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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’ve had good luck finding uniqlo stuff at eco-town thrift stores (not sure if they’re a national chain).

ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Aug 13

I’ve been wanting to come to the blue tavern to vent & get advice, but we haven’t had internet at home since the end of July. I can’t login on my phone—I just figured out bluesky on the phone yesterday. We go to the library for Internet, but it’s unpredictable who I’ll find at the blog…

ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, Jane. There was a will that the three children are to share equally. Sadly my sister is the executor and she’s my malignant narcissist’s brother’s sidekick.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, Knuckles. It feels especially 19th century tragedy since I sold my MA house and moved out here to prevent this. Turns out I’m a lousy superhero.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Aug 13

I ❤️ John Cazale. I didn’t realize he was the same age as my father, both gone now.

ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Aug 13

Smart internet friends: how do you stop siblings who are preventing you from seeing your mother, excluding you from conversations about her care, and attempting to deny you your share of inheritance?

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 30

I appreciate Courtney's take on this. My hot take: I advocate open communication with your children.

Also: special surveillance shoe = my new band name

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Jul 30

I mean, if you want to do that you can just carabiner it openly to their belt loop and you can wear one too and you tell them why openly without buying a special surveillance shoe.

ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 30

Me, too, except I'm scrolling on my laptop in bed, and it's technically only 1:50am.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Jul 30

It’s MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

steve harrington’s hair swoop @uxalchemist.blacksky.app · Jul 30

man what the fuck

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Baby*" Bio MWF (*as my med school bf at the time called it).
After the extremely long, multiple choice midterms and finals, my friends and I would go to the West End for morning celebratory whiskey shots, pretending we were beatniks (except we didn't drop out of school).

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Jul 28

What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.

Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · Jul 28

I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.

Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...

ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 29

You don't need to "stop and frisk" that guy to know what he had planned.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 26

I hope their endless attacks on her only make her stronger. Goddess protect her. I remember when she was first elected, they thought they could make her dancing in a video into a scandal. Does she already have $200 haircuts and $300 dutch ovens? What a world.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 26

I bet that guy doesn't even make good coffee.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 26

Anxiety turned into beauty! 💗

Years ago, I drew my mom a birthday card: me as a New York fashionista wearing a long grey knitted coat and red boots wishing her a happy birthday. Some time later, she surprised me with a coat she'd made based on the drawing: all grey wool crocheted granny squares!

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 25

little shakin'
little tenderizin'
an' down you go

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 25

Ha! I was just thinking that if you had asked me a little over a year ago, my guess would've been the same. Now though? I'm pretty sure he's the guy who ripped his shirt off for 47.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 24

I lol'd at this, so that's something. Seriously though, you give us comic relief; you foster community by connecting people through their shared joy of your work; and I think you've had an impact on the evolution of humor in political comics/comics in general. Thanks for your alchemy.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you!

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you so much! She has found some information online, and this is all helpful. We've yet to find a native nursery, and she knows this is a longterm project. Thanks again.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 23

My daughter is trying to convert my mom's garden to native plants. Are there any resources you can recommend? We're in southern CA. My mom took out the lawn 50 years ago, but her beautiful garden is not all native plants.

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 22

Nice to see a JetPens shoutout. 🖋️

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ha! Yes, it was cool. My cool New York years. 😇

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 21

In college I applied for a job @ Cartier. I had to take their ethics test. There were questions like "The janitor takes $100 from the till to buy lifesaving medicine for his child. He repays it the next day. Do you fire him?" I wouldn't & I didn't get the job. Worked @ the Russian Tea Room instead.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Jul 21

god i'm so tired of job hunting in 2025 dog i'm NOT TAKING your little personality test!!!! get the fuck out of here!!!!!

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 21

💗

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 21

I read that in Pidgin's voice. ❤️

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ina lina @inasketch.bsky.social · Jul 20

Thanks. 💕😘

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