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Call me Cloves
@cloves.bsky.social
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Gen X trying to find relevance. I have a husband, 3 sons, and a best friend who lives too far away from me. Introvert who needs distance. No touching.
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Gen. Caine always looks so embarrassed to be associated with this administration. And yet, there he stays.
Gens Caine and Bradley. Gen Bradley has a look of Righteous indignation while Gen Caine, circled in blue, looks absolutely chagrined to be doing the work of MAGA. Almost as if he knows it's soiling both his uniform and his character. But not quite shameful enough to walk away from the orbit of power. No matter how depraved it becomes.
December 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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It's a loaves of homemade bread kind of time.
Top view of 4 loaves of fresh butternut bread Cross section view of butternut bread.
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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I made vanilla, vanilla paste, and vanilla sugar for gifts for friends this year. Which means I had to be thinking about this in September to start everything.

Please clap.
Packaged gifts include small jars of vanilla, vanilla paste, and vanilla sugar laid carefully in boxes lined with brown crinkled paper to keep the glass from changing against each other.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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What's Up Doc?

Fun movie with an amazing cast.
Movie poster for What's Up Doc?
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Get some pickle flavored soda.

Or, I guess you could just run some pickle juice through a SodaStream.
Bottle of pickle flavored soda. Its the bright yellow green you would expect pickle soda to be and the whole thing is very suspect
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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I got a new tattoo this month to commemorate swimming with the sharks in Hawaii in October.
For someone who grew up in a landlocked state the ocean is so therapeutic for me. My husband and I got SCUBA certified when he was stationed in California then we moved away from the ocean forever.
Tattoo on the forearm of 2 sharks. It is a top down view of them with their shadow to the right of them. the Sharks are in line with the head shark turning to the left with a gentil curving motion. The colors are shaded in blue and white.
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Gif that pops up when I type my name
To bulbs of garlic that then transitions to a pile of garlic skin and a pile of smooth garlic cloves.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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This is an extremely Mormon coded joke, but it hits!
Photo of Donald Trump handing to a file to a man with a painting of Martin Harris' head superimposed on his head. The caption reads: Trump Lets Martin Harris Take The Epstein Files Home For Safekeeping.
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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MEME: Breaking News in the top left corner. The picture; Black Space with hundreds of white, distant stars. The foreground, a Golden Angel Moroni like those found on the top of Mormon temples tilted horizontal, flying west, with the illusion of rocket thrust at it's feet. The Caption: NASA CONFIRMS: Comet 31/ATLAS is on a "strict missionary path" - knocking on every planet asking if they've heard about Kolob. This is a very Mormon coded joke. One that will either amuse of offend every Mormon adjacent person on the internet. There is no middle ground.
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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We have a headless horseman in our neighborhood.

There are enough horses in town someone should be able to pull together the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse one year.
A brown horse carrying a body dressed in black pants and a bright red cloak, no head walking down the street.
November 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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This is Carbon. She passed away a year ago this week.
Black lab with a skeleton painted on her fur in white. Her long punk tongue is sticking out.
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Now it's abducting a cow
The same 12 foot inflatable Halloween UFO decoration but now it has a cow caught in the tractor beam.
October 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I dont have to secure it from the wind if I inflate it inside.
12 ft Halloween UFO inflatable inflated upright inside my living room.
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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It's not a great look.
Artist (AI probably) rendition of the White house with the new ballroom. The ballroom is to the left of the white house, dwarfs it in size, and doesn't match the building style. At all.
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I was picking apples yesterday afternoon in the rain. I stuck my hand in a nest in the apple tree and found these. They were cold and one had been broken into and emptied and was now housing little worms.

I wonder when and why mama bird left them.
Three robin's egg blue eggs sitting on a white backgrpund.
October 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My socks have a similar feel today. But I was going for spooky.
Gray socks with white skull and bones print.
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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It's this meme in real life. I love it
Don't Panic. Organize meme The top picture is a drawing of a large fish with its mouth open swimming toward smaller fish with the words Don't Panic The lower picture is the larger fish swimming away from a school of smaller fish that have organized into the shape of a giant fish with its mouth open chasing the once predator. The word beneath is Organize.
October 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Don't threaten me with a good time.
Two photos of the sun. On the left it says solar minimum and shows mostly orange gases. On the right is solar maximum that has large white spots on the sun. The caption reads " the sun could end life on Earth by 2025"
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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You should get this one
Botched restoration of Ecce Homo painting
September 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I stupidly suggested a t shirt quilt as an incentive for my son to de clutter his collection. Then I remembered how much I hate sewing t shirt material.

Anyway, here's to top. Mostly. It needs some patchwork along the bottom
5x5 block quilt. The blocks are a variety of t-shirts mostly video games, history puns, or tanks.
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Someone put their service dog's obituary in the newspaper, and I think that's the most wholesome thing I've seen in a long time.
Obituary in the local paper for Ashkii Meraz, 2011-2025, a service dog. Asking is a light brown and white dog of possibly Boxer descent. H e is seated on a brick red background looking up and smiling at the camera.
September 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I love the surprises the Earth provides after a good soaking rain.

Google suggests I don't eat these. Trust me Goog, there wasn't ever any danger.

I did wash my hands good after gathering them together
A row of 10 large white and brown mushrooms, possibly the Green spored Lepiota orn false parasol. The mushrooms on the right are older and have begun to curl the edges up, swollen, and are deeper brown. The fresher mushrooms on the left are bright and flat. The undersides look tightly pleated.
August 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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This explains some things about my attitude, then and now.
List of things I did(n't) do as an active Mormon youth growing up in the LDS faith. I didn't drink coffee.
August 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.

I'm not sure this is helpful as this is not a gang I would want to tangle with in the dark.
Geese standing at the curved edge of a pond along a walking trail in DC.
August 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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As if. The White House is a classy joint. They're using gold foil. Available at Hobby Lobby and other "fine" establishments
200 sheets of 5x5 inch square gold foil for crafting.
August 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM