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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈

@inkling42.bsky.social
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Reader, Writer, Knitter, Traveler, Ginger. She/Her. linktr.ee/ovisobscura

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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sometimes, all you want is an Old Fashioned and some Doritos. #HeyIAmBack #DidYouMissMe #IAmLeTired
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I am Sleepy. But. I have diagnosed a Garbage Disposal. I have finished knitting a Sock. I have worked on Projects. I am Tired. I hope all of you have had as Fulfilling A Day as I have had.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
OK, this sounds weird, but... I would like to write a book that Sticks With Readers. It may be mediocre. It may be, actually, Not Very Good. But, I would like to have a Positive Message That Lets People Hang On To Positive Things. And that is why I write.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Time to hang up my hand knit socks (that I just washed) and go to bed. #KnitterLife #IJustDarnedAnotherPairOfSocks #ByWhichIMeanISaidDarnAndThrewThemAway #BadMothsDoNotEatMySocks
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I have almost finished a Knitted Hat and I am working on Socks and dangit, I may not be able to save the world but I can keep myself and my friends Warm.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Feeling a bit old, but in that weird "What Do You Mean It Is 40 Years Since The 1980s" way. #WhereDoYouSeeLions #OnlyInKenya #ComeToKenyaWeHaveGotLions #LlamaLlamaDuck #JoinInWhenYouKnowTheWords
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Alex made 3 Cup Chicken for Dinner tonight. This made me happy, along with knitting socks.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Sad but true. Despite medieval apothecaries trying to figure out our humours by analyzing our urine. One of the many things they were wrong about.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I realize this is very Frivolous with all this... ~gestures to Everything~ ...but my place is Very Soundproofed but I can still hear the Sportsball happening at the Arena nearby and that troubles me. #TinyProblems #StillIrritating #SleepIsImportant #HearingLossIsBad
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Felipe Gaona @felipegaonar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Hello again, Bluesky. I've missed you.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I Blogged Again! Join me on the California Mille! letteredlady.com/2025/04/28/c...
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California Mille 2025, Day 1
In Which Our Heroine Attempts To Begin A Travelogue Today is the first day of the California Mille, a 1000-Mile Classic Car Tour that Alex and I have been on once before. I enjoyed it last time. I …
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🧵Spotted on Waitangi Day in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) being carried around the Wharenui (ancestral meeting house) of a Marae by his dad (20s?) who's showing him the carvings and describing what they mean. Dad beaming with pride. Tiny human beaming at Dad. (1)
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I hope this Winter Holiday Season is peaceful for you.
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Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
KOSA is deliberately designed to, and will be used to, ban all queer content online as "pornography" including helpful orgs such as Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline. Tell your reps to vote NO on this monstrosity.
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Teobear🐻💗 @ellteo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you want to improve your style....learn to draw bodies. Real bodies. Marked, scarred, disfigured, bald, wrinkly, old and young. Learn to draw real people and you will learn to find so many more things beautiful. The best thing you can do for your art is to fall in love with being human.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/12/2024
Even from a purely self-interested perspective, Bluesky is very much building a brand based upon it being a safer place to exist online. Allowing Jesse Singal to remain, who is a known and active harasser, actively harms that brand and does nothing to attract valuable new users.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Usinge AI to learne to wryte ys lyke having a robot go to the gym for you
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Rich Douek @rdouek.com · 10/01/2024
My biggest issue with AI evangelism in our industry is that it treats creativity like a problem to be solved, and not an adventure to be had.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/12/2024
I don't want to be a global town square that represents even the worst voices among us I think we are better off without them, and they have no shortage of platforms on which to spew their bile they don't need one more, and their targets deserve somewhere to exist without them
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 10/12/2024
Have hit the stage of trying to negotiate with the wailing cat. “Sweetie, I know. You think if you yell loud enough, the world will change. I’ve been trying that for forty-seven years and it hasn’t worked for me either.”
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
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Julie Jenkins @juliejenkinsnp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.
My feed today on BlueSky included a post from Icelandic writer Hildur Knútsdóttir, who saw the original exchange on a Reykjavik Facebook page - someone posted to say that it appeared a cygnet was frozen to the ice and dying. As people worried online about how or whether it would be possible to help, naturalist Kerstin Langerberger replied to the post, saying: “I am on my way with the necessary equipment.” Langenberger brought a friend, some thermoses of warm water, and a surfboard in case the ice failed - the necessary equipment - and thawed then freed the baby swan, which promptly flew off. 

There are a number of things I appreciate about this story, but it’s Langenberger’s statement that resonates for me. That is what I aspire to, to see injury or difficulty or something gone to trouble and decide: I am on my way with the necessary equipment. But also, to hold on to the understanding that sometimes the necessary equipment is the resolve to try and a friend who will help, and that sometimes I *am* the necessary equipment - the friend who shows up to make myself useful under the direction of an expert. 

There are a lot of moments these days that I find it very, very hard to do the next thing, or indeed to do anything. The world is so, so difficult. I often feel useless or overwhelmed or exhausted or just really fucking sad. But I am going to try starting the days by saying, with all the starch that I imagine a naturalist willing to chance the ice in darkness to save a baby bird might possess: 

I am on my way with the necessary equipment.
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Helena Handbasket @helena-hand-basket.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“I was Richard the Third.” “Five curtain calls.” “WE HAD FIVE CURTAIN CALLS!!”
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Purrrrrrrr. I forgot to take photos, but we went to the new steakhouse in town, and it was pretty good.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Today is my birthday and it would mean a lot to me if you have the resources if you donated to your local abortion fund, bail fund, or any other grassroots org doing locally-based abolition, reproductive rights, or justice work. Here is a thread of some of my favorites for inspo:
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Tomorrow, I Will Write.
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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 08/12/2024
Despair, not fear, is the greater enemy. Fear can be overcome, but when you have lost all hope of victory, you have already lost. A true warrior knows that the smallest thread can unravel the greatest tapestry. Find the thread, don't let it go, and persevere.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I finished a pair of socks tonight, and I'm slightly worried that I might have dropped a stitch on one. I've decided Not To Care. They are good socks.
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CocoaPhil @cocoaphil.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Safe and welcome
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This burn is epic. 🔥
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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform
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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My submission for @skullsandsheets.bsky.social's Mari Lwyd charity auction-raising money each year for domestic violence charities. Auction link for this piece here: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15655102... See them all: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns... Shares would be hugely appreciated! 🎨 #art #bsnm
A mixed media artwork of the Mari Lwyd. It is focused on the head (skull), which is viewed from the side, and facing to the left of the image. Hydrangeas in blue, pink, and white adorn her head in the top right of the image. Five ribbons hang down from underneath them-blue, pink, white, pink, and blue again. Under those, her white sheet covering hangs. A swallowtail butterfly sits on the nasal bone of the skull, facing Mari. The background is mostly purple watercolour, with splashes and speckles of darker purple and touches of blue
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Thread. Be a person!
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/12/2024
Dump your transphobic friend. Don't let your racist friend go ignored. Confront that guy in your circle who treats women like shit. Pick fights with your friend. Challenge your anti immigrant uncle to a duel.
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 07/12/2024
reminded of this excellent tweet from long ago
A tweet from twitter user "MrFilmkritik", which reads:

When someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a logically sound defence, u can save a lot of time by not doing that.

Dude, I've known u for ten seconds and enjoyed none of them, I'm not taking homework assignments from you.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The vibe I bring to the party:
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a cartoon character sitting in a chair knitting
ALT: a cartoon character sitting in a chair knitting
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The Bluesky way. (with alt text summary)
Screenshot of a long anecdote. This is a short precis. A man went to a shitty bar for a drink. This guy came in and sat down next to him and the bartender immediately ordered them out. The man protested but when the bartender reached for a bat or something the guy left. When asked what happened the bartender said, "You didn't see his shirt. It was all iron crosses and shit. You can't let them get comfy. One comes in and he's nice, so you serve him because you don't want to be mean. He becomes a regular. Then he brings a friend, and he's nice too. The HE brings some friends who aren't as nice, and they bring friends who are worse, and all of a sudden you realise, this is a nazi bar now. And you can't kick them out then because they will cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down before they take root. You have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
YOU ARE A TRUE WARRIOR. I AM PROUD OF YOU.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I'm just going to keep reposting these because they are a warm, soft break in a world that often feels cold and harsh. Thanks for sharing these beautiful word snapshots with us, George.
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🧵Spotted this morning while cafe writing and roaming in small city Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (80s?) talking to a man with a sun worn smile . As they chat, he quietly slides his cappuccino across the table so she can dunk her gingerbread man. (1)
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Today, I did Self Care. I got a bunch of laundry done, plus dishes, and then I sat down and wound the yarn for my next Doctor Who Scarf and watched Poirot. This feels like an Aggressively Hopeful Project - really lovely yarn, meditative, and long-term. Also, it will be very warm.
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Amanda/Inkling 🏳️‍🌈 @inkling42.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If you see this, post a magic user! 🪄
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a girl with red hair is wearing white gloves and a purple cape
Alt: Lina Inverse, a redheaded magic using lady, casts a bright spherical spell and looks very pleased about it.
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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 06/12/2024
Kahless tells us that to imagine only catastrophe ahead, to focus only on the worst case scenario, is borrowing trouble. Be prepared for trouble, yes, but do not invite it in.
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Lorelli - Read My Comic @exitrealitystudios.com · 06/12/2024
It's my birthday, I don't expect anything but if you're feeling generous there's a few things that could make my day Read my comic Leave a nice/funny comment on it Recommend it to a friend Share some of my art Or if you really want, hit my ko-fi #art #comic #webComic #BadInfluenceComic #OCSky 💚
A cover page for a comic called Bad Influence, the title is in the upper left, the background is a bar with a mirror and some bottles of alcohol on a bar. The foreground had a large table with seven people seated at. The head of a table is a woman with purple hair, she's standing. To the viewer's right is a person holding a clip board, they also have bunny ears, seated below them along our right side of the table we see the back of an elf woman with dark skin and blue hair, below her we se the back of a girl with cat ears, a striped tail and short blond hair. On the table to our left closest to the viewer is a dwarven man with long brown hair in a pony tail and a short leather jacket, above him is a woman making notes in a journal, she has red straight hair and wear a blue coat, above her as a large muscular man, his arms behind his head as he leans back in his chair, he has cinnamon colored hair and a beard.A comic page in 4 panels. Panel 1, Vale leans against the table, a hand in his pocket as Tass stands extremely close, looking thoughtful. Vale says "And I suppose you have plenty of witnesses who can attest to that?". Tass tilts her head, waving her hand as she replies "well, I mean yeah, I was helping Ori and Hav run the tavern. Same thing I do most nights." Tass continues speaking "The regulars left at eleven or so; we cleaned up, I read a book, went to sleep." Tass turns her attention back to Vale who gives her a flat look. She gestures to herself "Am I being accused of something?"An illustration of a man and a woman. The background has a silver draped cloth and strings of pearls draped along the top. The man has elf ears and shoulder length dark blue hair, sitting on a seat draped with white cloth, he wears a long dark blue coat, a white shirt opened at the chest, the coat trimmed in silver with multiple chains running from the chest to shoulder and other parts of the coat. He holds a very long sword, the hilt resting against his shoulder, the point resting against the floor between the woman's legs. The woman sits on the floor, resting back between the man's legs. The man holds her hand, she had tan skin and long wavy purple hair, glass beads strung through it. She wears a low cut and high slit purple dress, the train running along the floor. More glass beads are strung across her chest, hanging like a chandelier, more chains are wrapped around her thighs. She holds a dagger resting against her thigh.
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Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🐎🗡️🌼 @quillauthor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Tonight, I write. I write my weird little sci-fi/fantasy series in which I’ve processed probably two decades of suppressed trauma and anger about the limitations placed on women, a series that I’m determined to make increasingly queer with this third volume. It’s not the only work I’m doing, but it
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Satanley (the first 'a' is silent) @satanley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My wife was prescribed Humira for psoriatic arthritis and was denied insurance coverage. We could obviously not afford it so she went without for several years... 1/?
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for: 1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 05/12/2024
Hope is not a mistake. It may turn out wrong, your hopes may not come to fruition, but never feel you were wrong for having them. They are a sign that you aspired to something better, something greater. That is glorious, and no mistake.
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