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Xylotheca

@xylotheca.bsky.social
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Childless cat and pony lady. Plantaholic. Works in TB/HIV research. AnkSpond spoonie. 🇿🇦

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🧩 @holojester.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
oh behave
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Anthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hope you’re enjoying your #Caturday
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
panulyx on tumblr

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Too much movement makes your joints hurt and too little movement also makes your joints hurt. This would imply that there's an optimal amount of movement that allows your joints to not hurt. This is a lie.
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Sorry, can't - there's a cat on me #Caturday
A ginger and white cat snuggling on a green and white striped blanket over a person's legs
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My dining chairs were made some time between 1921 and 1940 in my home town (though I bought them in a city ~3000km away)
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 08/06/2026
Megan Aldrich, 30, works full time in an attempt to avoid starving to death, but is forced to choose between showing up to work and being the sort of person who doesn’t cry in the shower.
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Autistic woman can have work or dignity but not both
An autistic woman whose government is desperate for her to experience the "dignity of work" cannot experience "dignity" and "work" at the same time, it has been claimed. Megan Aldrich, 30, works full…
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Complaining about the university's latest M&E data gathering? Submitting a grant 5 minutes before deadline? Has permanently "professorial" hair?
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Submitted a grant application 9 minutes before deadline. Let's never do that again. Narrator: they would definitely do it again
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My dinner time has become "any time after 5pm" because that's when the cat starts staring me down for his, and I might as well join him 🤷🏼‍♀️🐱
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Boo #caturday
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Estaleto @estaleto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It's a good read. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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How an SA team of scientists hunted a rare hantavirus strain
South African medical scientists have once again done the country proud by working fast to discover the cause of death and illness on a stricken cruise ship.
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Estaleto @estaleto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Meanwhile South Africa not only identified the virus and strain, the NICD lab in Johannesburg has already sequenced it. And the hantavirus isn't even endemic to SA. Shithole country 1 - 0 Fascist clown state 🤡
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Well this was a good time to take a strong painkiller 🫤
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"Easter eggs are not for cats!"
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Pleased to report that Fat Pony and her friends are regularly served special cake on their birthdays and other occasions
A platter of "cake" made of oats and agar, with small carrot "candles" stick in it. This was apparently very palatable and the horses enthusiastically devoured it
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Words to live by
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
He got a job as a mousepad.
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Just had to explain to two professors how to *checks notes*... scroll through a PDF #FML
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Had a particularly niche nightmare last night in which I was somehow involved in accidentally breaking embargo on a (real) paper to be published this Tuesday
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 19/03/2026
Navya Randhawa, 48, told reporters that she hadn’t intended on wasting the session, and was less interested in making a political statement than she was getting that thing on her arm looked at. Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/chroni...
A news headline reads: "Chronically ill autistic woman asked to list medical history accidentally filibusters entire GP appointment". Underneath there is a stock image of a female doctor wearing a white coat and a stethoscope, writing notes and smiling as her patient tells her about her symptoms.
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'm on the research management side, but I *will* give a short talk on the importance of a new TB vaccine to anyone.... Even my cat's vet's receptionist 😬
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'm on the research management side, but I *will* give a short talk on the importance of a new TB vaccine to anyone.... Even my cat's vet's receptionist 😬
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
So bad, even the introverts are here #EndUCTUnfairness Do you value my labour now?
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
On the plus side, chloroquine has halved my CRP concentration. On the minus side, I feel like death warmed over 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"our grant number is [XYZ]; please acknowledge the grant in the funding section of your paper"
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Miss Havishambles @misshavishambles.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
My extreme sport is typing without glasses
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
this is basically who you are asking to make a slide deck
sleepy golden retriever bundled up in a grey blanket with only her head visible
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/01/2026
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 18/01/2026
"Ultimately, the project secured funding from the South African Medical Research Council and the Gates Foundation. It's about a twentieth of the original USAID grant and none of it is from the U.S. government."
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The near death -- and last-minute reprieve -- of a trial for an HIV vaccine
A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started.
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
My assimilation into Cape Town society is nearly complete: my car now has a CAA reg and today I bought a wearable duvet (knee length K-Way puffer jacket)
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Can confirm this effect holds even for this 1/8th Irish person, 2 generations distant from the last ancestor born in Ireland ✊🏻
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Steers BBQ sauce FTW
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✮ 𝒥𝒶𝓃𝑒 ✮ @janesgallery.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Highland pony at dusk for #scape Friday. #photography #EastCoastkin
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I'M AT THE LEVEL OF CHRONIC ILLNESS WHERE I APPRECIATE A GOOD HANDRAIL - mybodyistryingtokillme.com
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Them: So I'm taking ivermectin... Me: well you won't have scabies, I guess (Biologist working in infectious disease area)
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Bat-eared fox Cape cobra Secretary bird Blue crane Rhino
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
👀... Except that the cat has dealt with all carelessly placed bits of ceramic
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
High School biology teacher brought a pig's head in for us to dissect
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
this, all day right now (unmute, it’s a bop)
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Being bullied at work so I'm eating pizza about it 🍕
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Bully your comms person into creating a LinkedIn page, sending them off to a place that *checks notes* advertises jobs... #Genius
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 17/11/2025
Without fair regulation, most Cape Town residents will edge ever further away from a home in the city, argue the authors. Read groundup.org.za/article/cape... by Gabbi le Roux, Adam Narain and Jonty Cogger
groundup.org.za
Cape Town needs rent control. Here are six ways we could do it
Renting a home close to the city has become unaffordable even for many middle-class households
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Natasha Joseph @tashjoeza.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Think I'm gonna have samoosas for lunch with a delicious side order of "the worst people you know are enraged and scared". Yum.
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Xylotheca @xylotheca.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Currently sporting a black eye courtesy of a hock to my temple this weekend, and pleased to report that this post came via my Following feed
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
So often you see some dingy, overpriced, dirty-looking house advertised to rent, with "SORRY NO PETS" firmly stipulated in the details. Get a grip. My pets have got a lot of self-respect and wouldn't want to live in your shit house.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I don't get up to investigate strange noises. They're all coming from my body.
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