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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 4m

Thinking about the UPS costs of updating a return and what that might involve and I might as well act the sucker and overpay the taxes because a few mailings would probably work out to almost as much and with way more hassle.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 8m

This is all very very stupid considering how very little money I made for the tax year. I guess my mistakes this round will be cheaper at least.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 9m

very annoyed and I have to UPS this shit before the store closes in 12 hours. I also very much need to sleep.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 11m

AH! Time to look up how to ammend a return, fines if I wait, or just give up and file to pay the self employment tax I don't technically owe.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 13m

The official IRS made guide for international taxpayers did not mention that this was a requirement and made it sound like it was just something do do for your own records. But this detail is buried in the Schedule SE instructions, a form you don't actually have to file in this situation.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 17m

Love to find out that I need to obtain and *submit* a statement from the government of Canada with my US taxes on the eve of filing deadline. And Monday is Thanksgiving, Tuesday is the deadline, who knows how long the turnaround is, and we're on a mail strike anyways.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 1d

makin the new place cozy!

eggplant and banana fridge magnets with goofy smiling faces.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I never changed Flux from Los Angeles time... oops.

EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

Yooo! Those are pretty alright!

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psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 3d

chipping sparrow scrutinizes some grass seeds 🪶

small sparrow with rusty cap, dark eye line, and sandy-gray plumage stares at seed heads(?) growing out from from lawn grass
small sparrow with rusty cap, dark eye line, and sandy-gray plumage stares at seed heads(?) growing out from from lawn grass

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

ok what if you got your hands on some surplus transit fabric and reupholstered a couch with it

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

errr actually polypropylene, not polyethylene I think. But still...

EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

Pales in comparison to everything else going on but the material of the everyman's clothes and bedding shifting from natural fibers to plastics is bleak.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

We went and browsed around one of those mass market home goods stores and the vast majority of the bedding related items were polyester with polyethelene fill and I felt dead inside.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

Feeling so adrift without my job but I have to remember that, for the rest of the year, my job is now House.

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inspectorbeans @inspectorbeans.bsky.social · 3d

little bittern ~

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inspectorbeans @inspectorbeans.bsky.social · Jun 8

I spent the day at a gelli-plate printing workshop and I had so much fun!!!

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

And much like how it works with real world topics, a bunch of artists complaining/arguing/whatever to an audience of each other and the consumers will do incredibly little to effect any changes to the structures responsible for the shape of things.

EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

this is the number one reason I avoid the wholesale following of animation people online. (The number two reason is I already see enough cartoons offline, I don't need my feed full of them too.)

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

Animation takes on here making me nuts again

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

In a place where you have to run the heat 2/3 of the year I'm sure sharing walls makes a HUGE difference. Even in Florida when my mom moved from her house to an apartment her electric bill cratered.

EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of people commenting are focusing on commutes, etc as the main driver of this disparity but I suspect even more of it comes down to dwelling footprint and shared walls. I suspect the city's condo towers are doing a lot of heavy lifting here (and the prevalence of semis and rowhouses).

Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 4d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 4d

First played it on emulator in high school and became obsessed. It plays like a SNES game. So much sophistication in the craft from every department. Makes a lot of sense given the year, but still, wow.

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EAM @elizmcmahill.bsky.social · 4d

Bald eagle? Sharp/Opportunist.
Belted Kingfisher? Baby.
Anhinga? Long/Sharp
Cattle Egret? Long/Opportunist.
Spotted Sandpiper? Long/Baby.