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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5h

Temperature is lower and so is my #TeaOfTheDay: iced rishi hibiscus berry tea

rishi hibiscus berry tea in an open round infuser,
small plastic bag labeled : rishi hibiscus berry tea

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Thursday #TeaOfTheDay: Unnamed sticky rice tea. Last one 😢 I need more!

Square puck of tea leaves in a metal infuser

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wow, I haven't shared me #TeaOfTheDay in a while. Today's #TeaOfTheDay is #JusTea's African Chai with milk and honey

JusTea's African Chai, milk, and honey steeping in a metal infuser

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a #MariageFrères Pleine Lune (with homemade blueberry pancakes) kind of morning. #TeaOfTheDay

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saturday morning with one of my favorite #TeaOfTheDay: #JusTea's African Chai with #Goodflow Wildflower honey (sadly without milk).

Another photo with absolutely nothing in focus; clear glass mug with amber liquid that's JusTea's African Chai

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday afternoon #TeaOfTheDay #IcedTea: #JusTea's Purple Rain and Peppermint Detox.

Tins of JusTea's Purple Rain and Peppermint Detox

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday morn #TeaOfTheDay: #SistaTeas' Spiced Chai with a fresh mandarin peel.

Sista Teas' Spiced Chai
with a fresh mandarin peel
in a metal infuser

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Before, you said you had two brothers. You didn't say you had a sister too." He wants to say, I did tell you. "Are you sure?" The girl considers what he's suggesting then rejects it softly, as if she feels sorry for him. "The Astronaut Brother," Lydia Kima, in @pshares.bsky.social

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thursday morning #TeaOfTheDay: #KolkataChaiCo's Signature Masala Chai Mix with milk and sugar.

Interior of pouch of Kolkata Chai Co's Signature Masala Chai Mix

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Afternoon #IcedTea #TeaOfTheDay on the go: #TexasTea unsweetened. Refreshing!

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is a movie that stars Lucy Alexis Liu and Cillian Murphy boring?

Lucy Liu and Cillian Murphy in a still from the movie Watching the Detectives

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tuesday #AMPM #TeaOfTheDay x2: #HeavenlyTeaLeaves Organic Butterfly Pea Flower this morning and #JusTea's Peppermint Detox with #TraditionalMedicinals Organic Hibiscus for #IcedTea this afternoon

Lid of Heavenly Tea Leaves
Organic Butterfly Pea Flower

Tea sachet lavels of
JusTea's Peppermint Detox and
Traditional Medicinals' Organic Hibiscus

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And cold #AfternoonTea: #JusTea's Little Berry Hibiscus

Interior of tin of JusTea's Little Berry Hibiscus
A round infuser in a teapot-shaped holder
A tall metal mug full of a reddish liquid

A tin of JusTea's Little Berry Hibiscus
A round infuser in a teapot-shaped holder
A tall pink metal mug

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally getting to #TeaOfTheDay, yay! Today's hot #MorningTea: #JusTea's Purple Jasmine

Tin of JusTea's Purple Jasmine
A metal infuser with a pink brim
A clear glass mug of an amber liquid

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday #AMPM #TeaOfTheDay x2: #MariageFrères' Pleine Lune this morning and #JusTea's Purple Rain #IcedTea for this afternoon

View into tins of Mariage Frères' Pleine Lune and JusTea's Purple Rain teas

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thursday #AMPM #TeaOfTheDay x2: #JusTea's Golden Green this morning, #HarneyAndSons Mother's Day again for #IcedTea this afternoon

Tins of JusTea's Golden Green
and Harney & Sons' Mother's Day teas

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#JusTea's African Chai antes y después de ponerle leche

Mug of JusTea's African Chai antes y después de añadir leche

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wednesday #AMPM #TeaOfTheDay x2: #JusTea's African Chai this morning, #HarneyAndSons Mother's Day for #IcedTea this afternoon

Tin of Harney & Sons Mother's Day stacked on top of a tin of JusTea's African Chai

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chartreuse Man by Deborah Allbritain - @pshares.bsky.social Winter 2025-26 There was a poisoning. Perhaps from the reincarnation ages ago where your hands curled and stitched the fake flower bouquets of 1860, dusted them with Scheele’s green, the arsenic powder breathed into your child lungs...

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tuesday #TeaOfTheDay x2: #MariageFrères #DeStress tea this morning, #JusTea's Little Berry Hibiscus for #IcedTea this afternoon

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monday #AfternoonTea #IcedTea #TeaOfTheDay: #HeavenlyTeaLeaves' Organic Butterfly Pea Flower, (pics of quick steep and later ridiculously long steep)

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Zendaya and Law Roach probably weren't the first to do it but their wardrobe-to-movie tie ins are ART and copycats are so very bad at it! (Not all of 👇are from permieres.)

Zendaya in various looks for premieres and shows

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Please, understand, any arrangement of books is in fact room decor. (photo from www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/arts...)

Black woman in a vibrant yellow and green patterned outfit sits amongst stacks and stacks of books

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#MorningTea #TeaOfTheDay: A little #MariageFrères Pleine Lune with a very plain breakfast (two fried eggs)

Sweese mug half full of Mariage Frères Pleine Lune tea in front of a tin of said tea

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Am I starting an #AfternoonTea #TeaOfTheDay routine? Mayhaps. Today it was iced #JusTea's Winter Wonderland.

Tin of JusTea Winter Wonderland and
a glass of it in a flowery clear tumbler

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can you guess what my #TeaOfTheDay was? Hint: I used the heart-shaped scoop because it's one of my favorites.

Tea components and an orange peel afloat in water in a metal infuser

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I tried to be like @rocogirl.bsky.social but my troublemakers were quite uncooperative; also they're bigger than Masuke...

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar 💓 and Marlon James' The Book of Night Women 💔

Cover of book
Alice Walker's
The Temple of My Familiar

Cover of book
Marlon James'
The Book of Night Women 💔

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I remember when @bookpeople.com had "reading" chairs and nooks throughout the store

Young black woman with braids and wearing a plaid shirt and jeans sits on the floor of a library or bookstore reading a book
Contributor:Yuri Arcurs
File size:89.1 MB (2.4 MB Compressed download)
Releases:Model - yes | Property - noDo I need a release?
Dimensions:6898 x 4516 px | 58.4 x 38.2 cm | 23 x 15.1 inches | 300dpi
Date taken:21 May 2022

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I find myself INcensed ENraged and OUTraged (for no personal reason whatsoever) to learn of the existence of a remake of Flatliners (1990).

Moment from Flatliners (1990), with young Winnie played by Kesha Reed on a train.

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Late, rushed Monday morning #TeaOfTheDay: #Taylors' white hibiscus & peach, gentle smooth easy

Envelope and tag of
Taylors' white hibiscus & peach

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saturday afternoon #TeaOfTheDay: a flight + 1 of #TeakeasyTeas Black Jockey Bourbon Chai Me a River Georgia on My Mind Kaleidoscope + Teakeasy House Blend. The flight included a full cup of my chosen favorite, which today was Chai Me a River. (@sweetturtleberry.com, come visit!)

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saturday morning #TeaOfTheDay: #JusTea's African Breakfast with #11OnceLetras vanilla

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Friday #TeaOfTheDay: A little bag of chamomile #CoffeeBeanTeaLeaf picked up in a hotel room

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mid-week #TeaOfTheDay: Vanilla London Fog made with #numi's aged earl grey

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"There wasn't a whole lot to bury," Eimers said, before he turned away and began to cry. - "Driven," by Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, July 27, 2026

Cover illustration of The New Yorker, July 27, 2026:
variety of people in a train platform area but dressed as though in a spa

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Weekend #TeaOfTheDay during two meals at #SamsNo3: #CelestialSeasonings' Mandarin Orange Spice and Apple Cinnamon

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

2:2 #TeaOfTheDay: 2 scoops #JusTea African Breakfast and 2 whole orange peels brewed quite full and dark

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tuesday #TeaOfTheDay: Iced #Panera's Blackberry Hisbiscus and their Lemonade

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Afternoon #TeaOfTheDay: #MariageFrères' Pleine Lune à l'orange, a lovely citrus addition to the blend

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Apples, peaches, nectarines 😋😋😋

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Double double #TeaOfTheDay: 2 scoops #JusTea African chai and 2 orange peels

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To books as with my partner, I want to be the only one loving on them, so that every bit of writing, underlining, highlighting, stain is of my doing only.

Stack of 5 books:
Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar
Marcela Serrano, El albergue de las mujeres tristes
Mariana Bâ, So Long a Letter
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
José Saramago, All the Names

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Steeping #TeaOfTheDay: #JusTea's African Chai with an orange peel

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My little doodle from Slay Every Draft webinar with @oliverevensen.bsky.social yesterday...

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"TRUMP ALLOWS PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THEIR RACISM AND BIGOTRY IN A WAY THAT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO IN QUITE A WHILE AND THEY REALLY LOVE HIM FOR THAT..." He even shows them different ways to express it.

"TRUMP ALLOWS PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THEIR RACISM AND BIGOTRY IN A WAY THAT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO IN QUITE A WHILE AND THEY REALLY LOVE HIM FOR THAT. IT'S A SHOCKING THING TO REALIZE PEOPLE LOVE THEIR HATRED MORE THAN THEY CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN ACTUAL LIVES."
FRAB LEBOWITS

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Mood... (www.powerinblack.com/products/onl...)

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