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Sylvia Izzo Hunter
@sylwrites.bsky.social
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ScholComms professional, accessibility advocate, knitter, choral singer, mom, writer, fan. 🩷💜💙 she/her. Opinions, errors & omissions my own.
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She’s a bit funny-looking but she smells delicious!
A honey cake (medium brown) in a 9x9 inch blue Pyrex baking dish, sitting on a cooling rack on a kitchen counter. It’s got a bit of a crater in the middle.
September 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Hey, car people! Don’t do this!
A giant Cadillac SUV is parked half across the sidewalk on a suburban street. To the left and right is space on the driveway where it could park instead without blocking the sidewalk.
June 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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2 comments: “I prefer the comfort and safety of my car over being crammed on a bus or train with a bunch of strangers. Plus I get to go where I want to go when I want to go with my car. Anybody who thinks it’s better to be crammed like sardines on public transportation needs a lobotomy.” “public transportation is for 3rd world countries. Civilized people do not rely on the government schedules! I am 72 and never rode a train or bus.”
February 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Comment (US flag pfp): “Anybody who thinks public transportation is necessary in cities with fewer than a million people is stupid af.” Comment: “stop stealing maybe you can get a vehicle with insurance”
February 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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2 comments: “Or dislikes the ever prevalent scent of BO and shit. By all means. Ride the bus. Im taking the bmw. Screw that.” “when you grow up and don’t have to ride the short little yellow bus anymore you’ll probably feel differently”
February 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Meanwhile over on the blue site owned by meta, some extremely normal responses from USians to a post advocating support for public transit 🧵
Comment: “public transportation favors the one company that can reach the deal with the City…public transit is corruption!” 3 comments: “public transit is for the poor and enslaved.. train cars full of sheep.” “public transportation is for poors and people third from third world countries” “as long as it receives zero subsidies im ok with it,,,”
February 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Happy Chanukah from Toronto!
Two traditional chanukiot on a heatproof glass board, with all 9 candles lit
January 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Genuinely unhinged illustrations on the Chanukah gelt this year. What is going on here?!
A hand holding a large gold-foil-covered chocolate coin. Embossed on the coin is what looks like maybe a stingray? Wearing a fore-and-aft hat and a coat like a pirate or maybe a sea captain. Closeup of a small silver-foil-covered chocolate coin in someone’s hand. Embossed on the coin is a stingray? starfish? With a pirate-style bandanna and an eye patch.
December 27, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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Today in “my Fitbit doesn’t understand my lifestyle”. I’m not 100% sure what I was singing last night at 20:16–can’t perform and look at your watch at the same time—but I promise you I wasn’t inactive 🤣
Fitbit warning message: Your heart rate rose above 120 bpm while you appeared to be inactive. Dec 17, 8:16-8:26 PM
December 18, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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The December chorister in action
Sylvia, a middle-aged white Jewish lady, rides the escalator at Sherbourne Station on the TTC. She’s wearing a black CAN99 mask and a black long-sleeved mock-neck shirt. She’s raising her eyebrows really high for some reason.
December 15, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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After nearly FIVE years of this pandemic, I’m about to get new outside-the-house glasses whose frames aren’t actively hostile to a 3M Aura! Curious to see how they’ll look with the real (3-stage progressive) lenses in …
Sylvia stands in a busy optician’s display room, wearing a white 3M Aura mask and a pair of wire glasses frames with the little rubber nose pieces. She looks slightly stoned because the optometrist dilated her pupils.
November 15, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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So this is how my weekend started off 🙃 My old glasses are still fine prescription-wise but BOY HOWDY do I now remember why I got new ones 3 years ago (they keep sliding off my nose).
A pair of glasses sitting on a MacBook touchpad. The glasses are aligned strangely because the nose bridge has snapped in half. Next to the glasses is a @lingthusiasm sticker reading “Linguistic correctness is just a lie from Big Grammar to sell more grammars.”
November 3, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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Jackson H. Poodle hopes you are keeping warm and cosy.
Jackson, a black mini poodle, lounges on a grey sofa with a lighter grey cardigan tucked around him. Only his face and one paw are visible outside the cardigan.
October 30, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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Y'all, I made focaccia. And it was much easier (albeit stickier and oilier) than other breads I've made and it is DELICIOUS and I cannot believe I've never made it before.
Focaccia in a blue pyrex lasagna pan. It is golden brown and crunchy-looking, full of pits and valleys, sprinkled with herbes de Provence because I didn't have any rosemary left.
October 27, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Everyone please congratulate Jackson H. Poodle who has successfully spent ::checks watch:: 2.5 hours both naked and NOT chewing on his feet
Jackson, a black mini poodle who needs a haircut, sleeps curled up on top of a fuzzy grey sweater. His snoot is millimetres from one of his back paws.
October 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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This person: “I don’t identify as a libertarian.”

Also this person:
Reply-guy comment reading: “have you considered that other other people don’t want to have that system, it is not voluntary? But there is a solution. Let’s say for example Democrats wanted those things (we know most of them do not, but more of them than republicans do) why not do them within the party and leave republicans without the benefits? You could also make a group of people that agree with you, you can connect on line, and cost share, etc? No permission from people that disagree needed. In either group or party, you can tax each other as needed and pay for what is needed. You can tax the wealthier members much more, if they agree with your philosophy, they will like it. Certain employers can join and only employ those in the party or group. As it works better and better, others will join and the party or group will grow. You can even have many groups all with slightly different socialist policies within the group and they can compete naturally for members [cont’d in next skeet]
September 13, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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I think I have figured it out: my weird(est) interlocutor is a LIBERTARIAN.
Reply-guy post reading: “You misunderstand taxes and government. We are not a collective. Taxes are taken and once taken belong to government employees to spend as they see fit. They are not your taxes, they are not voluntary, nor do they give you more rights in a public place. But as I tried earlier, I am going to opt out. Enjoy your bus rides and volunteering. Your primary service is in your paid work, that is what others value the most.”
September 13, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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If you see this, quote-post with a beach from your gallery.
Sylvia, a middle-aged white lady with brown hair and glasses, stands where the path meets the sand at Santa Monica beach. She’s grinning and holding her arms straight out, like she wants to hug the beach. Behind her the same stretches towards the sea on the left and hills on the left.
September 1, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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It IS cool!!
A white woman with brown hair and glasses, wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and a 3M Aura N95 mask, sits cross-legged on the floor in a car cafe. A black cat is perched on one knee; a grey tabby stares attentively from in front of her other knee; a magnificent floof chills in the circle of her arm. In her other hand she holds one of those tubes of delicious cat-treat gloop.
July 6, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Was just looking on the internet to see whether United Bakers Dairy Restaurant takes reservations (they do not) and ran across this hilarious review:
They don’t serve meat!! I need meat with my eggs!!! The baker is awesome by far the best bagels in the city!!
June 25, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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Jackson H. Poodle comments your restraint!
Jackson, a black mini poodle, stares at the camera. His snoot is front and centre. His human’s foot is also visible, since he is perched on the edge of the couch next to her, staring into her face.
March 29, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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Bluesky friends! Would you like to read a Regency-esque fantasy trilogy with romance, adventure, magic, music, and political intrigue?

New ebook editions of all 3 of my books are now available on Kobo, Kindle, the Apple and Google Play stores, and at B&N and Amazon! @awfulagent.bsky.social
Ebook cover: THE MIDNIGHT QUEEN by Sylvia Izzo Hunter. Cover design by Tara O’Shea Ebook cover: LADY OF MAGICK by Sylvia Izzo Hunter. Cover design by Tara O’Shea Ebook cover: A SEASON OF SPELLS by Sylvia Izzo Hunter. Cover design by Tara O’Shea
March 27, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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Me: where the HECK is my earbud charging case, I have looked EVERYWHERE

The earbud charging case:
Shiny red Raycon earbud charging case nestled coalition up to a dog toy shaped like an Ugg slipper. The label says “PUGG.”
February 12, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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It me, engaged in some O-negative type activities. The Partners for Life team I belong to is called Aliyah’s A-Team ❤️🩵
Sylvia, wearing a 3M Aura mask and a purple t-shirt, sits in a Canadian Blood Services donation chair. Selfie frame says “Join my team! Blood.ca/PFL”
January 29, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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HUH. Still Sugar Crisp up here!
Walmart e-commerce page for 365g box of Post Sugar Crisp cereal
January 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM