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Autistic(she/they) ~Bangalore,India ~
Maker of beautiful things 🧶
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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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manuscrypts.bsky.social
My seventh year of sharing Bibliofiles - my favourite reads from last year. The reading itch only continues to grow. :)
I read fewer books (58 vs 63 in 2024) but this year’s list has more variety, including fiction.
Short reviews and the long list is on the blog.
manuscrypts.com/2025/12/28/b...
January 6, 2026 at 5:26 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
from the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.
-
Louise Gluck
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
First Memory Long ago, I was wounded. I lived to revenge myself against my father, not for what he was--for what I was: from the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved. Louise Gluck
January 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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lucidillusions.in
New year, new week, and a new reminder, looking for 3 commissions this month to pay my utilities.

(Share if you see this, my next client might be one of your followers)

#BSNM #AmWriting #OpenForCommissions
lucidillusions.in The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · Nov 1
Bsky has crossed 40 million users, and I just need 20 of them to commission me to write a story for them this month.

(This could technically be 1 in a 2 million story 😆)

Want to read a sample? check the link.

#WritersLife ✍️ #WritingCommunity #AuthorSky #WriterSky #HireAWriter #Gift #BSNM
January 5, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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briallen-fair.bsky.social
#Knitting 🧶 🧦 #knitsky #knitsock
Since they belong together, the Gothic Socks are now bundled – and like good siblings, they stay together: these 3 designs for the price of 2, no coupon code needed. Full transparency: it is my own pattern, and I’m promoting it here. Take a look ogy.de/BriallenFair
3 Pair of handknitted socks on white wooden background. In the front: One pair is worn. It is the design „Chapel“ showing lilac architectural ornaments on black 3 Pair of handknitted socks on white wooden background. In the front: One pair is worn. It is the design „Cathedral“ showing pink glass window rose ornaments on black 3 Pair of handknitted socks on white wooden background. In the front: One pair is worn. It is the design „Minster“ showing dark red architectural ornaments on light orange 6 Pair of handknitted socks on white wooden background.
January 5, 2026 at 6:40 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
On the days my sickness talks to me, I remember small magic.

I remember the way the pretty ivy outside my window entwines with white wood.

I remember the way the rain
softly taps against my window to help me fall asleep.
- @nikitagill.bsky.social
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Small Magic On the days my sickness talks to me, I remember small magic. I remember the way the pretty ivy outside my window entwines with white wood. I remember the way the rain softly taps against my window to help me fall asleep. I remember the way the universe loved me so much, that inside my body's cell, it placed little universes that are its mirror image. I remember the way I am loved by the few people I know will never leave. And I allow the small magic to sing so loud and so happy in my ears that my sickness forgets how to speak.
January 5, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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isasaxonists.bsky.social
Craft isn’t apolitical. It builds care, skills, and material survival outside capitalist extraction. That is resistance.

Don't get me wrong. Go out and protest. Do it. Be brave & loud.

And equally, no need to choose between making things AND organizing. We do both. One sustains the other. 🧶
a long continuous yarn blank in a gradient of indigo to red to orange
January 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
That we can make a house called tomorrow. What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,
Is ourselves. And that's all we need To start. That's everything we require to keep going.
Look back only for as long as you must, Then go forward into the history you will make.
-Alberto Rios
#Poetry 💙📚👀
A House Called Tomorrow Alberto Ríos - 1952- You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen-You are a hundred wild centuries And fifteen, bringing with you In every breath and in every step Everyone who has come before you, All the yous that you have been, The mothers of your mother, The fathers of your father. If someone in your family tree was trouble, A hundred were not: The bad do not win-not finally, No matter how loud they are. We simply would not be here If that were so. You are made, fundamentally, from the good. With this knowledge, you never march alone. You are the breaking news of the century. You are the good who has come forward Through it all, even if so many days Feel otherwise. But think: When you as a child learned to speak, It's not that you didn't know words- It's that, from the centuries, you knew so many, And it's hard to choose the words that will be your own. From those centuries we human beings bring with us The simple solutions and songs, The river bridges and star charts and song harmonies All in service to a simple idea: That we can make a house called tomorrow. What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day, Is ourselves. And that's all we need To start. That's everything we require to keep going. Look back only for as long as you must, Then go forward into the history you will make. Be good, then better. Write books. Cure disease. Make us proud. Make yourself proud. And those who came before you? When you hear thunder, Hear it as their applause.
January 4, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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woollywormhead.bsky.social
My latest YouTube video - an introductory talk about different Hat styles, sizing, construction methods and more.

Because there is so much more to the humble woolly Hat!

Too much for a 25min video, I have a lot more talks planned ;)

🧶 #KnitSky

youtu.be/t_qf7-Y93cY?...
January 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
-
Langston Hughes
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
The Dream Keeper Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. Langston Hughes
January 3, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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loreandordure.com
Erm, I dunno, pursue my personal and professional goals, nurture loving relationships, contribute to my communities, explore the world, read, learn, create?

Yep, so sad and confusing, my childless 40s!
January 2, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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fallonturing.bsky.social
Need money for creatine to treat my covid brain damage and other medical necessities!

#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpSky #MAV 💕💸
fallonturing.bsky.social Fallon [comms closed, shop open] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 14d
No one's bought anything for 2 weeks and I'm out of money so I'm starting my January #MutualAid a few days early. I'm a disabled person who can't work a real job and can't get SSDI. I rely on never-enough knitting sales and this to survive.

C: $FallonBinns
V: fallon-binns
#TransCrowdfund #MAV
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January 2, 2026 at 4:28 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
🧶 Started the year with a crash on top of the "yet to recover from the last outing" thing. But luckily these two are done. Now praying that nephews won't outgrow their FAVOURITE footballers. All the discrepencies football fans notice here are because of my ignorance only, not disrespect
#amigurumi
Two Crocheted dolls of footballers Ronaldo and Messi
January 2, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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patrickdexter.bsky.social
Hi there Blue Sky folks! I'm new here, Here's some Bach Cello Suits in the west of Ireland winter sun. Is what you're into? Would you like to hear more? I'm finding it too upsetting to open up Twitter these days...
January 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
'Two years of displacement, fear, hunger, loss, oppression, and suffering 😔🙏💔😭 I am grateful to everyone who has donated. I am confident that things will get better someday. Please donate to help my children through this ordeal.'
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
All day, I replay these words:
Is this the path of love?
...
I notice what the question is not.
Not, "Is this right?" Not,
"Is this wrong?" It just longs to know how the action of existence
links us to the path to love.
And is it this? Is it this?
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#Poetry 💙📚👀
The Question All day, I replay these words: Is this the path of love? I think of them as I rise, as I wake my children, as I wash dishes, as I drive too close behind the slow blue Subaru, Is this the path of love? Think of these words as I stand in line at the grocery store, think of them as I sit on the couch with my daughter. Amazing how quickly six words become compass, the new lens through which to see myself in the world. I notice what the question is not. Not, "Is this right?" Not, "Is this wrong?" It just longs to know how the action of existence links us to the path to love. And is it this? Is it this? All day, I let myself be led by the question. All day I let myself not be too certain of the answer. Is it this? Is this the path of love? I ask as I wait for the next word to come. ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
January 2, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
I think it's so funny when people who are used to Playing An Algorithm go to new social media sites that haven't really implemented much Algorithm, and find themselves flailing because they're posting Correctly but they're not getting anywhere near the numbers they do on solidified Algoritm sites.
January 1, 2026 at 12:16 PM
chembarathi.bsky.social
🧶 Took five months to do the four rows!! When one row has close to 1k stitches, cant complain. 🤭 Now, I can start with the edge charts. This needs a lot of focus and hence makes me more sick after the knitting session. It is the kind of sick I am choosing once in a while for my happiness #knitsky
A person holding A wip lace shawl in blue
January 1, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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purisubzi.in
I finally made good use of the holidays, and wrote a bunch and redid my website. Please take look, read and send me some love :) purisubzi.in.

Oh, and happy new year!
purisubzi
A notebook of light and loose ends.
purisubzi.in
January 1, 2026 at 5:40 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
we like our old scarves,
we like to have our own way,
we like to pet dogs.
Poetry-
but what is poetry.
More than one flimsy answer has been given to that question. And I don't know, and don't know, and I cling to it as to a life line.
- Wislawa Szymborska
#Poetry 💙📚👀 #LiteratureSky
Some People Like Poetry Wislawa Szymborska tr. Walter Whipple Like- Some people- that is not everybody Not even the majority but the minority. Not counting the schools where one must, and the poets themselves, there will be perhaps two in a thousand. but we also like chicken noodle soup, we like compliments and the color blue, we like our old scarves, we like to have our own way, we like to pet dogs. Poetry- but what is poetry. More than one flimsy answer has been given to that question. And I don't know, and don't know, and I cling to it as to a life line.
January 1, 2026 at 9:02 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
Socks 21 of 2025 - Ending with the the Purr-fect socks which are in no way perfect, but makes me so happy with all the vibrant colours. 🥰
#knitsky 🧦🧶
Had to use 3mm needles for the colourwork part because otherwise it won't go over my heel. High instep :(
A pair of handknitted socks on my feet. The socks are made in neon green as main colour with cat face motif in different colours and pink toes and cuff
December 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you.
-
Sheenagh Pugh
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Sometimes Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail, sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well. A people sometimes will step back from war; elect an honest man; decide they care enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor. Some men become what they were born for. Sometimes our best efforts do not go amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to. The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow that seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you. Sheenagh Pugh
December 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
🧶 My final order of 2025 is ready. Another little Snowhite for somebody's niece. I used a smaller hook this time. This month I made three dolls and I am starting to like the process a bit more than usual. 😬
#crochetsky #amigurumi
A crocheted amigurumi doll of snowhite
December 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
chembarathi.bsky.social
I regret not buying a noise cancelling headphone when I had money. Stupid neighbours and their constant house renovation sucks!!!
December 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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plainparanoid.bsky.social
Ex Machina Book One feels less like a superhero story and more like a political drama with a cape on standby. Smart, grounded, and a bit cynical, it pulls you in by asking what happens after the hero decides to run a city instead. 💙📚 #BookSky #GraphicNovels
Illustrated cover of Ex Machina (The Deluxe Edition) showing a suited man with a tense expression looming in the background, while a masked, armored superhero in green and yellow stands in the foreground holding a futuristic gun, set against stylized mechanical gears and a bold green color palette.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM