Leanne
@violaleanne.bsky.social
Violist, knitter, writer, general odd-duck-about-town. AuDHD. Read anything, always have a couple of cats, and if it's about dragons, otters or hedgehogs, I'm interested. Probably really a dragon anyway, given the size of this book collection... (she/her)
Hot damn. Will we FINALLY get some relief??? (Or at least, y'know, be believed about it?)
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Hot damn. Will we FINALLY get some relief??? (Or at least, y'know, be believed about it?)
Swap Irish for Scottish and add yarn, and it's perfect.
All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Swap Irish for Scottish and add yarn, and it's perfect.
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Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
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Lemme give you an example of why behaving like an event's covid policy magically doesn't apply to you is dogwater behaviour. Not that people who do this care about the fallout, they got what they wanted.
Regardless, let's begin.
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Regardless, let's begin.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Lemme give you an example of why behaving like an event's covid policy magically doesn't apply to you is dogwater behaviour. Not that people who do this care about the fallout, they got what they wanted.
Regardless, let's begin.
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Regardless, let's begin.
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Have some fuzzy kitty tum, because the world sucks. She's awfully cute though.
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Have some fuzzy kitty tum, because the world sucks. She's awfully cute though.
Score one for the weirdos!
October 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Score one for the weirdos!
When your boyo gets big, you get a bigger bag. 🤷♀️
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
When your boyo gets big, you get a bigger bag. 🤷♀️
I just found out that my high school Latin teacher passed away last week. She was seriously awesome and the news is hitting me harder than I might have expected, especially as she was only 66. So I'm gonna tell my favourite story from the three years I was in her class. 1/11
October 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I just found out that my high school Latin teacher passed away last week. She was seriously awesome and the news is hitting me harder than I might have expected, especially as she was only 66. So I'm gonna tell my favourite story from the three years I was in her class. 1/11
When everything sucks, there is still a fuzzy tum to rub. My kittygirl is cute as hell.
October 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
When everything sucks, there is still a fuzzy tum to rub. My kittygirl is cute as hell.
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Dan Quayle told a 12 yo at a spelling bee that he had misspelled the word potato and that the correct spelling was potatoe.
P-o-t-a-t-o-e
His political career never recovered.
I miss those days when stupidity was a black mark and not a badge of honor.
P-o-t-a-t-o-e
His political career never recovered.
I miss those days when stupidity was a black mark and not a badge of honor.
October 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Dan Quayle told a 12 yo at a spelling bee that he had misspelled the word potato and that the correct spelling was potatoe.
P-o-t-a-t-o-e
His political career never recovered.
I miss those days when stupidity was a black mark and not a badge of honor.
P-o-t-a-t-o-e
His political career never recovered.
I miss those days when stupidity was a black mark and not a badge of honor.
I hear this sound and suddenly I'm 19, sitting in my first apartment and waiting to log on to my forums. 😂😂😂
September 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I hear this sound and suddenly I'm 19, sitting in my first apartment and waiting to log on to my forums. 😂😂😂
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Share your favourite black and white movie:
September 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Share your favourite black and white movie:
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If I am so lazy, why am I always so exhausted?
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If I am so lazy, why am I always so exhausted?
I had an almost-but-not-quite-asleep semi-hallucination that is my first decent worldbuilding idea in I don't know how long and now I'm trying to come up with a plot to kick off in it and the one that keeps banging to be let out is dystopian and like, NO, brain, we have enough of that already... 😝
September 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I had an almost-but-not-quite-asleep semi-hallucination that is my first decent worldbuilding idea in I don't know how long and now I'm trying to come up with a plot to kick off in it and the one that keeps banging to be let out is dystopian and like, NO, brain, we have enough of that already... 😝
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trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people
September 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people
Started today with this, two tows and two shops and two tires put me close to meltdown, my 3:00 is ecstatic because she has her first girlfriend, my 5:00 is devastated because her mother has passed away, this day is a mad roller coaster and I'm DONE. If anyone needs me, check the blanket fort. 😵💫
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Started today with this, two tows and two shops and two tires put me close to meltdown, my 3:00 is ecstatic because she has her first girlfriend, my 5:00 is devastated because her mother has passed away, this day is a mad roller coaster and I'm DONE. If anyone needs me, check the blanket fort. 😵💫
My ragtime band played for my ex-bookstore manager's new craft store opening yesterday and they were giving out free kazoos so I snagged two for the neffalumps. The glorious chaos wrought by a 6YO and a 3YO dueling with kazoos made me laugh harder than I have in weeks. (Sister and BiL, less so... 🤣)
September 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
My ragtime band played for my ex-bookstore manager's new craft store opening yesterday and they were giving out free kazoos so I snagged two for the neffalumps. The glorious chaos wrought by a 6YO and a 3YO dueling with kazoos made me laugh harder than I have in weeks. (Sister and BiL, less so... 🤣)
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Hnnngh. Gorgeous new Austen editions from Folio, costs nearly a thousand £ and oh yeah TARIFFS even if I could afford that right now, which I can't and my Janeite bibliomaniac heart hurts. I'd say "first-world problems" but if you think this is the first world you have a WHOLE lotta thinks coming. 😝
September 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hnnngh. Gorgeous new Austen editions from Folio, costs nearly a thousand £ and oh yeah TARIFFS even if I could afford that right now, which I can't and my Janeite bibliomaniac heart hurts. I'd say "first-world problems" but if you think this is the first world you have a WHOLE lotta thinks coming. 😝
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No Kings! Free hat knitting pattern designed by Lanja Khon-Engheim who says it was inspired by the rallying cry of the Wee Free Men in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. (Picture is her knit) #NoKings #craftivism
🧶 Get the free pattern
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
🧶 Get the free pattern
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
No Kings! Free hat knitting pattern designed by Lanja Khon-Engheim who says it was inspired by the rallying cry of the Wee Free Men in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. (Picture is her knit) #NoKings #craftivism
🧶 Get the free pattern
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
🧶 Get the free pattern
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Ooooh, yes yes yes yes DO IT.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ooooh, yes yes yes yes DO IT.
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In the case of Harry Potter, it’s not like there aren’t other fantasy book series out there, there’s plenty to choose from! If you’re still consuming Harry Potter content in 2025, just admit that you value your nostalgia more than other peoples’ lives.
At least you won’t be a liar.
At least you won’t be a liar.
August 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In the case of Harry Potter, it’s not like there aren’t other fantasy book series out there, there’s plenty to choose from! If you’re still consuming Harry Potter content in 2025, just admit that you value your nostalgia more than other peoples’ lives.
At least you won’t be a liar.
At least you won’t be a liar.