Amanda C 🥄

@amandaesque.bsky.social

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Bureaucromancer. I enjoy filling out forms because it feels like taking a test where I know all the answers. MSP, she/her.

A bumper sticker with a huge purple Minnesota enlarged to take up most of the middle of the US. It reads "MAKE MINNESOTA BIGGER" and "The Committee for a BIGGER Minnesota"
Screen shot of an air quality index report for Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. A light pink box shows an AQI of 554, the classification of Hazardous, and a drawing of a person in a full face gas mask.
A massive wooden wardrobe with mirrored doors in the corner of a secondhand furniture warehouse
Partial screenshot of "Tools and Resources" section of third portal, with icons for Premium Billing (hand holding banknote), Find a Doctor (Stethoscope), Estimate Costs (calculator and external link icon), and Forms (piece of paper icon)
A sleek black cat is caught in motion blur as he turns his head quickly while sitting sideways on a bed comforter.
A cast of wearing late 1930s costumes in a radio studio with period decor and old-fashioned stand microphones.
The University of Minnesota's block M logo, word mark, and "Driven to Discover" slogan painted on a large outdoor wall. Graffiti covering the end of the slogan makes it read "Driven to Disco"
John Cusack in "High Fidelity," lounging in a chair next to his stereo setup with headphones on. His character, Rob Gordon, is REALLY AWFUL but is redeemed by the fact that John Cusack is playing him. This remains one of my all time, top five favorite movies.
A black cat hunches while looking out of an open sliding window.
“Maslow’s Hierarchy of SHUT UP,” a five-level triangle diagram where every level says “Shut up,” except for the top level, labeled “OMG Shut Up”
Screen capture of newsletter header that reads “Tim Pawlenty Launches Himself Into the Sun”
An e-ink display attached to a sign post, showing estimated arrival times for the next three buses.
Craig Finn of The Hold Steady singing on stage with the top of a word balloon below him.
A tree covered with buds and small bright green leaves against the beautiful blue of a clear May sky.
A red Paper Mate Flair felt tip pen
An email subject line reading "Buckle up – Uranus in Gemini is here"
A black bumper sticker with white text repeating the words “KEEP HONKING I’M LISTENING TO PHILIP GLASS,” though as it continues the words’ order is scrambled and duplicated.
Crumpled and dirty tri-fold piece of paper reading "90-DAY TEMPORARY DISABILITY PERMIT." The seal of MN Driver and Vehicle Services and the icon for accessible parking (a wheelchair user) are featured. The end of the permit number itself is covered for privacy.
The University of Minnesota's wordmark, "block M" logo, and the tagline "Driven to Discover." The tagline has been partially blacked out with spray paint and just reads "Driven to Disco"
Upside down view of a board game in progress, featuring cards with illustrated birds and wooden egg tokens.
Red booty shorts with white text across the ass reading "ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD"
A group of various magicians and wizards holding a sign saying “We Demand To Be Taken Seriously” from the show “Arrested Development”
A screenshot of the word “Intrepid” as my 2026 word of the year from Merriam-Webster dictionary
Shocked Pikachu
Screenshot of an embedded web ad picturing a dog with electric blue eyes, also known as the Eyes of Ibad by the Fremen of Arrakis. Caption says "When Dogs Eat Sweet Potato" and linked text below says "This is what happens"
An opulent hotel lobby, decorated with lighted evergreen trees. The room is uplit to a vaulted ceiling featuring hand-painted murals.
A white board on the door of a clinic exam room. All the standard items (Your Plan of Care, Vitals, Treatment, etc) are formatted so the letter (upper and lower case!) align along the top.
A picture of a pale toad with kind eyes and a gentle smile. "It is Wednesday, my dudes" is written around it
A room interior with blood-spattered walls, furniture. Text: "Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent."
A city bus with "NO? ?? ???????" displayed on the front.
Gabe (actor Zach Woods) on “The Office” shouting “SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN! SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!”
A screenshot of a weather page, showing the current temp at 46ºF, the high of 62ºF, sunny, no wind, and that today's temperature is forecast to be MUCH COOLER than yesterday.
Screenshot reading "I'm Omni, your Airtable cobuilder. Together, we'll create powerful tools to streamline your workflow. I can also help you get insights from your data, research the web, and automate your work in new ways. To get you going quickly, I'll suggest a few ideas based on your business and role. Bold text reads "First, where do you work?" with an input box labled "Company Name." There are no opt-out, do later, or no thank you cancelation options.
A suspicious goose asks “What sort of difficult speakers?” Then chases after a man repeating “What sort of difficult speakers?” in all caps.
A clear pint glass with an orange drink (Bellini Spritz: vodka, crème de peach, peach purée, orange juice, sparkling wine, and club soda) with an orange wedge garnish on the rim.
Tweet from user brent (@murrman5) [me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
Three item list with number 1, 2, 3 in yellow circles. 1. Cost ("How much/how often?") 2. Relevance ("Do I need this?") 3. Secret third thing.
Cat looking through a cardboard front made to look like a post office service window with “US PSPSPSPS” written at the top
Screenshot of a website text: "The Unemployment Benefits System is currently not available. Normal hours of operation are Sunday through Friday from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM Central Time. This application will not be available on these holidays." The word holidays is a hyperlink, probably going to a list of state holidays.
Maxfield Parrish, “Aquamarine.” Painting of a lone tree growing from a rock in front of a brilliant blue lake with huge mountain range behind it. A woman sits near the tree on a separate rock, holding her legs close to her body.
A LinkedIn skill listing of "Eldritch Powers" with 15 people making the endorsement.
Color options for a hat on an Amazon product page listing “Dark Gary” and “Light Gary”
Stewart Brand's "pace layers" diagram of curved layers on top of one another, each with an arrow of different lengths pointing to the right to indicate speed of movement. The top layer, Fashion, has a squiggly-lined arrow indicating high speed and change. Below that, Commerce has a long straight arrow, then Infrastructure, Governance, Culture, and Nature, all with progressively shorter arrows.
Black and white photo of actor Matt Berry
Top image: Bart Simpson cringing "This was the dumbest use of a Signal group chat." Bottom image: Homer Simpson correcting Bart "the dumbest use of a Signal group chat SO FAR."
Question: They got hoddogs? Answer: They don't got hoddogs.
A house key blank with the MN Twins baseball logo on it.