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Liz

@smithdrygoods.bsky.social

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GenX artist, crafter, quilter, caregiver. Married, childfree, sugar-free (keto). Masshole of a sort. Somehow both a complete downer AND a laff riot.

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I have poured over only a half cup of coffee exactly twice. After that second time, throwing away the filter & grinds & realizing my mistake, the sad little half cup of coffee looking back at me, I instituted a foolproof checklist system (1: pay attention, dummy) and it’s never happened again.

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Such a cutie and just like the drawing!

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You were on the verge of crisis!

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Yikes 😳

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I’m really pleased!

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Planted these Zeolights calendulas for the first time and got my first bloom 😍🌱#FlowerReport

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what pisses me off about this is that so many trans women began life being raised & treated as little boys who demonstrated “feminine”-coded behavior that got them abused, harassed and victimized by the EXACT same shitbag cis boys who mistreated little girls WE ON THE SAME SIDE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!

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It’s terrible! A tragedy. Infuriating and harmful. I see so many suffering the same

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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.

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I don't usually share reviews, but this one of A Third Kind of Madness meant so much to me - to be this person's first time feeling seen in a story? What an honor [but also we need more of this for them!] and I hope I can continue to write stories that do this.

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Summer is my favorite season but last year I spent it worried about a dear friend in & out of the hospital, she passed away 9/6/23. Now I’m going through this summer remembering all that sadness & worry knowing it ended tragically. She wouldn’t want me to be sad, I try to buck up, it’s hard. #grief

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I didn’t really pay much attention to them my whole life but in the last ten years I’m like ooh! 🥰

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It’s so cute! But I don’t know why that dog has you fenced in, you look friendly enough 😂

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Thank you! It’s 90° every day now, the leather jacket in my last avi was making me 🥵 just looking at it haha

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Most of the hydrangeas this year are electric blue but some are purple and it’s so beautiful!

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The Rose of Sharon hibiscus tree is blooming! Love how the pinkish purple tone shifts from sunshine to shade. #FlowerReport 🌱

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I strongly feel the campaign framing of this election needs to be that you’re voting for an administration, not an individual. Even if you are not a Biden fan, when it comes to the company they keep, the choice is so obvious. I hope we can communicate this to undecided/indifferent/apathetic voters

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Calendar reminds me this is our first-date anniversary, July 9, 1999 - TWENTY FIVE years?? Wow I guess it took 😄 here we are on the beach last summer

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Thank you! Some are newly unearthed, some are items I lived with my whole childhood and never really found disturbing at the time, but I see them with fresh eyes now as we organize to eventually clean out 😅

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

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Karen K. Ho's avatar Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social
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When I learned about this, I went back to booking hotels.

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Massachusetts is a state that proves time and time again that it will give lip service to public transit while prioritizing cars. And that means that people choose cars over dysfunctional and inadequate public transit. It's a rational choice and sometimes an unavoidable one.

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Oof! Mom was recounting the 1965 blackout that affected parts of Canada, New York and New England

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So, I can’t stop thinking about this, an entire street lost power but the electric company only knows that if we all report it? That seems…primitive?

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My husband went out & got ice so we won’t lose the contents of our fridge. We ate cold food by candlelight & told stories. The first floor is about 80°, not terrible. The electric truck is working on the poles. Oh boy the power is back on!!!

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Really the heat is a bigger issue. It’s still in the 90s out there

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Thank you. I love the idea of that! Mom is 90 and disabled so this is a bit tricky

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Right? My aspie brain is like, “but I did not have a plan B for this!!” But I’ll figure it out

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We’ll graze lunch things, it’s cool. I’m on the spectrum & not the best at pivoting when things go sideways, but it’s not a disaster really. Just having a fantasy where being able to eat whatever would be so helpful right now, but that’s not a thing!

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Power’s out right as I was about to cook dinner 😩 We are all on specific foods and do not order out ever because for us it’s not a treat, it makes us feel sick. My husband went to get ice so I can put some things in a cooler we can get to. Mom will happily eat Greek yogurt for dinner so that’s fine

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There are all kinds of houses in this neighborhood and some are storybook. (Seen on yesterday’s morning walk )

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As office owners get serious about converting buildings to residential, the city and state offer up big incentives to make projects feasible.

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