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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey, they always just say The Times, all significantly. It could be any Times! 🙃

Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I am this way! Why have I been lying on a completely empty bed for an hour with my legs curled up like I’m trying to fit in a shoebox while staying ready to RUN at any moment? No clue, but I hate it right here with you!

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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 · 02/01/2026

Seriously, I have to keep pausing it because I get cuteness overload!

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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 · 19/11/2025

> holy cats, human! This might be my favorite exclamation I’ve ever received. 🥹 Thank you. I WAS tempted to torch the entire project and/or apartment. But I’m kind of amazed my little immersion circulator actually managed to heat it enough even over that time.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I should update you! It took seven hours in a giant camping cooler, stirring and tearing my hair out, to go from cream-colored to this precise greyish thing, but I DID IT AND I AM NEVER DOING IT AGAIN.

Looking into an enormous rectangular tub of water with an immersion circulator clamped to the side and greyish fabric floating in it . An arm, wearing a long and awkward industrial safety glove, is reaching the frame to give a thumbs-up.

A person dressed as Dedra Meero, from Andor, wearing their pale grey tunic and looking thoughtful and dour while holding a datapad.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Well *I’d* pick you for my personal kingdom of most awesome people, so there.

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

That dance level was the longest 90 seconds of my life.

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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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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I can’t believe you still have them, this makes me so cozy. Yam seng, kopeng!

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

It was great to have you! And thank you so much, what a tremendous honor.

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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 · 31/08/2025

I sure did! A bunch of people took pictures with me, but I forgot to take one of myself. Oops! I will get back in it tomorrow when I’m finished with my Andor costumes. :)

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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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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I’ve added you to this starter pack! Wa koming gut!

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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

Okay, I feel better having let that out. Back to my own sewing project, which absolutely might come out hideous, but at least will be made out of somewhat logical materials and not make me feel like I’m being forced to cosplay as the grocery bag of grocery bags under my parents’ kitchen sink.

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

Horrific thought: Are they… making these women make their own concert outfits at home? Surely not, but now that I’ve said it, I can’t get away from the idea. Would explain the wildly varying hems, and why none of these stretchy-looking dresses seems to have met a serger.

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

but then why literally underline all the chests? Whyyyyy?

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

But at least they all have perfectly matching pearl necklaces (that look like cheap party favors against the white, and are the perfect length to sit weirdly and highlight creases).

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

But back to the snark, WHY MAKE THE GIANT SLEEVES SO SHORT?! Now everyone’s mix of Apple watches and hair elastics is just highlighted against the white, they have to worry about what their hands are doing, and the varying sleeve length is yet another way to miss cohesiveness by a mile. Whyyyyyyyy.

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

Oh NO. I didn’t think these could possibly get worse, but the design from the side is just plain mean. There’s no attempt to look uniform on the diversity of body types, and the mess of tents/awnings/tarps REALLY draws the eye… oddly. Now I just feel bad, wearing this would make me feel terrible.

The performers from the first image, seen from the side. The cropped top portions of the outfits are all hanging at different heights and angles on different body types.

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

Wearing flimsy white lace-trimmed camisoles pulled way down over the hips under every single shirt was very much What The Cool Modest Girls of Utah did in the 2000s, so I can’t say they’re failing at brand recognition here. But THOSE HEMS. And the (almost?) matching skirts! Most cursed layer cakes.

A group of people in their aforementioned dresses get cheerfully out of a golf cart on the Temple Square grounds. The full outfit is visible, with white skirts reaching almost to the ground and closed-toed black shoes sticking out.

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

What is happening here?? The longer I look, the more confused I get. Which hems are sadder? The thin uneven ones around the crop tops, or the giant puckered satin-trimmed abominations around the sleeves and under…things? Why do they have both?

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

From the shoulders up, they look like the offspring of a cathedral cotta and a jersey-knit dress. Ugly, but not criminally unhinged. But then — THE CROP TOP! At first glance, it looks like they’ve got an understitched facing on their necklines… and all put their dresses on inside-out.

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

Apparently I angered Mormon God. Okay, we’re back!

A BlueSky error message. Error: Not Found. Upstream service unreachable.

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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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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Oh, absolutely. It’s *entirely* a movie about the school education had by those men and their ilk, not about the historical Roman Empire. I’m not qualified to opine on making jokes when posting about research (or using them in paper titles), but I figured I’d add the context just in case. :)

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I’m glad to have helped! I nearly scrolled past, but couldn’t stop thinking how *severely* troubling that sentence would be (both in meaning and in construction) absent its context as a well-worn joke.

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Iro @itreachesout.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I’m so sorry, I truly can’t tell whether you and @sarahmay1.bsky.social are doing a bit with absolute bone-dry delivery, or sincerely concerned about the wording. Just on the off chance it’s the latter, the post is riffing on a quote from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, intended to be ridiculous.

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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 · 20/07/2025

I was remiss in planning this year. I’d love suggestions for the fall and next year!

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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

Do you have a regular con? I normally do Worldcon wherever it is, Dragon Con every few years, and some small ones I like to mix around and be spontaneous with. :)

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

And maybe I’ll even make it to the photoshoot, for once!

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

That’s amazing. I guess I somehow forgot, but I’m sure enjoying hearing about this for what feels like the first time!

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

Wait just one second, you got my worksheet SIGNED BY DOMINIQUE TIPPER?

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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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