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Amy Alex Parent
@amyinorbit.bsky.social
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I make pixel planes go woosh! Lanky roller derby skater, full time queer👩🏻‍💻💫🏳️‍🌈 (I’m an expensive sushi)
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I got a gorgeous new tattoo last week! I can't show most of it because it goes from my bikini line way to my chest, but I can't believe I get to have this piece of art on me!

The artist was amazing and did everything to minimise pain too! If you're ever in Montreal, go see It's My Ink!
The side of my torso. I’m a slender white woman, and there is a new tattoo there, made of thin vines going down my side, accompanied by small sparkles and bubbles. There is very light shading on the vine and leaves.
September 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Fun times in France visiting family last months 🥰 I've fully fallen in love with that Olympus Pen half frame!
A view from a plane, with the wing in the foreground and a sunny French countryside underneath An old Parisian metro train is pulling into one of the vintage elevated stations. The sky is blue and the trees lush and green in the background A large rock arch on a beach in Brittany. The rocks are a pale brown, and the sand a deep orange Waves in the clear Brittany sea water, breaking over large rocks
September 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Fucking around vs finding out 😂🏄🏻‍♀️ I surfed with family for the first time in ages this morning. It's wild how much comfortable I am being at the beach since bottom surgery 🥰

Managed to actually catch some of the waves and stand. But also ate it many times, wouldn't be fun if I hadn't!
Amy, a tall slender white woman, standing, low to a surf board on a small wave. She looks reaaaaally cool. Amy, a tall slender white woman, being catapulted off her surf board, on a small wave. She looks like she’s about to drink a lot of sea water.
August 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I'm visiting family in France and found the sword I used to fence with 25 years ago. Give gays more swords 😁 gays: get a sword! It's fun!
Amy, a tall white woman, looking into the selfie camera with wide eyes and a goofy grin. She’s holding a fencing epée and wearing a black tank top that reads “Auld Reekie Roller Derby”
August 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Felt cute won't delete later

(reached the point in transition where I like how I look even when I'm sleepy and waking up from a nap with no idea what planet I'm on)
Amy, a slender white trans woman, is leaning over the camera, holding half of her hair up with one hand. She’s sleepy, a bit disheveled, and smiling with her eyes
August 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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New entries under the "Amy somewhat successfully tries to take a self portrait up a mountain with a manual camera". I was sure that first one would be in frame 😅
Amy, a tall, slender white woman, barely fitting in frame, wearing hiking clothes. She’s hunched over in the foreground, with the Bernina range in the background Amy, a tall slender white woman, standing with her hands on her hips, dressed in hiking clothes, in front of a small lake on a high alp.
July 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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The most breathtaking view of all was the "Berninagruppe" — tallest peaks of the eastern alps. Piz Bernina is just above 4,000m.
The Bernina range seen from the high meadows of Alp Languard. The range is covered in eternal snow, framed by the grassy slopes of the nearer mountains
July 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Engadine hiking on #film! In order: the view from Muottas da Puntraschigna, the Engadine seen from Alp Languard, Cavloc lake, and the view from under Piz Corvatsch. Photos don't convey how breathtaking the landscapes are over there 🥰⛰️

Shot on Ektar 100 with a Nikon FM2 + Nikkor 50mm/1.8
A mountain, powdered with a thin layer of fresh snow, stands in the background. In the foreground, the last trees on top of Muottas da Puntraschigna Swiss and highland cows lying down at Alp Languard. In the background, the villages and lakes of the upper Engadine valley, and the mountains surrounding the Julier pass Lake Cavloc, near Maloja. Behind the lake, a small traditional Swiss restaurant lies among tall pine trees, with high mountains in the background Brush and alpine flowers on a high alp under Piz Corvatsch in the foreground. In the background, the naked mountains north of the upper Engadine valley.
July 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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I want to go back to the land of cute metre-gauge trains and gorgeous hikes 😭 #RhaetischeBahn #Film
A vintage Bernina railway railcar, all decked in yellow, standing in Alp Grüm station. The Palü Glacier is in the background A Rhätische Bahn BoBo 2 locomotive, number 615, in glistening red, standing in Chur station before leaving for St Moritz A red train from the Rhätische Bahn snaking its way through a cloudy Engadine valley. The photo is taken hanging from a window Our train, small and red, made up of old carriages and a 1970s locomotive, crosses the stone-built Landwasser viaduct before plugging into the tunnel in the cliff side.
July 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Return of Star Wars brutalist locations in London: this time on film! With a weird, very expired roll of "spectra colour excel" film (in a Olympus Pen EF half frame).

In order: Brunswick, couple of places at the Barbican, and Canada Place bridge in Canary Wharf
A view of a colossal concrete A-frame at the Brunswick in London. The film is clearly expired and the colours very orange-tinted A view of the steps leading up to the Barbican Centre. In the background and the left of the frame, the brutalist concrete flats of Barbican. The colours are orange tinted because of the expired film. Overlapping concrete walkways of the Barbican, forming a flattened hexagon in the frame. Concrete apartment buildings are in the background. The colours are orange tinted because of the expired film. The futuristic bridge crossing Canada Place in London. The bridge is supported by triangular beams, jutting out from reflecting pools. The colours are very orange tinted because of the expired film.
June 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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A nice photo from Edinburgh #pride last weekend!
Amy, a tall white woman, wearing a black cap that says “Lesbians are everywhere”, and a face mask with rainbow paint”. She’s smiling with her eyes at the camera and holding a cardboard sign with the queer pink triangle. The sign reads “Queer liberation now! Section 28, “supreme” court, same bullshit!”
June 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Was in London or on Coruscant? Unsure!

(Aka it was pretty cool just bumping into Andor filming locations while moving about London this weekend)
A futuristic bridge over Canada Place, in Canary Wharf. The pillars are inclined, forming triangles over a dark reflecting pool. View through the plaza in front of the Barbican Centre in London. Steps go up off frame on the left, and large concrete pillars are on the right. Concrete balconies with flowers are in the background. The corner of the Brunswick centre in London. Two concrete pillars jut out above concrete terraced balconies.
June 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Trans people, quote post with a photo of yourself you love

(Yes I seem to only post on this website for early-00s chain posts what about it?)
A selfie of Amy, a tall, slender white woman. Her brunette hair is in a bob, and she’s wearing sunglasses and a dark blue bikini with a white floral pattern. She’s sitting on the grass and smiling at the camera.
June 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Cute half frame shots of the last few months! Have a speach for trans rights in front of my Derby team, went up a hill near Galashiels, and danced to Lauren Mayberry at the Barras, and listened to Amal El Mohtar talk about her new book (The River has Roots) in Glasgow 🥰 #HalfFrame #film
Two slender white women are standing in front of an audience in a sports all, with a microphone and a trans pride flag in hand. Two roller derby teams are kneeling in support behind them. A pair of hiking shoes, a purple bag and a map, at the top of a hill, with the tweed valley in the background Lauren Mayberry, in a tartan skirt, is sitting on a stage singing. A guitarist stands to her right, and a drummer behind. The stage is bathed in a soft, dark blue light, pierced by countless beams of lights coming from a disco ball Amal El Mohtar is sitting across an interviewer at a book event
May 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Sigh. Time to protest again.

If you're in the UK, there are tonnes of protests in support of trans people tomorrow. If you're cis especially, now would be a great time to show up for your trans friends (and close enemies)
A hand-written cardboard sign that reads “you will not erase us”. There are two trans flags drawn around the “us” A handmade cardboard sign that reads “I peed in 347 female loos and nobody die”
April 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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A white slender woman taking a photo of herself with a film camera in a mirror. She’s wearing a pink jumper, and a black kitten is perched upon her shoulder, staring at himself in the mirror A tall slender white woman smiling at the camera in a bathroom mirror. She’s wearing a black tank top and high waisted jeans, many rings, and dark red lipstick. A white woman smiling at the camera, in a swimming pool. She’s wearing a blue bikini with a white leaf pattern and round sunglasses. Her hair is wet and slicked back, the light is gold A tall woman wearing jeans, hiking boots, a pink jumper and cap, standing arms wide open in front of the snow-capped mountains of the upper Engadine valley
February 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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“Muuuum let me go, you’re embarrassing me” #Cats
Amy, a tall woman, is holding a very large silver tabby cat in her arms and smiling while kissing his head. The cat is looking up as if to say “mother you’re embarrassing me, let me go”
February 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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We played Ransom Notes with friends today and, uh. I had the perfect words for this prompt 😂 I guess the only better ones would have been “trans your gender now”
A prompt (from the game “ransom notes”) which reads “you’ve traveled back in time and have met your 12-year-old self. You don’t have much time. What do you say?” On a small black board, cut-out words read “you woman not sad guy. Swap sex!”
December 29, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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I shipped a thing today! Well, ish, a dev team shipped a new add-on for X-Plane, and I built the Flight Management System (think fancy aviation GPS) for them 😁

It's a tiny private jet, Cessna CitationJet (Model 525) and it's very fun to hand fly around

torquesim.com/citationjet5...
A screenshot of a Cessna CitationJet cockpit in X-Plane. The plane is flying a dusk, din a right turn, with soft lighting bathing the panel. A screenshot of the autopilot panel in a simulated Cessna Citation plane. In the centre is a UNS-1 Flight Management System. Screenshot of a simulated Cessna CitationJet taking off in what looks like the Nevada desert. The plane is banking into a turn. It’s painted white, with some swooshing blue and gold lines running from its nose to its tail
December 15, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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You know what's much cuter than memory leaks? Quincey' that's who
A large, very fluffy silver tablet is lying down on a scratch board shaped like a wedge of cheese, and looking at the camera, with his head adorably tilted to the side, and his paws arranged neatly in front of him
December 3, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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What I find fascinating is that most of the AP on this plane still relied on a lot of analogue electrical logic. This is what the cockpit looks like: almost no screens, just good old mechanical gauges.

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Cockpit of a Boeing 737-200. The panel is grey metal, with a smattering of mechanical gauges. The seats are tattered, the autopilot panel looks very worn out. It’s old, is what I’m saying.
December 2, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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I'm very happy with where I am now tho. This is the ILS (automatic approach) mode capturing then sticking to the glideslope and localizer (runway axis) really close. The aircraft bubbles up when setting flaps, but I've got it to correct quite quickly, without overdoing it and overshooting the runway
An aviation map of Edinburgh airport’s runway 24 approach, with the recorded path of a plane, aligning itself with the runway from the right, then following the approach down to the runway.
December 2, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Hi I deeply miss the Engadin and it’s gorgeous landscapes (and also its wee red trains)
A mossy vale at the top of a mountain pass in the engadine valley. A small burn runs through the middle, alongside a barely defined path. In the background, high peaks still have some snow, and clouds are attached to the ridges.
November 2, 2024 at 12:52 AM