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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Ok so. Who would like to hear a story. Many of you know about my nemesis, the Viriginia opossum. Do not @ me with the thing about how omg they eat ticks; that's been disproven. (See Hennessy, Hild (2021) doi.org/10.1016/j.tt... ) This is a story about a different kind of possum. A better kind.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm devastated to report that my order from this place showed up today, and while I do not think it can be said to make me hot unless you're into a very specific middle-aged soft-butch aesthetic, this is already some of my favourite clothing, holy shit.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm sorry, but 'good person' is not a definable characteristic in a fucking job ad.

screenshot from a job ad that says 'You need to be a good person, with a strong creative edge, confident and capable in following procedures and timelines for your role in a work-from-home setting.'

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I would like this whole Woolworths strike to end, primarily because workers should be treated with dignity and respect, but secondarily and rather more selfishly, because it's reminding me how much I fucking hate Coles.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Heartbreaking: local guy so excited about eating mangoes on yoghurt that they forgot to check that the mangoes were, in fact, *ripe enough to eat*. At least I realised before I cut into one?

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Yeah, sure, some of you are having snow and beautiful weather, but *we* are having produce delivery day with an entire tray of mangoes and also two kilos of cherries!

a large cardboard box full of green onions, peaches, avocado, kiwifruit, tomatoes, ginger, banana, cucumbers, daikon, and a paper bag of mushrooms

a large cardboard box with a large red box in it, as well as an enormous quantity of bok choy, fennel, jerusalem artichokes, two kinds of mushrooms, and more tomatoes

a large cardboard box full of incredibly beautiful r2e2 mangos

a beautiful, fluffy cat lounging atop a large cardboard box labelled 'PRODUCE'. his leggy is sticking out.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hey, people who like gender neutral workwear: Sük Workwear's black Friday sale is *really* good, their clothes look amazing and get fantastic reviews, and also their whole website feels like I, personally, am being catered to.

sukworkwear.com.au

SÜK Workwear | Quality Workwear

Shop responsible and inclusive workwear, designed in Naarm, Australia. At SÜK, we celebrate every worker's worth. Explore our collection and enhance your workwear today.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I…forgot November only has 30 days, and suddenly, it's December?

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Honestly, with absolutely no kindness at all: if someone tells you they had a shitty childbirth experience, don't say 'at least everyone's ok!' or, worse, 'at least the baby's ok!' Say you're sorry, offer support if you can, listen. Do *not* respond by talking about your positive birth experience.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Exceptionally still water at the Japanese garden today meant that I was able to get this shot of Koi swimming in reflected clouds..

Crisp image of a mostly cloudy sky, with faint outlines of bright orange koi that appear to be swimming in the clouds.

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Judy @notakite.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Choose your own adventure

Three-quarter view of a large boxy mostly-concrete building on a foggy night. Around the top are large neon letters: on the short side, FORTITUDE in blue; on the long side, LUST in italic blue, HOPE in red-orange, SLOTH in pink.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oh look, it's the ecologically justified genocide again! Not everyone needs (or is able to take, or can afford) a daily preventative inhaler. Corticosteroids are amazing for people who need them, but they're drugs with side effects and contraindications, same as everything else.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You would sort of think that having the gmail address of legal first+last name would mean that, at least, you only get misdirected email looking for people who share your name. So, then, why is some fucking guy called Kenneth using my email to apply for a bunch of sketchy online loans? 💀💀💀

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Why the fuck is it thirty degrees at ten p.m.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

fun fact: most people seeking abortions (in the US and Australia alike) are already parents.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Lately I've had several conversations with people worried about access to medical care, and realised that many people have never dealt with minimal health care access, so: a brief thread. Up front: This isn't US-specific. The world is unpredictable. We should all be prepared to care for ourselves.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I wrote this at kind of an awkward time (when like 90% of the internet was…y'know, asleep) so I'm gonna repost it now, sorry. I promise I won't make a habit of this. Also the first post is a lie; it was not actually brief. Sorry for that, too.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Misha get a blog challenge; sorry, that thread went on quite a bit longer than I thought that it was going to. I could have kept going. 💀

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Well, the thrilling conclusion to this is that I opened the tofu and despite having a week left on the package, it was so disgustingly gone off that I couldn't even bear to put it in the kitchen bin and had to take it outside, so, uh. That's sorted, anyhow? 💀

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's going to be very disgusting this weekend, and I have a block of tofu I need used. I need to cook it today, then toss it in the fridge for a day or two. We eat a lot of tofu, but I rarely cook ahead. I'm leaning mapo tofu, but am willing to be convinced otherwise if anyone has ideas?

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It's come to my attention elsewhere that not everyone has seen this news: According to GoodReads/Locus/Fantastic Fiction/others (but notably *not* Amz), there's a new book in Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel series dropping in June 2025! [crowd goes wild] One more reason to stay alive. 💕

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I am once again reconstructing my Plex server (my fault; database corruption that I missed for…way too long) but am also considering my organisational structure. If you have a large media library, how do you organise it? Just tv/movies/etc? Do you use collections? Separate libraries by [criteria]?

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I always forget that Bluesky threads oddly, so many people are missing the sequel to the post about Mr Bingley bravely inspecting my groceries. Please do not miss this post. He is a menace. You can't trust in appearances! He's not *just* soft and beautiful and fluffy, he's also a problem 😔

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hey who wants to see everyone's best friend Mr Bingley again? (everyone wants that) Yesterday was grocery delivery day! Shocking no one, this meant more bok choy. Also cucumbers and mushrooms and peaches and things like that. Inspector Bingley, nebby little shit, was on the case. Inspecting.

a large black box with a bunch of bok choy in it, as well as assorted other produce.

a cat is craning his neck to get it over the edge of the produce box. he looks weirdly intent and has his nose pressed against the edge of one of the bok choy leaves

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I understand why everything has apparently moved to Discord, etc, but I miss being able to search for something, find a forum about it, search (no signup!) to see if the question I have has already been asked, and then if not, sign up and ask…without being haunted by it forever and ever.

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v. greyson @v-greyson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

saw Macbeth at the opera last night and it read to me less as a tragedy and more as a fantasy: where people who will do anything for power are tortured by their choices and then suffer consequences

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The good news: no longer anxiously waiting for the first 'oh no, heatsick' day of the year! The bad news: well. No longer waiting, etc. Feels like this bodes ill for summer, somehow. (I'm fine, just sulky. Thank you to whomever invented electrolytes and sports drinks and otc medication and etc.)

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

US Consumer Product Safety Commission win, tbh. (Also the graphic is great and made me cackle.)

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 15/11/2024

This is the most helpful and heartening thing I’ve read in this horrible span of days — highly recommend

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Alt text serves as a lot of different purposes, too! All of which improve accessibility (for more than just people with vision-impairments). I use it quite often to understand memes and read fine-print screenshots.

Why use alt text? (6 panel comic)

Slow internet
Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images
Drawing of a browser screen with a social media post and a square for a photo that has text in it instead of a picture

Findability
Alt text helps to search content
Browser search screen
Search query: "dog with banana"
Social media post search return has a banana in it

Screen readers
Alt text is read out to people using text-to-speech software
Picture of.a black screen with white text and an arrow pointing to it saying "alt text"

Translation
Alt text can be translated
Google translate English to German output
"Haha ein hund" over a picture with German alt text describing a dog.

Readability
Text in images can be made legible
Stick man with a hard-to-read speech bubble.
Alt text pointing to speech bubble: "character says 'hello guys'"

Disambiguation
Description helps clarify intent
Picture of what could be a duck with its beak open or a rabbit with its head tilted up, ears tilted back. Alt text reads "my pet bunny"

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is a deal for any #cdrama, #kdrama, #jdrama, thai BL fans who want iQiyi.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Y’all. Stop what you’re doing. Right. Now.

The California Department of Insurance says detectives found this bear costume at the home of the suspects accused of orchestrating fake bear attacks on their vehicles. It looks incredibly fake.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Yesssss cherry season is upon us!!

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Lately I feel sort of like the nature of existence is such that we should produce more Substances, and somehow also make them safer and more accessible. It seems like we should all be able to dial our experience of things up or down, as desired/needed, you know?

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Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸 @abbysyarns.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hey everyone this is still going on and I still can’t afford the oral surgery! Coupon code cierrapuertas gets you 35% off basically everything at abbysyarns.com! Spread the word! Or if you just wanna help you can PayPal abby@abbysyarns.com

abbysyarns.com

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Today in offensive new tech experiences: I had to verify ID for [reasons], done by photo of government ID + selfie. But you couldn't trigger the selfie yourself—you had to, and I quote—'Give a big smile!' Failure to smile sufficiently got 'Give a bigger smile than that!' thanks, i hate it

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juv3nal @juv3nal.neocities.org · 13/11/2024

for anyone that wants to keep their twitter account but would like to delete their tweets, this worked for me (it doesn't get rid of likes, & there were a couple of retweets (literally 2) I had to manually unretweet, but otherwise worked: github.com/lucahammer/t...

github.com

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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Which as a reminder, Bsky has had a sizeable korean and japanese population for ages, and unfortunately this setting could mean you're missing out on a lot of cool people. This is not a preference or what you post, this -limits- what languages you see! Set it to nothing!

Content Languages
Select which languages you want your subscribed feeds to include. If none are selected, all languages will be shown.

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Raygan @ramblindragon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Quote Repost your art that has stars. 🌌

A photograph of the milky-way above an abandoned barn.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Genderbot (genderoftheday), which I keep thinking about moving here.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I keep seeing posts asking about how to get more followers and how to have a better Bluesky experience, so here's my two cents: Both of these things are a lot easier when you stop worrying about how many followers you have.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It is once again dawn, and I am once again about to pour myself into bed rather belatedly, but maybe a kitten first? Goblet (not his legal name, but the only thing I ever call him) looking very intent in the cat tube yesterday morning.

a grey and white cat inside of a black t-shaped cat tunnel. he looks slightly wild and has a strikingly angular face.

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bunny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I WILL NEVER LET THIS GO

A patch of a tombstone that reads “Google Reader”

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

On one hand: I did successfully clap my hands in the air and kill that moth! On the other hand: I did so over my tea, and now there is a dead moth floating in my tea. I guess good job it was a sample of tea and I didn't much care for it, but. Ew.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

There *are* many terrible things happening, just kinda…everywhere, all the time, but I have to say that I'm enjoying the sudden influx of people who I like a lot but have been missing because we primarily kept up with each other on other social medias. 💕

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Wild to me to see people like 'Here's how you can make Bluesky better than all those other places! 😊' Then they go on to post like twelve images with no alt text. Wish that 'require alt text' were turned on by default. Anyhow: Keep Bluesky more usable than everywhere else by using alt text 😊 🙃

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👻🕯️ Human Depleted Big Natural Resources🕯️👻 @dagnificent.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The first time Trump was elected, i put every federal and state rep of mine in my contacts with the "GOV" and the front, so when i need to get up their ass about something, they're all on speed dial. It makes *not* calling your rep feel lazy and fucky. Choose your own adventure.

A screenshot of a contact list, with all the entries preceded by a GOV tag, and it includes my representatives, as well as the house science committee, the white house comment line, and the DOJ.

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misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I think that an underrated thing about Australia is how straightforward some of the food names are. There's a whole line of flavoured crackers just called Shapes. What kind of shapes? Well. Some of them. Certainly at least one, probably. Similarly, candy that's straight-up called Lumps. Just. Lumps.

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