Esmerel
@esmerel.bsky.social
Parent, gamer, homeschooler, driver, polycraftual hobbyist, Paragon Vanguard, technical writer, meat popsicle.
Husband pulled up a “guess the spaceship” quiz and .. I did not expect to see Nell. I don’t think I’ve see that ship in 40 years and I still knew it instantly.
December 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Husband pulled up a “guess the spaceship” quiz and .. I did not expect to see Nell. I don’t think I’ve see that ship in 40 years and I still knew it instantly.
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Purity culture, which lets be honest, has been plaguing the US in some form or another since the beginning, warps sex, making it violent or forbidden or something to be used against people. Sex, if you enjoy it, is simply part of being human. Moralizing sex fucks people up.
I'm gonna be real: many many times when I've watched a sexy TV show and gone "oh wow, this is being surprisingly normal and positive about sex!" I later found out it was a Canadian production.
I have *never* thought that about HBO. If I'm uncomfortable and sad, I check to see if it's HBO.
I have *never* thought that about HBO. If I'm uncomfortable and sad, I check to see if it's HBO.
Heated Rivalry is a Crave production, from Canada. HBO is just a distributor. I really wish people would stop attributing anything in the production of this show to HBO.
December 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Purity culture, which lets be honest, has been plaguing the US in some form or another since the beginning, warps sex, making it violent or forbidden or something to be used against people. Sex, if you enjoy it, is simply part of being human. Moralizing sex fucks people up.
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The core of the MAGA-GOP is not understanding the difference between apologizing for being white and being sorry for what has been and is being done in the name of whiteness (which they consider fair and “natural”).
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The core of the MAGA-GOP is not understanding the difference between apologizing for being white and being sorry for what has been and is being done in the name of whiteness (which they consider fair and “natural”).
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Books With Pictures is wonderful, and needs some help.
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Books With Pictures is wonderful, and needs some help.
every freakin time.
September 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
every freakin time.
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Not just apps and software. I wasn’t joking when I said a year or so ago that I hoped everyone responsible for an important data set had a pre-2022 snapshot and a plan for how to cope with rolling back to it eventually.
AI is just microplastics for software. It's polluted every app and slowly killing them.
September 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Not just apps and software. I wasn’t joking when I said a year or so ago that I hoped everyone responsible for an important data set had a pre-2022 snapshot and a plan for how to cope with rolling back to it eventually.
coworker: do you have an example of this very specific behavior that's causing me problems with the markdown?
Me: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. *30 seconds* Here, there's multiple of those in this 1500 line page
lol, sob.
Me: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. *30 seconds* Here, there's multiple of those in this 1500 line page
lol, sob.
September 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
coworker: do you have an example of this very specific behavior that's causing me problems with the markdown?
Me: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. *30 seconds* Here, there's multiple of those in this 1500 line page
lol, sob.
Me: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. *30 seconds* Here, there's multiple of those in this 1500 line page
lol, sob.
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The right's concern with "cancel culture" is the same as their concern with everything else: They don't like it when they are not in control of it.
September 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The right's concern with "cancel culture" is the same as their concern with everything else: They don't like it when they are not in control of it.
In other not exactly news, I read my 50 book goal for the year and I’m managing to continue. I’ve read some of Martha Wells Raksura books (because while I’m hyper focused on Murderbot, she has other works). Also just finished @scalzi.com ‘s _Old Man’s War_ which was not at all what I expected.
September 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In other not exactly news, I read my 50 book goal for the year and I’m managing to continue. I’ve read some of Martha Wells Raksura books (because while I’m hyper focused on Murderbot, she has other works). Also just finished @scalzi.com ‘s _Old Man’s War_ which was not at all what I expected.
Today’s arts & crafts entry: a Murderbot.
I printed it last week, decided today to do some painting. I don’t have a small enough brush to get the lines on the mask and chest logo. STL file here: www.printables.com/model/139315...
When it’s dry, it goes on my desk.
Cc @marthawells.com :)
I printed it last week, decided today to do some painting. I don’t have a small enough brush to get the lines on the mask and chest logo. STL file here: www.printables.com/model/139315...
When it’s dry, it goes on my desk.
Cc @marthawells.com :)
September 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Today’s arts & crafts entry: a Murderbot.
I printed it last week, decided today to do some painting. I don’t have a small enough brush to get the lines on the mask and chest logo. STL file here: www.printables.com/model/139315...
When it’s dry, it goes on my desk.
Cc @marthawells.com :)
I printed it last week, decided today to do some painting. I don’t have a small enough brush to get the lines on the mask and chest logo. STL file here: www.printables.com/model/139315...
When it’s dry, it goes on my desk.
Cc @marthawells.com :)
Spotify Dj starting my Monday morning with a drinking song is such a mood.
September 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Spotify Dj starting my Monday morning with a drinking song is such a mood.
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Because the current cultural argument isn’t about sex; it’s about sex as a scoring mechanism for domination.
Men who are sexually fulfilled without domination can be dismissed as lucky
chads, deluded simps, doomed libertines, or any other dodge. In this conversation, “getting laid” is only a proxy.
Men who are sexually fulfilled without domination can be dismissed as lucky
chads, deluded simps, doomed libertines, or any other dodge. In this conversation, “getting laid” is only a proxy.
Why isn’t bell hooks’s writing around men and love not seen as a progressive text on how men can get laid, i.e., form healthy romantic relationships with people in their lives?
August 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Because the current cultural argument isn’t about sex; it’s about sex as a scoring mechanism for domination.
Men who are sexually fulfilled without domination can be dismissed as lucky
chads, deluded simps, doomed libertines, or any other dodge. In this conversation, “getting laid” is only a proxy.
Men who are sexually fulfilled without domination can be dismissed as lucky
chads, deluded simps, doomed libertines, or any other dodge. In this conversation, “getting laid” is only a proxy.
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IDK who needs to know this but...
You can sing the Sesame Street song "Rubber Ducky" but change the first line to "Motherfucker, burn in hell" and it works PERFECTLY
You can sing the Sesame Street song "Rubber Ducky" but change the first line to "Motherfucker, burn in hell" and it works PERFECTLY
July 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
IDK who needs to know this but...
You can sing the Sesame Street song "Rubber Ducky" but change the first line to "Motherfucker, burn in hell" and it works PERFECTLY
You can sing the Sesame Street song "Rubber Ducky" but change the first line to "Motherfucker, burn in hell" and it works PERFECTLY
Just got out of Fantastic Four! It was fun, did enjoy.
July 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Just got out of Fantastic Four! It was fun, did enjoy.
MUCH EXCITE.
If you like Murderbot, and are looking for something to read and are down for some cozy fantasy, grab the other two of @travisbaldree.bsky.social ‘s books in this world before this one comes out in Nov :)
If you like Murderbot, and are looking for something to read and are down for some cozy fantasy, grab the other two of @travisbaldree.bsky.social ‘s books in this world before this one comes out in Nov :)
BRIGANDS & BREADKNIVES by @travisbaldree.bsky.social is currently a SFF Spotlight Title on @netgalley.bsky.social!
www.netgalley.com/catalog/cate...
Due to be published by @torbooks.bsky.social on November 11th.
www.netgalley.com/catalog/cate...
Due to be published by @torbooks.bsky.social on November 11th.
July 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
MUCH EXCITE.
If you like Murderbot, and are looking for something to read and are down for some cozy fantasy, grab the other two of @travisbaldree.bsky.social ‘s books in this world before this one comes out in Nov :)
If you like Murderbot, and are looking for something to read and are down for some cozy fantasy, grab the other two of @travisbaldree.bsky.social ‘s books in this world before this one comes out in Nov :)
achievement unlocked!
I managed to figure out how to cut the stickers out with the cameo!
The company logo ones didn’t come out as well because it cut all the lines and I need to figure out how to just do the outside ones. But, progress!
❤️ murderbot
I managed to figure out how to cut the stickers out with the cameo!
The company logo ones didn’t come out as well because it cut all the lines and I need to figure out how to just do the outside ones. But, progress!
❤️ murderbot
July 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
achievement unlocked!
I managed to figure out how to cut the stickers out with the cameo!
The company logo ones didn’t come out as well because it cut all the lines and I need to figure out how to just do the outside ones. But, progress!
❤️ murderbot
I managed to figure out how to cut the stickers out with the cameo!
The company logo ones didn’t come out as well because it cut all the lines and I need to figure out how to just do the outside ones. But, progress!
❤️ murderbot
Cats are great!
I wish this one would STOP LICKING THE CUTTING MAT.
I wish this one would STOP LICKING THE CUTTING MAT.
July 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Cats are great!
I wish this one would STOP LICKING THE CUTTING MAT.
I wish this one would STOP LICKING THE CUTTING MAT.
I don’t think I put these up because I’m fighting with the cameo but I’m also playing with stickers
July 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I don’t think I put these up because I’m fighting with the cameo but I’m also playing with stickers
Trying to put a few fun things into the world because.. yeah.
I made my murderbot company earrings yesterday and then said “well, uh, what next?” Then I remembered I’d made mass effect paragon/renegade coasters I could shrink down.
Also, playing with chainmail stuff.
I made my murderbot company earrings yesterday and then said “well, uh, what next?” Then I remembered I’d made mass effect paragon/renegade coasters I could shrink down.
Also, playing with chainmail stuff.
July 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Trying to put a few fun things into the world because.. yeah.
I made my murderbot company earrings yesterday and then said “well, uh, what next?” Then I remembered I’d made mass effect paragon/renegade coasters I could shrink down.
Also, playing with chainmail stuff.
I made my murderbot company earrings yesterday and then said “well, uh, what next?” Then I remembered I’d made mass effect paragon/renegade coasters I could shrink down.
Also, playing with chainmail stuff.
And now I have myself a set of logo earrings, because I can.
The detail is a little odd just because this is small and I’m using a .4 nozzle, but anyone who can see that detail and wants to comment on it is either: standing too close, or a fellow printer nerd.
The detail is a little odd just because this is small and I’m using a .4 nozzle, but anyone who can see that detail and wants to comment on it is either: standing too close, or a fellow printer nerd.
July 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
And now I have myself a set of logo earrings, because I can.
The detail is a little odd just because this is small and I’m using a .4 nozzle, but anyone who can see that detail and wants to comment on it is either: standing too close, or a fellow printer nerd.
The detail is a little odd just because this is small and I’m using a .4 nozzle, but anyone who can see that detail and wants to comment on it is either: standing too close, or a fellow printer nerd.
What have I been doing?
Rewatching Murderbot while I do a variety of crafting stuff.
Yesterday I managed to print this Company logo based off the work done by someone on a discord server I’m in.
Rewatching Murderbot while I do a variety of crafting stuff.
Yesterday I managed to print this Company logo based off the work done by someone on a discord server I’m in.
July 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What have I been doing?
Rewatching Murderbot while I do a variety of crafting stuff.
Yesterday I managed to print this Company logo based off the work done by someone on a discord server I’m in.
Rewatching Murderbot while I do a variety of crafting stuff.
Yesterday I managed to print this Company logo based off the work done by someone on a discord server I’m in.
In case anyone ever isn't sure about the ADHD, I am currently:
- standing in my kitchen on my laptop, while
- the shortribs are cooking in the pressure cooker (just turned it off) and
- the water is heating for noodles
while I:
- play with Silhouette software because i want to make stickers
- standing in my kitchen on my laptop, while
- the shortribs are cooking in the pressure cooker (just turned it off) and
- the water is heating for noodles
while I:
- play with Silhouette software because i want to make stickers
July 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In case anyone ever isn't sure about the ADHD, I am currently:
- standing in my kitchen on my laptop, while
- the shortribs are cooking in the pressure cooker (just turned it off) and
- the water is heating for noodles
while I:
- play with Silhouette software because i want to make stickers
- standing in my kitchen on my laptop, while
- the shortribs are cooking in the pressure cooker (just turned it off) and
- the water is heating for noodles
while I:
- play with Silhouette software because i want to make stickers
I have a lot of feelings and I need to go stare at a wall.
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover...
"Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com is a new #Murderbot story free to read at Reactor now!
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"Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com is a new #Murderbot story free to read at Reactor now!
reactormag.com/rapport-mart...
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I have a lot of feelings and I need to go stare at a wall.