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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 43m

The original.
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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1h

I usually don't do well on these.

Flashback for October 18, 2025

28 points
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Play here:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Oct. 18, 2025

Can you sort 8 historical events?

www.nytimes.com

Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 4h

#poet #poem #poetry #Art #Artists #History #Writers #Words #Authors
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
#WritingTips #writingadvice #WriterSupport #pubtips #Indieauthor #BookPromotion #SellingBooks #BookSales
#Beauty #Beautiful
#artsky #poetrysky #booksky
#writersky #authorsky

Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 11d

#Indieauthor #writingcommunity #amwriting #authorsky #writersky

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1d

#Jazz #Music
#Parker
#jazzsky #musicsky

Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 4d

#LookAndSee 224
#MusicChallenge

Back Home Blues

#jazzsky, #jazz, #musicsky

youtu.be/tEYybsfigtM?...

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1d

A dictionary and a thesaurus
walk into a bar.

#poet #poem #poetry #Art #Artists #History #Writers #Words #Authors
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
#WritingTips #writingadvice #WriterSupport #pubtips #Indieauthor
#Beauty #Beautiful
#artsky #poetrysky #booksky
#writersky #authorsky

Reference books hanging out

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1d

Gen Z:
Big Soda wants you back!

What they think will work:

* 7 oz. size
* Flavors made for TikTok
* Dirty soda

Coca-Cola will launch a cane-sugar-sweetened Coke in glass bottles soon as a test.

No more high fructose corn syrup?

Would this win you back?

tinyurl.com/5523pwup

#GenZ #TikTok

Soda gets a Gen Z glow-up with new flavors and sizes

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are testing TikTok-inspired flavors and smaller cans to lure young buyers.

tinyurl.com

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 19h

I actually found the second word first. It was the first thing I thought of.

I told myself no, they wouldn't do that.
😆

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 19h

a woman with tears in her eyes and the words after all tomorrow is another day

ALT: a woman with tears in her eyes and the words after all tomorrow is another day

media.tenor.com

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 20h

#Polygonle 1175 2/6︎
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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 20h

#Wordle
#Wordle_NYT

Wordle 1,582 6/6

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 20h

#Strands

Strands #594
“Get to work ...”
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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 20h

#Connections

Connections
Puzzle #860
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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent!

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1d

🥲

When I see a beautiful tree, I always tell it to not worry, that spring will be coming soon.

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Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1d

A dictionary and a thesaurus
walk into a bar.

#poet #poem #poetry #Art #Artists #History #Writers #Words #Authors
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
#WritingTips #writingadvice #WriterSupport #pubtips #Indieauthor
#Beauty #Beautiful
#artsky #poetrysky #booksky
#writersky #authorsky

Reference books hanging out

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

www.youtube.com

1 1 10

Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1d

#Jazz #Music
#Parker
#jazzsky #musicsky

Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 4d

#LookAndSee 224
#MusicChallenge

Back Home Blues

#jazzsky, #jazz, #musicsky

youtu.be/tEYybsfigtM?...

1 2

Carole Bell @carolebell.bsky.social · 1d

Gen Z:
Big Soda wants you back!

What they think will work:

* 7 oz. size
* Flavors made for TikTok
* Dirty soda

Coca-Cola will launch a cane-sugar-sweetened Coke in glass bottles soon as a test.

No more high fructose corn syrup?

Would this win you back?

tinyurl.com/5523pwup

#GenZ #TikTok

Soda gets a Gen Z glow-up with new flavors and sizes

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are testing TikTok-inspired flavors and smaller cans to lure young buyers.

tinyurl.com