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Jamie Baker Roskie
@whenisayj.bsky.social
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Lawyer. Former director, UGALaw Land Use Clinic. Buddhist practitioner. Long ago immigration practitioner. Coloradan, my people are Montanans. No one is free unless all are free.
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This is who runs this account.
Me with a mullet in high school. I am wearing a collared shirt and a man's tie.
February 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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My cat got bored with her fleece bed so hubs turned it upside down. She immediately did this.
A tortie cat curled up on the black bottom of a red fleece bed. She faces away from the camera. The bed is on a bedroom floor, there is a green floral pattern rug beneath it.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Ember is inside safe from any snow.
Tortie cat in a red and white fleece bed on a blue brocade armchair. She is sitting up, looking out the window.
January 25, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Found it! Had to dig deep in my Google photos archive.
A tabby cat lying in the lap of a man wearing jeans. He looks skeptically into the camera, ears up, eyes wide. The tag line is "christ, what am asshole."
January 20, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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Well, I do live in Colorado.
"Your 2026 word...picturesque"
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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I am not going out, but if I were I would wear the black velvet Calvin Klein suit I wore to a recent family wedding. With blingy sneakers. (At my age I refuse to be cold or wear uncomfortable shoes. This photo is me previewing the look for my mom, so no makeup.)
An older white woman with short blond hair and glasses, standing in front of a closed interior door. Wearing a black velvet suit with a black satin floral blouse, a silver pocket square, and black embellished platform sneakers.
December 31, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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For Christmas we got this San Jose Sharks Zamboni Gravy Pitcher. (My IP prof friends will enjoy considering what the licensing agreement might be with the Zamboni manufacturing company.)
A teal and white gravy pitcher in the shape of the four-wheeled machine that an operator drives around an ice rink to smooth the surface. Next to it is a box that says "Sharks Zamboni Gravy Boat."
December 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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As seen on Instagram, I want to put this on our holiday cards.
"Peace, love & fuck Trump." On a sky blue background with holy branches and snow flakes around the border. (Needs an Oxford comma, though.)
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Okay, people are probably going to yell at me for ordering from Amazon (which I get) but I had a last minute Christmas stocking emergency. And this is what they delivered instead of a green stocking.
An Amazon package next to a stack of slips of black and white checked paper.
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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At last we're getting some proper snow! (Loveland, CO) #cowx
A scene of my snowy backyard, with snow-covered leaflets tree in the center.
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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God, I love voting in CO.
A confirmation email from Colorado BallotTrax saying that my vote has been counted, and including a virtual "I voted" sticker. The Colorado state flower, the columbine, is the "O" of voted and there is a scene of a red rock canyon with a meadow below containing various bushes and flowers.
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The misogyny justifiers have found me. (Another instant block.)
A reply from @seattlescott.bsky.social "you don't think she plays into it? She could easily be just as evil with fewer eyelashes and obviously expensive make-up and hair treatments. The misogyny is low hanging fruit to be sure, but she is UNAFFECTED by being called evil or mean...she already knows that. Hit her where it hurts, the Sephora."
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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And that's an instant block. If you think what makes "the left" ineffective is that we don't call women c*nts enough, I have nothing to say to you.
A response from @sarc-master.bsky.social, "And this poncery is exactly why the US left is so ineffective right now. You have to fight fire with fire sometimes and call a cunt a cunt."
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Ember says, "you've got this."
A tortie cat in a red and white fleece bed in a blue brocade armchair looks toward the camera, ears and head up.
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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What the hell is happening with this font?
A photo of a $139 red and white Tumi tote. It says "Tumi" on the side in fat, balloon-like letters" but the design makes it look like it says "Trumi". Or something.
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Lol we've achieved "peak Bluesky" @thelouvreof.bsky.social
An exchange in response to my post about whether the chairs would support Trump’s weight, a "don't make fat jokes" reply, a "I'm making fun of the chairs," "it's still a fat joke," and someone else saying "peak Bluesky."
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
A very large, very white and gold ballroom with Baroque-style arched windows, coved ceilings, and gold chandeliers obviously meant to invoke comparisons to Versailles. Completely inappropriate to the architectural style of the White House.
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Maybe the owners of the Hay-Adams could sue.🙂
A Google map of the White House and surrounding park, with Lafayette Square to the north. The Hay-Adams hotel is on the other side of Connecticut Ave to the north of Lafayette Square.
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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As seen on Instagram"
A post from "gratefulkel" No Kings Day Two things made me cry today. 1) The awestruck elderly woman who looked at the huge protest crowd and said, "I thought I was the only one!" 2) The Hispanic couple who drove past our group of protesters, waving frantically and weeping. This is why days like today matter!
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The only royalty I recognize.
A tortie cat curled in a blue tweed armchair. Her head and ears are up and she is looking to her right.
October 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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What about this kind of thing as a top? (Stolen from @dieworkwear.bsky.social)
Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård shows up for the London premiere of his new movie “Pillion." He's wearing a sleeveless white dress shirt with a black leather necktie and black leather pants with metal grommets down the crotch. He's also wearing black leather boots. A black motorcycle is behind him.
October 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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"Katz is just using the intended meaning of the word performative meaning they're performing an act of opposition," um, no, he's not.
The dictionary definition of "performative" as "being of the nature of a dramatic or artistic performance" or "done or expressed insincerely or inauthentically..."
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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#NoKings Loveland, Colorado
A wooden sign at a protest with the messages, "No Troops on American Streets: We are the Front Line." And cardboard signs fixed on top reading "Join Us. Help Save Democracy."
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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The look, if you're interested.
An older white woman with a close-crop haircut and glasses wears a sleeveless dark green hip-length silk half-button mandarin collar top, with flowing wide-leg green and white floral pants. Accessories are large rectangular abstract bronze and green earrings, a wide hammered silver cuff, and brown platform gladiator sandals.
October 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Well, will you look at that (day 18).
A negative rapid COVID test
October 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM