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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 21h

That Choosin' Texas song sure does answer the question "What if Lucinda Williams was made by AI?"

Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Headline: Why are highland cows suddenly everywhere? Me: I HAVE been seeing more and more highland cows as I drive around. What's up with that? Article: This shaggy beast is now plastered across everything from mugs to hot water bottles... Me: Oh. Guess I'm more country than city these days.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Witchcraft is not consolatory hokum. It doesn't offer tepid answers to hard questions and even harsher circumstances. It offers us relationships with the land, its spirits and ourselves. Relationships may be rough and require work, but they get us through. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cleaning up a forgotten corner of the church, I found this gift bag which inexplicably contained exactly one pair of my knickers

A small gift bag, printed in red & white stripes which cartoon pictures of a smiling Santa

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love having packages clearly labelled CONTAINS TAROT CARDS AND OCCULT LITERATURE delivered to my tiny country post office, run by a woman who knows all her customers by name & has (I say politely) rather more curiosity than she ought. Brightened her whole day, I reckon.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is she... y'know... an exquisite intellectual who revels in delusions of personal superiority?

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone tell me it's ok to spend one thousand Australian dollars on a handbag. (Do NOT tell me that, it is absolutely NOT ok) (But honestly it's like whoever designed this handbag knew me personally)

A black leather cross-body handbag, liberally decorated with silver studs, trailing tassels and one large amethyst. The vibe is kinda feral chaos.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saw a wee kid at the supermarket struggling & failing to get some ginger beers from the top shelf. "Hey, can I grab that for you?" I asked, and he nodded. So I proceeded to struggle & fail to get the ginger beers off the top shelf 🤦‍♀️

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"if they didn’t have a fanny between their legs they’d have a bounty on their heads" was 12 years ago. NZ media has loooong since decided they don't care

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Being at a rural beauty therapist days before the AFL grand final is like visiting another culture. "And is the team you - how you say? - barrack for in the final?"

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lengthy confusing conversation in which I thought D was referring to a movie called Sliced Alone. Transpired what he was actually talking about was a movie starring... can you guess?

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We've been living at the church just over three years now, and I've been a bit despondent because we haven't done as much with the land as I'd hoped we would, because Jesus Christ LIFE, man.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ughhhhhhhh the woman who convenes the lunar circles I go to just published a guide to the prosperity gospel. Sorry, I mean a guide to "magick practices for cultivating prosperity".

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had a weirdly Lena-coded dream last night: a Catholic Taskmaster in which contestants had to move a brugmansia flower, which was an incarnation of Mary Mother of God, through holy water without damaging it

Brugmansia flowers - large frilled trumpet flowers which could look like flowing robes if you squint

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Absolute cowardice not including a "slut gnomes" category

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A woman in the supermarket came up to me and very politely said, "Excuse me, a spider," and then proceeded to calmly brush an enormous huntsman off my shoulder while I squealed.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Off to professionalise the joint with some strategic thrusting, if you, uh, catch my drift

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Funny day on the Internet if you've got a decade-long Internet memory

A screenshot of an exchange on Blue sky.

Post from me: I know I have been on the Internet way too long, cos I just found myself idly wondering what Shanley thinks about the liberal use of "Daddy" on Taskmaster.

Post from shanley: i support it

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know I have been on the Internet way too long, cos I just found myself idly wondering what Shanley thinks about the liberal use of "Daddy" on Taskmaster.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Having a brilliant evening sitting 20cm away from the fire & poking it every 6.3 minutes 🤗

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I remember a former boss asking me what I was up to in the weekend, and I said I was getting a facial. His subsequent alarmed pause was long enough for us to both realize that that term meant something different to each of us.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I sat outside to eat a sandwich Friday lunchtime, & discovered it was the first perfect spring day of the season. I messaged my boss & said, "I think I have to take leave this afternoon. It's too perfect a day for working." My boss replied, "Don't worry about putting in for leave, go enjoy the sun."

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sat in my backyard on a mild early spring evening and remembered that gardening isn't about the end result; it's an ongoing conversation between the body, the land, the plants, the wildlife, the fae...

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I thought this was a poem commenting on today's monetization-hungry "cost of everything, value of nothing" culture, but it's literally advertising a poetry writing course.

A screenshot of a poem in a notes app, reading:

Want to write a poem

But don't know how
Write a poem in an hour
$37 available now

At the bottom is an Instagram "learn more" link, then "Swipe up to view courses.samuelgilpin...."

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our car fully snapped a strut (not) dealing with roads out here. You get a mental map of the worst of it, then it rains & a whole new set of potholes open up. The local joke is that you can tell the drunk drivers because they're the ones who AREN'T swerving all over the road.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm right next to the art supplies shop but I don't need any art supplies? That can't be right...

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Poetry for business - it's like a gym for your soul" what the fuck is going on here Janet

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you report sexual assault in Australia, your counseling notes can be subpoenaed!! Fucking outrageous eh?? If you're in Australia & have experienced SA, plz complete this survey on the impacts of this to provide fuel for legislative change: swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How many orchid tattoos is too many orchid tattoos? 🤔

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just caught myself having a lil flicker of excitement about Radiohead coming to Aus, disgusting. Early in our relationship, I told D I thought Thom Yorke sounded tediously whiny, Sigur Ros sounded like an intro search of a song, & asked what this insecty BS was re Autechtre.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sometimes you see a cow so good you have to turn back to look at it again

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

5.5 years into the relationship before telling D the most salacious part of my extremely salacious backstory (my bff of 25 years is the only other person who knows). He is spunneth out.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today in some sort of specific distillation of our life together, D is (inadvertently) buying a vintage synth from my former therapist

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One thing you notice about Hookland artists, they don't regurgitate flower faery propaganda, myths of the Bright Folk as benevolent. Their depictions have a sense of Faeries being creatures of fierce, dark glamour. Creatures it would be deeply unwise to piss off. – #MattAdams

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The mechanic finally sent invoices for work he did on D's car in Dec 2024 and April 2025! D told the mechanic he'd pay them when he got paid next. The mechanic was like, "Oh, don't worry, there's no hurry. I certainly had no hurry sending them to you." Country life!

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Spending just way too long trying to figure out if the author of an interesting-looking women's spirituality book is a terf. Not just for solidarity but because anyone who has such a facile understanding of gender has nothing of interest or relevance to say.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A month ago I attempted Pike push-ups and managed one (1). (And six months ago I honestly thought I might just be physically ruined without hope.) Today I surprised myself and frankly my instructor by doing three sets of 10. I'm so fucking delighted.

static.klipy.com

Kivi Ylea

Alt: A topless white man in black shorts doing pike push-ups, which are like standard push-ups but with your butt high up in the air

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nothing but respect for my colleague who, in a Teams thread about the database being down, posted "MARG[arita] TIME!!!! We've earned it. Bottoms up homies" and then was offline two minutes later.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I went to an ikebana workshop! I made an ikebana! The tutor was real fucking mean about it for some reason! But I'm very pleased with it!

An arrangement of three pink roses and spiky green leaves in a short white vase. It's real pretty. The tutor was just an asshole.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 26/08/2026

[sadly] …pation

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Feel like I've lost the angel AND the devil from my shoulders this week

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Funny to say "she never pretended to be anything other than exactly who she was" about such a dedicated plastic surgery enthusiast, but that pursuit seemed to be a conscious endeavor to mould herself into exactly who she was.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She never for a second pretended to be anything than exactly who she was, and I've seen everyone from the conservative church down the road to anarcho queer activists honouring her. What a singular human.

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The conversion on our church was done so bodgily that when we have tradies in, D and I take wagers on how long before they say, "huh, never seen that before." (Today, 7 minutes)

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Old Wizened Maiden @lenaatnight.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When you're cusping sleep and your blinks start getting longer and also inhabit another realm Eyes open: Bsky Eyes closed: a tiny bed in a frosted glasshouse where the Flea/Nick Cave version of Wichita Lineman is playing?

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