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Natalie Alana Ashton

@natalan.bsky.social

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🚊 connecting disabled communities in the North @transportforall.org.uk. 📚 publishing philosophy on knowledge and social change @ nataliealanaashton.notion.site. don't blame my employer for my views, they begged me to stop skeeting. she/her.

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 7h

last year when i got my winter vaxxes this was on the pharmacist's desk and it didn't make me feel confident

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 20h

we need to bring back the Horrible Histories primary school trick where you describe in detail something done by the nazis, get the audience to agree that it's abhorrent, then reveal that it was actually 'our lads' last week

AJ DISMEMBERS! @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 20h

I actually think it might be interesting to ask some of these flag-shagging freaks to give an account of the First World War as they understand it. Because increasingly it seems to me they don't. 'Lest we forget' has gone from an urgent moral injunction to a smug piety.

AJ DISMEMBERS! @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 20h

At this he became very uncomfortable, I think because he was actually being invited to *think* about the War rather than use it as an excuse for soft, smug 'lest we forget' sentimentality. So he spluttered 'WELL ANYWAY TRUMP WON SO THERE' and slunk off.

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 1d

do they have beer on the menu? they do in austria

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 1d

following a phone call today someone sent me an email with the subject "8/10 meeting" and on reflection this is obviously the date but for a moment i thought it was a rating and my blood ran cold

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 1d

really this is a PSA for dell, but the answer is usually neurodivergence

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 1d

good for him

Headline which reads "Nobel prizes: Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is 'living his best life' hiking off grid".

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 2d

do! there's an official prompt list if you google it, but it's fine to ignore that, make up your own rules, and get what you want from it

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 2d

his animal ones seem amazing, he should've just stayed away from women i reckon. the horse's expression perfectly captures the threatening and threatened "i will trample you to death if you don't move but only because i can't help it"

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 2d

im not normally a fan of him but you can't argue with five sausage dogs on a colourful rug can you

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 2d

i missed yesterday, so here's two #inktober drawings today

photo of a sketch pad on my lap, with a line drawing of a person sitting on a wall. the proportions are a bit off but i think you get the feeling that they're hunched over in focus.

close-up of another line drawing. a person in a skirt with a large shoulder bag, standing with her arms folded. again i like the expressiveness of the pose. she looks impatient. but i panicked when trying to detail the face so that's a bit odd. and let's not talk about her knees.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

private eye jobs near me
how do i become a private eye
private eye do you need a college degree
do women really think private eyes are cool
how much does being a private eye pay
private eyes do you have to drink alcohol
private eye cocktail recipes

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 2d

he played golf on the 4th if that's relevant

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 2d

if anyone is a regular user of Newcastle station pls can you install a VPN and DM me?

(love too use microblogging platforms in 2025)

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 3d

they have a serious problem

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 3d

im not austrian, just lived there for a while, but that's what i was told!

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 3d

two of these and a redbull is called a U6* breakfast

*subway line that goes through the cheaper areas of Vienna

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 4d

day five of #inktober before bed

a line drawing of a cast iron cooking pot on a high shelf. it's a bit wonky and wobbly and there are pencil guide lines visible underneath.

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 4d

decided last minute to do #inktober this year, because i haven't drawn regularly for a while... i'm not following the prompts. just doodling what i can when i get five minutes.

wonky little line drawing of my fleecy slippers. it's labelled "1.10.25".

little scribble of morl at his computer. he's hard to draw because he moves constantly. "2.10.25".

the gable end of a terrace, with a line of dormer windows, chimney pots, and TV arials. "3.10.25".

egg, kimchi and avocado bagel. i coloured this one in, and for some reason made it mostly luminous orange. "4.10.25".

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 5d

This is the the funniest-because-it-is-true take on the internet and it is sad that you have to click through to see the context

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

incel

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 4d

sorry if this is obv, but i'd choose your timing very carefully, esp if you're taking sharp tools. a friend did some... pruning in a large group and there was a confrontation and if she had been on her own it could've been much nastier

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 5d

neither jeans nor zany is the sweet spot isn't it

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 5d

it's fine, people like all kinds of food

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 5d

people like milkshakes, i hear

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 5d

ping pong and food sounds like a plenty decent time

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