Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Governor Stein, this would work too! @ncgovernor.bsky.social
I'm a wordsmith. I'm a teen referee. I'm a bread baker. And I do it all for free. Well not really, I charge for the wordsmithing.
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Governor Stein, this would work too! @ncgovernor.bsky.social
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
That video was amazing too
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s my dentist and he is awesome and so is the staff! I feel so safe there. He has referred my kids to a Covid safe(ish) orthodontist too. I wish my regular doctors were like him!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Can you do this too, Governor Stein? @ncgovernor.bsky.social
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Amazing! She's my rep and I've been really impressed with her so far, even before this.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you have a Great Harvest bread store near you? We have one down here in NC and they always have samples of sandwich bread, scones, muffins, cookies, etc. Delicious!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why I watch so many shows and read so many books, I need an escape if just for an hour here or an hour there. 😕
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Received a compliment on my shirt today and responded with a gracious thank you and did not continue with where I got it and how much it cost and a general backstory of the brand. Kinda proud of myself.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
What a smart, funny little dude! ❤️
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure, but was hoping and was hoping I could use one of the many pre-existing conditions listed or I was hoping I just roll up and get one and maybe have to pay instead of it being covered by insurance.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Same! I just checked the CVS website and it said they are expecting updated COVID vaccines in the coming days. I'll keep my fingers crossed!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm glad I quit way before 2016 because I don't think I'd ever be able to now. Whew.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, I can feel secondhand stress relief from your pictures in nature, thank you for sharing!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Just finished @hco96.bsky.social book and wow. Best book I’ve read all year and I read a lot of books! I was not aware of this story and I’m glad I know of it now. Frightening to see similarities with what’s happening in our country now. The courage and determination of the abuelas was inspiring!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
A perfect album in my opinion and have also passed it on to my teenage boys now and they love it too (and they listen to mostly rap and hip hop).
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate hate hate how everything just falls back to white men running for president, just like old times. I do not want another white male leader of this country! It has not worked out well and I'm sick of it!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I just don't understand how hard it is to support EVERYONE.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Definitely revisit! They've had three or four more albums since then and they are just as good as Magazine, if not better! Actually check out the Dock Street recordings! I swear they are better live. open.spotify.com/album/4wIkcl...
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm so happy for them! I love Guster! But at the same time, I'm sad for Jump, Little Children, that they didn't go as mainstream (and Guster opened for them back in the day)...has anyone heard of Jump, Little Children? If not, check them out. They're my absolute favorite!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't you know that was such a good feeling for the doctor! The pediatrician who diagnosed my three-week old, we still see, and he's 15! And we just love her so much. I'm glad all is well!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
But it's an old vaccine, right? Right now, isn't it still the one from last year?
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Feel free! Just put a TM after it ok? JK. 😂
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
As quick-witted and good at making up hilarious names for people as you are, I can already picture any child of yours making those bullies quake in their little crocs. I love it.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel you and am sending you much love and support! ❤️
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
😂😂😂
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought of those peppermint puffs too! And the strawberry hard candy wrapped in a strawberry looking wrapper
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like that particular model could work well as a haircut mask too...no straps to get in the way!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
New week, new (good) cry. 😭❤️
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
I was trying to think of the best way to fight fascism and I got it! I'm changing my company name!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
That needs to be painted and hung in a museum!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Just started it today! It’s amazing already and I’m embarrassed by how much world history I didn’t know.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for this post! It’s nice to see a healthcare provider still masking. I appreciate you!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no! A very similar thing happened to my youngest when he was 3 weeks old so I understand what you’re feeling and I’m sorry y’all are going through this. Glad she’s on the mend though! Hope you are getting taken care of and loved on as well. ❤️
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Right? I felt like I woke up in bizarro world when I read that. Dear Lord.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you read Griffin Dunne’s recent memoir? It was wonderful. I love Joan Didion as well!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Holy cow I just flipped a grunt and slipped a disc in my back. Yikes!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Glad I saw this! I had the old website too and was about to mail them out. Will correct!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
If one of them is Southern, problem solved! Mayonnaise is like an artist’s color wheel to us!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Bless your heart, I am so sorry that happened to you! So glad you're feeling better though.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
That is true, she really does.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Guilty! Cried like a big ole baby. I loved that for her but I hate how it's making me not like Mrs. Huxtable.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Back on it. Join me if you can! Check out @tovoters.bsky.social
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember selling giant boxes of citrus fruit from Florida (I was in Alabama and this was probably 40 years ago lol) and being so grossed out that it wasn’t candy…now I look back and think it sounds delicious and kind of way ahead of its time
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok glad to finally see someone doing them vertically! I started to get paranoid that I should’ve been doing them horizontally this whole time! 😂
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Same! And when I edit a PDF, it’s like would you like an AI summary? No thanks, I have to edit the whole thing! 🤦
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for posting this! I've stockpiled postcards and stamps, waiting for a new campaign...will start putting them to use. 😀
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Hell yes. I love the concept of political empathy. Let's be like the Danes!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Glad everything went well!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Every time I shower, I'm like see, I'm washing my legs! I think I "not all white people" to myself! 😂
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I was just thinking the other day that so many of my generation's real world people are out here running things (GAH!) and what if the next generation's real world (AKA, the Jersey Shore people) take up the torch next, Lord help us, it's possible at this point.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I understand this feeling, coming from the same type of background. I will be your stand-in helicopter parent and send you good vibes and thoughts and hope everything goes well!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Same! I also just wanted to keep a record of these terrible times we’re living through.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
The Love Songs of W.E.B DuBois is one of my favorite books. I still marvel at how wonderful it was and how much work it probably took to create it, so yep. Well deserved!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Just cracked open a new book from the library and realized, pleasantly, that the font is really big and thought to myself, did they accidentally give me a large print copy? I was so happy! Then I felt really old. 😂
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Same. I wish there was a way to block his face and voice on here but still get the news.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel you! I was yelling about something administration related to my husband last night and he said "you're going to give yourself a heart attack and if you have a heart attack, he wins." which is true and sad and also made me laugh at how he phrased it. Sending hugs in solidarity! ❤️
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for sharing this, I can’t imagine how hard it was to write and put out into the world. I am so very sorry this happened to you. ❤️
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
A bio weapon that’s no big whoop, actually better get it if you can
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Holy cow, she's adorable! I love her name too! I hope you are doing ok and getting some good pain relief.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I spelled it wrong again, I quit!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Spoiler alert, I’m an editor so misspellings are not my uzsh per uzsh!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my god I spelled it wrong. 🤦
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
So that’s how you spell out “uzsh”. Thank you!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
On my library hold list for months! Must be popular! 😀 Can't wait to read it. I loved Wanderers so much.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
😭😭Bless these peoples' hearts, wow. I hope their gifts make their way to the people who need them!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
And the “newborn” baby will be at least four months old
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Ugh yes, the bad people!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like there was a Boudreaux in Queen Sugar
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Just finished @brosandprose.bsky.social book and really enjoyed it. Graduated from college many decades ago but this took me right back! A very relatable story. Definitely give it a read!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Am reading it right now and really enjoying it. Will post about it to my (very small amount of) followers when I’m done and hopefully that will get you some more readers! 😁
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Sending you good, positive vibes and love!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Could not agree more! I am able bodied as well and cook about as much and it is exhausting! Just the standing by itself. I think of my sister who has POTS and can't stand too much bc she gets lightheaded. I don't fault her one bit for getting delivery! Is her family fed? Yes, they are. Move on.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I am so tired of people telling me to believe the opposite of what I can see with my own eyes!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Giant flex! (to me anyway)...when I went to NC State (a long time ago), the only place to park was in a neighborhood on the side of the street and if there wasn't an opening at the very last spot where I could just pull in behind the last car, I'd skip class. I was that bad at parallel parking. 😂
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I would love to but it doesn’t show a message option on your profile.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes! I was just thinking of the example in that book where the white people didn't want to have to share the public pool with Black people, so they just got rid of the pool! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Same! It's always this!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
It was wild because she didn't seem sarcastic! I really enjoyed Tiffany Cross's show as well. I was excited to see her schooling someone on CNN the other day so that was nice!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I was watching "The Weeknight" show with Michael Steele, Simone Sanders, and Alicia Menendez in passing the other night and I heard Simone say how nice it was that they worked for a network where they could speak their mind and I immediately thought of Tiffany Cross!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Ego boost but only in that weirdly specific bubble. Anyone else would be like oh so you found a chapter in a book the fastest? Cool, I guess. 🤪
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Swords drills! Wow. I think that’s where my competitiveness started and it’s so WEIRD looking back on those things. 😂
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I just LOLd and scared myself because it was loud. It is very weird! And I’m a mom of two boys
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Just called my senators to urge them to vote no on Emil Bove for federal court judge and an actual person picked up for both of them! They were both very kind and it was nice to have that human interaction but when I hung up, I thought, ok, we need to make more calls if these lines are open!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Same in NC! Thank you both!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
100% Southern and very pro "y'all". I love how it's so inclusive. One of my favorite shirts is my "All Y'all" shirt from Bitter Southerner.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't usually buy books but I did check my library and they have it and I put it on hold. Can't wait to read it! 😀
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course! I was imagining a utopia without TERFs for sure.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Some days I imagine how cool it would be to live on that little island where Wonder Woman and her ladies live. Just sword fighting and wearing whatever we want.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Ya love to see it. I'm a library gal, but whenever I do buy books (mostly cookbooks), I always buy from bookshop.org. Here's a list of Black-owned bookstores to support. I just bought something from 44th & 3rd Bookseller in Atlanta yesterday. Show these peeps some love!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Just spite purchased a nice vegetarian cookbook from a Black-owned bookstore in Atlanta. Take that, suckers!!! (from somebody who only usually checks books out from the library) 😂
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for rocking your mask! I appreciate you! 😷
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Is your book a physical copy or just a digital one? I wanted to request a physical book from my library.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social)
Exactly.
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Same!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I sometimes feel so helpless when terrible things happen in other states but this makes me so happy because I wrote postcards for Judge Crawford, so even from NC, I feel like I helped my neighbors in WI in the smallest of ways. 😀
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
Aww man, I’m sorry about that! Blanket fort with everyone?
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
My mom hates loud noises and so does her (very old) dog, so for the past couple years during July 4th, she just takes the dog and checks into a hotel for the night. Little human and canine self-care. I love it. Maybe you could take a mini vacay with Tempo? 😀
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in NC and this is my dream setup! Also, will be my son's first time to be able to vote. What a time!
Ashley Cullen (@cleanupartist.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope you frame some of these bird pics...they are beautiful!