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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 13/02/2026

I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast! Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My throat hurts from laughing. You need this thread (and a COAT BATH) in your life.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I can’t ever resist a new neal.fun game. Bow before my dubious achievement!

An auto-generated certificate with a bland blue laurel border and a blank gold ribbon. Certificate: Verified Human. This certificate is presented to Iro for proof of humanhood. They are made of flesh and blood. They smile, they grieve, they dance. They are NOT a robot. Dates 9 22 2025, and signed by Neal dot Fun.

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Gerald "SkekTek" Hough @skektek.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Yam Seng to @itreachesout.bsky.social and @wandererblue.bsky.social for the bitters (black Manhattan kind of day) #TheExpanse.

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Brandon Medley @brandonmedley.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I'm in this group! I think this was my favorite panel at Dragon Con this year.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

According to Dragon Con, 110 students followed me out of the classroom today to sing in Ghor in the halls. Goosebumps! I hope some of these wonderful beings see this. #Andor #Ghor

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

T-4 hours to Lang Belta class! Watch me level up my teaching difficulty by wearing Drummer's incredible 25kg exoskeleton. The #DragonCon student crew is always the very best of the best, I'm so happy to be back. See you soon in Marriot M301! #TheExpanse

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails. This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

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Misfit ~ EXODUS ≽^•⩊•^≼ @nokturnalmisfit.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

⚠️Attention! Attention! May I have your Attention! ⚠️ Watch, The Expanse… please 🥹 One of my all time favorite Sci-fi shows! I finally got my friend hooked on it and I must continue my mission to get others as well 🫶🤭

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This is possibly the pettiest rant in the world, but I am UTTERLY TRANSFIXED by the hideousness of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert outfits in the NYT article today and I need to yell about it. Qualifications: I sew and have sung in a lot of choirs. Look at this. What?? is happening? here??

The women’s section of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs, wearing expressions of strained religious ecstasy. They’re wearing multi-layered white outfits that I will attempt to describe but will not be able to do justice. They sort of resemble stereotypical choir robes at the shoulders and chest, with boat necklines and wide sleeves, except they appear to be made of jersey and are abruptly cropped just below the bust with an extremely narrow, puckered hem. The effect is as if someone found a row of robes on hangers and hurriedly and maliciously took shears to the bottom two thirds, like a prank by mean high school girls. The underlayer is tunic-length and tight across the stomach and hips, pulled down over a straight long skirt in what seems to be the same material. The sleeves and underlayer hem are trimmed with the messiest, wrinkliest inch and a half of shiny white satin you’ve ever seen in your life. Sewing machines were definitely harmed in the making of this photo. The sleeves are bracelet length-ish, showing Apple watches and varying amounts of arm. Each ensemble is finished with a pearl necklace, which pools unevenly in the folds and creases in the outer robe.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 21/07/2025

I fundamentally agree with Jules here, but this piece absolutely throws non-binary people to the wolves by identifying our identities as products of this transgender liberalism, rather than recognizing that our identities have been weaponized against us.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Found Admiral Piett's Reddit account. In response to a request for ways to avoid crying in stressful situations:

Screenshot of a Reddit comment.

"I pretend I’m Darth Vader. It sounds silly but take it for a test run next time you watch an emotional movie. Throw in a little of his breathing if you need to, it’s really effective for me.

That was already weird enough, but on the weirder side I’ve also heard that if you focus on clenching your sphincter muscles, it makes your brain forget about crying. I’ve never remembered it in time to try it though, Darth Vader clenches my sphincter enough already."

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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In light of this, I want to share some resources on trans people in the medieval and early modern period, for anyone who might be interested. There is a thriving field of research into the lives, identities, and experiences of trans people globally before the advent of modern medicine (a 🧵)

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Lang Belta class is coming back to Dragon Con! Can’t wait to see one of my very favorite con communities again. (Probably ought not to actually *teach* wearing Drummer’s exoskeleton, though…) Official info on this, plus the debut of another workshop, soon! #TheExpanse

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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

Newsweek’s infamous 17 July 1995 cover: “Bisexuality: Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges.”

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Pooja @forgottensaves.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there

Panel Description from WorldCon 2025
Strong Woman Lead =/= LGBTQIA=
Tagged Culture/DEI
Room 420-422 9-10am
Have you ever walked into a bookshop and asked for books with strong women leads? Perhaps you've requested that love not be a major plot point? Has the staff excitedly passed you half a dozen books that, though good, have a bit of a repeating theme? Here we ask the question: Why do authors/bookshops assume the only way to have a strong woman lead is to make them gay with a woman love interest and prevent men characters from rising over the background? Isn't it possibly to have a book with strong women and men characters in it and not have them fall in love?

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I will be wearing Camina Drummer’s original “exoskeleton” legs (most amazing gift I’ve ever received) for the first time at Dragon Con this year. I fully expect to draw Those Guys out like halitosis-ridden moths to a flame.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I've got a new drug of choice. It's not rhydo, it's Ghor, language of exciting spider fabric, elegant cafes, and throwing rocks at space Nazis! Getting a classic poetry-first start this week with Ghorman's beautiful planetary anthem. #Andor #conlang

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Accessibility is a right. Please add alt-text when sharing images, so that blind and low-vision people aren't excluded from the conversation. Some context and copy/paste or a brief description are often enough. Checking the "reminder to add alt-text" box in your accessibility settings helps a lot.

An infographic titled “Writing Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, color, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Source: veroniiiica.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 05/03/2025

The boat is stuck, and yet I feel nothing.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Ar-Pharazôn the Golden in the HOUSE, y'all.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Had anyone had meaningful success reducing condensation/humidity in their #FloMask during high-intensity use? The foam ring never does much. I really need the protection, but I hate the irritation from longterm dampness (ew) I always get after work (singing) or protesting. @flomask.bsky.social

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paterishiya.bsky.social @paterishiya.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! ELATED to see so many familiar "faces" here!

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

@paterishiya.bsky.social My friend!!! I am so so happy to see you here.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Once they convince us of the necessity of leaving people behind for the sake of expediency, they’ve won. We build our resistance out of bright-line inviolable principles of tolerance, constitutionalism, and decency. No one gets left behind

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In case you’re missing it: Dominique Tipper is over on instagram.com/misstipper answering many, many fan questions in honor of the show’s 10th anniversary. Her answers are thoughtful and beautiful, and she’s sharing them along with the sweetest behind-the-scenes photos. #TheExpanse

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 02/02/2025

Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house) 1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said 2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book 3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane 4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins 5. Get a library card

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

January @thestorygraph.com wrap-up. I love the cheery colors and the calendar format, this app is the best. This is the first time I’ve ever logged my reading for a month: One small step toward my life goal of becoming @nwhyte.bsky.social. :P

Brightly-colored Storygraph wrap-up graphic for user hanne_. It shows that in January, I read 22 books, with 9,373 pages and an average rating of 3.36. My highest-rated reads were Wolf Hall, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Patron Saint of Liars. Average book length was 357 pages, and average time to finish was 1 day. The bottom of the image is a graph of pages read each day, marking each with a dot and connecting them with a snaky green line.

January reading calendar from the Storygraph app for user hanne_. It shows the month of January, with book covers placed on the days they were finished. When a book was read over multiple days, a line corresponding to the book’s cover color is drawn through them. The bottom corner of each day lists the number of pages read.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Eight (!!) years ago right now, I was at my local Alamo Drafthouse, waiting for #TheExpanse Season 2 premiere – my very first fannish gathering! – to start. I was unbelievably excited, but unbearably conspicuous with my rush job Ceres dockworker outfit and fistful of “Remember the Cant” leaflets.

A menu for the Expanse Season 2 premiere’s food specials is held up in front of a movie screen. There’s a scratchy OPA split circle tattoo on the arm holding it, and a Remember the Cant flyer featuring James Holden’s face on the table.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It NEVER fails to make my day, seeing these in the wild. :) #TheExpanse

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

@skektek.bsky.social Hey, this one of yours, right? I’m trying to find the original artist for someone who 3D printed a coaster from it.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is definitely the most deli/pizza brothers I’ve ever seen!

A faded deli awning on a chilly day in Bushwick. The deli name is 14 Brothers Deli & Grocery Corp!

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This fluffy belly is NOT a trap.

A rotund tabby cat sprawls belly-up on a green couch pillow, looking into the camera with sleepy friendly eyes.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you need Girl Scout cookies in your life (who doesn’t?), this is your moment! Can’t resist ordering from several of these admirable Scouts, I’m calling it a regional cookie manufacturing taste test.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. Bay Lights, my belovèd.

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at night, glittering with thousands of white LEDs installed on its cables. The light art installation is midway through an animated pattern, with droplets of light appearing to rise or fall along the cables.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It's January 23, & you want to know, don't you? You want to know which historical figure bought eels on this date. Of course you do. It was Cardinal Wolsey! In 1525, his kitchen account books show an expenditure of 16d. for "eels to roast." There you are. Now go enjoy your day! 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of Cardinal Wolsey by Sampson Strong from the late 15th C. The cardinal is dressed in his carinal-colored carinal clothes, and his pointy hat. He is looking to your left, and there's no indication that he even knows you're here. His neck and chin look fat; he is very jowly, like he's trying out for the part of the bulldog in the Christmas pageant. Wolsey is pointing with two fingers. He might be blessing someone, or he might be indicating that he wants two eels. It's impossible to tell from the way I've clipped the image.

Not for nothing, but "Sampson Strong" is a wonderful name, and I like to think that it's a descriptive title. Adjectival Nominalism. He's not just strong, friends. He's Sampson Strong.

The meme text reads:
"'Roast me some eels'
The original cardinal direction"

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It’s one of those days for listening to MILCK’s version of “Ooh Child” on repeat.

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Mia!!! On Their Carly Rae Jepsen Nonsense @anxiousarchives.gay · 31/12/2024

Hey Bluesky! Let’s rewatch #TheExpanse. This will be my live-skeet thread. Unmarked spoilers ahoy, so go watch the Expanse please. It’s great. It’s the best television show that’s ever been made.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Fun #TheExpanse fact of the day: At least one person “coughs out a laugh” (or very similar phrasing) in every book. Nemesis Games has the most in total, with 6 laugh-coughs (cough-laughs?) out of 22 total coughs. Leviathan Falls has the most by proportion: Only two coughs and one’s a laugh.

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