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evenicholls.bsky.social
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@evenicholls.bsky.social
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Queer disabled quilter. She/her. Free Palestine.

Neurodivergent? Queer? Joint pain? Go and read up on Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Yes, even if you're not all that flexible these days. Even if it's not you, it's probably some of your friends.
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Calling embroiderers! Which stitch would be nice for putting the baby's name on the front of this baby quilt? It needs to be sturdy so it'll survive machine washing. Normally I do chain stitch, but I'm wondering about other options. Twisted chain stitch? I'm not much of an embroiderer.
A brightly coloured quilt top with a Baptist fan pattern marked in washable ink. The word BEAU is written between two ribs of a fan (they're 1.5"apart, for scale), on plain red fabric, and there's a ball of perle #8 in variegated light blue/green/yellow sitting on top. The whole quilt top, with the fan pattern marked on, and three little hearts hidden in the design. It's a modern baby quilt in bright primary colours using a lot of striped fabrics. It's constructed by starting with a corner square and adding strips on two sides. This is the giant version of a quarter log cabin, or a housetop block, with influence from the Gee's Bend Collective.
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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I have a rather discombobulated cat today. She's always rather anxious and very shouty when she's had her occasional appetite stimulant.

Never fear, she is getting loads of cuddles and reassurance, and is keeping me busy throwing dental kibble up her climbing wall.
Ninja, a small black cat with green eyes, is curled up with her head on one side, so that only one eye and one ear are showing. She's on a blue velvet quilt on the bed, and there's a bookcase behind her.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I would just like to say that Robin got me to watch Bride of Frankenstein, and while it was great fun, your Percy was better.

Also I was not prepared for how much the Polidoricule (minus Polidori) was simply the Pals.
Still from James Whale's film Bride of Frankenstein. Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Bryon are sitting in a row on a posh sofa. Percy has his hand placed coyly on his own knee and is gazing at Mary, looking ineffectual. Byron has his arm along the back of the sofa behind her, and his breeches are very much the focus in that position. Mary, wearing something frothy with serious décolletage, is looking dead at the camera and clearly planning to shiv them both. Still of Percy, looking slightly off-camera with his mouth open, holding a manuscript and looking even more ineffectual. The words, "Yes, Dear," in a curly script have been added by @robinjohnson.bsky.social.
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Good morning, here is a snail.
Ninja Kitty Go, a black cat with green eyes and a white chest patch, is curled up on a burgundy fleece blanket, looking up at the camera. A brown crocheted hat with a tan flower has been carefully laid over her body, the curves matching it exactly, like a strange sort of snail shell. She'd have been seven when this photo was taken.
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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We started walking the cat a few months ago, and immediately realised that it brings her appetite back. She's 16 with chronic kidney disease, so that's a necessity, and we rarely skip a walk due to Weather.

It's amazing the difference it makes to the mood and energy of the humans as well.
Ninja, a small black cat of sixteen wearing a rainbow fleece harness and lead, is standing in a park amongst fallen leaves, looking at a stone wall. The little menace has just chased a squirrel up a tree and is standing at the bottom, looking up and yowling at it.
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I originally bought one for Ninj back in my first year as a cat minion. Something was wrong with how it was made, so I sneakily drew around it before I sent it back, and used that to make my own pattern.

This rainbow one is longer, and made from fleece, batting and flannel, so it's a lot warmer.
Ninja, a small black cat of sixteen, wearing a tan needlecord harness and lead. There's reflective piping around the edge of the harness. She's in a park, sniffing a stone wall, on a nice sunny day.
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Apparently somebody - I name no names, but somebody with four paws and a tail - chased a squirrel up a tree during her walk with @robinjohnson.bsky.social today! She yowled menacingly at it for a while, then bounded off after another squirrel. Not bad for sixteen!
Ninja, a small black cat of sixteen, wearing a rainbow fleece harness and lead, is standing at the bottom of a tree, looking up it in outrage. It's a bright winter day, and you can just see a bar of sunlight on the grass in the distance.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Good afternoon, here is a loooong cat.
Ninja Kitty Go, a black cat of sixteen, is stretched out in Superman pose on a pile of colourful quilts on the bed. Underneath these quilts are a heated blanket and then my partner, not in shot, so she is very warm and feeling very protective about the situation. Her slightly curved tail is up on his chest, and her front paws must reach to his toes.
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
evenicholls.bsky.social
With full alt text this time.

Also to anyone making "hot priest" jokes, please stop sexualising an assault victim. Wtaf.
Photo of a man being restrained face down on the ground by ICE. He's white, with dark hair and beard, perhaps in his thirties. He's wearing the black garb of a minister, with a dog collar and ornate gold and enamel cross. He's looking up in fear, and his face is red, with bulging veins. You can just see the arms and legs of three ICE agents, no faces, as they hold him down. The heading reads, “Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska” “Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Her new harness shows up against any background, I'm delighted to discover! My partner has been carefully documenting this.
Ninja, a small black cat of sixteen, wearing a rainbow fleece harness, is standing in the park, on grass with a lot of fallen leaves on it, looking at a stone wall. Same cat getting very intense about a patch of catnip. Her head is only partly visible, and her tail looks happy. Ninja is now sitting on a carpet of brown and yellow leaves, showing up beautifully. Actually, I think she's having a piss. And here sh a trying to crawl under a yellowish green evrgreen shrub. No idea why, but she always does.
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
evenicholls.bsky.social
The world is a bit much right now. Here is a happy little cat being taken for a walk in a local park, and insisting my partner takes her into the labyrinth.

Photos by @robinjohnson.bsky.social, harness made by me.
Ninja, a black cat of sixteen with green eyes, wearing a rainbow fleece harness and a lead, is standing on the grass in a park with fallen leaves around her. She is standing up on her hind legs to take a treat. You can just see my partner's toes in his sandals, and a bit of his hand giving her a treat. They're now in the labyrinth, which is gravelly and mossy and and has the paths laid out with square cobblestones. He walks the labyrinth, she does her own thing. Here she's sitting up, facing away from the camera. This shot of the labyrinth shows the yew hedges around it, and the simple wooden benches set into the side at interviews. Ninja is sniffing at the hedge. Another shot of her sitting up on the ground, side on this time.
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
evenicholls.bsky.social
Morning! My cat is cute.
Ninja, a black cat of sixteen, is happily curled up in a sort of teardrop shape on a pile of colourful quilts (and underneath, a heated blanket). Her front paws are stretched out over her back paws and tail, in a reasonable example of feline knotwork.
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
evenicholls.bsky.social
Have a cute kitty for courage.
Ninja Kitty Go, a black cat of sixteen, is curled up in shrimp position on a pile of colourful quilts. One has been accidentally flipped over her, so she's tucked under a little and very cosy indeed.
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I'm not going to be well enough to go on walks for probably a few months while I'm recovering post-covid, so @robinjohnson.bsky.social sends me lovely photos when he's out walking the cat.

It helps me feel more connected to outside, and gives me hope. I haven't left my flat in nearly four weeks.
Ninja, a black cat of sixteen who is wearing a rainbow fleece harness I made her last week, is standing on grass and yellow-brown fallen leaves in a park, looking at a stone wall. Ninja is further away this time, near the maximum length of the lead, heading off to the patch of catnip off-camera, to the left of the community garden you can see. There are trees and a row of stone buildings. Ninja on the ground, carefully sniffing a curled up dried leaf, in golden sunshine. Ninja on concrete, looking up at the photographer with her beautiful green eyes. You can just see a bit of her white chest patch. Her tail is curled enquiringly, and she's almost certainly requesting a treat.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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If it's the uni, I'm right by George Square. There's a lovely garden in there where we walk the cat. It's got a little labyrinth!

The cobbling in George Square can be a bit hazardous, mind.
Photo of my partner Robin, a white man with long dark hair in his forties, walking a small black cat on a harness and lead, in a labyrinth inside a park. He's walking one of the outer curves, looking up at the blue sky. The park is full of trees, the labyrinth is surrounded by a yew hedge, and some autumn leaves have fallen onto the ground.
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Hmm, it's by @obrackenbury.bsky.social. The rest of his images have proper alt text, I had a quick look at his account. Has he apologised, or just deleted this post and pretended it didn't happen?

Remember, people, if you don't have the energy to write alt text, then ask for help, or don't post.
Anna Holmes ‪@annabookwriter.bsky.social‬ she/they So two things: Do not put anything other than alt text in the alt text field. This is a bait and switch. You can copy and paste text from your phone. It’s really easy. Here. I will do it right now. (Image containing this text.) If you'd gone to a publisher in 1981 with a proposal for a science-fiction novel that consisted of a really clear and simple description of the world today, they'd have read your proposal and said, Well, it's impossible. This is ridiculous. This doesn't even make any sense. Fossil fuels have been discovered to be destabilizing the planet's climate, with possibly drastic consequences. There's an epidemic, highly contagious, lethal sexual disease that destroys the human immune system, raging virtually uncontrolled throughout much of Africa. New York has been attacked by Islamist fundamentalists, who have destroyed the two tallest buildings in the city, and the United States in response has invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. By the time you were telling about the Internet, they'd be showing you the door. It's just too much science fiction. Quote post by by Oliver Brackenbury @obrackenbury.bsky.social, with the text, "From a now-paywalled interview with William Gibson at The Paris Review," a hyperlink, and the same image of text. But when you clicked on it, it contained an apology for not writing alt text instead.
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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It went back to completely negative the next day.

We tested me again tonight. I'm still symptomatic (runny nose), and my test is also showing a single raised channel.

Someone on Reddit just said that if he had a faint positive, then that means he's had it and can't catch it from me.

IS THIS TRUE?
The graph for my Pluslife test, showing a raised control line and one slightly raised channel. It's also marked as officially negative.
October 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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People who know about covid!

I caught covid from the mobile vet thirteen days ago. I tested positive on Pluslife three days later. Robin tested negative, so went to stay at his flat.

A few days later, he had a faint positive, one channel raised. It has to be two channels for an official positive.
The graph for Robin's Pluslife test. The control line and one channel are raised. It's marked as negative overall.
October 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Lunch is cooking, and prunes are at the ready in case I drop into the 4s! Actually this is being dramatic, it's at 7.4 now and holding steady. But it amused me.

I do have proper glucose tablets if needed for a real low, don't worry.
A photo of the Garmin watch on a white woman's wrist, showing a blood glucose app. The current number is 6.7, with the trend arrow pointing straight down. The graph for the last four hours is mostly red, meaning above 10, and has only recently dipped into green, meaning below 8. Behind her hand is a pouch of Sainsbury's prunes.
October 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Ahaha, I went "right then" and corrected with 2.5u, then took my phone and hypo sweeties into the shower just in case. Nope, I've gone up to 14.9.

Incidentally, they still haven't trained my partner in how to use glucagon.
A continuous glucose monitor graph in the app Juggluco. It shows overnight blood glucose rising from 9 to 10 millimoles per litre, and then 21 grams carbs and 2.5 units Fiasp insulin for breakfast. I added a correction of 1.5 units an hour later when it was at 14. Since then it's dipped briefly, and then returned to rising, currently at 14.9 with the trend arrow pointing up diagonally.
October 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Hah, I think I literally say "ooh!" and that's it. I auditioned for Mina but got all anxious about it and chickened out.

Ninja stars the most in The Tale of the Hellraiser, where she plays Edgar Allan Poe's cat, Catterina.

It's amazing how quiet cats go when you want them to miaow for a recording.
October 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Ninja took up knocking glasses of water off tables at the age of fifteen. This year, at sixteen, she is cautiously starting to purr. Audibly! You can hear her from, like, several feet away!
A somewhat tatty cat tree against a window overlooking a garden, with the sun shining in. Three black shapes are protruding from the cat tree hammock: a triangle of ear, a paw sticking straight up, and a tail happily draped over the side. You may need to take my word for it that this is a cat.
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Pet photos to cheer me up while I've got covid, please! @robinjohnson.bsky.social has mercifully escaped infection so far, so he's at his flat with the cat, and I am missing them both dreadfully. He is of course sending me regular photos, and the odd video of her disporting herself in the catnip.
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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We are discussing whether Ninja will ritually ignore me when she gets me back. Robin reckons she'll do this while sitting on me, pointedly facing away.

Here's a video of her enjoying her latest walk with him. I'm going to miss joining those walks when I'm in post-covid potato mode for a few months.
October 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Best of luck tomorrow, sweetheart. Here is Ninja, who is sixteen years old and has recently taken up purring, mounting a full frontal assault on the catnip in a local park.
October 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM