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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 8h

My household frequently wonders what sort of apples are in the pipeline. Like, there are so many good varieties right now, but what are they working on?

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 9h

I kept the whole set of four on my desk at one job where we had these weird display shelves. They were an endless hit.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 9h

6/8 Presidential elections since 1994 went for dems, and the ones that didn’t were Trump years and, well, he gets some real freaks to the polls. They also voted for the winner in 10/12, which is impressive.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Honestly, the adults always seemed super confused that I didn’t think it was worth the money.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lmao this was totally my situation. The neighbors had a baby and two toddlers, so I *worked* for the money and it was generally done after an intense pressure campaign by the adults.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like this is just a funny thing to say with that whole thing looming over your head. Obviously, he decided it didn’t matter ages and ages ago, but!

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A hit by a regular SUV ended up being about three quarters of a million in medical care for a family member. People really don’t carry enough insurance for stuff like that.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The office chair incident was a really great day.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve not lived in Washington state for over a decade and yet my household complains about Tim Eyman on a quarterly basis.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Based on the people I know who make it work it’s just a lot of communication and planning and even a generationally talented writer would struggle to make that worth reading.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How many parcels where you could build a new house are even left?

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I couldn’t fill my Civic for that! Now, granted, I owned it only 2007/2008, but I clearly remember gas being twice my hourly wage as a waitress.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hilarious to say this given how mediocre children have tons of money spent on their youth sport ambitions.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I suspect this person goes to an art museum about once a decade.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But like they’re often solid at photography, it feels like an opportunity for them if we could get them into birds and binoculars.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I sort of think the solution is an open source AI model trained ethically, so platforms can just make it happen, especially since so many people are bad at it!

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Alt text was a legit situation where access needs were in conflict for a while with my partner (only had one arm in good working condition, needed to do all posting from phone as laptop was too heavy and he was non weight bearing). It didn’t come up for him, but like it will come up!

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The final numbers on this category is going to be fascinating. Voting in Texas can be so frustrating.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NVM they’re almost 30, there’s no hope.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Someone help this person find a search engine.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was a major source of strain in the relationship between my dad (normie 90s business republican, non-voter due to citizenship status) and his dad (UK Labour, thought the NHS was the jewel of the world, subscribed to multiple socialist papers).

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like three out of four of my great grandmothers took in laundry for most of their lives, why would I think I’d have any wealth? They sure didn’t!

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The people I know from my time in Texas are just electric. Like, we were hopeful with Beto, but this isn’t just hopeful, and I think there’s a lot of hope for local and statewide races.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With like exceptions for like two early career doctors making a combined $300,000, the student loan load is probably very real and heavy for them.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like you can’t budget your way out of not having enough money but these people clearly suck at managing their finances.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I assume there was lots of “please leave prairie dogs alone” in elementary school.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I went to school in the southwest where plague is still rare, but more common, and it was drilled into us to tell doctors at home that it could be the plague, actually, if we ever got sick.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s an advertisement for what she sells.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My young coworkers kept telling me that my second job was a sign of how bad the economy was and I had to be like “bad economy is zero jobs.”

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wonder if she’s in that random house right next door.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I started a mini trend of pink lighters in college because I figured out most of the guys wouldn’t pocket it. The cooler guys copied me and I had to add sparkly nail polish.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sure, but that would result in some senior citizens blowing up city hall.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are a lot of versions of that t-shirt for sale, lmao. My partner has to do a ton of physical therapy and this is something I’ve heard from a couple of the PTs.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think they hire exclusively based on personality, more or less.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And it’s not a subtle book! I don’t get it.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They also want these policies from Republicans.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I live in greater Boston and I always sort of tense up when a chuddy seeming dude wants to talk politics because I’m from elsewhere. Most of the time they want to push Elon out of a window because of USAID or something similar.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s going to be so funny and great (for me, dual citizen eligibility) when the UK rejoins on worse terms. Like, the campaign made it clear what they’d never get back from a Leave vote.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

lol I used to pronounce the l to drive my PNW partner nuts.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think he has to make NM a regular vacation spot now, lol.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

End users got so much better at remote troubleshooting, too.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, no, you see I want an economy where everyone makes tons of money, but everything is cheap for me! I also want houses to be cheap when I buy, but need to make maximum profit when I sell. Lunch out should cost the same as when I was 12.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s also several circus schools in the Boston area that I could see people calling clown schools if clowning is what they wanted study.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a constant rotating door of the worst people to work with. I hung around because I needed the money and they needed a solid Saturday worker and nowhere else was going to let me do one shift a week. I do wonder what it would look like if my area built enough housing that rent = $1700/1 bed.

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Bubbles and Squeek @pickledbeez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And if you live somewhere where housing is expensive the wages have to be high or you aren’t hiring for shit. I had a part time job at a small family business (derogatory) and they tried to hire as close to min wage as possible since they couldn’t have indentured servants and oof.

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