Autumn
@owl-daughter.bsky.social
Cats, spinning wheels, cellos, fountain pens, books. Lots of books. She/her.
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Autumn
@owl-daughter.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Basic intro: I write, I edit, I read, I’m witchy, I’m a cellist, just started viola, love fountain pens and inks, and I’m a handspinner with too many spindles and four wheels.
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The Cat Clock informs us that the correct time is currently Nap Thirty. Please adjust your timepieces accordingly.
March 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Cat Clock informs us that the correct time is currently Nap Thirty. Please adjust your timepieces accordingly.
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Eric always gives solid advice!
People always ask me, “how do I know my manuscript is done?”
There’s only one way, my friends.
If your file name looks something like this:
Manuscript - Final Draft 3.7 FINAL FINAL - FINAL (5).docx
Then, and only then, is it time.
There’s only one way, my friends.
If your file name looks something like this:
Manuscript - Final Draft 3.7 FINAL FINAL - FINAL (5).docx
Then, and only then, is it time.
May 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Eric always gives solid advice!
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There’s no such thing as having too many books!
Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.
Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.
May 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
There’s no such thing as having too many books!
Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.
Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.
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Fascism is really exhausting.
May 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Fascism is really exhausting.
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Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly *in* Bluesky. And here it is!
Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?
Enter the garden.
Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?
Enter the garden.
May 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly *in* Bluesky. And here it is!
Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?
Enter the garden.
Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?
Enter the garden.
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the message isn't "you're bad" the message is "you have to be good like everyone else"
accountability feels like oppression to the privileged
accountability feels like oppression to the privileged
May 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the message isn't "you're bad" the message is "you have to be good like everyone else"
accountability feels like oppression to the privileged
accountability feels like oppression to the privileged
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Few things in life compare to the sheer unadulterated release of sitting alone in the blessed solace of your car and having a little cry to the perfect song
April 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Few things in life compare to the sheer unadulterated release of sitting alone in the blessed solace of your car and having a little cry to the perfect song
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There should be a guillotine emoji.
April 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There should be a guillotine emoji.
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the labor of art is mostly invisible. what you don't see in a finished piece is all the hours of thought it required, all the little discoveries and surprises and tragedies of production. art IS the process. if you aren't interested in the process, then i don't really know why you want to be artist
April 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
the labor of art is mostly invisible. what you don't see in a finished piece is all the hours of thought it required, all the little discoveries and surprises and tragedies of production. art IS the process. if you aren't interested in the process, then i don't really know why you want to be artist
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friendly reminder that during the horrors we’re currently living in, it’s okay to log off, take a break, and do something that makes you smile. humans weren’t built for this amount of empathy 24/7, you need to practice self care and self love too.
April 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
friendly reminder that during the horrors we’re currently living in, it’s okay to log off, take a break, and do something that makes you smile. humans weren’t built for this amount of empathy 24/7, you need to practice self care and self love too.
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every news article lately feels like this:
April 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
every news article lately feels like this:
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Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
April 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
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Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
![[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreig3dcwrzxtvuj2hkgj2mg3rgwactm77awp4ygvxjuje5q67yact7m@jpeg)
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
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Promoting your stuff in 2025 is weird but anyway everythingistb.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Promoting your stuff in 2025 is weird but anyway everythingistb.com
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This.
Seeing sketch lines in hand drawn animation. Seeing fingerprints in claymation. It's like hearing the faint sound of the hand moving over the strings of a guitar when someone is playing. Small imperfections are signs of life.
Seeing sketch lines in hand drawn animation. Seeing fingerprints in claymation. It's like hearing the faint sound of the hand moving over the strings of a guitar when someone is playing. Small imperfections are signs of life.
My partner, who went to school for animation and illustration, was talking about 101 Dalmatians, how beautiful it is, but how recent versions of it have been "cleaned up." We often talk about how making something "better" has come to mean making it look like a person didn't have a hand in making it.
March 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This.
Seeing sketch lines in hand drawn animation. Seeing fingerprints in claymation. It's like hearing the faint sound of the hand moving over the strings of a guitar when someone is playing. Small imperfections are signs of life.
Seeing sketch lines in hand drawn animation. Seeing fingerprints in claymation. It's like hearing the faint sound of the hand moving over the strings of a guitar when someone is playing. Small imperfections are signs of life.
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When is “billionaire on a tiny submarine” season this year again? Really looking forward to the possibilities.
February 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
When is “billionaire on a tiny submarine” season this year again? Really looking forward to the possibilities.
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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Sobering. When I talk to people about long-term bird population declines in N America, I mention that the main cause is habitat loss, not climate change - yet. But new research shows that climate change is causing bird declines even in otherwise pristine places. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why
Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Everye cut to a public universitye program ys not onlye harmful to the present but harmful to everye generacioun to come. It ys destroyinge a natural resource. Unintended consequences arise aftir killing learninge. Rebuilding ys possible but will take a long tyme. Say NO to public higher ed cuts!
January 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Everye cut to a public universitye program ys not onlye harmful to the present but harmful to everye generacioun to come. It ys destroyinge a natural resource. Unintended consequences arise aftir killing learninge. Rebuilding ys possible but will take a long tyme. Say NO to public higher ed cuts!
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
Yes, you should buy that #fountainpen. And two new bottles of ink. And you’ll need a new notebook to test them in. Look, I don’t make the rules.
January 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Yes, you should buy that #fountainpen. And two new bottles of ink. And you’ll need a new notebook to test them in. Look, I don’t make the rules.
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IMO:
What AI should be doing: assisting experts in a field with tasks that require massive amounts of data analysis, speeding up their process.
What AI should not be doing: simplifying complex subjects for non-experts who don't understand the underlying concepts or knowledge base.
What AI should be doing: assisting experts in a field with tasks that require massive amounts of data analysis, speeding up their process.
What AI should not be doing: simplifying complex subjects for non-experts who don't understand the underlying concepts or knowledge base.
January 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
IMO:
What AI should be doing: assisting experts in a field with tasks that require massive amounts of data analysis, speeding up their process.
What AI should not be doing: simplifying complex subjects for non-experts who don't understand the underlying concepts or knowledge base.
What AI should be doing: assisting experts in a field with tasks that require massive amounts of data analysis, speeding up their process.
What AI should not be doing: simplifying complex subjects for non-experts who don't understand the underlying concepts or knowledge base.