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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 9m
Emptied and refilled dishwasher, put away dried dishes, cleaned the counters and stove, refilled salt shakers. 4/24 papers done. I need 12 today MINIMUM. Go!!!
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 35m
Supposed to get angry, not sad. Supposed to clean when I spiral. 🚫🌀
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 39m
One of ny problems is I'm extremely associative and my friend was part of the whole shed-building process, like THERE with me the whole time. So not being able to share it is so awful, see? Now multiply by EVERY FUCKING THING IN MY LIFE.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 40m
One day I'll put all the lumber away.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 41m
Finished the shed.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 4h
Less mindfuck with the lies, less shock, more boring isolation and depression from losing my constant conversation friend. But they CAN'T right now. I understand that. Also that zero is easier than trying to limit, because we're both so bad at moderation. I do get it. I just hate it.
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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 4h
Getting through the fuckery each day is like navigating one of those legendary 19th-century London coal-smoke fogs where you can’t see your hand in front of your face.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 18h
Creepy.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 18h
WTF
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 21h
I mean I lost ten lbs this week through DRAMA making me not eat or sleep. But I slept last night because it's all figured out now. Bless my bereavement support group for real, especially the friend who made me eat at least minimally all week.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 23h
It's okay, I can't get sick--I'm already sick.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 23h
Weirdly, after getting soaked in a downpour and sitting in a cold house in damp clothes and wet hair, I am now freezing.
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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
:tedious psa: We could change the incentive structure for these fuckers pretty easily by reverting to mid-20th-century income taxes and a sharply-progressive wealth tax.
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MaryVarshini108 🐕🛷 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦😷 @maryvarshini108.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted."
npr.org
ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vacuumed kitchen and living room. Be amazed.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If this were a book I'd throw it across the room. But it's sure educational for plotting purposes.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just messaged the young one to see if he was okay because I'm not and he said "What's going on?" What's going ON???
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They go: I'm a close relative raised by him (entirely plausible from evidence), I know him well and was pretending to be him (impossible from evidence) and he is mad about this, to at the end I don't know him, never been there, never even met him (also impossible from evidence).
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I reviewed the chain of changing lies messages in a fit of madness and then sent them to my level-headed friend to analyze.
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The geese always seem have the expression of someone about to write a strongly worded email. 🪶
A bar-headed goose staring directly at the viewer and one giving side-eye
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Eh, doing bad. Comes and goes. It feels like a big cat leaping on me out of nowhere though. Like a panther jumps me. Stop that. Bad kitty.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New anti-anxiety meds seem to be giving me a panic attack which probably just means allergic reaction. But I'll have to try them other times to be sure.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Put on a podcast and PUT IT DOWN.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The answers are not to be found in my phone, though my other lovely friends are.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another friend knows both people, thank God, so it's not just me comparing the ludicrous claims and terrible lies.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I better not have to take any more hits because there's only so much my international coalition can do to support me through it. And I HATE drama. I hate it. And I'm worried about my friend who's also cut off from our constant conversation.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyway that's all smokescreen and now I'm just back to: I miss my friend who I talked to all day every day, who my bad friend deliberately removed from my life and got into huge radio silence trouble in the process.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pretend to be this person i know very well. But you don't know anything we talked about, can't explain any hard evidence, and have completely different voice, syntax, vocabulary, punctuation, and dialect? And can't replicate the original one at all when asked? No.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's almost funny to be lied to so badly except it makes me crazy and furious.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I adore that as a group we studied the data and figured out truth and lies because I was so overwhelmed and had been told so many contradictory lies that my head was spinning.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I miss my constant conversation of the past six months more than anything else, now that (I hope) all the mindfuckery and lies and betraying old friends are behind me.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How about we have very good things today? Just for a wild change of pace. I can think of some if anyone needs suggestions.
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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rating my cold symptoms: nasal congestion 4/10, headache 5/10, sore throat 8/10. Crippling depression and Dostoyevskian levels of self-pity truly 11/10! Great work, virus!
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just found out a very old interfering know-it-all now very much ex-friend dropped the dime. And I was absolutely livid until Tasmania phone call made me talk it out and laugh so hard with the spy novel the dog got worried. It's better than I would have written it. But with so much more crying ugh.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Laughed my head off because a friend just said this is a spy novel we're in. An imposter! A traitor! Betrayal! A mystery! Confused identities. Lies upon lies! Handwriting analysis! Clues! A missing person! Coded messages?
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Have walked dog against my better judgment. We saw a DEER!!!!!! --Tallulah
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Waaarrrrggghhhhh though I'm totally sick and feel terrible, shivering and hot.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My friend has invoked the no spiraling act against my OCD tendencies. 🚫🌀
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why am I still sick. This is an outrage.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ate another sweet potato. That's two foods in one day. Am heroic figure of legend.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I still think the intention was kindness. Out of being overwhelmed.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hahahahaha, not funny, but I was waiting for a video chat all day Saturday (ALL DAY!!!) so kept taking selfies to see how I looked, had only slept two hours, got more and more upset about the whole thing, so there's a series of gradually madder photos.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank goodness for my friend in India who made me eat the sweet potato yesterday and today's oatmeal because if you look up "not doing well" there's a photo of me glowering at you. Wait where's Saturday's. Before I got so ugly-cry puffy.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Whoops, still angry!
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I mean I don't like being angry either but it beats being so sad. Just it would have been so much easier just to be sad and not also be baffled and infuriated and having SUMMITS and compiling evidence. What the actual fuck. From a person who knows how I am (like this!) and cares about me. JESUS.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don't tell easily debunked lies. For goodness sake.
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm so angry at the lies.
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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“We imperialists deserve our ignominy”
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People are not logical or good plot writers.
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