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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 4h

This thread immediately brought this fabulous bit of “stinky English” history to mind so I had to go find my screenshot of it to share 🤣
#bathing #Vikings #hygiene

Tweet screenshot:

@historyinmemez
"We had to kill the Vikings, because they bathed and brushed their hair and our wives couldn't resist such sophistication" is a HELL of a take by Medieval English chroniclers.
One thirteenth-century chronicle
attributed a slaughter of Danes by Anglo-Saxons in 1002 to the former's irresistibility to the latter's spouses:

"The Danes made themselves too acceptable to English women by their elegant manners and their care of their person.
They combed their hair daily, according to the custom of their country, and took a bath every Saturday, and even changed their clothes frequently, and improved the beauty of their bodies with many such trifles, by which means they undermined the chastity of wives.”

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 17h

Nah, Bad Bunny should keep the tune but change the lyrics to “God Bless Puerto Rico” and “I’m proud to be Boricua” 👀😹

a close up of a man 's face with a beard and hat .

Alt: Bad Bunny smiling

media.tenor.com

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 17h

I’m exhausted and read this sentence as “Crashing in an estimated 90 minutes” and chuckled 😹 (reread it again and raised my brain is too tired to be on here 😭)

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 1d

This baby girl is the love of my life and my joy - I don’t know what I’d do without her 🥹
#cat

bsky.app/profile/ethy...

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 13d

#Cats are not disposable beings those of us who love can just abandon for our own convenience / comfort.
Yet that’s what these “helping agencies” are telling me to do to my closest family member & we’re less than 4 days from homeless right now…

Pls help us here: linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...

#Caturday

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 1d

What a cutie 🥹

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistRights #Art #NoAI 🚫

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 1d

This baby girl is the love of my life and my joy - I don’t know what I’d do without her 🥹
#cat

bsky.app/profile/ethy...

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 13d

#Cats are not disposable beings those of us who love can just abandon for our own convenience / comfort.
Yet that’s what these “helping agencies” are telling me to do to my closest family member & we’re less than 4 days from homeless right now…

Pls help us here: linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...

#Caturday

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a “war” - using that term legitimizes / whitewashes Israel’s genocide. And 67,000 is an absurdly low number.

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 1d

Too many don’t seem to know / understand Newsom is doing the same things Rs are: vilifying the homeless & PERSONALLY throwing their belongings in the 🗑️ ; vilifying the trans community; prioritizing billionaire donors to the point of (fire / water) catastrophe in his state; cozying up w/ fascists‼️
🙅🏻‍♀️

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 1d

Still homeless in the greater Seattle area… still need help as a severely disabled woman w/ a disabled 🐈‍⬛ 🆘
Linktree: linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...
Venmo: venmo.com/u/Donia-Lilly
PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/don...
#pwD #HelpFolksLive2025 #MutualAidStrike #CatSky #HelpSky #MABoost #DisabilityCrowdFund

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 6d

Update: #homeless in a tiny motel room too small for my ♿️ so I have to crawl.

Pls help: every share & amount no matter how small helps us reach our goal of permanent housing:
linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...

#MutualAidStrike #pwME #HelpFolksLive2025 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #Cat #Disabled #ChronicIllness

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 11d

The reason for the GoFundMe is to buy a used mobile home (even those start at $85k in these 3counties!) & put it on land friends will rent to me until I die.
(Mobile home parks are too loud + are being bought up by #PrivateEquity jacking up the lot rent to unaffordable levels ‼️)
gofund.me/b5a04d498

Donate to Help Donia & Monkey Secure Safe, Permanent Housing, organized by Zane Bacon

Our dear friend Donia recently learned she (& her lifesaver of a cat, Mo… Zane Bacon needs your support for Help Donia & Monkey Secure Safe, Permanent Housing

gofund.me

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much 🙏

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 4d

This comment is obtuse on so many levels 🤦🏻‍♀️

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 4d

I literally said “It’s not for everyone.”

I simply advocated for ppl to do some reading (or even watch vids from edu creators like Chill Polyamory if you don’t like reading) to see if it might be.

The ETHICAL part of it is that everyone involved is enthusiastically participating, not pressured. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 4d

Either that or if you still really love each other, read up on polyamory. Not enough ppl understand the ethical loving relationships that are possible if you stop believing the religious brainwashing that monogamy is the only way to live. It’s not for everyone, but it’s def for a lot of asexual ppl!

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5d

Reminder that if you are interacting with law enforcement in Illinois, this IS a stop and ID state. Also, aside from identifying yourself and asking if you're free to leave, the ONLY thing you should say to law enforcement, state or federal, is:

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DaltonGMeek @dgmeek92.bsky.social · 5d

Please help our friend Donia, please help. Please care.
Por favor, Donar ahora. Ella y su gato están sin hogar, y necesito ayuda urgentemente.
#MutualAid
#AyudaMutua

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 6d

Greater #Seattle:
know someone who needs a manual wheelchair ♿️? No space for my backup manual in addition to my power chair…

I’m homeless now & would love a donation but if you’re in need & can’t afford one, I’m happy to gift it for #FREE❤️‍🩹

Available SUNDAY 10/5 only‼️ Pick up near Renton Highlands

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much 🙏
Here is my Linktree with all the ways to help:

linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 6d

Greater #Seattle:
know someone who needs a manual wheelchair ♿️? No space for my backup manual in addition to my power chair…

I’m homeless now & would love a donation but if you’re in need & can’t afford one, I’m happy to gift it for #FREE❤️‍🩹

Available SUNDAY 10/5 only‼️ Pick up near Renton Highlands

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goodkirbo45.bsky.social @goodkirbo45.bsky.social · 6d

Please help

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 9d

This thread has all the ways to help us:
linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...

#MutualAidSupport #CatsOfBluesky #Disabled #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
#DisabilityCrowdFund #HelpFolksLive2025
#Cat

bsky.app/profile/ethy...

Picture of woman cradling a sleeping black cat in her arm as she also lays flat on a bed with the text:

I need your help to secure a permanent place to live:
I AM SEVERELY DISABLED & MY BODY CAN'T SURVIVE MOVING
OVER & OVER ANYMORE.
linktr.ee/EthyricalArtist

Picture of adorable black cat looking up at her human as she’s cradled in her lap with the text:

Ways to help:
linktr.ee/EthyricalArtist
Why do people not act unless it's a disaster at the end-stage & facing imminent death?!
I've been trying all year to avoid this last-minute crisis, but is that what people need to act?? Someone's ultimate stress & despair?
PLEASE. HELP. ME.
Can you hear me? Can you see me?!
@EthyricalArtist

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you 🙏

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 6d

My cat & I are now living in a loud motel where I have to keep the blinds shut for any privacy. Effectively a windowless box that’s not big enough for my wheelchair to maneuver & I have to crawl to the bathroom. 🆘
Ways to help:
linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...

#StrikeForMutualAid

bsky.app/profile/ethy...

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 11d

Direct ways to help my disabled cat & her #pwD human:
V: venmo.com/u/Donia-Lilly
P: paypal.com/paypalme/donialilly

And if you know of anywhere quiet w/o stairs w/in a 1.5hr drive of Seattle where we can stay or cheaply rent short term, pls reach out❗️🆘
#MutualAid #HelpSky
#FundSky #MABoost #SevereME

Woman in a burgundy hooded robe covering her whole body laying on a bed with a black cat laying on her body facing her as she caresses its body and head.
Text reads: Do you want to save two lives? (One disabled human & one disabled cat)

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 6d

Update: #homeless in a tiny motel room too small for my ♿️ so I have to crawl.

Pls help: every share & amount no matter how small helps us reach our goal of permanent housing:
linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...

#MutualAidStrike #pwME #HelpFolksLive2025 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #Cat #Disabled #ChronicIllness

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 7d

I OFFICIALLY CALL BLUESKY USERS TO DO A MUTUAL AID / DIRECT SUPPORT POSTER'S STRIKE.

No content except things that directly support marginalized people.

Flood the site with the people Jay would love to forget she is personally killing.

And nothing else.

#StrikeForMutualAid

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 7d

And I feel I should mention here, since not everyone clicks on profiles of posts they like: My disabled cat & I (a disabled, queer, Latina artist) are now homeless & living in a tiny motel room since Tuesday. 🆘
#MutualAidSupport #HelpFolksLive #Cat #DisabilityCrowdFund #HELP
bsky.app/profile/ethy...

Donia 🖖 ♾️ ♿️ @ethyricalartist.bsky.social · 9d

This thread has all the ways to help us:
linktr.ee/EthyricalArt...

#MutualAidSupport #CatsOfBluesky #Disabled #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
#DisabilityCrowdFund #HelpFolksLive2025
#Cat

bsky.app/profile/ethy...

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