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𒊩𒈹🥰✌️SciComm🏳️‍🌈 • Postgrad Archaeology Student🏺(Portrayal of the past in media) • Computer Scientist 👩‍💻 • Lesbian Poetess 👭 • Novelist - prehistory/antiquity • EDXRF/Gamma/Xray Spectroscopy ☢️ • Astrophotography🔭 • ASD/ADHD/Tourette's/CPTSD😵‍💫 • Weaver🧵

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi, I'm Ishtar 🕊️
I'm a neurodivergent archaeology student, professional computer scientist, and novelist.

I talk about EDXRF, gamma spectroscopy, prehistory, cats, LGBT issues, women's issues, mineralogy, sapphic stuff, and a bunch of other topics. 🥰

I'm happy to chat, but please be nice❤️

Picture of me in the lab working on cleaning artifacts

A picture of autunite uranium encased in plastic and held in my hand

A gamma spectrum of European 152 that I made

A picture of my long haired black cat with his tongue sticking out looking dorky with pride flags behind him

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 16h

Sadly, I believe that the paperback will not be ready until early November due to my own screw up and setbacks 😭😭😭

But I'd rather have it right than quick

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 16h

Okay, beta copy of ebook is ready. I finished the formatting on my lunch break.

The auto formatter is pretty bad, so I had to do so much of it manually in HTML for the ePub to work lol

Now I have to review it and make changes, put this should be ready by the 31st, for sure lol

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SacredAshlee @sacredashlee.bsky.social · 5d

My good friend took this awesome picture. I had a fun day with friends and foam swords, and now I'm tired. It was a good workout though.

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 22h

It's true lol
People with valid and sound arguments make them lol

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Bloody hell the doc office is cold. Like 16-17C (602F?)

You could get frostbite up in this b...

Honestly, i wonder what the rationale is behind such a cold place. Most of the women are visibility cold. I have a cardigan but i am 🥶❄️

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

In medical office waiting...

People's phones keep going bananas. One woman's phone blasted erotic lit ad voiced my ai 🤣🤣
I put my phone on silent mode lol

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention robbing humanity and wildlife of our precious nights.

Use nukes, folks. Nuclear power is cheap, clean, and does not ruin the sky

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3d

Startup Reflect Orbital aims to power solar farms at night by reflecting sunlight from about 4,000 satellites, has recently requested a license for a 2026 demo. But astronomers warn the bright objects could be “ruinous” to vital scientific research.

Plan to Reflect Sunlight to Power Solar Panels at Night Upsets Astronomers

Reflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research.

bloom.bg

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Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 1d

BTW shelters and clinics can often use children's books and toys in gpod shape. Ask first, of course!

Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 1d

Let us try this.

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!!!

Books (good ones)
Little games
Cat/dog food
Blanket
Toys
Fidgets
Hand fans
Pillows

All of these things are also important!

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Every time i hear anti-trans folk talk I hear them bring up unaliving rates. But this is part of why it happens. It's not because of being trans... It's because of stigmatization and systemic and systematic oppression.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

I decided to be a field archaeologist at 5 after visiting the Coppergate excavations. I started digging at 15 but by early 20s realised digging + a family wouldn’t work, so I segued into an academic role where I could at least still train.

I’m still a digger.

Is it okay that women had to leave?

Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 14d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

www.cambridge.org

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Well, wider distribution than amazon. The tools are similar. Also, my books do show up on Amazon and everywhere else, too.

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Well, i got my first anti-lgbt reply, but damn was it lame. Like why are they so bad at this lol

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

I can sell on amazon and everywhere else. Also, I don't like them having such control over me. I really don't like Amazon

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

In spite of everything, I'm actually having a good day.

I spent much of the day helping my fellow lesbians move into a new apartment, which I think is a good way to celebrate international lesbian day

Got to go to bed early, as there's a medical appointment tomorrow

a rainbow flag is flying in the wind on top of a grassy hill

Alt: A lesbian pride flag blowing in the wind

media.tenor.com

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Well fk...

I accidentally submitted the wrong cover because I was stressed yesterday and my dyslexia was flared. So, that will now cost me money and time to repair.

That means my book also will not make it in time for the 31st, because it just isn't time.

At least it'll have an ecopy

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

IngramSpark. I'm self-published. I don't want to deal with publishing companies

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Oh snap!!!
It's also international lesbian day!

Is it possible to get lesbian poisoning? Like you are so lesbian and experience so much lesbian related crap that you achieve a sapphic toxicity? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Sitting outside of my friends' house waiting for them to get back with a U-Haul so I can help them move. I'm sitting in the back of my Subaru with the hatch up letting the wind blow through my hair

Living my best lesbian life 🥰🤣

I even have my frog socks... One of them is flipping us off 🖕🐸

A picture of socks with frogs on them. One of the frogs is supposed to be waving with its three fingers, but the center one is configured such that it appears comically as though it is giving the viewer the middle finger

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Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Well you have no obligation IMO, especially if it costs you cash. It's not like archeology is exactly the highest paying profession lol also, money is super tight right now anyway

That's one of my concerns

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

I think I'll probably go down at least one day, maybe the second. Can't spare the cash for a hotel room right now, but I could just drive there and back. I'll probably pick one day

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

I consider going, but I don't know. It's been a pretty traumatizing period since 2025 and starting to take a toll.

You? (Doing okay and/or going)?

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, what is hopefully the final proof of my book breezed through at record time!

I just ordered a copy and hopefully I'll have it by like Monday or Tuesday. If it's good, I'll order a bunch right after that for the October 31st release 🥰

Ebook will be ready, but I'm hoping for some prints

Ishtar - 🧜‍♀️😷☢️🏳️‍🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling a bit better today

Headed over to two friends place so I can help them move.

Remember: community isn't something we just say, it's something we must do. My advice, find some friends who matter to you, and look out for their well-being, while considering your own as well

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