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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's 85+ degrees and my coastal-acclimated fat ass is absolutely melting On the downside, I got a text at lunch telling me I wasn't cast.😑 On the upside, I went to check on the killdeer nesting on the lawn at my work and BABIES!!! WE HAVE BABIES!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! 🥰

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Oh You've got to be kidding me... It's been a week and just found out there's still "a role to cast" and I'm gonna lose my mind. 😫 I love the local theater scene but it's going to give me an ulcer I swear 😵‍💫 I've never had to wait this long to hear the outcome of auditions before.

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I am going to gnaw a limb off at this rate!😩

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Uuuuuugh I hate waiting for audition results. 😑 Just put me out of my misery already.

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard Boiled Egg!" Happy Glorious 25th of May, all. GNU Sir Terry

A close chot of a bundle of lilac blossoms, with a fuzzy bee face-first into the flowers

Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 04/05/2026

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Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

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ALSO, it's not just little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits," it's "the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed." Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras.
Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn't use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you're within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you're usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Goldangit, I somehow missed the @mayakern.com sale by a few minutes... Didn't realize that the time the sale ended must have been Eastern time and I didn't have until my midnight my time like I thought 😭 Don't stay on the fence, peeps! Your fave might sell out or you may accidentally miss a sale 😮‍💨

Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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if you are a bigot or support bigotry or act in a movie built on the profits of hate, people are allowed to not like you 1. because bigotry is bad and 2. because people generally DONT LIKE THINGS THAT HURT THEM. like this is so obvious. it is not 'canceling' it is an exercise in basic human autonomy

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I haven't worked on the audiodrama idea i had for... years now. But when i got that email from the Podcasting host i'd signed up with saying "oh our TS is being updated & btw, look at all our great AI options!" Logged in and deleted my account so damn fast. Wrote and told them exactly why. Fuck AI.

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Wish we had you longer, Sir Terry 💙 GNU

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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I composed a song, recorded it w/ a $100 recorder, scored it w/ audacity & MuseScore. When the audio drama director needed the situation the song was used in to change, I was able to pivot & make tweaks to the lyrics. I don't work in the music industry. I'm nowhere near wealthy. Just my own brain.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/01/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Life today lol On the upside, I am collecting a lot of rainwater to use for my new little Carnivorous Plant Child for whom tap water is apparently deadly! I don't regret winning CPC at the silent auction, but the chainsaw might have been nice too...

Image of a text convo.

Person 1: "Tree came down east of [redacted]. I was 5th car back. Bunch of us got out and 3 guys had chainsaws. We cleared it in about 20 minutes. Got soaked... but got back on the road. lol"

Person 2: It wouldn't be Oregon if 3 out of 5 cars weren't carrying chainsaws 😂

I might be one of them myself if I hadn't been a coward and had bid on that mini chainsaw at the Christmas party!!

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It is astounding to me, with my Swiss cheese memory, that I can see the title "Bogoróditse Djévo" & instantly remember the song - even though the last time I sang it was in high school & that was decades ago. I don't have the words (I don't speak russian) but I can hum my part & all the others.

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The world may be sliding backwards, the Internet is enshittifying by the hour, but at least it has all come together to allow me to venmo 10¢ to my boyfriend to "share the windfall" of the 20¢ refund check I was sent from my orthodontist. 😂

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Big social events need a stage manager. Like, an actual, from-the-trenches stage manager. One who either has a voice loud enough to stop traffic or is able to deputize someone who does. Wandering around aimlessly looking for the One Person to Get This Started a good 15min LATE?

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Again, this is such utter bullshit. 🤬

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

They pushed the Coast Guard chopper 100 MILES AWAY for this bullshit!! 🤬🤬🤬

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Just unsubscribed from a company's emails & was very happy there was a "why did you unsubscribe?" question with an "other" field. I was able to put "I do not purchase from our support businesses that use AI". Thanks for outlining your "new, great feature" in your email update! Buh Bye! 🫡

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It's November, so even though the official organization has imploded, I'm still writing a book. i just used the word "gloat" in my novel and holy hell, why does it look like it's something i just made up? That can't be a word. Gloat gloat gloat. It's a glowing goat.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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For the quintillionth time for those who aren’t getting it: The shitty people of the world aren’t seeing or hearing your scathing burns about their looks - their weight, the way age impacts them, etc - but people you know are and they’re seeing you aren’t a safe person to be around. Do better.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms “If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Holy HELL!!! have we ever actually seen this before?!? 🤩

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Welp, there's my anxiety gone bonkers. Ugh.

Micah @rincewind.run · 20/07/2025

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deeply offensive that actually doing the chores that have been hanging over my head for weeks feels good and also that this will in no way help me to do those chores faster the next time

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Thanks, AI that my work has enabled in my browser and I can't turn off. Your offer to summarize this two sentence email is a truly, massively useful thing. How did I ever live without you. 🙄 I highly suspect the summary would be longer than the actual email. Not clicking on it to confirm, though.

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

One of my boyfriend's green flags: if there is an animal in the house, he will immediately begin singing to it.

Kat @longwayback.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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time for my new favorite tumblr post

A tumblr text post by user nitewrighter, set up as a dialogue.

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I've been working the same fish science job for over 20 years now. Wy do I know what brutalist architecture is off the top of my head? 😂

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

An 80k grant for a seemingly pointless "let's poke it with a stick and see what happens" research project is the reason why entire fields of medicine, genealogy, forensics, and more even exist. (1/5)

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I now have a wee buddy to keep my @secondlina.com crow company! Welcome to the flock, Gay Crime Goose! @gaybreakfast.bsky.social

A small white plush goose with a rainbow bow sits tucked under the wing of a larger black crow plush. The crow has big wide eyes and little stick like feet.

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just sitting here in the lunch room at work crying, hoping no one else comes in before I can blow my nose properly... 😭

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Reminder that paid weather services (ie AccuWeather) rely HEAVILY on the FREE data put out by the National Weather Service (ie NOAA). If NOAA gets gutted, that data is likely to disappear. So the paid services will have to find some way to backfill that loss. Or just make (even more) shit up.

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Fuck. Four people in my building were fired today. It's not a big building. That's what, 5%-8%? Caught in the "probationary" bullshit. And my boss finally admitted that us contractors aren't safe either. I have no idea when my 20 year career will just... Stop.

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just spent a decent amount of time going through replies to a post explaining to various people that sighthounds Just Have Visible Ribs, and even when this particular dog settles into full couch potato life, he'll still be ribby. So no, he's not being starved. 😅

Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just scheduled a regular yearly test. I have to take at least a half day off work & pay for the gas for a 130mi trip. Every other year? Lunch break & 3.6 miles. But my health insurance can't get their bloody act together and my entire *county* is now out of network. Fuck @unitedhealthcare.sa.com

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Listening to a episode of How Did This Get Made and laughing with Jason Mantzoukas' explanation of not liking musicals... I suddenly want to write a musical where the MC is weirdly aware and is absolutely flummoxed and freaked out by everyone busting into song around them for no apparent reason

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Wicked, Hamilton, Hadestown... I have clearly missed my calling. I shouldn't have been writing regular old fanfic, I should have been writing *musical* fanfic of public domain stuff! Damn! (Would love to play Ephalba and Hermes someday...)

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Yes, i'm a bi disaster who has to have multiple drinks, yes those drinks are currently boozy hot cocoa and non-boozy eggnog, yes i'm about to sit down and write on my (possibly spicy) novel... Wish i could do this as a living to be honest. The writing bit, not the drinking eggnog bit. Maybe someday.

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Friend: (looking at pic of her mom doing silly things) oh my God, how am I related to these people? Me:... Aren't you the one who dressed up as a cave woman and blew a glass float?!? Friend: ... And??

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I almost missed Exploding Whale Day?!? 🐋 💥💙

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Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Don't let the store fool you. Just bought 6 items from dollar tree ($1.25 really) and my total came to $18.50 The chocolate I thought was a good deal turned out to be $5. It's currently cheaper on sale at Fred Meyer. Don't get fooled into thinking everything in there is a deal

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Double heavy day. At least now there's only one existential-dread-level uncertainty hanging over me now. Finally got the message that I didn't get a role in the play I auditioned for.

Nikki @brightshadowsky.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Between 4:45 and 8pm i handed out around 800 pieces of candy and 40 potatoes. The potatoes ran out by 6:15. Some kids were really into them! 😁 I ran out of candy well before the kids were done coming around. I was hoping it'd be a slower year with it being a weeknight and pouring rain. Nope!😂