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Carole U
@caroleu.bsky.social
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Often affable.
(I was @scarycookies at the other place)

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Post a famous bathroom scene
Botticelli's Birth of Venus, 1485, also known as Venus on the half shell because the goddess is standing on what looks like the kraken of scallop shells as she steps naked out of the ocean. This is an inside joke of sorts, because when I was 14 I was given a print of this exact image and it's been on the wall in the bathroom of every home I've had since then. That's a lot of bathrooms. And it's a famous painting. Hence famous bathroom scene. Also, Venus could be said to be bathing. Anyhow, never mind, keep scrolling.
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Yes, a gryphon is already part eagle. This is still good.
Someone named Kara posted the following: Dear my non-American friends, I know Thanksgiving's a little confusing, so I'll try to break it down for you. Today is the day we celebrate the freeing of the United States from the reign of terror of Lord Gobble, a 50-foot tall turkey/Sasquatch hybrid who demanded human sacrifices every November. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln rode his eagle-gryphon into battle, singlehandedly slaying Lord Gobble and freeing us from our blood oath to our fearsome tyrant. In celebration of this momentous victory, we consume the corpses of his descendants and parade our largest and most influential cartoon characters through the streets of New York as a display f power, so that history will not repeat itself. Hope that clears things up.
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Sign in a public garden says, “Do not touch caterpillars, cocoons, butterflies”
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once
Super fun French anthology murder procedural series on MHz channel with English subtitles called "Perfect Murders". It was a toss up between this and "Murder In" which I've also watched all the way through a few times but that's more a series of individual TV movies whereas this one does repeat detectives fairly often.
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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p.s. out of order because himself tends to reread at random
The Dungeoncrawler Carl series by Matt Dinneman, stacked horizontally
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Also a well-meaning gift:
My coffee cup says, “You’re awesome keep that shit up” in a mismatched cacophony of fonts.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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If you see this post a bird
Mostly a picture of Pacific Ocean water (taken from the sidewalk in San Diego) but there’s a seagull having itself a lil floaty float so it fits the brief but really, the shot is about 85% water.
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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sugar is bad for you, have a cigarette in a long holder instead
1920s flapper style woman with shingled brown hair in a Marcel wave and double string of pearls holding a cigarette in a long holder to her lips
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Return To Oz movie poster with the bottom bit of frame from a painting I hung slightly over it due to a lack of wall space (the bright pink is the wall)
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Or they can ask this guy:
Edward Mulhare as the titular Ghost, from The Ghost & Mrs Muir which seemed super romantic when I saw it in reruns as a child. Then again, there were also Reta Shaw and Charles Nelson Reilly who both probably helped teach tiny me about gender roles in a patriarchal society.
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Judge a seafood restaurant by the art in its Ladies Room.
A photo of a print of a painting of a mariner at the helm of a ship in a storm. The print is faded, but in a respectable wooden frame. Look for it on the west wall of the Ladies Room in the Fisherman’s Catch in Oxnard, CA.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Lest we forget.
Faded photo of a Marine gunnery sergeant during World War 2 who much, much MUCH later became my dad.
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I was sure there’d be a devilled egg recipe in here but there wasn’t 😭
“A Treasury of Great Recipes” by Mary and Vincent Price yes that Vincent Price this is a real cookbook
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This is what happens when you search "Victorian squirrel free images". It's a squirrel in what I think is an old school conductor hat and vest, although it could be a bandleader for all I know. I thought it was a painting when I saw the thumbnail, but now I'm afraid it's AI. My conscience wants me to delete it, but sunk cost and all that so fuck it, here I go hitting save and send sorry
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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augustales: told my parents i miss archaeology and my mom was, very sympathetically, like: "do you want to dig holes in the garden?" and i was like, yes, i want to dig holes in the garden. ruffboijuliaburnsides: my wife, after reading this to me aloud: It's your people!... do you want me to break a clay pot for you to put back together? me, burying my face in my hands: Maybe...? mycrofttfh: These are both moods, but unfortunately I am primarily a bioarchaeologist. (IE I specialize in digging up old human skeletons.) And, uh, home-made bioarchaeology is tragically discriminated against by law enforcement. autie-girl-power: Only if you get caught The End. Thanks for reading.
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Luckily google reaches to the 1970s
A pink box of Mr Bubble bubble bath on what's supposed to look like a bathtub rim next to a bath brush in front of a white tile wall. Circa the mid 1970s? I dunno, I put "1970s Mr Bubble box image" into the search engine and hit the button.
October 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Just in case anyone has “Doggie Pilates” on their bingo card
Teal-shaded window of a posh dog spa (as opposed to non-posh dog spas wtf was I thinking) one pane has a sign saying “Dog walking services” which makes sense but the other sign says “Doggie Pilates” which sounds like nonsense.
October 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Boo hoo, oh “you’re sorry we feel this way”? Fuck you. It’s still too soon.
Outdoor mall ginormous Xmas tree, behind a sign that says “Too early for a tree? We know, we know” and a timeline of their Christmas schedule which includes installing an outdoor ice rink requiring a month of freezing time and other bothersome whatnots that are hard to read and type here but basically they’re doing stuff between now & December so neener neener. Effectively.
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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No, I wasn't scrolling you-know-where. Someone posted this on Quora. Given everything else that's in your feed right now, I thought you could use a little whimsy.
(Also, it's charming AF.)
Christine @CBones705 apparently posted this. There is a posed photo of three sturdy smiling white guys, looks like Grandpa, Dad and Adult son, on a city sidewalk that could be New York, under the words: "When I was in the city last week, these three Irishmen asked me to take a photo of them, but none of them had phones. 'you'll take the picture and we'll find it someday' so if by some strange turn of events anyone knows these guys, here's their photo.
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Cartoon attributed to @wawawiwacomics: a cute octopus a cute shark and a cute jellyfish are talking. The cute octopus says, "I once saw a human and peed myself." The cute shark says, "A human saw me, and he peed himself." The cute jellyfish says, "A human touched me once, and his friend peed on him." To which the octopus reacts "Dude" and the shark says, "What?" All of which goes to prove that pee is funny. Thank you, Wawa Wiwa.
October 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Mixed messages, the top two don’t count.
Closed glass double doors leading to a bar. Signs on the doors read: (top left) some kind of beer, (top right) a halloweeny Welcome sign that says “Welcome to the dark side, then the pertinent ones to my point, bottom left says ‘Yes, we’re open’ while bottom right says Closed. Spoiler: the place was closed.
October 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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You made me realize that my clock is off by a day
A one week clock which is set to noonish on Saturday even though at the time I took this it’s about 8:30 on Sunday morning. Maybe I should replace the battery.
October 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I thought it said colon eater dammit ha ha I’m so silly
Sign in front of a shrub says “Cotoneaster dammeri ‘Lowfast’ Bearberry cotoneaster
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Sorry, Moon! I could swear I mentioned it before. Next time you’re in a Trader Joe’s, ask an employee what the store’s stuffed animal is then look up, it’s usually above eye level out of reach of little hands.
A raccoon Trader Joe mascot, from a store I don’t go to often enough to remember which one it was. Ostrich Trader Joe mascot stuffed animal, pretty sure this is from the one on Lake St in South Pasadena but maybe not
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The goodest cake.
Pictured on an ornate gold-colored repoussé-ed base (like a very short pedestal) is an elegantly frosted three tier wedding cake with dignified floral bits on top all geometric and symmetrical white on white, very tasteful and refined but at the bottom of the middle tier a little dog face is poking out of the frosting. Looks like a golden lab to me, but in any case it is obviously a Very Good Doggy wif widdle paws too. The incongruity is charmingly hilarious.
September 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM