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@winteroak.bsky.social
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Writer. Historical artist/glass/potter.

Small town girl living in a lonely world

This is my other bluesky site for real world things, sadly

Please see ciele.bsky.social for the other things I love ❤️💚💛 💜 💙🤍
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Hey #Tennessee #tnlege

GOOD MORNING!

Y’all go vote!

AND

Share this fantastic ride poster!

I'm disabled & without a car

We pay $$ to Uber ~every election~

I would LOVE to have this option in #Texas!

@aftynbehn.bsky.social
RIDES TO THE POLLS VOTEL AFT OR CO FARMERS for AFTYN GIVE RIDES + ASK FOR ONE TN7Support@indivisibletn.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Why not pop up real data & have him defend his comments?

www.gasbuddy.com/go/category/...
GasBuddy FIND GAS proxy for retail demand, fell 500,000 bpd to 8.528 million barrels per day. GAS PRICE TRENDS The most common U.S. gas price encountered by motorists stood at $2.99 per gallon, unchanged from last week, followed by $2.79, $2.89, $3.19, and $2.69, rounding out the top five most common prices. The median U.S. gas price is $2.89 per gallon, unchanged from last week and about 14 cents lower than the national average. The top 10% of stations in the country average $4.40 per gallon, while the bottom 10% average $2.40 per gallon. The states with the lowest average prices: Oklahoma ($2.45), Mississippi ($2.53), and Louisiana ($2.55). The states with the highest average prices: California ($4.56), Hawaii ($4.37), and Washington ($4.09). Biggest weekly changes: Ohio (-25.6¢), Florida (+17.1¢), Nevada (-13.0C), Colorado (-12.1¢), Delaware (-12.1€) DIESEL PRICE TRENDS The most common U.S. diesel price stood at $3.79 per gallon, up 20 cents from last week, followed by $3.69, $3.59, $3.99, and $3.89,
November 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This quote by Anne Lamott from "Bird Bird" would pair well with 👆🏼quote

It's my writing battle cry
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better - Anne Lamott
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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#Epstein #Epsteinfiles programming note

Please stand by:
TV "please stand by" multi color graphic seen when feed goes out
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Aww thanks so much ❤️

Bea was one of a kind...the bestest dog dog ever

This smile took us four years to earn

Rescues are worth everything, y'all
Beethoven...whom we called Bea..or Dog Dog...or goofy dog. He's half Mastiff, half St Bernard. A Bermastiff. He has a brindle tiger striped coat with a white chest. He was small @ 110 pounds. He's smiling This smile meant everything...Bea was raised in rough circumstances. His teeth were ground down & was emanciated. You could see every bone in his body. The vet said he had @ a week...maybe a month. Best 9 years ever
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Reading reactions to the Dept of Education's plan to no longer recognize as Professional the lists below

The vast majority of outrage has been limited to mostly 1 profession

Nurses

Which are a very important & needed profession

Take a look, though @ the others

Please support them too
A list of the degrees the Department of Education will reclassify and no longer consider professional degrees: Education (including teaching master's degrees) Nursing (MSN, DNP) Social work (MSW, DSW) Public health (MPH, DrPH) Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech-language pathology Business master's Engineering master's Counseling & therapy degrees Those who voted for this administration - how does it feel being told your degree is not a professional one? These are the degrees the Department of Education will reclassify and no longer consider professional degrees: Nursing (MSN, DNP, NP, Nurse, Midwife, CRNA) Physician assistant Occupational and Physical therapy Counseling and Therapy fields Public health (MPH, DRPH) Health Administration Education (All Specialties) Social work (BSW, MSW) IT, Cyber Security, Engineering Business (MBA, Accounting) Arts and Architecture Audiology Speech-language Pathology
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Don't forget the champagne glass dancer
A scantily clad lady is supposed to be dancing inside a champagne glass at the Gatsby dinner
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Don't miss making a trip to @bookpeople.com!!!!!

My favorite book store ever *and* there's an Amy's ice cream nearby ❤️
Book People bookstore!! Coolest multi story bookstore ever...in Austin!
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Where I live, I’m disabled and don’t have a car so I have to pay for delivery every week

There’s an up charge on every single item plus a delivery surcharge plus tip

That makes 1 pound of ground beef over nine dollars (when you add service fee and tip)

1 pd = $ 16.52
H-E-B 100% Pure Extra Lean Ground Beef, 96% Lean, 1 lb $8.57 each $0.54 / oz Meat & seafood H-E-B 100% Pure Extra Lean Ground Beef, 96% Lean, 1lb $8.57 each 1 $8.57 Order summary Subtotal (1 item) ** Delivery fee Estimated total $8.57 $7.95 $16.52
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or I am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding." JERRY PURSER
October 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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~Groceries~ are down!

You hear that everybody? He fixed groceries!

Meanwhile..... > One Pound <
100% PURE H-EB EXTRA LEAN GROUND BEEF H-E-B 100% Pure Extra Lean Ground Beef, 96% Lean, Avg. 1.1 lbs $9.43 each $8.57 / 1b That is currently unavailable
October 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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A 2.0 of one of the truest things Elie Mystal has said

I think about this quote a lot
"Seventy-one million people looked at the racism, looked at the sexism, looked at the homophobia, looked at the xenophobia, looked at the utter bigotry of Donald Trump and said, 'Yeah, that's my guy"". He added, "Seventy-one million people in this country voted for the bad things to happen to other people".
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The UK everyone....speaking truth
The UK steps in. (They sure have a way with words) drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul— all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been— arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common By Oliver Kornetzke sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as August 18, 2025 ambition, and corruption Behold. The festering carcass of American rot worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made shoved into an ill-fitting flesh, a rotting pumpkin suit: the sleaze of a idol proving that when a conman, the cowardice of a nation kneels before draft dodger, the gluttony money, power, and spite, it of a parasite, the racism of doesn't just lose its soul— a Klansman, the sexism of a it sh*ts out this bloated back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool obscenity and calls it a leader.
September 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Ironically, this phrase will be replaced with "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER HUT DON'T LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"
I seen for the Wizard of Oz where the Wizard, behind a curtain and machine is saying “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"
September 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This is how they want to gerrymand it... again
New Harris County gerrymandered districts shaped like a pinwheel
August 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This is my current voting district ~ shaped like a Pokemon
This is my current voting district ~ shaped like a Pokemon
August 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Soooo Chic Fil A did ~not~ invent the chicken sandwich.....

Interesting.....
A circa 50s (?) picture of a chicken sandwich
August 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Have I mentioned that my Texas voting district, before this gerrymandering redo, is shaped like a Pokemon character?
my Texas voting district, before this gerrymandering redo, is shaped like a Pokemon character
August 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This is our dog dog, Bea. He looks a lot like Waffle

This smile took years to earn. I was so proud

Bea was a rescue. When we got him, the vet said he had a week to live

It was the best nine years ever

Bea left us last Palm Sunday

I miss him so

Give that goofy guy a hug/treat from Bea's momma
Sweetest Bermastiff in the whole world - our dog dog Bea
July 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Here's an article which references the quest for sirens (I grew up with air raid sirens for tornado warnings in East Texas)

www.newsnationnow.com/weather/texa...
Despite efforts from officials, very little progress has been made in updating weather warning systems. In 2016, then-Kerr County Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer proposed upgrading outdoor sirens that could ring sounds depending on the type and level of threat. The county rejected the proposal due to budget concerns. In 2018, Kerr County applied for a $1 million grant to install a flood warning system, but was denied. According to NewsNation affiliate KXAN, Kerrville did not have outdoor weather alarms that might have given residents more warning of floods The county does have working sirens, but not in Kerrville or near Camp Mystic. Other nearby counties, like Kendall and Comal, have sirens that worked this
July 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The rules from "On Tyranny" from Tim Snyder

Share widely!!!
DON'T BE A BYSTANDER We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Do not obey in advance Defend institutions Beware the one-party state Take responsibility for the face of the world Remember professional ethics Be wary of paramilitaries Be reflective if you must be armed Stand out Be kind to our language Believe in truth |I. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Investigate Make eye contact and small talk Practice corporeal politics Establish a private life Contribute to good causes Learn from peers in other countries 19. Listen for dangerous words Be calm when the unthinkable arrives Be a patriot 20. Be as courageous as you can SHARE THE RULES OR TYRAN! ON TYRANNY I TIMOTHY SNYDER
June 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I love this response by David Tennant too

Should be on repeat
Are you protective of the doctors that have come after you, having seen what Jodie Whittaker and Gatwa faced? These debates - and it's not even a debate, it's a small clutch of people shouting very loudly, amplified by certain elements of the press - are not reflective of what most people feel. Things become ludicrously disproportionate, and end up being unnecessarily cruel. That's what the trans debate seems to have become. Most people don't give a shit. I genuinely believe most people just want to let people be themselves. All they're doing is making a tiny portion of society who have a really tough time anyway have an even tougher time.
May 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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A stained glass window with Trump as a priest & the words "St. Upid Patron Saint of Economic Collapse"
May 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Yup. My packages go in circles constantly
Processing at Destination Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility NORTH HOUSTON TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 6, 2025, 3:52 am Processing at USPS Facility SPRING, TX 77380 May 3, 2025, 7:13 am In Transit to Next Facility May 2, 2025 • Arrived at USPS Facility EAST BOSTON, MA 02128 May 2, 2025, 12:00 am Arrived at USPS Facility EAST GRANBY, CT 06026 May 1, 2025, 11:17 pm In Transit to Next Facility May 1, 2025, 10:45 pm Departed USPS Regional Facility SPRINGFIELD MA DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 1, 2025, 10:29 pm Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility SPRINGFIELD MA DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 1, 2025, 5:30 pm USPS picked up item WORCESTER, MA 01604
May 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Perhaps a sign?
— PLEASE REMEMBER 1. These are KIDS. 2. This is a GAME. Glendale sos deages 3. Coaches are VOLUNTEERS. 4. Umpires are HUMAN. 5. Your child is NOT being scouted by the Brewers today.
May 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM