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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I got over an hour of gardening in this afternoon, and since the ground is so wet, the dandelion taproots come out like butter. Look at this! It's like a foot long!! (In hindsight, I should've posed with it like men do with fish)

A very large dandelion with an almost foot long taproot laid out on the sidewalk.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My dog's favorite tug toy is a tennis ball (the least convenient tug toy)

Black and white dog with a neon tennis ball in her mouth, my hand trying to grip what little real estate is available on the tennis ball to play tug of war with her.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I wish it were chocolate mint! (I have two other mints growing in large pots in the back)

Weed sprouting with long, lightly serrated leaves.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You can use the squid drawing I did ages ago if you like 🤣

Terrible 3-year-old-level line drawing of a squid with a smiley face, because it's happy to see you.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Sounds like past-me made a good choice at one time, and current-me is benefitting greatly.

Screencap of Sky Marchini's quote-skeet, "well, if someone says they're the good guys, that settles it". The skeet it's quoting is by someone I've blocked.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It's a hail Mary but whatever: do any of you understand hybrid car batteries? Is the thing I circled the correct positive pole? And where tf is the negative pole?? #CarSky

Photo of the car battery with the lid off, with one part circled. It looks very complicated.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm very pleased with past-me's choices 😆 (and sorry about the harasshole)

Screenshot of the skeet this one replies to: "Since he persists, let's just close the loop. You, an asshole: [Blocked]"

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My toddler favors my husband so much more than me that I read 47 books last year! 🫣 #BookSky

Screencap of the Storygraph app reads: "2025 Reading Goals. You have read 47 books this year. 47 out of a goal of 25 books is 188%."

Screencap of the Storygraph app with my 5-star reads of 2025: "Babel" by R.F. Kuang, "A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers, "A City on Mars" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, "Margo's Got Money Troubles" by Rufi Thorpe, "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig, and "The Hero of Ages" by Brandon Sanderson.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Though my seasonal name appears to support apple pie, please know that I am a pecan stan! (I can't get over how good Abbabadook was for spooky season. Suggestions better than "Abbie pie" are welcome! I'm also open to going straight to a winter name.)

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

(standard sigmodon hispidus for reference)

Photo of a small rat-like rodent that is native to central and south america

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

?? Dilophosaurus? (which sounds a lot like "giraffosaurus" in this house at the moment)

Small plastic figure of a theropod with two ridges on its head

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Pachycephalosaurus! ("Packy-sevvy-sauruth")

Small plastic figure of a Pachycephalosaurus with a head like a battering ram

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Parasaurolophus! Or similar hadrosaur. ("Paddy-seddy-loffith")

Small plastic figure of a Parasaurolophus (or similar hadrosaur)

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Brachiosaurus! Or similar sauropod. (I tried suggesting it was Diplodocus, but was told "no Dippy-Dockith")

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

?? Protoceratops? Another ceratops?

Small plastic figure of a Triceratops-like dinosaur

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Triceratops! (or as the toddler calls it, "tri-head-top")

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Pteranodon! (We are very familiar with pteranodons because they're main characters in the show Dinosaur Train on PBS Kids, so this is going to be called Pteranodon regardless of expert input 😆)

Small plastic figure of a pteranodon (flying dinosaur)

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

??? another unknown theropod. Albertosaurus?

Small plastic figure of a T-Rex-like dinosaur

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Unknown theropod - we've gone with Allosaurus?

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

We'll start with the ones I know: T-Rex! 🦖

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I'm growing the coolest heirloom pole beans in my garden!! Look at how hot pink they are!! #gardenSky

Closeup of a greenbean still on the vine with a very cool marbled magenta pattern.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I chatted with the help team to explain my problem and reasoning.

My chat support message to their customer service bot: "Hello! I'd like to know why Kobo has been contacting authors telling them that it's going to feed their books to Al. It's causing authors I like to publicly denounce Kobo and say they're pulling their books from your store. All of this makes it incredibly difficult for me to justify using and telling people about Kobo as a supposedly more ethical alternative to Amazon."

My reply once I got through to a person: "If you could please escalate up your management chain that the use of Al will cause you to lose customers, but maintaining an ethical boundary with emerging technologies will let you keep (and gain more!) customers, I would appreciate it. Kobo has been marketed as an ethical alternative to Amazon, but that won't be true if the company uses Al on its catalog of books. Thank you!"

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

My toddler's very overgrown hair was looking like Julia Roberts ca. Hook the movie, so we did a haircut tonight, with minimal screamies! (The trick is to have my husband holding him in the tub making fart noises the entire time.)

Stillframe of Julia Roberts in the movie Hook, playing Peter Pan. She has a shaggy pixie cut that looks like she's due for another haircut any day now.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I'm thankful for Past Abbie protecting my sensibilities from whatever bullsh!t was spewed

Screenshot of the above post showing that the post it's quoting is blocked for me.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It seems past me made an excellent life choice

Screencap of the above post showing that it is replying to a blocked post, implying that I had previously blocked the original poster.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

How to turn down the volume (under Settings, Moderation)

Screencap of the Moderation settings for Bluesky. "Tiktok" and "Trump" are listed under "Your muted words".

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Happy birthday!! This squid is happy to see you 😊 I drew this on my phone while riding in an uber. On a related note, I would not consider myself to be an artist.

An extremely poor stick figure drawing of a purple squid with a smiley face.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I wrangle college students to come to events and fun stuff then trick them into learning things.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

The program manager has locked onto her next victim. #MSUMuseum #IgniteTalksMSU

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

12 hours left for MSU student researchers to submit their idea for #IgniteTalks! msumuseum.submittable.com/submit/29293...

Announcement graphic for Ignite Talks MSU on Wednesday October 30th at 7-8:30pm at 311 Abbot in East Lansing. Register at museum.msu.edu.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

The MSU Museum has announced the open-call for "Blurred Realities," the next CoLab Studio exhibition! "Blurred Realities" will look at perception and authenticity in an era of new and evolving technology like deepfakes. museum.msu.edu/explore/cola...

An AI-generated image of a strange computer-generated blue head on a hooded figure in a crowd, with the text: "Open call, Blurred Realities, An Exhibition Questioning Perceptions. Entry deadline: November 15, 2024"

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Drop something blue from ur gallery

Selfie of me cuddling my sleeping lil baby. He's wearing a blue striped onesie, and his back is visible. He's lying on my chest as we sit in a chair, and his chubby little arm and hand are resting on my collarbone. I've got my face smooshed into the top of his fuzzy head.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Hot people selfie thread Semi-formal wedding fashion, wearable breastpump edition!

Selfie of a white lady with short brown hair wearing a black v-neck jumpsuit, a sparkly vintage necklace, and red lipstick.

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Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

A picture on your phone with your energy. Not a selfie.

Photo of an opossum with the caption, "God gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers. Fortunately, I am a peasant."

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