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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

All I want for Christmas is for people, ESPECIALLY MEDICAL PROVIDERS, to learn the difference between anaphylaxis and anaphylactic shock. I am literally begging you.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

“Tell us a fun fact about yourself!” “I’m afraid I only have unfun facts.”

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Apparently it’s time to wake up in horrible pain at 6am, start writing a screed on what you can do besides whining on Facebook, taking a break to make baked oatmeal and wake up the birds. Just normal Tuesday things.

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Ellie Tsang @fairemortal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

In a world that felt inhospitable to queerness and transness, they wrote stories where we could slay dragons.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

I believe this is called hiring a hitman

A white background with black text that reads, “I wish you could Door Dash people knuckle sandwiches.”

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

How to start a fight in the group chat: Drop this and then leave for a few hours.

An alignment chart about how to define ravioli, with questionable examples like a pop tart, a sandwich, a coffin, or a human body.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Archie has three settings: 1. Cuddle 2. Attack inanimate object 3. Attack animate object (me)

A small green parrot sitting on a person’s lap, cuddling into the crook of their elbow

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

I mean, Julius Caesar died surrounded by his closest friends. What more could anyone want?

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Me: *pops a can, relishing that glorious hissing sound, whispering* “I’m in my SPAM era.”

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

I'm part of a group trying to film an actual play session of Dustin Patrick Winter's delightful game Against the Gloom and, in true adults-playing-TTRPGs-fashion, scheduling the session has been the biggest hurdle. www.kickstarter.com/projects/scr...

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Against the Gloom

Our Flag Means Death Metal. A dice-based role-playlist-building game about music’s furious resistance to despair.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

At work today, I'm taking minutes from a recorded meeting, which is not the most fun task for a number of reasons. But I'm trying to make the most of it with sentences like, "The presenter points out a predicted pinch point at a particular pole." Can't stop won't stop.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Unlike you i get my news from a realiable source…

A bunch of small bones in a circlish triangle, their configuration says darkness will befall you, the light closes in, your screams will be heard naught as the terror closes in around you, you feel its icy grip clenching, surrender to it, give in, it consumes you. your soul belongs to them now your existence is but that of a shade eternally doomed to wander the endless halls tormented by desires that are forever denied. A thirst that can be quenched, a hunger that cant be satiated, the warmth of the sun but a memory. Food turns to ash and water to ice as they press your lips. All feelings grow numb but that pain, pain and torment. For the bones do not lie.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

When it comes to late night snacking, the goal is often to find a flimsy excuse to convey as much mustard as possible into my mouth. Cheese? Crackers? Pretzels? Whatever works.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Me: Basement’s flooding. Them: What? Me: *cocks pile of towels and buckets to catch water* Basement’s flooding.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

My muscle memory still has me typing 2023 at work. I don't think I've let one slide without noticing and fixing it, but am entirely prepared to be wrong.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

I do not appreciate that 3:30am seems to be the time when my brain decides that sleep is boring and that we should be awake now. No thank you, evil, I want to be asleep until the last possible moment before I’d end up late for work.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

My brain woke me up - enthusiastically - at 3am (and hasn’t let me rest easy for the last 2 hours) because it thinks a goose named Harry Honkick Jr. is hilarious. Oh my god his middle name is Fowler. This is too good.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

December 23rd. Christmas is now engaged in a two front war. Did they learn nothing from Russia?

A photo of store shelves packed with Valentine’s Day candy

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Has anyone ever seen a full-size Hershey's Krackel bar out in the wild?

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Archie has discovered and immediately become smitten with the void behind the side table. He has also decided he likes the surface of the side table as well as he is doing his little arrhythmic stompy tap dance across it.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

The absolute curse of a) having no working memory & b) getting great ideas for new stories/reworking old ones while driving home from work. I'll park in front of my house after the hourish drive, whip out my phone, open my notes app, and just hear deafening static in my brain.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Just placed an order from some Star Trek merch from @dwighttokem.bsky.social and other than being a Star Trek V apologist, they seem great! Luckily, this is one of the more forgivable sins.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I pretty much bullied my way into running a Toys for Tots drive at my office, and now the bin is about 1/3 full and it warms the hecc out of my heart.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Archie took a bath as I was folding laundry riiiiight before birdie hang out time. And now I don’t have a conure, I have a drowned moldy rat.

A small green parrot with soaking wet feathers, sitting on someone’s shoulder

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ThiccDadsVaping4Christ @meccorad.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Do you guys ever think about dying?

Giant skeleton coming out of a pink Barbie box.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

At my new pain management office today and am so far the only person I’ve encountered in a mask. I have not yet seen my doctor, but I’m not confident. I’ve just been lying on the paper-covered table like a miserable little hoagie waiting to be wrapped.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 27/09/2023

Then it’s not disposable income

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🏒🧛🏻‍♀️Ashley Harlequin🧛🏻‍♀️🏒 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Thinking about her* again. *Moopsy

A round white creature known as a a Moopsy squishing itself against the floor mid roll

A round white creature known as a Moopsy trying to escape containment again

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Arguably, I have only made 2 bad dishes in my life. 1 was pork tenderloin in the instant pot when I didn’t know what I was doing & I got leather. The other are sweet potato/egg/chard/cheese burritos in whole wheat wraps - textural abominations saved only by tons of Fire Sauce.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Baltimore friends! The launch of Psychic Trash Detectives, a diceless RPG from Brigitte Winter, is this Saturday and includes readings of game-inspired flash fiction and a chance to make some art out of trash. Come join us!

Flyer for the launch of Psychic Trash Detectives. Scripture Games Presents a reading of poems and fiction inspired by the story game. 9/6 Bird in Hand 11 E 33rd St Baltimore MD. THERE are photos of 8 authors.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

I miss sleeping through the night (thanks nerve pain!), but 5am drop biscuits with a fried egg and some tendies is a perk.

A photo of a blue bowl with a fried egg and some chicken tenders in it. There is a mug of coffee in the background.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Just a handsome avocado making himself more handsome!

A small green parrot, a green cheek conure, bending backwards to preen his bright read tail feathers

A small green parrot, a green cheek conure, preening his bright red tail feathers

A small parrot, a green cheek conure, snuggling into a person’s chest in the crook of their elbow

A small green parrot, a green cheek conure, sitting in someone’s lap and nestled against their arm

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Damn, I've been called out. I used Labor Day to pack u some things and move them into my new house. What's rest, precious?

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

This sign at my pain specialist’s needs to be a new reaction to Genuinely Bad Takes.

A photo of a yellow paper sign with black text reading, “Urine hats need to go in the trash can”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

guy: i’m not gonna buy into woke gender ideology same guy: this cup is a girl

from NYT: Do Cocktail Glasses Have a Gender?
For Some Men, Clearly.
Stereotypes may be fading, but bartenders say many male customers
are still uneasy with fancy glassware. And bars are trying to help.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Just a little cronch monch for the fruit cup

A photo of a small light yellow and green parrot - a pineapple green cheek conure -
holding a seed treat with his foot

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Crab Tales Magazine @crabtalesmagazine.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

If your story includes crabs & has an element of the fantastic in it, we want it. We accept micro fiction pieces of up to 250 words. If there are no crabs in your story, we will reject it. If your story is over 250 words, we will reject it. We pay 3c per word. crabtalesmagazine.com/submissions/

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

"When you say 'fast-paced,' do you mean that this position deals with actual life-or-death emergencies or that you manufacture a constant sense of panicked urgency to keep people off-balance, exhausted, and scared they'll lose their jobs?"

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/08/2023

At last, the tech bros’ mayor is inciting the Bell Riots from the classic ST:DS9 episode “Do Not Incite the Bell Riots”!

A tweet by Jessica Christian, a photojournalist at the San Francisco Chronicle:

“Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally held outside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to demand the court overturn and injunction prohibiting the city from sweeping homeless encampments”

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

While I would like to pretend that I am prepared for all occasions and that I had a piece of spec fic crab-centric flash fiction locked and loaded, I actually whipped up a bespoke space crab pirate adventure for @crabtalesmagazine.bsky.social over the last day. Maryland has entered the chat.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

No one is allowed to photograph the Royal Avocado while he is being snuggly.

A photograph of a small green parrot with a red tail sitting on someone’s arm, nestled into the crook of their elbow

A blurry photograph of a small green parrot with a red tail sitting on someone’s arm, no longer nestled into the crook of their elbow

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

I just asked a coworker how he was and he replied, "Older than I've ever been!" and I'm not going to lie, I enjoyed that thoroughly.

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

I was neurospicy+ at work the other week and saw, for the hundredth time, people jam up in the office kitchen in one corner (coffee maker, toaster, toaster oven, cabinet with paper plates) so I moved the cabinet contents for better flow & labeled them all. Been thanked 4x now.

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redjess.bsky.social @redjess.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

we did it fam

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Archie is being a real snuggle bug today!

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3 Birds in a Trenchcoat @deidredykes.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

How I feel every time I remember I just bought a house in a neighborhood without an authoritarian nanny state HOA to fine us into oblivion over the most ridiculous non-issues.

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