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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 5h

I just realized that one Portland protester changed what I assume when I see a frog in someone’s post

No more alt-right freaks with their Pepe pins, it’s all inflatable frogs standing up for human rights now

Mightymite @mightymite.bsky.social · 20h

🐸✌️💙

This image is a stylized poster featuring a frog wearing an American flag-themed bandana and the word "HOP" below it. The style is reminiscent of vintage propaganda posters, such as the famous "Hope" poster for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 7h

Made a call I’ve been dreading and it was easier than I thought (turns out my mom had put me on her homeowner’s insurance for some reason?)

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 8h

I thought I would have the day off but then several things happened and now I’m working all day

There are also two other things I wanted to do that day but oh well

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 9h

What a beautiful afghan to lounge upon while napping away a sunny day

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

I’m just starting my favorite butternut soup, the secret is frying the strings and seeds in butter and using that as the base of the broth

Shallots and squash innards frying in butter

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

Pets tucked in is one of my favorite things

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

I think worcestershire was later, but yeah they had high taxes and no refrigeration so you've got to assume they preserved anything even slightly edible one way or another

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

Okay but they would have had garum (fish sauce) and other vinegars so I still think it could have been tasty

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

Is the seventh brother possessed of strange magicks?

Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

Last one

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

HELL YES

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

The Rock’s cod-based diet is looking better in hindsight

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

And arsenic!

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a combination of the soil they ‘re grown in and the fact that they’re concentrated

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 1d

This is taking me back to when I argued with my bosses that the metric we should be using to track success was repeat business

I lost that argument because it didn’t give them quarterly metrics

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

Sohla’s dress here

I just need you all to see it

Sohla El-Waylly looking gorgeous, featuring with both hands while looking at the camera in a amazing dress. It’s black or very dark brown with large graphic banana images on it and I covet it

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

I know exactly the stuff you mean, I think my teenage crush used it clean up after working on engines

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

My great-grands came from mining country, and were the cleanest people I’ve ever known

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

I think that’s unlikely unless you’ve had it open a lot, fridges hold temp really well

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

We should all just agree to accept that Thanksgiving is a holiday invented out of whole cloth so that Christians could have a harvest festival without any pagan influence and it has nothing to do with Native Americans or colonizers

It’s just a feast day, it doesn’t need to be more!

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

This should at the very least be an option for ebooks!

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

Half an inch in TEN minutes?!?!???!

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

When was a kid and he was unemployed for a few months he’d schedule his job interviews in the afternoon so he could volunteer to teach kids at my school to read

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 3d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

Also phone numbers followed predictable patterns with known prefixes, and you didn't have to change them every six months

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 2d

Squish!

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