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But if it's just feet, then it's just a tulip! Oh, this is totally doable. You must share pictures, if you decided to do it.

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Step six: I yell "Show Del the pictures I texted" while my dad insists I didn't text the pictures. Step seven: Dad discovers the pictures and hangs up. Step eight: ???

Step five: receive a phone call where my mom and dad yell at each other because not only is my mom not ready for the day, she hasn't even gotten to the point in her routine where she wanders around the house naked checking if the toilets need cleaning.

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Step one: Tell Del the pictures are coming to Grandpa's phone. Step two: Text the pictures. Step three: Receive a brief facetime that doesn't come through. Step four: Receive a phone call from my dad that's just him saying "Bart's on here somewhere. Don't hang up on Bart." I am hung up on.

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Trying to text Del pictures of the Halloween truck has turned into a twenty minute fiasco that somehow involved @bartholomew4allofu.bsky.social.

And the bill would be an oval modified to be slightly pointy at one end. I think the trick would be figuring out how to incorporate them into a square, whether you just wanted to applique them or build them in.

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Okay, check this. So the ends could be made in six squares and three triangles.

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I think it might be pretty easy (?). Is there a different view of the scarf? Like, are the motifs just bills and feet?

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The driver told me he has a fog machine and creepy lights for night.

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Best neighborhood in the city.

Jason in the bed of a truck with his knife.

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My boss has made a SFoB bingo card that she’s so proud of. We, yet again, have book squishies.

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This year, my colleagues are having a meet and greet for book clubs, which the planning of sounds fancy already.

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The Southern Festival of Books is sincerely the most fun thing I get to do for work. I get to stand around talking books with a bunch of book lovers, meet authors, gossip with other university presses, pick up free swag. It’s great.

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Are we about to have a genuinely cold Southern Festival of Books?!

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Speak for yourselves, men in your 40s. I’m still hip and cool!

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 20h

If you told me that Pete Hegseth started drinking when he was twelve or thirteen, I’d believe it, because he is so obviously playing at being a man the way a preteen bully does. He’s been stuck at twelve his whole adult life.

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Braden Gall @bradengall.bsky.social · 22h

Medium Build = Sad Weezer Ian Noe = Charlie Robinson

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Braden Gall @bradengall.bsky.social · 22h

What is a “scene?” And are we losing all of them in Nashville? Me and two-time The Best Columnist in Nashville @betsyphillips.bsky.social talk shop. @nashvillescene.com tinyurl.com/3h4tr65x

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 20h

I’m running you for governor, then.

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you can’t bring yourself to vote for a Democrat for governor, write in Sean.

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, hey. You got anything going on in January you can’t get out of?

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm both eager for and afraid of the story that will cause us to come together like Voltron.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Leave it to this place to keep me humble and grounded.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So, if I understand transitive properties correctly, this is now somehow the Best Cubicle in Nashville.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t know how far my elementary school reach is, though.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you’re a student at Alex Green with a cool silver scooter, your dad is out acting a fool on it on Lloyd. Don’t let him tell you you scratched it trying to do jumps. That was him.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was thinking it would be nice on a round table. Or maybe as a huge pillow cover?

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Should I have checked this long before now? Of course. But I was having fun and up close it doesn’t obviously ripple. And it’s beautiful. So… now what? What even is this?

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have fucked up the count on this so bad that it makes me laugh to look at it. But I also don’t see any way to fix it without pulling out clear back to the white and I’m not going to do that.

A very beautiful crochet blanket with one hell of an unintended large ruffle.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump having to come to Tennessee for Marsha is giving me life.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s like if Matt and Trey became Muslim. Like, what was all this for if you’re just going to join up with the culture you were so forcefully rejecting?

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve been thinking along similar lines. The violence against women, the homophobia, the… everything. Like, I knew it all along, but I still thought it was him just being a dick. But now? I don’t know how to explain it.

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Gentleman Pitbull is the speakeasy I’m going to open in someone’s garage in Belle Meade.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saw a pitbull wearing a top hat in Belle Meade yesterday and that was still less weird than that Kid Rock video.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think we need to send @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social and @stephentrageser615.bsky.social up here to check on Bob, because he seems not okay.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I should be in bed, but all I can think about is why/how a woman in an ostensibly Christian music video takes off her shirt and why/how the big miracle in the video is that her hair instantly dries and looks great after she's baptized. Someone explain this to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdXd...

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James 1:17 (Jesus Is King) - Kid Rock [Official Music Video}

YouTube video by Kid Rock

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, thanks to @bradengall.bsky.social I’ve now listened to one new artist who sounds like Sad Weezer and another new artist who sounds like what would have happened to country music if Charlie Robison would have won.

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are at least twenty cop cars lights flashing at 12th and Edgehill. The rich girls with the fender bender in 12South are in for a very long wait for a cop.