Heather Balmat

@balmatlaw.bsky.social

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#trademark of the day: CLEAN CAST (not for me!)

Our 9 YO, upon seeing the “Virginia is for lovers” motto at a rest stop: “If Virginia is so full of love, why am I still single?” Send help.

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Tonight's 🍸 is a frozen gin & tonic (recipe discovered by @balmatlaw.bsky.social). It's nice.

Historical #trademarks: British East India Company logo at Boston Tea Party Museum

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Just encountered a cyber truck in the wild, at an intersection. I pointed and laughed with a gaping maw as is required of all decent citizens

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Biden seems to have mastered something that escaped university presidents: you don’t have to do what the NYT tells you. You can just … not do that.

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For Father's Day @balmatlaw.bsky.social got us oysters. You may have felt reluctant to try oysters at home because of the opening issue, but I am here to tell you that it gets easier with practice, also if you take the shells out to the breezeway and hit them with a hammer.

Family movie night - “Murder By Death.” Watching the opening credits showing drawings of the different characters. They get to Truman Capote. 9 YO: “We love a short king!”

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Tongue-Out Tuesday (photo credit: @balmatlaw.bsky.social)

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"So what was it that first attracted you to the 93-year-old billionaire, Ms. Zhukova?"

Rightwing media mogul Rupert Murdoch marries for fifth timewww.theguardian.com The 93-year-old marries 67-year-old Elena Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist

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"Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions - not outside." - Marcus Aurelius: "Meditations", translated by Gregory Hays

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Four Seasons Landscaping presser somehow not being the low point of your career is amazing

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9-YO's latest video is up to 7.5K views, which is roughly comparable to most of my articles, without the K part.

Jasper is mixing it up with clover and buttercups instead of ivy.

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We're thinking about a trip to New Orleans sometime this year, but the 9-YO is still too young for the revolving bar. We need to get her a fake ID.

She is pretty mature for her age, so. And tall….

We're thinking about a trip to New Orleans sometime this year, but the 9-YO is still too young for the revolving bar. We need to get her a fake ID.

Summer must be near - first stop in the ivy in front of the house of the year.

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Authorities busy cracking down on students protesting an unpopular war, can't wait for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, should be great.

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If he loses in November the instantaneous flip from "He is a razor-sharp intellect who should have dictatorial powers" to "He is incompetent to stand trial" is going to be a thing to behold.

Welp, it was nice knowing you….

ALIEN 1: But what if we could somehow concentrate millions of them into a single 115-mile wide area for harvesting ALIEN 2: Sure, that would work, but how're we gonna do that ALIEN 1: Well

‘I get emotional thinking about it’: US and Canada ready for total solar eclipsewww.theguardian.com Cities expect huge crowds with millions gathering in 115-mile wide ‘path of totality’ for Monday’s exceptionally large and long eclipse

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The reason for the season. (And so to bed.)

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I know the media are busy, but is it too much to ask for live coverage of the state rolling up to change the locks

NY Gears Up to Seize Trump Westchester Assets If Fraud Fine Is Unpaidwww.bloomberg.com New York state’s $454 million judgment against Donald Trump in a civil fraud lawsuit was formally registered in Westchester County just outside Manhattan, a sign that his properties in the area may be...

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Spotted in Charlottesville

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this doesn't necessarily disprove the "she's dead" theory

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Retiring to spend more time with her ego.

PHOENIX (AP) — Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she won’t seek reelection, avoiding 3-way contest for pivotal seat.

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*spit takes vigorously* OH, COME ON

NEWS Multiple fire trucks and men in hazmat suits were spotted outside Donald Trump Jr.’s home in Jupiter, Florida, after he received a letter containing an unidentified white powder inside of it.

Letter With White Powder Mailed to Donald Trump Jr.’s Florida Home: Sourcestrib.al Multiple fire trucks and men in hazmat suits were spotted outside Donald Trump Jr.’s home in Jupiter, Florida, on Monday evening.

Jasper just knows he could get these turkey buzzards if only I would drop the leash.

Jasper slightly unclear on how his bed is supposed to work.

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The CDC says go ahead and eat the Tide pod, what's the worst that could happen?