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Stairs to nowhere
Stone block building that is red/pink on the bottom half and white/gray on top. There are two concrete stairs but no door. A metal pole supporting the second story is on the left. Wood railing and diagonal wood siding can be partially seen above, on the second floor.
January 29, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Steamboat Rock, WA
In the foreground is sagebrush and other shrub steppe plants with Steamboat Rock in the far background. The sky is cloudy but with some blue sky peeking through just above the rock. Steamboat Rock has various colors depending on rock type and what’s growing on it, from lavender to light green to browns.
January 19, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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January 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Set a goal of 80 books for the year and ended with 104, which is not my highest ever but pretty impressive considering it was one of my most difficult years emotionally and physically. Lots of 5⭐️ reads and lots of new authors thanks to the #52bookclubchallenge.
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@thestorygraph 2025 wrap-up for tacomaven - 104 books finished, 31,206 pages read; top genres: literary, LGBTQIA+, thriller, science fiction, horror. Top authors: Matt Dinniman, Chuck Tingle, Albert Camus. Avg rating: 4.13/5⭐️. 5-star reads for 2025: James by Percival Everett, NorthWoods by Daniel Mason, On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, Pure Color by Sheila Heti, Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor, The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi, The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Grid of 52 Book Club ‘s 2025 Reading Challenge categories and the cover of each book that I read for each. Prompts all listed at https://www.the52book.club/2025-challenge-guide.
January 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Long Beach and Cape Disappointment State Park in WA, 10/10 day to wrap up 2025 #longbeachwa #capedisappointment
Gorgeous big tree with several trunk-like branches? Sun is shining through/behind and other spruce trees and ferns are in the surrounding forest. Cape Disappointment State Park trail. Man and dog walking on beach toward ocean, sun is barely at the top of the frame and reflected on the wet beach, sky is blue. Wave patterns in the sand, looks like dragon scales to me. Sediment or algae? In rivulet patterns left from tide going out on the beach.
December 31, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Historic gothic barn (category based on roof shape)
at Sunnyside, WA (new special interest alert) #historicbarns #gothicbarns #oldbarns
Slightly side view of a historic gothic barn (roof shape) in a green field, Sunnyside WA is the background, sky is blue with a few wispy clouds Close up vertical view of a historic gothic barn (roof shape), sky is blue with a few wispy clouds Straight on view from a distance of a historic gothic barn (roof shape) in a green field, Sunnyside WA is the background, sky is blue with a few wispy clouds, shadow of person taking the photo is in the foreground
December 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Framed poster from Max Mahn from TwinHomePrints.com with prism rainbows in a halo effect around the top of it and plant shadows on the wall. Print has robin egg blue background featuring a black sign with metal legs crossbraced, sign says “Fuck Off” in large white lettering with “Thanks” in much smaller white lettering below that. There are a couple small clouds on either side of the sign. The print is framed in black.
December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Forgot to post October’s @thestorygraph.com recap, but here’s November. 96 books finished this year so far. Lots of good ones this month. #52bookchallenge 💙📚#BookSky
Also a photo of our vegan Thanksgiving* dinner and a photo of a building that reminded me of photos I used to take.
Tacomaven’s November recap from The Storygraph app - 12 books finished, 3,029 pages, average rating 4.08/5⭐️. Highest rated reads: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (4.75/5), Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (4.75/5) and The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (4.5/5). Below that are various pieces, line and bar graphs breaking down genre, pages read per day and format. Clockwise from top right: biscuit with margarine and strawberry jelly, Gardein turk’y roast, mashed potatoes and peas, cornbread dressing on a maroon FiestaWare plate on a cutting board. A teal FiestaWare ramekin contains coleslaw with craisins, cabbage, sliced almonds, Dijon mustard maple syrup vinaigrette and topped with wonton strips. All vegan. 🌱 A medium dull yellow building with vertical strips in the right half. The shadow from the left side of the building that is more forward cuts diagonally across the uprights on the right. The left half of the building is built from concrete blocks with an angled roof on top. Near the center of the left side is a brighter patch of yellow paint that is probably covering graffiti. The asphalt in front of the is cracked and appears to have some yellowish coloring striated in it, maybe moss? The sky is clear and bright blue. Overall the photo has lots of angles and lines and colors and textures.
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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As we get ready to shop for Thanksgiving remember the farm workers who harvest the food. We wouldn't enjoy a #Thanksgiving dinner without their hard work. #WeFeedYou
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Our lil 150-seat movie theatre down the street did a midnight showing of RHPS. Only 4 people showed up- us and our neighbors! Still fun, still hilarious. Tim Curry is the GOAT.
Dark movie theatre with mouth on the screen wearing red lipstick and showing white teeth, the opening of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Red light is reflected up into the ceiling rafters of the theatre.
November 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Everything is terrible 🫠🫣😩 but today was beautiful. The rabbitbrush is in bloom. The shrub steppe is yellows, browns and greens. And my reading slowed in September but October should pick back up. 78 books finished this year so far.
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The edge of a lake as seen from the cliff above. The sparse vegetation is yellow, green and brown. Sandy/rocky soil. Low mountains are in the foreground. The sky is blue with white clouds which are reflected in the blue green water. An old road now used as a Sandy and rocky trail with rabbitbrush blooming yellow on either side. There are low mountains in the near distance with a partly cloudy sky. Rabbitbrush in bloom, spiky looking bright yellow flowers with green and gray branches inside the plant. Looks similar to sagebrush. tacomaven’s October @thestorygraph reading recap - 6 books read, 1,705 pages, average rating 3.71. Highest rated reads were all audiobooks: Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi (5/5⭐️), Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M Morris (4/5⭐️), and Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan (4/5⭐️). Bar, pie and line graph below breaks down genre, format and pages read per day.
October 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart
Painting with busy multicoloured floral motifs on a black background
September 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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August 2025 @thestorygraph.com recap - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman was bleak but good. Harlem Shuffle fulfilled “book with a heist” for #52bookchallenge. The Mighty Red was just good Midwestern family drama. 💙📚 #BookSky (71 books finished so far this year.)
Tacomaven’s August 2025 recap from The StoryGraph - 7 books finished = 2,462 pages, average rating 3.82/5. Top rated books: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (5/5), The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich (4/5), Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (4/5). Average book length: 385 pages, average time to finish: 16 days. Pie, bar and line graphs breaking down genres, formats, and pages per day.
September 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Tomato harvest coming up. Pretty proud of our efforts this year. Seeds saved from last year’s 4 plants.
#principeborghese #growyourown #seedsavers
August 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Summer garden by the SX-70
#sx70polaroid #summergarden #containergarden
Cherry tomatoes with a cage on Polaroid film Containers of tomato plants and a planter box of peppers in front of yellow house on Polaroid film Red/orange peppers with an unripe green one in the background on Polaroid film Out of focus Border Collie in front of container tomatoes, left 1/3 of the picture is undeveloped black, on Polaroid film
August 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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July @thestorygraph.com wrap-up: 10 books finished. Chaos was extremely interesting and deeply researched. Bat Eater was mysterious and emotional, so was Model Home. Recommend all 3. #booksky Brings me to 64 books finished in 2025 so far.
@tacomaven’s July 2025 wrap-up from The Storygraph app. 10 books finished. 2,652 pages read. Average rating: 4.15/5. Highest rated reads: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker (4.75/5, thriller/horror), Model Home by Rivers Solomon 4.75/5, queer horror/family drama), Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill (4.75/5, political history non-fiction). Average book length: 261 pages, average time to finish: 8 days. Bar, line and pie graphs depicting other stats like pages per day, genre and format.
August 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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niallharbison.bsky.social Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · Jul 30
The best day ever for 80 street dogs in Thailand.

In memory of 5 dogs we've lost over the last month including Big Tea / Kerry and the poisoned dogs.

What a day they had
July 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Went to pick up my hold for Harlem Shuffle (fulfills “heist” spot in #52bookchallenge) and our librarian had put this new one from @sgj.bsky.social on display - who can resist books with matching colors? The Babysitter Lives is the book on the flip side of Killer on the Road. Cool format. #booksky
Left book is Colson Whitehead’s novel Harlem Shuffle which has blocks of yellow, read and green and black text making up the cover. Right book is Killer on the Road by Stephen Graham Jones which has a black background with the title in large red letters and the main image is a woman’s face on monotone yellow with a small red car driving diagonally across the image to “rip” her face with a green skull revealed in the wake of the car. The author’s name is in smaller yellow text at the top of the book, which is a double saga meaning you flip it over to read the other novel in the reverse direction - The Babysitter Lives.
July 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Canada was a nice place to spend the Fourth sans fireworks. Saw a big “Fuck Trump Fuck the US” sign not far over the border which was welcoming, too.
Alley painting of a profile of a person with a crow head, arms clenched to chest and mouth open. A circle rainbow goes around their upper body. Below that are painted a variety of play names and dates when they were performed including The Age of Aquarius, Oliver, Godspell, Annie, and Sweeney Todd. Grassy park with lake and mountains in the background. A tall bronze post is topped with a sculpture of a heron head. A park bench is on the left facing the water. Border collie dog with stick in her mouth is wading out of the water toward shore after swimming to fetch it. Forested mountain in the background. Brightly colored kaleidoscopic alley painting of a small moose or caribou calf touching noses with an adult of the same species. Where their noses touch is the corner of the building. Yellow, blue and green and the predominant colors with pops or red and other colors.
July 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Definitely one that will stick with me for a while. See-eye-aye was (is) doing some crazy shit to keep us confused and complacent. Long, but worth the read.
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Just finished CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. This one kept coming up when I was researching the emerging silicon valley ethos. It's got a lot of great paranoia and really showcases the feeling of going down a conspiracy rabbit hole.
redbook cover with the word CHAOS repeated over the title "CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties" Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring
July 6, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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June wrap-up from @thestorygraph.com - currently at 54 for the year.
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June 2025 The Storygraph wrap up for @tacomaven - 7 books finished, 2,645 pages, average rating 4.18/5. Highest rated - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (5/5), Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (5/5), Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1) by Matt Dinniman (4/5). Average book length: 317 pages. Average time to finish: 9 days. Bar graphs and pie graphs breaking down formats and genres, line graph breaking down pages per day. @tacomaven’s June2025 reads. Clockwise from upper left: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (3.75/5), Frankenstein (abridged) by Mary Shelley (4/5), Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (5/5), The Lamb Lucy Rose (4/5), Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (4/5), One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (5/5), Serial Killer Support Group by Saratoga Schaefer (3.5/5)
July 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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July 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.
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June 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM