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Careful, Jenn Bites 🧛🏻‍♀️🩷🧛🏻‍♀️ @alldolledup44.bsky.social · 5h

Peppered beef jerky. That’s it, that’s the whole skeet.

I never buy branded clothing, or if I do I buy and remove the brand label. If companies want me to advertise for them I need to be paid. This morning I took the LLBean tag off my hooded sweatshirt.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 16h

Hooded mergansers on the water. The official end of summer. Last in and last out.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 16h

The trees are beginning to turn in earnest. I will share images soon, but a few more days must pass first.

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No body @stolenpinapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You guys have to see this..

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How long before tech services exhaust us so much we put them down. No more apps. No more streaming. No more social media. Gen z has begun. I cannot help but wonder if AI is heralding in a new Luddite movement.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We killed disco. I have no doubt you can kill AI music.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sleep eludes me. Gimme a call. We can talk about whatever you like.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My life has taken an interesting turn. I was asked to do a half hour show on cable access. And now I was asked to be an adjunct professor at a little ivy college. I am figuring out how I can do my job and these others.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My day begins with quiet coffee. Sometimes I share it with someone. No taking. Just coffee and the sunrise.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes when I wake early I go downstairs and make coffee. Then I go back to bed. It is always delightful to wake to the smell of coffee.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frittered away the weekend. It was not productive at all.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was out in the storm. Detritus all about. Now I'm unwinding. I wish the algorithm let people see my posts sometimes.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'd give five dollars for a good night's sleep.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I may be teaching a course in the spring. Laying awake wondering what it will look like.

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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week of collaborations with a shared passion and responsibility for Mother Earth reminds me of the importance and beauty of pulling shared intentions together. 🤩 🗺️ #AT #EnvironmentalResearch 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is 50 degrees and my window is open. Listening to a barred owl outside.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lit a fire in the fire pit this morning and worked next to it in the chill autumn air. Finished writing two lectures. Was amazing.

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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the mysteries of life sustain me… #ColorsOfAutumn #Equinox ⚖️🍂

Golden yellow and red leaves on a tree that is framing the windows of a building.

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Duke Winter @dukewinter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you see this, post green art. 💚 (there's green in there, this counts)

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This copy of Jhereg by @stevenbrust.bsky.social is a 1983 Ace paperback. I think it is a first edition. It travelled with me to every duty station I was assigned including Desert Shield. If he is ever on the East Coast at a con, I will try to get it signed. Highly recommend the series.

Book Jhereg by Steven Brust. Behind a skull.

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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

crackling sway of trees wind kicking up in the storm dust distribution #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #3lines

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is the most astonishing example of agency against authority. I salute these women and how they are pushing back. I am humbled by their brilliance.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Temperature dropped. There is a tent shelter near where I live. Five mile hike. Spent yesterday and last night there. I always camp in autumn.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I find the days seeped in melancholy are growing.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Going off my last post, as you hate on Mitch McConnell, consider he is now the hand puppet of the Orange Menace. A fitting end to his nefarious career. Shame we all are being punished with him.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mitch McConnell is now living a personal hell. Being used after his brain exploded by the gigantic baffoon who ripped the Republican party out of his hands after McConnell spent decades shaping them into the manufacturers of our current dystopian nightmare.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb

Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is early and I am awake. I ponder my choice to serve in the navy. Such an error which scares me for life. Yet there was a broadening of understanding which still guides me today. Odd to regret and appreciate something at the same time. #sleeplessthoughts

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Love this. It could be a weekly scream meet up.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have something no billionaire will ever have. I have enough.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I find myself reading only a few fiction book series over and over. I remember spending hours looking for titles and finding so many wonderful stories. Not so much today.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'd give a great deal to get through a day without some asshole fucking up my good mood.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I prefer to think of myself as a luxury compact king.....

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You know how I keep my phone secure? I don't keep any sensitive information on it. The id is even fake. I have had an apple id for 26 years. I have 0 bytes of data in the cloud.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bruised two ribs yesterday. Reminding me I am not a kid anymore. Upside it didn't happen because I sneezed.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The dismal day is providing me with an excuse to self care.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

40 people at my Benedict Arnold lecture. Was fun. Spent lots of energy. Really tired.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Okay this should not have to be said. Using a biometric sign in for social media is the acme of idiocy.

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Steve @sjcmanuel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Episode 4 of strange new worlds. The show sinks deeply into inane and infantile stories derivative of bad science fiction movies. I weep for the loss of the creative mind.

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