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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters

@antarcticempire.net

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Poet, posthumanist, & author since 2009 (she/her) Spiders are my people and I am a bug. Disability justice & total liberation through decentering the human. 🏴 Arm the left and talk about power! www.antarcticempire.net 💚 @magicspearmint.myatproto.social

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 18d

It's not as
Big as I thought it would be
Why did I think that

Pray tell it
Came at a bad time
While you hurt
At my hurt

And why
Of all avenues for you did I
Make today the day

Pray tell me
You're still here and
It's okay & you
Still love me

Even though I ought to know

#poetry #writing

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 2h

hands you some bugs

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 5h

OMG YALL LINK IS BACK ON blacksky.community

Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 20h

Link

KLo @klogoldman.bsky.social · 23h

Link

Homeless ♿⚧️ Please Help @day10machine.bsky.social · 23h

LINK

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 2d

morning stillness-
a spider mends
the space between worlds
#haiku #poetry

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🕸️♥ Ripley Arachnid ♥🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 4d

hey im admittedly in a pickle bc of the IRS overdrafting me. im sorry to ask for help but im gonna drop my donation info below. please do not feel obligated!! im very sorry, stuff has been hard bc of being sick all the time :(

paypal.me/ehunt
ko-fi.com/bipley
venmo.com/u/fangciful
cash.app/$bipley

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Adree 🏳️‍⚧️ @adree.bsky.social · 2d

Mailbox pal 🦎

An anole sits on my rusty mailbox in the sun

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2d

Something needs to break it can't keep getting worse like this people can't be this oblivious they just can't

Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2d

They made everyone so stupid and uncaring and I feel like the only FUCKING person left with actual emotion and a brain

Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2d

Just had to care for an intelligent client who's fascinated by cults, supports Trump, and thinks Hitler & Mussolini were left-wing because of "the state" and "socialism"

And now my partner may not be able to visit me like we've been planning for months because of Real ID requirements

This is hell

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2d

Sounds about right lol

Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2d

Bring Back Łink

Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2d

People always exaggerate the size of the spiders they see, and it's so weird to witness as someone who's familiar with the populations in the area.

"It was THIS BIG its legspan was FOUR INCHES" no it wasn't. It was half an inch and you got scared

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2d

I'm serious, the US has abdicated its responsibilities as a nation, neglected and oppressed its population, and sold off unfathomable numbers of people into prison slavery.

It's the responsibility of the American people and the world to destroy and reconstruct the US by any means necessary

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 2d

Restrictive ctizenship papers to board a fucking plane in a country with no mass transit and the world's third largest land area. The US should not be allowed to continue its existence. An international coalition should invade and occupy this place and force it into the 21st century

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 3d

Having an existential crisis over whether or not I'm a country girl

Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 4d

🫂 may his memory move mountains

Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 4d

Please read this thread! Amazing leadership from Rudy and some hopeful news

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 4d

An important thread and class of communication Rudy exhibits better than the official team.

THIS is how you lead. Great breakdown of everything.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4d

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 4d

Like, sorry yall, I'm gonna be annoying for a while. No justice, no poetry, no reposts

Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 4d

Is Łink back yet

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 5d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 5d

Where do these feelings come from
Fragile and soft like butterfly wings
A surrounding warmth in the cool night air
That whispers of bigger things
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"Heart's Light"
#Watercolor #dragons #fantasyart #art

Watercolor painting of a feathered dragon with a glowing red hard held suspended between its two front claws. It has feathered wings that curve forward, lit up by the glow of the heart. Text in lower left reads kamakru.com. Artist signature in lower right Katie Croonenberghs 2021

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 5d

"why is this dipshit in our feed??"

oh, Link's modlists aren't here anymore

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Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters @antarcticempire.net · 5d

Do not shut up about Link

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 5d

fix it.

A typewritten note that reads:

Link is, literally, the reason we sell our art.
He talked us into it and insisted on showing us financial support.

In 25 years of being active online, we've never encountered a better voice.

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