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Autumn (she/her)
@saltandsnail.bsky.social
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(Formerly Kate) Crafty, witchy, neurodivergent, Gen X crone, PNW, plant nerd, cat attendant, hoe of all hobbies
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Autumn (she/her) @saltandsnail.bsky.social · Jun 20
Fuck Trump, maga, racists, fascists, homophobes, transphobes, capitalism, private equity, big ag, big pharma, AI, AI apologists, zealots, climate deniers, pedos, pedo protectors, American healthcare, insurance companies, billionaires, zionism, & the necessity of needing to virtue signal any of this.
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If you've never taken a sharpie or duct tape to your shoes bc the pleather is coming off, I don't know if we can be friends.

#workingclasspoor
August 20, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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He's upset because it's too smokey here for him to be out on the catio today.

#catsky #blackcat #pnw #wildfires #witchy
A black cat with fur that's sun bleached brown sleeping on the back of a loveseat in front of a window
August 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Thrifted all three of these nice sized ceramic pumpkins (at different times) & am really happy with how well their colors & styles go together!

#thrifing #thrift #fall #halloween #pumpkins #ceramic #decor
Three ceramic pumpkins, a burnt orange cinderella style, an off white oblong, and an olive green round one with ornate cutouts and a light inside
August 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Our neighborhood is working class poor & this is a dystopian hellscape, but yesterday, two middle aged men in a truck with a chest freezer full of stolen meat in the bed, pulled up & tried to sell beef to me on the street like characters from an 80s PSA about drugs. 😂🤦‍♀️

#genx #psst #psa #hustle
August 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Simmer pot pro tip: Use tea filters, a metal tea steeper, or mesh bath bags for larger items, for your simmer pot ingredients for easy clean up. It doesn't look as pretty in the pot, but late night me thanks morning me every time I remember to do this! And Happy Augtober! 🖤

#simmerpot #witchy
A simmer pot filled with water and a tied tea filter bag full of ingedients
August 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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I heard someone say, given time, the most authentic person (1) in a group will end up in a beef with the most liked person (2). Bc 1 will be frustrated everyone doesn't see through 2, & 2 will be mad 1 doesn't see them like everyone else. And, truer words were never spoken!

#neurodivergent #autism
July 30, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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So it's super fucked up that science is having to resort to this for funding, but also, this is absolutely the kind of content I would pay for.
newsroom.ucla.edu/in-the-news/...

#marmotballerinas #onlymarms #science #marmots #nature
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots are on OnlyFans to raise money for research — and more UCLA media
The New York Times reported on the unconventional way one UCLA ecologist is raising money for marmot research by building a fandom for the rodents on the primarily adult-content platform OnlyFans. “It...
newsroom.ucla.edu
July 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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This guy all oxytocin-ed up after a brushing session.

#catsky #cat #blackcat
A black cat with greenish yellow eyes
July 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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A bumble bee working on a zinnia flower in the garden today.

#gardensky #garden #plantsky #zinnia #bumblebee #feedthebees
A bumble bee collecting pollen from a pink zinnia flower
July 28, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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If you are neurodivergent & bought the Costco pumpkin pillow DO NOT unzip it! It's soft, fluffy 🐈 & 🌈 outside, but inside it's an uncontained chaos of the most texturally displeasing stuffing you've ever encountered. We cuddle the pumpkin pillow & pretend its guts don't exist!

#neurodivergent
A soft fluffy coffee creamer colored pumpkin shaped pillow from Costco
July 25, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Found this Jimothy cross stitch pattern being offered for free. You're welcome! 🦝❤️😁

#jimothy #craftsky #crossstitch
A Jimothy the raccoon cross stitch pattern with mushroom offered for free by thesnoflowerdiariesofficial
July 24, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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For anyone confused about fall / halloween products in July, for decades craft & scent / bath product stores have stocked fall in the summer. But during covid, other retailers noticed us spooky bitches, & now everyone want a slice of the 🖤💲 pie.

#halloween #spooky #fall #witchy #summerween
July 24, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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Thunderstorms last night:

Me: *contented sigh* Hate the wildfire risk, but my nervous system & garden needs this! *sleeps peacefully all night*

Our Cat: *hides in a blanket fort under the recliner foot rest*

My Husband: *high on gummies* 😳 What was that noise? *bc he forgot it's storming*

#pnw
July 23, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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In the several years I've had it, my black ZZ plant has never been able to sustain more than 3 leaves at a time. 🙁 Now, suddenly, it's getting SIX new leaves all at once! 🖤🎉😁

#plantsky #houseplants #zz #blackzz #blackplants #gothsky
A black ZZ plant with 3 black leaves and 6 new green leaves
July 22, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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A shot from the garden early this morning while I was harvesting greens & thinning carrots before it gets hot later. 🥬🥕🌱🏵️🐝

#gardensky #plantsky #leafygreens #carrots #cucumbers #flowers #feedingthebees
The sun rising over a weathered wood fence and a vegetable and flower garden
July 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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I recently discovered our daughter's partner (whose birthday is this week) shares my love of black plants. So I put together a garden of darkness starter pot for him! 🌱🖤❤️

#gardensky #plantsky #blackplants #sweetpotaovine #elephantear #coleus #begonia #witchy #gothsky
A large pot with a black elephant ear plant, a black coleus with lime green edges, a black sweet potato vine, and a red begonia for contrast
July 21, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Look, I don't have all the answers, nor do I want to be in charge, but I'm pretty confident none of our current problems will be solved by a white man with a microphone.

#fucktrump #fuckfascism #fuckauthoritarianism #fuckcapitalism
July 20, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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As a PNW girlie with summer pattern seasonal affective disorder, every year August is the hell I have to get through to enjoy the bliss of fall. It's mid July & the heat & light depression, & desire to vampire style hibernate, is already setting in.

#pnw #oregon #sad #summer #august #gothsky
July 20, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Went to an event in the wooded area of a local park today which was being presided over by this beautiful creature! Probably wondering who we all are & why we're disturbing their sleep.

#owl #nature #pnw #oregon #witchy #familiar
A sleepy owl on a branch in a tree
July 20, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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Caturday: Ronan's fur has gotten so brown from baking in the sun on the catio! His orange boy with black fur traits are definitely showing.

#caturday #catsky #blackcat #witchy
A black cat with brown sun highlights all over his fur loafed on the back of a loveseat above a ghost plushie on a blanket with a crescent moon, a spiderweb pillow below, a laser cut metal witch on a broom beside him, and a disco ball in a plant hanger above
July 18, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Yesterday I washed this blanket & loosely stretched it out over the loveseat to dry. And this morning discovered it all pushed down bc our goof of a cat, took it as an invitation & slept on it last night. But, to be fair, he did sleep right on the depiction of a cat. 😂🤷‍♀️

#catsky #blackcat #witchy
A black cat on a witchy blanket with a metal laser cutout of a witch overhead in the window A black blanket with white depictions of witchy things, a cat, a book, a candle, a witch hat, mushrooms, a key, a broom, ect
July 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Sunrise this morning.

#sunrise #nature #pnw #oregon
Sunrise over a parking lot after a rain shower in Oregon this morning
July 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Penguin pebble text pic from my husband stopping for "church" in the forest in Oregon along the upper Clatskanie river, on his way home from work today.

#church #sacred #nature #forest #river #oregon #pnw #neurodivergent #neurospicy
Oregon forest lining the banks of the upper Clatskanie river
July 15, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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Never been more grateful for having planted lettuces, spinach, various other salad greens, tomatoes carrots, & radishes in the garden this year! We'll be continuing to eat, & share, cyclospora free salads for the rest of the summer!

#garden #gardening #gardensky #lettuce #produce #salad #cyclospora
A head of Iceberg lettuce growing in our garden
July 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Current state of our garden, despite the delays getting started this year.

#garden #gardensky #plants #plantsky #vegetables #vegetablegarden #flowers #flowergarden #herbs #herbsky
A raised bed garden with vegetable plants and flowers bloomimg A raised bed garden with vegetable plants and flowers bloomimg A raised bed garden with herbs and flowers blooming A raised bed garden with vegetable plants and flowers bloomimg
July 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM