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Jo Mack
@arcticharmacist.bsky.social
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Marine ecotoxicologist seeks PhD!
Youtube dropping soon.
Tromsøværing Brit.
Biology nerd, neurospicy, finally reading that novel, still haven't played that backup character.
Exoskeleton user, 93% human by mass.

They/them (en) or hen/hens (no/en).
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Me, a marine biologist.
Holiday at sister's house for a fortnight.
Borrow 7yo niece's room.
Niece likes fish, knows I like fish too.
Niece changes the sheets before I arrive.
Gives me the fishiest bedding she owns!

Oh my heart! 🥰
A child's bed. The bedding depicts a shoal of fish silhouetted in a nighttime sea. The wall behind is decorated with a benthic scene. A child's bed. The bedding depicts various fish, marine mammals, and a crab. The wall behind is decorated with a benthic scene.
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Took this out and got spoiled for views!
A red hand-pedalled tricycle stands in a garage. An active wheelchair is tied to the back of the bike, with the larger wheels down on the ground like a two-wheeled trailer. The view of Tromsdalen across Tromsøysundet, taken from the base of the ski-jump at Grønnåsen.
August 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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I'm going to assume that @legaleagle.tv is working on this one already. For what it's worth, this is about a woman who was almost killed by medical neglect, and her solicitor is apparently still catching his jacket sleeves on things 'cos his Mam got it to grow into.
www.vice.com/en/article/l...
A page of legal text, watermarked with a large purple cartoon dragon in a fitted suit.
August 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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As usual, my city is fucking weird!

They're protesting the yellow lamppost because the rival city's football team wears yellow.
June 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Five facts:

1) The steel tube runs directly behind the back of the skull.
2) There is no cushion on the steel tube.
3) Most collisions are front-on.
4) Wheelchair users ride backwards.
5) Some engineer somewhere needs his arse kicked.

#AutomotiveEngineering #EngineeringFails
A wheelchair user sits on a bus with a steel bar behind their head. The caption on the photo reads "The wheelchair space on the new bendybus is really crash-safe! What could go wrong?"
June 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I guess I'll get in on the meme!
A cartoon captioned "trans people be like", depicting a trans woman pointing to a tech priest from 40k and saying "transition goals".
June 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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• Saw this meme.
• Saw the mug.
• Thought about how much lithium grease I get through in a season.
• Want lithium grease mug.
A tech-priest from Warhammer 40k sips from a blue mug bearing the WD40 logo.
May 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Tromsø Guide Association did a litter-clearing along Kvaløya today. We gathered a lot!
#Tromsø #Kvaløya #ResponsibleTourism
May 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Too hot for tiktok.
May 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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After 2 years of worsening depression, culminating pretty awfully, I've started getting my mojo back. I want to create again! I want to touch minds again!

So here is the first look at my first actual set. Episode 1 of The Harmacy drops as soon as it's shot and edited. I'm doing this!
April 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Now that is a homecoming!
#Tromsø
View from the coast of Tromsøysundet with the top of the setting Sun reflected across the water as it just barely peeks from behind the southern extreme of Kvaløya, as shot from a moving coach.
April 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I left my razor in Tromsø.
I am an arsehole. I cannot grow much more beard than this. It tops out at about a centimetre, it's not getting any less sparse than this, and it's platinum blonde.
I am an arsehole because having this much bothers and vexates me.
April 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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My table is finally home!

I built it myself a few years ago and it still has zero wobble.
A photo of a table in a living room. The table is made of spruce in two-tone finish. The bulk of the table is finished with Chinese oil and beeswax, while the legs and margins of the table are finished with a dark brown stain and beeswax. A photo of the same table from the first photo. The top of the table stands against the wall, revealing a secondary gaming surface inside. The gaming surface is covered with grey felt, and the felt is lit from all sides in purple by RGB LED strips hidden beneath the rim of the table.
April 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Verdens fineste ingeniører på Strandvn! #RampShapedObject #RullestolBruker #Tilgjengelighet #Tromsø
April 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Baby's first caster greasing! 🥰
A manual wheelchair with electric drivewheels lies on its back on a kitchen floor. The right caster is removed and disassembled, the parts are laid out on a rag alongside tools and lithium grease.
April 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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IT'S FUCKING STORSTEINEN! 🤬
April 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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At work, felt cute
A short androgynous person stands in a garage with their back to the camera, looking back over their left shoulder. They are dressed all in black, wear multiple orthoses on their legs and hands, and are holding a crutch across the backs of their thighs with both hands. They are silhouetted, lit from behind by the snowglare through the windows in the garage door.
April 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Nobody's hurt and we all had a good laugh
Meme image shows a manual wheelchair with electric push-assist which has overshot an access ramp and has knocked over a wheelie bin into the snow. The scene is framed by two passenger vans. Meme text reads: "Well that's my workday off to a flying start..."
March 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Woke up still rendering
A meme showing a whatsapp loading screen saying "initializing... please wait a moment". The meme caption reads "when it's a bad enough flare day that I have to find each muscle before starting to walk".
March 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Sharkbari!
A blåhaj shark plushie is bound in the straps of a knee brace, arranged to look like the practice of bondage kink. It reclines on a grey sofa.
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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For reference, this is today's fit:
January 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Me: I'm aware that I'm human, but increasingly I feel divorced from the concept of myself as human.
Humans: "That is weird and wrong."
Also Humans:
January 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Arctic gonna Arctic, I guess!
(Taken an hour ago in Tromsø)
A photograph of clouds backlit by the sun. The clouds are weirdly colourful, resembling an oil spill on water. A photograph of clouds in the upper atmosphere. The central cloud looks like it has a pale white glow, but this glow is actually multiple ribbony rainbows, with strong emphasis on green and purple hues.
January 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Two questions:
1) Have I hit peak androgyny?
2) How the fuck am I 40?!

Yes, that is a Beau hoodie
A white nonbinary person stands in their living room, showing off their outfit. They wear an overlong sleeveless blue hoodie and black shorts over a black and blue orthotic exoskeleton. Their hair is a ginger side-shave with an earlobe-length bob on the right side.
January 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Moon over Tromsø Sound
A landscape image of the sound between Tromsøya and Kvaløya at nighttime. The surface of the sound is brilliantly lit by the full moon.
January 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM