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Gretchen

@wokkax3.bsky.social

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Founding member of Golden Girls fan club, Blanche Davidians. But, I guess this is mostly a rodent account now.

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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 3d

Frosty, the white squirrel, visits my water dish almost every day. #animals #wildlife

White squirrel with light gray tail and dark eyes drinks from a clear bowl of water with pebbles on a stone patio. She keeps her back feet in the greenery. Blue sky.

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Nuclear Winter @4slars.bsky.social · 17h

She's been snoozing & sun-baking for an hour. ❤️

Looking out a window, there is a red crimson rosella with blue wings that nods off sleepily in the branches of a deciduous bush with no leaves in front of a green lawn.

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Smarter Than a Waffle @smarterthanawaffle.bsky.social · 21h

SOMEBODY WANTS EVERYBODY TO KNOW SHE MAJORED IN DANCE AT THE ACATEMY

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 1d

Accidentally learned too many platypus facts in a short space of time and had to go stand outside for a few minutes to calm down

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 1d

😍😍what a cutie!

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scout potato @scoutpotato.bsky.social · 1d

This little fella and I surprised each other today but only one of us froze, pretending we weren’t about to eat the flower buds. Sup, Greg.

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 1d

Now this is a good belly

Squirrel hiding her head in leaves but showing off a nice coat

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 1d

[this like is not an endorsement]

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 1d

Monarch butterflies - photographs from earlier this season 🌿 #Invert

Monarch with wings spread - perched on pink zinnia

Monarch with wings out - perched on pinky peach zinnia

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I'll meet you at the corner of 29-5/8ths Avenue and 7-15/16ths Street. I don't see what's so hard about this.

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 1d

What a sweetheart😻

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Dire Wolf @addiane.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Gretchen, I have nobody else to share this with but I knew you'd appreciate this young Greg

A young squirrel in a tree, watching me closely. I'm watching him start to freak out as winter gets closer

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 2d

They had a bit on Hacks where they used a wax museum figure to get into Jean Smart’s phone. I did wonder about that one.

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 2d

I get super stoked when ppl in movies sneak into the morgue to unlock a dead person’s phone with Face ID. To live that exciting of a life!

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Humphrey Ghost-Kart 👻 @gothamcitymayor.bsky.social · 2d

I liked Catcher in the Rye better when I was fifteen and deeply committed to being misunderstood by vending machines.

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1 Molt per Octave @runawaypiper.com · 2d

Not to brag about one’s hole mastery but

Perfectly executed (eggsecuted?) egg in hole

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the article if you want to read it. (I just looked at pictures and then scanned for the nuttiest comment I could find in 45 seconds)

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Column | Diane Keaton’s style was wildly eccentric — and the most authentic thing in Hollywood

Diane Keaton’s fashion was unique and ran counter to Hollywood standards of traditional sex appeal. In doing so, she inspired countless other women.

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 2d

I, too, like to get messy drunk and ramble mawkishly in the WaPo comments of an article about Diane Keaton’s fashion sense

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Frankly I think there was conformity in her nonconformity, Buster Keaton, Diane Keaton. Not her real name, her mother's oddly. Said in one of her too many books, she thought her mother's dementia an extreme form of depression. Also called type 3 diabetes at times. Mostly just getting old and Diane did it so well. RIP.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 2d

Squadron of sandhill cranes putting their landing gear down, all in perfect formation! 🪶

Six sandhill cranes flying in a vertical pyramid shape, getting ready to land.

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 3d

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 3d

My best friend has an impossibly cute goat

Murphy, a black and white goat, hanging around some gourds and flowers

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 3d

Making lasagna that is like 2cm too long for my lasagna vessel

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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