Calliope Gazetas
@calliopejean.bsky.social
Designer, artist and creative who is finding the glimmers in life while coping with the debilitating challenges of Ménière's disease. Living on a large island off the west coast of Canada with a cat named Goose. Non-binary. Settler.
Designer folks, what are you using these days for online portfolios?
My portfolio site has been down for a few years and I need to get a new one up and running. Recommendations are welcome! #designportfolio #halp
My portfolio site has been down for a few years and I need to get a new one up and running. Recommendations are welcome! #designportfolio #halp
September 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Designer folks, what are you using these days for online portfolios?
My portfolio site has been down for a few years and I need to get a new one up and running. Recommendations are welcome! #designportfolio #halp
My portfolio site has been down for a few years and I need to get a new one up and running. Recommendations are welcome! #designportfolio #halp
Well I did a stupid and got scammed buying something online. I've repeatedly asked for my money back but there was no delivery (even though it showed as being delivered on the tracking app) and no invoice and I can't find the website that I ordered from. It was a table-top drawing easel. Sigh.
September 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well I did a stupid and got scammed buying something online. I've repeatedly asked for my money back but there was no delivery (even though it showed as being delivered on the tracking app) and no invoice and I can't find the website that I ordered from. It was a table-top drawing easel. Sigh.
Well heavens, I have not been writing much here. Here's a photo of Goose after he's had a big supper. Life is beautiful and exhausting, complicated and scary, joyous and mundane, like how it normally is for all of us.
August 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Well heavens, I have not been writing much here. Here's a photo of Goose after he's had a big supper. Life is beautiful and exhausting, complicated and scary, joyous and mundane, like how it normally is for all of us.
At the left side of the baseball diamond in Union Bay. #unionbay #handpaintedtype
May 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
At the left side of the baseball diamond in Union Bay. #unionbay #handpaintedtype
I use @inaturalist.bsky.social for posting all.of my plant, mushroom and insect observations. Citizen science is awesome and their dataset is the most comprehensive species catalogue out there BECAUSE so many regular folks take photos and upload them to their app. Two of my recent pics:
May 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I use @inaturalist.bsky.social for posting all.of my plant, mushroom and insect observations. Citizen science is awesome and their dataset is the most comprehensive species catalogue out there BECAUSE so many regular folks take photos and upload them to their app. Two of my recent pics:
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We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.
April 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.
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Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
March 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
I have to constantly wrestle with my grief over the life I'm not able to live, the life I thought I would be able to have which my chronic illness has taken from me. It's really fucking hard. This is one of the reasons I have a trauma counsellor. #meneires #chronicillness
"My #psychologist tasked me with writing a #diary entry after one of our sessions, “ #Grieving the Life That I Will Never Have”. The person that I would have liked to become, or thought I’d be, isn’t the one sitting here right now": buff.ly/QOKOvxQ
#grief #ChronicIllness
#grief #ChronicIllness
Grieving The Life That I Will Never Have
My psychologist tasked me with writing a diary entry, “Grieving the Life That I Will Never Have”, as a person with chronic illness and pain.
buff.ly
March 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I have to constantly wrestle with my grief over the life I'm not able to live, the life I thought I would be able to have which my chronic illness has taken from me. It's really fucking hard. This is one of the reasons I have a trauma counsellor. #meneires #chronicillness
Gardeners in the Lower Mainland of BC looking for locally adapted seeds, check out the Steves Family seed store at their farm gate in Steveston. #buylocal
We have seeds for sale at our farm gate. We were Western Canada's first seed company. We have been growing, saving, and selling locally adapted, organic, vegetable seeds since 1888. Steveston Stock and Seed Farm, 2871 Steveston Highway, by the west dyke.
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Gardeners in the Lower Mainland of BC looking for locally adapted seeds, check out the Steves Family seed store at their farm gate in Steveston. #buylocal
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
New buttons today! Shipping from Vancouver Island, BC. Message me for ordering. #resist #fightfascism
March 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New buttons today! Shipping from Vancouver Island, BC. Message me for ordering. #resist #fightfascism
Goose is tolerating anti-licking shirt version four much better than the previous ones. #catsofbluesky
February 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Goose is tolerating anti-licking shirt version four much better than the previous ones. #catsofbluesky
Exactly. And then it can be extended for a week, two weeks and longer while people get used to/return to supporting local businesses and farmers and increasing local food security.
Here is the thing naysayers fail to understand: this is practice. Everybody gets together and throws sand in the gears of fascism for one day. Nobody has ever suggested that this is going to be the single day that changes everything. But stuff like this helps ppl organize+ prepare for larger actions
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Exactly. And then it can be extended for a week, two weeks and longer while people get used to/return to supporting local businesses and farmers and increasing local food security.
Current three versions of these buttons. DM me if you want to order some. #resist #fightfascism #fuckfascism
February 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Current three versions of these buttons. DM me if you want to order some. #resist #fightfascism #fuckfascism
UM NOT GOOD
Hey so, we're in active danger of being attacked by the United States
February 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
UM NOT GOOD
Beautiful red rabbit by Martha Rich. Be like the red rabbit! I feel it's important to support our American friends fighting fascism and I will also not buy anything Feb 28th.
February 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Beautiful red rabbit by Martha Rich. Be like the red rabbit! I feel it's important to support our American friends fighting fascism and I will also not buy anything Feb 28th.
I went into a thrift store to get baby onesies for my cat to wear, so he doesn't keep licking a hot spot on his elbow. And then I found these fish and owl soup mugs! Also two onesies for a buck each. #thriftstoresamirite
February 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I went into a thrift store to get baby onesies for my cat to wear, so he doesn't keep licking a hot spot on his elbow. And then I found these fish and owl soup mugs! Also two onesies for a buck each. #thriftstoresamirite
FFS 😡
The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion...
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
Multimillion-dollar Biden-era COVID-19 vax project halted by Trump’s HHS
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. paused a $240 million contract to create a new coronavirus vaccine.
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February 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
FFS 😡
The garden is waking up. Snowdrops and winter aconite after heavy overnight rains.
#snowdrop #winteraconite #spring
#snowdrop #winteraconite #spring
February 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The garden is waking up. Snowdrops and winter aconite after heavy overnight rains.
#snowdrop #winteraconite #spring
#snowdrop #winteraconite #spring
Love seeing this trending on the news, if you are Canadian, sign this petition! #nocitizenshipformuskrats
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Nanaimo author's petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship gains support
Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for revocation of Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threate...
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February 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Love seeing this trending on the news, if you are Canadian, sign this petition! #nocitizenshipformuskrats
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February 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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wake up honey
new hog just dropped
new hog just dropped
Farmers had paintings of their animals commissioned centuries ago and always wanted them painted real chunky. I like the idea of some farmer having people round, pointing at a painting and saying "yeah I had that done, that's my actual pig, he's the fattest guy".
February 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
wake up honey
new hog just dropped
new hog just dropped
Prepping and stockpiling food and other resources is something your wealthy privilege enables you to do. Stronger, more resilient communities and local food security lift all of us up. When your last tin of beans runs out, what are you going to do?
February 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Prepping and stockpiling food and other resources is something your wealthy privilege enables you to do. Stronger, more resilient communities and local food security lift all of us up. When your last tin of beans runs out, what are you going to do?