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Whoops forgot to post the recipe. The unwritten recipe here is (as always) add red boxed wine and weed. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...

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Greek Meatballs (Published 2024)

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 12h

This was unexpectedly great. Served with Greek meatballs and rice. Kind of killed dinner tonight. (Alt text is fucking with me but DM me if you need recipe)

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 15h

Saturday night googling Mike Patton

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. . . of a Down frontman Serj Tankian. 286][2871 One of Patton's friends is actor Danny DeVito, who continually goes to concerts by Patton. They met after DeVito and his son attended a Fantômas show at the 2005 Coachella Festival.
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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 16h

Just watched the K2 doc on AppleTV. Harrowing!

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 19h

A couple days ago our roundest rat Alan jumped on something and sprained a foot. He still wants to leap to the floor.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 20h

we have doubled your rent, doubled your insurance premiums, tripled the cost of gas, quadrupled the price of groceries, and you're complaining that your wages haven't gone up since 1997? honestly sounds like a you problem

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 20h

Mom just texted me this charm she found that apparently belonged to my late aunt. Kathy thinks it might be related to the strip club, Poor Richard’s, that my aunt and her husband owned in the French Quarter decades ago. It’s pretty clearly some weirdly racist Irish thing so I guess that’s plausible.

Gold hunchbacked leprechaun holding a top hat

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Incredible slow motion footage of a cheetah running at over 60mph (96km/h), captured at 1200fps by cinematographer Greg Wilson: #AGoodPlace #caturday

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 20h

It’s one thing to have bad opinions, but it’s another thing to willfully spend your limited discretionary income on them.

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 23h

PRO TiP: to avoid a crisis of identity after someone you had a parasocial attachment to is revealed to have done something awful, try not making a parasocial relationship part of your identity

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 21h

Nothing that hasn’t been said before, but being afraid to debate your opponent does not indicate strength. Also, I think Paxton might live in the sewer like IT.

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Dominic Caruso @dominiccaruso1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wrapping a little box turtle in the short sleeve of my white t-shirt like those cool guys used to do with their cigarette packs.

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Candy 🎃 Kneivel @corkykneivel.bsky.social · 23h

Ed Sheeran gonna give himself bangs over this

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 22h

"Tower (block)", oil on canvas, 12x16", 2026- $950(Cdn) #painting #canadianart #landscape #cityscape

A painting of an apartment building, tall warm grey with columns of small windows & balconies against a cool blue sky. The right side of the building is facing the sunset, glowing warm yellow. In front of & blocking out most of the building is a large, green, leafy tree that gets darker towards the bottom. A red-leafed dogwood is in the foreground. A power line reflecting sunlight bisects the painting horizontally. At the top left there's a hint of an overhanging maple bough.

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MARA9 @maranine.bsky.social · 23h

❣️ happy Rattober! Here is my sweet Pixel enjoying a seasonal treat

Pixel the dumbo rat holding a candy corn in her hands and munching away

She has a grey cowl pattern of fur and a white fur body

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Mr. Bea Arthur, Batshit Crazy™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Typically they frown on you fucking the particle accelerator.

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s neither here nor there, but that Cornell frat house looks like a building at Schlitterbahn.

Corny looking old Bavarian castle type shit where rapists live

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HLK @hlkfotos.com · 03/10/2026

My spotty boy. #BirdOfTheDay #eck 📷🌿🪶

A photo of a male northern flicker (Colaptes auratus), a sleek taupe-colored woodpecker with a gray head and a long dark gray beak, red cheek patches, a red spot on the back of its head, a large black bar across its chest, black and red tail feathers, and black polka dots all over its belly. It is perched on a thin bare tree branch with its head turned over its shoulder to the left of frame, its belly toward the camera, and pale blue sky behind it.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was waiting in a line at Western Plains Zoo when this Superb Fairy-wren dropped by to see what all the fuss was about. #birds

Photo of a small, round bird perched on a wooden fence post. It is black, light grey, and brown, with distinctive light blue feathers on its crown, cheeks, and the back of its neck. It is facing and looking at the viewer (slightly angled to the side). Definitely a Birb, bordering on Borb status.

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shadowtherat.bsky.social @shadowtherat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So yesterday I tried to get the perfect photo of the odd-eyed sisters Cheerio (dwarf) and Fruit Loop (standard) together. Suffice to say it was harder than I thought it would be, mostly because I was trying to get them both looking at me (to show their matching peepers lol)...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

AI has (incorrectly) identified me as the author of a smut book called “My Grumpy Billionaire Secret” and offered to replace my AI audiobooks with new AI audio the future is now

Hi Molly, My Grumpy Billionaire Secret is on Audible with a virtual voice edition, and that flat read is the first thing a listener hears. We'd remake it and get it onto 20+ audiobook platforms. Still a synthetic voice, but directed, with pacing and music, so it actually holds attention. Want the first chapter done free so you can hear it? Alek

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 03/10/2026

First time catching a sunset in a squirrel eye. Might make this a thing.

The vertical eye of a squirrel with the reflection of the sun setting over trees in the distance and the reflection of the tree in the foreground

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🍄🌲🍄 @ricknothing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Meet me at the fly agaric faerie ring

A shit ton of large yellow Amanita mushrooms growing in a faerie ring in grass under a pine tree

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Facial expression too on the nose tbh

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really enjoying this e-cookbook. (I have a fetish for pregnant ladies eating beans. Well I mean I do now anyway)

Fancy lady eating beans with bare belly showing.

FRENCH ONION BEANS & GREENS
SERVES 8-10

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Marly @verbsrproudest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I need an influencer to convince these racoons to stop opening my delivery packages

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just got four vaccines bc I wanted to completely ruin my Saturday before it starts

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 02/10/2026

very excited for ai audiobooks you can talk to. i plan to tell frodo how to build an internal combustion engine, which should speed things up

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.

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PeculiarAmelia @theartfulldodger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Baba Yaga's grand daughter

A small child in a brown hat and lime green large coat. She has chicken leg feet and dripping hands
She looks innocent

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APOPO @herorats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy #FullCheekFriday! 💛 Full cheeks, the weekend is calling and HeroRATs Chip and Dingo are ready to clock off! Have an amazing weekend everyone! #APOPO #FCF #HeroRATs #AfricanGiantPouchedRat

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 19/09/2025

Brother Herbert's prize pepo

little shrew monk guy with a bigass pumpkin

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harpy @harpy.party · 01/10/2026

if an angry mob made me sit backwards on a horse and paraded me through town to humiliate me i would just sing a song so pretty that they all cried and felt shamed

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Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a midday timeline cleanse, I came across this young (2-3 years) eastern box turtle today hanging out in the grass. I used focus tracking on the iPhone 18 so it would stay in focus as my figured out the best framing. Tap for full size. I hope you are having a great day!

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Corey Seeman @cseeman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had she removed the acorn, by all accounts it was a stellar speech. #SquirrelHaiku Fox Squirrels in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on September 30th, 2026 #flickr #Squirrels #SquirrelWisdom #SquirrelOfTheDay #Michigan #SquirrelDude #sqrlpix #clementslibrary flic.kr/p/2sDPt5m

Fox squirrel standing up in front of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan with an acorn in her mouth.

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unexpected afternoon off work. Braised a shit ton of mustard greens. Gift recipe cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...

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Easy Mustard Greens (Published 2022)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

rats have very flat skulls with not a lot of room in there so when they grind their back teeth together in the specific way they like to do when they are satisfied/happy/content, it forces their eyeballs out a little bit. so this gesture is "I love you" in Rat. aren't you pleased to know

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gorlock @gorlock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not to dox him but i saw an albino squirrel who smokes cigarettes

an albino squirrel at the base of a tree with a stem in its mouth that kinda looks like a hand-rolled cig

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I did this one a while ago: an Apple Store where Something Horrible Happened

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have all gotten tired of this drought

Squirrel drinking from a copper birdbath

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