Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter. 123465288
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 155164814036
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 20hThe joke being: I left my country so that I may study my country in a vast, cold country that gives money to the men who are the very reason I left my country. - Hazem Fahmy #Poetry 💙📚👀 0120
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Germaine Hypher - Crafting A Path Through Illness @germainehypher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The View From The River Bed popped into my mind while resting with my eyes shut for my usual number of 3-5 hours one afternoon. It is drawn with bronze & white gel pens, but the photo makes the bronze look orange. #drawing #chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicfatigue #ME/CFS #mecfs #art ✍🏻 🐟 🐠 🛌 0102
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 25/09/2026🧶 #knitsky Any reccos for fun sock patterns for a 3 year old? More stress on fun than utility. TIA 😁 483
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 24/09/2026Extraordinary to see ME covered like this in mainstream media. The truth is the neglect is so staggering people can't believe it. As George says " has seldom been a stronger case for a public inquiry." 🖇️article 👇 29538
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I know most of you have seen this a bunch of times already but please remember that knitting takes time and I can't have New Shit to show you every day. Sometimes I wish I sold earrings. 1115
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925211725
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Germaine Hypher - Crafting A Path Through Illness @germainehypher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Low Tide Reveals a Migraine - one of my more recent poems. #poetry #creativewriting #migraine #Headache #chronicpain #chronicillness #nature #invisibleillness #mecfs 061
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 19/09/2026Socks 23 of 2026 - Valmue Socks Making this for the second time and used the same color as before!😁 #knitsky 🧶🧦 If anybody is interested, it is listed here ko-fi.com/s/78172de8ff #bsnm #shopsmall 0192
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 19/09/2026Just lying on the couch and being happy. Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head. Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has so much to do in the world. - William Stafford #Poetry 💙📚👀 051
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 18/09/2026🧶🌺 Forgot for a little while that blocking makes me sick. But the night reminded me that all is not well. Also, making the same thing again reminded me that how i have made so much progress as a knitter. 🥰 Here's the link if you want to have this beauty ko-fi.com/s/883f5beb89 #knitsky #bsnm 091
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 18/09/2026When everyone had gone I sat in the library With the small silent tree, She and I alone. How softly she shone! ... Love distant, love detached And strangely without weight, Was with me in the night When everyone had gone And the garland of pure light Stayed on,stayed on -May Sarton #Poetry 💙📚👀 050
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 17/09/2026🧶🧦Socks 22 of 2026 - Some sunshine stripes I am a fan of yellow heels 😁 My basic vanilla recipe with Deep Shadow Heel #knitsky #bsnm #nightmarket 0152
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 17/09/2026I bleed into the soil, yet all these flowers offer in return is the bite of thorns dragging across my skin, their tangled roots strangling the work I buried. Yet when they finally open, I look at the raised scars ... I touch them with joy, knowing no devotion spent is ever wasted #Poetry 💙📚👀 040
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 16/09/2026My sister gifted one my handknitted socks to her friend and that friend told her that the socks are too beautiful to walk on. I am over the moon today even though I have not slept much last night and my head and eyes are hurting. 🥰🌺 #pwme 090
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 16/09/2026🧶🧦 Socks 21 of 2026 - Basic Ribbed Socks by @kateatherley.bsky.social I love how snug the fit is. Used a self striping yarn with a solid to make it more unique. 😎 #knitsky #bsnm #nightmarket 1302
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 16/09/2026Do any of you use Amazon Smart Biz in India? I have used multiple platforms over the years and everything keep shutting down. I cannot really manage selling by chatting and distributing catalog. :( Please Help!! 000
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Germaine Hypher - Crafting A Path Through Illness @germainehypher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Chronic Artist Spotlight: Sarah Johnson is a self taught painter, disabled by chronic illness. She leads free online paint along sessions via zoom. I’ve included the link to Sarah’s profile on my Facebook post of her art. #painting #watercolour #art #chronicillness #mecfs #chronicfatigue 🖼️ 🎨 0103
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 16/09/2026You need not die today. Stay here-through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring. - Gwendolyn Brooks #Poetry 💙📚👀 0101
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 15/09/2026I accidentally watched a viral video by Vidya Balan doing this scene. So I had to cleanse my senses by watching the original. I have nothing against Vidya Balan except that she is not Urvashi. 🙈 youtu.be/bvrQDNX945Q?...youtu.beAchuvinte Amma comedy scene| യൂ ആസ്ക് ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ക്യുഎസ്ടിൺ ഐ റിപ്ലൈ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ആൻസർ😀YouTube video by Music and Entertainment 100
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 13/09/2026🧵🧶NEW SHOP THREAD! I've got some new items here, plus some older ones that would still like a home. I also sell original knitting patterns. I'm disabled and this is MY ONLY SOURCE OF WORK. #BSNM #SmallBusinessSaturday #DisabledArtist #Knitting 28074
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 15/09/2026In this immeasurable darkness, be the power that rounds your senses in their magic ring, the sense of their mysterious encounter. And if the earthly no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing. To the flashing water say: I am. - Rilke #Poetry 💙📚👀 060
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 14/09/2026What can poets do? They can write stars all over the sky while astronomers sleep. They can write roses all over the garden while May sleeps. ..... They can write hope all over the lingering time, while people sleep. - Szilágyi Domokos #Poetry 💙📚👀 050
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 13/09/2026🧶 #knitsky I have started the decreases on this one. The green looks a bit darker in this one, but it is more of a neon green. I have adjusted price on this one. if anybody is interested, this is the link ko-fi.com/s/883f5beb89 #bsnm #nightmarket 0250
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A couple of weeks ago it was my 3000th day bedridden. I drew this to mark the occasion. It's a long time for both illness-haver and carer #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs #ChronicIllness #DisabledArtists 810136
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Germaine Hypher - Crafting A Path Through Illness @germainehypher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026All the Flowers That Still Bloom made it to #1 in Amazon’s Hot New Disability Releases list this week. Includes letters, short stories, poetry and narrative non-fiction from a selection of disabled and chronically ill writers, including me! #chronicillness #disability #mecfs #invisibleillness 💙📚 073
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 13/09/2026may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you .... and may you in your innocence sail through this to that - Lucille Clifton #Poetry 💙📚👀 071
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 12/09/2026Yesterday I read a quote about the cruelty of criticising the way someone swims when they are drowning. It made sense then why I have been feeling crushed after having that call. #pwme #mecfs 1124
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 12/09/2026I haven't casted on any new socks as I am working on a leaflette request. I couldn't let go of my original leaflette, so decided to make a new one. The most terrifying part is the blocking. I don't know if I have the health for that now. But doing this only for survival. 🧶 #knitsky 1282
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 12/09/2026Socks 20 of 2026 - Simply Sporty Shorties by This handmade Life. This one has ankle support with slip stitches, so it hugs that curve perfectly. Since I don't walk in socks, I am unable to comment on that part. 😬There are 3 more textures available in the same pattern. #knitsky 🧦🧶 0312
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 12/09/2026Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness #Poetry 💙📚👀 3385
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The UK is voting on the Assisted Dying bill today. Most disability organizations oppose it. Safeguards have already been removed or rejected. Please listen to disabled Canadians. What was meant to be dignified quickly became coercive eugenics aimed at the most vulnerable. 16448209
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 11/09/2026Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. ... Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. - Alice Walker #Poetry 💙📚👀 091
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!Madhav @madhav.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Elizabeth Strout's The Things We Never Say begins with this quote and it's all I've been thinking about since #booksky 1104
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 06/09/2026Hi from North Sky!! 120
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 01/09/2026On most days I hang on to hope. But today I had to talk to someone about finding a way forward with respect to generating an income. I know they were trying to help, but I am losing that thin thread of hope. Where are all my people with #mecfs and no support system? 180
Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 31/08/2026Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here. - Wendell Berry #Poetry 💙📚👀 174
Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please!brokenwingpoet @brokenwingpoet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Haven’t posted in a while. Been too sick. More to come, at my pace, as I can. #severeme #mecfs #pwme #bedbound #meawarenesmonth 011
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 30/08/2026I loved making this one 🥰 #amigurumi #crochet 0111
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 30/08/2026Fear not the pain. Let its weight fall back into the earth; for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas. The trees you planted in childhood have grown too heavy. You cannot bring them along. Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold. - Rilke #Poetry 💙📚👀 260