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AuDHD, CPTSD (she/they) ~Bangalore,India ~ Maker of beautiful things 🧶( #Knitting #Crocheting) Bedbound by #MECFS Appreciate any kind of Support through https://ko-fi.com/chembarathi

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · Nov 23

PSA for #Malayali or people from #Keralam - We have two active feeds
1. നീലാകാശം feed which picks up all the posts in Malayalam
bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. Keralam Sky for which I maintain a user list - @me if you want to be added/removed

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Both feeds are fairly active feeds!

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 7h

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.
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I sat on a gray stone bench ringed with the ingenue faces
of pink and white impatiens
and placed my grief
in the mouth of language.
the only thing that would grieve with me.
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

POETRY

LISEL MUELLER

WHEN I AM ASKED

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

It was soon after my mother died, a brilliant June day, everything blooming.

I sat on a gray stone bench in a lovingly planted garden, but the daylilies were as deaf as the ears of drunken sleepers, and the roses curved inward. Nothing was black or broken and not a leaf fell, and the sun blared endless commercials for summer holidays.

I sat on a gray stone bench ringed with the ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens and placed my grief in the mouth of language. the only thing that would grieve with me.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 1d

These kind of go outside/try yoga/think positive suggestions are not bad in themselves. But they're not useful if you have serious or persistent mental health problems.

So for some of us it, it gets very tedious. World mental health day doesn't feel like it's for people like me, TBH.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

If I take the prescribed dose for my insomnia, my stomach refuse to let go of anything that comes in and if I reduce the dose I am wide awake thinking about all the socks I want to knit, but can't because if I turn on the light it makes my eyes more sick. 😭 #pwme

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian babies like Taqwa's have been displaced & starved with their families by Israel for 2 yrs of genocide. Taqwa has already lost 6 children to an Israeli massacre. Please help her keep 7 mo Suhaib alive by sharing & donating to cover the costs of evacuation, shelter, food:

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

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PP @plainparanoid.bsky.social · 1d

Found the drawings I made during my psychosis last year. Let’s just say… Picasso would’ve been confused, concerned, and maybe a little lost. Chaotic lines, questionable anatomy, and enough symbolism to fuel three therapy sessions. #schizophrenia

A black-and-white sketch in an open spiral-bound notebook depicts a gargoyle-like creature perched on a pedestal. The creature has horns, large bat-like wings, clawed hands gripping a cracked sphere, and a muscular body with a somber expression.

A black-and-white ink drawing in a spiral-bound sketchbook depicts a rat, lying dead or dying, on its side with multiple small insects crawling around and over it.

A black-and-white ink drawing in a spiral-bound sketchbook shows a bat-like creature in flight holding a severed head of cat like creature with eyes dripping blood. The bat has large wings, pointed ears, and an angry face.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

Let us pick flowers.
Let us lightly
Wet our hands
In the calm rivers,
So as to learn
Some of their calmness.

Sunflowers forever
Beholding the sun,
We will serenely
Depart from life,
Without even the regret
Of having lived.
- Fernando Pessoa
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

To Alberto Caeiro

Peaceful, Master, Are all the hours We lose if we place, As in a vase, Flowers on our Losing them.

There are in our life No sorrows or joys. So let us learn, Wisely unworried, Not how to live life But to let it go by,

Keeping forever Peaceful and calm, Taking children For our teachers And letting Nature Fill our eyes...

Along the river Or along the road, Wherever we are, Always remaining In the same, easy Repose of living. Time passes And tells us nothing. We grow old. Let us know how, With a certain mischief, To feel ourselves go.

Taking action Serves no purpose. No one can resist The atrocious god Who always devours His own children.

Let us pick flowers. Let us lightly Wet our hands In the calm rivers, So as to learn Some of their calmness.

Sunflowers forever Beholding the sun, We will serenely Depart from life, Without even the regret Of having lived.

12 JUNE 1914

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Not everyone can boycott Amazon

Many disabled & elderly people are housebound and rely on it

Some medical supplies are more affordable there than anywhere else.

Instead of judging, help create networks of care.

Give rides, drop off food and meds, donate to mutual aid

Take care of each other

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 2d

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 2d

How wonderful I can stretch out
in the shadow of a tree
I thought trees
no longer gave shade.

How wonderful I am with you
my heart is beating fast
I thought human beings
had no heart.
- How Wonderful Tadeusz Różewicz
Translated by Joanna Trzeciak
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

How Wonderful Tadeusz Różewicz Translated by Joanna Trzeciak

How wonderful I can pick berries in the woods I thought there were no woods or berries.

How wonderful I can stretch out in the shadow of a tree I thought trees no longer gave shade.

How wonderful I am with you my heart is beating fast I thought human beings had no heart.

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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Got an email from Amazon to be part of their invite only "Brands of Ireland" campaign which apparently aims to help businesses for Black Friday, Christmas etc. Sounds nice but Amazon is a killer of small businesses and they can fuck Black Friday. Buy independent and buy local when you can.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3d

Welp that article is going to be seared into my brain.

I'm not linking to it, but I will shout again that DISABILITY IS NOT STATIC. Disabled people, like everyone else, have a range of capabilities.

Just because you see someone do something you don't think they can do doesn't mean they're a fraud.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 3d

🧶 Got a commission for crocheting a cat bed. Doubled up blanket yarn and realised why I stopped using bulkier yarn. 😭 Anyway, I dont mind going extra mile for the fur babies, humans never 🥰 #crochetsky

A wip crochet piece in round with hook and markers

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Good Food Kitchen @goodfood.kitchen · 3d

Neighbours on the adjoining plot have this beautiful living wall of green, red, orange, and purple. #autumn 🍂🍃🍁

A vibrant wall of autumn colours at an allotment on the Kent Coast in the UK.

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Fallon | find me on disabled.social instead of this nazi bar @fallonturing.bsky.social · 8d

I'm opening up EMERGENCY COMMS! Please commission me for custom hats, scarves, gloves/mittens, or socks! I will take 3-4 of these. Note that I still probably won't be able to ship anything until after I return home in late October.

#BSNM #CommissionsOpen #OpenCommissions #Knitting #Knitsky #comms

CrippledCommie's Commissions

Commissions Open! Click to see CrippledCommie's commission menu.

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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 3d

Finished this giant long-term embroidery project 😌✨ I’ll take a full photo tomorrow in the daylight, but here’s a preview featuring fuzzy moth. #fiberArt

A small section of a large embroidery piece on a leafy background, with colorful flowers, a big moth with a fuzzy faux fur body, and a little shimmery butterfly

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PP @plainparanoid.bsky.social · 3d

Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega is a powerful and emotional finale. The suspense never lets up, and Joe Hill blends heartbreak with closure beautifully. Gabriel Rodríguez’s art captures every tone perfectly, making this a thrilling, satisfying end to a brilliant series. 💙📚 #BookSky #GraphicNovels

A book titled Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez lies on a white surface. The cover features a large metallic key shaped like the Greek letter Omega against a dark circular gate or lock design, giving a mysterious and dramatic appearance.

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PP @plainparanoid.bsky.social · 3d

Locke & Key: Heaven & Earth is a short but touching addition to the series. It gives small, emotional glimpses beyond the main story. Joe Hill’s writing and Gabriel Rodríguez’s art shine as always. Not as thrilling as the main books, but still full of heart and magic. 💙📚 #BookSky #GraphicNovels

A book titled Locke & Key: Heaven and Earth by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez lies on a white surface. The cover features an illustrated house with portraits of people framed in windows and different keys in what shaped like keyholes, blending gothic and mysterious design elements. Key house written under.

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 3d

Someone is busy

in the kitchen of the heart with the window wide open.

Someone is cooking joy soup with mint leaves.

Let the aroma pull you awake and draw you toward the pot.

Watch the light simmer on top. Someone waits for you. - William Palmer
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

JOY SOUP

by William Palmer

"We should start cooking/the joy soup." - Rumi

Too much sad soup will turn your raspberries gray.

Sleeping all day won't make them red again.

But Someone is pulling up humble carrots, rutabagas, and sweet potatoes. Someone is busy

in the kitchen of the heart with the window wide open.

Someone is cooking joy soup with mint leaves.

Let the aroma pull you awake and draw you toward the pot.

Watch the light simmer on top. Someone waits for you.

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Paj @pajdabun.bsky.social · 4d

The most toxic interactions I've seen have been from the CEO @jay.bsky.team and her obvious and open disdain for the user base and the mods banning people like Link... but I think you already know that, and i don't expect this question to be in good faith

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Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be ordering the @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social book on walking from bookshop.org for Anti Prime day. Care to join me in support of Independent Bookstores?

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

bookshop.org

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 4d

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Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 4d

Love leaves leftovers, I've learned. It's never a clean escape. Oh but what a way
to say goodbye: here, I've loved you, save some for later.
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MARIA GIESBRECHT
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Love leaves leftovers

It's been three years and I still have the French keyboard enabled on my phone. Occasionally, when I comment on poems on the internet, it autocorrects love to liberté. (Which is fitting, I suppose.) It's been three years and I still sleep facing the window because it's good to feel the sun when you wake. Everytime I see a squirrel I think of how you, completely amazed by their existence, tried to feed them peanuts off your balcony railing. And how they came to you and gently nuzzled your hands. I've never shit-talked squirrels since. Love leaves leftovers, I've learned. It's never a clean escape. Oh but what a way to say goodbye: here, I've loved you, save some for later.

MARIA GIESBRECHT

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ines 🧇 wristless @inesvisual.bsky.social · 5d

if you need some good news today, the first openly gay sportswoman dancing tango in a celebrity-centred competition on Polish TV just got maximum points for her dance and she is making queer history while also looking incredibly hot n cool dancing with another woman

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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · Nov 19

I have low vision and I rely on alt text and image descriptions to provide context about images on platforms like BlueSky. If you don’t know how to write #AltText yet, I have several guides on my website that can show you how— take the #AltTextChallenge! veroniiiica.com/how-to-write... (1/10)

How To Write Alt Text And Image Descriptions

The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text

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