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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

okay I fucking love stalking into old-school fabric stores and coming out with silk velvet in three colors because I refuse to spend 200 bucks on one throw pillow and I know where my needles are

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am officially That Person I unironically bought a tiny Zabar’s tote bag and intend to carry it around because it is so cute it hurts never got my hands on a mini Trader Joe’s and this feels like it’s meant to be ❤️❤️❤️

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found a Rarity-81 word worth 92 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 858 points · 10 rare words. Only 13 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/XXJNLE

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OUTLIER · Day 132

ceruleancynic scored 858 on Day 132. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

y'know that actually explains Dream Glow Barbie, which I am not making up

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

unexpected side effect of being a nuclear nerd: any video that has "sparkle" effect added to it immediately registers as "oh shit the radiation levels in this location are significant enough to mess with the camera sensor, gtfo" bit dissonant when applied to, for example, 80s Barbie unboxing

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I found a Rarity-81 word worth 92 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 843 points · 10 rare words. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/UATPCR

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OUTLIER · Day 131

ceruleancynic scored 843 on Day 131. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

that looks like the BEST mistake :D

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I found a Rarity-79 word worth 91 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 855 points · 10 rare words. Only 28 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 8 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/GY2HMU

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OUTLIER · Day 130

ceruleancynic scored 855 on Day 130. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

unpacking is like the world's weirdest, elongated Christmas morning right now I wanna know where the fuck Santa put a) my blue Le Creuset cereal bowls and b) my drywall-anchor sword bracket

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I found a Rarity-81 word worth 92 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 838 points · 10 rare words. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/8BKQ5Q less good, sigh

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OUTLIER · Day 129

ceruleancynic scored 838 on Day 129. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I found a Rarity-82 word worth 93 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 864 points · 10 rare words. Only 18 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/XHY92L fuckin-a, EURYHALINE

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OUTLIER · Day 128

ceruleancynic scored 864 on Day 128. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I found a Rarity-80 word worth 92 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 824 points · 10 rare words. Only 4 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 2 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/Q8JYEK want a goddamn E

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OUTLIER · Day 127

ceruleancynic scored 824 on Day 127. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I found a Rarity-80 word worth 92 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 853 points · 10 rare words. No one else in Outlier has ever found it. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/8HZXGT MEH. this one was annoyingly hard.

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OUTLIER · Day 124

ceruleancynic scored 853 on Day 124. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I found a Rarity-76 word worth 90 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 848 points · 10 rare words. Only 33 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/4K6MUW

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OUTLIER · Day 123

ceruleancynic scored 848 on Day 123. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Volunteering to run official design for communications (visual identity that doesn’t suck!) and also run a team of proofreaders for all official communications my grisly army of red-penners will serve you well, once I train them properly

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I found a Rarity-82 word worth 93 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 849 points · 10 rare words. Only 50 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 8 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/LZSX7P Not great, not bad

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OUTLIER · Day 122

ceruleancynic scored 849 on Day 122. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I found a Rarity-86 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. OUTLIER · 902 points · 10 rare words. Only 37 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 10 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/6ARVSN geology always wins <3

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OUTLIER · Day 121

ceruleancynic scored 902 on Day 121. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I found a Rarity-82 word worth 93 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 857 points · 10 rare words. Only 2 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/8MCTKM

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OUTLIER · Day 120

ceruleancynic scored 857 on Day 120. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

mediocre words, but at least I got hauyne out of it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauyne

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I found a Rarity-77 word worth 90 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 818 points · 10 rare words. Only 10 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/WTTBEN

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OUTLIER · Day 119

ceruleancynic scored 818 on Day 119. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I found a Rarity-80 word worth 92 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 848 points · 10 rare words. Only 30 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/NP6C5W

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OUTLIER · Day 118

ceruleancynic scored 848 on Day 118. Can you beat them?

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

right back at you, my friend! 😁

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

but we're here, we're back on this coast, and I might possibly find a way to write the story I want to write about the summer nights I recall from my childhood in Maryland, my blue summer I haven't been home in a million years because I no longer really have one, but this place? might be it. <3

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I will not miss the 7000+ altitude or the sun that presses down on you with a vast nauseating hand, or the having to drive for -at least- one hour before you get anywhere (killer sunsets, yeah, will miss that forever)

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the sighing of cicadas in the trees and the lush poison-green of growing things, the way the jewelweed pods twist and squirm, horrifying, in your fingers, the hugeness of heat, the sky gone blue to white with haze it's different in Santa Fe

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

but I will always love the east coast's summer nights, the way the punishing humid heat turns into something kinder, sweeter, once the sun goes down, and the fireflies rise out of the grass and underbrush with the dusk, tracing their j-strokes on the blue twilight, soft and slow and endless

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

there is something so odd and lovely about how -fast- my brain resets to this coast when I was a child we spent a lot of holidays in the west, mostly Utah, trundling around various national parks and being astonished by the stark goddamn beauty of the place: red rock desert is one of my deep loves

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

hello NYC I am in you this time to stay <3 <3 <3

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am now officially not in possession of an automobile (and it feels -- weirdly fucked-up and exhilarating at the same time) gonna miss Crystal Red but I think it'll be just fine out here, someone else will love it and drive it and -- it's still weird.

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

-- while I absolutely 100% do NOT want to have to deal with parking, driving, maintaining, or insuring a car in goddamn Manhattan: the idea is horrific in the extreme, so I am what we like to call -conflicted-. this whine brought to you by the fact I have to go sell my car to Carmax now, sigh

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

-- I grew up in suburbia and you had to have a car if you wanted any kind of independent ability to go anywhere, and I've never not had a car since I was sixteen. That's 30 years of always having wheels available to go anywhere at my convenience. It's going to be so strange not to have that --

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is an annoying truth that it's possible to be excited about moving to a place where I don't have to have a car and do not need one WHILE BEING sad about not having my car anymore. I just really love this car, and it will feel so incredibly strange not to have one available at all times --

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

WE never got alarming milksnakes in OUR houses here, just small furry creatures that maliciously crawled into my car to die. I feel I've missed out on a cultural experience, sigh. (what a pretty beast!)

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

somehow I think Dolly would join the hell in on the chorus: DON'T DREAM IT, BE IT. my deep gratitude to both Dolly and Tim for all the lovely and terrible and brilliant places they took us, and -balls- to the stupid gracelessness of death.

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Bubonicon is still one of my favorite conventions ❤️ having a lovely time

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

hello Bubonicon I am in you or at least in the marriott

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

how much do I love it that the real actual ALICE COOPER has a gig as the DJ on the local radio and how much more do I love it that he's just straight up playing Stairway to Heaven because nobody is gonna tell him what to do <3 <3 <3

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

things I will not miss about Santa Fe: goddamn wildfire smoke we had this in NYC a couple of weeks ago and it felt like the apocalypse had already come and gone, I -expect- it out here but that doesn't mean I don't hate it we even had torrential rain last night! but today, SMOKE

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Either Bananaman, the epic tale of Eric Twinge and his banana-related superpowers, or Danger Mouse. Let's just go with Danger Mouse, who rocked the eyepatch and white spy jumpsuit, because we can name the gritty ttrpg reboot MOUSE: THE DANGERING.

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this dude must now change his name and move to a different planet

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So glad you like the earrings! Thank you for your kind words :)

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

never having actually played the dnds myself but having plunged deeply into the Dragonlance novels as a kid (I can recite like half the poetry in the first two trilogies by heart), watching Vox Machina now is full of weird little crosspatch sparks jumping to ground and it's kind of lovely <3

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Holy shit you guys are rockstars and I have to source MORE MAILING SUPPLIES <3 (keep it up, I'm enjoying having to pack up all these objects to send instead of haul back to Santa Fe) ~TODAY ONLY everything is HALF OFF~

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

definitely encountered her in Romania, complete with dirty look

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Like the Young Ones bit on the train where Vyvyan goes "I'm off to stuff loads and loads of paper down the toilet" and Neil is just "...I always wondered who did that" WHO DOES THAT this lady, apparently!

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It is stupid how much I miss salad. (yes, I know there are relatively safe methods of sourcing lettucey things, I do know, but ffs sometimes all I want is a crunchy goddamn SALAD at a restaurant)

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

holy shit, you actually caught the Phantom Sprinkler in the act! I've always wondered who DOES that and why.

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