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Cris Chalcedony

@crischalcedony.bsky.social

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Writer, shirker, AuDHD. Cats, chronic illness, fandoms, fanfic, Muppets, cats. And cats. 🚫AI, 🚫requests for aid. Blue voter but 🚫political talk. https://archiveofourown.org/users/CrisChalcedony

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · Mar 12

When I was struggling through a long stretch of burnout before the pandemic, a counselor suggested trying to remember something that had made me happy in the past - a hobby, a band, whatever - and digging back into that, no matter how silly. Feels like good advice to try to return to now.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9m

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 36m

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "WELL WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS BULLSHIT"

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 13h

PUT AWAY YOUR HARPOON, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 14h

Sequim
Puyallup
Geoduck

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 23h

substitutes for a healthy diet:

Noodles- -Zucchini
Chips - Carrots

Milk- Coconut Milk

Rice - Cauliflower

Butter -Sadness

Sugar - A Broken Heart

Cheese - Nope

Coffee- This is stupid and not doing it.

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 22h

Halloween! Nightmare King! Ghost! Ghost Pepper! Wednesday! And now the Jack-O-Lantern Whopper. I'm the only person in the world with a complete collection of Burger King's Halloween Whoppers, dating as far back as 2015. Can't believe I'm single.

Every Burger King Halloween Whopper, from 2015 to now. (Why though?)

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 1d

Charles Earl Boles was an 1870s American stagecoach robber who left poems at his crime scenes, signing them “Black Bart”. One verse was:

I’ve labored long and hard for bread,
For honor, and for riches,
But on my corns too long you’ve tread,
You fine-haired sons of bitches.

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 23h

Screengrab from Crimson Peak (2015) of a young wife in a haunted house with her hand on the knob of a menacing door. Behind the door lurks the spectre, a glimpse of which is visible for just a moment, red and threatening.

Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 23h

Ugh, the struggle is real! 😭 Just went through the "buffet" stage with Chess trying to find the next food she would deign to eat. Good luck to you both!

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 1d

@elle91.bsky.social

@elle91

My body is a wonderland, but like, the "Alice In" type. Everything is the wrong size. Tons of tea in there. Cats everywhere.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 1d

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

The wood is a constant promise to the witch. It whispers of magics, wild harvest and omens to be found on its paths. It never breaks it oaths to her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when this was in the news as a kid. One year my class did some sort of fundraiser and bought an acre of rainforest. I've wondered whatever happened to acres "saved" in this way; the pessimist in me thinks they burned anyway.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Dodos were thriving when the Mary Rose sank.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Some grave guardians are open to being stroked. Some will growl if your hand reaches towards them. It is wise to know which are which before one goes poking at tombs. – #CLNolan

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Pareidolia @pareidolia.bsky.social · 1d

#Mood

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 1d

Traditional cream scones with pumpkin butter. I tossed some minced crystallized ginger in the dough since I had some in the pantry. #baking 😋😋😋

A hot scone right out of the oven spread with butter and pumpkin butter (a cooked pumpkin compote that has no dairy in it) on a blue plate.

Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 1d

Tag, you're it!

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d

I am here at Weston-super-Mare for a few days but I live at Kings Heath where you used to be.

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Habitica @habitica.com · 1d

We’ve added a new background to the Customization Shop! Now your avatar can weave spells Inside a Forest Witch’s Cottage. Plus, the selection of past Backgrounds has rotated.

And be sure to peep the new gold-purchasable equipment in the Enchanted Armoire, including the Black Party Dress. Enjoy :)

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 2d

I like Pixie Stix and such, but somehow this sounds awful

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Cris Chalcedony @crischalcedony.bsky.social · 2d

Image of a ring of flowering plants surrounding the text: "Not everyone is going to think that you are magnificent and magical. They're wrong though. Dickheads."

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 2d

Today on the (award winning) #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fabulous Elizabeth Lublin about her work on the history of selling sex in Tokugawa Japan.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 2d

In 2001, Kellogg's upped its Halloween cereal game with CANDY CORN POPS - bummer that even 24 years later, it has still never seen a re-release

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