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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 3d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

Remote work was a game changer for people with disabilities.

It’s a life saving accommodation that can allow people to remain in the workforce who otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

Discontinuing it is another example of just how ableist our culture is.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d

This is deeply, deeply fucked up on SO MANY levels I don’t even know where to begin.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 3d

More cat sweater, after spending the better part of an afternoon posing it anywhere I thought it might be pretty.

Yoke of a green sweater with yellow cats in the foreground, shallow water rushing over rocks in the background.

Green sweater with butter yellow cats around the yoke is pinned to an old iron bedframe’s headboard. One arm is lowered, and the other is raised, as if the sweater is waving at you. Wooden doors with chipped white paint and handles secured with a wooden stake make up the background.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 3d

If it’s a special day, I’ll be wearing my cat sweater. So nice, I think I’ll knit it twice (Cat sweater the 2nd currently in progress.)

Pattern is Catknit by Andrea Rangel. #showmeyourknits

A green sweater with light yellow repeating pattern of seated cats around the yoke. The sweater is draped over a wicker chair frame with grass in the background.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely thoroughly enjoyed it. There were so many unexpected funny and sweet moments, and the proposed new project at the end was more perfect than I could have imagined.

Thanks for creating such a wonderful, immersive world.

Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 4d

OK it’s only about twice an inning and on a pitching change and and and …

Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 4d

With the way this game is going I can almost forgive the 4,794th repetition of OPPO TACO AD.

Almost.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 4d

Some warmup chatter interrupted by THE ONE AND ONLY OPPO TACO AD so I guess it’s officially another Jays game begun.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 4d

The first time I ever heard of fish falling from the sky onto cars was this summer, in Lucky Day by @chucktingle.bsky.social

The second time was today, in the news.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Scared the heck out of me': Falling fish smashes Sask. woman's windshield | CBC News

Of all the things that could smash a car’s windshield in Saskatchewan, a fish that fell from the sky is pretty low on the list of likely suspects. But that’s what happened to Marie Ahlstrom when she w...

www.cbc.ca

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 5d

Final treat on a day full of treats: Getting to start a fun new cozy fantasy (by new I mean literally released today new) from @julieleong.bsky.social

I can’t WAIT to meet the catdragon.

Screencap of an audiobook playing on Libro app. Title is The Keeper of Magical Things, and the cover shows two people standing in a pastoral landscape with warm hues and a flying catdragon.

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 6d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 6d

Carrying on the intergenerational tradition of crafting while listening to Jays games.

Adds to the fun when games are going well. A welcome distraction when they’re not.

This game gave me lots of opportunities to focus on building a book nook.

View of a miniature streetscape set in Kyoto, with a little orange cat in the foreground. The scene is lit from above with streetlamps, and shopfronts and a soup stand can be seen behind the cat.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 7d

I’m betting after one more game, Lucinda will be fully trained to scream out loud with me at every repetition of the oppo taco ad.

Grey tabby cat with wide eyes and her to gue sticking half out her mouth. She appears to be listening intently to something.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 7d

Every single ad break it is this same oppo taco ad too.

Me earlier in the game: why didn’t I listen to games before the postseason this year?

Me listening now: oh … right. This.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 7d

Literally getting in the way of me engaging with the game in the way the ad is telling me to engage in the game. Make it make sense.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 7d

The MLB app runs ads promoting listening to games on the MLB app, and play the ads through a whole at bat, so the announcers start mid-sentence a pitch or two into the next at bat.

I would actually like to listen to the game on the app! Not the ad about listening, but the game.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 11d

Ways cats have tried to get my attention so far today:

-headbutt
-try to eat button off shirt I am wearing
-mime charging cord chew
-meow
-paw on face
-walk across lap and brush whole tail across underside of my chin
-louder meow
-sharpen claws on air purifier
-sit next to me and stare

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 12d

SWEATER WEATHER

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 15d

Perhaps the answer I really want to give to that question is: “Do you actually want to understand the nuances of this disabled experience, or are you just curious about a stranger’s body?”

If they want to understand, I could go on. I suppose I’ll never know until I ask back.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 15d

There are so many ways to experience having a body. There are so many different stories behind why someone’s body does better with a cane.

Some of these are about a leg. Not all of them are about leg. For me, leg is usually pretty good. Cane is not for leg. But to really answer the question …

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 15d

And I have learned — both through experience and through reading of others’ lived experiences — of the vast galaxy of ways the human body can diverge from a medically-defined so-called normal, over time or over night, and then the way you move through the world changes.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 15d

What I want to say in response is “can you think of 5 non-leg reasons why someone would use a cane?”

And this isn’t to take away from any leg-based reasons to use a cane. It’s just that there are so many parts of the body, so many other systems that affect walking, being upright.

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 15d

I was out in the world for a moment using a cane, and a stranger asked “what’s wrong with your leg?”

This question is intrusive, yes, but what I want to actually say in response is “leg? Why do you think leg? Where is your imagination?”

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Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social · 18d

“I really like the vest”: Mr. Burns after his See My Vest song.

YOU DON’T SAY.

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 18d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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