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azadirachta-indica.bsky.social
neocolonial malcontent chic
@azadirachta-indica.bsky.social
Making a history for a post-historical self.

✨ Artist, diviner, spiritworker. Seeking root in the stars and flora 🌿

➡️ https://ko-fi.com/azadirachta

Currently closed for tarot consultations.
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gouache sketch using whatever i had left on the palette and tray, with some paint pens to see how they behave together (better than expected for ~12$ Marshalls' knockoff Poscas)
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I've just begun being 30-something and I'm already obsessed with hot home-cooked meals, fermentation, gardening, needlework and fiber crafts, sleeping eight hours a day

No I'm genuinely excited to be getting old 💤
I am 35 today and I am doing very well at being in my 30s (I’m lactose intolerant and I’m doing a marathon next year ) 😆
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.

Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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please help my friend @sirivplouff.bsky.social out!! they are a very kind, very smart, very funny person whose presence on this planet literally enriches it, and it would be really appreciated if anyone could help from near or afar 💕
Hey y’all - @sirivplouff.bsky.social is having surgery next week for an ovarian cyst that needs removing on the day before Thanksgiving. They need assistance with meals & funds to help recover from missing work as they could be out as long as six weeks!
#HeathenSky #WitchSky #PaganSky #MutualAid
Meal Train for Siri Plouff
Hi all! Siri needs our help! After discovering this past weekend that she has an ovarian cyst that needs removing, they are going in for surgery on 11/26/25– which also happens to be the day before Th...
www.mealtrain.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Please share & give to help Alaa's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, which has left Palestinians starving, sick, & homeless in harsh winter conditions while support falls away after the 'ceasefire':
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Please share & donate to help Ahmed's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, which has left Palestinians starving & homeless under winter rains, donations have slowed a lot since the 'ceasefire':
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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anyway I could do with a bit more cash this month (lol who couldn't) & so here are a few things available on my website. as always super grateful for any shares!

shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I don't care how many dance parties the Pope throws. It shouldn't distract from the harm the Catholic Church has caused.
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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22/11/25
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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🔴SOS call 🔴
My children are hungry; they haven't eaten for three days. I need to buy food for them. Please help me.300 $Please donate for my starving children 😭😭🫂
chuffed.org/project/emer...
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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transgender goddexx linocut progress: Tower Bridge & the Moon have entered the chat. if you wondering how I decide these things, a voice pops in my head that says "moon goes there" so I do it. going to have to get the Thames skyline reasonably accurate, for autism reasons
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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for those of you who didn't know that fatphobia and transphobia are intertwined:

trans people seeking trans-specific medical care -- care that would otherwise be covered -- are often turned away until they lose weight. sometimes they're turned away full stop.

health care is held for ransom.
Earlier this year I hauled my fat ass over to New Jersey for a consult appt for top surgery.

I will not be going with that doctor, in part because her skinny ass was shocked that I estimated it would take me 3 months to lose 15 pounds.

"That long?!" she exclaimed.

It's definitely entwined.
it's crucial to understand how fatphobia is woven into oppression. it's woven into the war on poor people. it's woven into anti-Blackness. it's woven into trasnphobia and ableism. and all those ones are woven into each other.

without fat politics, your social justice lens has a big hole.
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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A truly stunning release from NASA's James Webb Telescope 🤩
NASA's Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos
Thanks for the James Webb Space Telescope image, researchers were able to observe four coiled shells of dust around the pair for the first time.
www.thisiscolossal.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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There were once dozens of newsstand magazines devoted to science fiction, fantasy, horror, and "weird tales." Those dozens eventually shrank to three: Analog, Asimov's, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

1/x
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Occasionally, I discover a random fact that could birth a decent metaphor or story.

Today's fact for my writer friends: The largest organism on Earth is Pando, an 80,000-yr-old, 106-acre, Aspen grove connected by a single root system. Each tree is unique, yet a clone.

What metaphors do you see?
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Unfortunately regularly necessary reminder that End-to-End Encryption does not protect you against needing to thoroughly and routinely vet your comms.
“The FBI gained access to conversations in a ‘courtwatch’ Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.”
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Windfucker 🌬️🪶 - Kestrel painting from last year
March 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The Iconoclasm
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Please share & give to help Ruba's family survive Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza, which has left Palestinians starving & homeless in harsh winter conditions. No donations for 6 days:
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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very happy with how the transgender goddexx is coming along
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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When I was a kid, dad told me this,
"You are not learning to draw because you might become the greatest artist ever. But, during those minutes of solitude between work shifts, when you can sit down with a cup of coffee, you can draw on the napkin with a ballpoint pen. You can keep your soul alive."
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM