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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈

@ishtar.bsky.social
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𒊩𒈹🥰✌️SciComm🏳️‍🌈 • Postgrad Archaeology Student🏺(Portrayal of the past in media) • Computer Scientist 👩‍💻 • Lesbian Poetess 👭 • Novelist - prehistory/antiquity • EDXRF/Gamma/Xray Spectroscopy ☢️ • Astrophotography🔭 • ASD/ADHD/Tourette's/CPTSD😵‍💫 • Weaver🧵

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Should i get a Wireshark tank top? I use it for protocol analysis all the time, so it would be fun...
Women's tank top featuring the Wireshark logo
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Beach Episode was a success! My friends and I went to the beach for the day. We sang, swam, ate, and made merry all day! I had a lovely time 🥰🥰🥰
Besty hugs Ishtar for a fun photoIshtar in her black bikini near the pierIshtars very long legs on the beach towelA mermaid necklace
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I find reading TCP streams to be rather relaxing for some reason. Each little packet has its exact fit in the communication, and every little bit has a meaning. 🥰Do you support congestion notification? Is this a Kerberos request? Shall I reset the connection?🥰 It makes me smile
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Netgear Router Network Activity
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Watching Project Hail Mary, and the dude just took a xrf and smashed it repeatedly on the table 😱😭 So far it's a really wonderful film, but damn that's triggering lol Those things are so expensive and it hurts my little scientist brain to see it happen lol
A scientist smashing and xrf machine
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Went to a Heated Rivalry party last night. Forced to wear a sportsball shirt thing. I chose mexico Still a lot of fun, meow
Wonan smiling at camera wearing mexico sportsball shirt
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ok, headed downtown to work on my next action adventure romance novel. Set in 2360 BCE in early minoan crete, We encounter a sapphic romance between a local cretian woman and an Egyptian princess... But so many assassins object 🤣 And it has to be very archaeologically accurate, as usual lol
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Oh deer 🦌 lol My antlers for a cervitauride (female deer centuar) i am playing in my next dnd game lol
A woman wearing deer antlers
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Phoebea! @lotspaghero.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It takes me about 4 seconds per shot firing my #Larp bow from my quiver. I can do about once per 2 seconds with real arrows, but these LARP arrows handle like a pig lol Also, I'm intuit shooting at about the normal range for melee engagements in LARP, not target practice lol
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How is everyone today? I hope you are all doing well 💜
Picture of a woman in the black dress smiling at the camera
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Had a lovely night high up above the city drinking 50-year-old bourbon that was purchased during the bicentennial. It finished off a lovely day spent with friends 💜
A glass of bourbon held over the cityscapeA bottle of 50-year-old bourbonA firework explodingA woman in a blue dress smiling at the camera
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I need to read this. I started like a couple years ago but then forgot because ADHD lol I believe it is an epipaleolithic woman. It's approximately 5000 BCE, at the transition to the Neolithic in what is now Southeastern Algeria. I'll need to use a translator to read it lol
A picture of a graphic novel entitled Tassili. The picture depicts a Stone Age woman in the foreground with a stone age man in the background in a xeric shrublandA random page from the book with a little boy playing with poppy flowers and a woman interacting with himThe back of the book showing the woman from the front cover trading with some people from a different culture as well as the text explaining what the book is about
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
cycladic canoes... Today's focus
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What a day... A hard day at work evaluating code and sr dev stuff, then I went before the board of directors for a major county and spoke about lgbt rights, then spoke to my mother for the first time in 1.5 years and made her use my proper pronouns/name lol I am done today 😁😵‍💫
A woman smiling at a camera and wearing a simple black dress. Her hair is curly
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I went to a really fun drag show tonight. Honestly, I had a lovely time and got to dance with a lot of people. It's weird having fun and being queer while in the middle of such hate and existential threat, but life must go on If we are to persevere 🩷
A woman smiling and wearing a black dress at an event
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
@ishtar.bsky.social Is this you?
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I'm nearly done assembling 1,000 of these crazy things. I have every type of pride flag. They don't take long to put together, but damn it's a lot lol
A box with 400 pride flags
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I went out with a friend to look at art and we ended up stopping by a cafe to get some food.
A woman smiling at the cameraA woman eating a Russian tea biscuit. Not actually Russian, it's just called that
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
After 5 hours of sparing with a spear and sword, I was hot, sweaty, and feeling lovely. I train for LARP, and my endurance is getting quite good. I'm an archer, but one must be skilled in many ways lol 🗡️ 🏹 lol
A woman with a lot of curly hair smiling at the camera. She is sweaty, tired, and happy
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Whenever I see a trans man/masc walking around shirtless and enjoying themselves, in the freedom they now have, I feel so happy for them... But then I also consider that I gave up that freedom, and so many others. Equality and equity are my goals in life.
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Whenever I say sexist into my speech to text, it spits out Texas. Now that's ironic 🤣
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
You know, I'm still not sure why it is that we can't overturn the laws against going shirtless as a woman in many states in the US. It's overtly sexist to the point of being an exemplification of sexism. Truly, this is stupid, biased, and sexist I do miss being shirtless...
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Well I spent 14 hours today wandering around my downtown having a wonderful time, looking at flowers, and such. Had work to do as well, and now I'm tired. Got cute frog socks, saw flowers, hung out with friends. Now for a pint and then bed 💜
A woman in a bathroom taking a selfieFrog socks with cute little frogsA purple flower in a fieldA paint of beer
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Baught some bras at Soma, but they are going back. I mean I tried, but they dig into my flesh, if you feel like I'm suffocating, and it took 4 inches of extender to make them not feel that way. They do not remotely match my size lol The hunt resumes...
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The most aptly named part of a bra is the gore. It is both its name, and it's a parent function lol
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I had to pick up some fast food for a friend group tonight for an event. Just a couple burgers and fries. It took more than half of my weekly food budget for two people, just to get that little bit. How is anybody affording fast food at this point I'm guessing they aren't.
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I think it's important to note how much of the tech world is not a fan of AI. The people I deal with who are pushing AI are not actually in the tech world as computer people. They are managers, "vIsIoNaRiEz," and such. A lot of us are not particularly keen on it.
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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Designing Historical Games for Classrooms proof arrived this morning!!!! www.routledge.com/Designing-Hi...
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Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators is a complete introductory guide for designing analog and interactive choice-based historical games for history classes. It i...
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
She had a green card. She was not "undocumented." We are murdering people in concentration camps. Here. Now.
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I've been at ground zero for a hantavirus outbreak once before. I don't know if people understand how terrifying it is, but it's even more so with our CDC and its current situation.
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Never worn an underwire before. I went to Soma and got two underwires today, but they feel toght. The Gore in the center keeps pushing into me, and they left red marks under me, though they went away within about 30 to 45 minutes of taking it off. I wonder if that's too tight? They were fitted =/
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Aom Sushar Wears Pink Bra on Head
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I have a wonderful day. I walked around downtown in the warm sun, spent some time with my father, and then I went and practiced with spear, bow, and dagger for several hours until I ran out of steam Just like a small child, I played until I ran out of energy 🥰 Now time for a 🍺 and 🛏️
A picture of woman smiling in the sun with her hair blownPicture of a woman making a silly facePicture of a woman with an even sillier faceA picture of a woman completely exhausted lying on the couch
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I got this gorgeous art piece from feyspeaker.bsky.social Eilistraee's Grotto And some of you know, I'm a massive dark elves and #Eilistraee fan, so this is now a treasured piece! #drow #dnd www.feyspeakerprints.com/product/eili...
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Eilistraee's Grotto
Archival grade D&D Eilistraee art print. ♥ Prints are printed and inspected by me at home with fade-resistant archival ink on archival grade luster paper. Prints are signed by me on the back, please i...
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My car has only drive 37 miles - iykyk lol
A picture of my odometer reading 100101
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
University of Edinburgh has an online archaelogy MSc 🤔 Maybe...
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The gas I got yesterday... That's $4.39/gal It was half of this a month ago. Yet another reason why voting matters, yet I have to explain this to people every single freaking election. Lesser of two evils sucks, but not voting sucks more.
A picture of a gas pump price screen showing $66.41 of gas for only 15.097 gallons
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I was shopping for dresses earlier tonight and i had to stop once again and recognize how happy i am to do so. I thought I'd go to my grave in the wrong body... 👗 👩 Estrogen didn't just change my life... It started it 💙🩷🤍🩷💙
A woman in a pink and black flower dress and gladiator sandals taking a photo in a mirror
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Espe Moondancer - dryad archer and scout at my #LARP I based a lot of my outfit on hypothetical Mesolithic/Neolithic Euro clothing. Top is xena style lol Not wearing my body paint and stuff to look more dryad because I've been fighting for 2 days and camping 🤣 Lesbian dryad archers ftw
The woman wearing leather clothing and holding a bow in a shooting stance. She is in a forest and has elf ears
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Gosh, what a night. I am exhausted. My body is bruised, cut, and aches... And I feel lovely 🥰 But, I do need to sleep
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My father wants me get back into grad school. I told him I'd love to if he wants to pay, somewhat jokingly. But it looks like he might not be joking... If I do, it's back into archeology. I want a archeology masters. So we'll see if that works out
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Me last night after finally putting my head down on my soft, warm bed. 3 days of camping on like the hardest ground that ever existed was a problem lol Might have to get out there and till the soil next time just to make it softer 🤣
A picture of a woman lying in her bed with a blanket and a rainbow pillow smiling
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Made a LARP dagger sheath Last night during trivia with friends. In the last LARP I was in, my character was almost defeated because she was overrun and couldn't get her dagger out. It needed a sheath. So, now I have one lol Anyway, today is finally LARP day!!
A leather knife sheathA leather knife sheath
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Someone reading my book sent me this picture from UK! They're My Mother's Spear, My most recent novel. Specifically, the start of a emotional and romantic scene between two Sarmatian and Caledonian warrior women. I love to see stuff like this 🥰 🌙❤️🧡🤍🩷💜⚔️ *Mild spoilers if you read text 😁*
A picture of a woman holding a book and a transit pass for UK's transit system
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
LARP is wonderful 🥰 I've been depressed and down since the orange one came back... But LARP It's provided a healthy means of escape. I get to role play, ignore the real world for a bit, and do something very healthy. It's so much exercise, and feels vital! 🏹⚔️🤺🧝‍♀️🐉
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Okay, finished my dryad leather top for LARP \o/ 💃 The tie cord will be replaced with a leather cord, but it's done 🥰 My first leather top. I see room for improvement, but not bad. Espe is my #dryad archer moon priestess i play at #LARP, and I love making her nifty clothes lol
A woman wearing a cropped leather bodiceA woman wearing a cropped leather bodicea cropped leather bodicea cropped leather bodice
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Good news! We found the cats a home! But they still need a foster home for the next month! Please help us spread the word so we can find a good foster home for them!
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I'm going thrifting tomorrow with a bunch of friends. I'm bringing a Geiger counter and a gamma spectrometer just in case I find spicy stuff. You never know how spicy something is at a thrift shop lol
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I spent today dressed as an elf girl. I thought it was fun, and life is finite. So you might as well enjoy every moment of it.
A picture of a woman with a dress and a pink triangle pen. She has prosthetic elven ears attached
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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ding...
Celebrating with a beer
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