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hawtinpgh.bsky.social @hawtinpgh.bsky.social · 5m

My male coworker

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 1h

remember to unhook your hoses and set your vulnerable spigots to drip tomorrow!

Freeze Watch
Severity: Severe
Significant threat to life or property
Weather Event Onset
1:00 AM (EDT), October 18
Description
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible.
* WHERE...Portions of east central Ohio, northwest, southwest, and western Pennsylvania, and northern and the northern panhandle of West Virginia.
* WHEN...From late Saturday night
through Sunday morning.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 3h

btw, this lot is going for $125 bucks so far on the ebays 🤯

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 3h

i wish they still made these

puffy stickers filled with something oily that makes them iridescent when you press them. They were huge in the 80s. The shapes pictured our footprint, palm tree, squirrel, fish dinosaur train, snail and bat.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 21h

i need one that reads: Tampa Bay = Sports Only Tampa = Literally Everything Else

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 21h

smart, for suuuuure. it got me yesterday & it’s almost certainly going to get me tomorrow, too 😩 idk if you saw my earlier posts this AM, but a meteorologist in AL had a great breakdown of pressure effects on the body & how it affects different people. it was cool to see it acknowledged for once!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 22h

i love that pitch change!!!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 22h

i wholeheartedly appreciate the specificity of Oblivion’s character generator here lol

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 22h

if i’d been Jadis, i’d have become the Russet Witch and it would always be Autumn and never Thanksgiving tbh 🍁 🍂

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i’ll take it, yeaaahhhh

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

ok yeah that’s kind of a lot

The Apple weather app showing the barometric pressure at 29.75 inches on Friday, October 16 at 12:22 PM

The Apple weather app showing the barometric pressure around Pittsburgh at 30.61 inches on Sunday, October 18 at 10 AM

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

these comps drive us mad here, too. like, there’s NO way the 8 neighbors with 3+ kids each are using half the electric we’re using

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

that would be a wonderful surprise! i expected to stop seeing her around this time for hibernation, so the month-early (to me) was unexpected. that said, my pics of her last fall stopped in September. so maybe the 🍎 🍑 & 🥜 got her fattened up ahead of schedule? she was def less hungry that last week

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

remember back in early twitter when scientists used to pooh pooh the idea? nice to finally get some validation, lol

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

can’t look at photos or video of her yet without tearing up, but i try to focus on the fact that we’ve had no indicators that she’s dead, and no reports from neighbors of their dog killing a groundhog (i checked) so she might just have gotten healthy and chubby enough to start hibernating early

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

been a month since we’ve seen Mme Applebottom and i hope she’s just decided to hunker down early for the winter. i’ve gotten used to not seeing her, mostly, but i miss her a lot. boychild still appears daily under the small shed, so maybe she just gave up her den there for him.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

right? it’s so nice to be seen!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

also centered around Alabama, but still a really neat breakdown for, as he says, “human barometers“ 😁

Chief Meteorologist David Paul *
1d • O
By request for the human barometers
across the Southeast - potentially impactful pressure changes are ahead.
If you're one of
those people who can feel the weather changing before any clouds even arrive, pay attention to what's coming.
We're looking at some pretty significant swings in atmospheric pressure, especially Friday
through Sunday.
Tuesday and Wednesday: Relatively steady
pressure across the Southeast. For many weather-sensitive individuals, this should be a quieter stretch.
) Thursday: Pressure climbs before beginning to change direction. Some of you may start noticing those familiar symptoms.
• Friday: Here's when things get dynamic! Y Atmospheric pressure is forecast to plunge toward 1015 mb (29.96") around Dothan. That's the kind of change many of you have told me can coincide with migraine attacks, fibromyalgia flares, arthritis and joint pain, sinus pressure, dizziness and Ménière's symptoms.
Saturday into Sunday: Here comes the rebound! Pressure surges upward, potentially reaching around 1028 mb (30.34") by Sunday morning. That's : facebook.com ly 13 mb in less than two days!

While many of you report feeling worse when pressure FALLS, others say it's the rapid RISE that gets them. Some feel both.
By Monday and Tuesday, pressure begins easing again.
This is exactly why I've been paying so much attention to atmospheric pressure changes. Your comments have shown me just how many people live with weather sensitivity, often dealing with symptoms that others can't see. Of course, not everyone responds the same way and a pressure change doesn't guarantee symptoms. However, knowing when the bigger swings are in the forecast may help you plan ahead. See my previous post for predicted nationwide pressure anomaly maps.
Here's my question for all you human barometers: Which bothers you more - falling pressure, rising pressure or BOTH?
Plus, where are you checking in from? I'd love to hear how these changes affect you, as this is a community that can learn from each other.
(This forecast graphic is specifically for Dothan, Alabama, but the broader weather pattern will affect other parts of the Southeast, with timing and pressure changes varying by location.)

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

this meteorologist from Alabama did a cool job of including barometric pressure side effects for this week. this is from yesterday & it’s centered around Alabama, but still a useful breakdown

Chief Meteorologi... • Following ...
1d • C
Human barometers, high pressure is about to take over for many - and that 1043 mb on the map is no joke! /
Wednesday (October 14): A strong high is already building over the Northern Plains and Midwest (1026 mb). The Northeast and Great Lakes are still under a low, so falling or already-low pressure there. This is the rollercoaster zone all the way through the weekend - beware! * The Southern Plains and Texas have their own low, but it's weak. The Southeast sits at relatively higher than normal pressure.
Friday (October 16): That high explodes. ** A whopping 1043 mb high pressure parked over the Plains, covering almost the entire West and Central US. The Northeast returns to the deep blue with an anomalous 1001 mb low. This rapid drop could flare fibromyalgia, sinus pressure, joint pain and arthritis, vestibular dizziness and Meniere's. If you're under the big red, pressure is rising hard or already very high. Most of you feel better under highs. A smaller group gets that tight, pressing headache or "heavy lid" feeling when the high sits on them this hard.

Sunday (October 18): The high shifts east and locks in over the Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast (1035 mb). A new low digs into the Northern Plains and Canada. The West Coast is mixed. The East gets the rebound into high pressure...a real pressure ride for the week! *1l
Most of you flare on the fall. Some of you flare on the rise or the stubborn high. This pattern gives both - especially that rapid climb into Friday's 1043 mb high. Definitely log how you're feeling and compare it to the pressure anomalies.
Pace if you find yourself in the transition zones or feel the weight of the much higher than normal pressure. Rest, hydrate, keep the toolkit close!

The graphic is the continental United States with high-pressure over the Pacific Northwest and high-pressure over the upper Midwest into Oklahoma, and low pressure over Texas up through the plain states and then very low pressure up in the northeast for yesterday (Wednesday)

this graphic shows a large area of high pressure over the continental United States approximately west of the Mississippi and north into Canada. Then it shows very low pressure over the United States east of the Mississippi and north into New England. This is for today.
The next graphic shows mild low pressure over the Western United States and mild high pressure over the Pacific Northwest. It shows very low pressure over the upper Midwest, and then it shows very high pressure ranging from Texas up through the north east and then over towards the mid Atlantic and the southern states. This is for Sunday October 18.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/10/2026

📚 100 years ago today, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends opened up a book to their enchanted Hundred Acre Wood. 🍯 🧸🐝🐰🐷 Read the full extent of their stories from a century ago at the Internet Archive. Courtesy of the #publicdomain.👇 archive.org/details/winn...

Black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration by E. H. Shepard of Winnie-the-Pooh sitting on a log and gazing upward beside a large tree. Behind him is a dark doorway at the tree’s base, with a sign reading “MR SANDERS” above it, a small bell, a hanging bell pull, and a partial note reading “RNIG ALSO.” A small pile of sticks lies on the ground to the right. Dense cross-hatching forms the tree.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

just like very handy people when i go off. i don’t get it. more than half the world does not ever want to be in a classroom full of small children and i LOVE it. but i never get offended at anyone who is even like “fuck that noise, kids are the worst” i’m just glad they know that about themselves!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

oh, yeah, cooks also get annoyed with non-cookers lol

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i do it b/c right now it’s more financially possible to fix shit if i just suck it up and learn to do it, but it suuuuucks (for me!) giant dick 😂

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

it’s a well-known fact to everyone in my life (including y’all on here lol) that i _despise_ doing home repair/improvement a weird thing is that ppl who enjoy it often get mad that i don’t like it idk—if you said you would hate what i do (teaching 4 y/o’s) i’d be like, “cool, totes get it”

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There are people in this world who just know how to do a specific thing incredibly well and like no one else, and Dave DiCello knows how to take pictures of this city incredibly well and like no one else.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

frost possible this weekend, but just for a night, i think? in case you need to cover any plants!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

these last 3 weeks until election day are going to be bumpy af, unsurprisingly but we’re going to get thru them, show up at the polls & send the nazis home don’t get discouraged in advance—if you’ve got some adrenaline, sign up to call or knock doors of voters who don’t vote in midterms—it helps!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

hang in there—they are very disconcerting, for sure!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

also, he’s one of the maybe 5 people in the world that makes me 100% feel like i don’t have to worry about anything at all, so my recent near-constantly charged up adrenaline system is likely crashing in relief.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

couldn’t stop yawning allllll afternoon and subsequently was mostly just a pair of extra hands & conversation for Miles as he worked today. was so tired i was convinced i was getting sick lol but no, just the center of what was Isaias getting within a 100 mi radius of us. (the big “L” in WV)

radar map, showing my location, just south of Pittsburgh and the center of what’s left of the hurricane that hit the south about 100 miles away

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it’s such happy piano music!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

bonus round: i filled in the 67’ trench by myself in 40 minutes yesterday and while my shoulder still makes me whimper “ow ow ow ow owwww” every time i change my shirt, it’s doing a lot better than expected 3 weeks out from that fall

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

i’ve been to Lowe’s 4 times this week and used more tools than i’ve used in my life collectively please clap

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

double appropriate today, apparently, as today the anniversary of Johnny Costa’s passing (in 1996). 🎹 ❤️

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“johnny costa playlist and endless mugs of hot tea” kind of day here in pittsburgh

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it’s so weird to have tropical-level moisture but with cold temps!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Miles said, “rain is starting up” at exactly the same time i said, “oh, wow my head is starting to hurt” lol

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Start hydrating now, Pittsburgh & Western PA migraine crew! 🧠 the remnants of hurricane Isaias is going to drop the barometric pressure a bunch in the next 24 hours (it’s already started; right now it’s 30.24”, so still a slow drop, but tomorrow it’s going to crater)

this morning, the pressure was 30.33 at 10:55 AM in Pittsburgh.

tomorrow and Sunday, October 11 at 6 PM, the pressure is gonna be 29.84. This is a huge drop due to the remnants of the hurricane from the south.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

oh, awesome! thank you!

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

that said, after testing everything, i discovered that our 22” TCL flat-screen tv works great & is pre-spyware era so i’m keeping that for the shed when it’s finished

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

annual electronics recycling day LFG (first one i’ve managed to plan for since we moved to PA 2.5 yrs ago, so i’ve got Some Stuff™️)

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

fort walton beach, FL going through it rn

A screen cap of the weather underground app that shows a radar map of a hurricane coming on shore near Pensacola Florida. At the top are more warning icons for the storm that I’ve ever seen anywhere ever.

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

yeah, i think so. we looked for day labor recently and it’s a tricky business now. :/

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

made vegan hot sausage sandwiches with peppers & caramelized onions on soft yeast rolls for dinner & wowwww. so good after a day of running wire through the house & new conduit. the shed will finally have electric in about 30 minutes!!!

67 feet of gray conduit, running from the house through a trench in the yard to the large pumpkin colored shed

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Renee @jg-pgh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i, too, fell for this ploy my first spring here 😭

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