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"Jesus Christ is not a weapon." —Carmen Reyes "No kings." —The United States of America "No DMs." —Cindy McLennan

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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I know you've got a lot of good things happening up ahead. The past is gone it's all been said. So here's to what the future brings, I know tomorrow you'll find better things.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here's wishing you the bluest sky, And hoping something better comes tomorrow. Hoping all the verses rhyme, And the very best of choruses to Follow all the doubt and sadness. I know that better things are on the way.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's really good to see you rocking out And having fun, Living like you just begun. Accept your life and what it brings. I hope tomorrow you'll find better things. I know tomorrow you'll find better things.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here's hoping all the days ahead Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you. Be an optimist instead, And somehow happiness will find you. Forget what happened yesterday, I know that better things are on the way.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here's wishing you the bluest sky, And hoping something better comes tomorrow. Hoping all the verses rhyme, And the very best of choruses to Follow all the doubt and sadness. I know that better things are on the way.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You've gotta do what you've gotta do.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's a big rock. I can't wait to tell my friends. They don't have a rock this big.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hubs and I are watching BtVS "Becoming" tonight, because life is hard and I have to convince myself that when the world asks, "What's left," I still have an answer.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shuffalo, 1m 12s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
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Play Shuffalo: Saturday, September 19, 2026
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What's this now?
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 19/09/2026
Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities
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Google confirms first Gemini AI model hacking incidents
Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're going to have to sandblast all of DC.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes, but only when they use it properly, and stop acting like access is the job.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great Emmy Awards tonight. I maybe think Keri Russell and Sterling K. Brown were robbed a little, but only a little. The competition in all of the acting categories was stiff.
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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Spaghetti carbon
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Aw. I hope she protects the wee one's privacy, but I also want to see pictures and know the baby's name, which won't be, but ought to be: Goo Goo Gaga. Enjoy Baby Gaga, Lady Gaga.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That image is frigging hilarious.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So much time to make up everywhere you turn Time we have wasted on the way So much water moving underneath the bridge Let the water come and carry us away
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Also, @radiofreetom.bsky.social, people are getting tribal now. I'm not interested in that (and suspect you aren't either). I enjoy reading your thoughts. You always make me think. Peace to you. Change of subject: We're having a lobster fest in Maine tomorrow. I wish you something just as lovely.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I appreciate the encouragement, but I like Tom. I don't want to only talk to people with whom I agree on everything. That's too boring. Tom is smart (smarter than I) and puts a lot of thought into what he says. It's okay to disagree, sometimes.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I understand. I worked in hosp. billing, maintained the MGH Charge Master & Medicare secondary payer rules for ESRD. The ACA rid us of junk policies but offered grandfathering. How insurers replaced them was beyond its control. President Obama was too glib, too broad, but he didn't lie.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
To be fair (and I loved President Obama) I think he finessed the answer. I don't think he lied, but I also think he did understand how messed up it all was, and that some insurance companies would dictate changes. It's just that the ACA itself didn't dictate them.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thank you. This is exactly what I meant by this comment: bsky.app/profile/cind...
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Respectfully, I don't think it's fair to charge President Obama with lying. The ACA did not dictate who our doctors would be. When insurers had to cancel junk plans and developed new plans, they made network changes. The ACA didn't mandate those changes. (Cred: Worked at MGH for quite a while)
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The ACA never cost me a doc. It gave me security that if my hub lost his job (how we get our health ins) we could still afford health ins. This is the same reason I've remained in MA, because if the GOP ever kills Obamacare, we have RomneyCare (the same thing & also the then conservative solution).
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Yes! Thank you, Gar. That's exactly what I meant.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm not even sure how to word this question. Back in the day, another blogging platform sprang off of LiveJournal. What was it called? Was it Vox? (I know Vox is now a "news" website, but wasn't there some journal-y thing named "Vox" before it?)
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
She is. During Veronica Mars, she was so young -- but she never put a foot wrong. She just was Veronica Mars. And her facility for accents and voices amazed me. That whole cast was great—Enrico Colantoni, Jason Dohring, Francis Capra. I was always surprised Ryan Hansen didn't break bigger.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No lie: "Like A Virgin" and "Ruskie Business" are two of my favorites, and I loved, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," too. (I'm a little surprised I hadn't already gushed at you about them.)
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Couldn't decide what to watch tonight, so DH & I settled on a Veronica Mars rewatch. We started with S01.E04, because we've seen it all so much. Love this cast. They're ALL so good. In retrospect, it's no surprise Amanda Seyfried turned out to be a massive star. #VM #VeronicaMars #VMars
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I mostly did housework. Mom responds better to DH than to me. Here's what I threw out from her fridge: Eggs expired 11/27/25 on top of cottage cheese expired on 4/1/24 Cottage cheese expired 9/5/23 Cream cheese expired 2/26/24 Spaghetti sauce jar full of mold & shriveled cherries (not pictured)
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
He loved killing women much more, but sure. (Sorry. You're great, Kel, and I love the Buffyverse etc, but I waste no love on Joss.) I am a leaf on the wind. 🍃
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We spent 4 hours going thru mom's paperwork hoard (no, really), and bills, and 1 of those hours was us writing out 2 checks. It sounds inconsequential, but I'm hopeful this was actually the breakthrough (and that as we repeat it every 2 weeks, it will get easier). She let us help her. That's huge.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'll allow it.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think our safe food choices have been narrowed down to *checks list* Twinkies and Coca-Cola.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm not even clutching my Dunks iced coffee as I type this... Honestly, that explains a lot.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That smells more like Saruman the White, to me. (Why is everything so horrible, Finch?)
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yes! I always wonder how many fandoms we had in common. I also love OMGPONIES. It feels like a hat tip to Cleolinda Jones' and her style of recaps. I don't recognize either of the now deleted LJ accounts, but I know in at least some small way they were "my" people, even if I didn't know them online.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My pleasure. It's one of my favorite funny fandom stories. I had just posted it on here, four months ago, in response to a news story about a woman who released bees on the cops, when someone was getting evicted . All I could think was, "That'll give you, er, bees."
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
After I took screenshots, other users reported technical issues w/LJ (I hope due to too many people searching for "That'll give you bees" in honor of Tim Curry). Anyhow, I found 2 archives: archive.ph/r5WBk archive.ph/uqlsr The Wayback Machine @archive.org didn't load, so I couldn't check there.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm older than dirt in Fandom Years. The LiveJournal account isn't working right now, but I put That'll Give You Bees screenshots up on my profile (and included alt text). Enjoy. bsky.app/profile/cind...
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I have the link here, as well as screenshots (with alt text) of the LiveJournal story: bsky.app/profile/cind... I don't think Tim Curry was unkind. The point of the story seems to be that the clerk was so flustered that he beat a hasty retreat.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In memory of Tim Curry, please enjoy "Tim Curry Visits the Mall," aka "That'll Give You, Er, Bees," aka "That'll Give You Bees," aka "OMGPONIES TIM CURRY." metaquotes.livejournal.com/5989568.html I hate this timeline. Someone needs to smash an amulet and release us from it. #thatllgiveyoubees
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Tim Curry visits the mall...
...and ame_chan had the good luck to be working in the store he visited.

Sort of.

I rush out of the office and notice "guy in a grey sweatsuit." and sorta "floomph" against the counter fanning myself with a piece of paper and say, "Wow. Ya ever have one of those days?"

And then the penny drops, OMGPONIES TIM CURRY IN MY STORE TIM CURRY OMG.

And he says, "OH indeed."

In that voice.

And I lose all power of thought and speech and I'm just, er, buh. Can't talk. Standing in the store, trying not to have a hyperventilating fangirl moment. Can't. Talk. Forget sampling balsamic vinegar or you know, actually selling to him. TO OMGTIMCURRY. Who TALKED to me. Tim Curry talked to me and he has Voice and I'll be in my bunk and.... *floppy arms* [Story continues in next screenshot.]

Source: https://metaquotes.livejournal.com/5989568.html[Story continued from previous image] Screenshot of text reads:

So he walks over to our display of honey body balms and other wonderful botanicals, and is examining them and I walk over to him, intending to say, "Ah, yes. These wonderful honey botanicals, so fragrant, made by nuns! When we uncap the bottles and spritz the store, they are so fragrant that bees fly into the store looking for the source of the smell. Reallywonderful stuff Mr. OMGPONIES Curry."

What came out of my mouth was, "That'll give you, er, bees."

"That'll GIVE YOU BEES." ya'll. I said. To OMGTIMCURRY. Bees.

He left the store rather rapidly. At which point, I walked behind the counter and sank onto my knees out of sight of the store and was muttering and laughing rather hysterically. Like ya do. After a horrible bee incident.

"BEES." *smacks head*

"FUckin BEES." *smack"

"TIM CURRY." *smack*

Source: https://metaquotes.livejournal.com/5989568.html
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
He's such a turd. I'm glad he's irrelevant now.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Open letter @imdb.bsky.social: please add a music videos tab, so that music vids don't overwhelm someone's acting credits. E.g. I just tried to find Dolly Parton's film and TV credits beyond 9 to 5, Steel Magnolias, and Best Little W-House, however music vid credits overwhelm her "Actress" section.
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Cindy @cindymclennan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I reject this.
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