Hattie
@hattiejapes.bsky.social
Elderly gaymer checking out what the cool kids are doing these days. Neurospicy, third gen antifa, inclusive feminist. Mostly use this to save stuff that tickles me. She/Her
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Hattie
@hattiejapes.bsky.social
· Oct 9
Well, this is lovely. Good blocklists and a lack of nazi wannabes is a refreshing change.
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. If you're trans+ and reading this, you're bloody amazing. If you're cis, help out a trans+ person in your life, throw some cash you can spare at a crowdfunder, or badger your MP. Hell, just read something by a Trans+ author or look up what TDoR is. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. If you're trans+ and reading this, you're bloody amazing. If you're cis, help out a trans+ person in your life, throw some cash you can spare at a crowdfunder, or badger your MP. Hell, just read something by a Trans+ author or look up what TDoR is. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️
Yes! This please! More like Wolf 21 and help that poor wolf study guy set the record straight in popular culture www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Yes! This please! More like Wolf 21 and help that poor wolf study guy set the record straight in popular culture www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
Can confirm: S28 made things so much harder for queer kids like me.
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
1/8🧵
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
1/8🧵
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Can confirm: S28 made things so much harder for queer kids like me.
Ahh the British Museum method, if it can't be nicked directly then they nick it by proxy.
After a post by @olivia.science, I went to see the terracotta figures from Agia Eirini, brought here by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition in 1931, now at Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm. Plundered, with the blessing of the British, who controlled Cyprus. 1/n
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Ahh the British Museum method, if it can't be nicked directly then they nick it by proxy.
This whole thread is so interesting. TIL this and about serotonin in the gut.
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This whole thread is so interesting. TIL this and about serotonin in the gut.
This tickled me 😺
so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This tickled me 😺
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This is in no way apologism for Google but click Search Tools and select "Verbatim". It makes it work how you expect
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is in no way apologism for Google but click Search Tools and select "Verbatim". It makes it work how you expect
This is amazing 🥳
Here’s the reason I spoke to so many video game actors. I attended the launch of TIVA, an independently run audiobook series with all of your favourite voice actors, aiming to fight back against AI and corporations, featuring an all female/non-binary cast.
www.thegamer.com/tiva-intervi...
www.thegamer.com/tiva-intervi...
Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate, And Assassin's Creed Stars Unite For All-Female And Non-Binary Audiobook, And We Spoke To Them All
TIVA is a self-funded audiobook project featuring a wealth of talent, aiming to "stand against the exploitation of artists by corporations and AI."
www.thegamer.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is amazing 🥳
I had no clue coyotes were this adorable 🥰
A visitor took this pic of Jane while bringing her homemade chicken soup ❤️
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I had no clue coyotes were this adorable 🥰
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Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns...
This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns...
This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
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Absolutely beautiful video created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it's edge-on rings. NASA/JPL/Kevin M. Gill
November 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Absolutely beautiful video created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it's edge-on rings. NASA/JPL/Kevin M. Gill
Love incredibly niche memes.
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Love incredibly niche memes.
48 and 52
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?
57 and 63.
57 and 63.
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?
56 and 63.
56 and 63.
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
48 and 52
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Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab
Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.
www.gavi.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Wish listed! 🤓
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Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre
- Deck out your cruise liner fleet
- Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities
- Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand
WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...
October 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Wish listed! 🤓
Another thread of human weirdness that tickles me.
What's the bizarre take by some internet rando that you saw years ago but still think about regularly because it was just so unhinged?
Mine is the Redditor who said that all cats hate to be touched by humans and what we interpret as affection and pleasure is actually an expression of their trauma.
Mine is the Redditor who said that all cats hate to be touched by humans and what we interpret as affection and pleasure is actually an expression of their trauma.
October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Another thread of human weirdness that tickles me.
This is the type of question that makes me remember why I like the internet.
I have a question about vampires. If a vampire gets invited into a home by the dwellers and then another vampire comes to the home, can the first vampire invite him in or does it have to be the home dwellers again?
October 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is the type of question that makes me remember why I like the internet.
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Someone pointed out to me recently that the song of the mice in Bagpuss is sung to the tune of ‘summer is icumen in’ which I think means Bagpuss is a folk horror... www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/bagpuss...
Bagpuss and...medieval Reading?
Summer is Icumen In. It’s bigger than Reading Festival. It’s been around longer than the Purple Turtle.
www.readingmuseum.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Someone pointed out to me recently that the song of the mice in Bagpuss is sung to the tune of ‘summer is icumen in’ which I think means Bagpuss is a folk horror... www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/bagpuss...
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One thing editors drilled into me was to use "farther" for physical distances, "further" for metaphorical ones.
I have a mnemonic for this:
Mercury is farther from the sun than Earth? Nothing could be further from the truth.
I have a mnemonic for this:
Mercury is farther from the sun than Earth? Nothing could be further from the truth.
October 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
One thing editors drilled into me was to use "farther" for physical distances, "further" for metaphorical ones.
I have a mnemonic for this:
Mercury is farther from the sun than Earth? Nothing could be further from the truth.
I have a mnemonic for this:
Mercury is farther from the sun than Earth? Nothing could be further from the truth.
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A colorful print crew for this sunny fall morning. #artsky #printsky #linocut #illustrator #halloween
October 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A colorful print crew for this sunny fall morning. #artsky #printsky #linocut #illustrator #halloween
Really gonna miss Higgins when he steps down, true statesman, rather than simply a politician.
I think all the candidates for the Irish presidency should be asked if they side with Plato or Aristotle here
October 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Really gonna miss Higgins when he steps down, true statesman, rather than simply a politician.
This is brilliant news!
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is brilliant news!
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I enjoy a well-thought-out, rule-based magic system in fiction as much as anyone, BUT I also think that we should give more props to what Terry Pratchett did in the Discworld books, where it was less about rules and more about vibes and, more importantly, what fit a given story the best.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I enjoy a well-thought-out, rule-based magic system in fiction as much as anyone, BUT I also think that we should give more props to what Terry Pratchett did in the Discworld books, where it was less about rules and more about vibes and, more importantly, what fit a given story the best.
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Well, this is lovely. Good blocklists and a lack of nazi wannabes is a refreshing change.
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Well, this is lovely. Good blocklists and a lack of nazi wannabes is a refreshing change.