Anna McDuff
@annamcduff.bsky.social
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Here to hang out and chat about life, my hobbies and my cats! I am owned by two Maine Coons, Prospero (Perry) and Artemis (Misty). I love #pottery, dabble in fountain pens, am interested in the world, and obsess over US/UK politics more than is good for me
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My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.
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Garlic Pita Bread

3/4 cup warm water
1 TBSP honey
2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
3.5 TBSP EVOO
4 crushed garlic cloves
3/4 cup natural Greek yogurt
480 grams bread flour
2 tsp garlic powder
1.5 tsp sea salt
.5 tsp MSG (optional)

1. Combine water, honey, yeast and bloom for 10 minutes in mixer bowl.
Today’s Garlic Pita Bread recipe test was a roaring success. 🧄🫓🍽️🍜
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Avocados I grew in an avocado bowl I made. Good day to you.
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You know what would rule? If Burn it Down could get to $10k today

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
And if you don’t want to block via the list (lists can start out useful then get strange and vengeful, so I only subscribe to lists made by people I trust) you can go through this list and block the listed accounts by by one without subscribing!
Blockety block block BLOCK!!!
The terrible news every day has me counting my blessings and functioning modern infrastructure is definitely one of them.
Feeling so grateful for modern infrastructure - I drive nearly four hours and then on to a drama free car ferry that is essentially an office building that floats. Over an hour later I’m about to get off and be home in minutes. Just bliss!!
I’m so glad those poor kids were saved. It must be so confusing and scary for them.
This is the best news I’ve had all day. I love this duo’s comic Sidequested, and I just signed up to get access to their new comic, Family Demons, too!
FAMILY DEMONS, our new comic, is Patreon-exclusive for at least the first year due to bills, bills, and more bills, but it unlocks at the $1 tier!

It starts on Halloween with a bang! Ka-boom. Explosion...thing.

#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #Patreon
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If anyone ever asks, "why don't people immigrate to the US the right way?", it's worth noting I was just quoted $14,460 for an O-1 visa application with premium processing. My first O-1 application, without premium processing, was $6,160 in 2018.
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FAMILY DEMONS, our new comic, is Patreon-exclusive for at least the first year due to bills, bills, and more bills, but it unlocks at the $1 tier!

It starts on Halloween with a bang! Ka-boom. Explosion...thing.

#comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #Patreon
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Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
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Howdy, ten year food bank veteran here

mercia's listed items are absolutely true and good and if you have them, bring them

If you plan to go out and buy stuff, take that $ you plan to spend and give it direct as a conditionless donation. We got networks and can make that $ go very far
hey y’all. food banks could really use your donations rn.

hygiene products (toothpaste, bars of soap, tooth brushes, floss etc)
period products
shelf stable pasta and sauce
canned veggies and meats like spam
cooking oil
peanut butter
rice
dry seasonings for family style dishes
toilet paper
oh goodie got an update the SNAP program is gonna be without funding if the government shutdown continues past the 31st and that seems SUPER LIKELY and jfc 🚬😬 we are already so slammed bc of this shutdown and the food bank system can only do so much to bolster it
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i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.
i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
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Sliwa on transportation: “I like to avoid yellow cabs. As you know I was shot in the back of a yellow cab in 1992 by the Gambinos.”

You can’t beat at NYC mayoral debate.
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He should be Cat Czar, he just runs adoption and sterilization drives, shelters for ferals, and city-owned cat cafes
Curtis Sliwa is my favorite republican lmao. he loves cats soooooo much. maybe he should run for mayor of Istanbul instead
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Even this Pallas cat gets in on the discovery and exploration process.

Photos from Calgary Zoo.
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The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats.

This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.
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Silwa is a freak crank but he’s a legible freak crank, you’ve met this guy at a bar - Cuomo is twitching inside his human suit trying to remember to pretend to breathe
And unlike Cuomo, Sliwa is authentic. He really is the guy with the beret and a million cats. He might as well be on Zohran’s campaign because he keeps exposing Cuomo in a totally different way.
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Eugène Atget’s unflinching, unromantic, street portraits of 1900s Paris.

📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)
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MY BAD, THERE ARE ONLY SIX KNOWN COPIES (I was thinking of a different title where there are 12 known copies and we hold one)
Today's episode of "holy shit, we have THAT in our collections?!" is the first edition (1811) of Percy Shelley's The Necessity of Atheism. That's the pamphlet that got him kicked out of Oxford, and there are only 12 known copies. 😎
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Really useful thread about elder fall best practices. Beware the commentators being edgy assholes.
Just so folks know- they didn’t handle that fall by Mitch McConnell well. When seniors or frail people fall, the best thing to do is actually let them lay where they are. Some people recommend counting to a certain number. While the person lays there-
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“I really like and am knowledgeable about the city I am trying to become mayor of” is part of Mamdani‘s shtick that has absolutely flummoxed a significant portion of mainstream politicos.