@firstfish144.bsky.social
Writer, mother, wife, friend, perennial student, knitter, reader, Tolkien Fan and Signumite!
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Very much looking forward to colour sprouting from the garden again, I’m bored of brown and grey. I’ll just keep stitching them from my mind until then! 😉 Here’s some snippets taken from my embroideries, some of them from quite long ago… 🪡🌺🌿🪻🌱🌷🌸 #stitchedart #embroidery #thesewingsongbird
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Very much looking forward to colour sprouting from the garden again, I’m bored of brown and grey. I’ll just keep stitching them from my mind until then! 😉 Here’s some snippets taken from my embroideries, some of them from quite long ago… 🪡🌺🌿🪻🌱🌷🌸 #stitchedart #embroidery #thesewingsongbird
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Counterpoint: In fact, I do this all the time. I live in a tiny rural town, and the closest movie theater is one town over, I like taking my spouse out on dates, we get dinner and a movie and it's great.
So yeah, he's wrong.
So yeah, he's wrong.
"You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to see a movie," says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
www.avclub.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Counterpoint: In fact, I do this all the time. I live in a tiny rural town, and the closest movie theater is one town over, I like taking my spouse out on dates, we get dinner and a movie and it's great.
So yeah, he's wrong.
So yeah, he's wrong.
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Here in Portland there was an incident yesterday. Three men in tactical gear ripped a man out of his car at gunpoint, in a private driveway. They then said they were looking for someone else and ran away laughing. DHS won’t answer inquiries. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/01...
East Portland Man Ambushed by Unidentified Armed Men in Tactical Gear and Unmarked SUV
Updated: 8:45 am January 16. Originally published: 3:15 pm January 15 This story has been updated with additional reporting and corrected to reflect whose home the incident occurred at. Earlier this w...
www.portlandmercury.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Here in Portland there was an incident yesterday. Three men in tactical gear ripped a man out of his car at gunpoint, in a private driveway. They then said they were looking for someone else and ran away laughing. DHS won’t answer inquiries. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/01...
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The American people want the Epstein Files, not Greenland.
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The American people want the Epstein Files, not Greenland.
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Forgot to post this and I need to do more progress pics bc I've done more than this but uhhhh here's the Ciel Phantomhive inspired bag I'm making ehehehe
It's hand crochet! 🧶
#crochet #unraveledcrafts #kuroshitsuji #blackbutler #cielphantomhive #wip
It's hand crochet! 🧶
#crochet #unraveledcrafts #kuroshitsuji #blackbutler #cielphantomhive #wip
January 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Forgot to post this and I need to do more progress pics bc I've done more than this but uhhhh here's the Ciel Phantomhive inspired bag I'm making ehehehe
It's hand crochet! 🧶
#crochet #unraveledcrafts #kuroshitsuji #blackbutler #cielphantomhive #wip
It's hand crochet! 🧶
#crochet #unraveledcrafts #kuroshitsuji #blackbutler #cielphantomhive #wip
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January 16, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Another London sketch dug out of a portfolio, done on a Sunday in 1992 sitting in a doorway on Ludgate Hill looking up to St Paul's. I found another St Paul's drawing where the paper has deteriorated but this one has survived OK.
#art #watercolour #enpleinair #London #StPauls
#art #watercolour #enpleinair #London #StPauls
January 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Another London sketch dug out of a portfolio, done on a Sunday in 1992 sitting in a doorway on Ludgate Hill looking up to St Paul's. I found another St Paul's drawing where the paper has deteriorated but this one has survived OK.
#art #watercolour #enpleinair #London #StPauls
#art #watercolour #enpleinair #London #StPauls
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January 16, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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Our friend the Cuban Small-eared Toad is also known as Cope's Caribbean Toad or simply the Cuban Toad! They live in Cuba, including Isla de Juventud! They spend their time underground and are rarely seen except during breeding season! (photo by Kristin A. Bakkegard)
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Our friend the Cuban Small-eared Toad is also known as Cope's Caribbean Toad or simply the Cuban Toad! They live in Cuba, including Isla de Juventud! They spend their time underground and are rarely seen except during breeding season! (photo by Kristin A. Bakkegard)
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🎉 Can you believe Wikipedia is 25 years old? 🎂
A quarter-century of free knowledge—built on a simple but powerful idea: show your sources. That commitment to citations is one of our favorite things about Wikipedia. ℹ️📚🔍
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#Wikipedia25 #WikipediaDay @wikipedia.org
A quarter-century of free knowledge—built on a simple but powerful idea: show your sources. That commitment to citations is one of our favorite things about Wikipedia. ℹ️📚🔍
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#Wikipedia25 #WikipediaDay @wikipedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
🎉 Can you believe Wikipedia is 25 years old? 🎂
A quarter-century of free knowledge—built on a simple but powerful idea: show your sources. That commitment to citations is one of our favorite things about Wikipedia. ℹ️📚🔍
🧵⬇️ (1/5)
#Wikipedia25 #WikipediaDay @wikipedia.org
A quarter-century of free knowledge—built on a simple but powerful idea: show your sources. That commitment to citations is one of our favorite things about Wikipedia. ℹ️📚🔍
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#Wikipedia25 #WikipediaDay @wikipedia.org
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Please help us. We are struggling to find food, and our situation is becoming more painful each day. We can no longer endure this hardship. We need ten kind people to donate $20 each to meet our daily needs. Your support means everything. Please don’t ignore us today!!
gofund.me/78acabc1
gofund.me/78acabc1
January 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Please help us. We are struggling to find food, and our situation is becoming more painful each day. We can no longer endure this hardship. We need ten kind people to donate $20 each to meet our daily needs. Your support means everything. Please don’t ignore us today!!
gofund.me/78acabc1
gofund.me/78acabc1
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Grimdark Magazine has a beautifully narrated reading of my story "The Face of the King", read by the actor Al Barclay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UGS...
A Dark Fantasy Short Story by Adrian Tchaikovsky: The Face of the King
YouTube video by Grimdark Magazine
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Grimdark Magazine has a beautifully narrated reading of my story "The Face of the King", read by the actor Al Barclay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UGS...
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Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
www.propublica.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
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this is Kaden’s go fund me if anyone is able to help: gofund.me/d455b6b41
Donate to Help ICE Protestor After being shot by Feds, organized by Sarah Gallimore
Posting on behalf of my friend:
On Friday, 1/9, hundreds protester… Sarah Gallimore needs your support for Help ICE Protestor After being shot by Feds
gofund.me
January 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM
this is Kaden’s go fund me if anyone is able to help: gofund.me/d455b6b41
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this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all
21-year-old activist injured by ICE:
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all
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The report on documents found in the abandoned ICE vehicle says agents are using
the 23 and Me database to hunt down immigrants.
Repeat 23 and Me database being used
to hunt immigrants.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
the 23 and Me database to hunt down immigrants.
Repeat 23 and Me database being used
to hunt immigrants.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
January 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
The report on documents found in the abandoned ICE vehicle says agents are using
the 23 and Me database to hunt down immigrants.
Repeat 23 and Me database being used
to hunt immigrants.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
the 23 and Me database to hunt down immigrants.
Repeat 23 and Me database being used
to hunt immigrants.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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A few days ago, people expressed some interest in hearing me read a bit of the Old English in The Shaping of Middle Earth out loud, so here is the beginning of Tolkien's Old English Quenta. It's very close to what he wrote in modern English, but I'll provide my translation in a reply.
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
A few days ago, people expressed some interest in hearing me read a bit of the Old English in The Shaping of Middle Earth out loud, so here is the beginning of Tolkien's Old English Quenta. It's very close to what he wrote in modern English, but I'll provide my translation in a reply.
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Just so insanely proud of what we've been able to put together over the last year and this doesn't even feature the 52 magic items and extras we made.
Kinda crazy when I look back on it, but we love consistency. Join us at patreon.com/abyssalbrews to get access to our whole library.
Kinda crazy when I look back on it, but we love consistency. Join us at patreon.com/abyssalbrews to get access to our whole library.
January 15, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Just so insanely proud of what we've been able to put together over the last year and this doesn't even feature the 52 magic items and extras we made.
Kinda crazy when I look back on it, but we love consistency. Join us at patreon.com/abyssalbrews to get access to our whole library.
Kinda crazy when I look back on it, but we love consistency. Join us at patreon.com/abyssalbrews to get access to our whole library.
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COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...