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Selena Maranjian

@selenamaranjian.bsky.social
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Woman worrier, over-judger, catastrophist, cautiously optimistic, order Muppet. Love books, great TV, wooden jigsaw puzzles, and modern board games. Longtime (contract) writer for The Motley Fool. Sharing some humor to help us deal with stress. She/her.

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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 05/10/2026
hey all, posting my 2026 voter guide today! a lot of work when into writing this year and I hope you find it useful. covers all Colorado ballot measures and more specifics if you live in Boulder County / City of Boulder. cheers! bouldercoloradovoterguide.com
bouldercoloradovoterguide.com
Election 2026 — Boulder Colorado Voter Guide
Boulder Colorado Voter Guide from Eric Budd covers 2026 Boulder City Council candidates — Colorado, Boulder County, and City of Boulder ballot issues, candidates, and judicial retention questions
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 13h
:) #cats #oops
shows fridge. Says check for cat arm before closing. Shows open frisge door with cat arm in the opening by the hinge.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 23h
The president of the United States is encouraging a country we’re at war with to kill 5.2 million Americans and says losing Los Angeles and San Diego is a “small price to pay.” San Diego is also home to one of our largest naval bases and Canp Pendleton. Vote accordingly.
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
:) #affirmation #okay #resilient
I will be okay. Not because things will be fine. But because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy.
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The Vote Is The Antidote @emilyvote.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
JOIN A TEAM TO HELP DEMs WIN 👉SPREAD THE WORD👈 🔵VOTE FORWARD votefwd/org 🔵5 CALLS 5calls/org 🔵SWING LEFT swingleft/org 🔵POSTCARDS TO VOTERS postcardstovoters/org 🔵ROCK THE VOTE rockthevote/org 🔵FIELD TEAM 6 fieldteam6/org #VoteBlueAndGetOthers2JoinU #TaxBillionaires #FeedTheNeedyTaxTheGreedy
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
:) #NASA #astronaut #gardening
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The latest addition to our house. One of us loves it. #decor #home
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Posts of yore: @garrym I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato. @efairhurst.bsky.social‬ I’m still kinda shook that the entire history of the United States was just being held together by the honor system Just astounding
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
RT: @katezright My husband purchased a world map and then gave me a dart and said, “Throw this and wherever it lands—that’s where I’m taking you when this pandemic ends.” Turns out, we’re spending two weeks behind the fridge. #vacation #oops
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
RT: @goeatcake Bought a #linen shirt in the 90s. Wore it once and haven’t finished ironing it yet. @kaitieharr1988 What’s the #weirdest thing you ever got in trouble at work for? I was accused of being disrespectful because the six people I CCd on an email weren’t listed in order of seniority.
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @johnlyontweets Them: You look pale and sweaty. Are you sick? Me: No, I’m just paying attention. @TheCatWhisprer We went from regular ultrasounds to 3D and 4D ultrasounds. Can't wait for VR ultrasounds so we can swim around with those babies. #news #tech #babies
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @koreydior_ A macaroon is just an Oreo that did a semester abroad. @FuturePopop When life gives you lemons you probably have a paper cut @cpin42 It’s like my dad always said, “Distract the security guard.” #dads #life #lemons
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
RT @paul_c_watson Man sits by me on train. MAN: Loads of psychopaths around here ME: Really? MAN: Loads mate ME: How'd you know? MAN: There's signs aren't there? ME: I guess? MAN: I love them (47 minutes of awkward silence.) Man leaves #train, he has a #bike. I realise he was saying 'cycle paths'.
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
:) #autocorrect #typo
people chanting: "What do we want"? "An end to auto-correct errors!" "When do we want it?"  "Cow!"
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
:) #fall #autumn #pumpkins
Says "humpty dumpty had a great fall" -- shows an egg going out for a stroll amid colorful foliage, carving a pumpkin, picking apples, reading by the fire.
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
:) #art #arthistory #typography #fonts
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RT: @librarylydia In the last 2 years #TaylorSwift has played over 100 shows, released 2 albums and gotten engaged. Meanwhile I finally set up the roomba we bought at a Black Friday sale in 2023. @paulkrugman "Sire, the people don't have power, water, or food" "Let them eat paper towels"
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RT @rexhuppke BREAKING: President Trump’s physician reports: “Glorious God-King Trump continues to exhibit heroic manliness and tonight did many thousands of push-ups before donating testosterone to lesser men.”
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RT: @TheCatWhisprer Welcome to your 40s, if you don’t find a strange bruise you don’t remember getting, one will be assigned to you @jerrymabbott1 I would like to learn one of those clicking languages from Africa because I get the feeling my knees are trying to tell me something #aging #language
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @henpecked_hal taking my last sip of fluids for the day at 6 AM so I don’t have to get up to pee in the middle of the night @TheTweetOfGod: "I love humanity, but I'm not IN love with it. Doth that make sense? No? Here, maybe this earthquake will explain." #aging #nature
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @irishrygirl Nurse: Step on the scale, please. Me: I was told there'd be no fact checking. @Rica_Bee me before coffee: ugh why is everyone shouting me after coffee: okay yes I do see the fire now #coffee #caffeine #factchecking
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#oops #death
I'd like to think I'll die a heroic death. But it's more likely I'll trip over my dog and choke on a spoonful of frosting.
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sigh... #America #Canada #neighbor
Being a Canadian right now is like having a neighbor who's left their car alarm on for three years. -- other person says Imagine what it's like being locked in the car.
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From 2019 I think: #Hillary
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cool. :) #words #game #language
An English game: place the word "only" anywhere in this sentence: "She told him that she loved him."
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yup. #depression #mentalhealth
Old Asian illustration of two women. One says "how can you be depressed? Life is so beautiful." The Other says "How can you have asthma? There is so much air!"
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#oops! #email
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @kashanacauley At least we’ve discovered time travel by getting five hundred years worth of news every two minutes. @Rlpihl Due to a typo I was raised by a stay-at-home mop @tinynietzsche I have tested positive for schadenfreude #typo #schadenfreude #timetravel #news
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RT: @Audenary (WW1 1915) ENGLISH GENERAL: Plan? ENGLISH LIEUTENANT: Well, the trenches can be used to- ENGLISH MAJOR: to symbolise man's emptiness, yes... @fro_vo trump took a small 2 million dollar loan from his dad and turned it into a billion dollar loss so he wouldn't have to pay taxes. smart!
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @_ayandamay There is a dangerous little window after I complete one task where I could either become unstoppable or look at my phone. @jerrylhatfield What did our parents do to kill time before social media? I asked my 25 brothers and 12 sisters and they have no idea either!
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @GhostPanther Just ate a delicious vegan, kosher, gluten free, halal, organic sandwich. Okay, it was an envelope. @hellotorifletch A girl on TikTok just said she is wearing her aunts vintage top from the early 2000’s and I’m dead. #yikes #dead #vegan
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Posts of yore: @TheBoydP Spoiler alert: Going to more than 1 rodeo does not make you any smarter @candvce.k Accidentally used men’s body wash & now I can’t find anything in my own home @grisealexandre Accidentally used women’s body wash & now I want to buy 15 cushions for the chesterfield #oops
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @businessfamous The HR lady at work tried to get me to do a 401k but no way in hell am I running that far @couchpotato_uk Life Hack #267 Turn any bed into a sofa bed by telling your wife to calm down. #fitness #401k #lifehack
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RT: @bklynmike3 it's not an everything bagel til you add sadness @citizenkawala It's wild how some mushrooms will kill you, some will make you see God, and some are just delicious in risotto @amandafortini Babe what's wrong, you don't like pumpkin spice wartime election eclipse #hurricane season?
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RT: @jeremycshipp You are fantastic. You are a phoenix in aviator sunglasses surfing on a red giant. You are an attic saturated with jigging spiders and grinning mannequins. You are a troupe of incandescent faeries performing a phantasmagorical stage show based on the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann.
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @cshallwriter America was not shut down properly. Would you like to start America in safe mode, with free healthcare and without the guns? (Recommended) @5klp471 The medicare age needs to be lowered to moment of conception #medicare #America
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @VeryBadLlama hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave. @the_campsite_official This is your moment, Portland. RELEASE THE SOURDOUGH STARTERS! #texting #busy #Portland
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @RodLacroix A #hauntedhouse but every room is a company meeting with phrases like "outside-the-box,” “synergy,” and "vertical markets" using PowerPoint slides and there are no donuts. @a_quiet_nomad Met a microbiologist last night They're a lot bigger than I imagined
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Clever posts of yore: @Scphietab My mum was too #embarrassed to tell the vet our tortoise was called voldetort so she just said his name was Susan @rickolantern My #neighbor told me he childproofed his house. And the very next day his wife came home with a newborn. Worst. Childproofer. Ever.
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#rape #cornell57 #cornellrapists #rapeculture
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
:) #computers #oops
ME: Saves document on computer.
Computer: Document saved!
Me: Where is it?
Computer: Ha ha where is what?
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
:) #temu #shopping #oops
Shows a digital alarm clock saying 9:77. Says "I'm not saying this alarm clock from Temu is not working, but it is 9:77 and I'm late for work"
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RT: @SketchesbyBoze life cycle of a twitter friendship: • shyly faving each other’s tweets • nervous DMs • meeting up • cross-country road trip to escape your ex • series of robberies with the police in hot pursuit • bursting into a flock of crows and disappearing into the woods together
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RT @ben_rosen it’s crazy that the two main weatherman responsibilities are 1) standing in front of a green screen and reading the temperature 2) surviving a cat 5 hurricane @TheWeirdWorld If your parachute fails to deploy whilst skydiving, you literally have the rest of your life to try and fix it
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clever posts of yore: @aparnapkin I want to be one of those older women who wears so many accessories people are like "is it me or did that pile of scarves just move?" @sixfootcandy My phone: 58%. My husband’s phone: 7%. Me: Honey, I need your charger. #iphone #women
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clever posts of yore: @williamader No, YOU unplugged the church organ to charge your phone. @thealexnevil Me: We’re only here for a short while, so we should love one another and hold each other as much as possible. Guy in back of elevator: Can you just press 19? #haha #oops #church
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clever posts of yore: @johanhulaimi My kid got hospitalized from a Peek-A-Boo accident. They're currently in the ICU. @ZackBornstein Farro is both tastier & more fiber than quinoa. Good for sautés. Ok now that there are no Trump supporters reading, we revolt at midnight. #children #healthfood
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
:) #baking #cake #oops
Tried baking a skull cake -- ended up with a pharaoh from 1500 BC -- image of scary looking face that looks like an Egyptian mummy face
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Selena Maranjian @selenamaranjian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Clever posts of yore: @roastmalone_ I always set two wake up alarms, one for the person I want to be and one for the person I am @AshDylanLit pitching a sitcom where all the top people running a major city have been arrested and by chain of command the person in charge is now a #librarian
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