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@chouette.bsky.social

Today is Dia de Muertos. Hope you get a moment to honor your passed loved ones, human and animal kind. I usually have their favorite food/drink, think about my favorite moments with them, and thank them for those moments and life lessons they taught me. Good or bad.

Faux red and yellow marigolds in a ceramic gray cat vase on a quartz countertop. Next to it was an illustration in a wooden frame of a skeleton couple in Mexican clothing holding their skeleton cat and their other cat is behind them.

A small orange cat looks up the camera while sitting next to an ofrenda. The ofrenda has a marigold garland, Mexican painted wooden frame with a picture of a champagne cat, a walnut wooden frame of a black cat surrounded by marigolds, a candle scent of cafe de Olla, a felt garland of sugar skulls and pink and orange flowers. A ceramic vase of a tuxedo cat with Mexican marigolds and a calico cat holding red Mexican African marigolds.

A close up of the Heidi Moreno, also known as Heidiroo, real wood-framed art prints. In the background are 4 cat vases peeking from behind the photo holding faux Mexican and African marigolds and sunflowers.

November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM Everybody can reply

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Susan Smith (not THAT Susan Smith)

@chemistx2.bsky.social

Refilling a butane lighter next to a LIT gas stove. Husband and I were BOTH CHEMISTS, so (a) we should have known better and (b) at least we didn't panic when the fire started crawling over the countertop.

November 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM Everybody can reply

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Feral Hope 🏳️‍⚧️ ♿️ (they/them)

@feralhopes.bsky.social

Due to substitutions for out of stock items, the total for the groceries went up to $333.

This is what $333 will get you at Walmart in Anchorage.

I’m wiped out from helping the driver bring these in, then standing to organize them.

I’ma go back to bed now. After I take some naproxen. *thud*

Brown cupboards with a beige countertop.

Slightly darker beige wall, with a framed painting of an Alaskan mountain

Groceries are lined up in rows and stacks.

From left to right:

Garbanzo beans, dark red kidney beans, four types of baked beans, saltine crackers, pour bottles of white sugar, oatmeal, peanut butter, two types of bread (6 loaves each), 6 types of hearty soup, canned corn, canned green beans, 12 packs of 12 servings of chicken ramen.

November 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM Everybody can reply

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Spooky Roy G Biv 🎃

@plunkettprime.bsky.social

Sat AM trek to the stonemonger to pick kitchen countertops. the place is masssssssssive

i FaceTime R² (style/design consultant on my projects or she’ll have my guts for garters).

5th slab from front door: “This is good.”

“You just got there!”

“It’s a countertop, not a face tattoo. Who cares?”

🤯

a warehouse filled with lots of boxes and a person walking through it

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November 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM Everybody can reply

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Zev

@hissun.bsky.social

My mom didn't tell me how these tasted after taking this picture so I'm not sure if I want to try it 🤣

Arby's steak nuggets in a bowl on a countertop with a bunch of Arby's sauce packets on the side.

November 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM Everybody can reply

Frannie, herself.

@frannieoh.bsky.social

Oops. Forgot the alt text:

The book “Peace Diet Cookbook” by Terry Shintani, MD, JD, MPH, with a $1.00 price tag on it from the local ReStore sits propped up on a granite countertop. To the left is a small black plastic kitchen scraps compost bucket covered in various stickers from the fruits and veggies of former healthy meals.

November 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM Everybody can reply

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rustyoldcrow.bsky.social

@rustyoldcrow.bsky.social

We had a sad, little, basement bathroom and instead of spending 1k on a new countertop and sink we bought a fun Mexican sink for $175., built the cherry countertop and painted the cabinet. Now it has personality.

November 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM Everybody can reply

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Tim Lowe

@timlow3.bsky.social

Bread substitute.
You're welcome.

2 loaves of home made bread on kitchen countertop.

November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM Everybody can reply

Sundowner 🍋

@sundownerstudio.bsky.social

Quick run to Tescos Express which is dangerously close to where I live.

Some extra ingredients I need to make my long, lazy, staying in all day lunch.

The Giant Wotsits (which I’m sure are the same size of regular Wotsits when I was growing up) will not be involved in said lunch.

On a kitchen countertop there is a little block of soft goats cheese, an aubergine, mag of mixed peppers, a jar of red pesto and a bottle of red wine. Oh and a big bag of Giant Wotsits.

November 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM Everybody can reply

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mahinapie.bsky.social

@mahinapie.bsky.social

Show the receipts because that looks like outdated Home Depot quartz countertop. Probably donated because it didn’t sell and was then glued to the white house walls.

November 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM Everybody can reply

Sci-what?!

@sciwhat.bsky.social

It had historic character before. Now it just looks tacky and gauche. Or like a kitchen countertop vomited all over it.

If we the people ever get our house back, I hope we fund some historic restoration/remediation of this shit.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

November 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM Everybody can reply

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kitchen cabinet outlets

@kitchen-cabinet0.bsky.social

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November 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM Everybody can reply

kitchen cabinet outlets

@kitchen-cabinet0.bsky.social

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November 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM Everybody can reply

dave

@daverson.bsky.social

i was watching some reality show but the subject of the show made they self a salad & chopped the ingredients directly on the countertop next to the sink - no cutting board! on the fucking countertop!

they might as well have used the toilet seat, the fukken animal — i turned that shit RIGHT OFF

November 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM Everybody can reply

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Shawn Carter

@mousebr.at

Happy Halloween, Bluesky.

Three illuminated jack-o’-lanterns arranged on a wooden porch at night, glowing with warm orange light. The leftmost pumpkin has a classic scary face with triangle eyes and a jagged smile, the middle pumpkin features a wide grinning expression, and a smaller pumpkin skull decoration sits in the background. Purple and blue ambient lighting creates a spooky Halloween atmosphere.

A view through a screened porch or enclosed area looking out at trees and foliage during dusk or dawn. The screen door features decorative diamond-pattern framework in the transom window above. The scene is framed by light-colored horizontal siding on either side, with soft natural light filtering through the trees in the background.

Three modern tarot or oracle cards laid out on a black cloth surface, each featuring artistic black and white photography with colorful accent elements - one with yellow/gold, one with red, and one with dramatic lighting effects. A metal tin case containing additional cards and supplies sits in the background, along with what appears to be a vintage flask.

A kitchen countertop displaying ingredients for making mulled cider or punch, including fresh orange slices arranged on a wooden cutting board, cinnamon sticks, star anise, whole peppercorns in a white bowl, and a bottle of McCormick pure vanilla extract. A large red slow cooker sits in the background on the black stovetop.

November 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM Everybody can reply

aprylknight.bsky.social

@aprylknight.bsky.social

The results at the end of the night - all fruit snacks taken, some of everything else taken. I’m keeping the remaining three ramen packs for myself (it’s darn good ramen), and I’ll split up the chocolate and applesauce into bags with homemade pb&j sandwiches to take to the Free Fridge near my place.

Two blue plastic bowls sit on a stone countertop. One has 9 small chocolate-covered coconut bars in it, and the other has four applesauce cups and three ramen packs.

November 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM Everybody can reply

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Eshenesra

@eshenesra.sunder.my

Drumming her fingers along the countertop.

November 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM Everybody can reply

FROSTBITE

@icebornerenegade.bsky.social

[ Theres more orders by the minute, jaws snapping slightly as they finished making another drink. Really working for those tips werewolf bot? Paws against the countertop for a brief moment of respite 🌀*]

November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM Everybody can reply

Stephaniel DelMarijuana

@steviedelmar.bsky.social

Happy Halloween!

A photograph of a lit jackolantern on a countertop in a dark kitchen. Its expression appears to be shocked or scared. A jar candle is lit behind it, and in the background, some kitchen appliances can be seen underneath some dark cabinets

November 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM Everybody can reply

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Lauren

@oglauren.bsky.social

First of all: You have $20,000 US to waste and you still have a tile countertop? The fuck?!

Second of all: You can't even throw that thing away because it might get mad at you and decide that you need to die. So now you have to let it painfully do five minute tasks over the course of three hours.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.

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November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM Everybody can reply

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@clinteldorado.bsky.social

I’ll tell you what, Jack Nicholson is a fucking incredible actor though. The little self-satisfied swagger he gets as he rounds the corner after sweeping all the pans off the countertop… it’s just so good, so full of character.

November 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM Everybody can reply