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YakHappy

@yakhappy.bsky.social

Green thumb wearing, foul word swearing! Retired environmental engineer who worked to prevent pollution. Support democracy! No theocracy! No to Citizens United! No DMs. If your profile is naked, I won't be following back.

created February 18, 2024

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Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

The Carpenters and ABBA and the Captain & Tenille

3/9/2025, 2:44:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Shred it, sister!

3/9/2025, 2:37:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

Baby Orca! Their patches turn from pink/orange to white as they age. www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

Baby orca!
3/9/2025, 2:30:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. He cannot help himself, me thinks. What a waste of oxygen he is.

3/9/2025, 2:00:12 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MJdowntheshore (@mjdowntheshore.bsky.social) reposted

Womp. Womp.

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21/7/2025, 10:47:57 PM | 718 132 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

You will carry on, because she loved you and taught you well. Please accept my sincerest condolences.

2/9/2025, 11:05:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Good riddance, JoJo. Bye

2/9/2025, 10:27:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.

2/9/2025, 9:25:43 PM | 15589 5462 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

How to fight the cult of MAGA. americanmanifesto.news/p/anti-maga-...

2/9/2025, 3:47:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NPR (@npr.org) reposted

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

2/9/2025, 3:04:49 PM | 7897 3636 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

Because POCs are just window dressing, to be discarded by the GOP and Trump like the sad, used sell-outs they are.

1/9/2025, 11:57:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope, not buying it. He's a slime, a churl, a lowlife autocrat with only love for himself.

1/9/2025, 3:20:05 PM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture bethelisland.bsky.social (@bethelisland.bsky.social) reposted

PERFECTLY SAID.

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1/9/2025, 1:26:59 AM | 85 45 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

ooooh, I'm making raspberry jam today, too! Out of the freezer and into the jars!

1/9/2025, 2:47:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Now car-free!

1/9/2025, 2:37:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Bumblebums

1/9/2025, 2:36:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Cooked beets go well with chocolate in a cake!

1/9/2025, 2:14:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I suspect it will freeze well, too

1/9/2025, 2:11:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I am proud to report that this soup has almost zero in common with commercial canned tomato soup. I haven't eaten tomato soup in 40 years, because I hated the Campbell's variety so much. This stuff was the bomb, if I do say so myself.

1/9/2025, 3:36:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.
31/8/2025, 5:04:38 PM | 27224 8385 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a store near me called Shipwreck Beads. It's enormous. I have to make sure I have lots and lots of time if I go in there.

1/9/2025, 3:04:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks!

1/9/2025, 3:02:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Now, funny you should mention that! I just found a recipe for fudgy brownies ... using zucchini! Maybe that'll be my next post.

1/9/2025, 3:02:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

They were a mix of varieties out of my garden. A bunch of red plum tomatoes, Red Siletz, yellow brandywine, Black Krim, some various cherry tomatoes. Any combination will do. You can also used whole canned tomatoes.

1/9/2025, 2:54:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

After a nice long simmer, I removed the bay leaf, then used an immersion blender to make it smooth (a blender would work too). Last add was about a cup of heavy cream. So yum. I think it gets more interesting when you use a variety of different tomato varieties.

1/9/2025, 2:51:49 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Welp, I kind of winged it. I cooked down about a gallon of tomatoes, then caramelized about one large onion and two big garlic cloves. I added the onions to the cooked tomatoes, plus a bay leaf, red pepper flakes, some fresh thyme, and basil, salt and pepper and a cup of chicken broth. 1/

1/9/2025, 2:49:25 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

🌱 My neighbor have me some ripe Madeline Angevin grapes from his vines. I cannot even get close to describing the incredible flavor of these grapes. So.damned.good!

Ripe green grapes in my hand
1/9/2025, 1:21:30 AM | 33 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

🍽️ Fresh homemade tomato soup, with caramelized onion and garlic, fresh herbs from the garden, some chicken broth, and cream added at the end, and topped with shredded Parmesan. Good enough that partner went back for seconds

Dutch oven full of homemade tomato soup.
1/9/2025, 1:18:57 AM | 46 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

Friends meme
1/9/2025, 1:04:49 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 10:49:02 AM | 1663 528 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Governments may some day realize all they needed to do was support mothers and families so they can eat, be safe, be educated, clothed.

31/8/2025, 3:40:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

31/8/2025, 2:58:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

True.

31/8/2025, 2:39:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 (@mary1kathy.bsky.social) reposted

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10/8/2025, 12:45:13 AM | 155 56 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

A press release from Thomas Massie, US Representative. Too long to copy here, but basically 6 Epstein survivors will hold a press conference 9/3/25 as Congress re-adjourns.
30/8/2025, 4:40:35 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Uncle Duke (@uncleduke1969.bsky.social) reposted

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

A striped cat appears to be “yelling” at a kitten with the exact same coloring. The kitten’s eyes are wide open and their ears pinned back.
30/8/2025, 1:35:12 PM | 10554 1467 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

This. I just cannot. I like to visit cities, but I don't think I could live in one.

29/8/2025, 11:15:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.

29/8/2025, 10:59:20 PM | 17022 4873 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Don't let this die out, keep on repeating it. RELEASE THE WHOLE OF THE EPSTEINS FILES

29/8/2025, 11:09:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

No notes

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29/8/2025, 2:14:40 PM | 14602 4141 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melomys (@melomys.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Who they pray to

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28/8/2025, 11:43:40 PM | 21 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

May they be touched by it's noodly appendage!

29/8/2025, 1:50:53 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

This is a great plan!

29/8/2025, 1:20:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

They can't watch all of the crosswalks in Miami. Move on to the next one, and the next, and the next

29/8/2025, 1:18:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

It's both rock AND roll, and so fine it is

29/8/2025, 1:15:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@madhupai.bsky.social) reposted

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege

28/8/2025, 5:20:38 PM | 5942 1793 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Secret Agent Number Six (@designationsix.bsky.social) reposted

Watching Fox News can get you killed. Ask Ashli Babbitt.

28/8/2025, 9:42:48 PM | 2276 395 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Tissues! Bring me my tissues!

29/8/2025, 12:52:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

They'll blame it on Biden, Obama, being woke.

29/8/2025, 12:44:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll be driving up to British Columbia for my next one. Maybe I'll get me some poutine while I'm at it.

29/8/2025, 12:42:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely, utterly, despicably horrendous. Shame on the US.

29/8/2025, 12:21:56 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

My chocolates did poorly, too

28/8/2025, 10:01:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

Peace in the jungle today

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28/8/2025, 9:39:38 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

You know, a call to the police about the theft of your cat would be understandable, even admirable.

28/8/2025, 9:34:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a good thing to be an ally.

28/8/2025, 9:28:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Your child has empathy and kindness in droves, things they clearly learned at home. Thank you for this.

28/8/2025, 9:26:37 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted

CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.

28/8/2025, 8:26:31 PM | 9240 2218 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Firefly. Firefly. Firefly.

28/8/2025, 9:20:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I love love love Sam Fish!

28/8/2025, 9:16:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I still mourn for him, for his family, for us who loved his music

28/8/2025, 9:14:15 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it Chocolate, or Chianti variety? Lovely

28/8/2025, 9:13:09 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Silo has been excellent. Dune Prophecy too

28/8/2025, 6:36:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dennis Goris (@dennisgoris.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 1:07:32 AM | 8519 2141 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm going to swim against the current and tell you what I did. 8 years ago I had fatty liver & high cholesterol numbers. I started eating a low carb, high protein diet with enough fat for satiety (not necessarily high fat, just enough not to be hungry). 8 years later? All better!

28/8/2025, 1:34:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like a Romanesco. I have nothing but trouble with them, too, but they sure are pretty. I have had good success with Snow Crown and Skywalker white varieties, and Cheddar (orange).

28/8/2025, 12:13:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what Google translate is for!

28/8/2025, 12:11:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

I love kingfishers. I love this icon. I wish we all revered nature the way some do religious icons.

28/8/2025, 12:08:40 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PuC...

27/8/2025, 8:29:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Jones (@mjonesy2.bsky.social) reposted

#BlueCrew RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

26/8/2025, 9:19:09 PM | 811 328 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

Mike Luckovich cartoon: Jeffries and Schumer are composing a stern letter. Jeffries says
27/8/2025, 8:17:08 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope your cat returns soon. I've heard that leaving their cat box outside gives them a scent trail home

27/8/2025, 7:48:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

So a message of support is a bad thing? i am an ally, not a scene stealer. I want to encourage more folks like me to stand up. Won't more folks who aren't black make the message louder for Target and other capitulators?

27/8/2025, 7:31:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah they dumped their DEI too

27/8/2025, 7:26:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I, a white woman, stand in support of the black community. I will continue to boycott Target... And Walmart, Tractor Supply, Lowe's, and so many others.

27/8/2025, 4:36:56 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

The cruelty is the point

27/8/2025, 2:50:22 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bits (@bitshammer.bsky.social) reposted

This HappyRoadKill comic is FOUR YEARS OLD and remains relevant.

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Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

AOC don't need no daddy, she writes her own checks.

27/8/2025, 1:09:31 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are a winner at life! You took the wheel and drove.

27/8/2025, 1:06:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

27/8/2025, 12:51:21 AM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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🌱 Yesterday's garden haul, showcased by the best girl.

Golden retriever models with garden produce
27/8/2025, 12:31:08 AM | 81 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

We are at war with our own illegitimate government. There will be casualties, and the athletes are just one group of victims of this fascist regime. Folks will be jailed, beaten, harassed, deported. I am not deaf to the injuries the athletes will sustain, but they are just a few of many.

26/8/2025, 10:23:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Awww, honey lamb loves her costumes!

26/8/2025, 9:30:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cartoon (left to right): first figure (likely Noem) says
26/8/2025, 9:29:42 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I never have any trouble finding weeds to rip out of the ground when I'm angry.

26/8/2025, 4:29:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

Have you ever heard of the Lower Salmon River winter squash? You may want to consider it. It produces big squash that are so sweet, and that store until spring. These ones aren't fully mature, they will be a pale orange. The foreground one is about 8 inches diameter. Grow vertical!

A large and a small immature Lower Salmon River winter squash.
26/8/2025, 4:27:33 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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50501 May Day Strong Labor Day Nationwide Protest. MAYDAYSTRONG.ORG
26/8/2025, 1:23:57 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Zero return, or actual losses in productivity, profit, etc?

25/8/2025, 3:26:44 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

The rainbow colors did not affect the purpose of the crosswalk. It isn't an issue of standardization (IMO as a civil engineer who used to design roads.) This is fully about dehumanization of the LGBTQ+ community. It's about erasing history, just like so many other GOP moves.

25/8/2025, 3:18:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micky Bun (@mr-bun.bsky.social) reposted

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse wearing colourful robes and bearing banners that read:
24/8/2025, 10:23:05 AM | 192 59 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan ain't Q (@danaintq.bsky.social) reposted

Kid Rock: I will no longer sell my music in California. Scott Baio: I will no longer act in California. Governor Newsom: My policies are working.

24/8/2025, 2:53:09 PM | 31713 4652 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

The price of eggs was just the cover story; they couldn't stand the thought of voting for a black woman. So, they voted for the felon, the rapist, the con man, the mobster.

25/8/2025, 2:06:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Loomer lives in a glass house. Sure, she's not in Congress, but talking trash about stupidity is a bad look for her

24/8/2025, 10:28:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't do tweets because of fascism (X is my ex), and I think it's a good thing to bring the facts with a claim. I will look it up, but you were lazy by not providing it

24/8/2025, 9:58:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe your statement, but I also love reference articles. Please share.

24/8/2025, 9:52:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

Intriguing idea

24/8/2025, 9:50:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice! We're enjoying a big blow out win by the Mariners! Nice to be back in the park.

24/8/2025, 9:25:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social)

I'm currently at my first Mariners game in several years. Cal Raleigh just took the all time hits by a catcher record, and the M's are beating the A's by 10 runs. Yeah and we took the light rail to get here. It's a good day

Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh and the Golden Trident!
24/8/2025, 9:24:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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23/8/2025, 8:36:39 PM | 95 40 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture YakHappy (@yakhappy.bsky.social) reply parent

If anyone could handle such a confluence of necessary appearances, you two can.

24/8/2025, 5:17:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hawaii's Kilauea in eruption, with a massive jet of lava blowing sideways!

24/8/2025, 3:39:24 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view