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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 11h

The minute Trump takes that long walk, Miller and Vance will be at each other’s throats. Vance has the legal right to assume power but Miller is de facto the acting dictator at this point, & the thug army answers to him.

I wish I thought the only people who’d get hurt by the fallout would be them.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 16h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession:

950-page bulleted list

And its sequel:

Set in Comic Sans

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 18h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 18h

It also has real “I don’t have the faintest clue who was President on Jan 6 2021 because my brain has melted” energy too

Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 19h

Anyway, having dumped the sludge down the toilet and been thoroughly disgusted by it, I am vowing to do better at cleaning than Mom. (Which I kinda already do, she wasn’t into it, though she was happy to pay someone else to do the basics).

Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 19h

Like: sometimes for no obvious reason it stops spraying cleaning fluid. Shut it off, remove the attachment and rinse it, replace it, and boom, works fine.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 19h

So I have stripped and washed everything that’s machine washable and scrubbed everything that isn’t. With extra attention to the sofa. This will be done again each spring and fall.

The Bissell works well. But just like the carpet cleaner I have at home, it has a few quirks.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 20h

Mom had a woman come in once or twice a week to do basic housework but the concept of deep cleaning was something she paid little attention to (Mom, I mean). I knew it needed more than just vacuuming and I finally got there and thank heavens because yuck.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 20h

And if you look at the tank on the right side of the photo, you will notice about an inch of gray sludge on the bottom. That’s 20 years of dust and dog hair accumulated on the recliners I just cleaned, plus 30 years of same for the sofa. Eeeeew.

I did say it was long overdue.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 20h

Part of the goal of this visit to the cottage was to do a long overdue cleaning of the upholstery with the portable upholstery cleaner I bought a couple years ago but never got around to using. This little guy.

Photo of a Bissell Little Green portable upholstery cleaner.

I don’t know why they call it Little Green when it’s mostly blue and black in color. The bristles on the cleaning brushes are green but not much else.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 20h

You’re looking at the window above the sink. Here’s the entire room as seen from just outside that bedroom door:

A small kitchen with blue cabinets, white linoleum floor, and a small breakfast table with two chairs

Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 20h

That’s the kitchen at the cottage. The bedroom door was open

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 23h

Madame’s current status:*

*the random paw in the bottom center of the photo is Loki’s. He’s lying on his back in the spot where Mark was sleeping.

Great Dane sleeping at the foot of a queen size bed

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 23h

And yes, I slept poorly, but the point is, I could choose between a night in the sofa with Madame pressed against my legs or a night in the bed with Madame pressed against my legs. All other options untenable. Madame not in the sleeping space leads to tragic wailing

a woman with a crown on her head is singing opera noises intensify

ALT: a woman with a crown on her head is singing opera noises intensify

media.tenor.com

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 23h

Eventually, Miss Holly came looking for me, which gave me a chance to go back to the bed and rearrange the dogs more to my liking. Bert had already taken the opportunity to curl up at Mark’s feet, so I arranged Loki in the space between me and Mark and Holly at my feet and went back to sleep.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 23h

I’m drooling all over myself dammit Chris

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a self-serve operation in every sense of the term

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

If we had to lose a 79 year old

Why take Diane Keaton when he is RIGHT. THERE.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 1d

And no, keeping the dogs from sleeping in the bed with us is not a realistic option

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 1d

We are definitely going to need to do some renovations on this cottage before we move here so we have space for the Cali King because it’s clear a queen size ain’t gonna work

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 1d

Just as I typed that, Miss Holly shoved me almost off the bed, and yes, dear friend, I have given up and gone to sleep on the sofa.

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