Erika
@zozozolifant.bsky.social
Japanese translator | Taiko player | Reader | TTRPG lover | Queer | Aspiring cross-stitcher | 日本語OK
Still figuring this place out
Still figuring this place out
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![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg)
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Big shoutout to Chicago! ✊ 👏
May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Big shoutout to Chicago! ✊ 👏
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okay so ace, allo, smutty, not smutty, horny, not horny ladskjhadlakhdlakd yes it's NUANCED yes two things CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE yes ppl like things to be easy & catchy, a thread
So to preface this with some context: I am ace. Yes, I'm married to an allo woman. Yes, we have a kid.
So to preface this with some context: I am ace. Yes, I'm married to an allo woman. Yes, we have a kid.
March 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
okay so ace, allo, smutty, not smutty, horny, not horny ladskjhadlakhdlakd yes it's NUANCED yes two things CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE yes ppl like things to be easy & catchy, a thread
So to preface this with some context: I am ace. Yes, I'm married to an allo woman. Yes, we have a kid.
So to preface this with some context: I am ace. Yes, I'm married to an allo woman. Yes, we have a kid.
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I have never and will never use AI, I hate it in every way, but you will rip my em dashes out of my cold dead hands.
Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.
March 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I have never and will never use AI, I hate it in every way, but you will rip my em dashes out of my cold dead hands.
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So I'd like to put something out there for every creator who is struggling with continuing to make art during These Trying Times, especially if you're feeling like what you do is frivolous or "just" escapism. I want to talk about how some specific art has been a lifeline for me.
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February 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
So I'd like to put something out there for every creator who is struggling with continuing to make art during These Trying Times, especially if you're feeling like what you do is frivolous or "just" escapism. I want to talk about how some specific art has been a lifeline for me.
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If you haven't yet, please go vote! Turnout is high in my area (I should know, I've been processing ballots all day), I want to see the same everywhere!
November 5, 2024 at 10:25 PM
If you haven't yet, please go vote! Turnout is high in my area (I should know, I've been processing ballots all day), I want to see the same everywhere!
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October 25, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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IMPORTANT: If you don't have insurance, or your insurance does not fully cover the COVID vaccine, it's a good idea to get your updated COVID vaccine NOW. The CDC Bridge Access Program, which provides COVID vaccines for free, stops at the end of August.
We are finally getting updated COVID vaccines.
But the CDC's Bridge Access Program, which provides COVID vaccines for free to people who are underinsured, is ending this month.
What is the point of having public health tools if the people who need them most can't access them?
But the CDC's Bridge Access Program, which provides COVID vaccines for free to people who are underinsured, is ending this month.
What is the point of having public health tools if the people who need them most can't access them?
August 22, 2024 at 11:34 PM
IMPORTANT: If you don't have insurance, or your insurance does not fully cover the COVID vaccine, it's a good idea to get your updated COVID vaccine NOW. The CDC Bridge Access Program, which provides COVID vaccines for free, stops at the end of August.
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Public services are public goods.
August 23, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Public services are public goods.
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For #WaterWednesday, some water temporarily occupied by a great blue heron
#photography #birds #herons #nature 📷🦉
#photography #birds #herons #nature 📷🦉
August 21, 2024 at 9:06 PM
For #WaterWednesday, some water temporarily occupied by a great blue heron
#photography #birds #herons #nature 📷🦉
#photography #birds #herons #nature 📷🦉
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Imane Khelif is the people’s champion.
August 21, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Imane Khelif is the people’s champion.
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For @comicsbeat.bsky.social, I interviewed @triaelf9.bsky.social about the upcoming print edition of their gorgeous, queer fantasy epic PATHWAYS from @darkhorsecomics.bsky.social. If you're not reading this series, you should be!
Interview: Elaine Tipping's PATHWAYS holds special meaning for them
Pathways: Chronicles of Tuvana creator Elaine Tipping explores the story's growth ahead of its print release from Dark Horse Comics.
www.comicsbeat.com
August 20, 2024 at 7:43 PM
For @comicsbeat.bsky.social, I interviewed @triaelf9.bsky.social about the upcoming print edition of their gorgeous, queer fantasy epic PATHWAYS from @darkhorsecomics.bsky.social. If you're not reading this series, you should be!
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Maybe you stopped masking before—it isn’t “too late.” Masking today is better than not masking at all, just as carrying an umbrella today helps you *today* even if you got soaked yesterday. Especially if yesterday it was drizzling and today it’s increased to pouring.
August 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Maybe you stopped masking before—it isn’t “too late.” Masking today is better than not masking at all, just as carrying an umbrella today helps you *today* even if you got soaked yesterday. Especially if yesterday it was drizzling and today it’s increased to pouring.
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Revenge is best served Gold
August 10, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Revenge is best served Gold
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"We don't have the 10 commandments posted in our classrooms, but we do have free lunch and breakfast.”
This guy really knows how to craft a sound bite that gives us a little hope and makes the GOP look like sadistic freaks into the bargain.
This guy really knows how to craft a sound bite that gives us a little hope and makes the GOP look like sadistic freaks into the bargain.
"One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness."
– Tim Walz
– Tim Walz
August 6, 2024 at 6:40 PM
"We don't have the 10 commandments posted in our classrooms, but we do have free lunch and breakfast.”
This guy really knows how to craft a sound bite that gives us a little hope and makes the GOP look like sadistic freaks into the bargain.
This guy really knows how to craft a sound bite that gives us a little hope and makes the GOP look like sadistic freaks into the bargain.
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Remember: change can seem impossible for a very very long time, and then it isn’t anymore
If you're a young person, it might be hard to really understand this but the whole world used to smell like cigarettes.
August 2, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Remember: change can seem impossible for a very very long time, and then it isn’t anymore
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the theme of this olympics is i love women
August 1, 2024 at 9:00 PM
the theme of this olympics is i love women
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JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice
Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn't find a new interest
Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice
Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn't find a new interest
August 2, 2024 at 4:05 PM
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice
Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn't find a new interest
Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice
Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn't find a new interest
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As a cheesemonger I can tell you that a wheel of parm weighs around 80-90 pounds and she's hugging it like it's as light as a stuffed animal. I am in love with her.
July 31, 2024 at 7:07 PM
As a cheesemonger I can tell you that a wheel of parm weighs around 80-90 pounds and she's hugging it like it's as light as a stuffed animal. I am in love with her.
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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested.
There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic.
Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic.
Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 8, 2024 at 4:45 AM
There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested.
There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic.
Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic.
Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
July 1, 2024 at 3:39 PM
The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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I just.
The glimpse of a society where you actually fund the library? Like a lot? And people USE it? It was packed!
The glimpse of a society where you actually fund the library? Like a lot? And people USE it? It was packed!
July 3, 2024 at 9:25 AM
I just.
The glimpse of a society where you actually fund the library? Like a lot? And people USE it? It was packed!
The glimpse of a society where you actually fund the library? Like a lot? And people USE it? It was packed!
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I trust everyone has been keeping up with these. They always make me smile.
A new bit of Tolkien silliness, as I fight off the blues today. "Communiqué from the Tourist Office for the Barrow Downs" - hope you enjoy, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com et al....
July 2, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I trust everyone has been keeping up with these. They always make me smile.