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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 14h

Just started reading the book The Wager it's a wonder we, humans, ever successfully sailed around Cape Horn while being pelted by ice and dying of scurvy

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 19h

Mon Guerlain by Guerlain a horror story for Halloween I've never been faster at scrubbing a fragrance off my wrist; it was the worst stickiest thing I've smelled in a while as if marshmallow and vanilla spiked rum had a GIANT ENGULFING MONSTER CHILD

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think we're due for another big band swing revival like the great swing revival of the '90s it's in the zeitgeist

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Studio Lioudmilla on Roth off Duke may it live in memory that last night I mastered the salsa shine step the Suzy Q

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Survived 36 hours without my college freshman calling me this is an empty nest new parenting level no hard, people, so hard especially when you're the kind of person as I am who lives LIVES to mix in, kvetch, opine, kvell, hover, banter, meddle, nag, cajole and generally lovingly fuss over her

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

any of you 50 plus-ers ever started ballet for the first time I'm looking at Local Motion's beginner ballet class tonight

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

West End Paris Baguette the upholstered back of the banquette seating is nice

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

want to stress test your marriage of 25 years? take waltz classes together it will be revealed that one of you has natural musicality and can find the beat and just goes soaring off and the other is a two left foot galoot

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't leave birdseed on a screened-in porch, a haiku don't leave birdseed on a screened-in porch. the squirrels will eat through the screens

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

out: lirope in: white wood asters TY native plant sale at St Clement's!

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

anyone rec their neurologist? this unsettled weather is so horribly migraineous

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the most middle-aged, crone-pilled, Harvest Moon way I am picking the flowers off the osmanthus in preparation of making my first SALVE (going to ask for some beeswax from the student beekeeper at VTS) the West End gotta West End!

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Osmanthus (or fragrant tea olive) Is Blooming Day to all who celebrate! the flowers smell like apricots and candied almonds in the best way possible

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

forming a crew to go to the opening of King Arthur Flour we ride at dawn who's in?

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This may be, for me, like trying to make fetch happen, but tonight, in salsa class, we're learning our first shines: the Suzy Q the guapea the tap and go

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I joined the /fragrance community on Reddit and boy oh boy has your girl been posting as if to the commentariat born! nobody is as loud about their new religion as a convert, as they say

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Bugs Bunny Floats to a Smell (Looney Tunes)

ALT: Bugs Bunny Floats to a Smell (Looney Tunes)

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#perfume #fragrance Tauer's L'Air du Desert Morocain is powerful art teacher energy Paloma Picasso-ish? (which turns to celery in a cut-class bowl on me) LADDM smells like I've dressed up in patchouli-scented overalls that are waaaay too big and started working with clay

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Donna Summer's I Feel Love at the Bradlee Starbucks at 9:35 am you know what? against my better judgement it works (and it's because of the rain)

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

menders, my mending basket it full again. anyone interested in another stitch 'n bitch?

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

with all this backlash against AI slop graphic design and people buying vinyl I'm going to go out on a limb and say the time is ripe for 'zines to make a comeback

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

what camp are you in zucchini bread or pumpkin bread?

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

sorry for insufferable growing-out-pixie-cut content from now until 2030 but UGH did you keep your bangs short as you grew out the rest or grow the bangs out too

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

short hair people have you ever successfully styled your hair into a rockabilly pompadour? and if so give me exact steps and exact products

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Bruno Mars Posing for Camera

ALT: Bruno Mars Posing for Camera

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

people! what might be ailing you is *a lack of salsa class.* I can't even begin to tell you how much it's helping me. You can't think about anything else that's happening in the world when you are trying to learn the Suzy Q

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Petition to have Swings on Monroe upgrade its seating who's in it wouldn't hurt business to have some soft chairs

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does Alexandria have a tea connoisseurs club? Where you sit around and talk tea? oolong, green and chrysanthemum not gossip

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Paris Baguette pasty case: A the pastries that should be shiny are shiny and what should be matte is matte surprising how many bakeries miss this mark

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

fellow salseros, ISO your favorite salsa club for beginner dancers

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the news is unendurable I'm headed to salsa class at 7 at Studio Lioudmila if any of you want to ::reads fine print:: dance while Rome falls

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Native plant people: my asters, my favorite flowers in the whole world, are covered with these (are they hooded owlet?) caterpillars Is good? Is bad?

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Notes from last night's Death Cafe at the library 1. it was very lively 2. I met my first death doula and of course she's from *Baltimore (where trends happen first) 3. I learned it is a great gift to let your loved ones know what you want re: the whole shebang

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Calaveras y Diablitos - Fabulosos Cadillacs - Video Oficial (4K Remasterizado)

YouTube video by Henry Villanueva

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Bradlee Starbucks is playing some boss cumbia vieja tracks this morning

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

going to the Death Cafe at the library tonight? see you there!

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hypergoat: the most likely place in Alexandria that people will compliment your lug-sole big-buckle Birkenstock knock-offs

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*first Viennese waltz class* last night and the instructor chose me to demonstrate a dance teacher's ability to make even a two-left-foot-galoot look like a ravishing lithe natural It was magical to be floating across the dance floor wow

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Alex Galorneau Dances with Appa Plush

ALT: Alex Galorneau Dances with Appa Plush

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Have any of you tried the ((((( pecan ))))) crunch drink Starbucks is trying to make happen

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

want to smell like cracked peppercorns and dried orange peel? I got you, girl you'll like Hermes' Eau Des Merveilles

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

discussion is now open on the perfume Eau de Merveilles by Hermes

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

anyone have data that those little weighted backpacks have a measurable, positive effect on their own personal femoral neck via hip bone density DEXA scan? asking for... my own femoral neck

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

oh you know, writing, as one does, about the philosophy of the salsa cross body lead

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Performance art idea at this month's full moon on the 26th The Harvest Moon we all wear white (a la le diner en blanc) and dance to Neil Young's Harvest Moon at the waterfront park then disperse into the night

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Neil Young - Harvest Moon [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The winner for best laptop sticker in Hypergoat this morning goes to: Maybe Today, Satan

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hypergoat: one of the best cappuccinos in the city and the most likely place you'll see a wolf haircut

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Re: our kids walking to school safely see The Great Walk of Athens (Megalos Peripatos) If Athens can do this Alexandria can do this.

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do any of you speak German and be willing to have a meetup to practice with a complete beginner? Moi? I've seen a lot of French language meet ups but not German and I want to learn along with my college son in Vienna. Ultimate armchair travel!

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

when, where, who was the first time you smelled Anais Anais? Me: church camp in Ashtabula, Ohio, 7th grade summer

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

empty nest day four: line dancing at Burke Branch library, hon so far I'm making good on my promise to dance every day (last night was salsa 101 at Studio Lioudmila -- good teacher, nice people, highly rec)

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Solvitur in Motu @landscapejudger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Studio Lioudmila on Duke can anyone speak on it? Specifically the salsa or bachata group classes?

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