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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 10h

Oh heck yeah, I love falafel!
Thanks!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 13h

I especially love the dutch oven, and potato drawers!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 13h

It's so good!

Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 15h

Also, smashed potato salad is pretty amazing & already includes fried potatoes. I prefer to make my dressing yogurt-based, instead of w/ mayo.

hungryhappens.net/crispy-smash...

Crispy Smashed Potato Salad

A crunchy and creamy new way to eat a flavor packed potato salad. We went to town on this creamy hearty salad. If you love smashed potatoes and adore a creamy tzatziki like dressing, you’re in luck! T...

hungryhappens.net

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 15h

OK so if you cut the fries smaller and overfry them a little until they're crispy, I think you'd have some tasty potato croutons for your salad.

Surely, someone can devise a new caesar salad based around fry croutons!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 18h

Yep! We are a costume-rich city lol.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 19h

Very much an eyesore of the highest order. Approve!

(The colors are legit nice).

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 19h

Robbed, I saiz.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks!

Note that describing the visual elements of any image is just as important as copying the text. Thanks again!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

Necessity truly is the mother of invention. I made so many costumes from thrifted fabric - clothing, sheets, curtains, you name it!

My early PDX days were so rough, but also so beautiful. Granted, it's easier to appreciate 20+ years later ❤️.

Spooky Darkest Britta @darkest-timeline.bsky.social · 20h

We were weird because we were the last affordable left coast city. And then that changed. :(

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

Oh! And we threw amazing parties on less than shoestring budgets. We got so creative!

Huge thanks to the Goodwill Bins for the clothing by the pound. I made so many costumes from upcycling those clothes, sheets, curtains, whatever (after thoroughly washing them) 😂.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah.
I was so broke when I moved here. I was just reminiscing about the days when I used to go out w/ $10 in my pocket for the night. Granted, $1 PBR, but still. I used to wait tables so not tipping was not an option.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

No worries! Thanks!

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

Exactly this.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

Speaking as a Portlander who dresses up almost every day even though I still have to socially isolate.

I discovered that chemises & overdresses are extremely comfy, so now I look like a renfaire maiden at home during all the cool weather months. PDX has many cool weather months lol.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

Together everyone is one big pot of honey?

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

Let's not gang up on him yet, he can still fix this.

Plus, at least the alt text isn't creating a burden by being nondescript ("image 1"), or just full of jokes.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 20h

I think the rest of the USA may be surprised by how many Portlanders love dressing up.

PDX is where costume-lovers from all genres come together. We have burners, clowns, gamers, the kink scene, SCA, fashionistas, pagans, hippy festival kids, goths, theatre kids... The list never ends.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 21h

Can you please repost with alt text?

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 21h

A Honey Do list and everyone is your honey.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 21h

When we drove to Minneapolis from PDX, we stopped for the night in Spokane... Then drove through Idaho's panhandle with no stops as I looked at the gorgeous landscapes through the car window.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 21h

Is it uploaded to youtube at all?

Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 21h

This rich loser sounds like my father, who is a lifelong cultist. Thiel is in a position to cause huge amounts of harm to a great many people.

Rich delusional assholes need to be ridiculed out of public life. Shame them. Shame them forever.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.bsky.social · 21h

LOL! What a loser.