Botticellibelle

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Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· 29d

Thanks, I hate it! I mean, I do love burgundy but I am not a fan of orange or very bright reds, gold is mid, and fleshy pink? Naw. This color palette looks like barf. Yuck! Here, have a go: pantonecolors.net/pantone-birt...

My pantone birth chart palette is as follows:
Leo sun: solar gold.
Aries moon: ember pulse (red-orange).
Scorpio rising: burgundy smoke.
Virgo venus: pressed petal (fleshy mauve pink).

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jul 8

With alt text so folks using screen readers have access.

NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

This NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") is made and entered into as of February 22, 2022 (the "Effective Date"), by and between Rip City Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Trail Blazers Inc., an Oregon corporation (collectively, "RCM/TBI"), and The City of Portland, an Oregon municipal corporation (the "City"). Each of RCM/TBI and the City is referred to herein, individually, as a "Party" and, collectively, as the "Parties."

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jul 4

"It’s 100 degrees outside in DC. People have been waiting in line for about 45 minutes to get into the 'Great American State Fair'" I've updated the alt text with some key details.

At the head of a long line outdoors, a man with a pale but tan complexion holds a sign. It reads, "Melania = Beautiful. Michelle = Handsome."

The sky above is blue. The sidewalk is tree-lined but not shaded. Short grass acts as a buffer between the sidewalk and a fenced-off street.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jul 3

I have very little patience for people who shit on folks trying to make the world a more accessible place... Blocked them.

@alissa914.bsky.social

So does not telling people about alt text when you could use Al to have it extract text.

All annoying people about alt-text does is to make us block or mute you while not doing alt-text.

9:12 AM Jul 3, 2026

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jul 3

Now I know why my grandma is suddenly finding "god" and feeling the need to slide Trump politics in our conversations. She used to just be my chill grandma with a giod head on her shoulders. I pray for her sanity. She's 90 years old. Leave her alone, techbros!

A textimg screen shows this conversation:

Grandma: I'm watching Matt Walsh.

Me: Oh I stay very far away from him.

Me: He is... Quite the reactionary

Grandma: Yeah, that figures.

Me: From a research background, he has poor authorship. Like, he gets very loose with his interpretation of reality, and has a deep rightwing bias.

Grandma: Okay

Me: Just letting you know that YouTube's algorithm pushes users into increasingly untrustworthy rightwing content.

Me: This has been tested.

Grandma: Okay

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jul 2

Your stuck. I am stuck. Whatever shall we do?! *Stays comfy 😻.*

Photo from behind the shoulders of a small ginger tabby cat. She is sitting on my stretched out legs.

I am under a blue and yellow quilt. I am on a couch. I am horizontal. There are records on a white shelf by a window in the background. The blinds are mostly drawn.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jul 1

This is Freyja. She wants to smell your mouth.

Photo of a very small ginger tabby cat in front of a window. She is looking at you over her shoulder at a quirky angle. She wants to smell your mouth.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jul 1

Hubs cooked the soup I wanted to make tonight with the broth I made yesterday. He even made matzo balls! There's an Italian Jewish deli in town & I took inspiration from their matzo ball italian wedding soup. Our version is inspired by my Rusyn heritage. It's made with little dumplings (pelmeni).

Photo of matzo ball soup in a white bowl. The soup is made with a rich homemade chicken stock, onions, carrot, sliced fennel, and fresh parsley.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 28

It is done. First it may rest, and then we shall feast. Lasagna blessings upon the timeline!

Photo of a gorgeous freshly cooked lasagna: It sits on a metal cooling rack on a stovetop. The edges are a perfect puff of baked tomato sauce. The hot bubbly melted cheese on top is warm and golden.

A large red pot with some tomato gravy sits behind the lasagna. The luscious lasagna.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 28

Lasagna is happening! Hubs grated the cheese and boiled the noodles. I mixed the ricotta with basil, lemon zest, sea salt & fresh-cracked black pepper, and pecarino romano. Then I assembled this big bold beauty. I'm so excited 🤩!

Photo of an unbaked lasagna on a stovetop. It is large and impressive, and covered in mozzarella and pecorino romano.

A large red dutch oven sits behind the lasagna. It holds the rest of the red sauce. A long steel ladle pokes out of the top.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 28

Holy motherforking shirtballs... This is some of the best tomato sauce I've ever made. I am so happy! I put tiny carrots and zucchini in there too, for veggie's sake, and I'm making hubs assemble the lasagna b/c I'm wiped. The sauce is downright unctuous! We'll have lots leftover to freeze, too!

A big red enamel pot filled with unctuous tomato sauce. It's bright red and glistens in the light!

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 28

I am currently making the meat sauce (tomato gravy)! The Wiseguy cookbook is one of my favorite cookbooks. I got it at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas almost 15 years ago!

I hold the Wiseguy Cookbook in my lap. I am wearing a blue and white checkered apron. The cookbook is red and features the inside of an old school Italian American restaurant on the cover.

Cover reads: "Recipes you can't refuse - from America's most famous wiseguy.
Henry Hill and Priscilla Davis.
The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes From My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on The Run.
Forward by Nicholas Pileggi."

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 25

Greyboi is also fruitsy loopsy from his day at the vet, so we can be fruitsy loopsy together 😻.

Photo of a Grey tabby cat with his face smooshed down flat on the couch.

The couch is blue with a brightly patterned topcover in a patchwork mandalas.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 21

ATTN: The turkey that laid a clutch of eggs in my inlaw's yard is now a mom. The eggs have hatched! Unfortunately, one turkey chick was left behind, so now my mother in law is a turkey mom. Poor bebe. She's in the Twin cities area.

Photo of a small turkey chick. It is all alone on a green grass lawn.

The turkey chick has a fluffy feathery coat of white and black stripes. It looks sad.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 20

I have finally got out of the house this week. We went to the farmer's market, and the liquor store. One of these bottles is for a belated 11-year anniversary celebration today. The other is waiting for a certain someone to drop down dead. Life and death, baby, as the seasons turn turn turn!

Two bottles of scotch whiskey sit on a blue sofa. On the left is a Lagavulin Islay single malt aged 12 years. On the right is a Glenfiddich single malt aged 18 years.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 17

"Four paws, farts, love and fur?" You just described Greyboi, one of our cats! He likes snuggling up in my office and filling the whole room with farts while he snoozes.

A striped grey tabby cat sits in an egress window. He is smiling at the camera.

The egress window bed is steel with a patch of white gravel at the bottom.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 11

It's salad-picking time! Today I got: lettuce, arugula, basil, mint, dill, tarragon, nasturtium, and parsley!

A large wicker basket sits on a wooden bench on a wooden deck. A ray of sunshine cuts across the top. The basket is filled with the greens and herbs listed in the post text.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 9

People are really out here trying to be a smug aggro smartass ALL the time. Doesn't it ever get exhausting? Don't answer that lol. I hope y'all have a good day! Here, have a cat photo.

Portrait of a small striped ginger cat in a small blanket fort. A rusty red blanket is in front of her. She peers out of the darkness inquisitively with big black eyes.

She has got the cutest little face!

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 8

Got 58 to 99 down here in PDX. It's been pulling this ish all spring and I am not a fan. My chronically ill body was not built for this! The flares 🫠.

Screencap of a week-long weather forecast showing Monday to Monday temperatures rising from 59F to 99F.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 4

First harvest of the day collected! Tonight we're making one-pot spinache, chicken & rice for dinner. I'm gonna make a chimichurri from the cilantro, and we'll marinate something in it tonight to grill tomorrow, or this weekend. Vibes increasing in goodness!

A large wicker basket is overstuffed with fresh greens and herbs. The haul includes: spinache, arugula, cilantro, and a variety of lettuces.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 4

This tuxedo boi won't eat his food in the morning unless you give him many pets, tell him he's a special lil' guy, shake his dish just so, and give him a gentle head bonk. Will. Not. Happen. Proper deference must be paid... I don't mind though, b/c he's our sweetest boi.

A large tuxedo cat sits by his food dish with his head turned to the side. He is looking at the camera and wondering why we interrupted him eating. He has a porcelain slow-feeder dish with kibbles.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 4

Technically she was snuggling into a sleeping position, but she is now officially snoozin' in the sunshine.

Same small orange cat from the main post. The sun shines more distinctly on her fur this time, creating a mass of pin-prick shadows amongst her fur. She sleeps peacefully

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 4

I mean, have you ever seen a more purrfect sleeping kitty face? C'MON!

The most adorable and very small adult orange tabby cat. She is snuggled up in a collapsed felt cat cave in front of a standing plush cat cave. Her face is awash in a gentle sunlight coming through the window.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· Jun 1

I have added peppercorn and bay leaves to my chicken stock. I may have also added too much water, but that'll simmer down. It will be fine! Just gotta sorta keep an eye on it for a few hours; make sure it doesn't bubble too much or too little.

Top-down photo of a large steel stock pot filled with chicken stock ingredients. It's just starting to simmer lightly in the center.

The pot contains two broken-up chicken carcasses, a shallot, a bulb of garlic, a very large onion, peppercorns, and a few bay leaves. The alliums are roughly chopped and/or smashed.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· May 28

I hope you all are having a lovely evening! I'm listening to The Spin Doctors while I water my garden, drink a beer, and look at the pale moon in the spring blue sky 🤩.

Photo of a city neighborhood on a green hill in Portland, Oregon. It is covered in trees. A small pale moon sits cradled in the spring blue sky above. Thin electric lines criss-cross the whole way through.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· May 23

I present: our current record collection, in its totality. Note the lump of musical vinyls on the left. Someone gave those to me awhile ago, and I'm going to get rid of most of them. But see how we do not even have one single shelf of records? Not even enough to organize! (Yet 😁).

A white shelf holds records. There are a lot of them, but they don't even take up the entire shelf.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· May 23

I found The Drifters on vinyl for one single dollar! I used to work as a carhop at Sonic when I was a teenager, and I just love oldies music. Did you know The Drifters are a Black band? The most iconic sounds in US musical history come from Black artists. This is Classic Americana.

Record cover for The Drifters Greatest Hits. It features the band name in large blue airy text.
Songs are listed in red ink. They include:
Save the Last Dance For Me
There Goes My Baby
Up on the Roof
On Broadway
Please Stay
Dance with Me
This Magic Moment
Sweets for my Sweet
Stand By Me
And Spanish Harlem.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· May 23

Gregory of Nyssa! Y'all can eat my mystical ASSSSS 💁‍♀️

"Your closest star
Gregory of Nyssa
c. 335–c. 395 · Cappadocia
the mystical Cappadocian
Your taste lives in the Nyssen neighborhood: the most mystical of the Cappadocians, the writer of The Life of Moses as a contemplative ascent into the divine darkness, the theologian of epektasis—the endless stretching of the soul further into God. The cultural neighbors are people drawn to apophatic theology, to the infinite as a positive content, and to a vision of salvation as perpetual, unending growth toward God.

Your constellation
Thirty-five thinkers, set in time (left to right) and style (top to bottom—doctrinal-systematic above, mystical-affective below)."

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· May 21

Me trying to access Bluesky any day between about 4pm-8pm Pacific time.

Photo shows the Bluesky overlay over an empty feed. Nothing is loading.

Botticellibelle@botticellibelle· May 19

My Purple Cherokee tomato plant is already making a tomato! In MAY in Portland, OR. This is... Not OK, climate-wise, but it will be very delicious once it gets bigger and tasty.