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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy birthday! Enjoy this random artisanal meme

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most big cities have a fabulous park or two or three built in the last 25 years. Here are three of them

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Rotterdam Centraal my beloved kapsalon station

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

oh yeah lol i remember this guy. poncho munch for deano bonano. that phrase we’ve all heard before

POLICE CHIEF
PONCHO MUNCH
- FOR -
DEANO BONANO
I'M WITH
BONANO
During Hurricanes Ike, Gustav and Katrina there was one constant. Deano Bonano was there for Westwego residents every time. As Director of Emergency Management and the head of Jefferson's Homeland Security, Deano instinctively knew the needs of our city.
That's because in his 30+ years of experience in Jefferson Parish government, where he led many critical divisions, Deano not only realized how a parish could help a city in need, but he also knew exactly who at the parish-level could help us most. It was during our darkest days in Westwego that Deano Bonano was our brightest guardian.
I'm supporting Deano for Council because I know how much he can and will help Westwego in every way. I'm asking you to please consider supporting Deano as well!
It's important to Westwego!

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i’ve never been able to use this one before but i think it fits

Mum srsly I too Ill for school
Geuss you too ill for mcdonald too then
Miricale

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not thinking about the Bears 🥰

A woman serenely sitting in the front row of the bleachers at Wrigley

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone else thinking a lot about 1979 these days? Why? Oh no reason

the cover of BLACK WAVE by Kim Ghattas (subtitled Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East)

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also let’s hear it for the good euro SPF. Isdin Hydrolotion… worth it

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

10:41am… going back for more beach

an off tilt picture of a beach with a gull in foreground and breaking waves

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

it is uncanny how you both tap into my brain. how did you know i have been thinking about tibet (was also there 20+ years ago) because i was in this part of italy and they apparently call it little tibet and it had me thinking about the poison of nostalgia!

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

finally (finally!!) reading Tomb of Sand and i cannot believe this is hindi in translation. i wish so much i was fluent enough to read the original, रेत समाधि। someone please give me the matrix i know kung fu brain upload for hindi urdu

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

all house made from a Slow Food place; three kinds of pecorino (ranging from a couple weeks to one year); and two kinds of cheese/cream/pork fat/herb spreads

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have one of those aprons!! I got it in Lhasa over 20 years ago. A treasure.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m at a porchetta festival in a tiny mountain town in Italy and I’ve never been in a situation more familiar and more strange at the same time. I love everything about it

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Do you ever wonder what Bernini could have done with a Costco ten foot skeleton? (cc: @hollyanderson.bsky.social )

Is… is that a skeleton draped in marble?

Yeah it’s definitely a skeleton holding the sands of time underneath cloaks and sheaths of marble

It’s inside St Peter’s in the Vatican and of course it’s Bernini

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

i was worried it wouldn’t live up to my expectations but it 1000% did and more

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mercadona, the Spanish grocery chain, has a jamon counter. Just wanted everyone to know this

A grocery store counter with like five dozen legs of jamon

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yeah between this and today learning about Toronto’s level of new transit investment… I’m feeling pretty left out

Ontario Line - 15.6km of new subway service. 15 stops. Part of our $70 billion plan to build public transit.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Haley, is there no one in your life who has told you to stop doing this? To stop being like this?

Philip and Elizabeth Jennings staring daggers at … Paige, probably

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m talking about not covering every square inch in asphalt and strip malls until you can’t remember what happens when you stand in a meadow at dusk. What happens in a meadow at dusk? Everything. Nothing. Everything. Nothing.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ahh this is so cool!! One of the plovers Ryan found was born at Leelanau State Park where I have been seeing these special birds since I was a little kid—they were gone for many years of high water but now they are back again and nesting successfully

It’s your girl on the beach holding a giant spotting scope

A sign on the beach that says Caution
Piping Plover Chicks
PIPING PLOVER CHICKS FEEDING AND RESTING IN THE AREA
Please help protect piping plovers:
Do not linger in the area:
No ATV's on beach.
Piping Plovers are endangered and protected by the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 and Part 365
of the Michigan Natural Resources and Environmental Protoction Act of 1994

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

this is great. but i think this one is still my favorite

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

was thinking that maybe finally i would get a beach day this weekend and, lol solidarity to the first nations losing their homes in northern ontario, i hope this ends soon, for all our sakes

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Butterflies are showing up too.

a black swallowtail on liatris ligulostylis (meadow blazing star)

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s true! I grow native plants on my Chicago balcony and I get visitors like this absolutely pollen-drunk bumblebee all summer

an enormous bumblebee covered in pollen on every surface. he’s exploring a coneflower (echinacea purpurea)

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

there is a LOT of room in there

the “elgin” marbles at the bri’ish museum (they belong in athens)

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I think this quote from the NYT is missing the most common Israeli government reaction to settler violence: enthusiastic, effusive support in word, deed, and funds

Violent attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank have intensified since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that set off the war in Gaza. The responses of the Israeli authorities have generally ranged from unkept promises to address the problem, to blame shifting, to outright denial.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Grand Rapids isn’t unmapped!! Their FIRMs have an effective date of 2023!

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is so confusing. Here’s the NFHL for Jenison MI (in Grand Rapids metro) which is on the right side of your screenshot. Where did they pull their data?!

NFHL screenshot showing that Kent County actually has newer FIRMs than Ottawa County

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Remember toppling parties? We should bring those back

A statue of noted Hell resident Robert E Lee coming the fuck down off a column

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

ja hoor my criticisms are also mostly with the coaches. posted this on IG and my cousins were like “you’re right!”

heartbroken about the game last night
embarrassing coaching
no adjustments insane substitutions
left Reijnders and Malen on the bench midfield collapsed horrible PK lineup
played scared and didn't attack wasted van Dijk's last world cup
what else??? horrible performance

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yeah this was the year I finally got a real shirt instead of just wearing orange. So much for that!

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

thinking about my yellow room in my old house. with my old dog.

a sunlit room with mustard yellow walls, white curtains with yellow tassels, a cream color leather and teak ekornes sofa and loveseat 😭 and a warm wood toned coffee table over a rug patterned kind of like kente cloth in a multicolor pattern. under the table is a fluffy dog bed with a small white fluffy dog laying down inside it staring at the person holding the camera

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

this reminds me of the time i accidentally ordered like $100 worth of grilled prawns in singapore. they were so ungodly large

four butterflied and grilled prawns from a hawker center in singapore. they’re enormous.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Enjoy (and prep) now because next week is going to be difficult

A terrifying heat wave forecast for Chicago next week

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I have gotten really into native plants and I am a balcony container gardener by circumstance, so I grow native perennials as kind of a long running experiment. This is Year 3. I have two volunteers in this pot and IDed them as Canada Goldenrod and New England Aster. I’m super excited

A picture of a pot with many plants. The two plants discussed in the post are in the left vertical half of the photo. The taller one is Canada Goldenrod and the shorter one is New England Aster. They’re surrounded by sedges, dropseed, junegrass, and purple coneflowers.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hell yeah man it reminds me of the Leviathan in the Orpheus parade

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Mods are asleep post Chicago trees

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