Eirewolf 🍵 🍃

Eirewolf 🍵 🍃

@eirewolf.bsky.social

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <– what I know Leatherworker, 🎭 maskmaker, sculptor, geek of many fandoms (master of none), Christ follower, LGBTQ+ adjacent, Childless Cat Lady, eccentric auntie, constant WIP, formerly recovering misanthrope. (she/her) www.EirewolfCreations.com

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The God of Bad Art gets offerings from all over the world, but in Their temple, They sometimes appear. "Why bad art?" I ask. "It is brave", the God replies. "To try and fail?" "No," the God chuckles. "Any creative work is a defiance of entropy, of Death itself. If you create, you do not fail."

I’m so glad I wasn’t aware how much helicopters yearn for the pull of gravity when I took a ride in one during my first and only trip to Hawaii. 😅

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

PSA: It’s OK to let people have innocent moments of joy, even (especially!) in this hellscape. You do not need to remind people at every opportunity (in the comments of sweet cat pictures!) of the horrors that persist. WE KNOW. We NEED the moments of joy, or what are we even surviving for? *BLOCK* 😒

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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.

Kat Beaufort@onbearfeet.bsky.social

It's Monday! I wrote about Cornell, sex ed in the cult, and Terry Pratchett's definition of sin. This might be the most content warnings I've ever needed on an essay, so please take care when reading. I don't think I get super disturbing, but I'm a poor judge. www.patreon.com/onbearfeet/p...

This article is so extremely relatable. And now I want banana bread. Or maybe cornbread, or an oatmeal cookie. (With chocolate chips, not raisins.) 🍪

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social

Halfway through I had a complete breakdown for a week, then finished said column post-breakdown. So, It’s a doozy. jonathanedwarddurham.substack.com/p/know-worri...

I can tell I’m going to need an extra blanket on the bed soon, but also it’s going to be in the 80s this week. I’m getting meteorological whiplash. 🥵😵‍💫🥶

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I'm hiring for the first time in 5 years! citjpl.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/JPL... I'm looking for someone with strong UX research & design skills, an understanding that change management is a crucial part of design implementation, & a keen grasp of how to train people on complex systems.

citjpl.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comUser Interface Designer IIIJob Details New ideas are all around us, but only a few will change the world. That’s our focus at JPL. We ask the biggest questions, then search the universe for answers—literally. We build upon idea...

That is not the sound I expected to come out of that muppet. 🧐

Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social

“Barry the Bustard”, another creature I did not know existed, until today. IG: @huntervalleywildlifepark Nulkaba, NSW, Australia 🇦🇺

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I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

“People-pleasing has been moved to Legacy Support and will no longer receive security updates.” Welcome to (peri)menopause. 😂

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net

"Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relationship with alcohol, and expanded support for saying 'absolutely not' without explaining yourself." buff.ly/31NgFok

I wish I could take snapshots and videos of my dreams, so I could see them while awake and say, “Yeah, that madness really WAS in that weird wonderland of my sleeping mind.” 🤪 I do wonder where the heck it all comes from.

Be careful what devices you use… or let your children use. 😬

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social

NEW: A hacker tracked @agreenberg.bsky.social from his apartment to the subway to his desk using a $30 kids' smartwatch, took photos through its camera and listened in on him at work. Tens of millions of the devices run on three backends in China, and they're all broken.

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Never too late to learn how to add ALT text to your images! It's a simple way to let people with visual or neurological impairments know that you care about making them feel included in the Bluesky community.

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

TFW you have friends coming over for the first time in a while, and you’re frantically tidying up so they won’t see how you REALLY live 😂 😭 Seriously, ADHD & dysthymia is a bitch of a combination. This isn’t a vermin situation, but it’s messy. I usually don’t mind much, but we’re gonna need space.

I commented. I WANTED to say “Keep your filthy colonizer mitts off sacred tribal lands” with some more colorful 🤬 language thrown in, but I kept it professional. (They don’t have to listen to us at all, and they definitely would do the opposite of listening to that.)

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

What I said: “Chaco Culture National Historical Park is an important cultural and historical site, to the nation and to the native tribes for whom it is sacred ancestral homeland. The region is fragile and should remain protected. Keep the land closed to new mineral leasing and mineral entry.”

“Verify your age” I learned to type on a typewriter. Eventually, my dad was feeling fancy and got a word processor. By the end of high school, we had acquired a used Commodore computer and this newfangled thing called The Internet! 😲 It made funny noises when connecting, and shared the land line.

Kat Beaufort@onbearfeet.bsky.social

"Verify your age" When my pre-K teacher at an evangelical school asked us who was running for president that fall, we could all name George H.W. Bush (because of our parents), but we struggled to name the Democratic candidate. She prompted us with, "Michael ...?" and I blurted out, "JACKSON?!"

Another day, another “Did you even read the 🤬article?” in the Well Actually comments. (I know, I know; I should not bother reading the comments. Very occasionally, there is useful additional information there.)

My cat decided 4am would be a great time to enthusiastically sing the song of her people just outside the bedroom, so now I’ll be going to my once-a-year nerdy convention starting out with a sleep deficit instead of just ending up with one. 🙃 😭 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😼

Tried to explain to the cat, “My butt can’t see you” after she ran under me while I was sitting down on the couch. She is very dumb, but I really don’t want to squish her to death. 🙀