Nica

@nicarolinam.bsky.social

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Weighted Blanket Lover, 💙🗽, Hot Dog & Oysters Girl, read the driest nonfiction when not working on picturebooks, & learning about too much all at once🦋

From instagram handle: Iamsheo , a inverter pyramid of describing the problems with AI and Google: top largest— AI (3rd source, meta aggreg.) 2nd row—interpretation of evidence; 3rd row (smallest)—the evidence itself with “Your Goal Is Always To Get To The Bottom”
Snapshot of a marble table, the book “Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It” opened, dirty martini and a trout dip
Iris flower close up in the sun, peach tones
Pink flowering trees
Two perfumes, early 2000s Juniper Breeze from Bath & Body Works and Aesop, Karst. They have the same scent
5 boxes of ornaments to be put away
A book, Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
Alwx Bellos' "Here's Looking at Euclid" book cover
Book cover "The Crims" written by Kate Davies (illustration of a large family in front of a mansion)
Cat laying in a pile of leaves while eavesdropping on an upstairs dinner party
Frodo Baggins, "Though, I do not know the way" gif
First five chapter titles of the book, "Better Than We Found It" by Frederick & Porsche Joseph
Dolly Parton; early 90s (I think) in silver tight cowboy fringe jacket, light wash jeans, killer red long nails, perfect big spiral curls, and a big Dolly Parton Smile
A large brownstone window ledge with pots of red flowers. One real cat on each side looking into the distance
Big cat laying down like a manatee on a rug
List of responses for terrible thanksgiving family moments, example "I don't think I'm the target audience for this" and "I'm sure you can pray for me later"
A Christmas Karen, The Game of One Star Reviews. A card game for 3-10 players
Free Library cupboard on a neighborhood block
Interior book "A Lot of People are Saying"
Brooklyn apartment
Book cover " What's The Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won The Heart of America" by Thomas Frank
Book, "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression"
Book "Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World" by Frederick Joseph & Porsche Joseph
Blue eyed, white cat, sitting in fall leaves
3 yellow dandelions with a journal next to them showing a tally mark list of dandelion counts: 180 and counting (photo taken in the Spring)
"The Samosa Rebellion" by Shanthi Sekaran --book review video. For readers 9-15, fiction story of a country about to be taken over by a dictatorship and three friends who change the story.
"We Are Not Free" by Traci Chee book review. For readers 12-15
A video review of "I Lived On Butterfly Hill" by Marjorie AgosĂ­n) a fixtion middle-grade novel about the Chilean Dictatorship and a little girl's story to help in the rebellion
4 Books for readers ages 8-15 during these times. "The Samosa Rebellion" "We Are Not Free" "Hope For The Flowers" "I Lived On Butterfly Hill"