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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Sep 2

No no, I'd been cooking, thus standing. I stirred a thing, then cleaned up my crafts. I held the spoon in my hand, I needed the hand, I put down the spoon. I was counter-height when I began, but took the spoon with me to the floor. This is no land of logic, nothing happens on purpose

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Sep 2

I set it down to clean up the fabric I'd been cutting on the floor. Why, to do this, I set the food spoon on the FLOOR instead of the COUNTER, remains a mystery

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Sep 2

"My, how like your father you look" - Procne

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · Sep 2

Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Sep 2

Help me @sparknotes.bsky.social, you're my only hope

Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Sep 2

I REQUIRE AID.

For real, I need a non-racist version of "oh no, Brere Bear, don't throw me into the briar patch"

My brain runs in references and that one is so algorithmically engrained that "twist my arm" or whatever won't budge it. #help

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Aug 31

When... did I put this on the floor

A metal slotted spoon with a white handle lying on a gray-and-white rug

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Aug 30

Breakfast is brownie and fresh-made berry jam. Because I can

A glass of coffee next to a plate holding a wedge-shaped brownie and a small glass bowl of berry jam

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Aug 30

To the woman who ran a stop sign directly in front of the police station:

Why.

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Jul 15

I can't get past this. Two hundred and fifty years of purposeful balance, of structuring a government that evaluated and monitored itself

Broken to PIECES by one goddamn man.

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Jul 15

If you're wondering what has me crying this morning, the supreme court's shadow docket told the president to go back to ripping apart our department of education

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Jul 15

It's the worst feeling in the world to be this glad that my father's dead. He loved this country so much, the history and promise of it, with such a strong sense of civic pride and responsibility

He was also an educator all his life. Thrived on helping people share that love and find their path

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Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Jul 15

Please understand how... understated I'm phrasing it

Spider Tries @spidertries.bsky.social · Jul 15

It's not nice that waking up to NPR is the auditory equivalent of doomscrolling now

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