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Jacquelyn Arends

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Designer + Illustrator Fleurdelia founder Designing everyday magic 🗝️✨🌸🍃 Minneapolis | she/her 👩🏻‍💻 👚 buy a wearable philosophy apparatus here: fleurdelia.com

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · Nov 15

✨Intro post:
I’m a designer + illustrator. Sometimes my holiday product designs are in mass market stores. (I also have my own shop but don’t usually promote on my personal account.) Interests are children’s lit, reading, and medical science (for sake of one of my kids).
Hi! 👋

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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 10h

To understand what is going on in the world you need to know this universal strategy:

Divide et impera

Anti-immigration, anti- trans, anti-woke, racism, media ownership, social media breakdown... it all stems back to divide et impera.

If we are blaming each other we do not fight the real enemy.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 10h

It now looks like they placed the pumpkins in rows (in a field they did not grow in) as IF they grew there. Is this…late-stage pumpkin patch capitalism?

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 8d

A pumpkin stand at the side of the road, surrounded by farm land, and being stocked by a truck carrying commercially-grown pumpkins seems about right. 🎃

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry you’re going through this. It really is 48 hrs. crammed into 24, and FMLA could easily just skip the last letter as unhelpful and overly complicated as it is. It’s garbage the way a team will adapt to 70-100 hours of work and pretend like commitment to one’s job is all it takes.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 1d

We already lost Jane. We don’t need this right now.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 1d

This. This. This. I refer to this as TARDIS time. I need to stop time to get stuff done, but also, I cannot leave because more stuff needs to get done.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 1d

Too real. For a period of time I thought my youngest kept asserting “I want.”
Nope. Nope. It was “I WON’T.”

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 1d

And past a certain number times of putting the wand back in, the wand just creates bubbles *inside* the container making it stop working even faster.
(Before someone says to buy an electric one, talk to the two on my counter that rusted around the batteries.)

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 1d

All of this sucks. I’m sorry you’re having to deal with this on top of everything else.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 2d

I’m surprised that village-size lights that work via timer or RC aren’t so much a thing in stores.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 2d

I showed kiddo Seamus like you’d mentioned. Kiddo was unimpressed. Only tiny “toto eating weef” will do.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no. Just saw an ad for a self-published AI book that conflates Margaret Hamilton the actress and Margaret Hamilton the computer scientist.

Yup. She and Hedy Lamarr were just out there promoting STEAM and Hollywood.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 3d

Your pics of their food make me want to visit Canada just to go there!

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 3d

I broke down and bought one of those Bogg Bag dupes for expressly the purpose of carrying things to take to or return to rooms they need to go without having to go back and forth as much. I’ve…been surprised some days how much I use it. 🫠

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 3d

*stares in recognition*

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 3d

I think my kids think my hobby is clearing off horizontal surfaces, which they then refill with debris, and I clear it off again.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 3d

This sounds like a really good idea! I need to do more Crock-Pot meals.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 4d

I’m at a loss some weeks for how much time it feels like goes into transporting things from a room something shouldn’t be in to a room something should be in.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 4d

when are they going to open and what if they’re something else?

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 4d

We finally got around to dealing with a big collection of sticks in the yard (still very new to this ‘having a yard’ thing), and in the process found these. I *want* to believe they have cool moths inside (like the giant orange/brown one my grandma showed me as a kid), but also…

Two cocoons with rounded shapes, each one attached to a stick; one has grass clippings that stuck to it and one is concealed with a leaf that probably dried around the cocoon.

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 4d

Adorable couples’ banter is among my favorite genres of social media posts!

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 5d

It’s simultaneously infuriating and heartbreaking that we’re underfunding science now while being so much closer to understanding things than ever before.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 5d

Not yet during the school day, but you know…give them a minute. 🫠

Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if once they figure out that plan doesn’t work that they mandate school kids, too.

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 5d

Recently listened to the book by the potential surgeon general, and one of the concerns I had was how soon the plan might be to redirect all the people who’ve lost jobs to field work—one part for the labor and the other as a “for their own good/health.”

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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 5d

We don’t talk enough about how the Wicked Witch and Strawberry Shortcake have the same style stockings (albeit in different colors).