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@auntiesis.bsky.social
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Clothier, vocalist, neurasthenic.
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This is just the outline of every TED talk video anyone has ever sent me?
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 20d

"skin as part of brain?"

This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Yes, almost everything is terrible! But I got recruited at the last minute to be the witness at a tiny wedding. So I stopped at the Donut Hut and made this wedding cake on my way there - and got to celebrate the love of two delightful older gentlemen I'd never met before. Some things are good!
It's a photo of a wedding cake, but the cake is actually 4 donuts stacked on top of each other, alternating chocolate glaze and vanilla glaze to make 4 layers. They're stacked on a paper plate. There are a couple of dark pink rose petals and leaves on the plate as decoration, and one small curl of petals and a leaf arranged in the hole of the top donut. The plate is on a white table top. A bottle of red wine is sitting in the background slightly out of focus.
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Just confused the hell out of the UPS driver by pretending he was trick-or-treating and handing him candy.
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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My first ghost costume. I couldn’t breathe or see and kept requesting more and larger holes be cut.
A child dressed as a sheet ghost there are large holes cut for the eyes and mouth and a small hole cut for the nose. Black eyebrows are drawn on the sheet above the eyes.
November 1, 2024 at 2:18 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Our healthcare premiums went up so much that if I stay on the same mediocre plan, healthcare may cost 1/3 of our total income.
warren.senate.gov Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Oct 23
We asked Donald Trump to cut health care costs. Instead, he cut off a wing of the White House.
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
People who prefer to take Waymo as transportation do so because they hate poor people, regardless of why they think they prefer it.
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
One of my favorites.
willmckinley.bsky.social Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · Sep 11
CROSSING DELANCEY (1988) is free w/ ads on YouTube again if you'd like to celebrate Amy Irving's birthday w/ Izzy and Bubbie.

youtu.be/_3IlsG6UBUc?... #BOTD #FilmSky
Amy Irving as Isabelle Grossman and Reizl Bozyk as Bubbie Kantor in Joan Micklin Silver's 1988 film of Susan Sandler's Crossing Delancey.
September 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
It’s very hot in SF, so I added a little Primo Salt Gin to the Empress for an evening electrolyte martini.
A small cocktail glass with translucent purple liquid in it. It’s sitting on a wood surface and there are succulents behind it.
September 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
I had forgotten about one of my favorite #cocktails, the Sunset at Gowanus. Made one to celebrate my return to health (finally tested negative for Covid).
A small cocktail glass filled with an opaque amber liquid, sitting on a small marble table. Photo by @epvqq.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
The shopping list taped to the fridge.
A page from a note pad stuck to a fridge, it has a shopping list written in careful and tidy cursive script with a fountain pen, the list reads: Shopping List fish fingers one grouse-bundle iron plums mousewurst an ant farm cactus whiskey proton pastries a gourd eel livers ham tablets canned granules ball bearing salad pencil flavored tea tar and feathers false beans minced warthog magic toes sand tasty nests
August 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Needed to avoid doomscrolling today so I am back on my delicate bullshit, making a casual woven T-shirt out of fine silk voile, because what better way to remember enjoy good things than by making them into everyday items.
A shirt laying on a green self healing mat, the sleeves and yokes are made of a very light ivory silk, the body is made of a floral silk voile, and the neckline and sleeve hems are bound with the same floral fabric.
July 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
I had a terrible cake accident. As a result I was forced to make two 2-layer cakes instead of one 3-layer cake and now I have an aviation cocktail cake with fat layers AND a strawberry jam filled birthday cake with thin layers.
two cakes on a table. in the foreground a 6" round cake about 5 inches tall with lavender frosting, in the background a shorter 6" round cake with white frosting and little rainbow sprinkles on top. A small round cake with white frosting and rainbow sprinkles on top, one quarter has been cut out showing two layers of yellow birthday cake with a thin layer of strawberry jam in between inside.
July 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Everything feels terrible but the neighbor’s tiny cat escaped to gallop wildly through our house, and I think I figured out how to make Aviation flavored Italian merengue for my birthday cake, and I’m going to read some @chuckwendig.bsky.social on the treadmill instead of doomscrolling.
July 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Waiting in line for the bathroom at DNA Lounge in SF, Kelsey Grammer and Rob Schneider walked up, asked if it was the bathroom line and stood behind me.
bolt451.bsky.social Deck the Halls with Bolt451 @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
With the news about the liquidation of the "Big 4" pattern companies - my one and only hope is that I do not get tagged 200 times as people once again share the "vintage pattern wiki" I have no use for on FB. The "have you tried yoga?" of the garment sewing world.
June 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
The guys on the corner have the beer bong out again but the cops won’t let them throw the Jell-O shots out the window this year. #bay2breakers
A photo of Hayes and Fillmore streets in San Francisco with a crowd of costumed people from behind, going uphill. There’s a long hose from a beer bong snaking out a window from above a record store on the corner.
May 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
This evening’s Black Manhattan that @epvqq.bsky.social insisted on photographing.
A very small glass filled with brown liquid sitting on a windowsill. The background is a blur of out of focus greenery.
May 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
My husband just sent me this glamour shot he took of my childhood teddy bear.
A small brown teddy bear. It’s very old and worn, its black eyes are a little crooked and it has a little raggedy tongue instead of a mouth. It’s sitting, and its stubby little arms are raised as if it’s asking for a hug.
May 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Tonight we’re having an Aviation #cocktail in honor of a friend who loves purple and flowers.
A small cocktail glass sitting on a window sill. The liquid inside is lavender and there’s a yellow lemon peel garnish sitting in the drink. The world in the background is out of focus but you can see it’s a blue sky above green. Photo by @queue-queue
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
I’ve had great plane chats with one seat mate while avoiding another, laughed with a stranger on the street while we ignored the presumptuous stranger behind us. If people aren’t engaging with you, I suggest looking up at yourself in the mirror. I can see fine other people just fine.
nancyfrench.bsky.social Nancy French @nancyfrench.bsky.social · Apr 26
A shared sky, row, or sometimes a story.

Not everyone travels the same way & that’s okay. This was not a post saying I'm entitled to your (apparently fascinating) stories or that we should ignore social cues.

I just miss when we were willing to take a risk, look up more often and see each other.
nancyfrench.bsky.social Nancy French @nancyfrench.bsky.social · Apr 25
Unpopular opinion: I know it's cool to wear your earbuds and carry a book while pasting a disinterested, don't-talk-to-me expression on your face, but I like to talk to the person sitting beside me on airplanes. I liked it when we were willing to be inconvenienced by strangers.
April 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Repost with a favorite book from childhood.
The cover of a Little Golden Book called Sam the Firehouse Cat
April 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Me after finishing the #whitelotus finale:
Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5 She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle, Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.
April 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
I don’t think one will be enough tonight. Drinking the good stuff while we still can.
A small cocktail glass with an about a quarter ounce of extra wet martini and a piece of lemon peel in the bottom.
April 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
when an american electronic appliance chirps at me: I did not invite you to speak. I despise you. I wish to destroy you

when a japanese appliance chirps at me: You are my little friend. You are my companion in the journey of life
March 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
auntiesis.bsky.social
Post a car pic you took -

I got interviewed on the local news for this one.
A grey car in a lane of traffic, a male parking enforcement officer is sprawled out and clinging to the hood. The female driver is looking at him with a shocked expression, one hand to her head, the other on the steering wheel. What you can’t see is that she drove at him because she was angry he was giving her a parking ticket and he leapt onto the car to avoid being hit. The man has been clinging to the hood for 2 miles and she’s about to drive onto a freeway on-ramp.
March 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM