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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1h

Two Words: Interlibrary Loan

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1h

So for the older crowd, you need to know the youths are shameless about cramming 7 of themselves into a compact Uber for $5.00.

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Kellaweena 🎃 @kellalena.bsky.social · 8h

In a love triangle between dehydration and clenching my jaw.

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 3h

Perimenopause swings are worse than every type or hormonal mood swing combined. I have to do grounding exercises and whisper in different languages so I don't peel my face skin off and scream full volume all my life's pain out like a demon banshee before I run full speed out of the grocery store.

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 6h

I liked a picture of a dog connected to a kink page and now all I get is couples pics 😭

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 12h

Alyssa I do not care that your trophy partner Shane introduced veganism to your life. I do not care about the newest cookbook Shane bought you, or how Shane makes your life better.

I'm going to get a hazelnut plum scone from the bakery down the block. They can cook and don't need my hype.

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 12h

Hating yourself because you still bought it

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 12h

Them: How do I make this right?

Us: How do you fix fucking up a kid's entire childhood?

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 12h

No, I'm not obsessed with you or jealous. I'm observing patterns: the hs boyfriend Steve, my dad consistently choosing Gayle over his kids, mom choosing the older sibling with addictions, and how I was always to see that they were all doing it purposely. Assholes just asshole. We don't deserve it.

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 13h

I don't recommend having a kid. It's cruel to them to bring them into this shit.

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 13h

Having to teach my kid to be a bigger asshole than all the assholes in his life has been the stupidest lesson of our lives.

I'm tired of everybody.

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 14h

That's the dumbest shit they've ever heard. ❤️

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 14h

Taking walks can reduce your sense of impending doom.
Try to walk 24 hours a day if possible!

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 18h

Rideshared Steve home last night.
Again.
He took some goth girl to see the Conjuring.
Again.

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

Man, I saw that asshole's hemorrhoids.

Not these guys' hemorrhoids. These guys were on the radio as I said the words out loud. It was good accompaniment for a holy moment.

The WAITIKI 7 - "Left Arm of Buddha" (Aug 2022)

YouTube video by The WAITIKI 7

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Fixins’ Bar @fixinsbar.bsky.social · 5d

owner of bologna heart

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

For the Rocky Horror and literary nerds protesting animal cruelty out there (humans are animals)

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

I put it there to dry from the wash. I look over and it's guilt tripping me. It's not even a real cat.

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

Oh God. This was worse than seeing roadkill and Bambi. I want to cry puke.

You're a good writer.

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

About confronting the prison/justice system for reform: it isn't about empathizing for some truly awful humans. It's that we fund the creation of torturers in order to perpetuate a system of escalating violence. Survivors know they aren't crazy and were harmed. Criminals need extensive therapy.

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not much of a smut watcher (unless I want a laugh) but a thing that I do hate is watching the planet turn into this place where crazy ass conservative religious families with 4+ kids tell everybody we're not allowed to talk about sex. I wonder how they had those kids. I know how I had mine.

Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

Me and my credit union are in a Fancy Warehouse space. Actually, technically I live in a "Garage Revival" loft.

It's an actual historic garage, and everybody's singing karaoke at the bar next door.

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

Saw this card in a display this morning. Without my glasses on I thought it was an octopus head and the card in front was hiding it's tentacles. The similarity struck me as fun. I snapped the studio name to give credit, not advertise on their behalf. I do buy from this local studio, though.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 1d

good morning only to people who aren't actively ruining other people's lives

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Claire Flowers @baberadbury.bsky.social · 1d

Hey somebody in the media who has a huge security team should do a glamorized totally safe documentary on what it is like being in the hospitality/service industry in Dubai. I bet it's worse than working in Vegas, but if it was we'd never know

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