mollypeonies
@mollypeonies.bsky.social
Question asker. Comms & systems-change strategist. Policy research and advocacy. Writer. Recovering journalist. Mongoose. Neurodivergent nail biter and hair flipper. 🐶🪐🦄
Antifa List Member. She/They
Antifa List Member. She/They
Can anyone recommend someone/a place for a paper mache course? Or even like an in-home course? (yes, it is technically papier-mâché).
Want to do one with a teen. But want to have some organizing/structure around it so I have a better process versus just randomly making more disorder and chaos.
Want to do one with a teen. But want to have some organizing/structure around it so I have a better process versus just randomly making more disorder and chaos.
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Can anyone recommend someone/a place for a paper mache course? Or even like an in-home course? (yes, it is technically papier-mâché).
Want to do one with a teen. But want to have some organizing/structure around it so I have a better process versus just randomly making more disorder and chaos.
Want to do one with a teen. But want to have some organizing/structure around it so I have a better process versus just randomly making more disorder and chaos.
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Ope. I guess I need a new furnace. Will have to use space heaters until I can get it replaced. It lived till 25 at least!
Any tips/advice on replacing my entire system? Didn’t you recently do this @dbrauer.net?
Any tips/advice on replacing my entire system? Didn’t you recently do this @dbrauer.net?
It’s a great day for my heat to go out again! My poor 23-year-old furnace has already had to be revived twice in the last year.
Someone say a “prayer” for the lil fella and me
Someone say a “prayer” for the lil fella and me
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Ope. I guess I need a new furnace. Will have to use space heaters until I can get it replaced. It lived till 25 at least!
Any tips/advice on replacing my entire system? Didn’t you recently do this @dbrauer.net?
Any tips/advice on replacing my entire system? Didn’t you recently do this @dbrauer.net?
It’s a great day for my heat to go out again! My poor 23-year-old furnace has already had to be revived twice in the last year.
Someone say a “prayer” for the lil fella and me
Someone say a “prayer” for the lil fella and me
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It’s a great day for my heat to go out again! My poor 23-year-old furnace has already had to be revived twice in the last year.
Someone say a “prayer” for the lil fella and me
Someone say a “prayer” for the lil fella and me
Who would you rather have at your dinner table today. An ardent Trumper? Or a an ardent Frey supporter?
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Who would you rather have at your dinner table today. An ardent Trumper? Or a an ardent Frey supporter?
911: “What’s your emergency?”
Me: “Um, hello, um… I have OCD and I am considering ironing my tablecloths and napkins? Even though it doesn’t matter?!”
911: “M’am, you need to gather up your beeswax candles. They are great for emergencies.”
Me: “Um, hello, um… I have OCD and I am considering ironing my tablecloths and napkins? Even though it doesn’t matter?!”
911: “M’am, you need to gather up your beeswax candles. They are great for emergencies.”
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
911: “What’s your emergency?”
Me: “Um, hello, um… I have OCD and I am considering ironing my tablecloths and napkins? Even though it doesn’t matter?!”
911: “M’am, you need to gather up your beeswax candles. They are great for emergencies.”
Me: “Um, hello, um… I have OCD and I am considering ironing my tablecloths and napkins? Even though it doesn’t matter?!”
911: “M’am, you need to gather up your beeswax candles. They are great for emergencies.”
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The Macy's Parade has an unusual theme this Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The Macy's Parade has an unusual theme this Thanksgiving.
Is it weird that three people contributed to this story and all of them are white?
Does that just speak to MN in general? To the lack of diversity in newsrooms? To what old-guard newspapers believe about "bias" and "too close to a story"? Is it all of the above? www.startribune.com/somalis-reac...
Does that just speak to MN in general? To the lack of diversity in newsrooms? To what old-guard newspapers believe about "bias" and "too close to a story"? Is it all of the above? www.startribune.com/somalis-reac...
Minnesota Somali community grapples with fraud cases while pushing back against stereotypes
The largest Somali community in the U.S. is finding itself the subject of unwanted attention in the wake of criminal investigations and attacks from the Trump administration.
www.startribune.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Is it weird that three people contributed to this story and all of them are white?
Does that just speak to MN in general? To the lack of diversity in newsrooms? To what old-guard newspapers believe about "bias" and "too close to a story"? Is it all of the above? www.startribune.com/somalis-reac...
Does that just speak to MN in general? To the lack of diversity in newsrooms? To what old-guard newspapers believe about "bias" and "too close to a story"? Is it all of the above? www.startribune.com/somalis-reac...
I am what many would consider a “wine snob.” This makes me feel terrible for so many reasons.
1. What an asshole
2. I grew up poor. So “judging” shitty one makes me feel like I am turning my back on my trashy-ass upbringing/truth.
3. I cannot drink shitty one bc it is absolutely repulsive to me.
1. What an asshole
2. I grew up poor. So “judging” shitty one makes me feel like I am turning my back on my trashy-ass upbringing/truth.
3. I cannot drink shitty one bc it is absolutely repulsive to me.
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I am what many would consider a “wine snob.” This makes me feel terrible for so many reasons.
1. What an asshole
2. I grew up poor. So “judging” shitty one makes me feel like I am turning my back on my trashy-ass upbringing/truth.
3. I cannot drink shitty one bc it is absolutely repulsive to me.
1. What an asshole
2. I grew up poor. So “judging” shitty one makes me feel like I am turning my back on my trashy-ass upbringing/truth.
3. I cannot drink shitty one bc it is absolutely repulsive to me.
I have mentioned this like 100 times and still no “investor” has bitten on it.
But hear me out: A modern “pulley system” for recycling and trash in Minneapolis.
From homes to the alley.
Free for disabled and elderly folks, paid for by tax dollars.
Thanks, and I will only require 8% profit.
But hear me out: A modern “pulley system” for recycling and trash in Minneapolis.
From homes to the alley.
Free for disabled and elderly folks, paid for by tax dollars.
Thanks, and I will only require 8% profit.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I have mentioned this like 100 times and still no “investor” has bitten on it.
But hear me out: A modern “pulley system” for recycling and trash in Minneapolis.
From homes to the alley.
Free for disabled and elderly folks, paid for by tax dollars.
Thanks, and I will only require 8% profit.
But hear me out: A modern “pulley system” for recycling and trash in Minneapolis.
From homes to the alley.
Free for disabled and elderly folks, paid for by tax dollars.
Thanks, and I will only require 8% profit.
I am a perpetual high school student because I will laugh at this and say it in my head—or out loud *to myself*— like a bro every single time.
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I am a perpetual high school student because I will laugh at this and say it in my head—or out loud *to myself*— like a bro every single time.
My doctor: “With your aneurysms, you should not lift anything more than 30 lbs.”
Me, picking up the now 52-lb puppy every day to weigh her because I am obsessed with how puppies grow: “Meh, we all gotta go some way, right?”
If this is how I die someone post a pic of me doing this on my tombstone
Me, picking up the now 52-lb puppy every day to weigh her because I am obsessed with how puppies grow: “Meh, we all gotta go some way, right?”
If this is how I die someone post a pic of me doing this on my tombstone
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My doctor: “With your aneurysms, you should not lift anything more than 30 lbs.”
Me, picking up the now 52-lb puppy every day to weigh her because I am obsessed with how puppies grow: “Meh, we all gotta go some way, right?”
If this is how I die someone post a pic of me doing this on my tombstone
Me, picking up the now 52-lb puppy every day to weigh her because I am obsessed with how puppies grow: “Meh, we all gotta go some way, right?”
If this is how I die someone post a pic of me doing this on my tombstone
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Saint Paul, it’s go time. If we’re going to chart a different course than Minneapolis when it comes to how we deal with our police, now is the time.
No one should be tear gassed for protecting their neighbors, especially not with weak excuses from SPPD.
No one should be tear gassed for protecting their neighbors, especially not with weak excuses from SPPD.
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Saint Paul, it’s go time. If we’re going to chart a different course than Minneapolis when it comes to how we deal with our police, now is the time.
No one should be tear gassed for protecting their neighbors, especially not with weak excuses from SPPD.
No one should be tear gassed for protecting their neighbors, especially not with weak excuses from SPPD.
Look, I don’t know what kind of fancy things y’all are making right now, but I just dipped a Garden of Eatin’ yellow corn chip into some Lund’s “spicy” guacamole and it tastes like the best Dorito I have ever had and I’m pretty sure this constitutes homemade.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Look, I don’t know what kind of fancy things y’all are making right now, but I just dipped a Garden of Eatin’ yellow corn chip into some Lund’s “spicy” guacamole and it tastes like the best Dorito I have ever had and I’m pretty sure this constitutes homemade.
My sister died unexpectedly "around this week" 8 years ago now. I do not remember the exact day. I can remember so many things, so many dates, so many numbers. But I can never remember the *exact date.* Maybe because it was around Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving always falls on different dates.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
My sister died unexpectedly "around this week" 8 years ago now. I do not remember the exact day. I can remember so many things, so many dates, so many numbers. But I can never remember the *exact date.* Maybe because it was around Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving always falls on different dates.
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Hey @mayorcarter.bsky.social what the hell? @mayorher.bsky.social are you going to take a stance on this?
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hey @mayorcarter.bsky.social what the hell? @mayorher.bsky.social are you going to take a stance on this?
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I never figured out how to sit with it, how to be healthy and well-oriented to it, how to be normal and do normal helpful things in my control like volunteering at a food bank. That will probably destroy me. Or maybe I’ll stumble into another situation where I think I can try to stop the stars.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I never figured out how to sit with it, how to be healthy and well-oriented to it, how to be normal and do normal helpful things in my control like volunteering at a food bank. That will probably destroy me. Or maybe I’ll stumble into another situation where I think I can try to stop the stars.
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* Gummi bears weren't sold in the USA until 1981, after Haribo realized that many American service members and tourists were bringing the candy home from Europe. Gummi WORMS debuted the same year (1981), as a gross-out counterpart to the cute bears.
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
* Gummi bears weren't sold in the USA until 1981, after Haribo realized that many American service members and tourists were bringing the candy home from Europe. Gummi WORMS debuted the same year (1981), as a gross-out counterpart to the cute bears.
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Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family.
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family.
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
I feel like every year around this time I have an imaginary argument in my head with an imaginary person who schedules an imaginary meeting on the day before a long holiday weekend.
Happy Holiday Weekend of Fighting the Imaginary Embodiment of A White Capitalist Busy Body to all who celebrate.
Happy Holiday Weekend of Fighting the Imaginary Embodiment of A White Capitalist Busy Body to all who celebrate.
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I feel like every year around this time I have an imaginary argument in my head with an imaginary person who schedules an imaginary meeting on the day before a long holiday weekend.
Happy Holiday Weekend of Fighting the Imaginary Embodiment of A White Capitalist Busy Body to all who celebrate.
Happy Holiday Weekend of Fighting the Imaginary Embodiment of A White Capitalist Busy Body to all who celebrate.
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Driverless cars are one thing, but I hope we can all agree that we shouldn't be letting coats drive!
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Driverless cars are one thing, but I hope we can all agree that we shouldn't be letting coats drive!
Regardless of how many hours you are paid to work, how many hours of your week do you give to paid work and/or work related to it, including things like commuting time, etc?
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Regardless of how many hours you are paid to work, how many hours of your week do you give to paid work and/or work related to it, including things like commuting time, etc?
…And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
Can't you see it? Can't you feel it?
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
Can't you see it? Can't you feel it?
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
…And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
Can't you see it? Can't you feel it?
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
Can't you see it? Can't you feel it?
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer
I thought “Nuzzi” was just a meme version of “Nazi” people were using and assumed its origin was another insane DT late-night typo-riddled social media episode.
Like it was the new “covfefe”.
The Nuzzis are trying to distract us all!
Like it was the new “covfefe”.
The Nuzzis are trying to distract us all!
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I thought “Nuzzi” was just a meme version of “Nazi” people were using and assumed its origin was another insane DT late-night typo-riddled social media episode.
Like it was the new “covfefe”.
The Nuzzis are trying to distract us all!
Like it was the new “covfefe”.
The Nuzzis are trying to distract us all!
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The city of Lexington has 10,348 people. Closing this plant will push the equivalent of 1/3 of the town into unemployment.
Tyson Foods, the American meat industry titan, said on Friday that it would close down a major beef processing plant in Nebraska, as the U.S. faces high beef prices and its lowest cattle inventory in decades.
Tyson Foods to Shut Major Beef Facility in Nebraska
The processing plant, in Lexington, employs more than 3,000 workers. It is expected to close in January.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The city of Lexington has 10,348 people. Closing this plant will push the equivalent of 1/3 of the town into unemployment.