Propriety

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Propriety@proprietous· 28d

Did you know that bugs... is actually shrimp??? Thank you @sarahmackattack.bsky.social for this incredible educational addition to my wardrobe from squidfacts.bigcartel.com I am gonna be telling so many people bugs is shrimp.

A picture of me, a bearded guy wearing a tan T-shirt that has a graphic saying "shrimp city" and a number of illustrated types of shrimp, standing in my bedroom.

Propriety@proprietous· Jul 3

Stood in the heat for four hours with @colinfanning.bsky.social to see this massive chonker roll by #bigboy Trains are cool! Hearing the steam whistle off in the distance as it approached was incredibly evocative.

A picture of me and Colin, under an umbrella. (Two bearded men with glasses). We're smiling at the camera.

A picture of a massive black steam locomotive on tracks, angled away from the camera. In the foreground you can see other people lined up taking pictures. There's trees and grass between us and the train.

A picture of a massive black steam locomotive on tracks, from the rear and side. In the background is a skyscraper and a pedestrian bridge lined with people.

Propriety@proprietous· Jun 15

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social look what just arrived in the mail!!!

A picture of me holding up a copy of a book called Sawyer Lee and the quest to just stay home by Zach Wienersmith.

Propriety@proprietous· Jun 11

Here you go boss: Wins vs Loss Knicks: 1861, 1971 = 48.5647% wins Wins vs Loss Knicks | Mitch in game: 187, 210 = 47.10327% wins Wins vs Loss Knicks | Mitch fouled in first half: 55, 59 = 48.2456% wins

Propriety@proprietous· May 30

Real winners take public transit to weddings. @septaphilly.bsky.social

A picture of two men in suits (one purple, one green) on a subway.

Propriety@proprietous· May 19

Primary voting day in Pennsylvania!!! Go vote!!! (Why yes my voting place is the Orchestra. 💅💅💅)

A selfie of me in a tank top with a Yo Vote sticker on.

Propriety@proprietous· Apr 8

Feeling very "Look Gary there I am" right now

A frame from Spongebob squarepants tv show. Spongebob's yellow hand points at a TV screen, with a paused image of Mr. Krabs on it. The top of Spongebob himself is just barely visible in the window to the kitchen in the background.

Propriety@proprietous· Feb 24

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social Instagram post happening... VERY SOON (Business names in the Alt Text!)

Photos of jars of native seeds that say "PLANT NATIVE PLANTS," placed on counters and tables at various businesses. Some have folks working at the businesses holding the jars.

(clockwise from top left):
Doggy Style (@doggiestylepets)
This Corner (@thiscorner_co)
Weckerly's Ice Cream (@weckerlys)
Master Tailor and Cleaners (1620 Spruce St)
Mr. Rabbit (@mrrabbitphilly)
Iffy Books (@iffybooks)

Photos of jars of native seeds that say "PLANT NATIVE PLANTS," placed on counters and tables at various businesses.

(clockwise from top left):

Rittenhouse Hardware (@rittenhousehardware)
Phila. City Institute (@philadelphiacityinstitute)
The Ground (@thegroundcpg)
Sue's Produce (@suesproducephilly)
Bottega Rittenhouse (@bottegarittenhousephilly)
Avanda's Flowers (@avandas_flowers)

Propriety@proprietous· Jan 1

Well Vanguard... I appreciate the effort, but... I'm not sure that's correct.

A screenshot of an email from Vanguard announcing "We're here to help you prepare for tax season. Welcome to 2021! We're here to help you get off to a strong start."

Further down, there's a bullet point that says "when to expect your 2020 tax forms." With a hyperlink.

Propriety@proprietous· Dec 31

We just gave a presentation of our photos from Japan to Colin's family... cut down from 3400 photos to 675. 😅 Japan is really incredible!

Me in front of a fox messenger statue at Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine

Me and Colin in front of the golden pavilion at Kinkaku-ji

Me standing next to the Hachiko statue in Shibuya. It's a statue of a Shiba Inu made of bronze. It's paws are gold from being rubbed.

Colin and I on Ebisu bridge in Osaka. Behind us a river stretches back with illuminated buildings and signs on either side.

Propriety@proprietous· Dec 7

I JUST CHECKED and my cold addled brain must have misremembered, I was thinking of this raw cocoa finished Pocky we picked up. I could have sworn I saw the Men's!!! But I have no evidence.

A hand holding a box of Pocky. It displays Pocky dusted in cocoa powder.

Propriety@proprietous· Nov 5

Oh..... Oh no......

Propriety@proprietous· Oct 25

Was waiting to get into the aquarium in Osaka and spotted a celebrity back stage at an outdoor rock concert... it's @chiitan.love!!!!!! I was too shy to go try to say hello. Superstar!!! Queer icon!!! We stan

A picture of me high up, smiling and pointing upward. In the background, just above my finger, is Chiitan, looking fabulous in a pink hat, surrounded by her entourage and adoring fans. The water of Osaka bay is in the background

Propriety@proprietous· Oct 17

In Tokyo for two weeks! Stumbled across a municipal fun fare where you can queue to get in a robotic exoskeleton suit boxing match They're really living in the 3000 over here

A picture of a crowd of people. In the back, a person in a robot exoskeleton with giant robot arms stands ready to punch.

Propriety@proprietous· Oct 2

Like I know nobody asked for this, but: yes I would believe this man is 25.

A portrait of James Madison at 25, but he's been edited to have a little fuckboy moustache and shitty goatee and a blue backwards baseball cap. His collar has also been edited lower.

Propriety@proprietous· Oct 2

In advance of our upcoming trip to Japan I thought for nostalgia's sake I'd boot up The World Ends With You, pulled up my old save file and uhhhh.. Apparently some time has passed. 😵‍💫

A photo of the screens of a 3DS, showing a screen from the game the world ends with you. On the top screen is a picture of the main character who has orange hair and wears purple headphones. On the bottom screen is a results box that says bonus: you receive PP for the amount of time you haven't played the game. A total of 999 days 23 hours 59 minutes have passed.

There is an associated amount of PPE for each of these days: 144, 72, 36, 18, 9, 9, 9. It maxes out at 9 days.

Propriety@proprietous· Oct 1

You already know about this one but CCRA's Green Committee (I'm on it!) borrowed your idea to distribute native pollinator seed packets in our neighborhood to great success! We're planning to do it again next year too! www.instagram.com/p/DLXQ-qisM9...

Propriety@proprietous· Sep 16

Things we got at SPX this year! Left is me, right is mostly Colin. See alt text for names of stuff!

A grid of books and comics laid out on a bedspread. Top to Bottom, left to right: Ghost town by Eric Colossal, Let's draw comics by Cathy G. Johnson, pixels of you by an Ananth and Yuko and JR Doyle; Buzz by Ananth Hirsh and Tess Stone, Step on Me print by R Mock, backsweat by Jon Cairns, Dreaming in Color by Natalie Andrewson, Bookmark by Cathy G Johnson, Big Buff Cat Girlfriend by Jess Fink, Sakana Vol 3 by Mad Rupert, how to draw a car sticker by Qu, Taskmaster zine by Rebecca Mock, Slices of Life and Testament Postcards from Bulgilhan Press, Vertex by Kitsch Harris, People of Corners by Evan Dahm, Flip by Ngozi Ukazu, stickers by Jess Fink, Colorado Plants by Elise Dietrich, Precinct X99 by Wren McDonald, Diary Comics by Dustin Harbin

Propriety@proprietous· Sep 6

Got my Covid and flu shots yesterday! A local pharmacy had them and were doing walk-ins. Hooray for local pharmacies! Also I just went to the gym and I feel like a truck hit me LOL

A picture of me in a gym tank top. There's a bandaid on one of my shoulders. The guy said I didn't bleed at all so he wasn't even going to give me a bandaid but I asked for one anyway.

Propriety@proprietous· Aug 15

@kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com An acquaintance is in Japan right now studying community space and play area design and they posted this this morning and I thought of you!!! Community announcement board as deeply overlooked yet vital urban community builder!

A screenshot of an Instagram story, showing a community announcement board on a sidewall on a street in Japan. There's a bike with the child carrier on the front next to it.

Propriety@proprietous· Jul 28

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social I have no idea which seed mix it came from (probably the one we got for CCRA???) but I've got a solanum americanum growing in one of my planters and there was a bee visiting it this morning!!! THE SYSTEM WORKS

A bunch of green foliage. Right in the middle of the picture you can make out a black spot. That's the bee.

Propriety@proprietous· Jun 24

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social also btw in May/June CCRA's green committee got seed distro jars in 10 bizs in SW center city. We distributed over 1000 native pollinator seed packets! A recap post should be up on the CCRA Insta some time this week. Thanks again for the inspiration and the posters!

Propriety@proprietous· Jun 15

OH RYAN how could I forget??? When in Utrecht you should also check out... The Fish Doorbell! @visdeurbel.bsky.social (From above water it's just a lock in one of the canals but it's a fun walk!)

A picture of me standing in front of the Fish Doorbell lock house. A sign that says DING DONG with fish on it is behind me.

A picture of a canal lock. Water on both sides, and a wooden structure between.

Propriety@proprietous· May 27

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social We did a CCRA green committee seed packing party last Friday, packed about 1000 seed packets. Three more native plant distro jars heading out! In addition to Mr. Rabbit, we have jars at Rims Cleaners and Lombard Swim Club. Julius Scissor and a few more coming soon!

A picture of me reflected in a hall mirror. Three plastic deli takeout containers with "plant native plant" inserts are stacked on the ledge of the mirror.

Propriety@proprietous· May 20

Primary election day Philly! Go vote!!! There's a contentious DA race (I'm voting Krasner, we don't need a tough on crime posturing conservative) & ballot qs. Vote yes on #2 to direct developer payments to the affordable housing fund to go to building housing rather than the general city budget.

A picture of me, in a white T-shirt, with an I Voted Sticker on. Philly city hall is in the background.

Propriety@proprietous· May 7

@nicolablack.bsky.social I tested the recipe again today! This time I measured using a 1 cup measure and scooped the flour. I weighed it, and it looks like a scoop is 180 grams... 50% more than I was calculating before!!!

A picture of the dough just after it came together.

A picture of a finished boule of bread on a cooling rack

A picture of the boule sliced in half, revealing a fairly open crumb structure.

Propriety@proprietous· May 6

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social I sprinkled the sample packet of pollinator natives I snagged from the seed packing party in my adopted tree pit garden and THEY'RE SPROUTING!!!

A picture of some dirt with green sprouts in it! This is the inside of the concrete planter I have in the center of the tree pit, mostly there to prevent trucks from driving over the plants. We're on a corner and trucks often cut the corner too close which is why I haven't tried to get a tree planted here. We need a protective bollard first.

More green sprouts in dirt. This is the ground level. You can see the base of the planter in the background.

Propriety@proprietous· Apr 29

2821 day streak. Yeah, I'm done. Cancelled my membership. Since they removed the forums and double downed in AI the quality has gotten significantly worse anyway, and even when you pay they shove ads in your face for their stupid "AI enhanced" plan. Absurd. This will spur me to try better apps.

A picture of a Duolingo app, showing a 2821 day streak.

Propriety@proprietous· Apr 24

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social First native plant seed distribution jar CCRA Green Committee put together, inspired by you, is up at Mr. Rabbit (23rd and Spruce) Still working on scaling up seed packets so we can put more out!

A picture of a coffee counter with various jars and a plant. In the middle is a deli container with a "plant native plants" label on it. Inside are seed packets and brochures about pollinators.

Propriety@proprietous· Apr 15

The dough was so wet I thought, this will never work! I figured I must have messed up somehow. It worked???