DB Schwein

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Red headed, right handed, happily married, lgBtq+, Foreign Service Brat :-)

Trans Lives Matter, BLM, Every body deserves bodily autonomy, AntiFacist all the way!

Also:
Writers Drinking Coffee podcast (npub1j78…lvpe)
Troopers Hockey (npub169r…wgf3)
DB Schwein (npub1xcl…j3gz)

Profile photo by Michele DeNu Hamilton circa ~2007.
Header photo by me & edited in GetPaint.net
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2026-06-09 14:13:56 UTC

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OMG perfect!

2026-05-02 21:54:15 UTC

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Ooh, sounds yummy. One of my current favourites is a black currant. I adore berries & black tea.
Hey @npub1twp…saph 😊

2026-04-17 17:44:53 UTC

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Or he was just rich and white

2026-04-16 12:08:41 UTC

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Thank you for the warning, I added "Tik Tok" to my search and found this
https://www.instagram.com/popular/putting-my-cat-down-slowly/

2026-04-13 03:32:11 UTC

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Removing the lignin from balsa is also how the team made windows out of wood... I feel like these two designs might work together, and how cool would that be?
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/transparent-wood-could-be-window-future

2026-04-08 13:54:22 UTC

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Great first chapter! Looking forward to the rest.

2026-03-24 20:43:14 UTC

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Ah right! That does tend to solve these types of issues 🙂

2026-03-24 20:39:59 UTC

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Yikes.
Hey @npub19vf…lppg, in case you're seeing any of this.

2026-03-08 05:58:40 UTC

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Daaamn, that's well written! My heart was racing.

2026-02-19 18:47:41 UTC

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Sadly many AI detectors will presume a well written rebuttal written in the Queen's English* is written by AI 😬
*wait, is it the King's now?

2026-01-31 03:23:02 UTC

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One of my favourite spots in Vegas is called a museum, but it's a collection of games bought, repaired, and maintained for the pleasure of anyone walking in the door.
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2026-01-24 20:36:47 UTC

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For the first time since I've lived here the river froze fast enough that it looks like you could skate on it... I doubt it's thick enough, but it looked surprisingly smooth as we drove by.

2026-01-23 14:12:50 UTC

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Wow. We're at a balmy 7⁰ and it "only" feels like -15⁰.
Lucky us???

2025-12-20 14:55:53 UTC

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On the holiday theme Violent Night & Red One hit the horror/comedy balance between them.
Cabin in the Woods is excellent!

2025-11-20 14:50:30 UTC

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Fingers crossed for insurance coming through!

2025-11-03 03:34:50 UTC

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1) I love being surrounded by plants, green or floral, so I plant many.
2) Easily identifiable ones are satisfying, many are not!
3) Informal, I'm very fond of the iNaturalist app.
4) Native means different things - has grown here forever grows easily and isn't invasive, has been here ~200 years and people like it. I like learning what actual category things fall into.
5) With phone apps so I have a record of what I found/ID'd
6) 5? It totally depends on the day!

2025-10-27 02:27:18 UTC

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I've been in quite a few embassy ballrooms. I couldn't find any pictures of the interior, but this building was four stories tall and the ballroom was open all the way up - that's the biggest difference I find. Hotels and the like tend to have ceilings at ceiling height.
My memory of this place was singing carols in December standing *underneath* the lowest branches of the tree they had set up in the main hall.
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2025-10-18 23:53:44 UTC

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It's surprising to be how often I see people, frequently reacting to sheering videos, talking about how this hurts the animal/is cruel/etc.
Like, did you not see the sheep come to the shearer??

2025-10-02 18:56:44 UTC

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Damn. Well stated!
Literally white people seeing their taxes going up for paying off wrongful conviction/death penalties will still jump straight to "but they were guilty of X" bullshit.

2025-08-25 20:03:57 UTC

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My yard is filled each morning with birds eating cicadas. I wonder if they do better when they catch the cicadas still sleeping.

2025-08-21 19:56:42 UTC

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This is true every time I see someone post any variation. Sadly it does not become less true the older I get!
My first was after Metallica came out with their cover album, getting lectured that "Metallica doesn't do covers, they wrote all those."
Youngling, Whiskey in the Jar was written in the 1700s! I know he looks old, but Hetfield's *grandparents* weren't even a twinkle in their parent's eyes.

2025-07-24 12:49:34 UTC

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They are my favourite gardening shoe as an adult, as a kid they were my favourite shoe for *everything*. I climbed mountains in flip flops 😁

2025-07-15 21:21:12 UTC

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If that article is right and one of the things they'll drop is the OG blue box, I think they'll lose a large part of the few few who are still buying.
Real cheese is irreplaceable, especially in mac & cheese, but Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is a specific taste that has nothing to do with real cheese (or any other faux cheeses to be fair).

2025-07-13 20:12:03 UTC

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Has Summer been watching Dock Diving competitions? 😁
@npub1mn4…4qlu @npub13kr…a88u
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2025-07-11 22:38:46 UTC

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I got so excited because that "realistic cartoon" style was exactly what I was looking for. I reached out to [@zizudraws](https://mastodon.art/@zizudraws ) to see if their commissions were open and she said yes!!
A short 15 days, and 6 hours of drawing time later, I have my art.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/836/997/445/022/959/original/5e529a6143945dd4.jpg

2025-07-11 22:37:27 UTC

SQUEEEEEE!
Friends, Romans, Countrymen lend me your eyes! (with apologies to Shakespeare)
Ok so literal decades ago I came up with an idea for a tattoo that I wanted, and off and on over the years I've attempted to create it myself, have a friend create it, find something close enough on the www places, and find a tattoo artist who works in the style I wanted. I never succeeded.
Here on the Fediverse I found my artist!
I saw this post:
https://mastodon.art/@zizudraws/112770312897036959

2025-07-08 02:09:42 UTC

Ooh! Thanks to @pigeonpaints to making me aware - ya'll, you have a chance to make a comic anthology by all black women come to be! It needs to fund by July 20 so jump on it if you can 😄
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/844735737/midnight-mystics-an-anthology-of-fantasy-comics-by-black-w
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2025-06-26 22:20:46 UTC

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Hopefully after a full season more pollinators will discover that your yard is a food place and you'll see them next year!
I lost all my garlic this year, so I feel for you. Your one sentinel is beautiful 😁

2025-06-21 22:11:30 UTC

This is a peaceful, powerful, indicting video about the LA protests
https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/114723264037529317
So of course ICE has arrested the film maker and are accusing him of abusing a masked, unidentified, kidnapping "officer".

2025-06-20 18:38:01 UTC

My ~2'x3' potato plot has provided!
Pretty good for just a few dead potatoes 😜
(Those are walking onions left in there)
#Gardening
#GrowingFood
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2025-06-19 19:07:41 UTC

Gotta love when you find your people in a area where they're in the minority 😁
#USPol
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2025-06-12 21:42:56 UTC

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#uspol
#JimmyKimmel
#FOTUS
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2024-12-17 05:01:20 UTC

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What you post here comes off as a perfectly nice human being, though a lot more addicted to old computer games than me!
If I met the ghost in grey sweatpants in the tight confines of a corner store it might be different! Might.
The inability to read that yourself isn't something I can help with really. In fact, if you come up with an answer I'd like to get a write up, cuz I haven't the foggiest!

2024-12-17 04:26:10 UTC

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Oh I just meant I use the word - I avoid the product like the plague.
"Top grain" leather is equivalent to pleather. They glue the tiniest amount of actual leather to a plastic base, but can legally refer to it as leather. It peels off in months and you're left wondering why you spent the money on "the real stuff", when the reality is - you didn't.

2024-12-17 04:16:41 UTC

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Pleather is still the term I use, it's been around since the 70s! Unless it's one of the mushroom leathers or other small batch leather alternatives...but those are scarce enough that you would never miss the price difference!

2024-12-10 15:15:22 UTC

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My desire for things that sparkle/glitter goes to 100 in December.
#AltText
Close-up of a display of gelato ice creams swirled to artistic points, with their serving spoons all aligned to each other in the back of each flavour. The whole image is cropped into the shape of a heart.

2024-12-05 22:22:01 UTC

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You would not be an outlier among those I hear from. Guillotines have been a frequent topic of conversation for all least a decade.

2024-12-05 19:16:44 UTC

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I paraphrased as "You cannot call for guillotines, and also be horrified when people die."

2024-12-05 15:12:07 UTC

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As long as you didn't hurt yourself shoveling!
It is gorgeous stuff, especially when looking at it from inside a warm house, preferably with a fire in the fireplace and a hot drink in hand!

2024-11-17 19:42:50 UTC

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Do you, or anyone near you, have an automatic vacuum that goes in the middle of the night? Vacuuming kicks up dust...

2024-11-12 01:27:11 UTC

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Whoopsie. Appleseed was planting cider apples, not eating apples. Don't put those in pie, you won't like it.

2024-10-20 20:39:27 UTC

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I don't see that claim in this thread. I'm sure it exists, just not in the trail I can find.

2024-10-20 19:55:11 UTC

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Is it? Is that actually the claim. Seems like the statement above the image of Louisville is "Market Street in most cities is named for slave markets".
Note the word "most" and the word "cities".
Now, what exactly is being claimed?

2024-10-20 15:57:30 UTC

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You can have my peanut butter cap'n crunch when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

2024-10-20 14:23:34 UTC

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A "free" state that allowed slavery isn't a free state. It's a fantasy sold to people who want to believe the US wasn't all bad.

2024-10-20 00:10:43 UTC

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No...wait. My OP was talking about a slave market in Los Angeles, but now I see they were responding to the sign in Louisville...and it looks like their post is gone. Multi-threading led us down different paths to the same conversation!

2024-10-19 20:29:09 UTC

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Literally the OP was talking about California, and Oregon has sunset towns to this day.

2024-10-19 13:55:33 UTC

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I think it's more that the public market, where people go to buy consumables, was also where they sold slaves. They were literally considered the equivalent to a loaf of bread or a chicken.
There is likely not a single "Market Street" on US soil that didn't serve as a place where slaves were sold.

2024-10-14 02:46:40 UTC

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You're not alone. I have the same issue when I see "Made in the USA" and it's a low-priced product it's almost guaranteed to be made by slave labour in prisons.

2024-09-10 01:59:09 UTC

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Me tooooo! That tingle is irreplaceable :-)

2024-08-28 03:03:32 UTC

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Can you grab the name of the photographer? I'd like to repost with attribution.

2024-08-10 16:17:36 UTC

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Yowzer.

2023-03-27 18:15:26 UTC

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LOL!
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