Amanda/Inkling 🏳️🌈
@inkling42.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, Knitter, Traveler, Ginger. She/Her.
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I am Sleepy.
But.
I have diagnosed a Garbage Disposal.
I have finished knitting a Sock.
I have worked on Projects.
I am Tired.
I hope all of you have had as Fulfilling A Day as I have had.
But.
I have diagnosed a Garbage Disposal.
I have finished knitting a Sock.
I have worked on Projects.
I am Tired.
I hope all of you have had as Fulfilling A Day as I have had.
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I am Sleepy.
But.
I have diagnosed a Garbage Disposal.
I have finished knitting a Sock.
I have worked on Projects.
I am Tired.
I hope all of you have had as Fulfilling A Day as I have had.
But.
I have diagnosed a Garbage Disposal.
I have finished knitting a Sock.
I have worked on Projects.
I am Tired.
I hope all of you have had as Fulfilling A Day as I have had.
OK, this sounds weird, but...
I would like to write a book that Sticks With Readers.
It may be mediocre. It may be, actually, Not Very Good.
But, I would like to have a Positive Message That Lets People Hang On To Positive Things. And that is why I write.
I would like to write a book that Sticks With Readers.
It may be mediocre. It may be, actually, Not Very Good.
But, I would like to have a Positive Message That Lets People Hang On To Positive Things. And that is why I write.
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
OK, this sounds weird, but...
I would like to write a book that Sticks With Readers.
It may be mediocre. It may be, actually, Not Very Good.
But, I would like to have a Positive Message That Lets People Hang On To Positive Things. And that is why I write.
I would like to write a book that Sticks With Readers.
It may be mediocre. It may be, actually, Not Very Good.
But, I would like to have a Positive Message That Lets People Hang On To Positive Things. And that is why I write.
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Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
Time to hang up my hand knit socks (that I just washed) and go to bed. #KnitterLife #IJustDarnedAnotherPairOfSocks #ByWhichIMeanISaidDarnAndThrewThemAway #BadMothsDoNotEatMySocks
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Time to hang up my hand knit socks (that I just washed) and go to bed. #KnitterLife #IJustDarnedAnotherPairOfSocks #ByWhichIMeanISaidDarnAndThrewThemAway #BadMothsDoNotEatMySocks
I have almost finished a Knitted Hat and I am working on Socks and dangit, I may not be able to save the world but I can keep myself and my friends Warm.
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I have almost finished a Knitted Hat and I am working on Socks and dangit, I may not be able to save the world but I can keep myself and my friends Warm.
Feeling a bit old, but in that weird "What Do You Mean It Is 40 Years Since The 1980s" way. #WhereDoYouSeeLions #OnlyInKenya #ComeToKenyaWeHaveGotLions #LlamaLlamaDuck #JoinInWhenYouKnowTheWords
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Feeling a bit old, but in that weird "What Do You Mean It Is 40 Years Since The 1980s" way. #WhereDoYouSeeLions #OnlyInKenya #ComeToKenyaWeHaveGotLions #LlamaLlamaDuck #JoinInWhenYouKnowTheWords
Alex made 3 Cup Chicken for Dinner tonight. This made me happy, along with knitting socks.
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Alex made 3 Cup Chicken for Dinner tonight. This made me happy, along with knitting socks.
Sad but true. Despite medieval apothecaries trying to figure out our humours by analyzing our urine. One of the many things they were wrong about.
I love biology facts but it's disappointing that it's both a misconception that urine works as emergency water and that it can treat a jellyfish sting, the sad reality is your pee is useless and your body wants it out of you for a reason 😞
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Sad but true. Despite medieval apothecaries trying to figure out our humours by analyzing our urine. One of the many things they were wrong about.
I realize this is very Frivolous with all this... ~gestures to Everything~ ...but my place is Very Soundproofed but I can still hear the Sportsball happening at the Arena nearby and that troubles me. #TinyProblems #StillIrritating #SleepIsImportant #HearingLossIsBad
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I realize this is very Frivolous with all this... ~gestures to Everything~ ...but my place is Very Soundproofed but I can still hear the Sportsball happening at the Arena nearby and that troubles me. #TinyProblems #StillIrritating #SleepIsImportant #HearingLossIsBad
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Hello again, Bluesky. I've missed you.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hello again, Bluesky. I've missed you.
I Blogged Again! Join me on the California Mille!
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California Mille 2025, Day 1
In Which Our Heroine Attempts To Begin A Travelogue Today is the first day of the California Mille, a 1000-Mile Classic Car Tour that Alex and I have been on once before. I enjoyed it last time. I …
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April 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I Blogged Again! Join me on the California Mille!
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🧵Spotted on Waitangi Day in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) being carried around the Wharenui (ancestral meeting house) of a Marae by his dad (20s?) who's showing him the carvings and describing what they mean. Dad beaming with pride. Tiny human beaming at Dad. (1)
A tiny human (2?) being carried around the Wharenui (ancestral meeting house) of a Marae by his dad (20s?) who's showing him the carvings and describing what they mean. Dad beaming with pride. Tiny human beaming at Dad. (1)
February 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🧵Spotted on Waitangi Day in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) being carried around the Wharenui (ancestral meeting house) of a Marae by his dad (20s?) who's showing him the carvings and describing what they mean. Dad beaming with pride. Tiny human beaming at Dad. (1)
A tiny human (2?) being carried around the Wharenui (ancestral meeting house) of a Marae by his dad (20s?) who's showing him the carvings and describing what they mean. Dad beaming with pride. Tiny human beaming at Dad. (1)
I hope this Winter Holiday Season is peaceful for you.
December 24, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I hope this Winter Holiday Season is peaceful for you.
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KOSA is deliberately designed to, and will be used to, ban all queer content online as "pornography" including helpful orgs such as Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. Tell your reps to vote NO on this monstrosity.
Does the new version of KOSA they're trying to cram at the last minute to the funding bill solve KOSA's first amendment problems? Ha ha no.
Tell your Congressional Rep. you're not falling for this shit and neither should they.
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Tell your Congressional Rep. you're not falling for this shit and neither should they.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
X's Last-Minute Update to the Kids Online Safety Act Still Fails to Protect Kids—or Adults—Online
Late last week, the Senate released yet another version of the Kids Online Safety Act, written, reportedly, with the assistance of X CEO Linda Yaccarino in a flawed attempt to address the critical fre...
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December 13, 2024 at 6:41 PM
KOSA is deliberately designed to, and will be used to, ban all queer content online as "pornography" including helpful orgs such as Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. Tell your reps to vote NO on this monstrosity.
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If you want to improve your style....learn to draw bodies.
Real bodies. Marked, scarred, disfigured, bald, wrinkly, old and young.
Learn to draw real people and you will learn to find so many more things beautiful.
The best thing you can do for your art is to fall in love with being human.
Real bodies. Marked, scarred, disfigured, bald, wrinkly, old and young.
Learn to draw real people and you will learn to find so many more things beautiful.
The best thing you can do for your art is to fall in love with being human.
December 10, 2024 at 9:55 PM
If you want to improve your style....learn to draw bodies.
Real bodies. Marked, scarred, disfigured, bald, wrinkly, old and young.
Learn to draw real people and you will learn to find so many more things beautiful.
The best thing you can do for your art is to fall in love with being human.
Real bodies. Marked, scarred, disfigured, bald, wrinkly, old and young.
Learn to draw real people and you will learn to find so many more things beautiful.
The best thing you can do for your art is to fall in love with being human.
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Even from a purely self-interested perspective, Bluesky is very much building a brand based upon it being a safer place to exist online.
Allowing Jesse Singal to remain, who is a known and active harasser, actively harms that brand and does nothing to attract valuable new users.
Allowing Jesse Singal to remain, who is a known and active harasser, actively harms that brand and does nothing to attract valuable new users.
December 11, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Even from a purely self-interested perspective, Bluesky is very much building a brand based upon it being a safer place to exist online.
Allowing Jesse Singal to remain, who is a known and active harasser, actively harms that brand and does nothing to attract valuable new users.
Allowing Jesse Singal to remain, who is a known and active harasser, actively harms that brand and does nothing to attract valuable new users.
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Usinge AI to learne to wryte ys lyke having a robot go to the gym for you
December 12, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Usinge AI to learne to wryte ys lyke having a robot go to the gym for you
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My biggest issue with AI evangelism in our industry is that it treats creativity like a problem to be solved, and not an adventure to be had.
January 10, 2024 at 2:04 PM
My biggest issue with AI evangelism in our industry is that it treats creativity like a problem to be solved, and not an adventure to be had.
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I don't want to be a global town square that represents even the worst voices among us
I think we are better off without them, and they have no shortage of platforms on which to spew their bile
they don't need one more, and their targets deserve somewhere to exist without them
I think we are better off without them, and they have no shortage of platforms on which to spew their bile
they don't need one more, and their targets deserve somewhere to exist without them
December 10, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I don't want to be a global town square that represents even the worst voices among us
I think we are better off without them, and they have no shortage of platforms on which to spew their bile
they don't need one more, and their targets deserve somewhere to exist without them
I think we are better off without them, and they have no shortage of platforms on which to spew their bile
they don't need one more, and their targets deserve somewhere to exist without them
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Have hit the stage of trying to negotiate with the wailing cat. “Sweetie, I know. You think if you yell loud enough, the world will change. I’ve been trying that for forty-seven years and it hasn’t worked for me either.”
December 10, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Have hit the stage of trying to negotiate with the wailing cat. “Sweetie, I know. You think if you yell loud enough, the world will change. I’ve been trying that for forty-seven years and it hasn’t worked for me either.”
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Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
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This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.
December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM
This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.
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“I was Richard the Third.”
“Five curtain calls.”
“WE HAD FIVE CURTAIN CALLS!!”
“Five curtain calls.”
“WE HAD FIVE CURTAIN CALLS!!”
The beautiful thing about the movie Galaxy Quest is that I’m only somewhat sure Alan Rickman was acting and not just deeply irritated to be in the movie Galaxy Quest
December 10, 2024 at 3:38 AM
“I was Richard the Third.”
“Five curtain calls.”
“WE HAD FIVE CURTAIN CALLS!!”
“Five curtain calls.”
“WE HAD FIVE CURTAIN CALLS!!”
Purrrrrrrr. I forgot to take photos, but we went to the new steakhouse in town, and it was pretty good.
December 10, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Purrrrrrrr. I forgot to take photos, but we went to the new steakhouse in town, and it was pretty good.