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Lydy

@lydy.bsky.social

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Sff, knitting, cats, sleep tech, e-bike devotee, permanently confused about time and space. No one let go of anyone's hand. No gods, no masters, no bed time! she/her

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 13h

With the tariffs etc I think I'd need to sell about 20 of these to make rent in the next 10 days, so... I'd better get cracking!

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 15h

I'm trying to pull myself back out of a pit after external issues affecting my main business (tariff increase and post office closure) and a bout of serious illness. If you'd like to join the tiny adventures, I have 150+ wallpapers for sale here: ko-fi.com/s/e215269b08 #DisabledArtist 💕💸

Small green stone turtle on a mossy angled tree trunk, in a marsh with other tilted trees in the background.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 13h

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

From Minneapolis to y'all: Three quick bursts if you see ICE. Long loud blasts if they're actively detaining someone. Form a crowd, stick together, and film everything.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is fucking absurd how much y’all want boys to have an unobstructed successful future and treat girls like fucking cannon fodder every last high school girl out there is more valuable to the world than a boy or man who has committed sexual assault

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 18h

the morality of the livestreamed execution side of thing is obviously heinous, but I'm also curious re: the logsitic pandora's box that's gonna open in terms of "who is hosting it? are posting links allowed? are these chuds going to attempt to vibecode their own streaming platform by december?"

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NotNowCait @nowcait.bsky.social · 15h

I *passionately* wish that demented mother fucker would keep our name out of his fucking mouth. Our Somali neighbors ARE Minnesotan, and we will continue defending our neighbors to the end of time. Just fuck all you miserable racists pricks and may you get exactly what you deserve

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 18h

I want to be the invisible Lake of the Isles.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well, they also didn't think he was queer, so...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The deployment of National Guard troops into cities has been so normalized that it barely merits a mention in the press or among the public anymore. D.C. remains occupied, Memphis is occupied, so is New Orleans... It's incredible to me.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Which leads me to wonder about the writers. I am pretty sure I remember Jane Espenson saying that the nerds were just tons of fun to write. So, why is it that the writers room had such good insight into repulsive incels-in-waiting, and so little for a teenage girl?

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dawn is an interesting contrast to the way the Trio are written. I would argue that Tom Lenk isn't any better actor than Trachtenberg, for instance. But they are much better written. More consistent, more coherent. I _loathe_ them, but as characters, they work.

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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My biggest issue with Dawn is that she is written very inconsistently. And it is possible that the great actor could have made Dawn seem coherent, but Michelle Trachtenberg was 14, and while she was good at her job, she was not a genius level talent.

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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've just finished Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (used DVDs, bought a long time ago, no money to Joss). I have a lot of complicated thoughts about this season. But I'm thinking about Dawn, at the moment. I was always fine with Dawn as a plot development.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Totally! I blame ball point pens.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ok, I did finally notice when I stayed at her house, and we had a midnight picnic on the lawn, with strawberries and white wine, and she fed me the strawberries, and somewhere in there I _finally_ got it. Because, as I said, no one was gay back then.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It was not until many years later I was able to correctly identify the expression on her face as "Oh, boy, this one is above my pay grade." She declined to elaborate. Jokes on me, though. Anga was _absolutely_ trying to seduce me. I just didn't notice.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember a very funny (in retrospect) conversation with one my high school teachers who suggested that I _not_ skip down the halls holding hands with my best friend. People might get ideas! I was deeply confused, and asked Mrs. Davis, "What kind of ideas."

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Who did the radicalization, motherfucker? Who did the radicalization?

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And so, the transition is going about as well as you would expect, which is to say, very poorly. I guess what I hope is that those of us who do remember a world with gay people can use the lessons we learned to care for our trans friends.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So, that's probably part of the trans story, too. Better treatments lead to more visibility and a greater priority on identifying and treating gender dysphoria. So, people are discovering that friends and loved ones are trans, and it is a surprise.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once you have an effective treatment for a thing, it becomes much more reasonable to diagnose that disease so that it can be treated. A good medical intervention creates more visibility for the condition, and a greater priority on treating it.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So, with the only treatment being a tracheotomy, mostly doctors didn't try to diagnose sleep apnea, because after many thousands of dollars, all you could offer was "try to sleep more" or "permanent hole in your throat." So, try the first, don't go on to the second.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Of course, people did have sleep apnea when they were young. Originally, sleep apnea was called "Pickwickian Syndrome" after a Dickens character. The disease has been clearly described for a very long time. But we didn't have a non-terrible treatment until the 80s

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Possible medical interventions also probably have a part in all of this. Quick digression: I'm a sleep tech. Most of my patients are older people. So, I get asked not infrequently, "Are you sure sleep apnea isn't a scam? Nobody I knew had it when I was younger."

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have to assume that there were people I knew in the 70s who were trans, and I just never knew. And I don't just mean the couple of very butch girls I knew in high school. I assume there were some number of my acquaintances who just never mentioned what sex they had been assigned.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's not like we're done with it, either. I mean, people still feel it necessary to protect the "reputation" of members of Congress who don't want it known that they are gay. It's still hard. And I think something like this is happening with trans people, maybe?

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Silence = Death. It felt very sudden, that gayness went from something that essentially didn't exist except at a distance to a thing that was part of our family and friend group. The transition was not smooth. There was a lot of pain, loss, and horror.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Of course, we all knew any number of gay people, we just didn't know that we knew. It was a genuine shock to discover that my father, the Fundamentalist minister, was gay. (Long story, lots of tragedy, some very funny bits.)

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In the time and place where I grew up, gayness was something that happened rarely, far away, and not to real people. Also, it was entirely a choice, a thing that terrible people did to tempt the straights. Or something. I wasn't too clear on that part, actually.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But, well, then AIDS happened. People got outed, whether they wanted to be or not. Other people died of AIDS in the closet, and various explanations such as "sudden pneumonia" were cited by friends and relatives.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember people being loudly insistent that Liberace, Elton John, and Freddie Mercury were _obviously_ straight men. David Bowie was explained as "Well, he is Australian." The hatred of disco was entirely about lascivious white people with too much money who danced too well.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't know how important this is, but it seems like it might be relevant to the trans rights discussion: I think that a lot of people 50 and younger do not remember when no one was gay. I am 64, and I was raised in a conservative household, and I absolutely remember this.

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026

If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...

‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action

Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No lie detected!

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I unironically like "We Built This City" although I am happy to grant it's probably not very good.

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last of the lepidolite! Who wants to take this home for #SpookySeason? oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4452... #Handmade #ShopSmall #DisabledArtist

Large dark purple oval pendant wrapped in wavy silver wire.

Large dark purple oval pendant wrapped in wavy silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here, take my extra pairs!

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Evening boost. If you want to understand how an otherwise incomprehensible culture of sexual assault gets built from childhood on ... well, I did my best to explain it from an insider's perspective. Nothing bad happens to or around the bear. The bear is our friend.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Personally, can't really write in longhand. I probably have something like dysgraphia. I can think in Graffitt and I can think in touch typing, but I can't think in long-hand. But that touches on a different part of my thesis: different things are experienced differently, because embodiment.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Honestly, why am I not surprised that your math was good? I couldn't defend it, what with being matchless, but honestly, your research tends to be pretty impeccable.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But... I _like_ Cleveland!

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's a term we used in higher ed during the early adoption of automation of business processes: "Load-bearing Friction" There's a committee that has to sign off on that FOR A REASON. The reason may no longer be valid, but it didn't just pop into existence out of the head of the Provost.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

“This is a huge scheme, maybe the biggest, most illegal scheme anybody has ever seen.” — Donald Trump

Trump Drops Bombshell Evidence Biden Actively Campaigned Against Him

WASHINGTON—During an address to the nation Tuesday in which he claimed to have obtained definitive proof that the election was stolen, President Donald Trump presented bombshell evidence showing his o...

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm really not!

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How will we stand this? You were already pretty damn dapper.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

....are the tariffs in the room with you right now, Donnie?

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just under 2 weeks to go.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just want to say, that combo of the black bead and the clear heart just _send_ me. That's such a lovely piece.