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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Card from the Boredwalk Haunting Affirmations deck

You don't need to earn rest.

You don't need to earn a restorative slumber in the mud of your homeland. 

You don't need to earn the ability to transform into a giant bat and menace the townsfolk. 

You don't need to earn the nourishing blood of a sycophantic virgin. 

Self care is for everybody.
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yesterday's guest
A rather large monarch butterfly, enjoying some lantana flowers
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have A LOT of these to go
A decorative orange foam pumpkin with a drywall knife sticking out the top near the stem. There's 3 more behind it waiting their turn
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
Carmilla from anime movie Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

She's blood red, steaming, freshly revived, rising from her sarcophagusCarmilla, looking back over her shoulder. Now fully clothed in red and gold cloak with her weird hammerhead looking hat hairdo thing

Magnificent staircase, it must be said
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The third in the series
Book cover 

Completely revised and updated

Understanding Wood
A craftsman's guide to wood technology

R Bruce Hoadley

Featuring a big slice of a tree, showing the wood grain
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Without downloading new pics, describe your gender
My pronouns are: none. 😔
Please, do not refer to me 
Even better: do not perceive me 
For practical purposes, I don't exist 👤
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pumpkin carving season
A smiling, friendly face carved into a foam pumpkin. There's a stack of more orange pumpkins in the background. I'm working on Halloween. It's making a terrible mess, as you can see from the gloves covered in bits of foam dust at the right
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was not born to ride and grind. I was born to manifest and haunt.

I was not born to put in face time with a boss; I was born to put in face time with supernatural forces. 

I was not born to create pivot tables in Excel. I was born to inspire dread in the hearts of my nemeses.

The Sinister Affirmations Deck from Boredwalk
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Delicious cookie inception

I've picked up from the baking sheet a pumpkin spice cookie with a Pillsbury Halloween pumpkin sugar cookie embedded in the top of it
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Grinning silver plastic early 90s vacu-form skeleton. His name is Kooky, and he hangs on my bookshelf
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
From the Boredwalk Haunting Affirmations deck
A large dark card in a stand. It's an affirmation, but spooky. The borders are swirly nouveau ish, with ghosts and leaves and tombstones

Ignore those fools who say they want "positive vibes only."

Everyone knows you need positively and negatively charged electrodes to animate the creature you've assembled from the remains of the dead in your basement. 

Don't listen to idiots.
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
... And to find new loved ones, just as stage as we are.
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A bit on grief, from Lavender Jack by Dan Schkade
Comic panel from Lavender Jack, detective Teresa Ferrier speaking

When we lose the ones we love, they live on in our minds, unchanged, like old songs. But we? We must live on in the world, to be changed and made strange by it...
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tumblr screenshot

terpsikeraunos
ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat   

aphilologicalbatman-deactivated
this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I just re-watched Pass the Ammo I want to turn around and watch it again This is such a great bad movie It's the most Arkansas shit I've ever seen It's awful and I love it
Pass the Ammo movie poster

Tim Curry is a 1980s televangelist, Bible in one hand and cash in the other, in front of a stained glass window prominently featuring a dollar sign

Also features the two leading ladies, Annie Potts (R) and Linda Kozlowski (L). Bill Paxton named but not pictured

Tagline: the Lord giveth... But reverend Ray's been telling it away. Praise the Lord and ... Pa$$ the Ammo
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Perfect synchronicity
Repost from It's ME (Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social
Quote with your favorite engagement bait prompt

James @james.tarnation.lol QP
Will u marry me

Next post on my dash, unrelated
Matt Campbell @bluehogreport.bsky.social
No thank you
With a screenshot of the current weather report, which is very unpleasantly hot and humid for the next week

As if the weather is too awful for a wedding (it is though!)
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Tumblr post from user bayesic-bitch

Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We got Medium and XL
Two tabby cats laying heads together in the sunshine. Pollo on the left, average cat sized and more golden. Trouble on the right, the long boy, more silvery. They've got a blue fuzzy worm toy at their feet
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For here there be:
Dragons

Next on the Time Life Enchanted World series of bills from the 80s

Purple cloth bound with gold foil and illustrated insert. A white man stabs a green European dragon in the side with a knife. The man looks pretty neutral, but the dragon is in absolute agony, screaming and throwing it's claws up
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
c/o @oglaf.bsky.social
Safety signs in hell, 6 panels featuring a red cartoon devil

Blood is slippery, MOP UP! (Devil slips on blood from chained prisoner)

Hell has a no safety-rail policy, not plumbing is YOUR responsibility (devil falls of a cliff)

When somebody sneezes, DO NOT SAY 'BLESS YOU' (devil shocked when other devil catches fire)

Believing you exist is a personal choice, do not get drawn into debate (nerd prisoner giving devil an existential crisis)

Please avoid redundancy (devil making devil horns have sign) 

Know when to shut up (devil on the ground, shot in the back with an arrow)
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy Disability Pride Month!
Disability Pride flag

A black field with diagonal rainbow stripe, red yellow white blue and green. The colors are muted
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Today's shirt c/o @shiftythrifting.bsky.social shopshifty.com/products/my-...
Black T-shirt with white print

A skull
My flesh
My bones
My body
OUCH
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
At least Eleanor Burns is all in on the joke, love to have a sense of humor about it. Corporate not so much
Book cover, featuring the author grinning among several finished quilts

Quilt in a Day
Still Stripping After 25 Years
Eleanor Burns

The idea is that the quilts are all made with standard sized strips of fabric
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ok now that is a WEIRD weather pattern. It's so perfectly straight and horizontal at the state line
Weather radar showing the intersection of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas. There's a big storm system over Oklahoma City, and a perfect straight line of storms and lightning following the Missouri/Arkansas borderCloser up on that straight line storm across southern Missouri. It's dark red, very narrow, and with lots of lightning indicators
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Oh, yes, have a BatCat
My cat Bats, all black, curled up in his large plush red coffin bed with his little cat sized quilt and his bat plushie
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Back on my sewing. I miss Joann
Three black and white Halloween-ish fabrics. Large skulls canvas, bat and spider also on canvas, and white owls against a dark snowy background
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I'm reading the Time Life series The Enchanted World. They're pretty great, gorgeous art, and these marbled endpapers
First in the Enchanted World series, Witches and Wizards. Red cloth bound book, large but thin. Gold stamped dragon and fairy design above an arch shaped illustration of a white bearded wizard casting some foggy spell. There's a water damage ring in the middle that looks like it belongs with the spellcasterGorgeous red and black marbled paper just inside the front cover, matching the exterior
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Two cats sit in judgement, and they're looking at you

Fuzzy at left sits upright. Long hair tabby, white feet and throat. Intense eyeliner stare 

At right, Barbacoa. Black with a tiny white pendant on his chest, green eyes looking into your soul (for treats)
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Yet this is a real product
Trolli gummi pop popsicles. Soft. Gummi. Frozen. Cherry lemon flavor. There's gummy worms with eyes on the box. The popsicle itself looks pretty normal, yellow and red tube on a stick. Except. They've made it look like it's wiggling. Suggestively. Like a vibrator
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A dark blobby shape with button eyes has been drawn in pink on aunties pile of clothes, helpfully labeled creature. The pink plushie in the background says oh no, because it resembles the 'webcomic name' character
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
UGH! What a day. Have a cat as consolation
Black cat on a brown blanket, hugging my leg underneath. Very cozy and chill
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Since it's hot weather season, have a recipe for DIY electrolytes c/o WHO and UNICEF #NEISvoid Accessible DIY recipe I've been using at the bottom. Bonus if you add some citrus
ORAL REHYDRATION SALTS 
Production of the new ORS 

World Health Organization logo, UNICEF logo

TABLE 1. Composition of the new ORS formulation 
New ORS, grams/litre, %
Sodium chloride, 2.6, 12.683
Glucose anhydrous, 13.5, 65.854
Potassium chloride, 1.5, 7.317
Trisodium citrate dihydrate, 2.9, 14.146
Total: 20.5, 100%

New ORS, mmol/litre
Sodium 75
Chloride 65
Glucose. anhydrous 75
Potassium 20
Citrate 10 
Total osmolarity: 245


This ORS composition has passed extensive clinical evaluations and stability tests. The pharmacokinetics and therapeutic values of the substances are as follows: 
glucose facilitates the absorption of sodium (and hence water) on a 1:1 molar basis in the small intestine; sodium and potassium are needed to replace the body losses of these essential ions during diarrhoea (and vomiting); citrate corrects the acidosis that occurs as a result of diarrhoea and dehydration. 

Ingredients: 
3934% of sodium chloride is sodium; 2.6g = 1022mg sodium
24% of trisodium citrate is sodium; 2.9g = 696mg sodium Total sodium = 1718mg 
52.445% of potassium chloride is potassium; 1.5g = 787mg potassium 
Glucose/Dextrose (they are chemically identical) = 13.5g 

Accessible DIY Recipe:  
3/4 teaspoon of table salt (1743mg sodium) 
2 Tablespoons glucose/dextrose powder (14g) or 3 Tablespoons and 1 teaspoon sugar (40g) 
1/4 teaspoon potassium chloride powder (730mg) or Morton sodium free salt substitute, Nu Salt salt substitute, or other potassium chloride salt substitute. Note that potassium is OPTIONAL for hydration purposes. 
Mix in 1 liter of water. Drink or refrigerate in 24 hrs.
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is a cat check point: relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone
Bats, black cat. Lounging on my bed. Looking a little sassy, but also kind of like I've interrupted his nap. Check out my pretty coleus leaf quilt too
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
For lack of anything better to do, time to rewatch Hannibal
All 3 seasons of the Hannibal tv show on dvd
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May day. Time for flowers
A orange-brown spotted butterfly perched on some white dianthus flowers
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New phone So much crap to turn off, disable, uninstall, adblock Gotta test the camera too
Bats, my black cat, curled up next to me in my bed as I grumble about my phone frustrations
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I think about this Tumblr post too often
Two posts from Tumblr user genderfluid-druid
December 22, 2023

hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr l'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus

"i require more fluids" well what did you do with the fluids I already gave you. hmm? did you make more mucus with them? you made more mucus with them.
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Oh look, targeted marketing
Unwell brand energy drink, passion fruit orange guava flavor. Made with fruit juice and no artificial sweetener (does contain stevia though). Plus some b vitamins and a little electrolytes (could be more salty IMO)

Tastes... Fine? Like a hybrid of a minimally juice product in a pouch and the less bad energy drinks without the gross aftertaste. 

It's funny bc I'm disabled. That's why I bought this. Not immune to propaganda or something. Stay hydrated
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.
Cartoon Gomez Addams yelling 
Has the planet gone mad?!?
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Hahahahahahaha I crashed for 5 hours and the number went down
My current Garmin body battery measurement. It's at 5%. +0 charged -0 drained it says. I've never seen it go below 5%, I'm not sure how bad it would have to be for that. Because it's pretty bad as it is
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Me IRL
A rotten pumpkin, collapsed, caved in on itself, squishy and moldering
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sewing. Velvet ribbon on chiffon. Gotta hem. Curved hem Taking a break to think about my life choices before I lock in again Going well though Love the 99, perfect machine ❤️
Singer 99K, my beautiful black ¾ size sewing machine. In its cabinet, sewing tools scattered around the edges. Ignore the pile of fabric in the background
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Grabbed a stylus. Better www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
Your ∆EoK JND 

0.00071 

Okay, either you're a mantis shrimp in a trenchcoat or your display has a secret wide-gamut mode nobody told me about. Suspiciously impressive.
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
.0021 damn some of these are hard, but I was at .0013 for a bit I love a color challenge like this Will have to keep trying www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
White text on black background

Your ∆EoK JND 

0.0021

Genuinely remarkable. You sailed past the theoretical human limit like it owed you money. I'd accuse you of cheating but I don't actually know how you'd cheat at this.
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
There were serial films too, lost now This was VERY popular in its time
Illustrated black and white poster advertising Jimmie Dale Alias the Grey Seal

A masked man in a suit and hat pulls back a curtain, a silhouette against the dark background. In front, enlarged, is a square stationary case for the eponymous grey seals (stamps or stickers, diamond shaped)

Monmouth film corporation presents
The new and widely advertised detective series - released for the first time beginning March 23rd - as Mutual Featurettes 
Jimmy Dale Alias The Gray Seal 
featuring EK Lincoln, Edna Hunter, Paul Panzer Doris Mitchell 
Action - snap - pep - mystery! That describes this new series of 16 Mutual Featurettes - each complete in two reels. Big stars! Thrilling stories! Never before released. Adapted from the novel by Frank L Packard 
First episode "The Gray Seal" released March 23rd
Booking now at all Mutual exchanges
Produced by Monmouth Film Corporation
Harry McRae Webster - President
Jules Bernstein - Gen'l Manager
Directed by Harry McRae Webster
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yeah my cat Bats is around 15, and I just 😭
My darling old man black cat, looking at my face off to the right and digging his claws into my shirt
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Tumblr post from user youremysunshine8
Sep 15 2025

4am perfec t size for put decisions in to make! 4am very Clear thinking and Comfort no need sleep soundly make decisions at 4am. Put Decision In 4am. no problems ever at 4 am because good Shape and Support for tired brain weak of struggle make sad. Afouram awake yes a place for a thought put action in 4am can trust middle of night for giveing good love to brain. friend 4am
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
More
Party size box of original Cheez-It crackers, 250% more, now 25 ounces of crunchy delicious cheese snacks
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Just a Pumpkin @pumpkintorch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Stopped by the bookstore today. They're moving, so everything is 40% off. Don't mind if I do
Stack of new old stuff. A book, The Grey Cloak by Harold McGrath from 1911. And some dvds, including Pan's Labyrinth, Krampus (to replace the one I can't find), and season 1 of Carnivàle
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