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Lydy
@lydy.bsky.social
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Sff, knitting, cats, sleep tech, e-bike devotee,
permanently confused about time and space. No one let go of anyone's hand. No gods, no masters, no bed time! she/her
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The Cathedral of Learning.
Tall ornate skyscraper in concrete. It is the Cathedral of Learning on the Pitt Campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
September 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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200 g. whole wheat, 300 g. all purpose white, 130 g. sourdough starter. Good rise, but too hot to cut and cheek the crumb. #breadsky
Sourdough boule, rather more orange in color than in real life. Slashed in a star pattern, some burnt tips at the top.
August 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Please accept this void with hopeful eyes as a token of my esteem and well-wishes.
Black cat with eyes like gold rings around black wells leading to his soul), staring at me while on an afgahan of green, white, and blue. He's resting against a black bag with imitation leather handle and detailing. There are sandaled feet in the background. The cat is hoping that I will get up and give him more food.
July 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Oh, to be a cat!
Grey medium-hair cat asleep looking like a puddle of grey fur with feet.
June 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Large grey mackerel tabby cat in the foreground giving the camera a lowering side-eye, my head visible behind her. I am an older white woman with long dark hair looking fondly bemused.
May 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Does anybody _else_ think this looks like a clothes iron?

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A picture of the Locus Award, which is a piece of lucite which is like an elongated oval, with the bottom chopped off and flattened, set into a base (which is, I swear to god, the same shape as an iron). This one has been etched with a moon, stars, a retro-looking rocket, and the words "LOCUS AWARD 2021." It's quite handsome.
May 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I admire the papier mache extremely.

It was a lovely day in St. Paul.
A person in a giant papier mache head in the shape of the Monopoly dude wearing a black suit and white shirt and holding a sign, yellow lettering on black background, which reads STOP BILLIONAIR TAKEOVER. There are pictures of Trump and Musk on the sign. In the background is the demonstration in St. Paul, today, people standing around looking up towards the speakers, mostly their backs to the camera.
April 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Not my home, but I know my way around.
View of the main hall of The Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh Pa from the second floor showing tall (3 stories tall, I think) arches in concrete the color of sand, hanging cylindrical light fixtures, wooden tables and chairs. The wrought iron railing is visible in the foreground. This is one of my favorite places.
March 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Ok, now they're just fucking with me.

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Woman in a red riding habit with red hat, hair done up behind, riding a rocket side-saddle, above a countryside in beige and grey-green featuring fields and probably a church. Upper left says "Learn a language while you read." Underneath the image is a black box with the words "Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen". I mean, I'd love to read this fanfic, but I don't think that's what's on offer.
February 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Huckleberry Finn in space? What even is that gun?
A figure of a young person, presumably male, kneeling with one knee up, on a large log wearing an orange vest with pockets holding firearm with a site which appears to be blasting an orange flame. The log is on the bank of a river, and there are pine trees and mountains in the background. Despite the fact that the light suggests that it is night out, there is a sun. Underneath the picture, there is a black box with the words "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain"
February 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This was described by a friend as AI writing fanfic checks it can't cash.
In background, there is a veritable army for people, in a somewhat Soviet Propaganda art style, all facing away, marching down a long street with concrete walls on either side, towards nothing in particular, but peach in color. In the foreground, there is a man facing us with a beard and short wavy hair, in an red suit coat, black vest, white shirt with a black bow tie, gesturing over what might be a dj mix set up with two platters, or maybe a reel to reel tape deck, who's to say, and the caption, "The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas".
February 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Exterminate! (It seems to be missing a plunger.)
An off-white object that looks like a waste can on wheels, or maybe a little like R2D2, with a round purple cap, with a sign on the side that says LIGHTSTRIKE, Germ-Zapping Robots, then a large purple square with a white X in it, and then under that, it says Powered by XENEX. But honestly, it mostly just looks like a very short Dalek sans plunger.
January 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Have book covers gotten better? Because I really hate this, but the book covers of the 1970s might have been uniquely awful and misleading. Behold, my most vivid example:https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/21/11/972111800be5a3f2a93bd27966da3eed.jpg
Book cover, cream back ground. Text, in almost cursive script, reads William Goldman's The Princess Bride. Author's name is in black, and the title is in red, which will echo the interior of the book. But then...I honestly don't know how to describe the picture. There's a naked woman, kneeling, with a bird on her head, a hand covering one breast, and tentacles coming up to her waist from between her legs. She is backdropped by red and brown squishy horrors. It's much worse than I am describing.
January 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Lake Harriet Bread and Pickle. The food is ok, but the view is lovely
View of Lake Harriet with many sailboats at anchor, a wooded shore with fall colors in the background. Foreground is a round picnic table with a bike helmet on it and the concrete apron. It is almost sun down.
October 8, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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It is the appetizer! The meal is...enormous.
Large amount of pork chunks, reddish with sauce and seasoning, on a bed of cassava. This totally fills large take-out box. Not pictured is the baggie with delicious cabbage salad.
October 6, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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I ordered maduro con queso at La Fritanga in Richland Center, WI. I had no idea what it would be. Why I expected anything different now escapes me.
Fried sweet plantain (pleasantly brown) with a slab of well toasted cheese on top, held together with a toothpick. The cheese is easily a half-inch thick. There are 5 pieces in the picture, in a white styrofoam take-out box.
October 6, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Qix
Screen shot of the Atari game Quix, under the header "Arcade Archives" and a chiron at the bottom that just says Qix. The screenshot has teal and gold colored rectangles on a black field with a set of blue and green rays.
September 15, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Cream colored princess shawl draped on a mannequin.
September 3, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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pic doesn't do it justice. Rainbow in the gloaming w/frequent lightningf
Washed out rainbow in s. mpls
August 27, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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My homelife was sufficiently weird that being a normal teen ager felt transgressive and strange.

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Cover of the album "Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb, with Andy Gibb in a very orange shirt with shiny stripes, unbuttoned to mid-chest, and very blow-dried hair. So very 70s, man.
August 24, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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I, um, won a ribbon at the Minnesota State Fair. For this:
Very large, intricate knitted lace shawl, in white silk.
August 23, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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For the record, even though I swatched, the thing is _huge_. 9 feet deep and a wing-span of 12 feet. Here's a picture of me wearing it at Minnehaha Falls. (I had intended to throw the shawl a party when I finished it, but COVID made that impossible, so I did a photo shoot instead.)
In the foreground a white woman with her hair up wearing a navy blue dress and the most extravagant amount of white lace imaginable. It literally brushes the ground, and falls in folds from her shoulders. In the background you can see a bit of Minnehaha Falls, with some fall foliage. The shot is at the base of of the falls, which are not very full at the time.
August 23, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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So, I get that this is basically all politics all the time, right now, but I still feel the need to brag that I got a Blue Ribbon at the Minnesota State Fair for this! It is the Princess Shawl, pattern by Sharon Miller, and it took me three years to finish.
Elaborate hand-knitted lace shawl, in white silk, cobweb weight. The pattern is the Princess Shawl by Sharon Miller.
August 23, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Yikes, sorry I missed your point. I'm blaming my cats. I'm sure it's their fault
Grey cat on purple house dress, lap top in background.
August 18, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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And here is Mr. Ninja, all ready to be shipped.
Shot from above, a black cat curled up in and neatly filling a lavender shoe box. His ears are in the top-left corner. The rest of him is a glossy black void.
August 8, 2024 at 2:04 AM