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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone else keep getting followed by spam OnlyFans accounts all named Julie?

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 7h

#31daysofgraves Day 4: Entrance. The Schorr mausoleum in Druid Ridge Cemetery - or possibly a door to Middle Earth.

A green copper door rises to a delicate point like a gothic window, but the swirling, sinuous lines of the metal over viewing glass are pure Art Nouveau. The great-white stone frame of the door echoes its curving line except right at the top point an upside down triangle leads the eye to the weathered name of the Schorr family.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 17h

Went to a quilting supply estate sale today. I was doing pretty well at staying in my budget & on my list until I found out she died a decade ago - at which point I went after the whites & muslin like a pouncing velociraptor. Bought whole bins of the old thick stuff you can’t get anymore.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#31daysofgraves Day 3: This mausoleum window from Druid Ridge Cemetery is my favorite piece of funeral glass of all the ones I’ve seen so far.

Angled view of an arched stained glass window of three women in flowing Regency-ish gowns. The middle one in a red dress stands upright. To her right, a woman in a green gown looks to her. On her left, a woman in a blue gown leans on her. Behind them are impressionist trees and sky. Around the frame is a green and gold border with to dels for stylized flowers. Centered below the women is a pane of glass reading “Faith, Hope, and Charity. The greatest of these is Charity.” Two pieces of glass are missing from the green woman’s gown, showing stark white where her thighs would be.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

its okay to sincerely like things

cover of THIS PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE GETS ME OFF IN A FUN AND SINCERE WAY BECAUSE IT’S OKAY FOR PEOPLE TO ENJOY POPULAR THINGS WITHOUT BEING SHAMED FOR THE PERCEIVED “BASICNESS” OF THEIR BEVERAGE CHOICES featuring a ladybuck on the left with red hair lookin confident in her beverage choice. on the right is a to-go cup from coffee shop ALSO lookin good

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#31daysofgraves Day 2: Urn. This is fancy one is in Mt Olivet, Hanover Pennsylvania.

Closeup of a carved urn at the top of a pillar. Stylized leaves run around its base, a carved wreath of flowers is looped on it, and a drapery half covers it.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#31daysofgraves Day 1: Flower. This unique half carved, half metal one blooms in Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville Maryland.

Closeup of the top of an arched white gravestone. Two sets of stylized leaves arc just below the top curve. Between them is inset a blooming rose made of new copper.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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Tasting History with Max Miller @tastinghistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a dish called Snow Eggs. It’s one of the many dishes which James Hemings, the enslaved chef of Thomas Jefferson, brought back to the US after leaning to cook in France. Thank you @colonialwmsburg for hosting me. youtu.be/BZa0Mg55pCk?...

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James Hemings - Jefferson's Forgotten Chef

YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller

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Loyalty Bookstores @loyaltybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BOO(ks)!! 👻 We’ve been brewing up a special event with our neighbors at Rock Creek Cemetery this fall. Join us for ghost stories at the cemetery on Wed., October 14, featuring local authors! Kids stories are from 6-7 PM, followed by adult ghost stories from 7-8:30 PM. We hope to scare you there!

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Cemtember A forgotten and abandoned graveyard by the side of the road. No sign, no church, no flowers, no tending.

A mid-sized rounded gravestone with carved handshake and “Harriet E, wife of Noah Foster, died 1877” stands above ragged grass near the trunk of a dead, blasted tree. You have to look closely to see the two smaller stones, their rounded tops barely visible in the weeds, which are as tall as Harriet’s stone. This cemetery had no sign and was near no church.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have more beautiful flowers to use for the 31 Days of Graves prompt, but none more fitting for the #cemtember contemplation of mortality. All things end, including memorials.

A gravestone has sunk so far into the ground that only one corner, showing a stylized circular flower with 3 leaves can be seen above the grass.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Quilt guild held a silent auction and I got *aggressive* about bringing home the laundry basket with 30 pounds of scraps.

A tall white plastic laundry basket staged in front of a bronze radiator in front of a window. Assorted fabric scraps fill it to the brim. A black cat sitting on the radiator cover is curiously sniffing a basket handle.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my colleagues and I were all sharing photos of ourselves in the 80’s and then someone had the AUDACITY

She shared a picture of a fertilized egg

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have the full run of the Shawn Cassidy/Parker Stevenson Hardy Boys, which have gone from “too old for me” to “too young for me” to “they could be your kids.”

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don’t give up on your dreams. If you wish to disappear into a mysterious fog and wander the moors as a frazzled and maniacal creature that folks whisper about in the dark, I know you can do it. I believe in you.

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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression…

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Cemtember Mount Olivet, Washington DC. Moving away from long shot landscapes to “I’m proud of this photo but it doesn’t match a 31 Days of Graves prompt.”

A tight grouping of gravestones against a cloudy sky. From left to right: an urn on a pillar half out of shot, a small figure and a broken column with a carved wreath, a few plainer stones of various sizes half hidden behind a tall monument on the right of frame. A living bird sits on the top of this last pillar, eyeing me.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books, drink tea, and eat pastries in a humble seaside cottage during a raging storm?

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Your daily affirmation: Be kind to the person staring back at you in the mirror. Things are also hard in the mirror universe and they're doing the best they can.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Cemtember Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown Maryland. For all the weeping willows depicted on gravestones, this is the only one I’ve actually seen growing in a graveyard. (Nearly kept this shot for the 31 Days of Graves “tree” prompt.)

On the left side, a row of mid-height rounded gravestones. On the right, a fallen obelisk leans against a square marker. In the middle, behind them all, a beautiful, lush weeping willow.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Amazing how many towns there are like that in horror…

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“You’re 45, so it’s time to get a colonoscopy.” Cold. Impersonal. Uninspiring. “Two score and five autumns have cooled your brow, so we must search your corn-maze for haunts.” Mysterious. Fun. Seasonal.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Cemtember St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Baltimore County Maryland

Two medium height gravestones in the foreground provide contrast to the obelisk, urn on a pillar, and angel on a pillar in the background. The angel has one arm stretched out toward the urn.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#Cemtember St John’s Cemetery of Howard County, Ellicott City Maryland

To the right of the frame is a standing figure on a pillar; to the left is a church in the distance. Between them, a sloping hill is full of gravestones of various shapes and ages.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/09/2026

Told my date I wanted to go to the most expensive place in DC so he took me to the Exxon in Georgetown.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Gentlemen! Are you in want of a wife? Allow our algorithm to assist!

Image: a series of yes/no questions for that lead to different outcomes.

Questions include “are you rich?”, “are you dashing?”, “are you a rake” and “are you a vicar?”

Outcomes include “You win the most beautiful daughter of the richest man in the county!”, “You remain a bachelor”, “You marry a dowdy cousin” and “You rescue a 23-year-old from Spinsterhood”.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#Cemtember United States Soldier’s and Airman’s Home National Cemetery, Washington DC

Hundreds of identical rounded stones tightly packed along a gently rising hillside

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

FYI y’all The Sad Bastard Cookbook is a free download on Kobo.

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying "I'm 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!"
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says "I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!"
The third panel shows a spine's face. It weakly says, "I am old".
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, "so very old".

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My house is heated by oil. I had the tank refilled soon after the Strait closed in the belief that the Rs & business owners would *force* sanity into the situation by fall before it hurt their careers and finances. Guess not.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Read this thread up & down; the advice is excellent. I was once at a grocery just as new ground beef came in & they were selling $9.50 packs of beef for $1. Not $1 a pound - ONE DOLLAR. A cheap freezer & freezer bags, will pay themselves back with a few scores like that.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Cemtember Holy Cross, Ellicottville NY It wasn’t until I started posting every day that I realized just how often I frame my photos under a tree branch.

A tall cross center front, with lower gravestones framing it on either side and mostly mid-height arched and square gravestones beyond. Green trees form the backdrop and a leafy branch in the foreground arches down to the cross.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A thunderstorm enhances the reading experience by at least 52%.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What’s playing at the Roxy? I’ll tell you what’s playing at the Roxy. A picture about a cartoon coyote suing a corporation that kinda seems to represent Warner Bros. by proxy.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#Cemtember Continuing the Catholic theme from yesterday, the burial plot of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Mount Olivet in DC. Each grave has the woman’s religious name, her birth name, her age, and the number of years she was a nun.

Five rows of tightly packed identical crosses, with barely 6 inches between stones and maybe a foot between one row and the row behind it. Each cross has JMJ along the crossbar for Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Below that, the woman’s details. Sample epitaph: Sr St Lucie, Little Sister of the Poor, nee Teresa Carr, d Nov 11 1901, age 34 - professed 7 years.

One newer stone, set away from the cramped lines. Sr Marie Mathilde de la Croix, Little Sister of the Poor, nee Alicia Velasquez, d Oct 18 2016, age 103 - professed 82 years

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I need a sanity check. Considering rising prices, rising recalls, and potential furlough December 11, is buying a bunch of canned, dehydrated food staples from a known site: Paranoid? Prudent?

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