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Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

UPDATE:
The inside startled me as I pulled it out of the box. Briefly disconcerting.

A plastic bottle with yellow liquid and part of a root (presumably ginseng) inside.

December 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Using a translator on this skincare product and....I have concerns...

Translated text in a box with 2 highlighted passages that read, "...please place your child without any legal intervention..." and ..."Butt content:..."

December 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

#Writing #Wednesday on a #Thursday sometimes it goes that way. 🤷🏻‍♀️

#Poem #Poetry #BlueskyWriters #WritingCommunity

A poem dated 4-12-10. The text reads:

you were created
to dance in the light, laugh
in the night, feel the sacred
and the savage throb within
your heart and pulse at the tips
of your fingers.
touch me. i will
drape you in capes of glory.

December 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

I'm going to post my #Writing #Wednesday tomorrow.

I read this book to my son when he was a baby and toddler. It is a wonderful board book. Great for kids. I brought it back out tonight bc a refresher was good for us both. Thank you, @innosantonagara.bsky.social

The cover of the book "A is for activist" by Innosanto Nagara. The background is orange and a child's fist is raised in the symbolic Black Power pose while a black cat hangs down from the top.

December 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

This was the funniest thing to open Bluesky up to see (at the top of my feed, no less, so perfect timing)! 🤣 @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jefftiedrich.bsky.social we're on the same damn wavelength.

A screenshot of two skeets in a row. The first, Heather Cox Richardson, saying "What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?"
The second, Jeff Tiedrich, saying "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT"

December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Sorting albums = happy stim time. By size and alphabetical 🤓🤓🤓 And watching the Pee Wee Christmas Special. 🌲😍

December 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Throwback to me being in international goofball.

December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Text that reads, "The fact that people need a dead man's files to believe a thousand living women...tells you everything about whose voices they value and whose they don't."

December 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Bc of COURSE my first thought was, "@ghostplanet.bsky.social needs to see this!"

$"2 sisters & a brother got matches [sic] Tats [crying emoji]"\ A picture or 3 legs, each with a Powerpuff Girl tattoo. The Blossom and Bubbles tattoos are of the regular characters, but the third for Buttercup is a masculine version. Text below the pic reads, "Blossom, Bubbles, and Brotiencup (I think they were trying to say 'Broteincup')."$

December 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

From my memories on that other site, lol.

Text saying, "Yeah, you like bacon, but is your family crest a lion holding bacon?!"
Pic is of a family crest that is a blue shield, with a red sash. On the shield is what appears to be a fearsome lion holding some bacon or perhaps jerky in a V shape. There is also a helmet with flowing flora of some kind.

December 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

@amerrill2.bsky.social, did you ever find the pumpkin pie cup noodles? I can send you one, if you like. They're clearanced out, so I thought I'd grab you one just in case.

December 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Yesterday was for making treats with friends. The end result was enough to drop 36 Wilford Brimleys.

A table full of Christmas treats. Gingerbread men, sugar, and shortbread cookies decorated by kids and moms alike. Monster cookies, chocolate dipped pretzel rods, peppermint bark, puppy chow, buckeyes, Ritz and Rolos, and white chocolate, cranberry cookies. 😳

December 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

This might be the first white Christmas we've had in a while. I love looking at it, but that's about it, hahaha!

December 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

A late entry for #Writing #Wednesday. The quote in the poem was in a dream I had.

#Poem #Poetry #BlueskyWriters #WritingCommunity

A poem dated 8-28-2020

in this dream, a black person said
to me, "do you know why
nothing has changed? a white
musician released an album and none
of the tracks are about how we clean
the glass out of the streets." my heart
is heavy, but the hearts of my friends
of color are infinitely heavier and we continue
to ask them to bear the burden
of helping us fix our own mess. when will we
face and erase the ugliness within ourselves?

December 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born

**I don't think I have a "favorite," but this one is very beautiful.

Painting: Reaching For The Moon by Edward Mason Eggleston 1933
A slender woman, wrapped in a transparent, gauzy piece of material, stands on tip-toe; reaching toward a crescent moon. It is a little later than dusk, the horizon is slightly green and the sky is deep, dark blue with a few stars. Her hair is reddish blonde, long, and curly. She smiles as she's reaching.

December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

It's not like tomato:tomahto, it's like buys:bye.

Sounds the same, but spelled differently and singular. 😄

A woman with glasses (me) glances sideways at a Doritos bowling ball.

December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Here are the two sourdough loaves. 😋
On the left is a croissant loaf and on the right is a traditional loaf.

Two golden loaves of sourdough bread resting on a wire rack. On the left is a croissant style loaf (cold grated butter is folded in, which creates crispy, flaky layers on the outside and a lovely, buttery inside). On the right is a traditional loaf.

December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

My Sunday public service message for you all is, "No." Be sure to picture me staring you dead in the eyes with a very serious face. Probably one eye brow raised.

A pair of taper candles in an unattractive tan color. They resemble something that people might try and put in their butts. Don't do this. That's the public service message.

December 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

This one's for @dashbord.bsky.social!

A smaller, round mirror with the phrase "No Bad Days" printed all the way around the border.

December 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

Yesterday I did chocolate drizzle popcorn (that was a first too, believe it or not) with white and milk chocolate. (And the tiniest smidge of caramel)

A baking sheet full of popcorn, drizzled with white and milk chocolate.

December 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

It's a weekend for baking! Never made crinkle cookies before, so I gave this #PenzeysSpices recipe a go. I took the opportunity to try flavored powdered sugar in addition to regular. They are all great! Also have a croissant sourdough loaf in the fridge to bake tomorrow! 😘

A wire rack with three sets of chocolate crinkle cookies. Behind them are two bags of flavored powdered sugar; peppermint and chocolate, as well as my airtight container with regular powdered sugar.

December 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM

Elizabeth

@shiverof3libras.bsky.social

I love creating safe space for people. Strangers tell me their life stories. I love it when I hug people and I can feel them melt into it. Sometimes being safe means I get hilarious confessions as seen here and I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. ☺️❤️🫂