Manic pixie dream crone
@whitehart.bsky.social
Middle-aged queer lefty feminist (intersectional). Reader, walker, swimmer, knitter, sewer, geek. #ActuallyAutistic. They/she.
I suspect tracking down Professor Biscuit was much easier than finding his human equivalent would have been... www.chronicle.com/blognetwork/...
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I suspect tracking down Professor Biscuit was much easier than finding his human equivalent would have been... www.chronicle.com/blognetwork/...
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They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
The Clarion, always here for the important news in Oxford.
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Clarion, always here for the important news in Oxford.
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Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
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Part of being autistic is being effing exhausted the whole time when you see people not thinking things through and making damaging decisions and *always* being the awkward one who points it out. I am tired.
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Part of being autistic is being effing exhausted the whole time when you see people not thinking things through and making damaging decisions and *always* being the awkward one who points it out. I am tired.
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This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥
booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...
booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...
Housing the Heroine in “Cinder House” | BookTrib.
If you asked me today, and if you'd asked me two years ago, I'd tell you I'm very fond of my house. It's nothing special. It's a townhouse surrounded by other townhouses that look just like it, formin...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥
booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...
booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...
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Along with everyone else, I am shocked by the horrendous dumping of tonnes of illegal waste by criminals that now threatens to pollute the River Cherwell.
⏰ Time is ticking. Please sign this petition to let the Government and Environment Agency know they need to act now and clean it up.
⏰ Time is ticking. Please sign this petition to let the Government and Environment Agency know they need to act now and clean it up.
Clean up illegal waste - Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats
www.oxonld.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Along with everyone else, I am shocked by the horrendous dumping of tonnes of illegal waste by criminals that now threatens to pollute the River Cherwell.
⏰ Time is ticking. Please sign this petition to let the Government and Environment Agency know they need to act now and clean it up.
⏰ Time is ticking. Please sign this petition to let the Government and Environment Agency know they need to act now and clean it up.
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If anyone is not aware that John Finnemore has a substack, please can I direct you to its new post? I have had quite a complicated day, and I haven't even got a paid sub to read all this and I already feel substantially better.
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
Pictures of Giraffes, in Order of How Sure I Am the Artist Has Ever Seen a Giraffe.
Concerning a giraffe who's sure the emperor is blameless; a giraffe tempted by a cockade; a giraffe who is furious with Pliny the elder; a giraffe that doesn't fit in a box and the anti-giraffe.
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If anyone is not aware that John Finnemore has a substack, please can I direct you to its new post? I have had quite a complicated day, and I haven't even got a paid sub to read all this and I already feel substantially better.
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
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happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you
October 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you
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🚨 SHOCKING 🚨
A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.
Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.
We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.
Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇
A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.
Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.
We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.
Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🚨 SHOCKING 🚨
A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.
Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.
We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.
Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇
A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime.
Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river.
We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW.
Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇
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Attention friends! As a Cyber Sec Specialist, I feel a need to share this. If you receive an email from Ao3, alerting you to a password reset attempt, DO NOT click on the links! This is a scam to get you to provide your current password. Absolutely terrible. Safe cyber smart! #ao3 #scamalert
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Attention friends! As a Cyber Sec Specialist, I feel a need to share this. If you receive an email from Ao3, alerting you to a password reset attempt, DO NOT click on the links! This is a scam to get you to provide your current password. Absolutely terrible. Safe cyber smart! #ao3 #scamalert
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I’m gonna keep sharing these ovarian cancer symptoms whenever I see them.
I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.
Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.
Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I’m gonna keep sharing these ovarian cancer symptoms whenever I see them.
I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.
Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.
Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
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Unity Jack 🫶 - created by Oxford artist Su Frizzell
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Unity Jack 🫶 - created by Oxford artist Su Frizzell
I do feel that a more appropriate question than "can you crochet a deckchair?" would be "should you crochet a deckchair?".
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I do feel that a more appropriate question than "can you crochet a deckchair?" would be "should you crochet a deckchair?".
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Oxfordshire Friends of the Earth have called for the Army to step into & clean up the massive illegal waste tip near Kidlington, saying that the costs of clear up could not be borne by Cherwell District Council, raising concerns that resourcing via the Environment Agency would lead to other cuts.
November 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Oxfordshire Friends of the Earth have called for the Army to step into & clean up the massive illegal waste tip near Kidlington, saying that the costs of clear up could not be borne by Cherwell District Council, raising concerns that resourcing via the Environment Agency would lead to other cuts.
Downstream from here, the Cherwell is home to herons, kingfishers, otters and more. It's a beautiful place to walk by, swim in and punt or kayak on. I am so worried about the awful harm this could do (and to the Thames downstream of the confluence, too).
The contaminated waste piled high in a field near Kidlington is now washing into River Cherwell. In the last 48 hours, the water level has risen 4+ feet and is lapping against the illegal dump.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Downstream from here, the Cherwell is home to herons, kingfishers, otters and more. It's a beautiful place to walk by, swim in and punt or kayak on. I am so worried about the awful harm this could do (and to the Thames downstream of the confluence, too).
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The contaminated waste piled high in a field near Kidlington is now washing into River Cherwell. In the last 48 hours, the water level has risen 4+ feet and is lapping against the illegal dump.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
November 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The contaminated waste piled high in a field near Kidlington is now washing into River Cherwell. In the last 48 hours, the water level has risen 4+ feet and is lapping against the illegal dump.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
I am in this post and I DON'T LIKE IT.
Oh dear, this is a terribly clear analysis. https://chaosfem.tw/@jasmine/115548746525256283
Jasmine running (@jasmine@chaosfem.tw)
> "*Another way in which autistic women might mask is by caretaking. So if we are taking care of other people's needs and focusing on what they want and need, then it's less time that we have to spend figuring out what's actually going on inside of us, and making sense of our actual thoughts and feelings and emotions, that might feel too complicated or scary to work out.*"
no!!!!! quit saying bad things, not ok :akko_fraun:
chaosfem.tw
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I am in this post and I DON'T LIKE IT.
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In case anyone thinks Reform could ever get a foot in in Oxford, here are photos of the two opposing protests taken within minutes of each other today.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In case anyone thinks Reform could ever get a foot in in Oxford, here are photos of the two opposing protests taken within minutes of each other today.
Ugh, why are people?
Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field
The enormous pile of rubbish is called an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Ugh, why are people?
Surely it depends who you're texting? One for friendly acquaintances, two for close friends and family, three for partners.
And if people do put x's they're most likely to use two! Vital piece of information there.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Surely it depends who you're texting? One for friendly acquaintances, two for close friends and family, three for partners.
I like this theory, though my duller headcanon has always been that "James Bond" is a code name which gets recycled along with the 007 designation.
HEADCANON ACCEPTED
NO TIME TO DIE Post-Credits Scene:
Close on Bond's hand. It begins to glow. An explosion of regeneration energy. Craig's face disappears in blinding light. When the light fades, Emma Thompson stares straight into the camera and smiles.
"It's about time," Bond says.
Close on Bond's hand. It begins to glow. An explosion of regeneration energy. Craig's face disappears in blinding light. When the light fades, Emma Thompson stares straight into the camera and smiles.
"It's about time," Bond says.
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I like this theory, though my duller headcanon has always been that "James Bond" is a code name which gets recycled along with the 007 designation.
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HEADCANON ACCEPTED
NO TIME TO DIE Post-Credits Scene:
Close on Bond's hand. It begins to glow. An explosion of regeneration energy. Craig's face disappears in blinding light. When the light fades, Emma Thompson stares straight into the camera and smiles.
"It's about time," Bond says.
Close on Bond's hand. It begins to glow. An explosion of regeneration energy. Craig's face disappears in blinding light. When the light fades, Emma Thompson stares straight into the camera and smiles.
"It's about time," Bond says.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
HEADCANON ACCEPTED