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@eilatan.bsky.social
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She/they, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent. Cyborg. Owned by 3 cats. Two-time Hugo loser. Occasional essayist. T3c diabetic. #Insulin4All

Looking for work as a data analyst. I’m good at it!

Writing at https://peculiar.monster
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Sleepy vibes.
Two black cats on a green couch. There is a drawstring bag next to them. The bottom cat is snuggling with my leg whilst the top cat is fast asleep and the belly is not a trap.
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The keyboard is a pink Nuphy Halo, I can’t remember what switches I have in it—they’re thocky though. The keycaps are Womier with an MOA profile. Which I’m still getting used to.
A pink Nuphy Halo keyboard with blue backlighting and Womier car keycaps with an MOA profile. Switches are some sort of thocky type.
August 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Look who got the boy-ish haircut of their dreams today!

I had to get the blue removed, so I decided to go drastic. I love it and I have learned that I have a nicely shaped skull.
A light skinned person with turquoise glasses slightly smiles at the camera, showing off their new short haircut—very short on the sides and a bit longer on the top. The top is defying gravity.
June 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Buddy, I've got some questions for you. This is on the Kobo page for your book.
A screenshot from the Kobo page for John Wiswell's "Wearing the Lion" (Out soon!) Accessibility Hazard This content may contain unspecified accessibility hazards.
June 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I just looked at the box for the spiral staircase and I was doing it wrong. The instructions are a little hard to follow sometimes. It’s still in time-out. Pic of the ONE TIME the staircase stayed put. 30’seconds after the picture was taken it fell down.
A small, partially built mini brick treehouse (think 1/4 size legos). There’s a lower level with flowers and stones and the cursed staircase curves up along the left side to a second level. There’s a partially built tree emerging from the roof (it will eventually be a blooming cherry tree). It all has a cute little fairy tale cottagecore vibe. It is sitting in front of of a keyboard for scale.
May 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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An older Latinx man wearing a snazzy jacket and a white shirt unbuttoned at the collar, leans towards the camera on his right elbow, exposing an expensive watch. His face is distinguished and his hair and beard is a combination of gray and white. There is a cold bottle of Dos Equis beer on the table in front of him. Superimposed in front of the image are the words, in all caps, "I don't always test my code / But when I do, I do it in production"
March 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#SomethingBeautiful #FlowerReport

First daffodils of the season!
A bunch of small yellow daffodils blooming in the middle of a large patch of decorative grass
March 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Here’s some pics from the “she was a weirdo” biography. I bought it mainly so no one would buy it thinking it was any sort of reasonable biography of her.
Cover of Janet Hitchman’s biography of Dorothy L. Sayers. The cover features a circular silhouette of a man within which are illustration of three of Sayers’s stories. Back of book; The clergyman's daughter who created Lod Peter Wimsey, the most proper and elegant of fictional detectives, was eccentric and untidy throughout her life. She dressed outrageously, smoked cigars in public, and openly advocated sex as an escape from "the drab discomfort of mental and physical surroundings." Her own passionate affairs were invariably humili-ating, although it seems likely that Lord Peter Wimsey was a composite of the men she had most loved. Certainly the woman Lord Peter romanced and married was a thinly disguised Dorothy L. Sayers as she saw herself, In the first biography yet written about this remarkable woman - theologian, classicist, advertising copywriter and bestselling novelist-Janet Hitch-man provides a surprising portrait of a brilliant, boisterous, scandalous— and very strange-lady. "ESSÉNTIAL.... MISS DOROTHY L. SAYERS HAS MORE READERS THAN DURING HER LIFETIME. ALL OF THEM, WHETHER THEY KNOW IT OR NOT, HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS BOOK." Philadelphia Inquirer An image of an older Dorothy L. Sayers, wearing a hat and a dark jacket over a white collared shirt and dark tie. The caption reads: “Dorothy L. Sayers in a characteristically mannish costume and hat.”
March 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I just built this set, it’s so cute. I’m currently working on the typewriter.
The exposed innards of a typewriter made from Lego. The mechanism is visible—when you type the slidey thing moves to the other side and then you push it to the other side and it makes a very satisfying clackety noise.
March 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I love this whole thread. Here’s a recent painting I made, offered in the spirit in which you offered your art.
A rectangular painting, bisected by many different lines and colors watercolor—mostly in the green-blue family. Traced over each band is a pattern in white, black, or silver ink: nets, spirals, vertical lines, flowers, cross cross and basketweave patterns, and circles. It is called “Protection.”
November 28, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Here’s a picture of the little guy!
A black kitten sleeps inside a basket. He is very cute.
November 20, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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One of the things I did today was reorganize my art space to reflect how I actually work instead of how I think I should work. It was a good and useful thing to do today while making a million phone calls (political and medical).
A large desk with a butcher block top covered with with art supplies, you can see an in-progress work in the center of the desk. we will not be talking about the state of my dirty and clean water jars at this time. There’s also a blue lamp from IKEA which I love. It’s the kind where the lampshade is a metal half-circle and it’s held up with a jointed arm that has springs and stuff. There are many paintbrushes and pens in various containers. There’s also a yarn winder clamped to the desk, and one of my two camera setups. The wall is covered with ephemera I find inspiring or paintings I’ve made that I like or a few done by friends (watercolor postcards are so great). To the side is a rolling cabinet with drawers mostly full of art supplies and a cursed Hobonichi Techo from 2020 (never used!) On top of the cabinet are a few boxes holding random bits and bobs. There’s also a box with palettes in it and on top of that a bunch of finished paintings.
November 19, 2024 at 10:39 PM
eilatan.bsky.social
Age yourself with your first computer.
An advertisement for a Heathkit H-89, an all in one computer that you built yourself. Or rather, that my dad built. I was only 5 when we got it.
November 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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I’m sorry, but I have that cat.
A black kitten lies in repose on the back cushion of a couch.
November 11, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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#SomethingBeautiful

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A small (ATC-sized) watercolor painting done in bands, with each band shading to the next in a rainbow pattern. On the bottom right, you can see the remnants of a painting of flowers (I use the heck out of my paper).
November 6, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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#SomethingBeautiful

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A watercolor painting made using a stencil of differently shaped irregular polygons. It is painted in a rainbow gradient from left to right.
November 6, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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#SomethingBeautiful

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A watercolor painting using Kuretake Gansai's granulating pigments which are *wild*. The bans of colors are decorated with white, black, and silver ink.
November 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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#SomethingBeautiful

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A watercolor painting with circular bands of pastel colors. It is mostly pastel and the bands are decorated with white, black, and gold ink.
November 6, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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#SomethingBeautiful

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A semi-abstract watercolor painting with flowers as the focal point. It is decorated with black, white, and gold ink in various semi-geometric patterns.
November 6, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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I'm going to be doing a thread of painting I've made so people can see #SomethingBeautiful today.

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An abstract watercolor painting with black, white, and gold ink decorations. It resembles a geologic formation.
November 6, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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This chyron makes me so happy. So, so happy.
Closeup of the chyron on PBS, it says “Democrat Sarah McBride wins Delaware lone House seat, will be first transgender member of Congress”
November 6, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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A calming picture of the tiny emperor.
A black kitten with yellow green eyes looks into the camera, projecting calm.
November 6, 2024 at 3:21 AM
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Here are the current numbers for Sarah McBride, the first trans person to be elected to the House of Representatives!

I was so, so, so proud to be able to vote for Sarah.
From elections.delaware.gov A table showing Sarah McBride getting 58.2% of the vote and John J Whalen III getting 41.98% 70.9% of the ballots have been counted.
November 6, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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TIL that Delaware had a people named Vermin Supreme and Jonathan Realz running for President and VP. They only received 575 votes.
A screenshot of Delaware presidential election results, showing the entire ballot. Third from the top, folks named Vermin Supreme and Jonathan Realz running for the "Conservative Party." They only got 575 votes.
November 6, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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Please enjoy this calm blue watercolor painting I made. #SomethingBeautiful
An abstract watercolor painting made up of stripes of blue. Each stripe is decorated in a different way, with black and white ink as well as silver pen and green-blue metallic paint.
November 6, 2024 at 1:11 AM