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Dianna 〰️

@not-soft.bsky.social
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Maker. Ex-expat. Cat lady w/ no cat. Avid reader, word-enjoyer, native plant gardener. 🩷 design, architecture. City girl. Dual-citizen. Progressive. ENG/ITA/some DE 📍 Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Thinking about this a bit more, the FYP was giving me a lot of “my knitting/crochet hot takes” posts so maybe what was really going on was that TikTok just understood that I enjoy drama of which I am in no way emotionally attached or affected by lmao.
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I think it’s so funny that I am a whole metalsmith (ie a quite minute/detailed/multi-stepped process-oriented craft created by hand using hand tools) & yet watching either knitting or crochet my mind just *does not compute* AT ALL. I do not get it!! But I would like for it to make sense hahaha
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Will be on 小红书 tho. *OR* I might actually teach myself to knit?? Or crochet? My FYP was damn intent on getting me to try my hand at various fiber arts there in the end days & it did always know best 🧶💅🏼
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Scrolled to the end of TikTok fr & now I’m just sitting here in complete silence 😩😭 WAY too fragile right now to be hyper-informed aka on Bluesky so this will be an Endless Scream™ reposting acct ONLY until further notice
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 05/12/2024
I've been playing this deadpan German linguistics bop on repeat for the past 12 hours and I'm delighted to report that it's on youtube now!! 🎶 More, more, more morphology 🎶
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
toblerone bar (interior view)
Interior view of the Elion-Hitchings Building. It is quite orange and triangular and brutalist.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A little known fact: actually, the Romans invented the Spiderman meme
The Spiderman meme with two Spidermen facing each other.The *original* meme, a 4th century mosaic today in Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, showing two wrestlers facing each other.
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Picard: Computer, tea, hot. Computer: You know Ensign Clarkson in Engineering? Well, rumor is she might be breaking up with Ensign Zortoff because, GET THIS, she might still be in love with her ex!! Picard: *pulling up chair* Tell. Me. Everything.
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😠 Parilani Pie @parilani.sparkle.blue · 31/05/2024
me, sadly sliding down a slide: ennuiiiiii
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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Don’t be alarmed if you see Jill Stein rifling through your trash bins! She is in hyperphagia and needs to consume 20,000 calories a day before hibernating for the next 3 years
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Oooh I enjoyed your creative ALT ☺️
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Guarda che carina 🥹
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Also saw yesterday in the dev notes that they’re actively working on sorted notifications :)
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Woke up thinking about the bowl with little feet. ☺️ It just makes me so happy. The copies I ordered from the Met Store just shipped and it’s the highlight of my week. LMAOOOOO. I don’t know why I’m so excited but baby, I feel like a million bucks!
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Me: Can my kids have evidence based peer reviewed healthcare administered by a doctor who agrees that this treatment is appropriate? The law: NO GROSS The worst guy you ever met in your life: IDC IF MY ARM IS BROKEN GIVE ME HORSE PASTE OR I'LL SHOOT YOU The law: Of course sir that is your right
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Me: Can a doctor please check my kid's bloodwork? The law: THATS ILLEGAL THERES HORMONES IN THERE The worst people you ever met in your life: We're not taking our sick child to the doctor because our whole church is laying hands on them and screaming prayers to get the devil out The law: Oh nice
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Bro the center is not holding bro these contradictions are killing me thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
Ohio Senate passes measure forcing hospitals to administer ivermectin, other patient-requested treatments
The Ohio state Senate passed a bill earlier this week that will allow patients to force hospitals to administer drugs for off-label use.   The passage of the bill comes after a years-long effo…
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Ooooooh. Might go peak at those. I’ve been experiencing the trickle as I see things pulled down but posted here anyway (the cultural reaction, diff sides of the info landscape). Super fascinating
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cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
"if you ain't coughing cash, then go cough in your basement"
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I’m so glad I happened to see your comment so I could finally hear the whole song! (The OG ripped tiktok has been spooling in my mind all week, but it was only the first verse) Art. This is ART. Curious about a reference/use of language in the song as well so imma see abt that, too 🤓 This rules
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Chris Silverman @csilverman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#notesArt #artAdventCalendar
A mostly submerged iceberg, with blue sky above and the blue arctic sea below. The view is more like a cross-section, rather than from above or below. The bulk of the iceberg is under the water and blurry. Visible towards the bottom of it is a dim glowing rectangle that looks like a window. Sticking out from the top of the iceberg is a small red mailbox, the mailbox post covered in snow.
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Ahhh, now TPTB are worried about contagion
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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
flexible teeth
Disney's Maid Marion with a blank look of exasperation
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Choire @choire.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Just went to check on Twitter and
“Fluoride bugs me from a structural perspective. Because it stiffens the teeth so much, it also makes them prone to chipping. Something I learned with 3D Printing is that stiff materials break easier, but the softer or more flexible materials can withstand hard impacts.”
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Oh no, it’s so appreciated! I learn a lot in the ALT (& am always delighted to laugh at quirky or fun details) & even as a sighted person good ALT improves how I see! I love info so it’s like MORE INFO! = better understanding. Having blind & low-sighted friends means I don’t re-post w/o it either. 🫶🏼
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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Cops serve the rich. Just like the NYPD spent millions of dollars to search for a CEO’s killer while ignoring a murder of a homeless person, the Florida cops threw the book at someone who made an empty threat
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This thread brought me joy with a side dose of wonder. The colors & shapes & thoughtful ALT! 😍🥰 (Also wowie I miss the sea!)
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Vicky Stein’s Monster @vicky.science · 13/12/2024
Ugh look at it it's so pretty. I'm so lucky to get to sit in the wet and the cold and admire these perfect tiny bubblegum angels.
photo of a bright pink sea slug that looks like it's wearing a coat of pink tentacles
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Vicky Stein’s Monster @vicky.science · 13/12/2024
As a little kid I *loved* ochre stars. They were my favorite tide pool finds, in their vivid purples and oranges. Later I forgot to cherish them, until sea star wasting disease wiped the coast clean in 2014. Now I never fail to tell each one that I love them and they're doing a great job.
A pile of purple and orange ochre stars surrounded by empty mussel shells, likely their recent meals. I love them and they're doing a great job.
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Vicky Stein’s Monster @vicky.science · 13/12/2024
We all know I'm often out there because I'm obsessed with the nudis but I'm an all-around tidepool critter stan too. I was thrilled to see so many thriving sea stars. Bat star feeties, a super tiny ochre star, and an even tinier unidentified baby star!
ultra close-up of a bat star's weird textured skin and some stretched out reaching tube feetcrappy photo of a finger next to a very small purple ochre sea star in a tide poolphoto of a fingertip dwarfing a tiny white and brown sea star on an algae-covered rock
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 13/12/2024
lol. lmao. lmfao.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
One country is not like the others. Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita & life expectancy (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate & below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...
This chart pertains to OECD countries.

Figure 1.7 illustrates the extent to which countries that spend more on health have better health outcomes. 
There is a clear positive association between health spending per capita and life expectancy at birth (Figure 1.7). Among the
38 OECD countries, 18 spend more and have higher life expectancy than the OECD average (top right quadrant). A further
11 countries spend less and have lower life expectancy than the OECD average (bottom left quadrant).
Of particular interest are countries that deviate from this basic relationship. Eight countries spend less than the OECD average
but achieve higher life expectancy overall (top left quadrant). This may indicate relatively good value for money of health systems,
notwithstanding the fact that many other factors also have an impact on health outcomes. These eight countries are Korea, Spain,
Italy, Israel, Portugal, Chile, Costa Rica and Slovenia. The only country in the bottom right quadrant is the United States, with
much higher spending than all other OECD countries but lower life expectancy than the OECD average.
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Lmao
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Laughing a lot lately as a means of dissociation, so that I am not crying in despair…& into despondency Grateful there are smart people doing smart work all the while, even when it’s so very uphill
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
But you seem to know what’s up. FWIW, I haven’t been here long enough to know *any* ins & outs irt pretty much anything in OK, but it’s all clownery here from what I can gather. Decades of it? & Stitt is a Top Ten clown for sure. Also, COMBATING POLLUTION IS WOKE I mean: nondoc.com/2024/12/03/k...
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"I'm disappointed that Ken McQueen would join AG Drummond, former AG Drew Edmondson and environmentalists in opposition to Oklahoma farmers and landowners by appearing at a court hearing today in his capacity as secretary," Stitt said on Twitter. "This nearly two-decade-old case is a radical left attempt at backdoor regulation through litigation. I've fired him from his position as secretary of energy and environment and director of the Department of Energy effective immediately."
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Would genuinely love actual improvement but that does seem unlikely w this admin & w/ Stitt. Will that help anyone’s bottom line? I really don’t think they’re in the “make things better” business. At all. Unless it’s *their* business. So if it’s put forth & framed as to their benefit…maybe?
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hahaha group project. Should find a dev who can write a script & put it on auto. Damn I hate LLMs but that seems an appropriate use of ai slop They will never come up with anything useful when they REFUSE TO FEED CHILDREN HERE so I don’t even know what to say
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
(I’m still in denial that I live here man idk 😭😭😭)
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
That’s part of the jobs program for domestic abusers
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Gonna start writing flash fiction but it’s just microblogging to the Oklahoma DOGE portal, ie inundate it with bullshit
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
www.kosu.org/politics/202...
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Oklahoma House launches 'DOGE' inspired online portal, solicits public opinion
House Speaker-elect Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, wants input from Oklahomans on how their state government could be more efficient. The House launched an online portal this week in hopes of collecting tha...
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Gonna start writing flash fiction but it’s just microblogging to the Oklahoma DOGE portal, ie inundate it with bullshit
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hmm. There’s a mentions Feed that I’ve heard a lot of the bigger accts default to using so that they can see only their replies (bc of the mixed notifications they’re easy to miss) Have seen the devs chat about this & that they have a mentions tab in the works but until then that’s the stopgap
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I was impressed to see that level of commitment to Little Guys! F it! Posting the Drive!
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Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A few of my personal favourite Little Guys:
an image of object ROM 2020.79.12, a handmade toy from 1970s Mexico. It is in tbe form of a monkey seated on the ground, and features a tuft of hair on top of its head. The monkey figure holds its front paws/“hands” up in the air. It is hand painted, and the face features wide open eyes.A photo of ROM 988.102.1, a carved netsuke mouse made from wood. The mouse’s overall shape is quite rounded, its front paws hold a seed near to its mouth, and its tail is tucked under its body. The fur has been carved in detail, and its face features small round black eyes (one shown in the image) and large, rounded ears. An image of ROM 980.138.22 a contemporary Japanese woodblock print by artist Kiyoshi Saito. The figure of a cat is suggested through the use of minimal forms - three legs, two ears, and a face featuring asymmetrical eyes. The artist’s signature stretches across the bottom of the print. Image of ROM 967.213 - a metal weathervane in the form of a rooster. 

The piece features a remarkable level of detail in craftsmanship - rather than a typical weathervane rendered as a two dimensional form, this is a fully realized 3-d rooster form, with individually cut wing and tail feathers and detailing on the head including an upper and lower piece forming the beak, comb and wattle.
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Was willing to open google drive to see your lil guy meme 🙂‍↕️
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Dianna 〰️ @not-soft.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@down.blue
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corinne @sparecake.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Can I also suggest some 90 year old labor poetry, some pretty good stuff babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
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You work tomorrow : an anthology of American labor poetry, 1929-41.
You work tomorrow : an anthology of American labor poetry, 1929-41.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Jesse Welles’ excellent UHC protest song part 2 of 2, unmuuute
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