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🕯🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯🕯️
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

I am unabashedly curious about everything. Wandering the hills of western Massachusetts (🌎🌎 USA) with my canine companion Sadie.

🚨🚨NOTE: Your account needs to have some substance (eg profile image, about post, bio, boosting others) for me to approve a follow request.

Also, I wish it were needless to say, but if you are spewing hate, you don’t come in the door.🚨🚨

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My wishes for a better, kinder, peaceful, joyful 2026 for us all!
#HappyNewYear

A black and white sketch of a nude, full bodied woman with angel wings. She is sitting on the ground with her knees up and splayed a bit. We see her back and left side. She is leaning back on her right hand and her left hand is resting on her left knee holding a full glass. Her face is turned back to look at the viewer with a gentle smile. The background is black with asterisk stars scattered around. I don't know the artist - if you do please let me know so I can credit them.
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The most important pin for this new instance … #SunshineSadie!
#DogsOfMastodon

Gold and white dog lounging on a gold, blue and white upholstered chair, the sun is shining through the window onto her. There is a fan in the next window and a black bookcase below it and a green spider plant in front of the bookcase.
🕯🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯🕯️
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

Okay … so … new instance and I guess I need a new #introduction?

Accomplishments I’m most proud of: Raising my daughter (as a single mom) to be a fierce, loving, and much more competent and functional adult than I have been; Founding and managing a successful farmer’s market in the early 2000s that is still running today; Completing a master’s degree (MSci) in my 50s and after being accepted to a PhD program at the University of Oregon, dropping out because it was not the right choice for me.

Moves: I just completed my 54th lifetime move (perhaps the last move but I won’t hold my breath because it’s uncomfortable); I’ve lived in New York, Massachusetts, Montana❣❣️, Oregon, New Mexico, Washington; I've traveled cross county 7 times and I was homeless for a few years but it took me a while to realize it.

Jobs: so so so many, including: tech writer, crisis counselor, waitress, communications manager, college professor, massage therapist, bookseller, executive assistant, project manager, legal assistant, goat cheese maker, pre-school special ed teacher, tarot reader, editor, book reviewer … I contain multitudes! Now enjoying every single day of retirement with the option to choose to do (or not do) what I want!

Misc: I’m living on unceded land of the Muh-he-conneok; I am kakotheres (unfit for enduring summer); I’m a late-diagnosed autistic elder; I love speculative fiction, long rambling strolls, words and meaning-making.

🕯🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯🕯️
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

My wishes for a better, kinder, peaceful, joyful 2026 for us all!
#HappyNewYear

A black and white sketch of a nude, full bodied woman with angel wings. She is sitting on the ground with her knees up and splayed a bit. We see her back and left side. She is leaning back on her right hand and her left hand is resting on her left knee holding a full glass. Her face is turned back to look at the viewer with a gentle smile. The background is black with asterisk stars scattered around. I don't know the artist - if you do please let me know so I can credit them.
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@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services have you posted a list of govt officials on the fedi? eg @SeanCasten@mastodon.social for the US?

🕯🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯🕯️
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

#scribesandmakers August 7 Reveal the game you don't like and tell us what you don't like about it.

Monopoly. I won't play it now and even as a kid it felt like it brought out the worst in other people. The sister who was the most vicious and money grubbing when we played as kids is absolutely like that as an adult.

I love London Cabbie - my ex-in-laws were board game fanatics and this was much more enjoyable to play with them than scrabble. My father-in-law grew up in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in England before he immigrated to the US. He had some unusual games in his repertoire.

🕯🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯🕯️
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

From Kelly Hayes:

"... As #authoritarianism intensifies in the U.S., we often hear calls to “save #democracy.” But one of the problems with that framing is that many people don’t feel they have a meaningful relationship with democracy.

The participatory nature of a public assembly can allow people to create democratic experiences, hear each other out, and begin to solve problems together. I think this is going to be an essential organizing tactic in the coming months and years ..."
https://organizingmythoughts.org/public-assemblies-strengthen-community-resistance-to-rising-authoritarianism/?ref=organizingmythoughts-newsletter

🕯🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯🕯️
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

#scribesandmakers August 6 Create a poll with two games (video, board, ttrpg, sport, etc) you like to play and one you don't. Ask people to guess the one you don't.

Okay friends - which game don't I like:

🕯🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯🕯️
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

The most important pin for this new instance … #SunshineSadie!
#DogsOfMastodon

Gold and white dog lounging on a gold, blue and white upholstered chair, the sun is shining through the window onto her. There is a fan in the next window and a black bookcase below it and a green spider plant in front of the bookcase.
🕯🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯🕯️
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party

Okay … so … new instance and I guess I need a new #introduction?

Accomplishments I’m most proud of: Raising my daughter (as a single mom) to be a fierce, loving, and much more competent and functional adult than I have been; Founding and managing a successful farmer’s market in the early 2000s that is still running today; Completing a master’s degree (MSci) in my 50s and after being accepted to a PhD program at the University of Oregon, dropping out because it was not the right choice for me.

Moves: I just completed my 54th lifetime move (perhaps the last move but I won’t hold my breath because it’s uncomfortable); I’ve lived in New York, Massachusetts, Montana❣❣️, Oregon, New Mexico, Washington; I've traveled cross county 7 times and I was homeless for a few years but it took me a while to realize it.

Jobs: so so so many, including: tech writer, crisis counselor, waitress, communications manager, college professor, massage therapist, bookseller, executive assistant, project manager, legal assistant, goat cheese maker, pre-school special ed teacher, tarot reader, editor, book reviewer … I contain multitudes! Now enjoying every single day of retirement with the option to choose to do (or not do) what I want!

Misc: I’m living on unceded land of the Muh-he-conneok; I am kakotheres (unfit for enduring summer); I’m a late-diagnosed autistic elder; I love speculative fiction, long rambling strolls, words and meaning-making.