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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Oh it’s a blessing in disguise. I wasn’t a fan of FB anyways. I’m still lurking on my personal page. 💀😂

Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Oh 100%. It’s just frustrating because I literally did nothing to violate any community standards. But such is Facebook. Going to take a page from your book next year for sure.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So bummed we missed you last year and this year. 😭

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Support told me that you can’t have a personal account (one that you can add friends/ receive messages) that uses a name other than what you use in person. (Which confuses me because I specifically remember setting up an account that allowed that…) Just a heads up for those who did/didn’t notice!

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Facebook suspended my Pokemonkies account again for “not being authentic.” They did this at the end of MS last year as well. That being said I’m not creating a new one & will be operating strictly on Bluesky & MAYBE Twitter again next year. For those who have FB moniker accounts be aware because…

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Compeltely understandable!! We’re so far just missing the next two years (goat and monkey) and it’s getting stressful almost trying to complete the collection. But with Ms Monkeys wrap up announcement we might not ever get our monkey and that makes us big sad haha.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Yay!!! We were getting stressed waiting for you to find!! 😮‍💨 congratulations on the hard work payoff!!❤️

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We found Roger! (Well I found him online…) 😮‍💨🙃💀 She’s very happy he’s back.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Thanks for letting me know! I acknowledge this one was in a pretty commonly walked spot. Probably got found without the hint.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ever year we have a favorite Lunar New Year themed shaker we make. Usually ends up being rainbow and holographic. We always save our best for last. Bluesky gets a bit of a head start before I post the unclaimed hints to other platforms. #monkeyshines2026

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

“They died that we might live as a free people.”

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Thanks for letting us know it was found!

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Our last of the brand new flip Gameboy SP’s (this year) can be found somewhere love grows. #monkeyshines2026

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Tomorrow is our last day in town so we’re thinking it’s a Blue Sky hint day. 🤔🤭 #monkeyshines2026

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We’ll be at the Lincoln LNY Festival today! If you see us, come say hi! It’ll be our last full day playing! 🧧🐴

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Gotchu. I have it on favorites because I knew I’d need it for the season. 🤣

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

#monkeyshines2026 (For our X/ Twitter friends, you know what this means!)

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This is random but if any of you guys find one of these EXACT tiny mini horses out there would you please hit me up? 🤣

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Our family is from the Big Island! If we ever are there at the same time, we should coordinate!

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We’re so glad you like it!!! She made a few Harry Potter themed ones this year. Hehe

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Funny we missed you because we’ve been chasing you too!!

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Aww! Pichu is glad you love it! She just started making them last year so she’s ecstatic people are loving them. There was actually a shaker nearby too…

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I prefer lurking on the FB groups over posting now. It’s very calm over here and very zen. It reminds me of when we’d completely log off Twitter for the year and only return during Monkeyshines haha. Zen!

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We’ll see after this season. The monster that was accidentally created may get out of hand this year or it may not. Time will tell.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I appreciated them** I see editing posts is still not a thing yet. Haha.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I appreciated you for letting me admin when I did. I did enjoy my “bring positivity role” a lot! As you know, people just were thankless and frankly sometimes just outright mean. 🫠 we did a lot of thinking and considering if we’d be doing it again but it’s not worth the drama it brings on.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Jeep and I have discussed this a few times over the last few years. Social media algorithms just messed everything up with the unexpected fluctuations of interest from the sharing of a group being active. Same with Reddit. Everyone has done wonderfully in handling the curveballs of dealing with it!

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Oh disregard this was to Jeep. I just saw all the other notifications hahaha.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Oh I’m not a mod anymore. I stepped down as soon as our Monkeyshine season wrapped up last year. The other admins were very understanding and supportive of it. ❤️

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s part of the fun! Either way, we’re excited for this year. No matter what platform. 🤣

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We were also from the era of Naughty Monkey blog posts. You used to be able to ask clarifying questions & there wasn’t any room for interpretation or gray area, as the answers received were pretty direct. Paired with her tsk tsk to bad behavior. Unfortunately the community doesn’t get that anymore.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

That’s just our speculation. Back when the hashtags worked, I remember digging through previous years # & learning from those interactions. You can’t really do that on Facebook, or even X anymore. Minor things no one could really predict or plan for. All we can do is teach kindly & adjust. 🙂

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s totally okay! Most didn’t know better. We just paired it with newbies not getting the calm/slow Twitter introduction we seemed to get back in the day. The FB group jumps head first into the community it seems. Bound to be some culture changes and differences. Part of the ever evolving event!

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Jeep saw a lot of it because I’d vent often about it. It was just such a huge change of vibe & attitudes from our little X community to this wide open Facebook group. It’s still fun to peruse & scroll, we just don’t engage much anymore. The more present we were the more people seemed to press us. 🥺

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Last year people got really entitled with our stuff. Telling us we hated children because we didn’t attend their trade events when we prefer to be anonymous now. Wanting to trade bulk Amazon items for our work and getting upset when we politely declined. Getting mad we wouldn’t meet up. It was weird

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I like being able to see some of our Twitter friends on there for sure, but yes the clue chasing. And the drama! The admins are pretty good at cutting the drama short but sometimes it slips by out of anyone’s control. We don’t chase clues normally so we just lurk now. It’s just a different vibe.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

He actually posted on Twitter yesterday I believe!

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We won’t be posting on FB at all minus “this is what we’re making.” IF we even do clues this year (Pichu likes to do clues for her work,) it will only be on BlueSky. Facebook is too insane for us.

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Raichu, Pikachu and Pichu @pokemonkies.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Ahhh we’re going to be there! So excited to know you guys will too!

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