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Queen of Land

@queenofland.bsky.social
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Singing to the sea, the sky, the land. Blendian. Immunocompromised af. They/She. Pfp by Porridge the Pigeon. Minnesota Stoic. “Trauma is an unrelenting beast. It never quite leaves our side. But that doesn’t mean we owe it a damn thing.”

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 3h
too often people think they can fix racism by putting global majority people in a racist environment. We are not disinfectant. If you did only a small amount of research into the way minority employees are treated by the Met, you would discourage us from joining www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I will have more police officers of colour in the UK capital – and the culture wars won’t stop me doing it | Mark Rowley
In our major recruitment drive, the focus must be on underrepresented communities. It’s not favouritism, it is fairness – it’s essential, says Metropolitan police commissioner Mark Rowley
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 6h
Great comic for all those who celebrate Fuck Christopher Columbus Day - idwpublishing.com/blogs/news/h...
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Horror Visionary Stephen Graham Jones Premieres Historical Slasher Earthdivers in October
With Art by Davide Gianfelice, the Ongoing IDW Original Comic Book Follows Indigenous Time Travelers Hell-Bent on Preventing the Founding of the United States   SAN DIEGO, CA (June 16, 2022) – Cerebra...
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 6h
Oh, and Columbus can keep burning in hell. Happy Monday.
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Fuck Christoph Columbus
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 6h
I had originally decided hydroponics was too much work and more trouble than I needed as a person in a darker skin in the UK - I've got stigma enough, man - but the Kratky system of set up and forget it is appealing to me greatly. I just want some Asian stir-fry greens - looks easy-peasy.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 6h
All this sabre-rattling bollocks, and it's clearly to appease someone who also wanted less money spent on climate change, but I just want to know who. The nebulous "billionaire class" isn't good enough anymore.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h
Wars are fought with drones, computers and bots now, ffs. Neither of which the British are terribly proficient with if my living here and observing for 20 years is any indication. I've spent most of my time in offices here teaching people how to use their own equipment. "I'm not very techy".
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h
Yeah. This is exactly what we should be doing during an El Nino year when half the country still has oil/coal heat. We don't need munitions, we need skilled IT techs who know how to combat all the DDOS attacks we get bc the UKs is technically still in the 90s. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 8h
I'm from San Francisco and this is how we see Columbus Day "Columbus tried to come ashore once more at Aquatic Park and he encountered the resistance most people wish he’d met in 1492... A crowd on the shore chanted 'Columbus go back!'" www.sanfranciscostory.com/goodbye-colu...
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Goodbye Columbus
When Columbus landed at San Francisco's Aquatic Park.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h
Truth. Saw a woman feeding her dogs human food on a crystal plate and was the saddest dog I've ever seen...this was supposed to be cute??? Everything about the dog's body language was off...I can't with a lot of animal content.
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AuDHDreadPirateRoberts 🇯🇲🇧🇧🪮♾️🕋 (Not quite a Bluesky elder) @audhdeepdive.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Re-learning. Sometimes it can feel like you've totally forgotten a skill, even something you're phenomenal at just because you haven't done it for a while. It's like Object Blindness but with skillsets. People will see you re-doing your basics and think you're an amnesiac or just really abstemious.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
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Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
True to form, skies were overcast and it was chucking it down last night, so I'm vicariously enjoying aurora via the feed here, cheers.
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dave appears unimpressed by the aurora #Shetland #auroraborealis
Ginger and white cat looking towards camera with purple and green aurora behind
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
But the UK has a "Special relationship" with the US. We're allowing them to use our air bases, we're letting them train troops here in Scotland. Maybe the UK needs to be honest about how much we're complicit in letting Trump secure Russian diesel instead of pretending we're bystanders.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This never truly died out. I watched as the world decided it would try Covid vaccines out on African people as a "trial". And then Africa had to create their own labs to make vaccines for themselves because ofc it wasn't about access, it was about how FUN it is experimenting on Black bodies.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The only way the US is getting that fuel is with a European go-between. And the UK is the best bet for that, so I guess that's why it's going to be wall to wall Polanski-bashing for a good week and a half while some lackey says "Special Relationships" and avoids questions on UK complicity.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was wondering what that scuttling noise was - it's the UK desperately trying to arrange some deckchairs now the US has aligned with Putin and we're desperately trying to pretend that we're not helping the US with the "Special Relationship" whilst also trying to get back into the EU.
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IGDA NYC @igdanyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NYC-based Game Devs of Colors is accepting applications to join the board from "members who are dedicated to amplifying the creative power held by people of color in games." Up to three new, one-term terms begin in January. @gdocexpo.com
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Game Devs of Color - Board Application Form
Form completion time: 20 - 30 minutes Are you dedicated to amplifying the creative power held by people of color in games? Do you want to contribute your expertise to a vibrant community of game devs...
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I feel like one of my favourite science folk @sarahmackattack.bsky.social should have a peek at this beautiful thing, with my gratitude for their own creativity.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The effort to have drilled holes into the shell and not have it split. I wonder how many tries it took??
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sometimes you stumble across something so incredibly charming: like an album of seaweed specimens in a scallop shell binding. The neurospicy hyperspecific interest meeting creativity has always been a thing. collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma...
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Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding. | YCBA Collections Search
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The concern is that people take photos of slides and circulate content that puts orgs in the crosshairs of this repressive administration.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Freedom2B @freedom2b.cryptoanarchy.network · 10/10/2026
I'm going to cry now. 🩷🩷
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No one remembers this, but *everyone* took COVID seriously until the new York times reported that black americans were being disproportionately impacted (bc of less access to remote work) Suddenly masking became political
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Sean Padilla (He/They) Will Write a Good Song About Anything @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
I just refunded two clients because working with them was taking a toll on my sanity. I’m trying to raise $300 to offset it so that I can buy groceries & pay my phone bill. If I can get 60 subscribers @ the $5 tier, I can make it happen. My next song, “Hire Brian,” will be posted soon! 🎶❤️ #HelpSky
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The older I get, the more I gotta let go. I grow to accept I'm going to be the sweet old lady people do stuff for, and I must learn to smile and be grateful - and not correct someone's lifting posture, my god, why are you bending over like that, use your KNEES, man, tighten your core - ahem.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wrists don't bend (pushups are impossible as my wrists can't achieve a right angle), my fingers haven't been able to take weight for years now and I had to use gloves for grip. But now my hips and knee gives out when I try to apply hoist. There's no fix for ageing. That's just the way it is.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Once, I was a bodybuilder. I was the strongest kid in my school. I prided myself on being able to pick up a grown man and throw him over my shoulder by the time I was ten. I've been the Heavy Lifter of our haus for years, but last week I couldn't lift a heavy thing. I'm 55: end of an era, tbh.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
that looks amazing! I have Ideas (TM) now...cheers, sibling <3
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've done beta-testing for this game - it's rough, but it's delightful, and the light is absolutely glorious!
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I sincerely wish I could do something like this! We've an unused water feature I want to do something with, grow some bog myrtle or something. I've never seen so many of these damn gnats around, they were in the hospital lobby last time I was in, so I know it's not just from the soil I buy.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wouldn't normally do this, but last year it rained for over a month straight, I kid thee not. And it rained so long in spring, the skies were too overcast for anything I had outside to grow. I expect next year's El Nino year to be even more unpredictable. So, I'll grow indoors for a while.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am not expecting miracles, but I have a very good indoor LED light I've been using the start my seedlings and grow winter crops with in a very small, inefficient space. We're going to expand the square footage and on the idea for supplemental veg - if I get on with it, I'll try strawberries.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today's rabbit hole: Kratky method hydroponics to grow some food indoors this winter. The fungus gnat situation coming out of every single bag of soil I've bought in the past year has put me off using soil in my house indoors except for a few heavy feeders I want to grow. Set up and forget it ftw.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Aw shit. I'm so sorry to hear that. Be safe, and I hope she mends.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My husband regularly thanks me for telling him to upgrade his PC a year or two before the prices skyrocketed thanks to a Naomi Wu video (love to her wherever she is now). We're just going through boxes of old kit and filling in blanks with what we have now, but you've my empathy.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ironically, I have a house big enough to probably pull it off, but since nobody will wear a mask it's never managed to get off the ground. Horse, water, something something. Done everything but the headshave, tho, so I'll take it.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You'd prove your point better if you weren't using a Nazi platform to promote it.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/10/2026
Imagine if Reform had tripled their vote in this election and how the coverage would look...
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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Library Terrible Comic Thursday Special! #Comics #TheLibrary
Single-panel comic, the banner reads THE LIBRARY Terrible Comic Thursday. 
The Library leather jacket-clad protagonist Slightly Fox stands to the left of the panel, arms crossed, and asks the Head Librarian, "Mr Ibis, why are the maths books so unhappy?"
Mr Ibis, a man in a linen suit with the head of an ibis, looks at us as he replies, "Because they're full of problems."
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do y'all LIKE getting sick? Like, seriously??? Because there's a way to...not do that. And you're all just ignoring the option entirely.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hubs went to hospital - which is the major social hub of our area, believe or naw. Got harassed for his mask for the first time, and heard from a local says half our village is currently sick in hospital. The disparity of the events wasn't lost on hubs. "Confirmation to stay masked" was his take.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In today's "blessed by the Youtube gods": Kabuki theatre doing Star Wars. youtu.be/PJ8VtEw5DgE?...
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KABUKI Theater STAR WARS: A Japanese dance-drama from a Galaxy Far Far Away! FULL
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If you never thought you'd ever hear a group of Anything Muppets from SESAME STREET sing the Blood, Sweat & Tears song "Spinning Wheel", well, never say never... (Oh, and keep an eye on the puff of smoke, knowing that it's coordinated between a performer & a separate cued smoke mechanism)
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
wow, nice! I remember doing something similar for our dog's mushing harnesses when I was a kid. Do you burn the ends?
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm bringing Decorative Gourd Season to Scotland...but ofc I'm Native enough to also call it "winter stockpiling". The offerings here are tiny microgourds because the UK doesn't eat these (!!), they literally grow these for people to decorate with them. But they're a veg side-dish for one.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I thought I was just playing..but also that's what I was seeing, and this would be a hell of a rumour to get circulating just to see the panic. Busey's Love Stable, hence the horse-faced smile.
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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So the plan is: use as much as I have as I possibly can. Alter it, embellish it, add a fancy embroidered border ribbon and some patches and call it New Enough. I bought the best sheeting I could afford for 18 yrs due to Offspring's sensory issues. Egyptian cotton and linen is just yardage, baby.
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