Horrible House Sparrow (she/they)
@sparrowpunk.bsky.social
Basic cliche, goth-adjacent, occasionally bro-ish. Self-help book permanently lodged somewhere uncomfortable.
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Actually does anyone have an informed draft letter I can jiggle with to send to my MP? It's been at least a fortnight since I last annoyed him.
Here are a few of the things for which Ministers ought to be held liable if they are foolish enough to ban VPNs: the economic damage done by industrial espionage; personal loss due to identity theft and data breaches; violation of privacy rights through data monetization. At national scale.
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Actually does anyone have an informed draft letter I can jiggle with to send to my MP? It's been at least a fortnight since I last annoyed him.
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Somewhere people are arguing over whether you put the jam or the cream on the scone first; here it's a case of how highly spiced you want your scone and whether you prefer mango chutney or lime pickle.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Somewhere people are arguing over whether you put the jam or the cream on the scone first; here it's a case of how highly spiced you want your scone and whether you prefer mango chutney or lime pickle.
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Look at this frosted pink vinyl bolero and peplum belt! www.depop.com/products/spa...
Two piece pink and black matte frosted vinyl bolero... | Depop
Two piece pink and black matte frosted vinyl bolero and peplum belt. Bolero top features a high collar and puffy sleeves, peplum belt is two layers, both... - Sold by @sparrowlux
www.depop.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Look at this frosted pink vinyl bolero and peplum belt! www.depop.com/products/spa...
At the gym with wired headphones, and I think I've been spoiled by Bluetooth.
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
At the gym with wired headphones, and I think I've been spoiled by Bluetooth.
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Double majoring in queer theory and mathematics so I can revolutionize both fields by proving that B≠NB
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Double majoring in queer theory and mathematics so I can revolutionize both fields by proving that B≠NB
At the gym, putting far too much thought into this. If it has to be real, www.souschef.co.uk/products/neu... so I can at least offer to share with Mr. Sparrow. If not, luxury spider tat, the more realistic the better. I'd grow my hair out if I could put jumping spider jewellery in it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
At the gym, putting far too much thought into this. If it has to be real, www.souschef.co.uk/products/neu... so I can at least offer to share with Mr. Sparrow. If not, luxury spider tat, the more realistic the better. I'd grow my hair out if I could put jumping spider jewellery in it.
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This entire thread up and down but also, like, it is so rough living in a world that celebrates and encourages super disordered eating.
The 16:8 fasting craze omg. How orthorexia is The Way Of Life.
The 16:8 fasting craze omg. How orthorexia is The Way Of Life.
still fleshing out this theory (pun intended, I guess?) but there is so much magical and symbolic thinking going on when people talk about "nutrition"
people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic
people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This entire thread up and down but also, like, it is so rough living in a world that celebrates and encourages super disordered eating.
The 16:8 fasting craze omg. How orthorexia is The Way Of Life.
The 16:8 fasting craze omg. How orthorexia is The Way Of Life.
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Hase Kamiya creates delicate fantasy worlds from cut paper inside glass bottles. I find their fragile beauty intensely touching.
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/art/...
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/art/...
Japanese Artist’s Paper Cutouts Create a Bottle-sized Fantasy World
<p>One artist is taking kirie paper cutouts to the next level with her skill at creating magical worlds in bottles. Her highly elaborate and three-dimensional paper cutouts appear to float midair insi...
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Hase Kamiya creates delicate fantasy worlds from cut paper inside glass bottles. I find their fragile beauty intensely touching.
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/art/...
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/art/...
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald we were GOING to cover something by Tiffany, but Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a bit more apropos. There's also a remix!
PAY WHAT YOU WANT and spread the word!
klack.bandcamp.com/album/the-wr...
PAY WHAT YOU WANT and spread the word!
klack.bandcamp.com/album/the-wr...
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, by klack
2 track album
klack.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
To mark the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald we were GOING to cover something by Tiffany, but Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a bit more apropos. There's also a remix!
PAY WHAT YOU WANT and spread the word!
klack.bandcamp.com/album/the-wr...
PAY WHAT YOU WANT and spread the word!
klack.bandcamp.com/album/the-wr...
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There’s a lovely article here about them. Just if you’re interested. I bet goats have fallen on cars. Probably out of sheer belligerence.
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
England's mysterious sunken roads
A new mapping project by Natural England will help unearth the deep history and mystery of this ancient network of subterranean tracks.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
There’s a lovely article here about them. Just if you’re interested. I bet goats have fallen on cars. Probably out of sheer belligerence.
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
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From late December, travellers leaving Japan from Tokyo's Haneda airport will be seen off by a 40 metre long, 9 metre high installation showing Godzilla bursting through a building in the departures lounge at Terminal 3. Arrivals will be greeted by Godzilla Minus One.
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Huge Godzilla installation to see off travelers at Tokyo airport from Dec. - The Mainichi
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Travelers leaving Tokyo to take international flights will be watched over by the world's largest indoor Godzilla installation from l
mainichi.jp
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
From late December, travellers leaving Japan from Tokyo's Haneda airport will be seen off by a 40 metre long, 9 metre high installation showing Godzilla bursting through a building in the departures lounge at Terminal 3. Arrivals will be greeted by Godzilla Minus One.
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
mainichi.jp/english/arti...
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COULD NOT AGREE MORE
Also, use sources in a way other than 'I don't like this and I'm going to rip it apart.' Citation is praxis. Cite what you love, give it credit, treat it with respect. We are all part of a long tradition.
Also, use sources in a way other than 'I don't like this and I'm going to rip it apart.' Citation is praxis. Cite what you love, give it credit, treat it with respect. We are all part of a long tradition.
My fellow trans people who write theory and articles, I am going to say this with love, but also bluntly. You need to cite your sources properly and in your theory books include a works cited/bibliography. It doesn't "make it less accessible for the average reader"-
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
COULD NOT AGREE MORE
Also, use sources in a way other than 'I don't like this and I'm going to rip it apart.' Citation is praxis. Cite what you love, give it credit, treat it with respect. We are all part of a long tradition.
Also, use sources in a way other than 'I don't like this and I'm going to rip it apart.' Citation is praxis. Cite what you love, give it credit, treat it with respect. We are all part of a long tradition.
Mr. Sparrow has amiably sat in the same room while I frown over the drum parts to Burning Inside and Temple of Shite (on repeat) and even made the occasional helpful comment. I may be ruined for all other people, if only because tolerating Creaming Jesus is probably a common hard limit.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Mr. Sparrow has amiably sat in the same room while I frown over the drum parts to Burning Inside and Temple of Shite (on repeat) and even made the occasional helpful comment. I may be ruined for all other people, if only because tolerating Creaming Jesus is probably a common hard limit.
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How excellent are space hats?
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Outer space hats: inspiration for a drab Monday.
Who knew space millinery was a thing? Below are two 'outer space hats' by the French designer Hubert de Givenchy (who died in March 2018)...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
How excellent are space hats?
🔭
🔭
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My poor Throgmorton hates fireworks. Somebody just set a load off next to our building and since we’re on the sixth floor the noise is enormous.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My poor Throgmorton hates fireworks. Somebody just set a load off next to our building and since we’re on the sixth floor the noise is enormous.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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I’m going on a writing retreat next week: does anyone have any retreat tips, and if so, what are they?
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m going on a writing retreat next week: does anyone have any retreat tips, and if so, what are they?
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These are my snails. They are good boys. And excellent comic relief. Pomacea bridgesii
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
These are my snails. They are good boys. And excellent comic relief. Pomacea bridgesii
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World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
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I do not think this is true, in the UK; what we are being told to REMEMBER by the powers that be in politics, media, social discourse etc, is those who served in the British army.
For an Irish person, that is not something one can do (or at least, without serious reservations). 1/
For an Irish person, that is not something one can do (or at least, without serious reservations). 1/
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I do not think this is true, in the UK; what we are being told to REMEMBER by the powers that be in politics, media, social discourse etc, is those who served in the British army.
For an Irish person, that is not something one can do (or at least, without serious reservations). 1/
For an Irish person, that is not something one can do (or at least, without serious reservations). 1/
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seeking a partner by toning down your eccentricities to become more palatable is a coward's approach. you must make yourself worse & stranger to drive away the weak, the romantic version of bequeathing your haunted mansion to whoever dares spend a night within its walls.
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
seeking a partner by toning down your eccentricities to become more palatable is a coward's approach. you must make yourself worse & stranger to drive away the weak, the romantic version of bequeathing your haunted mansion to whoever dares spend a night within its walls.
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wasn't joking: desangeswritings.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/a...
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
wasn't joking: desangeswritings.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/a...
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I realised this week that I have zero (0) trousers that fit me, courtesy of fitting massive babies through my hips, so. Where are the very short hourglass girlies buying trousers these days? UK only plz and ideally somewhere I can try on in person (hate online shopping)
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I realised this week that I have zero (0) trousers that fit me, courtesy of fitting massive babies through my hips, so. Where are the very short hourglass girlies buying trousers these days? UK only plz and ideally somewhere I can try on in person (hate online shopping)
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I'm...back? Maybe?
Showing up broke, and gonna try to keep showing up broke, I guess.
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Showing up broke, and gonna try to keep showing up broke, I guess.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I'm...back? Maybe?
Showing up broke, and gonna try to keep showing up broke, I guess.
www.patreon.com/posts/143100...
Showing up broke, and gonna try to keep showing up broke, I guess.
www.patreon.com/posts/143100...
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Further, the fact that puberty blockers (which have been used safely for over thirty years) are banned due to a supposed lack of research into their long term effects, while AI is being pushed onto kids despite all evidence suggesting it poses a risk to their wellbeing and even lives, is outrageous.
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Further, the fact that puberty blockers (which have been used safely for over thirty years) are banned due to a supposed lack of research into their long term effects, while AI is being pushed onto kids despite all evidence suggesting it poses a risk to their wellbeing and even lives, is outrageous.