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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Meet Chaz, my new friend. He hangs out at my work and waits patiently for cat treats.

A crow with a broken beak sits perched on a sandwich board advertising a "Holiday Gift Card Promo".

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Wisdom from the Scrabble tiles: Do not ask for whom the rat squeaks. You have been warned.

Scrabble tiles spell out: Do not ask for whom the rat squeaks.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I finished!!!! Now I have to wait until my daughter gets home so she can try on this finished project! I can't wait to show her. #knitting #HandspunYarn

A child's sweater laid out flat. It has horizontal stripes of pink and purple and yellow and blue, all in soft tones.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My daughter wanted a sweater. Not bad for someone who only learned to knit last Christmas, hey? I'm pretty proud of myself! AND I spun the yarn 🧶 I'm using!

A children's sweater (unfinished) in light purple, pink, yellow, green, and blue stripes. The left sleeve is long but still unfinished while the right sleeve is only about a quarter done.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Today's wisdom from the Scrabble tiles: Bibulous Bad Sam. Zestier.

Scrabble tiles spell out "Bibulous Bad Sam. Zestier."

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Check out my makeshift #LazyKate! It's working perfectly to hold the two strands I'm plying together into a skein 🧶 I'm #spinning for my other mother. I managed to get over 1000yds out of the coloured #fibers, so I'm hoping it's enough for her to MAKE something with! #knitting #crochet #FiberArt

Two spools of single-ply hand-spun yarn are wound thickly onto two long wooden dowels. The spool on the left is variegated purples, blues, and a deep wine red. The spool on the right is black. The ends of each spool sit neatly in the hand-holes of a small wooden crate...a sort of make-shift lazy kate if you will. Lying across the upper left corner of the crate is a handmade wooden drop spindle with the beginnings of two-ply stripey yarn.

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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Emmett Till would have been 84 years old today. I celebrate your life, sir 🕯️

Black and white photo of the young boy Emmett Till (approx. 14 years old). He is dressed in a shirt, tie, wearing a fedora hat and smiling.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Slowly but surely Robyn is helping me overcome my fear of spiders. Isn't she so cute? There are no jumps in this clip. #JumpingSpider

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Scout and Robyn spending a little quality time together. Robyn seemed to actually ENJOY exploring Scout's arm! #BronzeJumpingSpider #RobynTheSpider #ErisMilitaris

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Also. In addition to Pink Floyd currently playing in my headphones, I'm also relaxing on the porch and hopefully finishing knitting the rainbow scarf my dd wanted using the first ball of yarn I spun!

Knitted fabric in soft rainbow stripes laying across my legs. The stitches are uneven because this was the first ball of yarn I've ever spun, so it has lots of lumpy character bits. I plied it with grey wool, too, so that adds more visual texture.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Currently listening to: Wish You Were Here (album) by Pink Floyd. When my nervous system needs soothing, there's no other album that hits quite like this one.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Decided to backtrack a bit with Tori Amos and I'm listening to To Venus and Back. Anyone want to enlighten me on what I'm listening to here? @jamesmchapman.bsky.social I'm especially looking at you cuz you always seem to know what's up! I just always skim over this album.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Eyewitness doctors are telling us that Israel is *deliberately* murdering children. It doesn’t get more heinous than that. The blood from this will never wash off of any of us. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

US surgeon tells the UN, Israel deliberately shot children in Gaza
The UN Security Council has heard testimony from a US surgeon who says he treated children who were deliberately shot in Gaza. Feroze Sidhwa also spoke to Al Jazeera and recounted the horrific injuries Israel is inflicting upon civilians.

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D.C. (Desi) Heart @desiheart.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Sharing this because it freakin matters. Please do not indulge she who shall not be named (J.K. Rowling or JKR for those using keyword functions). She is the embodiment of hate at this point.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I've reached The Beekeeper album, and I'm having really mixed feelings about it. There's some girls I can't wait to get to know better (looking specifically at you, Mother Revolution!), but I hate discovering there are some Tori Amos songs I'm not fond of.

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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Mediation quilt from the past week, inspired by @themountaingoats.bsky.social.

Front of a small hand sewn quilt. Top is green and yellow patchwork with the words "I am going to make it through this year" sewn on in blue, purple and pink fabric.

Back of the small quilt. Back is light grey with a green binding. Back has green sewn on text that reads "if it kills me"

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I have a pet jumping spider named Robyn. And she's trying to hunt a fruit fly named Food. It's been slow going. So many close calls!

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Welp, y'all SUCK at interventions! $56 later and I've acquired two wire dog brushes for carding and all the pieces I needed to assemble a drop spindle from the dollar store. I had a whole-ass long weekend to read, and I've been carding and spinning instead. Thanks guys. 🧶

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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I've been sleeping in the guest bedroom lately (wife is a bit sick). This morning, Scout was in our room playing Minecraft. She got ahold of my wife's phone and texted me this. It's the first time she's ever texted (she's 7). It's amazing how fast she's growing up. Anyways, off to the fair!

Messenger Conversation:

SCOUT: daddy can you please take me to the fare

ME: Oh, right
today? Or Monday?

SCOUT: today daddy

ME: ok
After Dance?

SCOUT: Ok
Love you so much daddy by

ME: Bye Scout!

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Send help! I've fallen down the hand carding and drop spindle rabbit hole on YouTube! 🧶 Because clearly crocheting and knitting aren't enough fiber art hobbies for me.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy 8 years of being married to delightful little me, @tetrapod.bsky.social ! You are so lucky you get to spend all your days being shushed when you interrupt my reading! I love you!

A scruffy redheaded man with a swoop of hair over one side of his forehead stairs intently at his phone in a quaint little coffee shop. Beside him is his black mug of coffee and a blue and gray water bottle. In the foreground are a yellow mug of coffee and a small embroidered purse. Behind him is a window framed in bright teal against butter yellow walls.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Look at this gorgeous mug I bought at a farmer's market this morning! Hubby took it home and filled it with coffee and brought it back so I'd stay and watch our daughter play with her friends at the market instead of him watching her. Isn't he sweet?🤣 @tetrapod.bsky.social

A hand-thrown mug in a dark olive green sits on bright green grass. A book lies splayed open with the cover showing... because I'm a monster and I crack spines. In the upper left corner is a mysterious block of white. It's a treat box that used to contain a homemade cinnamon bun and a rhubarb fritter...but I ate those so nobody would drool over their deliciousness in a picture. You're welcome.

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Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org · 28/04/2025

Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

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Home - Trans Lifeline

Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The kid and nephews and neighbour boy are all anxiously waiting for the ice cream truck whose music tantalized us from other streets. And I'm wondering why we don't have little bakery trucks driving around selling cinnamon rolls and danishes.

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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Scout just made a character for dnd night. Here's Roseta, an Elven dancer, beastfriend, and Acrobat.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It boggles my mind how people think being marginalized in one way makes them immune to marginalizing other communities.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

@ardenpowell.bsky.social A friend introduced me to The Bachelor's Valet and I just finished it last night. Can I tell you how much I F'ING ADORE Aaliyah?!?!? She had me HOWLING! And Jacobi is absolute perfection. The entire book was an absolute delight to read!

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

7yod: The chicken nuggets here are so hard, I might lose a tooth!

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

7yod out her bedroom window: Hello! Garbage man: Hello! 7yod: Thanks for taking our garbage! GM: *chuckles* You're welcome! 7yod: We have way too much of it.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just found out my neighbours are going to Hawai'i soon...like ICE hasn't been detaining Canadians. I hope nothing happens cuz they're taking their 7yo...but I'm not gonna hold my breath. I just know *I* won't be risking MY 7yo for some tropical vacation... My brain is melting right now.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Sometimes I procrastinate and sometimes I PREcrastinate, which is when I get a head start on hyperfixating on something unproductive early on in the day IN CASE something important comes up

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Grace 🏳️‍🌈 @creativestarting.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

There’s a creator on YouTube who very recently made a video about Tillie Cole and her KKK romance. And you know what I’m glad this is “resurfacing” because not enough people know about this nonsense and I want us to bring back shame once more for her. Thank you #booksky

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth." -Malcolm X 📚💙

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Yep, it’s hard to disagree with this.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I finally have a chance to get back into Heavenly Tyrant, and even at 62 pages in I am VIBRATING with the drama and intrigue! I know you said this book is a slower pace than Iron Widow, but Liu Che's finger incident is everything I want in this book! @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social you have my ❤️ FOREVER!

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I haven't read any of these yet, but I'm always on the lookout for quality middle grade books to read to my daughter. And these ones look GREAT!

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Book thread for February 2025. Note: I had tons of books on the go, but put them on hold for the month so I could focus on Black authors specifically because of #BHM. Malcolm X hid on me for half the month. When he reappeared, my other autobiography hid, so I didn't finish either book in time.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 05/03/2025

To what end is always an important question to be asking of leaders and the things they want us to do. Things may seem reasonable, or if they are unreasonable at least they are in our interest. Asking to what end helps us figure out what's actually going on. www.thousandworlds.ca/nanaboozho-a...

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Nanaboozho and the geese.

Having rebuilt the flooded world with the handful of mud that Muskrat brought back to the surface, Nanaboozho sets off to travel the earth. It's a dark and rainy night, he's hungry, and then he sees a...

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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Annchi @ann-atar.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

#booksky if you want to support a black writer, buy their books in the format or at the site that gives them money. Go to the writers' site/socials. Find their isbns. Only on Amazon? Buy a physical copy first. Only on Amazon in ebook form? Suck it up & buy the book. Request it from your library too.

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Salted.Earth Creations @emkaz71.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I just love the parrots on this printed cork! #Salted.EarthCreations #SewSky #Sewing #AlwaysCork #SeaStitches #SewfisticatedSassy

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

To ALL of my fellow white people trying to be allies and recommending resources, PLEASE DO NOT RECOMMEND WHITE RESOURCES! I can almost guarantee you, there is a better book/organization/magazine/show/movie written or lead by somebody from the appropriate community. FIND THEM and RECOMMEND THEM! 1/3

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Sitting in my coffee shop as a Christian-turned-atheist reading about the impact of Islam on Malcolm X's life while two young Mormon women discuss their day's devotional and Bible/Book of Mormon passage at the next table...it's a trip, I tell you!

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

It's a Boys for Pele and sewing day, I think. I'm supposed to clean up the downstairs room, but I found a bunch of old holey clothes down there that I was keeping for patching clothes...and one of my favourite hoodies needs a major overhaul. This is part of tidying, right?

A crumpled pile of fabrics...we have grey and black stripes along the left edge, a teal fabric with pink and blue highlights and black flower doodles across the top, and the middle and bottom right is taken up by a white fabric with black and grey palm leaves that kinda look like feathers. A needle and brass safety pin stick out of the teal fabric near the top.

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lilcoppertop🍉 @lilcoppertop.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I finished #TarBaby by #ToniMorrison tonight...and I am gonna have to mull this one over for a while. If anyone who has read it has any insight on the ending or the "night women", please DM me. I need help, and all the reviews I find are concerned about spoilers. 📚💙 #BlackBookSky #DiverseBooks

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