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evenicholls.bsky.social
Eve
@evenicholls.bsky.social
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Queer disabled quilter. She/her. Free Palestine.

Neurodivergent? Queer? Joint pain? Go and read up on Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Yes, even if you're not all that flexible these days. Even if it's not you, it's probably some of your friends.
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amybrown.xyz
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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xkcd.com
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/
Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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vizcomic.bsky.social
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz353bs
APPARENTLY it costs the NHS over £300,000 a year to remove foreign objects from people's rectums. Why aren't we removing British objects instead? Was Brexit all for nothing? Gerry Paton, London
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.

Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.

The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums
www.france24.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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metafrantic.bsky.social
Second time in 3 days I’m posting this Vonnegut quote wrt AI.
“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes. “And he went wow. That’s amazing! And I said, ‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at any of them.’ “And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’ “And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could ‘win’ at them.” -Kurt Vonnegut
February 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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azadirachta-indica.bsky.social
Long COVID is a deadly disability, yes, but this also goes for every disabled (incl. chronically ill) person unable to prepare food for themselves, unable to go outside, fetch things for themselves, and must rely on an exploitative and unreliable online system
levin.bsky.social Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 3d
putting this here. Who’s bringing food to people with long covid who are too weak to cook or are you just condemning them for ordering delivery? Are you masking up to visit friends or making them sicker or just abandoning them? There is a precedence for community care in the face of gov abandonment!
franceslarina.bsky.social Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 3d
For someone who brought meals to AIDS shut-ins who'd been erased by society, and who lost many friends in the 90's, this is simply astounding.

In a moral & ethical society, it would be free for anyone who wants it. We're the only industrialized nation without single payer/nationalized health care.
February 7, 2026 at 5:34 AM
evenicholls.bsky.social
I want to get a big box of individually wrapped chocolates for my GP surgery, for generally going above and beyond while dealing with a hell of a lot of staff absence. What can I get from Sainsbury's online?
February 7, 2026 at 9:56 AM
evenicholls.bsky.social
I commissioned this fabulous cat sofa from @craftycow.bsky.social, and Ninja has finally decided she likes it! Cathy had to keep it away from her beautiful model Banksy while she was making it, as Ninja Does Not Like Other Cats.

We hear her snoring away happily in the evenings, all cosy.
Four photos of Ninja, a black cat of sixteen, reclining on her custom made cat sofa. The sofa is upholstered in a chevron fabric in autumnal rainbow colours, and it a red velvet cushion, and it's in front of my bedroom radiator. In this photo she's looking around, having just moved out of the cute position she was in when I picked up my phone. There are also two little golden velvet cushions, and Ninja has her head lying on one, in the height of luxury. Here you can see my arm in a plaid shirt as I'm petting her chin. She's grabbed my arm with her front paws, she's very into this whole experience. Another photo of Ninj having her little chin petted and hanging onto me. There is a slight suspicion that she might be about to pet me with her teeth. Photo from further back, showing that the car sofa is next to a beige cat tree with the rope coming off the bottom post. Ninj is now curled up contentedly in a little oval. As my partner says, if we've made this one cat happy, we're not doing too badly in life.
February 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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srfrjulie.bsky.social
We have wrestling
February 6, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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anthrodiva.bsky.social
Excellent thread
seananmcguire.bsky.social Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 5d
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:

In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 5d
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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sellybeth.bsky.social
Crafters of BlueSky! What's the best type of glue to use for eg attaching small fabric/yarn things to metal/plastic so they're secure but don't get discoloured from the glue?

#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm #Crafting
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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m00psy.bsky.social
so frustrating to see posts rightfully complaining about how federal agents mask to hide their identities, that then refer to covid—which, the gaiters they wear do nothing to contain—in the past tense. “oh, so they’ll mask now, but they wouldn’t during covid.”

“during covid” is right now, actually.
January 30, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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drspacejunk.bsky.social
Are men ever called feisty? You know, someone called me 'strident' recently while grinning as if to say "I'm only joking!". Fuck that shit.
athenedonald.bsky.social Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 16d
Why should women have to be 'feisty' to survive in STEMM? It's always been thus: time to fix the system!#womeninstem occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...
January 28, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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robinjohnson.bsky.social
this, uh, this happened, right? #StarfleetAcademy

(bisexual wideboy merman is still growing on me)
Jay-Den and Darem Reymi (George Hawkins) clasping hands, gazing into each other's eyes and holding each other close for apparently extremely heterosexual reasons
January 29, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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robinjohnson.bsky.social
OK, for me that was the first really good #StarfleetAcademy episode, and possible the first really good Klingon episode in the Trek franchise

love this autistic birdwatching Klingon pacifist nerd boy
Jay-Den Kraag (Karim Diane), a Klingon in a grey Starfleet cadet uniform, being quietly mentored by Lura Thok (Gina Yashere), a Klingon-Jem'Hadar cadet master, in the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode "Vox in Excelso"
January 29, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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vaginamuseum.bsky.social
On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?
Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment
January 29, 2026 at 10:26 AM
evenicholls.bsky.social
Has anyone had vertigo on blood pressure meds, specifically lisinopril? It started off as possibly a BPPV thing, so the doctor told me to do the Brandt-Daroff Exercises. The first try caused symptoms on the right, but nothing since then, and it hasn't stopped the vertigo episodes (thankfully mild).
January 29, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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alcreed.bsky.social
The No Take / Only Throw dog comic translated into Sumerian
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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jaypegplays.bsky.social
If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund
ICE Out - Fundraising Nail Polish
**Shipping Update** Shipping will continue once more ingredients have arrived for this polish. Orders should go out in about 2 weeks. Ice Out is a blurple based polish with a blue/aqua shift and pink ...
www.atomicpolish.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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lastar.bsky.social
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
January 26, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long

🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
January 26, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
rewirenewsgroup.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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jensfoell.de
LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it
A LinkedIn post from my profile, reading: “It's a very simple equation, really: Science communication needs to be accurate, it needs to be authentic, and it needs to be transparent. If you're not doing it that way, you're not doing science communication at all. In addition, *good* science communication is inclusive, it's ethical, it's sustainable. If you're not heeding these things, you're not doing science communication right. Which is why I am profoundly shocked by ostensibly reasonable people promoting the use of chatbots for science communication. Their use decreases factual accuracy. It decreases transparency. It decreases authenticity. Those things are true regardless of *which* chatbot you're using and regardless of *how* you're using it. Plus, the tech is not sustainable, not inclusive, not ethical. The promotion and use of Al chatbots is already damaging science communication and, if taken to the extreme, will be capable of quickly destroying it. Not through the rise of evil Al, but through ignorance on part of the users, rapidly destroying the trust that science communicators have been able to build over decades. Everything I will ever publish will be written by humans, and by humans only. If science communication goes the way of the robots, it will go there without me.”
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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joffirphd.bsky.social
🚨 New psych essay!

Look how fast I did that - I think it's a good one, too! It's about the psych. underlying recent responses to ICE.

My engagement here again feels very suppressed, but I hope you'll read the piece & let me know what you think.

essaysyoudidntwanttoread.home.blog/2026/01/16/o...
January 16, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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robinjohnson.bsky.social
As promised
Ninja, a 16-year-old black cat wearing a rainbow-coloured leash harness, sits on my shoulder and nestles in the crook of my arm as I take her for a walk around a green park in Edinburgh Ninja walking on some patchy winter grass in her harness and lead, her tail up happily Weirdly angled selfie of me looking down at Ninja, who is investigating a shrub in a back garden Game of Flash Point in which our little plastic firefighters are being consumed in little cardboard fire counters on my coffee table
January 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM