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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 3h

I wish they had included a photo from the past, whenever the fountain was previously in a operational condition.
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San Francisco Wants to Destroy a 96-Year-Old’s Defining Artwork

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 3h

Is this stuff even actually healthy for you though? I kind of want to try one but I'm also somewhat scared to because I'm very sensitive to caffeine www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/m...

If an Energy Drink Drank an Energy Drink, You’d Get a Celsius

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 17h

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I find archival photos of the city from, say, the 1990s or 1980s so fascinating and weird. It's the same city, not "historic" like those from well before, but just different enough to be weird. Dream like. Take the subway to the uncanny valley stop.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 18h

I didn't see this yesterday on #molluscmonday

Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 1d

Hey there lil guy

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 1d

Do people who live in very large states think it's also wild in a different way how tiny some states are?

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking even bigger than that, like the states out west. It's wild to me to think about when it would be possible to drive from one end to the other (and back) of my state in one day.

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 1d

It's strange to me to think about how vast some other states are compared to small states like where I live

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly this? I don't have this particular one, but this is a reliable brand. www.patagonia.com/product/refu...

Patagonia Refugio Daypack 30L

Our Patagonia® Refugio Daypack 30L is built for heavier workloads. Made with 100% recycled polyester in a Fair Trade Certified™ factory.

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 1d

It's so tiny and cute!!

every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 1d

CRYSTAL HILL: 6200 HOWARD P ANDERSON RD, CRYSTAL HILL VA 24539-9998

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone actually have one of these experimental phone cases? How practical (or not) are they really? I can't buy one because I don't use an iPhone. www.baileyhikawa.com/collections/...

Phone Cases

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering about the etymology of the word "satellite" 🛰 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/satellite

satellite - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 2d

another idea I could do is to take customer requests, which are submitted in the store/restaurant and added to the playlist (perhaps at my discretion based on whether I like the suggestions or not). people are limited to one request per visit?

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 2d

in other words, in my theoretical small business establishment, if I decided to do something experimental with the music choices and play one song repeatedly for each hour of the day (the song changes each hour), would customers notice and decide they don't want to be subjected to that and leave?

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 2d

I can't really think of any places (stores or restaurants) I specifically avoid going to because I hate the music they play there; most of the time I'm either indifferent/neutral about it, or perhaps actually enjoy the music selections of certain places.

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 2d

if I owned and ran some kind of small business with a storefront open to the public, I wonder if my personal choices for the background music that would be played there would attract clientele, drive them away, or have no particular effect either way?

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 2d

Archaeology of trash. While I look down on people who intentionally litter, sometimes it is interesting to see what items end up as litter and where. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/c...

What Things Left Behind Say About a Home’s Past, and the Times We Live In

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 2d

Even though maybe it shouldn't, it surprises me that people don't read the labels carefully on OTC medications like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

Taking Too Much Tylenol Has Proven Risks. Trump Didn’t Talk About Those.

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 2d

I've been seeing those commercials too and every time I just... groan internally.

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dame @dame.is · 2d

“what do you wanna be when you grow up?”

an enigma

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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me of the recycled water treatment building in the Nye suburb of Aarhus, Denmark.

Photo of glass wall on an A-frame building near a pond with grass growing around it

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder if I will ever see a sinkhole in person. Hopefully I won't fall into one that opens up suddenly beneath me though.

Gretchen von Tongeln @metalligretch.bsky.social · 4d

They fixed the sinkhole before I could look in it, story of my life.

Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 5d

One of the recommended products is Dove, and while I haven't tried that particular one, some of their other scents I have tried in body wash and did not like them. So I'm not inclined to try any other dove body washes.

Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe the ones they ultimately suggested are fine, but honestly, something like body wash is a more subjective product that people should probably just find their own personal favorites instead of trying to rely on suggestions in wirecutter articles.

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Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️ @rachelvetica.bsky.social · 5d

Stay tuned for another installment of my rebuttals to wirecutter articles... www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

We Found the Best Body Wash. It Took 3 Months, 26 Testers, and 144 Bottles.

After evaluating 144 body washes, we found five top-tier formulas that cleanse and soften skin without leaving it stripped, slimy, or overly perfumed.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5d

Longtime Soren watchers know that I'm a SEPA 2 devotee, but there's no question that SEPA 3 is more dramatic

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago @mwrdgc.bsky.social · 5d

🍂 Fall colors bloom at sunset over the MWRD's Sidestream Elevated Pool Aeration (SEPA) Station #3 on the Cal-Sag Channel in Blue Island, Illinois. Learn about the work of the MWRD on our next virtual tour October 15: mwrd.org/education/to...

Fall colors bloom at sunset over the MWRD's Sidestream Elevated Pool Aeration (SEPA) Station #3 on the Cal-Sag Channel in Blue Island, Illinois. The Western Avenue bridge is seen in the background. Learn about the work of the MWRD on our next virtual tour October 15: https://mwrd.org/education/tours/virtual-tours

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