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Burdensome friend, lives by the river

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 1h
thunderbeast park, route 97, chiloquin, oregon, 1987
thunderbeast park, route 97, chiloquin, oregon, 1987
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 20h
the bug was doing cool eating behaviors to the edge of the leaf right before i spooked it w/ the phone. also what is it standing on? (forgot picture first time whoops)
photo of a green grasshopper that looks like a leaf, on a real green leaf (that does not look like a grasshopper)
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
got a hand written greeting card from Jehovah’s Witnesses in the mail and i had to put it on the fridge, because that is the policy.
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
pulled a bunch of 50 year old staples from the ‘“unfinished”’ Rot*kos today.
painted canvases on cardboard on the floor, piled up like rugs. the canvas on top is painted in a flat purple (but not chapel purple)hand full of staples next to the backside edge of a dark blue-painted canvashandwriting on the back of a canvas: “unfinished canvas from ??? Studios XXI March 1970”
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
helped a nice older guy buy a train ticket, and then he asked me for subway directions to 290 Broadway. Brad Lander protect this man from evil 🙏
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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have come to my waterways which are in the bank of the flood of the Great Inundation, to the place of contentment, green of fields, which is in the horizon. I make green the herbage which is on the banks of the horizon, that I may bring greenness to the Eye of the Great One. (PTF)
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spice of Life Megan LeForte 2023
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
some salps are oozoids
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s so funny when someone yells at you from their big truck on your bicycle. unless you’re actually trying to kill me, why would i feel bad that you made a little place in your heart for me, a complete stranger?
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
introduced the commute path gulls to the commute path apples and they reinvented sports from first principles
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this gull was like the size of a basketball. beast of the tides
white gull with a black beak and brown speckles on wings and tail feathers, wading on pebbles in shallow water
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the tiny apples are good.. more tart than sweet, but sweet enough to not taste planty at all. Firm texture, not a rock.
human hand full of six red apples, each roughly the size of a little bocce ball jack. the apples have stems and a leaf attached
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
where do they find all these beautiful train conductors? it’s like a robert palmer video in here
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
starting an emergency water damage restoration company where i just put all the wet stuff in a freezer and tell the client we have to wait until the technology develops to repair water damage
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
milanos and only milanos were on sale at 2/$8, and i was financially compelled to take advantage, but i didn’t have room in my bag so i had to ride my bicycle home with mint milanos in one pants cargo pocket and dark chocolate milanos in the other
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
before high fives people just whistled and clapped when something good happened while they were watching sports together. some people did hug. but that continued into high five era. and now high fives are going the way of the dinosaur thanks to phones.
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
saw a nice vehicle today
light blue nissan coupe on the street
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
am i allowed to gather and consume these wild fruits growing next to the river? phone says plums. they’re right by the commute path, but i’ve never noticed them in previous years
red round fruits clustered along a vertical branch w/ basic pointy style leaves
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
finding out hollywood celebs are forklift certified and getting insanely jealous/pissed off bc my boss still won’t sign the OSHA paperwork after 5 years of forklift driving
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JVB.. why didn’t you do cool stuff like this w/ us instead of pressing dead chickens and snakes into flat greasy discs
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the spanish are deft tapers. no love for visible seams
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
5 weeks of cool jacket season starts today
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
amber polarized sunglasses have a salutary effect on mental health
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
omnicloud
photo of the sky over a broad river. there is a thin irregular strip of clear blue sky above the hilly horizon, surmounted by a big, evenly whitish-gray mass of cloud that looks like a big sheet. the river is kind of dark gray-blue with some little white boats sitting on it
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the texas song makes me think of driving a medium-sized truck btw bristol and knoxville, where the classic rock stations would drop out on my trips.
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
there’s a little splinter in between the 4th and 5th toes on the bottom of my foot, and no matter how i contort myself, it’s totally unreachable. enduring will make me strong
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
in the zone (bad)
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
$20k sheet of anti-glare/uv plexi
sheet of ~6’ x 6’ clear plexi glass leaning against a white warehouse wall on a concrete floor
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
stepmom asking if it’s ok for me to drink sleepytime before driving home
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ranking cookies by Easy Eater quotient
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
big cloud day
photo of white and gray clouds in a blue sky, over green hills on a riverbank yellowjacket squatting on a plank on a gray wooden table, getting leverage to pull off wood fibers with its powerful mandibles
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Italian soda Friday
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
back to normal commute/normal runs for a while
2 brown little birds on a 15 minute parking sign in front of a houselittle tan rabbit in the grass at the edge of the shade with grass in mouth and big illuminated earsphoto of nyc buildings taken from midtown tunnel ramp
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the wabi sabi exhorter
photo of the back of a faded white boat in a grassy boatyard under a blue sky with some thin clouds. very faded mailbox stickers spell out CMON LETS GO on the stern
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
how many Jean Seberg guys are still out there
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
picked up first new pair of glasses in like 10 years and i hate them. feels like all the frames are super wide by default now, without even getting into “oversize” styles.
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
father’s ancient sojourn
photo of a young man with thick glasses and dark hair sitting in a room with some
furnishings. photo is yellowed out quite a bitphoto of man in mock turtle, sport jacket, and some kind of silly parade/military hat standing in front of a clown painted on a buildingphoto of a hi fi stereo/record player set up in a barracks w/ red bottled drink, some records, a poster of a young woman in cool sunglasses and maybe nothing else, and some speakers on a window stoolphoto of a locker in a barracks with posters/photos stuck to it, including The Who and Rolling Stones
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
punished by god for my sins (single use coffee cup exploded and burned my fingers on the train)
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
somewhat counterintuitively, the preeminent bachelor mealtime is early supper. i don’t “crack cold ones” anymore but i when i unwrap the paper on that sandwich on a late friday afternoon, boy howdy can i feel those sails unfurling
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i love this horse. new best friend
photo of a horse sculpture. tan “realistic eeyorel with a razor cut and eyeliner, and it’s got a halter onimage of tan horse sculpture with horse facing the camera. there are some traces of red on mouth and noseother angle of horse. looks shy and a little happy
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Waikiki Wanda @wanda.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
FUCK a cave cricket
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
cool bug on the van
green katydid perched on the side of a white vehicle, facing downwards
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
there is an amount of salsa to eat that is correct, but it is almost impossible not to go over
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
grabbed this chest bc its up for grabs and i think it’s very handsome. i’m going to fill it with silk scarves and become a silk scarf guy
stripey wooden chest with a glossy naturalish stain, and delightful brass hardware
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Frivolous September ~ Up the Gorge Emily Carr c. 1939
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
full quart of hagen daz vanilla up for grabs at work. please bestow upon me the blessings of a blueberry pie or something similar
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
looked at work email yesterday, on my day off, and got all out of joint over something i did not properly understand. holding myself accountable
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
negotiated for a comp day at work bc i need to “catch up on my personal life,” which is code for eating a breakfast sandwich and getting new throw pillows
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
😢🫡
photo of a big rectangular limestone monolith, split diagonally and with a triangle carved into its center, lying in a dumpster next to its crate. there are books and stuff in the dumpster as well
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
tiny putty knife to spread ointment on shrinkwrap tube friction burns
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