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Erin MacFie

@vulgarmonk.bsky.social

WNC Appalachian artist & fire addict. Fairie tales, folklore, and wilderness are where I find peace and "Home." Trying to find my way back to happy. Words are hard (aphasia). they/them, β™ΏοΈπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ, 🌱 zone 7b

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Latest posts by vulgarmonk.bsky.social on Bluesky

I usually forget to turn the switch off for those...not on purpose, just Murphy's Law. πŸ˜…

31.10.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't know where all the Canadian growers are finding me from, but...
Heya from the southern Appalachian mountains! Elbows up, y'all. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ˜ˆ

30.10.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's the difference between country & Irish?

In country music, the dog, house, wife, etc stays gone. In Irish tunes, there's...well. Let's call it mischief. 😈

30.10.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rough road ahead. Break out whatever equivalent ya got for offroad and 🎢 "drop it (a gear) like it's hot." 🎢

Time to step up to turn this country shit into a proper Irish jig.

30.10.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nematocidal Marigold seeds | Sow True Seed | Open Pollinated The highest amount of alpha-terthienyl in any marigold available. The trick to good success is to plant just the marigold in your target area for at least 2 or 3 months so the nematodes will only have...

The phrase "tactical marigolds" just popped into my head. πŸ’€πŸ˜†πŸ€”
sowtrueseed.com/collections/...

30.10.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Do I use chemicals in gardening? Absolutely!"
What happened to organic?!?
"Let me explain. I learn what plants or insects make my pest's or disease's life merry hell, then I plant groups of seeds or starts to run them off!"

Gardening via...pack tactics? 😈
#PerspectiveShift #permaculture

30.10.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon drawing of a lion holding a heart with the number 21 on it Alt: The Grinch scene showing his heart x-rayed and found to be 2 sizes too small.

Once, long ago, it was three sizes too small. Now it's shrunk down to be no size at all.

27.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...Hah.
Now THERE's an old movie & cartoon reference that just bubbled up like a saddled kelpie. Hackers meets Captain Planet.

HACK THE PLANET!

...Okay. I'm back. I can conquer this mountain, Sir Ludo. (Labyrinth)

"...Hey, Bub? Better make it ten." (Batman, Jack Nicholson)

27.10.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
My own screen capture of a scene from the HBO show West World.  It's the view of Maeve's diagnostic tablet as she overloads, logic breaks down, and she shuts down until the otherwise terminal conflict is resolved.

"Warning:  Host system shutdown.  NOT RESPONDING 🚨"
"Can't.  (conflict.)  Can't.  (conflict.)"
"Improvisation.  Improvisation.  Improvisation."
"SYSTEM WARNING"

My own screen capture of a scene from the HBO show West World. It's the view of Maeve's diagnostic tablet as she overloads, logic breaks down, and she shuts down until the otherwise terminal conflict is resolved. "Warning: Host system shutdown. NOT RESPONDING 🚨" "Can't. (conflict.) Can't. (conflict.)" "Improvisation. Improvisation. Improvisation." "SYSTEM WARNING"

:sigh:

Oookay. SNAP's about to get FUBAR'd. I can roll with this. I was on schedule to be ready in 😑 MARCH 😑 NOT 😑 NOVEMBER 😑 and produce doesn't exactly grow in frakking winter....

Can I roll with this?
:gulp: 😰

27.10.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is worth mulling over.

... ... ...NO, I'm not gonna run someone down. (Hit-and-run survivor.)
The rest of that toolbox, though. I'd never even glanced at the idea of their tactics.

(...YEAH, I know. Things a therapist could help with.
Coulda, woulda shoulda. High costs.)

26.10.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not to mention...there are SO MANY acronyms in play BEFORE we started shortening regular words into acronym mimics. Come ON.

I used to have fun dropping "TLA" (Three Letter Acronym) into military convos...but these days, I just try to keep up with TNG (next gen) civvies & hope for the best.

25.10.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My queer Appalachian retort, by way of the @dropkickmurphys.com
youtu.be/sNVtyZ-Zd6A?...

25.10.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...Oh gods, I just noticed the double entendre.

24.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters."

24.10.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This reminds me: time to add a spare fuel container to my car's Oops kit, next to the jump pack, travel air compressor, tire patch kit, and a wheel chock.

It's bailed me out several times. It's bailed out others more. Together we rise.

24.10.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WNC: Manna Food Bank (Buncombe county) is set up to take gardener produce. My research so far says it's the only one. If that's A Drive, I've heard recommendations to check out pantries & such.
Here in πŸ†πŸ₯” country, I'm wary of unknown churches. I know a lot of GOP efforts use that route.

24.10.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wh...nope. Almost forgot the Wish Protocols. 🀐

24.10.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes a stable paradox can exist in nature.

I simultaneously don't care about the White House destruction...
(Ask again when it's back in First Nation hands.)

...and am eager to take this as a mandate for skipping the red tape with confederate monuments.

Git 'em gone.

24.10.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*us. I was so close to an edit-button-free streak.... :sigh:

24.10.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm visualizing a trust fall type group of orgs now: each one catches a different part, there's some overlap, and together they keep is from hitting the ground. πŸ‘

24.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Numa Numa
YouTube video by Gary Brolsma Numa Numa

And...lest we forget our origins: 😈
youtu.be/Cqd1Gvq-RBY?...

24.10.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Magical Trevor : Episode 01 : animated music video : MrWeebl
YouTube video by Weebl's Stuff Magical Trevor : Episode 01 : animated music video : MrWeebl

Badger was already said. 😁
youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM?...

24.10.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really hope the environmental groups are alert on this. There's some stuff here that, once it's gone, it's GONE.

24.10.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prediction: This regime will use the local support as justification for further cuts/RIFs. States/local will also find themselves responsible for environmental protections. File under "state burden to bear" along w/FEMA.

Hope I'm wrong, but working it into the "stockpile and plan for the suck."

24.10.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Those with food allergies (soy, wheat, peanut, tree nuts, etc) strenuously disagree. We aren't an herbivore species.

24.10.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OR...hear me out, instead of doom-jumping to russia, we stick with the Germany analogy, get our shit together, and sort ourselves.

Get out of your own head, mate. Don't fall for the target fixation trap.

24.10.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean...smarter not harder. That's pretty cool.

24.10.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Can't stop the signal, Mal."
Boost.

24.10.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're a paraplegic, don't sprain your wrists. It's not the things you think will get you that get you.

#LearnFromMyMistakes
(Bless you for that NPC, Critical Role )

24.10.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
New account on BlueSky called Massimo who is known to rip off other people’s content and make money from it. The first pinned posts says that if someone owns the original content to get in touch with him as he has clearly ripped it off. The handle to block is @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social

New account on BlueSky called Massimo who is known to rip off other people’s content and make money from it. The first pinned posts says that if someone owns the original content to get in touch with him as he has clearly ripped it off. The handle to block is @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social

Yeah, that’s a big NOPE for me.

This account is that content scraper from Twitter that built a massive following by ripping off other people’s work and just posting without attribution.

He says it right there in his first post. These people never learn.

This is not the BlueSky way.

BLOCK HIM.

23.10.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 316    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 21

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