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Gretchen

@wokkax3.bsky.social

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Founding member of Golden Girls fan club, Blanche Davidians. But, I guess this is mostly a rodent account now.

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 36m

Oh nice! I love golf. I’m a huge golfhead

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 5h

Back atcha

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 6h

Jan 2021

Sexy squirrel with an acorn in mouth. Black and white

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 6h

Oh Christ. Ok I forgot Qatar gave the monster a plane. Now he owes them an Idaho. Sure sure.

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 6h

At least it’s cooling down to the low 90s?

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 6h

It’s called low expectations, and it prevents a lot of crying jags

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 7h

I never get up this early. I wake up at 10-something on weekdays. Today it just felt important that I spend the most amount of time being irritated that I can’t text my dead friend.

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 7h

Hello, breakfast wine.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 8h

Squirrel of the Day for October 11, 2025 reaches for the helicopter seeds in a maple tree #sqrlpix

gray squirrel in maple tree

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 8h

See ya later then

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 8h

Complete soap opera novel (derogatory)

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 15h

Well. Yeah.

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 15h

The inevitable answer is Chris Cooper! A god I don’t believe in has somehow filled all the gaps in our lives

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 15h

Late night confession: the only Springsteen song I really like is The Ghost of Tom Joad. And the only Steinbeck book I really like is the angry grapist one

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 15h

It’s the same!

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 15h

Late night confession: the only Springsteen song I really like is The Ghost of Tom Joad. And the only Steinbeck book I really like is the angry grapist one

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 15h

Late night confession: the only Springsteen song I really like is The Ghost of Tom Joad. And the only Steinbeck book I really like is the angry grapist one

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 16h

The most hygienic of boys!

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 16h

Feeling better now. Hanging out with my rodent pals

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s an iPad-generated slideshow of a trip to the Austin Zoo(“”)
From 2022

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 17h

Buddy. You and I got hang out.

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 17h

Temperate climate brag

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 18h

You’re in Atlanta(-ish)? Austin is still in the 90s. I’ll grab a mini-box of red here and there, but I can’t commit to that much red until November. It’s still ice cubes in yr wine time at my place

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 18h

Solidarity.

Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 18h

You know what? I’m gonna fuckin immerse myself in passive-aggression and boxed wine tonight bc the alternative is fucking bleak. (Not a cry for help, just fuckin over it. I’ll be fine tmrw)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 23h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Frank Ray Whitehouse (He/Him) @wheeltod.bsky.social · 21h

There’s a hackneyed multitude of horror movie scenes showing a person having a hive of insects fly out of their mouth.

Which somehow made it all the more surprising this morning — when it actually happened to me.