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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Saw this on Instagram and thought we could use it over here.

A photo of the edge of a cliff, Sandia Peak, overlooking Albuquerque. A pink sunset peeks out from under a layer of clouds. In the foreground, an illuminated neon sign says: YOU STILL HAVEN’T MET ALL OF THE PEOPKE WHO ARE GOING TO LOVE YOU

Credit: Michael James Schneider, @blcksmth on Instagram

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The pasta e lenticchie turned out extra pretty tonight

A steaming pot of lentils, tomatoes, elbow macaroni, and the occasional carrot. Maybe it’s not conventionally beautiful.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

IKEA update, a month later: The kids, and some sea creatures, caught me in a weak moment.

A shopping cart containing a BLÅVINGAD plush yellow octopus and a small BLÅHAJ plush shark

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My favorite mailboxes, both in national parks

The Mail Bear in a hotel in Mount Rainier National Park. It is a doleful-looking wooden bear holding a sign that says “Mail Bear.”

An ordinary-looking blue mailbox in the snack bar at the bottom of Carlsbad Caverns, 750 feet underground.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The world’s tiniest violin, playing the world’s saddest song

But the protesters did encounter another member of his household. After an August 2025 protest, Ms. Shaw Glaser and other demonstrators were standing near the Port Clyde dock when a young woman approached them with a serious look on her face. She asked them: What did they hope to accomplish? Had they considered how their actions affected the chief justice’s wife and children?

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This once happened to my partner when I was picking up salad for dinner

Screenshot of a text conversation:
Me: Send salad preferences?

Other person: Mixed greens, carrots, mushrooms, hardbody lesbian, chicken, and ranch dressing.
Oh my.
Hard boiled eggs.

Me: Wow.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s easier to check the chickpeas for rocks when the chickpeas do not look and feel EXACTLY LIKE ROCKS

A strainer of dried ceci neri (black chickpeas), which are indistinguishable from little black pebbles

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There’s a children’s book called The Ankle Grabber that scared the shit out of me when I was 6.

Book cover of The Ankle Grabber, by Rose Impey, illustrated by Moira Kemp. The cover shows a wide-eyed child lying awake in bed, with her teddy bear sitting precariously on the edge of the bed. Underneath the bed, a green monster with bright eyes and long fingers prepares to catch the bear.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For bedtime tonight, in honor of Dolly, the kids and I read a favorite from her Imagination Library.

The cover of a picture book called Exactly as Planned, by Tao Nyeu. The cover shows a moose and a fox sitting in a tree and talking. At the bottom left is a seal showing that the book is a blue ribbon selection from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have bad news for our would-be cheese thieves

A photo of the loss table in U.S. Sentencing Guidelines section 2B1.1. It has been clumsily altered to say that if the loss is cheese, add 50 points to the offense level.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Googled to get the Pirates score, and, well

Google AI overview: “The Pittsburgh Pirates are a professional baseball team, maritime sea robbers from history, or the popular entertainment franchise.” The image is of a Pirates of the Caribbean poster

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Maybe appealing to Lawsky: among my vintage cookbooks is the 1982 Congressional Club Cookbook, which contains Chuck Grassley’s wife’s cheese ball recipe

16 oz cream cheese, 1 package Good Season’s Italian dressing mix, 1-1.5 cups chopped pecans. Mix cream cheese, dressing mix, and 1/2 cups chopped pecans pecans. Shape into two balls and roll in remaining nuts. “Best if made a little ahead so flavors can blend.”

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Have moved my beans into the pantry in the new place; am officially home

Photo of an embarrassing number of bags of Rancho Gordo beans and lentils (I counted; it’s 18 lbs)

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Chicken-shaped gravy boat goes next to the jalapeño-shaped salsa dish next to the corn-shaped corn dish and what has my life come to

What the post says; I’m not exaggerating

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It’s moving day! My energy can best be summed up by Norris the monster lamp

A white ceramic bug-eyed monster with its mouth open in a scream. The monster appears to have seen some things. It is tucked into a bed so it doesn’t get crushed by moving boxes.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Mel Brooks on whether drumming taught him about comedy:

It did. It has to do with punch lines. It has to do with timing. It has to do with buildup and explosions. For a joke to work, I always needed that rim shot, when one of the drumsticks hits the rim of the snare as well as the center of the drum and gives you that crack, that explosion. It’s the same thing with a joke. A man walks into a grocery store. He says, “I want a half a pound of lox. I want some cream cheese.” And he stops and says, “All your shelves are filled with boxes of salt! Do you sell a lot of salt?” And the grocery man says, “Me, if I sell a box of salt a week it’s a miracle. I don’t sell a lot of salt. But the guy that sells me salt—boy, can he sell salt!” That’s the rim shot.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My results are similar and I’m a Macronite

Your results
66% woke 34% child
45% techbro 55% neo-Luddite
72% hopepilled 28% doomer
92% Davis 8% Dubai

Your closest match: Emmanuel Macron, president of France 2017-present

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My dad is visiting, and he brought me a Knicks cookie from, I believe, Barney Greengrass?

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I saw a dramatic headline from the NYT about “vandalism” on the National Mall, superimposed on a photo of… this. This does not crack my top 50 concerns at the moment.

Screenshot from the New York Times Facebook account. Headline says “Grass on the National Mall is Vandalized With ‘86 47’ Stains.” It’s on a photo credited to Nathan Howard at Reuters that shows the grass at the National Mall, which has a large but not-very-clear “8” marking, followed by markings in the grass that I could not have identified as particular numbers.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Because AI learns over time, Google gave me a different answer

Screenshot of a search for “how many days of the week have boobs in them”

Google says:
Only two days of the week have “boobs” (the letters b-o-o-b) in their name:
• Tuesboobs (Tuesday)
• ****boobs (Saturday)

What other fun wordplay or riddles can I help you with today?

This is for informational purposes only. For medical advice or diagnosis, consult a professional. AI responses may include mistakes.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride from a bridal shop in suburban Pittsburgh

A store window with a white wedding gown followed by dresses in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This weekend at the Albuquerque Isotopes: the diversity of human experience

Tonight: Dinosaur Night (giving away triceratops plushies in Isotopes jerseys); also ALS night
Tomorrow: Country Night (giving away trucker hats, and there’s a concert and fireworks)
Sunday: Pride Day (giving away Pride flags)

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I just googled that line to see if I remembered it correctly, and boy do I hate this

Screenshot of a Google search for “nice is different than good.”
At the top, there is an inspirational-quotation thing that says “Nice is different than good. Stephen Sondheim” superimposed on a sunset or something.

Beneath that is Google AI, apparently speaking to me directly: “You hit on one of the most profound psychological truths—and one of the famous central themes from Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods. The fundamental difference comes down to intent and impact:” and then there’s a “Show More” button.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Just doing my weekly shopping at Smilth’s

A large, professionally printed sign exhorting me to open the “Smilth’s” app

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I very much wish that newspapers hadn’t run with the image that he decided to give them after he was safe. The image I think of, when I think of Butler, is Trump on the ground, bleeding, buried under his team of guards.

Photo from Anna Moneymaker of Trump’s face, bleeding, inside a tangle of limbs

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I’m curious about how people would rank the relative insanity of the circuits. I worry my off-the-cuff response was not correct (should I have said the 4th?)

Text to me:
Is the 5th circuit the insane one?

My response:
Yep
Although 11th and 8th give it a run for its money

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I have to show you these muffins my kid decorated one time

A banana muffin with candy decorations on it: two hearts, two stars, two drops of water, two mustaches, two eyes, two sets of lips. They are arranged in no particular pattern.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Ridiculously, I felt bad for the lamb and gave it a calmer expression.

The same lamb with jellybean eyes. It looks markedly calmer.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Meet this year’s Easter lamb cake, who has seen some things.

A 3D lamb cake with a jellybean nose and very, very large candy eyes. It looks traumatized.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Lamb is out of the pan and cooling/resting

An unfrosted cake shaped vaguely like a lamb sitting on the ground

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The kids are getting new Easter baskets this year

Two baskets in the shape of sharks, complete with fins, covered entirely in sequins except for their mouths. They are wearing white fluffy bunny-ear headbands.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Google AI summary has messed up one of my favorite uses of Google, which is checking the score

Google AI overview when I searched “huskies south carolina score”:
In the 2026 Women's Final Four, the UConn Huskies defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks 82-59 to win the program's 12th national championship. The victory took place on April 3, 2026, marking UConn's first championship since 2016, with the Huskies leading to dominate the game.

Final Score: UConn 82, South Carolina 59

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I have had it with these motherfucking planes on this motherfucking snake

Found in my house: two toy planes resting on a plush snake

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

My five-year-old decided that for Celebrity Day at school, he should dress up as Avery Schreiber (in the photo, on the right). He has a plastic banana, and I drew a mustache on his upper lip. No one is going to understand this costume, but he's delighted.