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Tympanic & Frisketty

@luckyerica3.bsky.social

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Yorkshire based, printmaker at West Yorks Print Works, tarot nerd, mad person and carer, passionate about disability rights, BSL and mad/crip/MMIND culture. DMs not visible to me.

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm focusing more on my art and printmaking bits on this account so my screen name and photos have changed, but it's still same old Bluesky me!

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 4h

OK, I am going to bed so I can get enough sleep to tackle my emails tomorrow vs staying up worrying my way through mental permutations of emails I need to send tomorrow.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 4h

And to be somewhere new with friends, sounds like there is work to be done ♡

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 5h

Nicki 😍 what a cutie.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 6h

How did someone realize they could soak
olives in lye or let grape juice ferment
inside casks of oak? How, when
we first leaned toward each other,
did our tongues know to touch
before our brains knew
we were going to kiss at all?

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 6h

Bread and Butter BY Gayle Brandeis.

I often wonder how people figured
things out—simple things like bread
and butter. How did the first person know
to grind and knead and bake,
to milk and skim and churn?

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 6h

You must snuggle!

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 6h

(I do appreciate how YouTube is now flagging when a person is a licensed medical professional vs a crank wearing scrubs with a machine behind him.)

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 6h

I'm gutted to admit that I've been practicing cycluc breathing and it does actually calm me on a physiological level, annoyingly Dr is right re this technique. (Your mileage may vary!)
youtube.com/shorts/yRT90...

My heart rate PLUMMETS with cyclic breathing

YouTube video by Medical Secrets

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Kris Howard @web-goddess.org · 1d

Typeknitting - Okay, this is very cool. Knit Hello (https://www.knithello.com/) is a typeface where you type in words and the representation it spits out is a knitting pattern for the words. I love how simple it is, and how it uses slipstitches for the ho... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/87626

The text "web-goddess" represented in the font Knit Hello, which generates a knitting grid pattern

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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 1d

The whole big thing 🦋🌸🌿
#embroidery #fiberArt

A big embroidery piece on a hoop, with lots of flowers and plants, an appliqué moth with a fuzzy faux fur body, and a leafy background

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Jack @jackalopeart.bsky.social · 2d

"A New Shape" - wood engraving

#art #illustration #satyr #faun #forest #folklore #printmaking #print

a wood engraving of a figure draped in a pattern like marbled paper. on their head they wear a mask with long ears and spiked horns or antlers. there are pale trees in the background. it is printed in black ink on off white paper.

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 15h

In the Samaria Gorge on the island of Crete, Greece, lies a very deep cave with a continual cold spring waterfall. To reach it, you have to swim about 100 meters in 10 degree (C) water. I spent time thinking about hypothermia I was so cold. Nice payoff tho.

Pic of the day

#photography

Walls of the cave direct you to a small bright opening in which a cold mountain spring falls to bright turquoise water.

Along with Denali Mountain and Bryce Canyon, this is the most majestic place I’ve ever been.

My teeth rattling even as I could stand in only waist deep water kept me from fully enjoying it,, but no chance I was missing this just for some discomfort.

It seemed to get progressively colder tho so this is about as close as I got. In later days I’ll post a shot looking back thru the caves. The video I took is really the best indicator of the beauty here but I dunno if I can post that here or not. I may try in the comments later today.

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Neil Hopkins @thermalsatsuma.bsky.social · 21h

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Geese

Gaggle of geese
Pestering people’s picnics
Stealing sandwiches

Gaggle of geese at Cannon Hall. One large white goose in charge

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you 😊

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 10h

10/10, delicious, as my Ma says 'that'll keep body and soul together'

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 16h

Making a healing pie to boost me (grates extra ginger in there.)
www.nigella.com/recipes/indi...

Indian-Spiced Shepherd's Pie

My children love this. Actually, I don't know anyone who's eaten it and doesn't. While it's spicy (though you can reduce the heat to taste) and vibrant, it is also cosy and comforting, and blends the ...

www.nigella.com

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 10h

It might be more personal messiness than expertise but yeah, I think one response to powerlessness can be get power back by shocking people.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 11h

Not to excuse anyone doing that mind, but I've observed in myself and others that urge to metaphorically smack everyone down with graphic stuff that is overshared.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 11h

I think it can a form of weaponising trauma, when a person wields it out of context and harrowing details to regain a sense of control (which often feels to them like safety.)

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 11h

I can't say it better than the Care Collective does in page 30 of The Care Maniifesto.

We have to break down the destructive linking of dependence with pathology and recognide that we are all formed, albeit in diverse and uneven ways, through and by our interdependencies.

Thus, in order to reimagine a genuinely caring politics, we must begin by recognising the myriad ways that our survival and our thriving are everywhere and always contingent on others. A caring politics must grasp both this interdependence and the ambivalence and anxiety it inevitably generates. Only once we acknowledge the challenges of our shared dependence along with our irreducible differences can we fully value the skills and resources necessary to promote the capabilities of everyone, whatever our distinct needs, whether as carers or cared for, noting the frequent reciprocity of those positions.

Recognising our need both to give and receive care not only provides us with a sense of our common humanity but enables us to confront our shared fears of human frailty. Rather than project them onto those we label as dependent.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 11h

I don't see that kind of change happening in short term interventions that only focus on economic output. It has to be bottom up structured nourishment and care in a society that values a person beyond their work status.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 11h

I really believe that people can stabilise and lead lives that ard meaningful to them, I've seen it happen over and over again. It takes investment from the support networks and it takes resources, housing, medical care, money, social care, legal aid, workers rights provision.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 13h

• the causes of someone's life collapsing are always due to multiple factors. I've never encountered a simple 'take personal responsibility' case yet.
• it takes as much time or more to recover from a crisis as it took to get into crisis.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 13h

What I came away with after all that work was:
• people do the best with what they know. They do what they can with what they have.
• people ask for help. The hard to reach people stop asking for a reason, usually self protection.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 13h

I planned with people who'd been through community mental health treatment. I planned with people who were denied it or couldn't engage in it. I planned with people who had been harmed by mh services. I planned with people who were professionals working in mh services.

Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 13h

I spent 12 weeks blocks, 4 day retreats, weekend intensives with people across my county. These ranged from people with serious mental illness, traumatic brain injuries, extensive histories of being a victim of crime, permanent disability, physical, mental, emotional, functional disability.