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Laura (she/her)

@beesandrikishis.bsky.social

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Hobby beekeeper & sumo fan in Metroland. Naturalised Brit, ex-American, semi-visible bisexual, extremely woke Christian. Post too much about Fukuyama Masaharu, Leonard Cohen, hoverflies & kanji. Ride or die for trans people, refugees & bats. 私は日本語を勉強しています。

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 8d

Correction: These are the designs of my first tattoos

#福山雅治 #LeonardCohen

My inner forearms, both bearing fresh tattoos. The right arm has Leonard Cohen's Unified Heart symbol and a line from his song The Future: "Love's the only engine of survival." The left arm has a picture of one of the 500-year-old camphor trees that survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, with a line from Fukuyama Masaharu's song Kusunoki (Camphor Tree): 我が魂は奪われはしない (my soul will never be taken away).

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah I know 😕

Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 4h

Thinking of Ian Watkins's victims in the wake of his death. And of Dylan Farrow in the wake of Diane Keaton's

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Diane Keaton Defends Woody Allen: ‘I Continue to Believe Him’

As stars abandon director Woody Allen, Diane Keaton came to his defense, saying she will "continue to believe him."

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 5h

Cooking tip: When roasting veg in your fan-assisted oven, make sure you switch on the actual oven & not just the fan

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Maria Sumo Kinboshi @mariasumokinboshi.bsky.social · 6h

After 14 hours long flight the first group of rikishi has arrived in London.
14 hours, that must be exhausting for them and their bodies.
Anyway, I'm happy to see them there and waiting for the other group to arrive safe and sound.
x.com/sumokyokai/s...

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, not surprising & no loss, but it's a nightmarish end to a nightmarish story

Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes it's because they're also at a low point (maybe due to the same current events / cosmic factors), & the only way they've learnt to deal with it is by hurting others.
And sometimes they're just an arsehole who got lucky

Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 7h

(CW: Ian Watkins, violence, CSA)

I suppose in general terms, it isn't great to have a prison system where inmates can easily kill each other.
And also ... I have firsthand knowledge of a child molester dying horribly (albeit not violently), and I have to say it didn't actually fix anything

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 7h

Somehow I always feel disturbed to hear of someone getting murdered in prison, however despicable they were

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 7h

Actually I think you'll find she was actually his Mean wife

According to one legend, the Hanging Gardens were built alongside a grand palace known as The Marvel of Mankind, by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II (who ruled between 605 and 562 BC), for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland.

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 7h

Turns out iNaturalist wasn't far off, I just didn't know baby shield bugs looked like that

Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 8h

This is the dumbest timeline

Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 8h

Seems like it! I wouldn't have guessed

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Tom @domingo.bsky.social · 8h

Nezara viridula; early stage of life-cycle, I reckon.

A 'stink bug' or 'shield bug'.

Don't say 'Nezara viridula' out loud, lest your furniture starts to float... 🪄

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you! 😃

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Papa’s Computer Repairia @tranzorz.bsky.social · 10h

Hoverfly brooch, very cute

A small gold brooch in the shape of a bee or similar insect, with cubic zirconium and enamel details rests on a white person’s palm

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 8h

iNaturalist has been defeated by this critter. Any ideas? #BugSky

A roundish, flattish black bug with a pattern of yellow spots on its back and solid black legs on a Michaelmas daisy. It covers four of the flower's petals. I thought it was a beetle, but iNaturalist suggests it's a shield bug, although it also seems to be having a breakdown.

A head-on view of the bug, showing that its antennae are black and clubbed, its front legs are sharply jointed and its face and eyes are solid black.

Another view of the bug showing the pattern on its back.

A view of the bug perched on top of the flower's centre.

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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 19h

Not everyone can be seated in First Class.
I wonder who--besides the obvious-- gets the frills and champers in First Class? It would be a great show of camaraderie if Hokkaku and the Board sat in coach ... or sub coach.

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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 19h

I never see cute guys like this when I go to the airport.

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Th'Omen @mrmoth.bsky.social · 13h

Important note - there are many rikishi in the air, over Greenland and heading to London.

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 11h

The banality of evil exemplified by the pom-bear king proudly and quietly endorsing the eating of his children

A packet of pom bears with the happy bear king giving a thumbs up to us eating his potatoey progeny

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 11h

#poppelgangers

Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 11h

On second thoughts ... Sisters of Mercy in Milk Tea style

#福山雅治 #LeonardCohen

Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · Jun 27

Spent an unexpected wait contemplating what Leonard Cohen song I'd like Fukuyama Masaharu to cover (in Japanese of course).
If he's in gentle Milk Tea mode, probably Bird on the Wire. If harder Akira style, it's got to be First We Take Manhattan

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K @billybudapest.bsky.social · 1d

Leonard Cohen with dogs for your Friday nite scroll:

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 1d

Smokey 😊

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Laura (she/her) @beesandrikishis.bsky.social · 1d

One of my childhood cats looked exactly like bottom left

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