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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Someone on Muni is transporting this painting and I have never wanted to see anything more

The back of a canvas, labeled “Self Portrait as a Coyote, 12/25/2025”

renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I couldn’t help it, I had to know what the child-repellant coating on these batteries tastes like. (Bitter, but better than it smells.)

An open package of 2032 batteries with a bitter coating. The batteries are disc-shaped, and the battery outside the package is partially blue because I guess that’s what happens when you lick them.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I left town for two weeks and returned to find my garden plot had exploded in flowers 🌱

Garden bed overflowing with purple oregano flowers, a yellow sunflower, white radish flowers, purple flowering wild sweet peas, a dark purple poppy, and yellow and orange nasturtiums reaching outside the bed. The surrounding garden has mulch on the ground, and there are potted plants and a fence.

Same bed as before from a different angle so you can see the purple poppy and purple oregano better.

A totally different bed (not mine—this one is shared by all the gardeners) with pink and purple pea blossoms climbing a tall trellis. Orange nasturtiums are growing to the right of the peas. You can see the white fence surrounding another garden bed at the bottom of the picture.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

my poor ipod nano, which can legally drink this year

A 20-year-old iPod Nano that can no longer hold a charge is playing a 13-year-old song

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

can be sung to the tune of “naked in manhattan”

A bunch of tiny points of light shine from the crowd’s phone flashlights at tonight’s Valkyries game. A big screen above the crowd says “Hyphy in Ballhalla” in all caps.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Checked up on my community garden plot earlier today. Tomatoes and peppers eventually, but today there were flowers and lots of bees 🌱

A red California poppy that’s not quite all the way open. There are lupine leaves behind it.

A bumblebee on purple oregano flowers, most of which have finished blooming. The bee is really cute.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

also wring -> wrench trying to figure out what happened to "tring" and "bink" (image from the-real-seebs.tumblr.com/post/7831754...)

From horrificgoth on tumblr:

> (crawls on all fours with blood drenched on me) I have to do arts and crafts

i'm more mad about this than i might otherwise be because someone pointed out the "-ench" suffix in English a while back:
drink -> drench
cling -> clench

we used to have a form for "to cause-to" on verbs. and yes, there was apparently a q verb for fire-going-out that led to "quench"

sadly, people refuse to acknowledge my other example:
wink -> wench

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I’m about to write a letter of complaint

The first recorded letter of complaint (to Ea Nasir about poor copper quality) has been removed from display at the British Museum

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I dunno, the cavaliers that I just dog-sat have *zero* loyalty and it’s my favorite thing about them. Everyone is their new best friend

Maddie, a King Charles cavalier spaniel, can’t believe I stopped petting her to take a picture. She is looking directly at the camera with wide eyes.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

These dogs have no idea how fancy they are

A white and reddish-brown cavalier King Charles spaniel lies on a patterned rug while figuring out how to cause as much trouble as possible.

A tricolor cavalier King Charles spaniel looks like she has deflated on top of a pillow and dangles a leg off to the side. She is looking at you.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The last 24 days have been full of personal highs and lows (and several giant national lows) and I need my life to chill the fuck out until I burn off some of this adrenaline. At least I’ll be taking care of this goofball next week:

A cavalier King Charles spaniel lies belly-up on the floor with her ears behind her head like wings. Her eyes are open wide, maybe because I paused petting her to get my phone out.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

If you see this, post a bird. This is a blue-footed booby. When they’re not guarding eggs, they sometimes do a stompy dance that can be quite intimidating if you’re another blue-footed booby.

A whitish bird with brown wings, aqua-colored feet, and a pointy gray-blue bill stands over speckled eggs between large rocks.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Hanging out with Taco, my very demanding friend. His thoughts are complex but his vocabulary is small

A Cardigan Welsh corgi with white, black, and brown fur. He has huge ears and tiny legs, one of which is touching my lap because he wants something.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Now it is time for The Ritual

About 30 poppy pods arranged around a blue bowl so that they’ll dry without getting moldy. The bowl holds 12 fava beans of varying sizes (also to dry them out).

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Poppies and some friendly bugs from earlier this week 🌱

Two floppy purple poppies in a garden bed with other green plants (raspberries, asparagus, a bunch of herbs) growing behind.

A yellow and black aphideater on the stem of a poppy plant.

A bee faceplanting into an orange California poppy flower. There are other blooms that aren’t fully open yet and some green seed pods. A squash leaf soaks up some light in the background.

A sunflower leaf with holes in it and a ladybug who might eat some of the bugs who made the holes.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Some garden-variety bugs from earlier today 🌱

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Fun quiz! And now I've queued up this episode and my runner-up, "Gotta test 'em all - The linguistics of Pokémon names"

Green background with white text that says: "The Lingthusiasm episode that matches my personality best is... When nothing means something"

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Google Translate tried its best

Screenshot from Google Translate that shows the original image (two frogs, one with a stick and water bag and the other wearing a backpack, standing by a sign in front of Mount Fuji) and the original kanji replaced by English. The sign says “frog water,” the title says “Firewood on top,” and the bottom text says “Manufacturing inch-high circuit boards.”

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

More maracuyá checking in from San Francisco 🌱

Star-shaped purple maracuyá / passionfruit flower with 5 sepals, 5 petals, and a circle of hairlike filaments around the center. A green and splotchy purple set of stamens and ovaries protrudes from the center. It's pretty and extremely weird-looking! There's an out-of-focus residential street in the background.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

This is what October should look like, and I will never let Big Fall convince me otherwise

A rainbow and partially cloudy sky over a hill with lots of evergreen trees. A lake peeks through the trees.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

search drinks in your camera roll

Pure Love whitening shampoo for dogs and cats, piña colada scent

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

esa jevita está enterita, tiene tremendo ... LULO!

Two halves of a lulo (also called a naranjilla outside Colombia). The fruit is round with 4 internal sections. It has orange-to-green flesh and small green seeds surrounding the center. The text "LULO" is written on the image.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 25/06/2023

This is so neat! Reminds me of Theo Jansen's strandbeests, which move: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C97kMKwZ2-g

Two wooden contraptions move along a beach, propelled by wind. One contraption looks like a caterpillar and moves by undulating. The other is taller with sails and many legs. This is a still from the linked video.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

Spending Memorial Day Weekend in gorgeous, freezing Crater Lake, where all hikes but one are closed due to snow. I have never lived in snow but tbh closing everything down seems like the only reasonable way to deal with it. So I’m wearing wool socks and peeking out my window:

Park of a clear lake with snowy mountains behind it and a tree- and snow-covered island in it. They are reflected by the lake. There are a few conifers on the near shore, which is also covered in snow.

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

this poor, sick, beautiful baby:

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 06/05/2023

oh thank god i would hate to accidentally buy knockoff gym weed energy

Sticker on a window that says “Authorized Gym Weed Energy dealer”

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renee @unquantifiable.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

today i learned that my manager wears shoes like these and i have never been so upset to share an elevator with another person

Brown shoes split at the toe so they look like hooves

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