells me if any of these should be entered in the Bump in the Night exhibit
A close up of decorative final of a demonic face at the top of an arch. The entire picture is in shades of red and black with heavy shadows and contrast A two parallel rows of triple lampposts stretching off into the distance with a path between them. The entire picture is washed in shades of red and black and there is the impression of a red mist in the air.
September 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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There used to be a triple spotlight right at the top of the arch. And now there is not and things are much prettier.
An Art Nouveau mosaic of a phoenix rising over an arched door. There is no spotlight in the picture.
August 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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A perpetually useful meme for them
A cartoon goose talking to a duck. The goose is holding a straw. The caption reads, "If I give you a straw will you go and suck the joy out of someone else's life? "
August 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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You're not fooling anyone, bro.
The back of what is obviously a Cybertruck painted black. It has the word "FORD" stenciled across the tailgate in large light gray letters. A close-up of the front of the same Cybertruck. Up close you can see it is wrapped in an ornate charcoal gray on black floral pattern. The Ford logo is stenciled on the grill in a lighter gray.
August 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Do we think this is scary enough for the DRA "Bump in the Night" show?
A view down a line of lit lampposts that vanish into the distance. There is a grainy red-orange cast over the picture that makes it look like the bowels of Hell.
August 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Post your last photo of DC to show what a hell-hole it is.
The window of a wine and spirits shop. A wooden sign on a wire shelf reads, "The only B. S. I need in my life is Beach & Sunshine." Reflected in the window is a beautiful old building.
August 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Thanks to @ericspiegel.bsky.social I finally got the shot I wanted! And then I Photoshopped it a bit.

Should I enter it into the Del Ray Artisans "Bump" exhibit?
A black and white image of a row of three decorative finals which strongly resemble skulls with feather headdresses. They are atop a fence made of crisscrossing metal rods. They have been manipulated to have heavy, rough shadows and very bright highlights. There is an alley behind them and the vanishing point for the brick walls on either side of the alley is behind the center skull.
August 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Post a random picture or everything will go bad in August

(there's quite enough bad now, no need to take chances)
A form printed on a bright green piece of paper. It is dated May 12, 2010 and requests the City Manager's signature on some HUD documents. It is a relic of ancient times long before the City joined the 21st century and made the whole signature process digital. (for which a collective hymn of thanksgiving was sung by everyone who had ever dealt with the analog process)
August 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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post your lock screen!

You can tell I love Prague because I have been to two other cities since then and haven't changed my lock screen to any of my pictures from them
A Gothic transom window. It is an elongated semicircle with traceries on the glass. The arch surrounding it carved with oak leaves. Superseding it all are more traceries that come together in a point. The photo is taken at about a sixty degree angle (horizontal to the arch).
July 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A tea towel reading, "I wish I was the person I thought I could be when I bought all this produce
July 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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My Halloween costume this year will be a potholder.
A quilted vest with two patch pockets that ties in front with a bow. The outside of the vest is orange with a subtle floral pattern. The trim and interior of the vest are army green. The whole thing looks like it escaped a 1970s kitchen.
July 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Post a meme made by you:
A cartoon of a man on his knees clutching his face and screaming. You may recognize him as the cabbage vendor from Avatar: the Last Airbender. Above him is the word, "NIMBYS". Below him are the words, "Dah! My property values!"
July 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A package of Hostess Star-Spangled Ding Dongs
July 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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As seen in Dupont
Graffiti written on a stone stoop. It reads, "Art is for God!" In smaller letters next to it, someone else has written, "No Gods No Masters"
July 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM