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Nyx 💜

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Brand & Web Designer 💜 General Weirdo ✨ she/they 🖤 Queer 🏳️‍🌈 Disabled ♿ Neurodivergent/AuDHD ♾️

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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Jan 11

Brand/Web designer & human-centred biz nerd @studionyxco.bsky.social 💜

Anti-racist witchy shit & botany/herb-lore nerd @ Nyx Apothecary 🖤

Druid @ AODA & IWOD /|\

Queer 🏳️‍🌈 Disabled ♿ Neurodivergent/AuDHD ♾️

Boorloo (Perth) 🇦🇺 Wadjuk Noongar boodjar: Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 3d

as a reminder: bluesky (the app) has a broad set of user interactions controls.

beyond blocking and block lists, we have features to control who can reply, mention, and quote-post accounts

Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8

Quick Tip: You can control who replies to your post on Bluesky.

Just tap the 🌐 icon on your post to choose: everyone, followers, people you follow, mentioned users - or turn off replies entirely ✨

Screenshot of Post Interaction Settings with an arrow pointing to Reply Settings

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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · 5d

Hi Cairns!

w. @az.scorpinc.social 💚

A lush hotel garden and pool, with green mountains between the palm trees and cloudy sky.

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 12d

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 11d

Devastating news: the Slender-billed Curlew has just been declared extinct. This Slender-billed Curlew is from "A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles" (1863). #SciArt by Benjamin Fawcett #ExtinctionIsForever www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42530095

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Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 10d

This is HUGE! Please share so people with ME/CFS can learn about this incredible medical breakthrough!!

It not only helps develop a diagnostic test, but also points to immune and inflammatory changes to aid future treatments. After 80+ years of no treatment, there’s some hope, finally!!

Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 13d

A new blood test demonstrates 96% accuracy in diagnosing myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, offering a potential advance in reliable identification and management of the condition.

Novel blood test for chronic fatigue achieves 96% accuracy

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxford Biodynamics have developed a high accuracy blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS).

medicalxpress.com

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Wayward Witchery @waywardwitchery.com · 10d

You are not behind. You are becoming – and becoming takes time, shadow, and stillness. ✨💜

#WitchSky

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 9d

Mood.

“Fuck being the bigger person. I’m going to start biting people.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 9d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 18d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 26d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · 21d

Omg the sparkles! 😍✨

Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · 21d

*Hugs*

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 28d

“Distinguished epidemiologist Professor Fiona Stanley said she was “deeply sad” and “ashamed” after the Fremantle hospital that bears her name abruptly cancelled a 2024 event featuring Palestinian Australian doctors speaking about their experiences in Gaza—”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fiona Stanley ‘ashamed’ after hospital bearing her name cancelled event featuring Palestinian Australian doctors

Exclusive: Distinguished professor says she considered asking hospital to remove her name after event on doctors’ experiences in Gaza was abruptly called off

www.theguardian.com

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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Sep 16

Wanna know what modern druidry looks like? Larisa has the answer!

I'm almost finished, and thusfar it honestly might be one of my favourite books about druidry 😍

Larisa A. White @larisa-a-white.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Fire Season heat is on! Time for an...

AUTUMN EQUINOX FLASH SALE • Sept. 15-28, 2025
25% off on all hardcover, paperback, and ePub editions of "World Druidry: A Globalizing Path of Nature Spirituality"
purchased author-direct from:

larisa-a-white.com/worlddruidry...

/|\ #druidsky #pagansky 🎁

A hardbound copy of the book, "World Druidry: A Globalizing Path of Nature Spirituality" by Larisa A. White, M.S.Ed., Ph.D., sits on an oak table surrounded by dried lavender flowers and a dish of candy.

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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Sep 13

Wait, what? You're moving? 😮

Also holy fuck that list is ridiculous. Wishing you all of the luck 💖✨

Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Sep 13

Side-quest from my Culpeper's Herbal: Digitising the index of a Victorian dictionary of English plant names 😛

I've been adding them to my database of common names. I've added almost 10,000 records 😅

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Grapie Deltaco @grapiedeltaco.bsky.social · Nov 19

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Sep 12

Tbf that is a helluva combination, but you're still also in a helluva situation even without that.

I hope you get to be pleasantly surprised by both how your health progresses, and how much you still get to write.

And that the world gets to have you in it for a decent while yet 💖

Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is what happens when I don't have wireless headphones 😅

(I finally took mine back re connectivity issues since I bought them, and Sony decided that adding stickers to the exterior of the headband clearly caused the problem and therefore voided the warranty. $450 headphones < stickers)

Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Sep 7

Guess who tried to make pancakes for dinner (/breakfast, since I haven't actually eaten yet) and instead up-ended almost an entire batch of pancake batter on the floor (after their earphones cable got caught around the jug)?

It me 🙃

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · Sep 2

Words are magic

My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders.
(Credit: Ann Morg)

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Sep 1

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000.

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

www.humblebundle.com

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · Sep 2

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌

This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It

AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

www.wsj.com

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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Aug 31

The stuff in the US has definitely emboldened folks, but nothing happens in isolation. It's not a coincidence it's here, and there, and the UK, and more.

The US learned a lot from Australia's terrible treatment of refugees, and we should be way more fucking ashamed of that, honestly.

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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · Aug 31

I was glad to hear that the numbers were a tiny fraction of the turnout of last weekend's rallies for Palestine... But it's still far too many.

From what I hear, the counter-rallies were pretty strong, too. But the fact that nazi-run rallies are getting thousands of attendees is not ok 😔

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