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Christa

@lutraphobia.bsky.social

Pickles are cucumbers. Vet clinic manager, avid gamer, former theatrical scenery nut, crochet is crack. lunarnoodle on xbox

created November 20, 2024

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Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, here on bsky.

31/8/2025, 5:02:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

My 1st thought!

31/8/2025, 9:46:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish this was a joke. BIL was arrested and charged with felony terroristic threat for posts here where he shared a meme joking about "is he dead yet?"

31/8/2025, 9:02:51 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

That. Thing he's doing. That's not how science works.

31/8/2025, 8:49:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Always love when @davidzinn.bsky.social hits my feed.

30/8/2025, 4:03:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Sort of feel like a tourist since I wasn't on the app formerly known as twitter, but I like this place just fine. Would visit again. πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ The occasional series of bsky dying threads is kinda funny and surreal to watch.

29/8/2025, 2:57:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 2:14:40 PM | 14583 4133 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

I took a Bible as lit class for part of an Eastern Lit block in college in TX. One Christian girl in the class ran out crying.

29/8/2025, 2:08:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

LOL. OK, sorry for the fall of democracy, I guess

28/8/2025, 4:51:34 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, a person can recognize more than one issue inherent in a problem. You can have a multimodal fret approach to our current state. It's also possible to look at underlying and long term implications of a thing. At some point, we have to look at how we got here. And what comes next.

28/8/2025, 4:24:51 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Is dark money and a lack of transparency with who's paying for political influence with our party and our politicians our biggest problem? Is not being able to trust where the message is coming from and if the message is accurate a problem? Yeah. It's definitely up there.

28/8/2025, 3:37:15 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure. Pay to get a better message out. Pay to fact check the disinformation and hate speech. OK. But why hide where the money's coming from? Why control to the letter the message of independent content creators? The subterfuge is the problem.

28/8/2025, 3:17:19 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This. So much needs repeating. This. Get big money out of our representation. You cannot serve it, and your constituents.

28/8/2025, 2:31:23 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

NY Post has this as well. Others are picking it up.

27/8/2025, 8:22:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

More than one thing can be true, that this person was trans and a bigot/white nationalist. I think the takeaway is that guns are the issue. It's really unfortunate that identity politics outweighs that fact and that, yet again, nothing substantial will be done in the aftermath to prevent this.

27/8/2025, 8:21:47 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

πŸπŸ’˜πŸ¦ πŸͺΊ πŸ‰(🐲)

27/8/2025, 7:44:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't wait til November.

27/8/2025, 4:07:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the cutest nightmare I ever feared come true.

27/8/2025, 3:11:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyday I'm painfully reminded that my expensive education was a big waste of time. Look what stupid can do!

26/8/2025, 7:39:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Came here to say this.

26/8/2025, 7:33:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

26/8/2025, 5:15:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

If Dem leadership has a question about attacking military deployment to police Americans, they need new leadership. If they're more worried about who they're alienating than who they should be protecting, then gtfo and make room for someone who gives a shit.

26/8/2025, 4:19:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

I've played all of them, except this one. Mostly because I've had other more pressing titles queued and was waiting for better sales on this. Given the UI and party control downgrades each iteration, I can believe the criticisms. I am excited to play this though since it's making it to game pass.

26/8/2025, 2:25:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted

OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

26/8/2025, 1:27:29 PM | 17394 2392 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Neat!

26/8/2025, 1:33:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

Really thoroughly sums up the doom part of the scroll that's been evolving these last months.

26/8/2025, 4:11:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel like I'm in that part of Pitch Black when the caravan running with the power cells breaks down and all the lights have gone out. Like this is the signal we're all fucked.

26/8/2025, 1:52:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh. Ok. That's really disturbing. The UK, too. Sucks, I have family that just escaped to Britian last week. Guess our Christmas gifts will be one way this year.

26/8/2025, 12:25:27 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

jfc this guy is embarrassing

25/8/2025, 11:55:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

I make fun of my sister all the time for her okra lovins, but to be fair, if it wasn't okra, I'd find something else. 😜

25/8/2025, 9:15:56 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Gitta rope

25/8/2025, 7:54:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Salsa in TX being as ubiquitous as katsup in other parts of the US, this ignorant ass may not have thought of salsa having any other ethnic origins.

25/8/2025, 7:52:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

That is some serious tude.

25/8/2025, 6:03:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Love this series. Got the boxed set (on CD!) after it aired. I've digitized the discs, but it's still a go to on my playlist.

25/8/2025, 5:59:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This is just one reason why two parties are not enough.

25/8/2025, 5:28:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Really though, this one would be the princess..

Baby alien/human hybrid from Alien 4
25/8/2025, 5:22:03 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Wish the US felt this way about trophy hunting.

25/8/2025, 3:01:05 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Just wait 'til the other kids tell him he's going to h-e-l-l. Fun times.

25/8/2025, 2:58:43 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leah Shaffer (@leahshaffer.bsky.social) reposted

Have you ever watched a tiny bird murder something? It's truly alarming.

a little birb shaped blorb of a yellow Great Tit, just adorable black head, white mask and yellow belly. The bird puts its foot atop a mouse it had killed. It smiles for the camera. Conversation about pic is as follows: A: So it turns out great titsl can and do kill and eat both other birds and mice, particularly during winter, and I just cannot get over this pic. It looks like the kind of photo hunters take with their kills. I'm losing it. Person B.
22/8/2025, 7:38:17 PM | 9 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This gen's version of crank calls?

21/8/2025, 6:46:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

I went to undergrad in Huntsville, TX, the home of a death row prison ppl call "The Walls". Seeing groups of ppl outside during executions, some screaming in favor and some opposed, is eerie. Surreal. The fact that even one person is executed in error is unforgivable. Hope this film helps end it.

21/8/2025, 5:18:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

So sorry for your loss

20/8/2025, 10:55:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

The literal tilting at windmills just kills me. It's too crazyoldman perfect. Super amusing until I remember I live in the country where that is the president.

19/8/2025, 5:32:43 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it's more likely the falcon is targeting the fox as a defense rather than for predation. Foxes eat young falcons. I think the fox leaving is the goal here.

19/8/2025, 2:39:29 PM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This is moot post mortem spin when Trump and others Rs have already blatantly said redistricting was about gaining seats.

18/8/2025, 6:21:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

No Dem is gonna thank him for military occupation of a US city.

18/8/2025, 6:17:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

How will military personnel and family abroad vote?

18/8/2025, 4:51:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm learning about him in this article. Since he's marketing himself by his Lutheran faith, if I lived in Iowa, I would want to know what Synod he's a member of. Some Lutherans are very socially conservative in their doctrines and espouse "traditional family values" and all that's coded to entail.

18/8/2025, 3:42:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

The slogans are so benign. The fact that they're being called out as wasteful, or at all, says a lot.

18/8/2025, 3:26:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

It's nuts. The Guardian US is the only large outlet covering this.

18/8/2025, 1:57:37 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

"Back to the basics of warfighting" on American streets

Soldiers in DC doing soldier stuff
15/8/2025, 4:32:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

"Constitutional interpretation" Yeah. Sure. If you pretend the 13th and 14th ammendments dont exist, accept, here's the thing, they do.

15/8/2025, 4:20:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

And they take umbrage with being called a gestapo. Walks like a, quacks like a...

14/8/2025, 9:34:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Had this happen on a nonchan message board I was moderating. Tracked my location to my employer, but luckily a separate building across town. And posted a photo on a rape fetish website with that address. Certainly sobering.

14/8/2025, 8:17:07 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Are there any legal restrictions to filming on a sidewalk? Or to filming police at a stop?

14/8/2025, 8:08:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

jmfc, every new day is stupider than the last

14/8/2025, 7:06:56 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

She must be doing a great job then.

14/8/2025, 6:10:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Where are they finding all these fucking nazis!? Seriously. Dicks just keep pouring out of the woodwork. Like they took the FBI domestic terror watch list and sent it to HR for recruiting.

13/8/2025, 10:43:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Not gonna lie, a little disappointed it's not real, but we'll entertained regardless.

13/8/2025, 5:53:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Missed the part about it being an April Fools joke from way back Not gonna lie. A little disappointed it's not real.

13/8/2025, 5:52:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

He is not lying it is well worth the read. This has to be the best Florida Man story I've seen. "...and a baby alligator."

13/8/2025, 5:51:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Engrave and chill

12/8/2025, 11:32:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/8/2025, 10:28:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

Holy shit, I'm reading more and this thread is downright cathartic. This is the therapy session I needed today but wouldn't wanna pay for.

12/8/2025, 10:05:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Go along with it and create rationale for it. Excuse it. Shit they were railing against before. Like I better not EVER hear another R rail against socialism when they're ok with this admin getting into oversight of every little thing.

12/8/2025, 10:02:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a true story. For pretty much the last decade. Mostly politically. Super tired of having everything framed through a lens of polls and demographics. I'm not an ad exec, I don't give a shit about approval ratings by race. I want to hear ideas for practical solutions to things.

12/8/2025, 9:34:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

Can't stop thinking about Skynet.

12/8/2025, 7:37:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, I've ONLY had mobile for the last 23 years so this is fascinating to me.

12/8/2025, 6:45:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Or maybe keep your GPS and camera and voice recorder for your grocery list and uninstall social media or other apps you want to avoid? Or is that too high tech for tech minimalism? I did like my flip phone back in the day though. Tactilely.

12/8/2025, 6:42:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the whole pickle right here. Ppl have to learn how to think. How to evaluate all the info coming at them, and to verify for themselves what's a reliable source. It seems like a skill that's not being taught most place now.

12/8/2025, 6:33:13 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

How do you survive the fire without the small joys?

12/8/2025, 6:09:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

Extremely disturbing when you consider this is most certainly not a one off. Illegal investigations being used against ppl already denied due process.

12/8/2025, 4:03:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bill Amend (@billamend.bsky.social) reposted

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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12/8/2025, 1:28:10 AM | 33054 7043 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Completely off topic, but the single point perspective from the ceiling, ppl leaning different directions, and the color palette gave me a moment of really strong DaVinci painting vibes and now I can't unsee it. Also, yeah, whoo! ton of crooks there. Downright academic! (that's a crime now, right?)

11/8/2025, 11:20:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

But his respondents on Twitter overwhelmingly hated on mRNA and, you know, that's really the most important source.

11/8/2025, 11:07:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Masterfully done, big cat.

11/8/2025, 10:58:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

That's unfortunate for Puerto Rico and our other island territories.

11/8/2025, 9:45:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

The energy it takes is too much. When ppl ask how I'm doing, I say fine and when I have to call out for pain, I usually make something up. I've tried to explain it, but getting the comments of "have you tried x?" Or "I used to have that too" just kill me so I don't even bother.

11/8/2025, 8:33:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Love that Joker? I'm not sure what's happening here.

11/8/2025, 6:49:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonder if the "places to stay" he's promising for homeless people in recent pressers are referring to deportation camps? They've been pledging to build more. Is this how they'll start to fill them? Got to take those steps to get to the mass incarceration of dissenters, I guess.

11/8/2025, 4:45:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

Well the martial law US tour that started in LA is opening now in DC with planned touring to Baltimore, NY, Oakland, and Chicago. May not be the best show to take the kids, but will likely have a long run.

11/8/2025, 4:27:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) reposted

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

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11/8/2025, 2:22:49 AM | 28582 11844 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This is absolutely true for me - unless it's an elder scrolls game. And then for some reason I ttly do beat whomever I need to or manipulate whatever poor suckers into killing each other I need to so I can get the goodies.

11/8/2025, 4:41:27 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Flood: "We're up against people here that will do anything." The thing:

Image of puns that say
8/8/2025, 1:42:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, Ken Paxton, the face of law and order.

8/8/2025, 12:12:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

And there's another dog behind that dog. It's the turducken of sleeping pets.

7/8/2025, 8:55:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This makes a lot of sense, times being what they are.

7/8/2025, 6:31:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Great, I'll have my Gemini call your Claude so we can get on board with Youper to let me know how to process this experience. Hopefully before dinner, because I love my wine.

7/8/2025, 6:30:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

This gives me so much confidence in my future medical team.

7/8/2025, 6:21:45 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

I really don't understand why you think there are so many sock puppet accounts floating around here.

7/8/2025, 5:47:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

"The Superman theme song plays in the background. " Ew.

7/8/2025, 5:44:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely, art is interactive. You need the viewer as much as you need the creator.

7/8/2025, 2:40:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Came here to say this

6/8/2025, 5:49:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

LOL, yeah my partner is playing Pete as well and has the backwards face thing happen.

6/8/2025, 4:59:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

🀯

6/8/2025, 4:55:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social)

This is the laugh I needed today!

6/8/2025, 4:41:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

That's the segment that's getting paid to undermine their constituents.

6/8/2025, 2:29:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

That same line of research has uses against autoimmune disorders and could be the key to treatments that would effectively cure them by teaching antibodies not to target healthy cells. This is way bigger than vaccines. This is a major blow. Hope this research continues privately.

6/8/2025, 12:40:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

My herder is afraid of bubbles. And pumpkins. ..And grocery bags. ...And the toaster oven. 🫀

World's best dog
5/8/2025, 10:21:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa (@lutraphobia.bsky.social) reply parent

Buggies are the best! Really thought I would miss ziplines, but I don't. Can't wait for more types. Hoping to ride a scorpion!

5/8/2025, 7:21:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view