To celebrate the 5,000 yoga sessions, you get today’s poem. 😁 simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/body-go

body go

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That’s a lot of yoga sessions. 😄 This app has kept me going through some really challenging times. Very grateful. #yoga #app #DownDogApp

🤗🥰 Spoons and a fiddle 💓 #music www.instagram.com/reel/DbqooCj...

I’m completely enamored by these and have one every night before taking a shower and heading to bed. These are the chocolate ones and I rotate between them, blueberry and coconut chocolate. Not really sure how this happened. 😄

Amy's meals are not cheap, and they are good, and reasonably good for you too! Not so much when they have a rock in them though. mark.orbum.net/s/found-a-ro...

Found a Rock in Amy's Meals

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Status: outside in an industrial park waiting to see a clerk at the department of motor vehicles.

Well, after just having decided to go back to Apple Music from Spotify, Apple Music increased their price by $1/mo. So, I've decided to unsubscribe from all streaming music services, and instead use old school stuff. Hopefully, that'll be good enough. #music mark.orbum.net/s/cancelling...

Cancelling Paid Music Streaming

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Claude can be really thoughtful sometimes.

the crab god, paradoxically, requires radical vulnerability from its followers #camanoisland

dad's shirt when a parent dies the strangest things become unexpected reminders, even monuments to a memory of a professional who became a person every bit as real as you are only remembering missing much that once seemed filled #poetry #poemaday #death simplesigns.asphere.blue/s/dad-s-shirt

dad's shirt

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The thought of this in the morning is the only good thing about going to sleep. #coffee

I know we sure could use more tradespeople out here! Supposedly AI-proof 🙂 #trades #employment #education The Influencers Selling Gen Z on Blue-Collar Work Free link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Influencers Selling Gen Z on Blue-Collar Work

Welding, plumbing and carpentry are almost AI-proof. Online creators are urging young people to get trained up.

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I wonder if Putin will run away to China when his time is up, like Assad ran away to Russia. #ukraine China Again Warns Russia Not to Use Nuclear Arms Against Ukraine www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China Again Warns Russia Not to Use Nuclear Arms Against Ukraine

China has again told Russia not to even consider using a nuclear weapon against Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Wretched beasts! 😄 At least i got my nice "rose vs. van" photo taken first. #pnw #wildlife #gardening #deer

A tragedy 🥲 Donald Trump, JD Vance won't attend U.S.-Belgium World Cup match in Seattle, King County spokesperson says www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Trump, Vance won't attend U.S. World Cup match in Seattle, King County spokesperson says

A King County spokesperson said, "We've been told that neither the president nor the vice president will be attending" Monday's U.S.-Belgium World Cup match.

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So strange the heater is kicking on in July! And no, I am not complaining! 😄 #pnw #weather

I tried Spotify for a while instead of using Apple Music. Too long to fit here so I wrote it up. mark.orbum.net/s/spotify-vs...

Apple Music is really pushing the sad songs on me lately. Right next to the happy ones. Then a cut-in-half Love. Perhaps Siri is becoming poetic.

letting the yard do what it wants #pnw #bloomscrolling #perrenials

Had my yearly physical today. Key takeaway: I have a 3% chance of dying from a cardiovascular event in the next 10 years. 😄

I guess I’ve been using the Down Dog app for a while 😄🧘‍♂️ #fitness #yoga

I had never heard of this guy before, but I really loved this album. Kevin Morby, Little Wide Open. A bit Bob Dylan-esque but... I think it's the lyrics that got me. #music music.apple.com/us/album/lit...

Little Wide Open by Kevin Morby on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 13 Songs

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Well that’s been a long time coming! Can’t wait to hear it! 🤗 #music #bach

Nature’s gonna do me in #pnw #ivy #bloomscrolling

The van isn’t winning this battle #bloomscrolling #rose

Letting the landscape do the landscaping #pnw #landscape

A really nice, short tribute to David Hockney #lgbtq #painting www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Remembering revolutionary painter David Hockney and his artistic legacy

British artist and painter David Hockney, one of the most celebrated art icons of the 20th and 21st centuries, died at the age of 88. Jeffrey Brown has a look at his life and legacy.

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Irrefutable scientific proof that I love cloudy, rainy summers 😄

There is an ISO 3101 standard for brewing tea. 🫖 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

Ooo we have some white versions adding to the #perennials 🤗 I admit I’ve been giving slightly extra care this year. #pnw #bloomscrolling