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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 10h

I mostly cheer for Mercedes in #f1, but I adore Ollie Bearman (Haas). Pretty sure he was a golden retriever in a past life. What an adorable, goofy man.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 10h

Ahh yup. I don’t know what has thrown him & george so off their game these last 2 races, but I hope they each manage some points tomorrow and look more like themselves in Austin!

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 14h

And, I bought it cheap because it was refurbished! I've replaced the toner cartridges twice I think. And that's expensive, but less painful when you consider I only do it every 5 years or so.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 15h

I have a wifi-enabled Brother MFC that does b&w, color, and scan (because I've had this printer since 2013). It sits quietly in the corner until I tell it to print something. And it prints it! And then goes back to sleep until I need it in a couple months. My only regret is it doesn't do duplex.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 15h

Our mortgage is a decade old now, and we have 4.25%. Our statements have a little info box showing “how much we could save if we refinanced now!” and it’s like -$150k. We can never sell. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 21h

Ours won’t stick if you don’t. All the road grit and salt from the winter! it is so thick it can completely obscure your plate (you can get a ticket for that too!)

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 21h

You want me to get the postcard, login to a miserable website and follow instructions, then wait for 2 weeks, then clean my license plate and put on a new sticker? Ambitious.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 21h

Okay, I got pulled over because. my registration sticker was 13 months out of date. But they let me go with a warning because when they looked it up, it was only actually 1 month overdue, I had just had the stickers sitting on my table for >1 year.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I feel like once my cat is old enough to vote, there has to be another category.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently your dog had a past life as a medieval model.

A snippet of a medieval painting of a white fluffy dog, but it has a human-ish face

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They want confirmation that this particular PT appt is not related to an accident. My dudes, he has had this weekly PT appointment for MONTHS. The previous week, you paid, the week after, you paid, Do you think he had a random injury between those two that suddenly needed identical PT?

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Time to spend the better part of an hour on the phone with United Healthcare! Random PT appointment is not being covered, despite the ones the week before and the week after have a $30 copay.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Montana 1972 constitution does not play. It is an amazing bulwark between the citizens and our whackadoodle supermajority legislature right now (they want to call a convention SO BAD)

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

went with “roast a pile of random vegetables from the market” for dinner tonight. Zucchini, a couple tiny eggplants, handful of sweet red peppers, some cauliflower florets, quartered Roma tomatoes. Salt, pepper, serve over rice. Voila! Crisper drawer ready for CSA pickup tomorrow.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yup, this is how it works in Missoula. It was magic for cleaning out basement. My only complaint is when ppl put stuff on our corner that is broken and they just can’t fit it in their trash. No one will want it, they just dont want to deal with it.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, either 1) the team has a low vaccination rate or 2) they‘re just in such close proximity so frequently that the virus eventually slips past the vaccine due to repeat exposure. That age of adult should have had 2 MMR doses by default.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That was *wild*. The text thread between my oldest kid & I was hopping.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

well, this race is chaos and it hasn’t even started yet. They tried, but it was insane and the cars all had to be rebooted because they were going to slow. It was kinda funny?

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We have a 120y/o house and now our policy is “call the electrician” for even the most banal, routine stuff because the shit that people have kludged together over the previous 100 years (once electricity was installed) is TERRIFYING.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Didn’t stay awake for the Bahrain GP (but in Malaysia!) qualifying sessions at 2am. Hoping I can manage to watch the race at 1am tonight Because it promises to be chaotic and surprising. Fingers crossed for George and Kimi to get some points.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Damn you, second law of thermodynamics!

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my oldest teen just asked me “do you know about the cat Miette?” Child, I was there.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Only 1 of my kids has ever used theirs, although my youngest almost did before we decided against that particular school trip. We could swing it financially, so we just decided to get all of the when my oldest needed his, just in case.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Probably by not having passports! International travel is a lot less common in the US than Europe I think.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A US under-16 passport is $135 and can only be renewed in person. 😭 Doing our 5-person family all at once was eye-watering a few years ago.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yessss, make them spend money in Texas and Iowa and Kansas and Florida and Nebraska

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dude, it was so much easier to be a vegan in Texas than it is in Montana, even a decade ago.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like, better than the Salsa Verde ones?

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is he more likely to beat the R than the Dem candidate on the ballot? Yes. Is there any chance in hell of that probability coming to pass? Extremely unlikely, which means I don’t really feel like holding my nose & voting for him.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I have complicated feelings. Do I like Bodnar? No. Would I dislike him less if he actually ran as a Dem and not an Indep? Maybe? Would he be better than the R? Yes, but only because the bar is in hell.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve been getting lots of Bodnar (MT) phone banking newbies. “Do you plan on supporting Bodnar in the election?” “No.” <sputtering recalibrating> Their supervisor even called back later! “Just calling to clarify an earlier call, but how do you feel about Bodnar as a candidate?” “Poorly.”

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My 17y/o has been filling me in on some of the tumblr CvR shipping excitement. It’s very…elaborate. (He says he has the mature filter on, so hopefully he’s not being too scarred for life.)

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lab reports are very basic and are handwritten. A student hand wrote “P = \frac(E)(t)” and “100\times12=1200” and “\DeltaGPE” in their discussion. (Basically, LaTex, unrendered.) What on EARTH.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay, new grading weirdness. Background: I TA an intro earth science class that often has a chunk of math-phobic or avoidant students. Latest lab was comparing energy and power and used running up a staircase at different paces to explore it.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last trays of peppers are out of the freeze dryer, now 4 qts of posole verde and 3 qts of hatch green chile sauce are either in the freeze dryer or in the freezer waiting their turn. Next step is pureeing 20lbs of Romas tonight.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“how many romance novels could they read, anyways? One a week?”

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But damn, there’s so much that we just live with because we cant drop the 100k it would take to open the walls and fix everything.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s a lot to be said for a new(er) property. The doors close! You don't have to know all the little tips & tricks to make the oven work! The water heater probably won’t break for a bit! I’ve lived in new build, 20, 40, and 120y/o houses, and I *adore* my downtown neighborhood and my old house.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m so glad you went! Because ear infections are things that little kids get and are generally innocuous at that age, everyone forgets that your ear is right next to your brain and spreading an infection there is So Bad.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very “I just had a woman arrested in front of her child over $3600 medical debt, not $50!” levels of Not Helping Your Case, Man.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do you also have too much zucchini and or peppers and or onions And or tomatoes? Slice into rounds, layer slight overlapping/ pretty in a casserole dish, salt and pepper and garlic or whatever and roast until soft. Lazy ratatouille.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We do not have 5 sinks, and our basement does not have a concrete floor through the entire footprint. And while I feel weirdly defensive about it, my 120y/o house is not in Excellent condition.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Turns out, if your house has spent part of its life being switched back and forth from single family to duplex to (maybe?) triplex and back to single family, the property tax records can be kinda fucked up. Turns out you can petition to have them fixed and the part you overpaid refunded.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Currently at the ”vat of green chile sauce“ part of my weekend. 2nd set of freeze dryer trays (2 bell peppers, 2 chopped serranos) are in process.

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Claire Gilder @clarbar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our household has been covid- and flu-proofed* for the winter *not quite, but good enough for government work.

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