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Rachel

@slightlycaustic.bsky.social

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I smiled and waved. Married Mom of two adults. Pro Vaccine, all of them. Anti Conservative, all of them. Cat lady. Canadian. Godless heathen.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 15

Planning murders and laughing at irony are two very different things.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · Sep 18

Within a fortnight, you’ll have 3 (three) channels to choose from: Fox, The Gun Channel, and The Flag Channel. Every ad will be for boner pills

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Andreya @andreyasasylum.bsky.social · Sep 19

No thoughts, only cats.

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GᵣₐbₜₕₑWₑₙₑₛₛ @ayankdownunder.bsky.social · Sep 19

Of course we’re being monitored here in some fashion. And only tiny groups of us know each other from years ago.

So, don’t be too trusting of anyone- including me (unless you know me from twatter), and be careful what you share and with whom.
And please don’t make big “plans” with anyone on the TL.

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · Sep 19

Warning
Anal-bead pulling for the next 3km

A yellow-and-black triangular warning sign on a pole, surrounded by greenery. The image looks vaguely like a narwhal - or a human hand pulling a small chain of round objects.

(It's a railway sign denoting a hotbox detector - something that measures the heat of train wheels on a track to prevent derailments)

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gluggaveður 🕊️ @lscrapl.bsky.social · Sep 19

you've forgotten more about me than most people will ever know

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Cosmically Funny @cosmicallyf.bsky.social · Sep 19

Even Stephen Miller's hair thinks he's an awful person.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

And did it spray or is that my weed ?

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

Oh my porch kitty is an inside kitty by dark. Theres bobcats and coyotes around here.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

A skunk just showed up on my front porch.

Daytime porch kitty might have to skip his outside time today.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

Remember when people all masked and there wasn't a flu season.

Those were the real good old days.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

I now own five cats or they own me really.

I never went out and got one of these cats, they just moved in.

Cheeky little bastards, i love them so much.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

He's so cuddly. And gives me the best kitty hugs. He abandoned his old home for my porch so what could i do? We had to compromise on him being an indoor only cat though,He goes out in the day when the weather is not too hot (and looks in from the deck) and comes in at night and has his big sleeps.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

Yeah it's just not. And the fault lies with corporations across the board in north America. I mean what are you and your wife expected to eat when your pay barely covers housing or transportation? And then in America if you're sick theres no fallback. Its just so wrong.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

Remember when people all masked and there wasn't a flu season.

Those were the real good old days.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

My fifth cat chose me for his retirement home.

He's incontinent needs many trips to the vet for his neurological issues and hates all my cats and being inside, he is about 13 to 14 years old.

Of course i welcomed him to the family.

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ʷᵒʳᴰSMIFF™️🇵🇸🇾🇪🇨🇩🍉(DEI) @smiff87.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

Listen to Shoots and Ladders on your streaming service

tidal.com/track/113455...

Korn - Shoots and Ladders

Listen to Shoots and Ladders on TIDAL

tidal.com

Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

Many people live one paycheque away from homelessness.

Through no fault of their own.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · Sep 19

Listen to Élan on your streaming service

tidal.com/track/108029...

Nightwish - Élan

Listen to Élan on TIDAL

tidal.com

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · Sep 18

It shook me that white man at Fox News was allowed to say all homeless people should be killed. On live TV. I WAS homeless a decade ago. The isolation you experience after being cast off by people is why I refuse to speak to anyone who knew me back then. It’s unforgivable what the homeless endure

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · Jul 29

Do you ever just get sad about how many people have fully embraced anti-intellectualism?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 19

It’s super bad to suggest someone is in hell, right, Republicans?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 18

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · Sep 18

Trump’s revenge for being exquisitely ridiculed by people who are funnier, more clever, more interesting, and more beloved than he is will never stop.

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