Lyndall
@lyndallc.bsky.social
I talk a lot about MCAS and TTRPGs.
Canadian-Australian living in Alberta.
Probably won't follow you if you're American. I get enough of that on every other social platform.
Occasional Christian-posting. Occasional Ace-posting.
Canadian-Australian living in Alberta.
Probably won't follow you if you're American. I get enough of that on every other social platform.
Occasional Christian-posting. Occasional Ace-posting.
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Lyndall
@lyndallc.bsky.social
· Jan 2
Just putting this out there, I want to teach people how to sew (via video call) this year, if you want sewing support let's chat!
I have a degree in Apparel Technology, and I need a way to support myself that doesn't exacerbate my MCAS, online sewing coaching is something I'd LOVE to do.
I have a degree in Apparel Technology, and I need a way to support myself that doesn't exacerbate my MCAS, online sewing coaching is something I'd LOVE to do.
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normalise serving chocolate milk at parties
I do not drink because I have almost no tolerance for it anymore (one margarita is too much).
If you are hosting a party, I recommend also stocking:
-fancy ginger beer
-coconut water
-premium juices like lychee and guava
-apple cider with cinnamon
-Italian sodas
-sparkling water
Lots of options!
If you are hosting a party, I recommend also stocking:
-fancy ginger beer
-coconut water
-premium juices like lychee and guava
-apple cider with cinnamon
-Italian sodas
-sparkling water
Lots of options!
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
normalise serving chocolate milk at parties
I should continue trying to get into Schitt's Creek. I'm like, 8-10 episodes in to the first season (it has taken me about four years to get this far) and it hasn't clicked yet but nearly everyone says it takes a while to find its feet.
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I should continue trying to get into Schitt's Creek. I'm like, 8-10 episodes in to the first season (it has taken me about four years to get this far) and it hasn't clicked yet but nearly everyone says it takes a while to find its feet.
WAIT ANGELA ANACONDA IS CANADIAN??
I watched that as a kid in Australia.
Also it's why I even know what side starboard and port are.
I watched that as a kid in Australia.
Also it's why I even know what side starboard and port are.
The best of Canadian tv is somewhere between Cyber Six, Angela anaconda, the log drivers waltz and Yvon of the yukon...
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
WAIT ANGELA ANACONDA IS CANADIAN??
I watched that as a kid in Australia.
Also it's why I even know what side starboard and port are.
I watched that as a kid in Australia.
Also it's why I even know what side starboard and port are.
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And you can request books from libraries and they might get them. Or get interlibrary loans. If you are like me and have massive amounts of executive dysfunction, there's now e-books and audiobooks. And using your library means that it is more likely to be funded.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
And you can request books from libraries and they might get them. Or get interlibrary loans. If you are like me and have massive amounts of executive dysfunction, there's now e-books and audiobooks. And using your library means that it is more likely to be funded.
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I do not understand people trying to justify book piracy when libraries exist. I know
that it's not always possible to get every book from a library, but when I've not been able to buy books, I've still had plenty to read from libraries.
that it's not always possible to get every book from a library, but when I've not been able to buy books, I've still had plenty to read from libraries.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I do not understand people trying to justify book piracy when libraries exist. I know
that it's not always possible to get every book from a library, but when I've not been able to buy books, I've still had plenty to read from libraries.
that it's not always possible to get every book from a library, but when I've not been able to buy books, I've still had plenty to read from libraries.
AW YIS CHRISTMAS BEETLE
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
AW YIS CHRISTMAS BEETLE
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I have so much respect for people who are 60+ who seek ADHD assessments after a family history is discovered. These are some of my most gratifying assessments if I ever have the privilege of doing them. Helping people understand why their lives have been difficult beyond personal blame is humbling.
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I have so much respect for people who are 60+ who seek ADHD assessments after a family history is discovered. These are some of my most gratifying assessments if I ever have the privilege of doing them. Helping people understand why their lives have been difficult beyond personal blame is humbling.
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Dang violins and fiddles are also a social construct
wtf violins and fiddles are the same damn instrument?! The different between a fiddle and a violin is intent?!?! You realty just don’t know what you don’t know.
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Dang violins and fiddles are also a social construct
Chronic illness people, does anyone have recommendations for a hypermobility-aware physiotherapist in the Boston area? (Or who can do online consultations?)
Asking for a friend. Welcome to repost this.
#eds #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #hypermobility
Asking for a friend. Welcome to repost this.
#eds #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #hypermobility
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Chronic illness people, does anyone have recommendations for a hypermobility-aware physiotherapist in the Boston area? (Or who can do online consultations?)
Asking for a friend. Welcome to repost this.
#eds #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #hypermobility
Asking for a friend. Welcome to repost this.
#eds #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #hypermobility
SO hyped for advent to start so I can play my advent playlist.
"Eat the rich" and "I'm so tired of waiting" and "when will life ever get better in this hopeless mess of a world" songs hit REAL GOOD.
"Eat the rich" and "I'm so tired of waiting" and "when will life ever get better in this hopeless mess of a world" songs hit REAL GOOD.
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
SO hyped for advent to start so I can play my advent playlist.
"Eat the rich" and "I'm so tired of waiting" and "when will life ever get better in this hopeless mess of a world" songs hit REAL GOOD.
"Eat the rich" and "I'm so tired of waiting" and "when will life ever get better in this hopeless mess of a world" songs hit REAL GOOD.
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People love to pretend like pastel QAnon and RFK and anti-vaxx moms are just a function of bored privilege and ignorance, but the reality is much more complex.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
People love to pretend like pastel QAnon and RFK and anti-vaxx moms are just a function of bored privilege and ignorance, but the reality is much more complex.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
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Everyone shut up, SHUT UP!! LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED!!
That is a WILD KING PARROT 🥹🥹
That is a WILD KING PARROT 🥹🥹
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Everyone shut up, SHUT UP!! LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED!!
That is a WILD KING PARROT 🥹🥹
That is a WILD KING PARROT 🥹🥹
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The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
I'm like 95% sure I got a super mild case of covid a couple weeks ago and the reason it was mild is due to antihistamines + masking.
Yet more anecdata for the COVID/antihistamine preventative link: just ran the 1-week-after-travel RT-LAMP test, and I do not have COVID! And I was a lot less paranoid about perfect masking this time: we even ate inside a restaurant (for the first time since the summer of '21!)
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I'm like 95% sure I got a super mild case of covid a couple weeks ago and the reason it was mild is due to antihistamines + masking.
Dang. And Canada's road fatality rate is still too freaking high.
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Dang. And Canada's road fatality rate is still too freaking high.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Solidarity with the thousands of unionized Starbucks workers who are on strike. Keep up the fight. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/s...
Starbucks Workers United escalates strike during busy holiday season
Starbucks Workers United is expanding the strike, but the company says it has not yet disrupted the key holiday season.
www.cnbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Solidarity with the thousands of unionized Starbucks workers who are on strike. Keep up the fight. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/s...
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Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
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I have posted before about how my GLP-1 pretty much saved my life after covid, but I also strongly believe that people taking them should have access to mental health support, because these medications & discussion around them & how folks treat you would make it so very very easy to hurt yourself.
One of the things I want people to take away from this is (CN: EDs): Anorexia doesn't look like you think.
Sometimes, yes, it does.
But a LOT of times it does not. 🧵
www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
Sometimes, yes, it does.
But a LOT of times it does not. 🧵
www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
Doctors are worried about prescribing GLP-1s to certain patients
With one in eight adults taking drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, emerging evidence shows that the medication has potential to both help and harm people with eating disorders.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I have posted before about how my GLP-1 pretty much saved my life after covid, but I also strongly believe that people taking them should have access to mental health support, because these medications & discussion around them & how folks treat you would make it so very very easy to hurt yourself.
Poster hoster hehehe.
Hey Philly!
Remember last year when we distributed 10,000 native plant seed packets across the city to support our city's insects??
We're doing it again! We're looking for volunteers to maintain the posters from late January-April of '26.
Apply to be a poster hoster here forms.gle/i6LSPCAutZC1...
Remember last year when we distributed 10,000 native plant seed packets across the city to support our city's insects??
We're doing it again! We're looking for volunteers to maintain the posters from late January-April of '26.
Apply to be a poster hoster here forms.gle/i6LSPCAutZC1...
Seed Distribution Volunteer Application
We are looking for volunteers to maintain posters that will distribute native plant seeds for free to people living within Philadelphia. You can learn more about this project here!
We will be choosi...
forms.gle
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Poster hoster hehehe.
Today I used the university computers for the first time and UUUUGH why is Adobe ADVERTISING to me on an institutional computer??
Computers are so much more annoying than when I was in college over a decade ago.
Computers are so much more annoying than when I was in college over a decade ago.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Today I used the university computers for the first time and UUUUGH why is Adobe ADVERTISING to me on an institutional computer??
Computers are so much more annoying than when I was in college over a decade ago.
Computers are so much more annoying than when I was in college over a decade ago.
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Wearing a mask at your medical appointments is important not just to protect yourself, and to protect other patients, but also to protect the ever-dwindling number of healthcare providers.
The people helping us all live healthier lives deserve health protection, too.
The people helping us all live healthier lives deserve health protection, too.
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Wearing a mask at your medical appointments is important not just to protect yourself, and to protect other patients, but also to protect the ever-dwindling number of healthcare providers.
The people helping us all live healthier lives deserve health protection, too.
The people helping us all live healthier lives deserve health protection, too.
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So sick of rightwing grifters being able to sound reasonable because most people have no idea how things work.
The pharmaceutical industry is built on low quality evidence because ethically double blinding life saving medicine is not possible due to violating ethical principles.
The pharmaceutical industry is built on low quality evidence because ethically double blinding life saving medicine is not possible due to violating ethical principles.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
So sick of rightwing grifters being able to sound reasonable because most people have no idea how things work.
The pharmaceutical industry is built on low quality evidence because ethically double blinding life saving medicine is not possible due to violating ethical principles.
The pharmaceutical industry is built on low quality evidence because ethically double blinding life saving medicine is not possible due to violating ethical principles.