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Yvonne Eliot
@y-eliot.bsky.social
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Currently adrift, curious where I may be carried
https://yvonne-eliot.carrd.co/
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL
The brilliant and engaging @lizziewade.bsky.social is now on BlueSky!
Step 1: Go read Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
Step 2: Follow Lizzie
Photo of the book Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures by the incomparable Lizzie Wade. Seriously: this book (and the author) is freaking brilliant.
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Road trip from Tampa back to California. My friend drove yesterday's leg, After *hours* she said, "We're still in Florida?? This feels like driving in California!"
Me, driving today on the 10, seeing smoke: "You're right! It *is* like driving in California!"
😃
Smoke from a brush fire on the side of a freeway.
October 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Good night 😺
Close up of a tuxedo cat draped awkwardly in the basket of a cat tree, belly up, back leg akimbo, head cocked to look at you sideways. Perched atop a different section of the cat tree is a grey and white shorthair cat pretending to be a bread loaf. Beyond is a clothes tree covered in hats, which more or less rhymes but isn't as cute as the critters.
October 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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This made me think of @jbensonink.bsky.social
Kard dagger, 18th century. Rajasthan, India. Damascus steel blade with ivory grip sculpted as a parrot, ruby-inlaid eyes, gilt ring-nut featuring floral decorations. Copyright Czerny's International Auction House.
August 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Snoozy kitties.
A melted grey and white cat lying next to a not quite as melted tortoiseshell cat.
July 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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The inside of this old library book hits different now. 😕
Photo of the inside of an old library book showing the pocket where it once held the card to record when and by whom it was checked out. Typed on the pocket is the Dewey Decimal code 321.4 T. The author is typed as Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de. That is a lot of names. Underneath is the title of the book: Democracy in America, along with some information about the edition, which is dated c 1945. Above the card pocket, stamped in red ink, all caps, it says OFFICIALLY WITHDRAWN.
July 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Gesundheit
Mature, blown out roses popping out from between brown, wooden fence slats.
July 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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TFW your awesome kid gifts you the Bakugou Katsuki Discord icon decoration 🥰❤️
Screenshot from my Discord profile showing the flaming Y that I use as my logo enhanced with representations of My Hero Academia character Bakugou Katsuki's spiky headgear and metal neck brace. Not shown: the icon ripples with tiny explosions. Next to my icon is the phrase "Fandom Mom. I bring snacks" and an emoticon smiley. Beneath the icon is my Discord handle y v e _ e and my pronouns of she/her. Everything about this makes me smile.
July 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Good morning. ❤️
Single red rose blossom popping out through a crack in a brown wooden fence.
June 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Near the American Embassy in Berlin, two people are holding up signs at the end of a No Kings protest. One of the signs says "BY the people FOR the people." The other says "No Tyrants." I'm holding the first one.
June 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Went shopping today. 😃
Paperback of La Mort de l'auteur, the French translation of Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author. In the lower corner of the picture can be seen part of a Paris Navigo metro pass.
June 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Sharing in case anyone else needs to virtually rub their face into a floofy kitty tummy ☺️
My tabby colored Maine Coone is sleeping on her back, stretched out on my bed, with SO MUCH WHITE FLOOFY TUMMY just begging to have faces buried into it.
May 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Of *course* the US version has to be bigger than everyone else. 🙄🤪🙃
Several issues of the My Hero Academia manga standing together on a bookshelf. The Japanese and French ones are roughly the same size, while the American one is about a centimeter and a half taller than the others. In the foreground, a Robert Maxwell pottery creature looks on in appalled disbelief.
May 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The way these 2 posts appeared in my feed made me think you were responding to Olivia's post. FWIW my reaction was, "Well, she likes throwing dead bodies into her romance, so maybe this *is* her happy place." 🤪😁
Post from Olivia Waite that says, "Remember that tomorrow is Friday and they’re going to do something unhinged and mean just for the meanness of it, so brace yourselves as best you can today and build up a little protective store of joy so you can push what needs pushing." This is immediately followed by a post from Ursula Vernon/T.Kingfisher that says, "So the last few days got me thinking about some research I did into horrible ways people die in coal mines, specifically mine gas. (I read about a lot of coal mine disasters when I was working on the next Sworn Soldier book. Never be a coal miner in the 1800s if you can avoid it.)"
May 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I love finding teeny flowers. ☺️
A scattering of very small five-petaled flowers against a backdrop of rocks and dirt and twigs. One flower is kind of pinky purple colored and the others are white.
May 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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A little friend was confused by my floral purse 😃🐝
A bee is crawling on the flowers printed on my purse.
May 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I've loved Paul Bond's energy and art for years and am finding that his poetry sings as well.

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Doing the Real Work You may move bricks dirt, dishes, paint, words from here to there meet privately with forlorn whales in the southern archipelagos, translating their melodic languages or scan boarding passes for those who fly with the urgency of swans towards something that feels like love. Perhaps you sit as a witness for the dying or for the living who do not yet know that they are dying or do you pull things – weeds, teeth, thick, heavy ropes. The point is, it really doesn't matter what you say you are doing while you’re on the clock because I’ve seen you through the shop window late in the night, doing the real work of polishing the crowns and ironing the iridescent wings you all arrived with. ~ Paul Bond Painting by Paul Bond of a swan perched upon a rock on sand, surrounded by a circle of lit candles as water softly laps upon the shore. Tall brick arches rising from the water loom in the background while a full moon palely shines in a dusky sky. A scattering of swans flies in the distance. The swan in the foreground wears a golden coronet.
April 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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The mighty huntress paused, causing her mottled fur to #blend into her surroundings. Her prey, oblivious, slept unaware of the danger. Time suspended… She pounced! A flailing! A squawk! Then both cats tumbled off the couch.
#wss366
A photo of our tortoise shell cat trying to look innocent.
April 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Traffic jam.
A couple of burros, seen through my windshield, are hanging out in the middle of the street.
April 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I have a feeling @nicholasatwater.com would appreciate this. (Be sure to read alt text)😀
Unfortunately, I misplaced the credit for this, but the RMCC on the uniform stands for Royal Canadian Mounted Mandalorians.
April 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Good night.
An amorphous lump of tortoise shell colored fur is lying atop the highest platform of a cat tree.
March 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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I decided to upgrade the esthetics of my car.
Sticker on rear windshield on an iconic Smokey the Bear head. It is wearing mirrored aviator sunglasses. One lense is reflecting a majestic mountain peak fringed in tall pine trees. The other reflects a desert scene full of Saguaro cacti. Across its park ranger hat, in all caps, is the word RESIST.
March 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Snow flock 😃🐥❄️
A cluster of adorable little snow ducklings made with a mold.
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Goodnight.
Shorthair tuxedo cat curled up with paw over his face.
March 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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For reference, this is Bucket now. ☺️
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM