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SorchaWillow
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florencehrscott.bsky.social
I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
Carved turnip with eye sockets and a red mouth with teeth
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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cait.bsky.social
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
Note the similarity to Butler.
"their right to define you is apparently more important than any right you have to determine who you are, how you live, and what language comes closest to representing who you are"
“Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if you are Black and someone tells you that you are white, or that you are not racialized in this ostensibly post-racial world. Or imagine you are Palestinian and someone tells you that Palestinians do not exist (which people do). Who are these people who think they have the right to tell you who you are and what you are not, and who dismiss your own definition of who you are, who tell you that self-determination is not a right that you are allowed to exercise, who would subject you to medical and psychiatric review, or mandatory surgical intervention, before they are willing to recognize you in the name and sex you have given yourself, the ones to which you have arrived? Their definition is a form of effacement, and their right to define you is apparently more important than any right you have to determine who you are, how you live, and what language comes closest to representing who you are. Perhaps we should all just retreat from such a person who denies the existence of other people who are struggling to have their existence known, denies the use of the categories that let many of us live, but if such a person has allies, if they have power to orchestrate public discourse and occupy the position of victim exclusively, and if they seek to deny you of basic rights, then probably at some point you will feel and express rage, and you will doubtless be right to do so.” ― Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender?
May 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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jacketdan.bsky.social
This is so fucking good
May 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains
[image of real-life beekeeper costume and a detail from a painting by Peter Brueghel the Elder]
May 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social
#owls
May 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
This evening at 8 UK time I'll be opening my Etsy shop for limited ed’n signed art prints of my botanical/nature collection photographs & frameable greetings cards.
I create my photos using recent research to dial down fight or flight & lift your mood a little when you look at them.
Floral garden finds in May An autumnal collection of seedheads, feathers, shells, pebbles & other nature finds-my best-selling image Garden and common hedgerow finds in Norfolk in September Floral garden finds from a very mild spell in February 2019
May 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"
April 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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hleehurley.com
Unexpected full page in today's Observer on yesterday's protests and it doesn't interview a single GC for 'balance'
United, undeterred and unafraid, trans people rally over court ruling Thousands gather in London’s Parliament Square to protest at judges’ decision The Observer20 Apr 2025James Tapper Stephen Chung/ LNP LEFT Crowds gather outside Parliament in a huge show of unity and solidarity. After last week’s supreme court decision, activists had been worried trans people might become fearful of going out in public in case they were abused. They weren’t afraid in London yesterday. Thousands of trans and nonbinary people thronged Parliament Square, alongside families and supporters waving baby blue, white and pink flags to demonstrate their anger at the judges’ ruling. The numbers seemed to take the organisers and police by surprise. Protesters from a hastily assembled coalition of 24 groups gathered in a ring against the barriers surrounding the grass and began speeches. But after the roads became clogged with people, a woman wearing a “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian” top ran across with her dog and soon the square was full. “It’s one hell of a turnout and there is a really strong sense of unity and solidarity,” said Jamie Strudwick, one of the organisers. “I think it’s impossible to compare it – it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before.”
April 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
The Supreme Court’s decision is another sick turn in the rollback of trans rights in the UK.

We’re fighting back - will you join us? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
April 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.

Solidarity 💜
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Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
goodlawproject.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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postnatodepression.bsky.social
'Girls are doing all the fellows' jobs now!'
Postcard by Bamforth & Co Ltd, 1910s.
Ref GWL-2010-72, Glasgow Women's Library
"Comic" Series No. 249: Captioned "Girls are doing all [underlined] the fellows' jobs now!" and depicting two women (one of them holding a small dog wearing a red bow on a lead) kissing in the street.
April 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety:
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly

Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
Floral garden finds in May
April 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Margaret Macdonald's gesso panel ‘The White Rose and the Red Rose’, 1902 (detail) #WomensArt
April 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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thomasfortenberry.bsky.social
“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
-John Waters.
March 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Sapphic Silk

Two Sappho poems were tacked on at the end of this special 1754 Scottish edition of Anacreon printed on golden silk with paper interleaving.
Thanks @rebeccaromney.com for suggesting she might be hidden here! #NewberryLibrary
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Sappho poem to Aphrodite, letterpress on yellow silk. More Sappho Aphrodite on silk! Page 69, another Sappho on silk!
February 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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catieosaurus.bsky.social
In 1363 a medieval monk named Henry Knighton wrote about a common problem: "wherever and wherever [jousting] tournaments are held, a troupe of ladies would turn up dressed in a variety of male clothing and mounted on chargers, sometimes 40 or 50 of them". I ask you, where is the Netflix series?
January 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM