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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2
@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
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Part adjunct, part self-employed, entirely neurodivergent. She/her in STEM, i.e., had pronouns before people got offended by them. Can't believe it's controversial to not want SARS. Also plays with string 🧶
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ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Defending democracy looks like being really happy about this:
Scrap paper of calculations. The exact numbers are unimportant but they show that the number of ballots received at a polling place is 526 and so is the number of ballots accounted for at the end of the night, i.e. things are how they should be.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
What a neat idea!!!

Something in (or mostly in if it's multi) the blue/green/purple range and suitable for fuzzy slippers or socks would be lovely, if you have anything like that! PM for shipping address and let me know if you could use a bit to help out with all that shipping.
Screenshot from East Texas Food Bank web site with wrapped gift graphic. Above the graphic is their logo and the text "Donation successful." Below the graphic is the text "Thanks for your support, Avrila! You've made a $26.90 USD donation."
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Pic is from yesterday bc I was going to post #ProofOfCat but he purred me into a coma (i.e. unplanned chair nap).
Black cat seen from above/behind, wrapping his front legs and to be honest whole self around a human arm.
October 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Not to steal @rincewind.run's show, bc my quotenapping skills are not equal to theirs, but then this one's from Long Earth so really more adjacent.

I checked; it was published in 2012 so probably written by 2010.
Screenshot from book of text "This evening she stared gloomily at a screen which showed Brian Cowley, increasingly notorious figurehead of a poisonous movement called Humanity First, spewing out his manipulative bile, folksy homespun anecdotes hiding some smart, but very divisive and dangerous, politics. Impulsively she turned the sound off. Still the hatred seeped like sweat out of the guy's face."
October 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
It's this kind of day.
A car in a parking lot (with other assorted cars in the background). Its front driver's side wheel has literally come off.
October 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Bodged a little something together, what do you think?
News photo of the White House with a chunk torn out of its side behind a fence, with flage overheaded. Added to the news photo, a sticker of Donald Trump is placed in the lower left corner, pointing at the damage and labeled "I did that!"
October 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Another 80%!
Screenshot about the Wikipedia Which Came First game, stating that I scored 4/5. The topics included list: * James VI and I * Martin Luther * United States embargo against Cuba * Isabella I of Castile * Second Peace of Thorn (1466)
October 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Ready to head out and make some noise!
Speech bubble with "I said no kings" pointing at George Washington. Both George and the bubble are cut out of printer paper and attached to a chunk of cardboard which used to be part of a box.
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
A visual aid representing our local free speech zone:
Map of the United States, colored by state, including Alaska and Hawaii in the lower left corner. The state capitols and many other cities are labeled. Nearby land such as Mexico, Canada, and Cuba is grey.
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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TFW either you forgot the name of one of the lists you blocked or it changed to be funnier and this is how you find out:
Screenshot of @whitehouse-47's profile profile in blocked placeholder mode, notably bearing the note "User Blocked by 'Why aren't you looking at my garbage fire?' "
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
80% on today's Which Came First!
Screenshot of results summary: in a box it says "I scored 4/5 on 'Which came first?' today.' with four green check marks and one red x. Above the box "Wikipedia" appears, kind of like letterhead. Below the box, a list is labeled "Topics included:" and includes the following topic titles with icons: * Leeds United F.C.: Association football club in England * World War I: 1914-1918 global conflict * List of regicides of Charles I * Great Northern War: Swedish Russian conflict (1700-1721) * Sweden: Country in Northern Europe
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
I found a 20 pack (~a year's supply depending on dust levels, from what I can gather) for $5.99.

How in the absolute procreational act do they think it's OK to not even tell people that avoiding this is an option?
Two small rectangular filters, one very used, the other fresh for comparison purposes, demonstrating the difference between the two. When I say very used, I'm not saying you could grow carrots or potatoes in the dirt on the old one, but something lighter on the roots like a nice cherry tomato vine is not out of the question.
October 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
I have more cats also, but usually use Thunder pics for #ProofOfCat bc he's easy to photograph bc he likes belly rubs.
Close in photo of a black cat laying on his side, curled around a hand on his belly. One of his front legs is pulling the hand closer.
September 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
CONFIRMED:

Also how did I get a bruise there from falling forward?
A knee, lower leg, and ankle, taken from above, with a thumb in the shot for scale because the angle is awkward as all heck as to foreshortening. The knee has a scraped and irritated region with total area about double the thumbnail. There's also a bit of a scratch below the scrape, and a bruise on the calf. None of the injuries are severe, just annoying level.
September 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Finished my new hat band! Green because #Luigi has a point (and a band for a straw hat instead of a baseball cap bc I am too freaking white to not maximize my SPF Hat).
Wide-brim straw hat with green crochet lace band.
August 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
I'm the friend giving the Void a belly rub.
An extremely relaxed black cat, flopped over on his back, getting a belly rub.
August 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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"Post a random pic or everything will go bad in August" is among the things that I don't exactly believe in but am also not going to check whether they believe in me.

Also, #MendingSociety represent!
A leg rub tear on a pair of trousers, repaired by the method of patching from behind and then stitching back and forth and back and forth and back and forth etc. across the tear.
August 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Proof of cat

Or at least, proof of poured out pile of cat kit parts
A very relaxed black cat. So relaxed that he has rolled over and his head and limbs are just sort of flopped around.
June 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
This lives on my porch now.

Just need to get more bottled water (gave some to the ISP tech for the road) and freeze some.

#CommunitiesUnited
White plastic bowl with a bottle of water and a freeze pack in it, with a small black sign saying "Hello letter carriers, parcel deliverers, and other neighbors! Everyone is welcome to some cold water because no one in our commUNITY should have to be overheated. Be safe!" The hashtag #CommunitiesUnited is also on the sign.
June 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
My hot food eating carnivore is on a work trip so I can just work my way through this for a few days:
A casserole sized plastic dish with bowtie pasta, string cheese cut down bite size, baby corn, and chopped carrots, bellpeppers, pepperoncini, and salami.
June 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
I never took to the standard grip as a small being bc it just didn't, IDK, feel secure? For a while I would cluster up more fingers but then I took violin a couple years and settled on this.
Hand holding a drawing tablet stylus with thumb, middle, and ring finger near the tip, pinkie finger out of the way behind, and index finger curled back and slightly around the stylus.
May 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A leopard relaxes on a tree branch, staring thoughtfully into the distance. A speech bubble from the leopard states "Om nom cheek meat."
April 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
A leopard relaxes on a tree branch, staring thoughtfully into the distance. A speech bubble from the leopard states "Om nom cheek meat."
March 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Cucumbers are sprouting!

Flipping a food storage container over to keep the birds and bugs off the seed and be a personal greenhouse for it seems to have worked. I'm gonna let them get a few more leaves along before taking the containers off full time.
Windowbox style planter with three sprouts, with two leaves each, growing in it, and other boxes and buckets around.
March 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Sign of apocalypse:
I FINISHED A WIP
A bag crocheted from teal-to-white gradient yarn, with a flexible mesh middle, straps, handles, and a tab with a button to somewhat secure the stuff inside it.
March 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM