Melanie Bolen

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My face when someone who takes my classes says they’ve been using ChatGPT to develop workout programs for themselves…

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Listen folks, they will keep giving articles and profiles to people you hate so long as you keep clicking on them, reading them, and talking about them.

Outrage clicks are just as valuable to them as sincere ones. Without them these articles might not be viable.

Stop contributing to the problem.

Found my place…

Remove the commercial real estate vacancy tax breaks that create an artificial floor for rents and Michigan Avenue will have 100% occupancy overnight.

What have you been up to lately, Mel?

Jeebus, @hasbropulse.bsky.social, how many more Wolverines do we need? 😵‍💫

You may wonder why I’m sharing this. It brought me a laugh b/c it’s based on an actual ad we had on display at Henry Ford Museum that was trying to promote, of all things, use of carpools. Original ad posted in comments.
But also, f*** generative Ai.

Those Moon Salutations were absolutely just what my hips needed 🌙🧘🏼‍♀️ #yoga

Me: Yay! Two of my EBay items sold!
*packs items up and goes to make shipping labels*
*sees weird names/addresses & decides to Google to inquire*
*sees people talking about how those addresses are often used for fraud*
Me: Damn. I could’ve used that money.
*cancels sales*

Me: why is a crowd of people screaming cheering at 1am?

*thinks* Oh, right… pack of coyotes.

Photo of a black cat with yellow eyes, taken as the cat's head was moving. It appears to have 5+ sets of eyes

biblically accurate cat

Little Caesar’s pizza is 100% better in Detroit than anywhere else.

A bonus to doing things by yourself… easy to get a better seat for things when there is just one of you.

Box Seat Bitches
Heinous Highnesses
Caviar Crew
First Class Asses
Yacht Club
False Idols

The Ballad of Wallis Island was just true delight in so many ways…

Then/Now - Foster Kitties Foggy & Murdock

Welcome to Derry pop-up…

Apparently I’m in my “only watching Halloween themed baking competition shows” era.

Love the textures on this…

Rochefort… isn’t that a smelly kind of cheese?

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

Define “Perfect Ending”?

I’m a silly nerd for not assuming I already own something made by McFarlane Toys.

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The way that so many people just absolutely suck at parallel parking…

Portland antifa frog

The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance

When you forgot how early it gets dark now and you missed your dog walking window. My poor boys 😔
(We get coyotes in my ‘hood, so I’m not comfy taking them out after dark on my own)

Kudos to casting on Blood of My Blood… particularly with any of the younger versions of existing characters from Outlander. Jocasta is a particular fav.

This isn’t the first capture I got… but I’m ambitious, so I kept going…