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Amanda Soprano @amandasoprano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Y'all! MYFT IS BACK! Hit me up for rides! AMANDA 504-233-3080 I do rides based on app prices. Except airport, I do the fixed taxi price. #MYFTRreturns #MYFT #MYFTGivesBack

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 28/09/2026

I’m currently listening to Yesteryear and it’s supposed to be satire…

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 26/09/2026

Knowing information about planes in the sky tickles my brain, and this is my new favorite app. Mexico City to Madrid going right over the metro! 🤓

A screen image showing the app FlightRadar24 and a Boeing 787 flying from Mexico City to Madrid as it passes over the New Orleans metro area.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 25/09/2026

I gave Chloe her anti-anxiety drugs at 10 am for a 2 pm vet appointment, but she was still too wound up at the vet’s to let them trim her nails. Now I’m trying to walk her at 6:30 pm and her bones are made of jelly.

A heavily sedated dog with overgrown nails sits on the sidewalk

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 14/09/2026

I keep waiting for this to happen when I go visit @leiascofield.com in Vermont, but I think I’d be scared if one actually got that close to the car. 🫎

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

FSU firing their Athletic Director on September 14th?

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well that’s it. AI’s gonna kill us all

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 13/09/2026

The first Saturday without out heat advisories or storms in what seems like forever, so I used it to finally tackle the now two invasive Chinese tallows rapidly growing in the empty lot behind the house. Not on my watch! 🪚💀

A hand is see holding branches of a Chinese tallow tree.

The Chinese tallow tree is highly invasive in Louisiana and will outcompete native species. It also grows rapidly and is extremely weak, so it’s the worst line of defense against hurricanes.

A tallow tree has been growing in this empty lot behind the house for as long as I’ve been here, and I try to cut it down at least once a year. Now there are two tallow trees, because that’s how quick they spread. And so I chopped up both of them. This is only a temporary solution, but it’s the best one I’ve got.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 05/09/2026

I took a break of watching lions on the livestream to watch Turning Point: 9/11 Generation and I also ran out of sertraline yesterday, so now that my anxiety is up to 110%, I’m going back to watching lions acting like giant house cats.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 05/09/2026

My obsession with watching African wildlife livestreams continues into the weekend.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 04/09/2026

The cuteness is too much 😭😍😭

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

If you’re a praying person, I’d really appreciate. My organization needs to raise $55,601 by year’s end. I do all fundraising alone, all deliveries, all social media, all marketing, all logistics, etc. While having a full time job. And I’m beyond exhausted. tpfwoman2woman2026.funraise.org

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 03/09/2026

Seriously, can we not get the giraffes raised water bowls

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 02/09/2026

I’m obsessed with branded clothes I find in the bins at the New Orleans East Goodwill outlet, and brought Mr. Blanchard’s jacket to work today because my office is absolutely freezing. I realize now that someone might think I’m here to fix the broken elevators.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 01/09/2026

Today on the camera, these three little lion cubs are wrestling and playing with each other. Two of them were using mom’s tail as a toy but then they tried to start a tug-of-war and mom wasn’t happy. 🫠 I have died from cute. 🥰

Two lion cubs wrestle and play with their mom’s tail

Lion cubs at a watering hole with their mom

Lion cubs wrestle - they’re just like house cats!

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 31/08/2026

I’m back to watching the live streams from Africa using my iPad as a third work monitor.

A giraffe, three elephants, and a water buffalo are see in a screenshot from a live camera streaming from Africa.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 31/08/2026

I just finished this through the Libby app, and this is much much different from what I was taught in my fifth grade class (Florida panhandle) when we studied that whole war over “states’ rights” by watching the television miniseries North & South.

A book cover showing a ship on a raging sea with the title, “The Zorg. A Tale of Green and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery,” by Siddharth Kara.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 30/08/2026

If anyone needs to stock up on sunscreens, including face sunscreens, the Chalmette Walmart (and probably other Walmarts) has many brands on clearance. I got some Cetaphil and Cereve face sunscreen for $3 each.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 26/08/2026

I started using my iPad as a third screen at work this week since I’m in a windowless office, and my new favorite thing is Explore.org live-stream cameras.

A livestream from Africa showing an elephant hanging out with some lions.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 23/08/2026

Saw this on Facebook and now I’m here at Sam’s telling myself I don’t need this sweatshirt just because it’s so ridiculous.

A blue sweatshirt with a graphic of mountains and tall trees and with the words “Louisiana: The Bayou State.”

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 22/08/2026

From about 30 minutes before the storm. Now as the power keeps going off and on, I’m like, “Does that sky look green to you?!?!”

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 18/08/2026

My over the range microwave died and will need to be replaced. On a scale of DIY to hire a professional, how hard is it to replace the microwave if you have to replace the wall bracket too? We’re not super handy.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 16/08/2026

I got a new electric mini chainsaw because the one I had died in the middle of pruning & the garbage people were definitely not picking up the large branches. The new one is so much better than my old one, I cut up my stuff and then cut up a branch the neighbors had sitting by their trash.

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Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Attack

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 15/08/2026

I just finished this excellent book by @clairekc.bsky.social and Zoe Venditozzi on the Libby app available for free through the Louisiana public library system. Don’t tell the governor.

A screen shot of 100% of the audiobook “How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide to Silencing Women, by Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 08/08/2026

My favorite new decor item is movie prop warning signs because they’re fun and also easy to hang. Just two Command strips and you have art on the walls. I got these from that prop warehouse in Gretna. No idea what movie or show they’re from.

The image shows a vintage Soviet industrial safety sign featuring a red lightning bolt symbol and Russian Cyrillic text. It reads “Stop! Dangerous to Life.”

A warning sign usually found in waterways that says, “Caution Manatee Area,” and shows an icon of a manatee.

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JP Morrell @jpmorrell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s on my list of things to push this out to a rebid for a better user experience. Just using my own anecdotal experience, personally and from friends, the lack of a coherent app is losing the city money when frustrated drivers just give up and hope a meter maid doesn’t catch them.

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JP Morrell @jpmorrell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Parking.com was giving the contract (or swapped out) by the Cantrell administration without any public outreach. Signage is confusing, there is no “app” and its coin flip as to whether your payment will go through on their website.

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JP Morrell @jpmorrell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ParkMobile still operates a variety of parking lots throughout the city so the App still “functions” but, as far as I know, parking.com is supposed to the processor. I’ll escalate this to parking enforcement to get you and answer but it’s entirely possible that you’re setting money on 🔥

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 28/07/2026

Not sure how long this has been going on, but ParkMobile no longer runs the street parking app for City of New Orleans, even though the city’s website says it does. You need the Parking.com app to pay by phone for street parking. I don’t think the street signs have been updated either.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 21/07/2026

Is the Extreme Heat Warning before, after, or during the Tropical Storm Warning

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 18/07/2026

I’m here at Sam’s in Metairie and I accidentally made eye contact with this woman. She started talking to me and was hard to understand but I got that she was from Mexico and then she started saying a bunch of what I think was derogatory stuff about other Hispanic people and I was like yikes, what

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Man's Cringe Fake Smile

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 11/07/2026

I’m finally lucid enough to report that the kidney stone procedure went well this morning. While the recovery isn’t pleasant, it’s sure better to be doing this on my schedule rather than being surprised with a stone too large to pass sometime in the future. Doc broke it up with a laser.

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Galaxian Arcade Game Classic

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 07/07/2026

Now that the power is back on in my office and I’ve been able to locate my phone, I’ve wandered out to the lobby to see what’s going on and there’s water streaming in from one of of the doors. Did we know it was going to hurricane today?

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 03/07/2026

I’m sorry for almost crashing into your cart, sir, but I was distracted by this child-sized avocado chair and wondering if this adult could possibly fit in it.

An avocado lounge chair on sale at Costco for $49.97

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 02/07/2026

The gang activity is out of control around here.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 01/07/2026

Had to get lab work done ahead of my kidney stone removal next week, and I’m always struck by how nice everyone is at University Medical Center.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 20/06/2026

People are always commenting on the St. Bernard FB pages about why they’re building another one of the same fast food joints or dollar stores in the parish. Maybe it’s so they have a spare when one inevitably loses power because tornado, did they ever consider that?

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Jessica @jroy218.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I don’t think it crossed onto your side of judge Perez. It was between St. Bernard and judge Perez. House in Rowley between there is gone.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 20/06/2026

We currently don’t have power here in Arabi and my phone barely has a signal. The neighbor behind us got the funnel cloud on his Ring camera. Park looks a bit windblown but we didn’t see much damage. Lots of sirens now. This one was closer than the other two.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 20/06/2026

Just me coming to Bluesky to figure out what triggered the warning as I’m trying to find an interior room in a house with no interior room as the power keeps dipping in and out.

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 18/06/2026

Is this current or did someone accidentally send an alert that was left in the drafts from early this morning?

An emergency alert, warning that there is a tornado in Orleans Parish

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Can maybe infer storm path from this?

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 14/06/2026

It seems we’ve been adopted by Floof Fluffernutter, and I believe he’s another male tomcat in need of TNRing. He’s slowly beginning to trust us but won’t let us get too close. I’ll take any tips on how to make an outdoor cooling shelter and get flea/skin treatments in/on him (we are feeding him).

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 09/06/2026

Digging through the bins at the New Orleans East Goodwill, and I’m sad that this jacket is too big and the perfect pair of Joe’s Jeans is too small for me.

A bomber jacket with the Pillsbury dough boy on it

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 08/06/2026

New Orleans is technically older, but Savannah is like New Orleans’ Type A older sister who has her sh*t a bit more together.

A mural on a wall that says “Savannah, Georgia”

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

troop nola heroes hard at work protecting and serving shoutout to our boys in blue for helping the american diabetes association keep the state with one of the highest rates of diabetes in the country safe from diabetes research 🫡 #unionjusticeconfidence 🦞

Dr. Steven Kahn, director of the UW Diabetes Research Center, had flown to New Orleans this week planning to present at a few sessions during the annual American Diabetes Association conference. On Friday morning, he and two other researchers were distributing copies of the editorial — which slams the federal cuts to scientific research funding — at the convention center when they were approached by security guards and police officers, Kahn said.

The officers tried to take the researchers’ copies and lanyards away, and escorted them out of the convention center, he said. The researchers later made their way back inside and continued to hand the papers out.

“After awhile, one of the police officers and one of the private security guards came to find us,” Kahn said in an interview. “Then the police officer told me if we put our feet inside the convention center again, we’d be arrested.”

A spokesperson for Louisiana State Police confirmed event organizers had requested their help in removing several people from the event. State troopers did not make any arrests, and all individuals left peacefully, the

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