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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've moved too many places lol but all the places I've lived the longest are the 2nd-darkest/3rd-darkest red mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

My dialect map of the US. The darkest red blob covers most of New Mexico, the far north/west tips of Texas, the upper half of Oklahoma, the lower half of Kansas, and the southwest quadrant of Missouri. And a random blob in Las Vegas for some reason.

Most of the places I've actually lived are in the next-darkest red blob, which includes most of Nevada and Arizona, roughly the southeast half of Colorado (if you were to divide it diagonally), the rest of Kansas, most of the rest of Missouri, southern areas of Indiana and Illinois, and the western half of Kentucky

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

oh hey it's the song that got me into nct i wonder why LEMME INTRODUCE YA TO SOME NEW THAAAANGS

still image from nct 127's "Kick It" video - it is some sort of stylized Hong Kong or something, the ground is wet and shiny with rain, it's dark, there's neon lights everywhere spelling out KICK IT and NEO and NEW HERO GATE and stuff, some in mandarin, the group is all in black pants, various white t-shirts with logos on them, and silk red dragon biker jackets

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

we have an old cat her favorite sleeping spot is a cat bed on my desk which sits above my computer case and right next to a window she has developed a lovely habit of --going to get water --coming back to bed --puking on my mouse --falling asleep my mouse finally got puked to death this morning

a gray and white cat in a cat bed on top of a desk. corner of monitor is visible. the cat is lounging in the bed and looking up at the camera, with her tongue hanging out the side of her mouth (bc she's missing most of her teeth). she looks like "what, don't judge me". this is the aforementioned cat that puked my mouse to death

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I got this from Happy Color app (it's good). If the animal at the bottom was a cat or fish, this would absolutely be @bottomchef.bsky.social but it's pretty close as is!

Drawing of a woman sitting on an ornate crescent moon. She has iridescent hair and dress, a star is floating above her hand, and there's a bunny at her feet.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Here's mine but gosh it's hard to remember some of these tenpages.github.io/us-level/us....

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

its #caturday here's our old cranky cat she has no teeth

gray and white cat in a windowsill behind a white curtain, staring at camera
her tongue is sticking out of her mouth on her left side

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

saw this this morning and was like WTF i played berseria on steam! it came out in 2017! abyss is possibly the most popular not-yet-remastered game and it was for PS2 like, i get that an older game will take longer to remaster and this one's probably easy but doing berseria now looks dumb

Phone screenshot of an article from Polygon.
Headline: "I can't believe Tales of Berseria is getting remastered before Tales of the Abyss."
Subheader: "Bandai Namco's strategy for Tales remasters misses the point."
Visible text: "Less than one month after the release of Tales of Xillia Remastered, Bandai Namcao has announced that Tales of Berseria Remastered is going to hit Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC on Feb. 27, 2026. While Bandai Namco has been working..."

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

i built my mom's house (decorated in the strongest way i remember it, so like 1993-1998-ish?) in house flipper 2 this is my bedroom for that entire time period i chose it in 4th grade because i wanted girls in my class to be my friend i gave up on that by 6th grade and hated it ever since

a bedroom, as decorated by a 1993 10-year-old who didn't know they were nonbinary yet and really just wanted the girls in their class to stop ostracizing them

all colors are roughly accurate, but the wall border was actually clipart of makeup (lipstick, compacts, etc)

in picture:
wall paint is lavender
bedframe is painted white
bedspread is white and pink
wall border around top edge of walls is pink, yellow, blue, and white
there is a dark brown desk against a wall with a corkboard above it
there is also (less visible) a particleboard bookcase and dresser, in a lighter shade
and a nightstand with a white lamp on it. the nightstand is cherry
none of the furniture matches and all of it except the particleboard stuff (maybe that too tbh) is hand-me-down

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

She accepted the bed when no one was looking. (It being on my desk directly above my toasty computer case doesn't hurt)

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

cat regularly slept in small cardboard delivery box on my desk delivery box was to be recycled family dispute about whether it was cat's box to keep or not i solved problem by purchasing a similarly sized non-trash box (and a cat bed) she rejected the cat bed and immediately chose box

gray/white/brown older cat sleeping in small cardboard box that something had been delivered in. she doesn't super look like she fits but she doesn't care. box is on a wooden desk.

same gray/white brown cat now sleeping in similarly sized navy blue fabric collapsible box, in same spot on desk

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Help! (1965) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

George Harrison and John Lennon in the movie Help!. They are in the Bahamas on a rocky shore near the ocean on a partly cloudy day. They both are holding guitars. George is standing and looking to his right into the distance. John is lying at George's feet, John's feet propped up on a rock, looking at the camera and strumming. Both of them are probably high as a kite.

Sean Connery as Henry Jones Sr and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Having escaped from the Nazis at Schloss Brunwald, the Joneses stop to argue over their travel plan. Indiana is driving a motorcycle and Henry is in the sidecar. Indiana is looking at Henry in disbelief, because Henry wants to go pick up his Grail diary in Berlin since it has all the clues to passing the trials of the grails, and Indiana thinks they should skip that and go straight for the Grail itself. Indiana thinks Henry should have memorized the contents of the diary; Henry says "I wrote it down so I wouldn't HAVE to!" They end up going to Berlin where Indiana, disguised as a Nazi, inadvertently gets the diary autographed by Hitler himself.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

edit of the scene in Kill Six Billion Demons where Jagganoth is about to kill Mottom. He looms over her, a giant muscular red man several hundred feet tall. She is bloodied and the size of a normal human, sitting on the scarred and ruined ground. She points at him and yells, with the same color text bubble as she does canonically to yell "perish", "PEE YOUR PANTS". Jagganoth pauses, grimaces, and then says in his own color text bubble "I AM NAKED."

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

when drag race first started samantha and i watched s1, i think we watched s2 together too? i remember really wanting raven to win s2, in part because i thought she was hot both in and out of drag, and also smart/funny, and thinking "well, fuck" when tyra wore the green swimsuit at the end

raven's out-of-drag look in season 2. raven has a shaved head, earrings, a black t-shirt, a lip ring and dolphin/shark bite piercings (there's only 2 but they're further toward the corners of mouth, i dunno what you call that)

raven's s2 finale look. raven is wearing a short brown wig, earrings, dark eye and lip makeup. she is wearing a black pinstriped corset(?) with black tulle ruffles along the top, black vinyl thigh high boots, and black pinstriped panties or short shorts or something also with ruffles

tyra's finale look that she won in. she is wearing a curly brown wig, large silver dangly earrings, soft and lovely makeup, a sea green bathing suit with a faint flowery/sequined pattern across the front, sea green heels, and a gorgeous sea green and pink thin cape tied just below her boobs, which she is holding open to show off

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

hahaha shortly after passing the area in the screenshot i passed the kingdom of car! (i think it's a trucker rest area but this entry is AMAZING)

still driving in Chelyabinsk Oblast.
there is a structure that looks like two medieval towers with a bridge between them, and on that bridge sits a car
there is a small sign on one of the towers advertising bath and shower
behind it is a gas station, cafe and hotel
trucker rest area, basically
but THE KINGDOM OF CAR!!

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

playing ets2 again driving in chelyabinsk oblast passed a nice little market on the side of the road which had: --fresh watermelons --24/7 pelmeni and vareniki and other russian cuisine --souvenir shop (sells knives, fur boots, samovars, etc) --pizzeria --warning sign about mental asylum in the area

driving in Chelyabinsk Oblast (Southern Region map for ETS2 (SRMAP))
it's golden hour and there's a large birch forest
in front of it are some shops including a "russian cuisine" restaurant selling 24/7 pelmeni and vareniki, a pizzeria, a souvenir shop that sells postcards and magnits and also knives and fur boots and samovars, and on the far left, a highway sign warning about a mental asylum in the vicinity

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

i swear sometimes looking at maps of the ancient world (even modern maps) looks like looking at another planet

map of ancient greece in roughly 800-480 BC, showing colonies on the southern coast of modern-day Spain and northern Libya, as well as Turkey, Italy, etc

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

this always cracks me up "want some gas station? i got some right here for ya buddy"

picture of a gas tanker truck on the afghanistan side of the afghan-turkmen border, in ETS2 (beyond mod). the gas tanker truck has a "fill up gas" icon hovering near it, indicating you can fill up gas there, despite the fact that it is in fact just a truck and not actually like, a gas pump

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

oh yay! it's not actually daytime in game but i adjusted the time settings in photo mode to make this more visible. this is the second time i have run into this, it's a company or gas station that is glitchy AF and the gamelog indicates it's a bad model definition in the belarus files

gas station(?) the road in front of it has huge consecutive panels cut out with just plain red underneath. there is a random pond next to the road, with a vertical wall of grass alongside and some yellow parallel lines floating a few feet above it. the gas station(?) itself looks dirty af and i think that is a result of the glitching, not the actual model. most of the gas station paved area is covered with grass clipping through

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

and then there was a house fire wtf who put this in

it is still night-time. there is a smoky haze across the screen. various emergency vehicles are parked in the area, and numerous people stand looking at the remains of a burned out house.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

«Этот пруд... как в старые времена». «Да». Он громко плачет.

two men, at 10:30 at night, in rural russia between porkhov and kholm, who have pulled off on the side of the road (with their headlights left on, naturally) to gaze at a pond. one of them has his hand over his heart. my post text when translated to english should be:
"this pond... like old times."
"yes." he cries noisily.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

i am the keeper of this bus stop!!! no one shall pass by me!! (rusmap has really outdated pedestrian models, or something - they have really weird dark shadows on the face even in full sunlight)

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

in porkhov russia, everybody parks on the side of the road and has perpetual-motion car batteries i guess

it is dusk in porkhov russia, in ets2 with likely-rusmap mod (i have a lot of russian map mods and am never really sure which mod is relevant to which part of the map i'm in)
anyway there were a number of cars like this parked on the side of the road, completely empty of people, with headlights on.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

this is from a mod and thus almost definitely is the real-life russian equivalent of Smokey the Bear but uh.

billboard near a Russian forest in ETS2 (one of the Russian mods tbh not sure which one. maybe rusmap). it is red, has a picture of a cartoonish russian soldier with a white beard and mustache, and a small picture of a forest on fire, and it says "не жгите Лес, негде будет партизанить!" which translates to roughly "don't burn down the forest, there will be nowhere to be a partisan!" google translate said "nowhere to fight" but that is not the word for "fight", that explicitly is the word meaning "to be a partisan" and in Russian, partisan is something like a guerrilla

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

apparently in ets2 promods middle east syria has lower budget than iraq, as a country syria (l) got action-figure immobile t-posed border guards with assault rifles iraq's (r) are actual people that move

guard on syrian side of the lebanon-syrian border in ets2, promods middle east. he is wearing green camo with an assault rifle strapped to his back, and is standing in t-pose. next to him is a doberman sitting up. there were three other identical pairs of man and dog at this border crossing, and another two pairs just past it. none of them moved at all and all of them were posed identically.

border guard on the iraq side of the syria-iraq border, also in ets2 promods middle east. guard is wearing brown/tan camo, with assault rifle strapped to his back, and has a doberman next to him. but unlike the syrian guard, the iraq guard has his hands on his hips and is idly scuffing his foot on the ground.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

a grainy color picture of a horse on a beach, looking at the sea. the text is white impact font and just says "MAN"

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

hadn't been here in game but they updated that flag real quick

sign at the Lebanon/Syrian border in ETS2 (Promods Middle East mod) that says "Wellcome to Syria" (sic) in English and Arabic

picture of border crossing showing the new post-al-Assad Syrian flag

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

we went to nz in 2013, it was great not my only memory but definitely A strong memory is a walk in wellington from courtenay to the botanic garden roughly a mile, said google maps we can walk a mile! we said a mile VERY MUCH SO UPHILL my legs died but here's me in front of some lilies

me at the wellington botanic garden in 2013. i am wearing a thin lime green v-neck t-shirt over a dark brown cami. i am wearing a crossbody olive purse though only the strap is visible in the pic. behind me are lots of various green leaved things, including some lilies that are white with pink around the edges and green centers.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

as a fan of absolute goobers like the mannings (or their public persona, whatever), who HAAAAAAAAAAATED the tom brady patriots, gronk was the only good thing about them. oh gronk

clip from nfl "snow day" commercial in which gronk wakes up with his window cracked, sees snow coming through the window, walks over to the window, rams his head through the window rather than opening the window fully, sees the snow and says with satisfaction "snow day"

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Picture taken from my hotel window in San Francisco on a recent business trip, where the entire hospitality staff had been loudly protesting outside for increased wages from 7am-10pm for months

View from a hotel window in San Francisco at night, facing Union Square. It is December and there is an ice skating rink, and Macy's is bedecked in wreathes, red ribbons, and a large Christmas tree with probably thousands of white lights. Minor reflectivity of the hotel room but you can't see much. On one of the other buildings visible, there is a rooftop billboard with a picture of a white woman with brown hair, and it says "Let An AI BDR Pitch You". It is the same billboard, but different text, as in the post I quote-skeeted.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

if you see this post, post a pic from your device without an explanation

Four identical images of a grandmother on her phone or tablet, with flags.
The first one has an American flag and it says in black text on a white background "good morning"
Next is France, "bonjour"
Next is Spain, "buenos dias"
Next is Russia, which is an image of a kitten with cookies, tea with lemon, roses, and lots of pink flowers in the background, and it says "Доброго утречка! Хорошего настроения, улыбок на весь день!" which means "Good morning! Good mood, smiles all day!"

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

swiftkey what are you trying to say to my wife here

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

highly disappointed that it took me six attempts to find a version of the nutcracker trepak on youtube (even googling explicitly russian ones) to find one that had this in it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygDn...

screenshot of the "Trepak" from the Nutcracker, 2009 Royal Ballet, in which Clara watches from the background as the Prince and two other male dancers dance the Trepak. In the screenshot they are in a crab-walk sort of position, with right arm raised, about to kick their left foot into the air. In the actual video they alternate raising arms and kicking legs while rotating in a circle as the music accelerates, and all three dancers + clara end up piled on top of each other at the end.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

scenes from Magadan, on the far east coast of Russia. Magadan is absolutely not in the base game are you kidding me lol i failed to get a pic but i saw a car RAMP OVER THE FLAMING CARS and then disappear into oblivion it was AMAZING

Driving off the ferry in Magadan, in ETS2

Destroyed buildings just past the port. This one just has most of a front wall but the roof and all other walls are gone.

Some shitty looking apartment blocks. There's four people sitting in white plastic chairs around a plastic table having a talk.

Two flaming cars in an empty parking lot.

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

since ets2 is at 1:19 scale, they couldn't PROPERLY put this in and make it drivable at all, but a modder adapted it, and it's a nasty piece of work where even if you go slow and don't flip your truck, you still might whap your trailer on a wall or barrier www.wildtransylvania.com/p/transfagar...

In-game map from ETS2, including the ROEX (Romania Extended) mod, showing the road between Sibiu and Pitesti which is insanely winding around the Carpathians.

Pic from Wikipedia of the real-life road

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

once in a while you spot fun things like this hole in the world behind a gas station. there at one point was an entire highway between Penza and Tambov (in russia) that was this on both sides of the highway. like the road existed, just floating in a skybox. on the next release they took it out

Missing world behind a gas station in Belarus. Where there should be grass there is instead a blue hole that turns black toward the bottom. Street lamps are floating in it.

Is it a lovely sunset over a still lake? No, it is in fact a lovely sunset over NOTHINGNESS

The road through the abyss, between Penza and Tambov, in which I fully expected to clip through the road or have the game crash at any moment but it WORKED

Further evidence that there was literally nothingness on either side of the road. Just floating over the beautiful abyss...

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