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Weirdre Lee

@deirdrelee.bsky.social

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poet ✨️ performer ✨️ voice artist neurodivergent badass ⚡️ cat lady & bibliophile she/her A haiku: Older than I look Smarter than I often sound Cuter than I know I love books & animals & humans being rad to each other & compliments FYI PSA BTW xo

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Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 25d

TFW
You do your hair
&
You do your nails
&
You do your makeup
&
You do the march
&
You do your poems
&
You
Remember
You
Are
Kinda
Badass

Selfie of poet wearing gray tank top, hand on her chest showing pretty nails (with tiny hearts on em)

Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 5m

Current
Mood
This
View
✨️💞

View of a street that slopes down to water with several houses on the right, a red car & a multicoloured sunset sky in the background. An apple tree is just visible on the left side

Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 3h

Yeahhhh I figured.
(Apparently I'm hitting the hyperbole hard, tho not very well, as a coping mechanism)
But appreciate confirmation of truth/reality, even if it's not the answer I want.

Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 20h

True story

Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 20h

My Canadian girlfriend will be hearing about this

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Connecticut has become a destination for quick marriages between immigrants and U.S. citizens from out of state.

Federal immigration officials have taken notice.

My latest with @brigurciullo.bsky.social and @blockhartreporter.bsky.social. www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

Why couples traveling to Connecticut to wed are raising questions about sham marriages

A CT Insider investigation has found that Bridgeport has become a destination for quick marriages between immigrants and U.S. citizens, with couples traveling from out of state to wed.

www.ctinsider.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20h

talk to the toes

a tux cat half asleep with a grumpy look on her face. a leg/paw is curled around resting in front of her face. the beans are pink

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Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 20h

*screams internally yet artistically*

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 20h

Ok ok my new band name is
The Potato Cats

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Reject truffle pigs
Embrace potato cats

Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 21h

cute & delicious is a mood 🥄🩶

🦇Brushbug Connoisseur Ryn🦇 @goblinryn.bsky.social · 2d

I like when my gf calls me an increasingly long strange amount of food words it's cute to me. Like why yes, I am her "sugar muffin cutie pie waffle pancake blueberry mango slice" and I won't be taking any questions on it.

Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 21h

Y'all I just love these furry brothers so much 🧡✨️🖤

Walter
AKA
The Waltese Falcon
&
Lady Marmalade

Reginald
AKA
Tiny Reg
&
Floppy Scoops Noodle Arms

Walter Marmalade is a chonky orange cat asleep on the sofa, resting his cute chin on the blanket with one white paw stretched towards the camera

Reginald Featherbottom Mocha is a slim tuxedo cat curled up on the sofa with his little toes touching his little nose

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Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 21h

This is a joke, right?
PLEASE tell me this is satire or some nonsense.

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Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social · 1d

This month is the 56th anniversary of the #TV #anime Sazae-san, running weekly since 5 October 1969, the longest-running animated TV show in the world. Midori Kato holds the record for the longest career as the voice of a single character. Last year's celebrations: soranews24.com/2024/11/19/s...

Sazae-san breaks own Guinness World Records again for 55 years on television

Star voice actor is 85 going on 25.

soranews24.com

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Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 22h

So much this 💖

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 1d

If you worked on something today, congratulate yourself: Childcare, answering emails, physical therapy, writing, watering plants.

Anything you did, go ‘head & remind yourself you survived another day & that’s a gracious plenty, given what’s happening.

Let’s not take our survival for granted.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

What if.

Pear pie. With warm custard sauce.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

I saw Antifa in Portland making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 1d

Stealing this because lmao/facts

Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 1d

Reginald is the champion of the front follow

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

Idk how cats manage to follow you from in front but they love that sht

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"We separate people from their kids. Tackle as many of them as possible. Zip-tie their toddlers and grandparents. And stand around looking tough. We look so tough. Increasingly, we also really need to take dumps."

Please Let Our Warfighters Use Your Restroom

By now, you’ve noticed our brave patriots—ICE, the National Guard, police officers, select local mall cops, rando bodyguards, weird little incels, ...

buff.ly

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

I love how my iPhone will be like “time spent with friends” and it’s literally just pictures of my pets like okay apple there’s no need to be a dick about it

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Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 1d

"If you're willing to compromise everything—to have no public morals or beliefs, to make your work palatable to everyone—there is so, so much money to be made."

WHEW indeed.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 2d

They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …

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Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 1d

Oh eff off

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 1d

My new band name?
"Canadian Reindeer Bailiffs"

Thanks for the inspo Mr Guy &
@catsofyore.bsky.social

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, but if a sentence starts with ‘per’ it’s usually a bummer.

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Weirdre Lee @deirdrelee.bsky.social · 1d

Like ...
This
Energy
Or
It is
A
Hard
Nope
From
Me
xo
💘

Cosmic Crow @ethereal-astronaut.bsky.social · 2d

I plan on telling you all about how beautiful you are.

So have a seat by the fire, ill bring you a drink, and let me tell you everything until the sun rises tomorrow.

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