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I really don't think the font captures the thrill.

A photo of the view through a windshield of a sign on a cage/trailer. The dark brown sign with ochre lettering in a font more appropriate to Buildings & Grounds, reads:
California
Mechanical
Bull Rentals
[phone number]

Below the words, in the same dull ochre color, is a silhouette of very small bull & rider.

I'm old and don't know what the current opinion is on these: my favorite books in 8th grade were Auntie Mame and One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

Part of what happens with this strict separation between "policing" and "immigration enforcement" is the refusal to connect the dots on a child being shot in Mississippi and a father being shot in front of his child in NYC because this Black guy happens to be from Senegal.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everything's wet and it hasn't even rained yet. More video in Peter's 🧵

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wow. That's this morning? Unbelievable!

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"It’s a city living under military occupation." 🧵 Invisible to most of us, but terrorizing people in the cities where they're deployed.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Heh. I'm Cyd Charisse, just entertaining myself, then Bluesky (Gene Kelly) pulls me in!

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Challenge accepted. I give myself a year. Maybe I'll just diagram all the steps first. 😂😇

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A 🧵 of joy for a Saturday morning. Thank you, Gina.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My mother? Bagpipes? Ouija board? Transistor radio tuned to a ballgame? Sketchbook? Pizza? Whoopie Cushion?

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey! That's the sonnet I memorized to get in free to the Renaissance Fair on Shakespeare's birthday sometime last century. I still have it memorized--that and $6 will get me an einspänner. 😇

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes! The way my Gen Z daughter put it: you showing up with iced coffee means you exist outside of work, and this employer will not tolerate that.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kraft mac & cheese is to cheese as the Cowboys are to champions. /runs

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We've ridden our bikes there, and did see a yellow breasted chat. And we went to Irvine Regional Park once in search of a phainopepla--alas we didn't see one.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks! I kinda figured I needed to get to HCP. My main haunts are here in Irvine: San Joaquin marsh, Bommer Canyon, UCI Preserve, and Quail Hill.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, I'm in Irvine, and am trying to decide where to head out to tomorrow morning. Not expecting to see a blackpoll though. That was a lucky one! 😊

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my favorite birds, if one can have favorites. Are you seeing all these warblers in OC?

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My self portrait as Mont Sainte-Victoire. #Art #ArtofBluesky #Pastel #Drawing #SelfPortrait

Artwork by @inasketch
self portrait as Mont Sainte-Victoire
pastel, 9x12 inches
Inspired by Cezanne's Mont Saint-Victoire, 1902-06, where my head and face become the mountain, my shoulders and bust are the foreground, appearing to be underground.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That reminds me of this Raymond Carver poem:

The Scratch
I woke up with a spot of blood
over my eye. A scratch
halfway across my forehead.
But I'm sleeping alone these days.
Why on earth would a man raise his hand
against himself, even in sleep?
It's this and similar questions
I'm trying to answer this morning.
As I study my face in the window.
~Raymond Carver

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We really lost rhetorical ground when they reframed "anti-abortion" as "pro life." They're not pro life, they're anti-women, and honestly, they're anti-society, anti-humanity.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My daughter said Grace & Frankie should've been a movie, based on the first season, and stopped there.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I thought you were more than patient with that person.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He looked like he was really concentrating on trying to do the pat-your-head rub-your-tummy maneuver.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

and to think I was ready to say, fine, your cowboys can win.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

P.S. If you watch it, you have to watch the version narrated by John Cleese, not the one narrated by Jack Black (which, sadly, I think was the commercially released version).

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kind of a dumb one, but my daughters & I enjoy The Big Year and would love to see it with a female cast. So, topically, I'll pick the cast of 9 to 5, with Jane Fonda playing Steve Martin's role, Dolly Parton playing Jack Black's role, and Lily Tomlin playing Owen Wilson's role.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes to everything you said. My #wrongtakeaway? She has 24.8K followers and follows 30K (usually an automatic mute from me), and she comments on this post that this is the most interaction she's gotten on bluesky. 66 comments, 198 likes. So clearly just having replies open isn't enough. 😂

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm firmly in the no chatgpt camp. Let's support students with challenges in better ways. Thanks for engaging on the topic, though, I think it's important. And I forgot to say earlier, "I hope you had a good weekend."

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

😂 She has anxiety, was heading out the door to school, and was already queasy because she'd made plans to play jazz with a peer (her trumpet; him piano). It would've taken her an hour to choose how she wanted to phrase any pleasantries. Usually, she does spend an hour composing emails (no chatgpt).

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Heh. My daughter got an email from a professor this morning trying to set up a meeting with her. He'd said "I hope you had a good weekend." She asked me if she had to return the pleasantries. I said no, she could just reply that 4pm works for her.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, exactly. I have made some tasty rice salads with ginger and various vegetables.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I toss some arugula in a little balsamic vinegar and top the pizza, and find that makes it palatable. For me, the struggle is hot gluten free pasta = good; cold gluten free pasta = eating paste.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Back when teens hanging out in malls was still legal, there was a little sandwich stand in ours that had cherry cola on draft with crushed ice. You've reminded me of that small joy from my youth.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's a special spirit to the beauty of the North Carolina mountains. The first time I visited, I was ready to move there.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Heh. #wrongtakeaway I read this and thought, "Wow, they make five different sizes of chocolate eyeballs? That's commitment to the bit." The following paragraph (not shown here) clears it up: five different size *packages* of eyeballs. Oh well, a girl can dream. 🎃👁️🍫

A screenshot of text that reads:
Halloween Chocolatey Eyeballs
On Aug. 31, Crystal Temptations recalled five sizes of its Halloween Chocolatey Eyeballs because the products contained whey, a milk-derived ingredient that was not disclosed on the packaging. People with a milk allergy or severe sensitivity could experience a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the candy.

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