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Kinniska
@kinniska.bsky.social
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2006-2024 I was on Twitter. Then the apartheid emerald mine nepo baby happened.
Artist. Lurking with my hoard of books, eating my feelings. I occasionally visit my studio to bash away at scrap metal. High voltage may be involved.
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andrew--tate.bsky.social exists, and just tried to follow me. I blocked.
I can’t imagine they’re here to be anything but a troll.
Also, no posts.
Just a screencap of the Andrew Tate (or a troll using his name) account that popped up in the wake of trolls all migrating over to Bluesky
October 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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FISHCAR! An art car created by artist Bill Turville in Massachusetts. Car is an old ford horizon, silver in color, with a metal fabricated ‘upper part’ that is a big smiling silver fish
September 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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@bruceshark.bsky.social hey Bruce! Saw a plush cousin of yours today!
This is a plush toy shark; dark blue above, and white underbelly, with round friendly teeth and the undersides of his fins are blue and white sailor-stripes! Detail of plus Sharks round teeth. This is a plush toy shark; dark blue above, and white underbelly, with round friendly teeth and the undersides of his fins are blue and white sailor-stripes!
September 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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@juliethecranky.bsky.social current handwork work, a sort of yukata
Deep crimson colored yarn, specifically a noro yarn, the sonata, colorway 43 chili. Knitting work in progress, a modified basketweave pattern
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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That. That right there.

And now, a timeline cleanser. Here. A neighbor cat saying hellow
Just a stripey tabby cat, a neighbor cat visiting me. He’s just looking up at — I think maybe a fly got his attention? He has that focused look.
September 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Hey, @bruceshark.bsky.social ! I bumped into a feisty young cousin of yours today at a Persian market! He was guarding the front register with some of his friends!
This is a closeup of one of a whole display of, well, I’m pretty sure they’re not just kids toys but also involve some kind of candy surprise inside the handle? This particular one is a shark, with a wily grin on his face, and he’s medium blue and he’s not quite winking — but he definitely looks like he’s up to no good. There’s some sort of trigger mechanism on the handle so he might have a bitey-jaw kind of thing going on too. For reasons that are not clear, the handle that he is emerging from looks like a melted candle, all wax dripping looking? But here’s the confusing part: it’s bright red— I’m not sure Sid they mean to make him emerge from waves and then just make a bad color choice? Or is he actually emerging from a big melt candle? I have no answers. This is another closeup from that display of kids toys near the register — this one is a small hand-sized fishing rod and reel, looks like the reel turns with a crank? Another closeup of the toys display; this picture shows a pink rooster with baby blue wings (look I know it doesn’t make sense, I’m just describing what I see, ok?) and there’s an elephant with tusks, wearing a green shirt — or possibly emerging from a green trash can, like Oscar the Grouch. I honestly can’t be sure. I had to snap the photo quick because my friend who was driving was calling me over. There is a yellow-suited and helmeted motorcycle guy on a red bike, and the 4th toy is a pink rose with some sort of clear but glittery ball in the center , maybe it lights up? I would hope so if I were a kid.
August 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Update: we have spent the day carefully slicing kozo paper into 2mm strips. Spinning begins tomorrow using a ‘book charkha’ !
Excite! Also exhausted, much pez-head yawns. Also the textiles studio has a fabulous collection of books.
Image shows what it looks like inside of the case of a so-called book charkha. A charkha is a special, small, spinning wheel for cotton; specific to India and made famous by Mahatma Gandhi as part of his efforts to reclaim their independence from colonialism. A book charkha is a small, portable version of the spinning wheel in question that breaks down and stows in a box about the size of a large book (like a dictionary). Cutting mat, green, with white grid marks and measurements. On the right is a hand holding an X-acto blade knife, because of what is center frame: a folded piece of Japanese kozo paper, set between two measuring tapes laid horizontally (above and below the paper) to guide the slicing of the paper into 2mm strips, by cutting along a steel ruler that runs vertically between matching points on the horizontal rulers.
June 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Hey @bruceshark.bsky.social — was at a Buc-ees today (in and of itself a strange and overwhelming experience) and found one of those penny stamp roller souvenir machines, so I got one and then… discovered this. I know copper is a soft metal, but take care of your teeth okay?
So this is a little rubber or silicone thing on a keychain that is designed to hold one of those pennies that you’ve put through one of those mechanical machines that rolls and stamps the penny into a design that makes it a souvenir of some destination. A national park, a museum, a famous place, or in this case, so help me, a Buc-ees store. This thing is called a “pennypalz” and the one in the pic is shaped like a shark whose jaws are wide open and you’re meant to put that souvenir penny into its mouth. Like a frame made of teeth. Delightfully ridiculous.
May 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Seen over on the gram: via @/perfectunion

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AI sucks, let us count the ways.
How it started: (Headline reads: “Klarna's CEO warns Al is already capable of doing any human job- and his company is already living it” BY EMMA BURLEIGH VIA: FORTUNE.COM February 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM EST How it's going: headline reads: “Klarna's Al replaced 700 workers — Now the fintech CEO wants humans back after $40B fall” Written By Ravi Hari 18 May 2025, 07:09 PM IST
May 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I’m chuffed to have been accepted into a couple juried shows recently.
If you are in the vicinity of upstate NY / the Adirondacks, (insta handle) @viewartscenter is having an opening soon, and this is the flyer. I think their website has more details as well. viewarts.org ?
🎉 🎉 🎉
Flyer for an art show, showing partial views of 3 of the accepted works. One is a book with stems growing out from it, the center one is a book shaped like a heart with small reminders signs in it like “I can’t save the world and I don’t want to”, and the third is a pamphlet style folded parchment book with abstract designs in it. The show is at the View Arts Center in the Adirondacks of NY, and there is an opening reception on May 23 at 5-7pm, and the show runs from May 24 through July 27.
May 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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So, I’ve been taking a lot of intensive workshops, practicing new techniques, hitting the workbench, and generally just getting productive once more, and completing a fair number of books-as-object/narrative pieces.
#books #bookarts #bookasart #exhibits #art #artshows
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Flyer for an art show, showing partial views of 3 of the accepted works. One is a book with stems growing out from it, the center one is a book shaped like a heart with small reminders signs in it like “I can’t save the world and I don’t want to”, and the third is a pamphlet style folded parchment book with abstract designs in it. The show is at the View Arts Center in the Adirondacks of NY, and there is an opening reception on May 23 at 5-7pm, and the show runs from May 24 through July 27.
May 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Ooooh, nice!
Impromptu lichen appreciation thread? My addition: we just had rain so I saved these clumps that were on fallen branches, they keep my potted plants company now.
Closeup shot of a colony of lichen, green like an underripe lime, one of the many Parmeilia species, which are all roughly shaped like this: attached to the substrate at base, but somewhat leaf-like and curled at the edges. Closeup shot of a colony of lichen, pale grey-green in color, one of the many Parmelia species, which are all roughly shaped like this: attached to the substrate at base, but somewhat leaf-like and curled at the edges. Closeup shot of a colony of lichen, pale gray-green, with a golden-brown underside revealed by its very curled edges, one of the many Parmeilia species, which are all roughly shaped like this: attached to the substrate at base, but somewhat leaf-like and curled at the edges. Slightly below it, on a nearby branch, is one of the many so-called reindeer lichen, which are stranded and branched, hair-like, and a different, more chartreuse shade of grey green.
May 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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So, I encountered this special little item in a thrift store recently.
This, my friends, is a strange abomination of fashion. Or is it genius?
If only I could post a poll…
Is it the weird offspring of a forbidden love between a confused preppy and one of those 1980s hair bands?
Or is it FASHION?
Behold, it’s a skirt hanging on a rack. But this is a skirt that falls well below the knee, and is a type best described as “pleated, like a uniform for a Catholic school” — except that it is constructed of some kind of tan, artificial snakeskin.
April 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I’m late, I’m late. I only learned of this account just now. But I must report that even in Thailand they still have lovely red postboxes!
A red, but graffiti’ed with white spray paint, Thai Post column or pillar type postbox in Chiang Mai in post code area 50100. A neighborhood and street are out of focus in the background. A red, but graffiti’ed with white spray paint, Thai Post column or pillar type postbox in Chiang Mai in post code area 50200 A red, but graffiti’ed with white and black spray paint, Thai Post column or pillar type postbox in Chiang Mai in post code area 50100. It has two deposit slots, and the collection hours are visible below. A red, but graffiti’ed with black spray paint, Thai Post column or pillar type postbox in Chiang Mai in post code area 50000.
December 30, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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Hey, @bruceshark.bsky.social I spotted some distant cousins over here in Thailand!
Close-up shot of a stack of toys, plastic toys aimed at maybe toddler age kids. The detail shot focuses on one type of animal, although several brightly colored fubsy animals are in the stack, the focus is one that depicts a shark. The bodies of these toys are some kind of stack of cup-shapes, threaded together to allow the toy to swivel and move around; the ends have a head and a tail.
December 7, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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@dewb.bsky.social found your name being used in vain.
But at least it’s on quality snacks.
Image is of some single serving, air-puffed packets containing sponge cake with various flavors of filling; in the background are blueberry and durian, center page are orange filling. The brand name is Dewberry; evidently in Thailand that’s a brand name of baked goods.
December 6, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Seen while out today.
I don’t know what to do with this knowledge, so in time-honored fashion, I’m sharing it with you fine people.
Detail shot, of an irreverent vinyl sticker slapped onto a parking sign (for placard holders only). The sticker itself shows a roughly drawn GameBoy device, but made to look geriatric; with a wrinkled forehead, a frown, and a squint, and shuffling forward on unsteady spindly legs, leaning hard on a walker / Zimmer-frame. That’s all I know. Sorry.
November 14, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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Shhhh, don’t tell.
November 14, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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May I add to the discussion? What would freakies taste like?
Image of a cereal box from the 1970s. Cereal is called “Freakies” and all the … are they mascots? I guess? Anyway the freakies depicted are 7 different weird little guys. One is red and looks like a grouchy crab another is kind of orange with lots of tentacles and he’s clinging to the tree branches (the box cover decent is a tree growing out of a hill made up of the Cheerios-like cereal, and there are 3 freakies in the tree and 4 on the hill underneath). There are 2 pink colored guys; one is rotund with a wide clam-like head, and another that’s similar to a dodo bird except just a proboscis like gonzo from the muppets. There’s a blue one up in the tree that seems like he’s all face, with no ears but a trunk like an elephant. And there are 2 green guys, one of whom looks kinda like a frog, but much more round? And another guy that’s just a round green dancing lump. Yes, they’re odd, if not actually attaining true freakishness.
November 13, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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Seen today up at the Crane Estate in Ipswich, MA: they’re making further progress on renovating the various formal gardens around the estate grounds.
Sign on a gate leading into a garden, which is actually undergoing renovation: sign reads “PLEASE KEEP THIS GATE CLOSED. The deer are hungry!” This is a view of the garden — a turn of the century “formal garden” — on an English-style estate: there’s a semi circular walkway with benches and plantings and a fountain in the center of the lawn.
November 12, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Oh yeah, I just remembered that I can share photos here and it won’t go to train someone’s shitty AI.
Hey, #fungi people, I had a nice walk by the ocean today and along the path through the woods to get there, I found an earth star among the beds of #lichen.
Image of a fungi of the “earth star” type, which is one of the so called puff ball varieties that scatter their spores from a ball that pops when stepped on. The ‘star’ refers to the fact this type of puffball has an early outer layer that splits and spreads outwards to make the ball look like it he center of a flower and the split sections spread out like petals on a flower A bed of lichen, pale green, similar to the variety commonly called reindeer lichen.
November 12, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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🤣 relatable.
Also. Some of the “errors” are just,,..
Screencap from duolingo, where the error the app is complaining I made is that I spelled Susanna with two ‘n’s instead of one.
November 10, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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November 8, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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My mood for the time being: I suspect I’m not alone.
November 7, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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Kind of exhausted. Haha. Kind of. Look at me.
Might join a group watch of a movie at 9. Thank you everyone for all the cat and dog pictures. It’s been needful today. I can only share this charming neighbor cat.
November 7, 2024 at 1:20 AM