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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 27/08/2026

Signs of fall I've seen on my morning walk: this pretty looking buck, my trash overturned by a bear

Six point buck with fuzzy antlers looks at the camera while walking by

Black and white dog investigates an overturned trash can with garbage strewn around

Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 16/06/2026

This is our older cat's response. You can actually see him thinking "dumbass." You can't see it in the photo, but the stuck cat is still looking at the fly he has failed to get.

In the background, a tuxedo cat has his front leg stuck to a window screen. In the foreground, a lounging tuxedo cat seems to be mid-eyeroll.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 16/06/2026

Earlier today, our dipshit younger cat -- whom we refer to as "the shitten," a portmanteau of "shitty kitten" -- got himself stuck to the screen trying to get a fly.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 14/06/2026

Turns out, this purse has a dedicated cooler compartment you can stuff an entire box wine bag into, and surrepticiously get soused. Complete madness.

Photo of the inside of the red bag, showing a cooler compartment with a wine bag bladder in it.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 14/06/2026

Is that ... that can't be a box wine nozzle emerging from the purse, can it? Holy Hannah, it totally is!

Close up of box wine spigot coming out of a red purse

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 14/06/2026

I notice the little flap on the front, down at the bottom and think, what are you for?

The same red purse with someone holding the flap open. What looks like a box wine nozzle emerges from under the flap.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 14/06/2026

I went to the thrift store today, like you do, and as I was riffling through the bags I came across this: a bright red purse with black straps. I decide to investigate further because it looks virtually unused.

a bright red trapezoidal purse with black straps and a little flap on the lower left

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 06/06/2026

I took three photos during my time there and this is one: my sister-in-law and one of her Dominican sisters singing the song they sing when one of their sisters dies, in front of their mother's casket. This feels intensely intimate, and I'm struck that they let us into that moment.

Two Dominican sisters, in their white habits and black veils, sing before a plain pine casket over an open grave.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 08/04/2026

Ten years ago or so my little painting company in Minneapolis worked on the house that's on the cover of The Replacements "Let It Be" album, so we recreated the cover photo. I still love this photo so much.

Recreation of The Replacements "Let It Be" album cover: four people in painter's whites sit on a sloping porch roof Minneapolis.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 31/03/2026

Like I'm currently reading City of Others by Jared Poon and it is giving me so much beautiful bureaucracy, I love it so much.

Cover of City of Others by Jared Poon. The name of the book is in yellow over a cityscape with tentacles rising behind the buildings.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 28/03/2026

I am deeply amused by how many protest signs used repurposed hockey sticks in Northern Minnesota today. Use what you've got to do what you need!

Hand drawn rebel loon sign using a hockey stick to hold it up.

The back of a different potest sign duct taped to a hockey stick.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 21/03/2026

Whenever we clean out the pigs, I set them down on the floor to roam. Vash the Stampig goes to his special corner and pisses himself, while his brother, Pigolas D. Wolfwood, goes on adventure. An extremely adorable adventure because of this black spot on his butt.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 02/02/2026

I think about this quote a lot these days.

Quote with a thumbnail of William Gibson.

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

From Gibson's Count Zero

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 25/01/2026

L'Etoile du Nord, motherfuckers.

A stone casserole dish with a hotdish which reads FUCK ICE written in tater tots over French's onions so you don't have to argue which is better. Fuck ICE! Recipe to follow.

Fuck ICE Hotdish

2 lbs mild sausage
8 oz mushrooms
1 onion, diced medium
2 packages green beans
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup milk
French's onions
Tater tots

Fry pork, onions, and mushrooms. Meanwhile, steam green beans to bright green, or thaw if using frozen. Add soup, milk, & steamed green beans to pork mixture and stir until mixed. Pour into a 9x13 pan and top with onions and tater tots with the exhortation to abolish an agency which is terrorizing and killing people at the direction of an administration run by a convicted felon, an administration which is illegally still sitting on the Epstein files. Bake at 350º for 45 min.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 24/01/2026

My cousin's brilliant wife made a thing.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 08/01/2026

Huge fan of the laser loon anyway, love it. For those not aware Minnesota recently updated the state flag, and the Laser Loon was one of the designs MNians submitted for consideration.

Flag design with a loon with red laser beams coming out of its eyes on a backdrop of blue, white, and green bars. The bars are wavy to suggest water or hills.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 18/10/2025

I work at a DMV, but I haven't had a chance to see the new workplace comedy set at a DMV. So I check wiki to see who's on the show, and this gave me a stress response so hard. Also, there should have been a list of like 30 characters all bitching about how their docs are legit, actually.

Special guest stars

Mark Feuerstein as Brent, a man who gets upset when he can't use an expired passport to get a Real ID license

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 08/10/2025

I've found the Duluthest review of a Chinese restaurant. "beef and Broccoli is not supposed to be spicy.........." 2 stars

Screenshot of a Doordash review:

"beef and Broccoli is not supposed to be spicy.........."

2 stars

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 19/09/2025

I have so utterly lost it because of the fact that whatever set person made sure to put Wrath's sunglasses in his hospital room.

Meathead in a hospital bed with a girl crying on him. His sunglasses are on the bedside cabinet.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 19/09/2025

OH SHIT WRATH IS LITERALLY HEY, COOL-AID

Eurotrash vampire busting through the wall which is broken in a eurotrash vampire shape.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 14/09/2025

My kid just sent me this picture. It's of the board in the back room at his work where they post any counterfeit bills the cashiers accidentally take in. Absolutely delightful.

A $20 which has Prince's face instead of Washington and the Prince glyph instead of the Masonic pyramid pinned to a cork board.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 13/09/2025

Omg, this mating ceremony is BONKERS. Like check out this fucking getup Wrath gets upto.

Tommy Wiseau looking motherfucker wearing a Burger King ass crown, wearing a suit coat with no shirt. Bad black wig

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 09/08/2025

I'm crashing out due to the terrible names, but also this set:

Random wall with Dr, Snapper, and SCAG logos

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 07/08/2025

This is apparently Wrath, who I keep expecting to say, "Oh hi Mark, how's your sex life?" Richard already lost his shit over the character named Tohrment, and I have not informed him of the other names coming at him later on.

Still of the BDB show with a Tommy Wiseau lookalike playing Wrath.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 03/08/2025

What is Eva Longoria building here? What does she expect this to do?

Eva Longoria typing unconvincing with a science? thing? behind her made out of tin foil and stuff

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 23/06/2025

There's a lot of us. Like a lot a lot.

A container of TOP THE TATER, sour cream produced by Mid America Farms. It was sometime this year I realized it wasn't called TOP O' THE TATER, and I was SHOOK.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 28/05/2025

My husband just texted these to me and I'm 💀. The one on the left is our cat Mint.

A tuxedo cat with a fuckoff expression reclines in a blue chair.

A still from Jurassic Park featuring a shirtless Jeff Goldblum reclining.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 29/04/2025

On April 28, 2011, the Chancellor of Exchequer of the UK, Ed Balls, tweeted out his own name. It has been celebrated every year on this day. Happy Ed Balls Day to all who celebrate.

Screenshot of a tweet by Ed Balls that reads "Ed Balls" natch

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/03/2025

My mom gifted me a subscription to the local paper, so I went to check out local news. Apparently middle aged white men soliciting minors is rampant. Even state senators! Ick.

A crawl of local news stories:

Affidavit: Eichorn contacted 'teen' regarding sex work on March 11 [with photo of the creeper's mugshot]

Feeding Our Future head Aimee Bock convicted on all fraud charges [with photo of three people leaving the courthouse]

Minnesota Sen. Eichorn charged with soliciting prostitution, scheduled for initial hearing [with mugshot]

Local news feed:

Iron Range school administrator arrested for child solicitation

Duluth climbing coach sent to prison for child sex abuse material [with stock photo of a gavel]

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 30/01/2025

I started using old ashtrays as cat food bowls -- they're really the perfect size -- which has leant a delightful Edward R Murrow vibe to dinner time.

Two tuxedo cats eat out of ashtrays on a stone counter.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 21/01/2025

I'm about to go fire up the tauntaun so I can get to work, which has not been canceled.

Screenshot of weather app. "Duluth, -24°, Fair. 2° / -1° Feels like -45°" Cartoon dude still not wearing mittens, looking at his phone.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 21/01/2025

Nonsense continues to happen outside. It's nonsensical out there.

Screenshot from a weather report. "Duluth. -22° Clear. -10° / -23° Feels like -44°" a cartoon of a dude looking at his phone WITHOUT MITTENS again. They need better cold weather cartoon clothes for that dude.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/01/2025

It's been so stupid cold for so long that the pipes in my kitchen have been frozen for over a day, and they're not thawing anytime soon. 🥶

Screenshot of a weather app. "Duluth, -20°, Partly Cloudy, -9° / -23° Feels like -40°" Cartoon drawing of dude looking at his phone with no mittens, what is wrong with you

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 18/01/2025

My mother got a new puppy and we have the same hair color lol

A blonde woman takes a selfie of herself and a blond cocker spaniel puppy.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 04/01/2025

Spotted at Tettagouche: a sign which is delightfully Up North. Good advice too, because you can really eat shit wearing ice spikes on smooth floors.

A sign which reads "Please remove YAKTRAX before entering the building. Thank you" posted between two exterior doors. There's an image of a boot with ice spikes on the sign.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 03/01/2025

I'm trying to get better about talking about the stuff I love. So here goes: I'm not necessarily the hugest fan of POV from zombies, but It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over worked for me SO HARD. Zombie novels often don't handle grief that well, but this was suffused with an exquisite sadness. 🖤

Cover of the novella "It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over" by Anne de Marcken. The black silhouette of a crow on a bright yellow background. The title and author are superimposed in white all-caps on the black body of the crow.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 19/12/2024

Every year at work they pull this box out of the back and set it by the door. No one ever fixes the sign ❤️

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 14/12/2024

So, we have 2 guinea pigs who live in a cabinet in the kitchen. We've started leaving the door open because otherwise they riot by tossing their toys & banging loudly. (They can leave the cabinet any time, even w the door closed, but each has done so exactly once. It's scary out there.)

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 04/12/2024

This is a Christmas-themed plushy dumpster fire. It is also a dog toy with a squeak. Additionally, it is an avatar for my feelings about this holiday season.

A hand with very excellent nail polish holds a blue plushy dumpster fire against a blue backdrop. There are crisscrossing holiday lights embroidered across the "face" of said adorable dumpster fire.

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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 30/11/2024

This is literally the funniest apostrophe of all time.

Screenshot of a plot description for the film "Independents' Day"

"After aliens invade earth and destroy all our nuclear arsenal, they give us a choice: either emigrate to a new, better planet or be killed. While most earthlings resign themselves to leaving, the president of the United States turns to a rogu..."

A woman looking intense holds a handgun in a two-handed grip. Several movies are featured below.

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