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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird

@shinybluething.bsky.social

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Ugly bird girl. Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her. Not anyone of note. Cat pictures happen here. I block image scrapers. Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety, autism, untreated ADHD and a couple chronic diseases. You've been warned.

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · Nov 23

People who are following me and have fundraisers: I do not have any money to spare, that's why I've had a little fundraiser to help pay for taking basic care of some street cats who live under my porch.

My roof leaks, my car is 22 years old. I don't have anything to give you but cat photos.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 1h

It's kind of an old one, actually.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3h

New career path: Telling everyone that I use generative AI for everything (and then just half-assing it with my own brain) so people I don’t respect throw piles of money at me and are cool with the final product being bad.

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 1h

It's normal in non WAsP families. It's *ethnic* to welcome people into your family.

My family is *full* of not-legally-related aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings. I would be so much less without all those folks in my life.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 2h

Base housing is all privatized. They get the BAH, but not if it's not there.

What happens when the base housing management starts eviction proceedings?

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 4h

They're taking the BAH money to make payroll.

That's going to bite them in the ass.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 2d

Also this, except Yzma looked better

a cartoon character screams of horror in front of a shelf full of bottles

Alt: Pacha and Cuzco in llama form scream in fear and cover their eyes

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 2d

This woman is giving ”lady who used to pee in the doorway of the bookshop where I worked" with that lipstick.

She's 35? That's some hard mileage.

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 2d

Why did my oven pick now to die?

It's fixable. I have to order parts and I can unscrew and swap them myself. But it has to wait for payday, which means a week or two without an oven as the weather is getting truly cold.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 2d

High praise for the chalkolate, really.

I will still eat them.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 2d

Also, weirdly, the reissued ones taste like the new factory had to buy all new flavoring ingredients.

The old ones were definitely less flavorful and chalkier. Which is saying quite a bit given how flavorless the new ones are...

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 2d

I am tickled that others are discussing the fossil candy that I am inexplicably fond of.
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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 8d

My eldest kid went to the store and bought me a cylinder of chalky sadness. I'm so happy. I love these weird little things that taste like they were made in 1847.

Even the chalkolate ones.

A pack of necco wafers that's marked "since 1847" on the end that's torn open

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 2d

As if trans people of any gender aren't parents, or partners, or people who live in shared housing and do their part, or have jobs...

incomprehensible levels of deliberate obtuseness here

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 3d

He's like a clock that runs alternately fast and slow. Sometimes he's right, often he's wrong, and the timing is random.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 3d

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 3d

My college is doing a food drive for the no questions asked food/toiletries station. Spur of the moment, set up end of last week.

For some reason.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 3d

Woke up this morning unable to find my glasses.

Several minutes of frantic feeling around on the floor and under the head of the bed later, there were "cat chewing a thing they shouldn't" sounds from the foot of the bed.

So now I'm trying to repair my glasses while blind. Bad omen for the day.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 3d

Sadly, no, do not purchase the infant swamp god.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 3d

But the horrible stuff got done between 1925 and 1945: original kitchen cabinets were long gone, the bathroom was "modernized" with plastic tiles on the plaster, an awful 20s sand coat was plopped right atop 1910s wallpaper, and a bay was badly added to one side of the house in 1923 or so.

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 3d

We were very lucky with our house. They had left the windows, but put on aluminum storms, left the woodwork and put up 7 different kinds of paneling with a different ugly carpet in every (every!) room, and did dozens of harebrained diys that were reasonably undo-able. (1/2)

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 3d

Why even paint at that point?

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird @shinybluething.bsky.social · 3d

Um, yeah. It wasn't just a reference for me. We had historic flooding, only lost a vehicle, nearly lost life, but that was the straw that broke our tiny emergency fund.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social · 4d

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I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 5d

Portland Frog Brigade, two inflatable frogs with a sign FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

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