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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Another garden update: The oranges are coming in just fine. This is about half of the size they will be in December.

This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Brief garden update: Passionfruits are on the vine. I am hoping they can ripen before our first frost. We get a much later frost here compared to much of the US.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Yeah. Well. Ice cream is life. I guess? I made a mess of the counter but it’s all cleaned up now. Well worth the effort.

Organic blueberry ice cream made with cream, whole milk, raw cane sugar, and vanilla extract. Yum!

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I just read this article on The Globe & Mail, and it is relatable to my having left FB… I don’t hear from old friends and acquaintances as much as I used to. I have become invisible. The trick now is to find my inbetween www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-p...

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I stopped posting on social media and it made me invisible. Now, I live somewhere in between

The hard truth is, our systems aren’t built for people who step back. If you don’t show up in the feed, you fall away

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Oh btw… Report on the optometrist and my bent glasses… An assistant tried to unbend my frames where they meet the stem hinges as best they could without breaking them, and it is better, but not ideal. I am on a special plan though where they will be replaced & get a new pair in a couple weeks. Yay!

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Man… I have one hell of a headache. I don’t know if I slept wrong and kinked my neck somehow and that’s the cause or crappy sleep or something else. But I am about to take the ice cream container and put it on my head/neck instead of eating the contents.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Okay. Confession time. I have made more ice cream, and summer is over. Coulda fooled me, the temperature here tomorrow is gonna be 30 C/86 F. But I guess that is how things roll in California. This batch is more of an organic blueberry cream. I halved the blueberries from 4 c to 2 in the recipe.

Organic blueberry cream ice cream. I halved the 4 cups of blueberries in the recipe to 2 cups, so it has a milder blueberry flavour.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It's time to vote for Australia's best bird! Vote 1 Powerful Owl! [ @australia.theguardian.com seems to have chosen a particularly unflattering POwl picture, so here's a better one] www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I could use a sedative. Sleep has been pretty broken for a while. Coffee helps, but only so much before it’s diminishing returns. … Yes, I am still making ice cream here and there, but less often. It was more a summer thing.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I seriously can’t keep up with the doomscrolling these days. I am busy with day to day life. Changes on the horizon. But in the meantime… neurologist appointment tomorrow, optometrist walk in Friday morning because I accidentally bent my glasses frame and now they sit crooked on my face.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Don’t worry, I am not totally disengaging. I am just putting my focus elsewhere and how best to work for a better future.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My personal life is also busy on more than one level. Medical appointments. Family related gatherings. Some upcoming travel. And I may not be online as much as I used to be, which was chronically tbh.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hey, hi 👋 Long time no see. I am leaving this message where my friends can see it. Sorry I haven’t been on BlueSky much in the past month or so. There’s been a lot going on, and I have been using this platform less. I still want to keep in touch - I’m not sure how best to do this.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I confess, I am back on the honemade ice cream kick. Made vanilla ice cream this morning, it’s in the freezer now to harden more. I think part of the motivation is it’s going to be 40 C today or 103 F…

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19/08/2025

Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget. Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make. The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

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Novo Halves Ozempic Price to $499 a Month for Those Paying Cash

Novo Nordisk A/S is slashing the cost of Ozempic for cash-paying patients after the diabetes shot became the poster child for high US drug prices.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

An Anna's hummingbird in my son's backyard in Seattle.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A Red-bellied Woodpecker working his way up the far side of the tree.

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Robin Kirby @robinmk.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

White sands New Mexico

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

genAI is morally wrong and disrespectful to the creatives in your life as long as the models are built with material stolen from unconsenting and uncompensated writers and artists there are a bunch of other reasons why it's bad - it's a rich tapestry - but that first one should be enough on its own

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I dunno what to think about the latest iteration of Duo Lingo animated scenes. I sm glad the exploding owl brain is gone. But I miss the owl fairy in the owl suit. I don’t like a raging Duo with teeth… it is not my flavour weird.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Entrance to the Zion NP River Walk trail, near the shuttle stop.

Beginning of Zion Canyon River Walk trail.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Entering Zion National Park, Utah. This is the main road with shuttle bus (lower left) that takes you on Zion Canyon Scenic drive from the visitor centre to the renowned River Walk.

Zion Canyon Scenic Drive, Zion NP, Utah. Shuttle bus approaches beneath looming orange canyon walls and tall tree canopy.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yes. I have been quiet, between travel out if state and medical issues, including a scheduled colonoscopy yesterday. Still feel tired and hung over from all the drugs the clinic pumped into me yesterday. Am curating photos from my trip to 2 national parks to share. Sneak peek below:

River walk trail at Zion National Park, Utah.

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Pure unadulterated capitalism is dangerous for your health.

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Americans have been duped. Every other advanced country has universal healthcare, universal education, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, at least 6 weeks paid vacation, living wages, and a commitment to green energy. That’s how you make America great.

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Nancy A-B @poisonapplered.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I think #DougSavage is on to something!

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I scream, you scream,, we all scream for ice cream. And scream about other things…

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Soft serve is ready. But it is a bit too soft, so I am smoothing it out and putting it in the freezer now.

Soft serve blueberry ice cream. Smoothing it out and putting it in the freezer for later. It is a bit too soft for my liking.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Yes. Back at it again. I rather have the big beautiful blueberry ice cream.

Mixing organic blueberries, raw sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla extract, whipping cream, A2 whole milk, and a pinch of sea salt for ice cream base.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Finding new Powerful Owls is always fun, but sometimes they later just disappear. We haven't seen this POwl and its partner for over a year. Probably they have found a new nest hollow within a few kilometres, but we have no idea where. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owl on a branch looking over its shoulder

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

““They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor” Okay, you have my attention.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Whelp. At it again. Making vanilla ice cream right now. I promised myself I would eat less of it over time, but I am not quitting! 🙂

Ice cream churning homemade vanilla ice cream (Philly style; no eggs).

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🎯 by @catgyoung.bsky.social on Twitter "Life is fragile and so so fleeting. I’ll never understand why more people don’t spend their time trying to make the world a better place. It’s not hard to stand on the right side of humanity." OP: x.com/catgyoung/st...

Life is fragile and so so fleeting. I’ll never understand why more people don’t spend their time trying to make the world a better place. It’s not hard to stand on the right side of humanity.

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Feeling kinda meh lately. I am deciding I to cut back on the ice cream making - it had a good run, but I ate too much. Also see: Taking walks and sleeping more. Stress has been chewing at my health and I want to make changes.

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Hee!

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Ducks eating watermelon: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Eyebleach/...

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Pendragon Rising @pendragonrising.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A taste of the Pacific for you today. #Photography #NaturalBeauty #Nature #Pacific #Art

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Conductor with laser fingers Electric fingers?? With the guy stressed out looking down with the word saying need to research up talk to an actual real person the entire time we don't just make things up 100% AI free come to the library

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Dear parents: You see all this stupidity going around? Please read to your kids. Let them see you reading. Keep books around. Buy them books if you can. Show them how cool the library is. Tell them book banning is bad. Make reading part of their lives. It helps make good people.

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Beachbatcher 99 @beachbatcher.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I suppose seeing a vulture up close is a fitting sight at this point in time. #Photography #Wildlife #BirdSky

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This Is Fine 🫠☕️🔥 @thiswasfine.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I did something today I don’t do often: meet up with old friends over coffee. I hadn’t seen these particular friends since before the pandemic! They were on the way to a conference they were attending, and it was good of them to stop by and exchange hugs. ☺️

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

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