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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I found a Rarity-80 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 806 points · 10 rare words. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/6WPTZR

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OUTLIER · Day 100

palgus scored 806 on Day 100. Can you beat them?

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m seeing Loie Fuller dance.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

A piled up tan fleece blanket with a little black kitty’s face peeking out of the middle of the pile like he is hiding in a cave, he is looking right at the camera with little yellow eyes.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I think it makes so much sense that as the world seems to turn shittier with each passing day, we simultaneously see the rise of horror literature and cozy literature. It’s just two kinds of people, finding their ways to deal with all the mess.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Apologies to the neighbors who heard me screaming for help - this tiny succulent fell over while I was vacuuming dead leaves off the coffee table and rolled into the suction zone.

A tiny green succulent in a 1 inch tall terracotta pot sitting in the palm of a woman’s hand, the ring visible on a finger looks wider in diameter than the base of the pot. The hose of a vacuum is barely visible below the hand.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Avoiding getting in arguments/yelling at the news by going to flavor town instead (standing at the stove for an hour).

Looking down into the bottom of a stainless steel stock pot from above, the bottom is coated with a dark fond from browning something.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

brb, buying liability only health insurance from a lizard to save a few bucks.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is just the outline of every TED talk video anyone has ever sent me?

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Yes, almost everything is terrible! But I got recruited at the last minute to be the witness at a tiny wedding. So I stopped at the Donut Hut and made this wedding cake on my way there - and got to celebrate the love of two delightful older gentlemen I'd never met before. Some things are good!

It's a photo of a wedding cake, but the cake is actually 4 donuts stacked on top of each other, alternating chocolate glaze and vanilla glaze to make 4 layers. They're stacked on a paper plate. There are a couple of dark pink rose petals and leaves on the plate as decoration, and one small curl of petals and a leaf arranged in the hole of the top donut. The plate is on a white table top. A bottle of red wine is sitting in the background slightly out of focus.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Just confused the hell out of the UPS driver by pretending he was trick-or-treating and handing him candy.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

My first ghost costume. I couldn’t breathe or see and kept requesting more and larger holes be cut.

A child dressed as a sheet ghost there are large holes cut for the eyes and mouth and a small hole cut for the nose. Black eyebrows are drawn on the sheet above the eyes.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Our healthcare premiums went up so much that if I stay on the same mediocre plan, healthcare may cost 1/3 of our total income.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

People who prefer to take Waymo as transportation do so because they hate poor people, regardless of why they think they prefer it.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It’s very hot in SF, so I added a little Primo Salt Gin to the Empress for an evening electrolyte martini.

A small cocktail glass with translucent purple liquid in it. It’s sitting on a wood surface and there are succulents behind it.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I had forgotten about one of my favorite #cocktails, the Sunset at Gowanus. Made one to celebrate my return to health (finally tested negative for Covid).

A small cocktail glass filled with an opaque amber liquid, sitting on a small marble table. Photo by @epvqq.bsky.social

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The shopping list taped to the fridge.

A page from a note pad stuck to a fridge, it has a shopping list written in careful and tidy cursive script with a fountain pen, the list reads:
Shopping List
fish fingers
one grouse-bundle
iron plums
mousewurst
an ant farm
cactus whiskey
proton pastries
a gourd
eel livers
ham tablets
canned granules
ball bearing salad
pencil flavored tea
tar and feathers
false beans
minced warthog
magic toes
sand
tasty nests

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Needed to avoid doomscrolling today so I am back on my delicate bullshit, making a casual woven T-shirt out of fine silk voile, because what better way to remember enjoy good things than by making them into everyday items.

A shirt laying on a green self healing mat, the sleeves and yokes are made of a very light ivory silk, the body is made of a floral silk voile, and the neckline and sleeve hems are bound with the same floral fabric.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I had a terrible cake accident. As a result I was forced to make two 2-layer cakes instead of one 3-layer cake and now I have an aviation cocktail cake with fat layers AND a strawberry jam filled birthday cake with thin layers.

two cakes on a table. in the foreground a 6" round cake about 5 inches tall with lavender frosting, in the background a shorter 6" round cake with white frosting and little rainbow sprinkles on top.

A small round cake with white frosting and rainbow sprinkles on top, one quarter has been cut out showing two layers of yellow birthday cake with a thin layer of strawberry jam in between inside.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Everything feels terrible but the neighbor’s tiny cat escaped to gallop wildly through our house, and I think I figured out how to make Aviation flavored Italian merengue for my birthday cake, and I’m going to read some @chuckwendig.bsky.social on the treadmill instead of doomscrolling.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Waiting in line for the bathroom at DNA Lounge in SF, Kelsey Grammer and Rob Schneider walked up, asked if it was the bathroom line and stood behind me.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

With the news about the liquidation of the "Big 4" pattern companies - my one and only hope is that I do not get tagged 200 times as people once again share the "vintage pattern wiki" I have no use for on FB. The "have you tried yoga?" of the garment sewing world.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The guys on the corner have the beer bong out again but the cops won’t let them throw the Jell-O shots out the window this year. #bay2breakers

A photo of Hayes and Fillmore streets in San Francisco with a crowd of costumed people from behind, going uphill. There’s a long hose from a beer bong snaking out a window from above a record store on the corner.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This evening’s Black Manhattan that @epvqq.bsky.social insisted on photographing.

A very small glass filled with brown liquid sitting on a windowsill. The background is a blur of out of focus greenery.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My husband just sent me this glamour shot he took of my childhood teddy bear.

A small brown teddy bear. It’s very old and worn, its black eyes are a little crooked and it has a little raggedy tongue instead of a mouth. It’s sitting, and its stubby little arms are raised as if it’s asking for a hug.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Tonight we’re having an Aviation #cocktail in honor of a friend who loves purple and flowers.

A small cocktail glass sitting on a window sill. The liquid inside is lavender and there’s a yellow lemon peel garnish sitting in the drink. The world in the background is out of focus but you can see it’s a blue sky above green. Photo by @queue-queue

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I’ve had great plane chats with one seat mate while avoiding another, laughed with a stranger on the street while we ignored the presumptuous stranger behind us. If people aren’t engaging with you, I suggest looking up at yourself in the mirror. I can see fine other people just fine.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Repost with a favorite book from childhood.

The cover of a Little Golden Book called Sam the Firehouse Cat

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Me after finishing the #whitelotus finale:

Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle,
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I don’t think one will be enough tonight. Drinking the good stuff while we still can.

A small cocktail glass with an about a quarter ounce of extra wet martini and a piece of lemon peel in the bottom.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/03/2025

when an american electronic appliance chirps at me: I did not invite you to speak. I despise you. I wish to destroy you when a japanese appliance chirps at me: You are my little friend. You are my companion in the journey of life

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Post a car pic you took - I got interviewed on the local news for this one.

A grey car in a lane of traffic, a male parking enforcement officer is sprawled out and clinging to the hood. The female driver is looking at him with a shocked expression, one hand to her head, the other on the steering wheel. What you can’t see is that she drove at him because she was angry he was giving her a parking ticket and he leapt onto the car to avoid being hit. The man has been clinging to the hood for 2 miles and she’s about to drive onto a freeway on-ramp.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Important news: my husband took this photo of my lunch at Memphis Minnie’s today.

A very phat fried chicken sandwich. It’s 3 separate layers of fried chicken breast stacked up and topped with slaw, on a fresh hamburger bun. The handle of a steak knife is sticking out of the top (the blade is holding it together). It’s sitting on a wooden board lined with red and white checkered paper.

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Celia Breslin @celiabreslin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

HI Friends! Fun sci-fi/fantasy reads for your TBR. P.S. last sales week for our spicy sci-fi romance anthology -BEYOND EARTH-(included in event), so grab your copy while you can. 🤩 books.bookfunnel.com/alienandmons... #booksky #amreadingromance #amreadingfantasy #scifiromance #paranormalromance

Fantasy Image of a planet and moon with the text "find your next out-of-this-world romance read, alien and monster romance". It's a book funnel event and the URL is https://books.bookfunnel.com/alienandmonsterromfeb25/n14u918ahw

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I joined Pelosi’s “Town Call” tonight (focused on Elon stealing our data, which, sure, I guess) and they said they’re doing some lawsuits and we just have to win in 20 months. I was screaming. TWENTY MONTHS!? These old husks are not meeting this moment for us guys. I’m sorry.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 03/02/2025

Hello! My patreon hit an important money milestone this morning. I'm trying to get to 1000 total patreon subs by the end of the month and i'm currently at 847. Even if you can't financially sustain a paid tier, free memberships are available. Patreon.com/katelynburns

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It’s been a real day over here and it’s time for an extremely wet lil gin martini with a splash of Italicus.

The top portion of a small cocktail glass half filled with a clear liquid

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?

A small black kitten with its eyes squeezed shut and mouth wide open in a yell or yawn, showing its little fangs. He’s wearing a collar with a little jingle bell on it. His name is noodle.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Clam Angel, back for one more year! Why? Who knows! It’s Clam Angel. And OMG I just broke Clam Angel’s shell, I’ve requested glue, please take a moment of silence while I figure out how to save my childhood.

A old Christmas ornament of a small plastic Angel in a clam shell with a tiny Christmas tree

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I forgot about the Vieux Carre, it’s good.

A vieux carre, neat, in a small cocktail glass. It’s sitting on a felt square on an old scratched wood coffee table, the background is a warm blur.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It’s party time again.

A placard on a wood table surface, the placard reads “PLEASE SO NOT PLACE DRINKS ON THIS TABLE. IT WAS HANDMADE BY GEORGE WASHINGTON’S FURNITURE MAKER. THANK YOU.” (What is not pictured is that the table is in a bathroom next to a toilet.)

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Celia Breslin @celiabreslin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Hey #romance fans! Counting down to release day! Sad news: not on Amazon-they cancelled pre-order 😫😡 GOOD NEWS: You can find it on KOBO, B&N, APPLE, & GOOGLE, yay! 🤩 #amreading #scifiromance #cyborgromance #alienromance #romantasy #booksbooksbooks #newrelease buy.bookfunnel.com/gsxifp3zfi

image of Beyond Earth book cover plus the words: what are you waiting for? 3 days. don't miss your chance! Grab Beyond Earth while it's still 99 pennies.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I support my trans friends and family by accepting and respecting them, and by being an auntie they can call for any reason, any time.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It's time for my Christmas profile photo update.

a woman's portrait from the neck up, she's wearing a santa hat and has a short dark bob haircut and bright red lipstick, she's wearing a red bead necklace. It's an old degraded web gif, so it looks a little fuzzy, and parts of the image have a weird green outline. She's surrounded by an ornate gold frame, but her hat and hair are in front of the frame, like she's popping out of it and into the room with you.

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queue-queue @epvqq.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Now you can chat with an AI through a teletype machine.

a teleprinter from 1960 with paper emerging from it containing a conversation between a user and the LLM.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Not sure why I thought it would be a good idea to schedule dentist appointment for this afternoon, but am considering taking the opportunity to ask them to novocain my brain.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I don't know who needs to hear this...but if you're in recovery from drugs or alcohol, don't let anxiety about Tr*mp take that away from you. Have a plan for election night and the days after. You've got this.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I’m thinking of Phil. We spent hours wasting time together in high school, between the end of class and start of jr theater rehearsal. He was making a name for himself as an adult actor but took his own life and I didn’t find out until after the funeral had already happened.

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gus @auntiesis.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

My first ghost costume. I couldn’t breathe or see and kept requesting more and larger holes be cut.

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