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(I don’t talk politics *much* on this account bc I’m really trying to keep it art-focused and not derail with rants I can make on main instead, but it’s impossible to completely separate art from politics and trying is foolish!)

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Once caught some dipshit bitching that the band we had both gone to see (not together, some rando after the show) had done some political commentary in the banter. The tour was promoting an album with a blatantly political diss track on it. Fake-ass fanboys not even listening to the album, smh.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yep. No one should be surprised when Green Day shows get political. If you’re surprised, you weren’t paying attention to the music and why are you at a show for a band you care so little about, anyway? Don’t like political shows? Don’t go to Green Day. It’s not hard.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 14/10/2026

Anyway, relevant to other discourse:

Photo of the copyright page for the anniversary edition of Solomon’s Seal with a circle around this statement: “Generative AI was not used during any part of the process, by anyone involved with the book. I am vehemently against its usage and support human-made art.
You can find my full statement on my website.”

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If this really, truly is one's approach, the belief one carries in the heart, the only move is not to say anything at all, not even "I don't intend to speak about this." Because the second you announce that "no politics" is your politics, you're doing politics - shitty, cowardly politics.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🐉+🪰 Yes, the dragonfly was drawn with this very brush. 🧐🔍

Detail from a silhouette drawing in black ink of a dragonfly, photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with. The detail is very tiny and intricate. The penny could eclipse the dragonfly entirely with room to spare.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Redwall, absolutely. I’m mad about the wizard book lady’s nonsense making it hard to design a Redwall badger tattoo that I can be sure won’t get misinterpreted. 😒

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(I also know an enby who generally rejects feminine terms but still calls themself a seamstress bc they just don’t like any of the alternatives)

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Seamster is also a gender neutral form I’ve seen in use

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think sewists is the most widely-accepted gender neutral form (mostly because “sewer” looks like it’s pronounced, um, differently when written) but many of the folks who sew and are even nominally fem or otherwise consider themselves women use seamstress still

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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Janny Wurts @jannywurts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The worst has gone unsaid: to 'use' LLMs to write flap copy, marketing copy, rejection notes (likely add proof reading/editing) and cover art: THEY HAVE TO FEED YOUR MANUSCRIPT INTO AI TO DO SO! ANY publisher of 'original novels' is GIVING OVER YOUR WORK! Egriegious. Copyright integrity is toast.

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Miss Vedra @missvedra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Three hours of work and now my hands need a break.

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone who sells you a tool that promises to outsource the work of your relationships, or the loving tasks of connecting to our friends and family, is someone who is trying to rob you of your own humanity. For god's sake. Say no to this. Say no to all of it.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sometimes I listen to a playlist a friend put together for themself and get hit by a song I never would have selected for myself if given a general explanation of it, and end up with a new favorite artist. Sometimes the show everyone thinks I’ll love bores me to tears.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Right? I can usually *kinda* guess, but that works best after someone tells me the basic premise of some new game or show and I go “that sounds great!” or “probably not my cup of tea” in response. But there are things I’ve been surprised to find out I really like!

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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here’s what I hate about the “all your media can be tailored to your personal preferences”: I don’t know what my preferences are! Like, if you had told me 3 years ago that I would be *super* into DBZ and One Piece I wouldn’t have believed you. What do you mean I’d *love* The Thing? Are you high?

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How dare they not ask her to babysit anymore? So selfish! She just wants to spend time with her grandkids completely at her own convenience, with no regard for anyone else’s schedules!

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No no all she did was promise to babysit, “forgetting” that she had bingo night, and then ditched the parents at the last minute when it was too late to get another babysitter. Only 127,498 times!

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JK ✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Putting out a call (on behalf of the resident teenager) for good sources for an essay about the benefits of reading, please. articles, research results, or similarly cite-able things a teen could use to claim that reading increases vocab, empathy, general understanding, etc

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

75GW of demand is a staggering figure. Essentially TRIPLES, at *best*, the nation's energy consumption. How can any sane government even contemplate allowing this? The AI bubble cannot pop soon enough.

AI datacentres use a massive amount of electricity to power servers and cooling equipment, and to run facility systems. There are 315 datacentres in the queue to connect to the UK’s electricity grid, representing 73GW of demand. This is almost double the peak winter energy demand for the entire UK.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep. Kids were “suddenly” expressing themselves as trans, and no one bothered to ask the kids how long they kept that secret before telling their parents.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep. Most of the time there are specific problem behaviors, which have been clearly communicated to them, which they refuse to change and that’s why they’re “estranged”.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Definitely never punished them harshly for struggling with problems the parents themselves actually willfully caused, or treated them like servants (no, I don’t mean “expected them to do some chores”, I mean “expected them to abandon their own lives entirely to make the parent’s life convenient”)

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Whoops, linked the quote post. OG post here: bsky.app/profile/head...

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here’s an example. A woman who thinks she should be allowed to legally compel a grandchild to have a relationship with her that said grandchild does not want.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No demographic has a monopoly on virtue or vice, people are fundamentally people. And women are also just people.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But more importantly, consider the implications of assuming that women have some inherent quality that prevents them from becoming abusers. Do you think it’s wise to grant *anyone* a default pass on their behavior on the grounds of their gender?

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s hard to find data on bc abuse committed by women is often less overt &, as the other person said, against people with less systemic power than women have. But consider the TERF movement’s rhetoric against trans people. Consider child abuse committed by mothers. Consider white women’s racism.

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briellastella @briellastella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Customer service has gotten materially worse. Web search is barely usable. Webpages have become less functional and those that still work are buckling under 100x the traffic. Basic computer functionality we've taken for granted has been trashed. Malpractice has proliferated across every industry.

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Given financial issues (it's ... bad), seems like a good time to remind people I have books for sale. In fact, quite a fair number of queer (trans, pan, poly+) paranormal romance/erotica+, horror, and weird fiction. Want to buy direct? Get them here: www.huldrahouse.com/shop huldrahouse.itch.io

Cover image of a novella called The River Devours the Moon, written by Kaya Skovdatter. A woman's head floats underwater in the upper half of the image. Her eyes closed and a bubble escaping from her open lips, her hair drifting in wispy strands. The entire image is washed blue, and light glows up illuminating her face, from the lower half of the image. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white. At the top of the image is a string of blurb text that reads: "Elegant. Surreal. Some of Kaya's best work." - A.G.A. Wilmot, author of Withered

Cover image of a book called The Collected Hulderotica Year One, written by Kaya Skovdatter. Background is a figure in a shadowed figure in a scarf and dress, holding an umbrella. Their face too is covered in shadow, only two unnerving points of light shining out of that darkness. Around the figure is a lush, overgrown forest painted in a variety of greens, and before them is a rock-edged forest pool with the figure's reflection cast in its green-tinged surface. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A desire to be The Most Special Boy, the one who invented a god.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Yours appear to be old and maybe also dirty, this photo is a fresh one. They lose the color vibrancy when they dry out with age)

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Most likely Ganoderma tsugae, Hemlock Varnish Shelf, based on location, preference for conifers, and general appearance.

An example of Ganoderma tsugae, a large woody shelf fungus with a white outer edge shading to a dark rust-orange at the center, growing on a mossy stump.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Too large and thick for turkey tail, and not detailed enough in the banding.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hard to be sure from just a photo of the top but my best guess is they’re a ganoderma species. Commonly called conks.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also “if you’re so smart why aren’t you successful” buddy, I AM successful in the ways that matter to me. My ambitions are just not so shallow and unimaginative as “big salary number”.

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“I don’t have time to read…” Skill issue. Learn to read faster. 💅

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

…well damn ok there’s MY reason to look into ketamine therapy

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