Amanda
@mandy15i.bsky.social
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Just vibes. Real conversations only. 🌍
Exploring life one day at a time.
Just vibes. Real conversations only. 🌍
Exploring life one day at a time.
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Not art related, but here are my top 5 fave books this year (no particular order). I read 71 so I have a lot to choose from….
- Nothing to Envy/Barbara Demick
- Dungeon Crawler Carl series/ Matt Dinniman
- The Goldfinch/Donna Tartt
- Circe/Madeline Miller
- Midnight Rooms/Donyae Coles
#booksky
- Nothing to Envy/Barbara Demick
- Dungeon Crawler Carl series/ Matt Dinniman
- The Goldfinch/Donna Tartt
- Circe/Madeline Miller
- Midnight Rooms/Donyae Coles
#booksky
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Not art related, but here are my top 5 fave books this year (no particular order). I read 71 so I have a lot to choose from….
- Nothing to Envy/Barbara Demick
- Dungeon Crawler Carl series/ Matt Dinniman
- The Goldfinch/Donna Tartt
- Circe/Madeline Miller
- Midnight Rooms/Donyae Coles
#booksky
- Nothing to Envy/Barbara Demick
- Dungeon Crawler Carl series/ Matt Dinniman
- The Goldfinch/Donna Tartt
- Circe/Madeline Miller
- Midnight Rooms/Donyae Coles
#booksky
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This is how you do it folks
December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is how you do it folks
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I've never spent a dime at Starbucks. Reading about what a greedy, union-opposed CEO they have, that fact makes me happy.
Screw Starbucks.
Screw Starbucks.
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I've never spent a dime at Starbucks. Reading about what a greedy, union-opposed CEO they have, that fact makes me happy.
Screw Starbucks.
Screw Starbucks.
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Mexican food will always be S-Tier food, and if you disagree, you're simply wrong
December 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Mexican food will always be S-Tier food, and if you disagree, you're simply wrong
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Hey question:
Have any of the police leadership that sat outside of Uvalde during the shooting been held to account?
Good guys with guns
Have any of the police leadership that sat outside of Uvalde during the shooting been held to account?
Good guys with guns
December 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hey question:
Have any of the police leadership that sat outside of Uvalde during the shooting been held to account?
Good guys with guns
Have any of the police leadership that sat outside of Uvalde during the shooting been held to account?
Good guys with guns
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Birthday brunch (she likes her eggs extra scrambled) for the little girl, who is not so little anymore, because she is nineteen today!! Happy birthday, babygirl. 🥳💗
December 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Birthday brunch (she likes her eggs extra scrambled) for the little girl, who is not so little anymore, because she is nineteen today!! Happy birthday, babygirl. 🥳💗
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I've said this before but we have the best sunsets in the winter here. This was a few years back in Pacifica, CA. Stopped on the way back home at Rockaway to catch this one.
#photography #beach #sunset
#photography #beach #sunset
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I've said this before but we have the best sunsets in the winter here. This was a few years back in Pacifica, CA. Stopped on the way back home at Rockaway to catch this one.
#photography #beach #sunset
#photography #beach #sunset
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My take on people wearing face masks is very simple:
It's not my face, so I mind my own business.
That's it. That's the whole take.
It's not my face, so I mind my own business.
That's it. That's the whole take.
December 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My take on people wearing face masks is very simple:
It's not my face, so I mind my own business.
That's it. That's the whole take.
It's not my face, so I mind my own business.
That's it. That's the whole take.
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Anybody else wish the criminals running the country were just a bit smarter so we wouldn’t look quite so idiotic for allowing them to take over the country?
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Anybody else wish the criminals running the country were just a bit smarter so we wouldn’t look quite so idiotic for allowing them to take over the country?
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behold! cottage pie!
December 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
behold! cottage pie!
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Another winter gem has arrived: the cedar waxwing, aka the Nicole Kidmans of the bird world! It was 86 F / 30 C today in Texas so they were probably not expecting that but neither was I.
North Texas
#photography
#birds #birdphotography
#wildlife #wildlifephotography
#Texas #backyardbirds
North Texas
#photography
#birds #birdphotography
#wildlife #wildlifephotography
#Texas #backyardbirds
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Another winter gem has arrived: the cedar waxwing, aka the Nicole Kidmans of the bird world! It was 86 F / 30 C today in Texas so they were probably not expecting that but neither was I.
North Texas
#photography
#birds #birdphotography
#wildlife #wildlifephotography
#Texas #backyardbirds
North Texas
#photography
#birds #birdphotography
#wildlife #wildlifephotography
#Texas #backyardbirds
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
December 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
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I posted about this one before, but it did end up as the second favorite book I read in 2025 so I’m sharing it one more time.
I like John Irving to begin with but The Hotel New Hampshire covered it all for me. Just the right amount of dark humor that I like.
I like John Irving to begin with but The Hotel New Hampshire covered it all for me. Just the right amount of dark humor that I like.
December 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I posted about this one before, but it did end up as the second favorite book I read in 2025 so I’m sharing it one more time.
I like John Irving to begin with but The Hotel New Hampshire covered it all for me. Just the right amount of dark humor that I like.
I like John Irving to begin with but The Hotel New Hampshire covered it all for me. Just the right amount of dark humor that I like.
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The wsj is owned by famous leftist Rupert Murdoch
December 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The wsj is owned by famous leftist Rupert Murdoch
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I’ve decided that women in their 40s and 50s would be too powerful if left to our own devices, so the powers that be invented perimenopause to tamp us down.
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I’ve decided that women in their 40s and 50s would be too powerful if left to our own devices, so the powers that be invented perimenopause to tamp us down.
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Does anyone else constantly yell WHY IS THE TV SO LOUD.
I have always been sound sensitive, but now I want silence.
I have always been sound sensitive, but now I want silence.
December 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Does anyone else constantly yell WHY IS THE TV SO LOUD.
I have always been sound sensitive, but now I want silence.
I have always been sound sensitive, but now I want silence.
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Me: "Sorry, what was your name again?"
Her: "Deanna. Like in Star Trek."
Me: "Do you always explain your name in terms of Star Trek or does something about me just scream 'Trekkie'?"
Her: "No, I guess I'm selective. Sorry, do you not know who I'm talking about?"
Me: "Troi."
Her: "See?"
Her: "Deanna. Like in Star Trek."
Me: "Do you always explain your name in terms of Star Trek or does something about me just scream 'Trekkie'?"
Her: "No, I guess I'm selective. Sorry, do you not know who I'm talking about?"
Me: "Troi."
Her: "See?"
December 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Me: "Sorry, what was your name again?"
Her: "Deanna. Like in Star Trek."
Me: "Do you always explain your name in terms of Star Trek or does something about me just scream 'Trekkie'?"
Her: "No, I guess I'm selective. Sorry, do you not know who I'm talking about?"
Me: "Troi."
Her: "See?"
Her: "Deanna. Like in Star Trek."
Me: "Do you always explain your name in terms of Star Trek or does something about me just scream 'Trekkie'?"
Her: "No, I guess I'm selective. Sorry, do you not know who I'm talking about?"
Me: "Troi."
Her: "See?"
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Here's a shot I got two years ago today in #Tacoma. Me and a buddy were watching a humpback at Point Defiance when he yells "incoming!" Luckily I was quick on the draw. #Birds #Photography #Nature #Raptors
December 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Here's a shot I got two years ago today in #Tacoma. Me and a buddy were watching a humpback at Point Defiance when he yells "incoming!" Luckily I was quick on the draw. #Birds #Photography #Nature #Raptors
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Trump posted this claim that some in his admin are attempting to slow his agenda.
Always the same excuse.
Always the same excuse.
December 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Trump posted this claim that some in his admin are attempting to slow his agenda.
Always the same excuse.
Always the same excuse.
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AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
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The way I inhaled that bowl from Cava
a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a bunch of food and holding her head .
ALT: a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a bunch of food and holding her head .
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The way I inhaled that bowl from Cava