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Meli

@mismatched.bsky.social

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Tea, transness, weirdness, joy. Subscribe to my jewsletter: https://buttondown.email/meli they/them

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 2h

Decided to do a reread of @sjgochenour.bsky.social’s—or, juniper butterworth’s—goblins and cheese series. Good stuff.

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 3h

Nice!!

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve gotten to some of the late game stuff but this is a very familiar pattern to me

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 6h

Zoom!!

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 8h

Dog spotting: Lanky wishbone-looking little guy with a red ball in his mouth

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 8h

okay i am going to the grocery store to get stuff for tomorrow sukkah potluck and maybe a special treat beverage

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 10h

jambles has over 100 likes! she;s famous now

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 1d

Jambles

A brown tabby cat snoozing. Three of its paws are close together.

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 10h

Honeyed sunlight vibes from this tea. Good stuff

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 11h

... i have been convinced back into signing up

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 11h

Probably I won't take that class that looks fascinating because that would be Too Many Thing :( but....class....but....things...

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 11h

Feeling very “I do too much and also too little” today while I try to focus my brain on the now

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 12h

We love a Blaschka model

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 12h

i am absolutely gonna shop at this store on the strength of this one sample tbh

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning! today I am brewing a sample I got at NW tea fest of Honey Orchid Phoenix Red from Via Tiempo, which might ? be the linked tea. It smells amazing from the dry leaf (honey orchid AF!!!!!!!!) to wet leaf (orchid AF!!!!!) to the tea itself (balanced, homey but fancy-homey, beautiful)

Honey Orchid Red - Old Tree

Deep perfume, a touch of tartness, and the nourishing energy of an old tree tea make this tea hard to resist. The popular Phoenix Mountain oolong (dancong) varietal makes for a red tea unlike any othe...

viatiempo.com

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 13h

Interesting thread about the history of purity-of-substance and some of its echoes today

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 18h

I got really interested last year in the history of alchemical and Aristotelian-Christian thought about the nature of substance, purity and impurity, and how those ideas were applied to humans in the Inquisition and the Conquest. (Un)luckily those ideas are still alive and fucking us up today

Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 1d

TODAY: @sirosenbaum.bsky.social on a wretched little amicus brief filed by a bunch of philosophers on a court case involving trans girls in sports, and which does "not consider or even mention any real, flesh-and-blood women and girls or the lives they lead" flaminghydra.com/purity-tests/

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 13h

Choo chooo

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 13h

…this might be what gets me to subscribe to flaming hydra

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17h

No kings except Hashem.

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning Len. Good morning Cal.

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 1d

Good news! 🦚

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not at dangerous or severe fatigue levels but it is *profoundly annoying*. And I bet I’m gonna have trouble sleeping too, because fatigue days full of rest are like that 😭

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 1d

I know I’ve said this before but I like that jeopardy is on streaming now

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 1d

Nickname!

Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 1d

Jambles

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 1d

You’re right, it’s a weird way of thinking and one I don’t like falling into much. But it happens! Idk. <3

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