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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A tree on our street snapped during the storm last night. Norway maple. I don’t know why people keep planting these in #Pittsburgh.

Where a Norway maple broke during a storm.

Different angle on fallen limb from Norway maple. Houses for scale.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Well. Here's a fun new thing to play with. Link in the comments - give it a try! @mapquest.com

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A little bit of chop on Lake Erie up here in Lakeside. A storm is brewing and I couldn’t be happier. I love it when a Great Lake gets moody.

Me, with Lake Erie looking choppy behind me.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That there is a pupper, not a doggo!

A white dog with black eyes and nose, wearing a red collar, smiles at the camera. The caption says: "When she calls you a pupper even though technically you're a doggo."

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sweaty run this morning. 5k at 25C, 90% humidity.

The OP, doing a run around the reservoir.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My lap, right now. This is Mia, my 16-year-old senior girl. How will I break it to her that I have to leave in less than half an hour? #cats #blackcats #catsofbluesky

Mia, a black/smoke medium-hair cat, sits on a colorful striped woven blanket draped across my lap. She is snoring softly.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hello, Seattle. I’m happy to see you again, for a few days. Thanks for the beautiful weather and the California poppies blooming everywhere. I’m off to drink in what is still familiar here, and what has become strange.

A traffic circle intersection in Seattle, rife with blooming California poppies.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This may require some familiarity with 80s-era advertising… But if you have that, it’s hilarious! (And it may be just as funny with no context, what do I know?)

Jesus, smiling widely, wields a roll of Mentos fruit candies. Behind him is the sea and a fishing boat with a sail. The text reads, “Jesus: The Freshmaker.”

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It has multiple meanings as an acronym, but in this usage it both describes and is named for that guy.

Definition of Yoho from Urban Dictionary.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

There’s a US cultural studies book by that title. I read it in grad school. It’s about cultural confrontations between labor and capitalism.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Susquehanna, looking moody and contemplative today.

The Susquehanna River, partially shrouded by rain and mist, seen from a railroad bridge.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

My favorite part is the little headlight beam.

Screenshot from Maps, showing an Amtrak train moving along the rails next to Turtle Creek in Pennsylvania. The train is a blue dot with an adorable headlight beam pointed roughly east, the direction of the train’s travel.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

What do you think? Should I block this number? 🧐

Screenshot of a phone’s spam call log. There are nine calls logged, all from the same number, all with the same time stamp: 17:52. (The phone’s owner prefers 24-hour, rather than 12-hour timekeeping because it removes the am/pm ambiguity.)

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In case you’ve ever wondered why the “parking chair” is a thing in Pittsburgh. (I think they do this elsewhere, too, but I never saw it until I moved here.)

A Pittsburgh street, showing parked cars with snow deep enough to obscure the car tires.

A Pittsburgh “parking chair” sitting in a cleared parking spot.

A Pittsburgh “parking chair” showing how much snow the person had to remove to clear the spot.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

After shoveling and salting (sorry, we have to), 11:45-ish. The snow was fully cleared before I started spreading salt.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Before shoveling, 11:25ish.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Video this time. 10:25-ish. At the end I pan to show our front walkway. My partner shoveled that an hour ago.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Same view, approximately one hour later. Slightly heavier snowfall.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Snow in Pittsburgh this morning. It’s falling like fine dust right now. I’ll post pics throughout the day.

A snowy street in a Pittsburgh neighborhood.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Books of the 80s Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

The front cover of the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

To me it seems like a precursor for Saved by the Bell.

Several images of the character Screech, from Saved by the Bell, in colorful, clownlike outfits.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Ran the #phillyhalfmarathon with my niece today! We finished faster than we expected! Such a fun event - great course and spectator support for almost the entire route.

Me (left) and my niece (right) at or near the start line. We are both smiling and throwing peace signs.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Mine, within 48 hours of receiving her new heated cat bed.

A black cat lies on her back, limbs stretched in every direction, asleep and drunk on the heat of her new heated sherpa fleece cat bed.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We snap. And we are dragons.

A pair of pink snapdragon flowers with yellow spots on their lower lips.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Here I am after finishing my 20 km run this morning. 😊 Yes, my hair is dripping sweat and my hat (which I knit - pattern is Shedir - like…god, almost 20 years ago now. 😬😂) Philly half-marathon, here I come!

A 58-year-old woman after completing a 20 km training run this morning. Photo taken during her cool-down walk, post-run.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Greeted by this at the end of my 8 km run this morning. #runinthedsrk, #finishinthelight

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I ordered a used copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species from ThriftBooks. It arrived today. I found this photo in it. I’m intrigued…

A sunny college campus. In the background is a plaza with a brutalist building beyond. In the foreground, a college-aged person with long blonde hair that looks surf-salted stands in front of a rangy tree. They are wearing an oversized dark purple or navy t-shirt with the word Washington across the chest in fancy lettering, and a round emblem below that.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This one is more recent, also funnier.

A large, unrealistic painting of John Travolta in his white disco suit from Saturday Night Fever is leaning against a wall, and is surrounded by potted ferns for sale. The sign also has text reading “FERN BABY FERN,” and “DISCO INFERNO.” Get it? Haha.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

As an undergrad I learned this as Hieracium aurantiacum, but it has a different genus now: Pilosella aurantiaca, or orange hawkweed / fireweed. I love it.

Orange hawkweed (Pilosella aurantiaca) in flower in a Pittsburgh front yard.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Two days in a row! They used to curl up together like this all the time, until Echo (at right in both photos) developed hyperthyroidism. After about 6 months of finding an effective dose of methimazole, her aggression and irritability are better, and she’s back up to 10 lbs (from 7.5 lbs).

Mia (l) and Echo (r) curled up together on a faux shearling mat next to a window. In the foreground is Echo’s favorite toy, the purple dinosaur that is not Barney. Both cats are black. Echo is sleek while Mia is fluffy.

Mia (l) and Echo (r) curled up together on a faux shearling mat next to a window. Both cats are black. Echo is sleek while Mia is fluffy.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I have a cat named Artemis too! Here she is:

A medium haired polydactyl “black smoke” cat sits on a desk, looking annoyed because she wants scritches. Behind her is a monitor, keyboard, a teal mug, and various other desk items. Her name is Artemis, Mia for short. Like any self-respecting cat she has a few other names as well, including: Boopty, Monster, and Fluffysoft.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A film that takes place where I’m from.

A clip from American Pie with Alyson Hannigan saying “This one time, at band camp…”

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Someone photoshopped that. Here’s what that online dictionary really says:

Screenshot of Merriam-Webster definition of “groceries.” It reads, “the food and supplies sold by a grocer —usually singular in British usage”

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

So far, these are the best buckeyes I’ve had since I moved to PA. They taste as good as the ones my friend’s mom used to make when I was a kid. Secret recipe. I came close to making a close facsimile. These are closer. Super good.

A photo of the lid on a small, oval container of buckeyes, which is a peanut butter bonbon coated with chocolate. The lid says “Since 1984 - Marsha’s homemade premium quality buckeyes.” The container started with 12 bonbons, but now contains only 8. The missing 4 were delicious.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

TIL that the red Haribo Goldbears are raspberry (not cherry) and the green ones are strawberry, WHAT?? Not green apple? In my defense, I don’t eat them often and I rarely read candy packaging. (There’s info I prefer not to know in the moments when I’m eating candy, lol.)

An image of part of a Haribo Goldbears bag, where there are images of the different bear colors, each paired with an image of its fruit flavor and the word for that fruit. Orange is orange; yellow is lemon; white is pineapple; red is raspberry; and green is strawberry.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I also have one fluffy black cat and one sleek black cat. My fluffy one has a silver undercoat and is polydactyl.

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ShareCrow @arguchik.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I should clarify, I can’t verify 100% because the specimens are distorted from pressing and age. I’m confident of the Coreopsis lanceolata, not so much the butterfly pea or the wood sorrel. I love the stains on the pages. Like the Shroud of Turin lol.

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