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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 17h

This is lovely. Happy 15th anniversary to you & the missus, Micah.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Uh, but they often don't? The issue isn't traction or lack thereof, it's clearance.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wondered about that, too. We had a plumber once who said he saw more gummed up starchy pasta water issues than grease, and to always run extremely hot water while you're draining pasta to keep it from gumming up your pipes. I took his advice.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love it (seriously), but it's not a sedan.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From personal experience, it's a great four season car within cities where deep snow is quickly cleared (esp. the all-wheel drive models), but like a lot of sedans, the lower to the ground profile means problems getting through deeper accumulation on longer/rural to urban commutes in the snow belt.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's got to be the one. My little sisters and I watched it with a babysitter (we were little and mom wasn't too happy when she found out). We still talk about how terrifying it was!

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Growing up, most of the men & women in my mom's family were blue collar Union plant workers. Four lost their hearing beginning in their forties, most ended up with bad backs and gnarled hands. I can't tell you how many times we children heard "go to college" from all of them.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hate to step on your dream, but I think it might be a racket. Notice that the claw always drops the big gold bars.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Changing your mind {when presented with facts} is not losing; it's learning." That's a banger, Sully.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At first glance, in the charted lines I saw America on her hands and knees in a defensive posture, head slumping and hair streaming toward the ground.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, that's cool! Happy birthday, Chris! 🚝🤸

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The best Lit courses I had in high school were ones where our teachers assigned several books for the semester & they were read aloud and analyzed in class. It was interactive! We learned insight & analysis! We learned about the authors & the worlds they inhabited that led to the books they wrote.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been through so many protein bars...Power Crunch was a marketing lie crash out. The closest I've gotten to tolerable is Kellogg's Special K Brownie Batter, but I suspect it's just a rice krispie treat coated in cocoa dust.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He's just beautiful.... looks a lot like our tabby point Siamese we had when I was growing up.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I also wonder if part of the friction here is in what type of interview. There's a subtle self-regard in bringing a coffee to an interview that floats in white collar/academic settings, but might be frowned upon for say a driver or a factory job or a cashier. It's not a good thing, but it's real.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It looks like there was a last minute hail mary suspension on September 24th by a federal judge asking for amicus briefs after Corey Booker wrote a letter to the courts in protest of the deal.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think that might be a... whole turkey??

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Usually, kestrels won't let me take their photo, but this little lady wanted to make sure I got her good side. 🪶

Skeptical female American kestrel perched on an orange post, cocking her head to the side.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ach, the cursed stinkhorn. They show up in our wood chips, and I see them immediately because of the swarms of flies around them.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes! Team Ruth forever 💪 (I learned how to build a bent branch fence on some wooded property thanks to these guys).

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Libby Spencer @libbyspencer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Once down to a single pair. Conservationists rescued them from oblivion. The flock is now 350 strong. New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year. cnn.it/4rqzZeL

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Used to mix peanut butter and grape jelly together, and then stir in a bunch of corn flakes and press the concoction into a cake pan. My sibs and I would cut it into squares and eat it like super messy rice krispie treats.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm laughing so hard I'm bellowing and weeping

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As someone who grew up in a decent rural public school system & has watched that system unravel, I feel for everyone dealing with this. For our part, after agonizing about it we moved in middle school to a tonier zip code so our children could benefit from both the education & the doors it unlocks

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's really great advice for those who can. I needed to find adult outdoor activities to get through long, dark winters, & downhill skiing turned out to be so much fun that I actually began to look forward to winter. It's a good gateway to cross-country too, which is much less pricey.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So good "...>realize I have invented the perfect constituency >infinitely important >completely silent >and always represented by me"

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's so infuriating! We've been going through this with my little nephew, whose mom is 5'11" and dad is 6'4".

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is so gamifiable, too. Some hustle culture kid is going to make bank by charging $$ to carry rich kids' 'Mom Phones' to various classes.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you need-need a physical copy, you can pick up a hardcover version for $33 bucks on the thriftbooks website/app.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This. With additional measures to allow them to regulate themselves and to make any competition illegal.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/09/2026

Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣

a tiny snowy plover chick, about 2 inches tall, looks through a shrub as if theyr hiding, on a beach

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Running a barefoot marathon through a hot swamp with a co-runner whose job it is to chew noisily near my ear. The runner with the most mosquito bites wins.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Request that it be hand stamped in front of you.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wicker burger with blood clots...mmmmm.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From the details of the case, it's important to have additional context: Adam Hoffman admitted that he repeatedly sexually abused his best friend's child for 3 years, starting when the little boy was only six or seven years old.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Mall was also a place that many rural teens drove to on the weekends to shop, eat, catch a movie, hang out in your best clothes to see and be seen. It was cool on Monday to casually drop that you went to the mall and hung out in the city. There was something aspirational there. I'd read it.

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Whoabegogo @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is...is he wearing a bustle? 👀

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