A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird
@shinybluething.bsky.social
Ugly bird girl.
Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her.
Not anyone of note. Cat pictures happen here. I block image scrapers.
Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety, autism, untreated ADHD and a couple chronic diseases. You've been warned.
Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her.
Not anyone of note. Cat pictures happen here. I block image scrapers.
Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety, autism, untreated ADHD and a couple chronic diseases. You've been warned.
She really sucks, but I'm glad she seems to finally be grasping what her job actually entails.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
She really sucks, but I'm glad she seems to finally be grasping what her job actually entails.
Oh my god. That's a lovely apartment.
I'm saying this from a 1400 sq foot house with a 5x7 bath though, so I may have weird ideas about what "enough space" means.
I'm just glad we have a house tho.
I'm saying this from a 1400 sq foot house with a 5x7 bath though, so I may have weird ideas about what "enough space" means.
I'm just glad we have a house tho.
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Oh my god. That's a lovely apartment.
I'm saying this from a 1400 sq foot house with a 5x7 bath though, so I may have weird ideas about what "enough space" means.
I'm just glad we have a house tho.
I'm saying this from a 1400 sq foot house with a 5x7 bath though, so I may have weird ideas about what "enough space" means.
I'm just glad we have a house tho.
One of the things you can do to help people with dementia is to play music that puts them in mind of earlier times they enjoyed.
Though, in memory care, they usually wear headphones. I'm guessing Orange Grandpa doesn't accept those because they'll mess up his hair. So everyone gets his playlist.
Though, in memory care, they usually wear headphones. I'm guessing Orange Grandpa doesn't accept those because they'll mess up his hair. So everyone gets his playlist.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
One of the things you can do to help people with dementia is to play music that puts them in mind of earlier times they enjoyed.
Though, in memory care, they usually wear headphones. I'm guessing Orange Grandpa doesn't accept those because they'll mess up his hair. So everyone gets his playlist.
Though, in memory care, they usually wear headphones. I'm guessing Orange Grandpa doesn't accept those because they'll mess up his hair. So everyone gets his playlist.
I'm guessing because this one is easiest to get to, and in the largest and most visible metro area.
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm guessing because this one is easiest to get to, and in the largest and most visible metro area.
My first response to this copy paste spamming is "are we sure this isn't a bot?"
Which is kind of funny in context.
Which is kind of funny in context.
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My first response to this copy paste spamming is "are we sure this isn't a bot?"
Which is kind of funny in context.
Which is kind of funny in context.
This. The deflection is in the implication that people were sold by their own people into slavery, and thus it was somehow less shameful to participate in the trade, increase it, and make it magnitudes more inhumane.
It is not.
It is not.
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This. The deflection is in the implication that people were sold by their own people into slavery, and thus it was somehow less shameful to participate in the trade, increase it, and make it magnitudes more inhumane.
It is not.
It is not.
I also learned this in my youth, but not so much from history class as from works like Solitude.
There is a white supremacist, victim blaming subtext to how it's taught in textbooks, implying that folks were sold by "their own people." But people were stolen in war and raids, as Europeans also did.
There is a white supremacist, victim blaming subtext to how it's taught in textbooks, implying that folks were sold by "their own people." But people were stolen in war and raids, as Europeans also did.
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I also learned this in my youth, but not so much from history class as from works like Solitude.
There is a white supremacist, victim blaming subtext to how it's taught in textbooks, implying that folks were sold by "their own people." But people were stolen in war and raids, as Europeans also did.
There is a white supremacist, victim blaming subtext to how it's taught in textbooks, implying that folks were sold by "their own people." But people were stolen in war and raids, as Europeans also did.
The European colonialist ur-assumption that Africa is somehow one contiguous culture unit because of blackness and not as divided by borders, history, culture and religion as Europe has done a great deal of damage.
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The European colonialist ur-assumption that Africa is somehow one contiguous culture unit because of blackness and not as divided by borders, history, culture and religion as Europe has done a great deal of damage.
But we put a little jargony hat on the rapist! See! Less obviously rapey now as long as you don't know the word we're using.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
But we put a little jargony hat on the rapist! See! Less obviously rapey now as long as you don't know the word we're using.
I lived, I walked away, my baby sister kicked him in the balls and escaped, and I didn't have to fully understand what Gaiman was up to 30+ years ago until the news broke.
I think I did ok.
I think I did ok.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I lived, I walked away, my baby sister kicked him in the balls and escaped, and I didn't have to fully understand what Gaiman was up to 30+ years ago until the news broke.
I think I did ok.
I think I did ok.
This is equivalent to calling Hannibal Lecter "an edgy gourmand who prefers long pork."
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is equivalent to calling Hannibal Lecter "an edgy gourmand who prefers long pork."
*shudders*
Yeah, likely.
They see each other.
Yeah, likely.
They see each other.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
*shudders*
Yeah, likely.
They see each other.
Yeah, likely.
They see each other.
(this shitheel, btw, was the awful boyfriend who cockblocked Gaiman the time he tried to pick me up at a signing. I'm almost more angry that he was the thing that saved me from that)
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
(this shitheel, btw, was the awful boyfriend who cockblocked Gaiman the time he tried to pick me up at a signing. I'm almost more angry that he was the thing that saved me from that)
By then he was 36.
He has a daughter now and still tries to contact me periodically.
I fear for the daughter.
I block him anyway.
He has a daughter now and still tries to contact me periodically.
I fear for the daughter.
I block him anyway.
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
By then he was 36.
He has a daughter now and still tries to contact me periodically.
I fear for the daughter.
I block him anyway.
He has a daughter now and still tries to contact me periodically.
I fear for the daughter.
I block him anyway.
I dated a technical ephebophile who thought it was just wonderful that I looked 14 at 21. He was 30.
I dumped him after he tried to fuck my baby sister.
Next gf? Also of age but super young looking. When she found out about him, dumped again.
He picked up the next one outside her high school.
I dumped him after he tried to fuck my baby sister.
Next gf? Also of age but super young looking. When she found out about him, dumped again.
He picked up the next one outside her high school.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I dated a technical ephebophile who thought it was just wonderful that I looked 14 at 21. He was 30.
I dumped him after he tried to fuck my baby sister.
Next gf? Also of age but super young looking. When she found out about him, dumped again.
He picked up the next one outside her high school.
I dumped him after he tried to fuck my baby sister.
Next gf? Also of age but super young looking. When she found out about him, dumped again.
He picked up the next one outside her high school.
... Did they get some basic MAGA housewife to whip that up on her cricut machine?
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
... Did they get some basic MAGA housewife to whip that up on her cricut machine?
You mean a word that implies the weird dumb wholesomeness of a himbo, except female, right?
As opposed to the creepy misogyny inherent in a woman calling another a bimbo?
As opposed to the creepy misogyny inherent in a woman calling another a bimbo?
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
You mean a word that implies the weird dumb wholesomeness of a himbo, except female, right?
As opposed to the creepy misogyny inherent in a woman calling another a bimbo?
As opposed to the creepy misogyny inherent in a woman calling another a bimbo?
3/3 Drain them, pat dry with a clean kitchen towel.
Dry in the oven at 200°F for an hour or pat thoroughly dry.
Toss with a little oil and any seasonings and roast at 300°F spread on a tray until they brown.
Dry in the oven at 200°F for an hour or pat thoroughly dry.
Toss with a little oil and any seasonings and roast at 300°F spread on a tray until they brown.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
3/3 Drain them, pat dry with a clean kitchen towel.
Dry in the oven at 200°F for an hour or pat thoroughly dry.
Toss with a little oil and any seasonings and roast at 300°F spread on a tray until they brown.
Dry in the oven at 200°F for an hour or pat thoroughly dry.
Toss with a little oil and any seasonings and roast at 300°F spread on a tray until they brown.
2/3 pumpkins are squash. You can do this with any edible winter squash.
Tldr recipe:
pull the seeds out, put them in a strainer or colander, wash them and pick out any bits of pulp or empty seeds.
Soak in enough water to cover and some salt for an hour or more, or boil for 10 to 15 minutes.
Tldr recipe:
pull the seeds out, put them in a strainer or colander, wash them and pick out any bits of pulp or empty seeds.
Soak in enough water to cover and some salt for an hour or more, or boil for 10 to 15 minutes.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
2/3 pumpkins are squash. You can do this with any edible winter squash.
Tldr recipe:
pull the seeds out, put them in a strainer or colander, wash them and pick out any bits of pulp or empty seeds.
Soak in enough water to cover and some salt for an hour or more, or boil for 10 to 15 minutes.
Tldr recipe:
pull the seeds out, put them in a strainer or colander, wash them and pick out any bits of pulp or empty seeds.
Soak in enough water to cover and some salt for an hour or more, or boil for 10 to 15 minutes.
This is why I follow you.
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is why I follow you.