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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today's coffee aesthetic is cherry-cardamom.

Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our sweetheart Selkie von Snoot passed this afternoon. She was diagnosed with cancer at the end of August and her first oncology appointment was booked for Thursday, but we had less time with her than we hoped. She was the goodest of girls, sweet tempered and gentle. She will be missed terribly.

Selkie the brindle greyhound stretched out on her outdoor bed.

Selkie the brindle greyhound on her back and making T-Rex arms in a pile of blankets on the couch.

Selkie the brindle greyhound in her hated cold weather coat, looking at the camera while on a walk amongst the autumn foliage.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Driving home tonight, I cursed myself for forgetting to fill up with gas earlier and made a note to head to Costco tomorrow. These are the prices at two of the gas stations on my route home.

ARCO gasoline sign
Cash: unleaded $5.59, diesel $7.49
Debit/Credit: unleaded $5.79, diesel $7.69

Chevron sign
Cash/Chevron card: unleaded $6.29, diesel $7.99
Credit/debit: unleaded $6.49, $8.19

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Packed room for tonight's program at Town Hall Seattle. This one is not a SAL event. I'm not working tonight, this one is purely for my own edification. Mahmoud Khalil and Ijeoma Oluo is a hot ticket.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dinner Tonight: Pumpkin Polenta and Balsamic Beet Bowl Leaning into the autumnal weather and the fresh beets from our CSA with this one. Skipping the optional fried egg on top this time. edibleseattle.com/recipe/main-...

Edible Seattle’s photo of the beets and polenta, topped with a fried egg and beet green chimichurri.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First lecture gig of the season. Emily St. John Mandel! I liked Station Eleven and am looking forward to her new release, Exit Party.

Nicole smiling from behind a kn95 mask (because she has a cold and doesn't want to spread it around) at the Seattle Arts and Lectures info table

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you see this, post a not quite STAR TREK.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yesterday in my neighborhood. That diesel price, ouch!

A Shell gasoline station sign lists regular as $5.99 9/10 and diesel as $7.39 9/10 per gallon. Taken in Seattle September 4th 2026.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Coming soon in English, Nobunaga's Black Castle RPG from Japanese designer Yusuke Tokita. Described as Sengoku Doom Metal fantasy and compatible with MÖRK BORG. Sign up now and get a free download from the soundtrack! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nik...

A highly stylized black, yellow, and red illustration of a black Japanese-style castle. The text reads Death to the Sixth-Heaven Demon Emperor. Nobunaga's Black Castle, compatible with MÖRK BORG.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Anathem: for those really long layovers.

A bookshelf sits beside a sign that reads "Enjoy a free book for your flight or to read in the terminal while you wait. Most of the books are slim volumes and children's books, except for Neal Stephenson's 1100 page novel, Anathem.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Making me talk to people at this hour without coffee first is just cruel.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Our friend Darren has been hit by heartbreaking personal tragedy, losing his father, his partner of 31 years, and his pet over a matter of days. Green Ronin is honored to have contributed to this fundraiser bundle for his benefit. Please help us spread the word! www.drivethrurpg.com/product/5807...

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sure did miss this sweet girl while I was away.

Selkie von Snoot, a brindle greyhound, sleeps in the shade on her outside bed.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Today's Coffee Aesthetic comes with a side of Pop Tarts.

A white coffee cup with pastel stripes and two toasted Frosted Cherry Pop Tarts on a white plate.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Made it to the lake. My summer PTO has begun.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have seen SO MANY Carl cosplayers at GenCon. People white boxers with big red hearts must be making a killing.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Taylor Farms won’t say who got the possibly deadly product (thwarting recall efforts), while continuing to ship other contaminated products? FFS Bruce Taylor, the billionaire owner, ran crying to the White House + the FDA to “air concerns” re: the investigation and wants to “distance” himself.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

James Purefoy (L) and Michael Kenneth Williams as Hap & Leonard

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Dinner tonight: Black Bean and Sweet Potato Salad This was made even easier by roasting the sweet potato pieces in the air fryer instead of heating up the oven. (390°F for 10 minutes) I only had huge red onions so subbed shallot. Yum. www.bytheforkful.com/high-protein...

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I only get to see my Minnesota family once a year at our August get together. This year's looking a little spicy. Hoping for good fire containment between now and then!

A map marking thousands of acres of currently burning wildfires surrounding the Ely arra

Three shots of billowing plumes of smoke posted to the What's Up Ely, MN group, captioned "Across from Fall Lake Campground.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dinner Tonight: Gazpacho Yellow heirloom tomatoes in our most recent vegetable box and an 85°F/29°C day made Gazpacho an obvious choice. www.foodandwine.com/recipes/gazp...

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Kate bought some matcha latte concentrate but ultimately didn't care for it, so I made a pitcher using the concentrate and almond milk so it wouldn't go to waste. Wouldn't you know it, now it's my new favorite summer iced beverage!

One quart of Kirkland organic unsweetened vanilla almond milk and one quart of Tazo green tea matcha latte concentrate make a tasty iced beverage.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Dinner Tonight: Greek Salad with Gnocchi We're firmly out of Soup Season and into Salad Season. Pan frying shelf stable gnocchi turns them bouncy and almost fluffy and only takes a couple minutes of stove time. Yum! www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's Pramas's birthday so Dinner Tonight is a little fancy. I made Harissa Steak and Pearl Couscous with Almonds and Pickled Onions from The Salad Project by Clem Haxby. We enjoyed a gin fizz made with our precious Four Pillars gin from Australia. Pretty dang good all around.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Dinner Tonight: Huevos Rancheros Verde Pramas made these from an old recipe I got from EatingWell years ago. It's no longer on the web as far as I can tell. Delicious.

Huevos Rancheros ingredients:
corn tortillas, eggs, salsa, refried beans, topped with some lightly dressed greens

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Dinner Tonight: Mushroom Paprikash Kate leaves crack of dawn tomorrow for a visit to her dad and little sister so I'm sending her off with a Mom-cooked dinner. www.eatingwell.com/recipe/78721...

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Dinner Tonight: Smoked Trout and Avocado Salad Toasts I did a bunch of house chores this weekend so Pramas made these for supper. A couple cans of smoked trout from Fishwife, a perfectly ripe avocado, some Belgian endive, so good! food52.com/recipes/5392...

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Taking my coffee on the patio while Selkie von Snoot gets in a sunbathe. Today's coffee aesthetic is Day 498 of WTAF

Nicole with her What the Actual Fuck coffee mug.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Madame von Snoot got a proper outside bed for sunbathing. I think she likes it!

Selkie von Snoot, the brindle greyhound, sleeping in the sun on her new outdoor bed.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"I started playing around with the ideas that would coalesce into Wardens of the Blue Rose because I was fascinated with the simple proposition of the game’s subtext: What if the type of good in a fantasy world actually matched the values we want to see? " greenronin.com/blog/2026/05...

A product spread showing the Wardens of the Blue Rose book, campaign notebook, fold out color map, sticker sheet, and enamel pin.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Dinner Tonight: Braised Flageolet Beans with Fennel, Leeks & Herb Gremolata Instead of overnight I soaked the beans all day while I was working. Here's hoping they do their thing! The recipe calls for this specific bouquet garni, so I splurged for a few. www.markethallfoods.com/blogs/news/b...

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I was really not prepared for how evergreen this Diesel Sweeties shirt was going to be when I bought it during the George W Bush administration.

Black t-shirt with a starless simplified United States flag. Underneath the pixel font reads we are nit ALL jerks

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

@greenroninpub.bsky.social has so many new products coming our way this year that we literally have to make room in the warehouse. To do so we are willing to cut you a great deal: 65% off specific print products through the end of June, 2026! greenroninstore.com/collections/...

Several pallets stacked with boxes have been delivered to the warehouse and sit in a tight space waiting to be unpacked and shelved.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Gunderson Joanna Novak Poetry Magazine, April 2026 #NationalPoetryMonth

Gunderson
In her mean-mouthed kitchen, the crepes flipped perfect.
Butter-tender, brown-
freckled, thin as
pudding skin, custardy, rolled
tight with jam glittering garnet,
white storming confectioner's sugar,
slit with a side-turned fork. l ate while Jerry Taft explained windchill, while she stood at the stove reading readiness with a dull knife,
While I paged sales: ALDI, D’Andreas,
Suburban Life.
When I ate,
I didn't smile. That's why she liked me best.
JOANNA NOVAK

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This Morning I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo #NationalPoetryMonth

And whom do I call my enemy?

An enemy must be worthy of engagement.

I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.

It’s the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind.

The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun.

It sees and knows everything.

It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing.

The door to the mind should only open from the heart.

An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If I Must Die, Let It Be a Tale Rafaat Alareer Killed in Gaza, 6 December 2023 #NationalPoetryMonth

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón #NationalPoetryMonth

INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP
Ada Limón
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor's almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it's the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world's baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I'll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I'll take it all.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

How Can Black People Write About Flowers At a Time Like This Hanif Abdurraqib #NationalPoetryMonth

HOW CAN BLACK PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT FLOWERS AT A TIME LIKE THIS
dear reader, with our heels digging into the good mud at a swamp's edge, you might tell me something
about the dandelion head & how it is not a flower itself but a plant made up of many small flowers at its crown
& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am &
I wish to return the favor for the purpose of this exercise. which, too, is an attempt at fashioning
something pretty out of seeds refusing to make anything worthwhile of their burial. size me up & skip whatever semantics arrive
to the tongue first. say: that boy he look like a hollowed-out grandfather clock. he look like a million-dollar god with a two-cent
heaven. like all it takes is one kiss & before morning, you could scatter his whole mind across a field.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Body, Mind of the Ransacked Thrift Shop Jane Hirshfield #NationalPoetryMonth

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850) #NationalPoetryMonth

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850)

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It’s the 30th anniversary of National Poetry Month.

A Palestinian Might Say
BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
What?
You don't feel at home in your country, almost overnight?
All the simple things you cared about, maybe took for granted.. you feel insulted, invisible?
Almost as if you're not there?
But you're there.
Where before you mingled freely... appreciated people who weren't just like you...
divisions grow stronger.
That's what "chosen" and "unchosen" will do.
(Just keep your eyes on your houses and gardens.
Keep your eyes on that tree in bloom.)
Yes, a wall. Ours came later bur... who talks about how sad the land looks, marked by a massive wall?
That's not a normal shadow:
It's something else looming over your lives.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Dinner Tonight: Instant Pot Spiced Wild Rice and Coconut Soup I had three recipes penciled in to choose from tonight and made none of them. I wanted something warming and easy. Subbed spinach for the chard because I had it on hand. www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/1499...

A turmeric-colored soup with onions, spinach, tomato, and wild rice.

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Nikchick @nikchick.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Made some of this herbed Cheddar soda bread to go with dinner last night. Pramas declared it "a hit". www.rhubarbandlavender.com/recipes/ched...

Half a loaf of cheddar herb soda bread on a cutting board with a serrated bread knife and a butter bell.

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