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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ATTN DEXCOM GET ON TOP OF YOUR MFG AND QC PROCESSES YOU ARE FUCKING WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES HERE SIGNED A DIABETIC WHO HAS HAD THREE OF THEIR LAST FOUR SENSORS FAIL AND WHO IS VERY TIRED OF IT

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does drawing in my sketchbook while I was waiting for my car repair (😭😭😭) count as work? Asking for a friend.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Guess whose online shop is LIVE? This girl’s! There’s not a ton available, but there are prints. Originals will be coming. Please share if you like what you see!

latebloomingstudio.com

Late Blooming Studio

Whimsical art prints and original paintings to bring color to your home or workplace.

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Tim Boerger @timboerger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hey there. You look like you could use a good book to boost your mood. Well friend, today's your lucky day. A DUBIOUS CLAMOR is out right now!

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So there’s a giant sentient roly poly in this book. That sure was a choice, @tkingfisher.com. Not a bad one, but not the direction I would have chosen, which is why you’re the award winning writer and I am not!

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One way you can tell that I worked at [former company] for a long time is my obsession with people holding handrails while using stairs and complaining that there aren't any handrails in Pokopia so I feel like my Pokémons are in danger every time they use the stairs in my little apartment building.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

THERE IS A MOSQUITO IN MY HOUSE. THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO BURN IT DOWN BUT IT IS TOO DAMP OUTSIDE.

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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I hadn't seen Mary Ruefle's poem Red before!

I fucking depended on you and
you left the fucking wheelbarrow
out and it's fucking raining
and now the white chickens
are fucking filthy

Source: Poetry [name of magazine] (May 2020)

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was lucky enough to be able to thank the librarian who helped save me (she was the summer reading club volunteer coordinator and ended up returning years later as the library director). She remembered me and everything!

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Late Blooming Studio is officially a business! Now I can finally get started on actually BUILDING it.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 27/08/2026

Many great pieces on Dolly Parton this week, but @rahawahaile.bsky.social's in Scratch is by far my favorite. Just a jaw-dropping piece of beautiful writing. www.talkscratch.com/dolly-parton...

But this is the point I’m making, in this publication about how writers survive—I don’t think one can ever stop being themselves. For those of us not born to wealth, conviction is our greatest fortune. Dolly never squandered hers. Her values were clear: Pay your union dues, stand with labor, love the castaways, put money directly in people’s pockets. Make great art (and own your work). Share books freely. Uplift the land as the land has lifted and lifted you. Higher still, even. And help the people climb.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My Dexcom is refusing to calibrate with BG numbers I am getting by sticking myself with a needle & measuring myself with a little computer. My last Dexcom decided to stop transmitting for no reason (I put in for a replacement and got one). The one before that failed on day 9. WHAT THE FUCK, DEXCOM.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Masters of the Universe was a much, much better movie that it had any right to be. We enjoyed it tremendously.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/08/2026

It’s the power fantasy of being able to help people.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This entire thread is worth reading but the phrase "relentlessly helped" is going to stick with me. Also watch the video at the end. It's glorious.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi, I’m necrotizing pancreatitis.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 14/08/2026

Hey nobody told me this was happening BUT LIBRO.FM HAS EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END ON HUGE DISCOUNT AND I HAVE EARNED OUT ON THIS AUDIOBOOK SO THAT'S HEADED FOR MY POCKETS Did I mention it won a nebula award and its a USA Today bestseller and January laVoy is the narrator? libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

libro.fm

Even Though I Knew the End Audiobook on Libro.fm

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago’s divine monsters to secure a future with the lov...

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We know that corvids are smart and have social cohesion. Sometimes they will volunteer for experiments, like the wild crow who decided to solve puzzles alongside trained birds. And sometimes they will tell the scientists to eff off. spacedaily.com/t-australian...

spacedaily.com

Australian researchers fitted five magpies with GPS trackers to map their movements, but the birds began removing one another’s harnesses within minutes, turning a failed trial into an unexpected obse...

When researchers tried to track Australian magpies, the birds turned the tables—systematically removing each other's harnesses and revealing something far more interesting than GPS coordinates.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Okay, so apparently neither the actual beach nor the fictional tomb of a fictional elf were ever at risk from that undersea cable. No word on the actual bronze age tombs of actual human beings.

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m kind of over writers opining about Harry Potter in opinion columns while never saying one fucking word about Rowling’s pathological transphobia. That woman has blood on her hands FFS and if you don’t know that in the year of our Covid 2026, you’ve no business writing opinions about it.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Man, setting up a small business is a whole lot of hurry up and wait. Got my incorporation docs, applied for a small business checking account and now I have to wait for that to be reviewed. Literally can't start on my website until I can pay for it. Gonna go paint now.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Absolutely one of the greatest short stories ever written and it traumatized me when I read it as a kid

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Christiane Knight @christianek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"By pathologizing those we dislike, we give ourselves license to exile them." This is a very good and necessary read, and encapsulates a lot of things I've been thinking about lately.

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Late Blooming Studio (Natalie) @latebloomingstudio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Yesterday was mainly spent on drawing this from a Procreate tutorial. I've had Procreate on my iPad(s) since ~2010, but am only now getting around to learning it. It's a different set of skills, but I think it'd be nice to be able to offer something beyond traditional watercolors in the shop.

An abstract digital painting created by following a Procreate tutorial. It's a 3x3 grid, where each square is filled with a different abstract pattern. The colors are shades of yellow, green, orange, pink, and white.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

8 years ago today, I was in the hospital trying very hard not to die. What followed was 3 incredibly difficult years as I came to terms with and learned to manage my new limitations. I'm so glad that the last 5 years have been relatively stable and I am hopeful that the future will be.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It me. I'm working on setting up an art print shop. More to come soon!

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Well, dammit. I never realized until just now that Dire Straits's "Money For Nothing" uses f-gg-t repeatedly.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My ships! Help! All thousand of them, they're just launching on their own!

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Which is a fucking abomination.

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meh @mharvey816.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Thread

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@annleckie.com YouTube decided to suggest I watch a video about Sokushinbutsu and…was that the seed that became Radiant Star?

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Holy shit I got an email from Diaryland today. Like, they’re still around and everything. I don’t know if I want to visit me from 1999.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Miles is on the couch next to me and has been giving me A Look every so often to get me to pet him. This is what I get for abandoning him for 2.5 weeks.

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Les Miz has been living rent-free in my head for the last 2 weeks. Send help.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Continuing to implore people to not take a post saying “I like this thing” as an invitation to talk about why you didn’t like it, or liked something else more, you really and truly can just keep on scrolling, it’s fine

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Natalie is Still Staring 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @eilatan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is beyond disappointing to me. Charles de Lint is one of the reasons I made it out of my teens.

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