Nikki
@brightshadowsky.bsky.social
Fish scientist by day; local theater performer, novel writer, knitter, audio drama voice actor, and hula dancer by night.
No wonder I'm so exhausted. She/her.
No wonder I'm so exhausted. She/her.
Life today lol
On the upside, I am collecting a lot of rainwater to use for my new little Carnivorous Plant Child for whom tap water is apparently deadly!
I don't regret winning CPC at the silent auction, but the chainsaw might have been nice too...
On the upside, I am collecting a lot of rainwater to use for my new little Carnivorous Plant Child for whom tap water is apparently deadly!
I don't regret winning CPC at the silent auction, but the chainsaw might have been nice too...
![Image of a text convo.
Person 1: "Tree came down east of [redacted]. I was 5th car back. Bunch of us got out and 3 guys had chainsaws. We cleared it in about 20 minutes. Got soaked... but got back on the road. lol"
Person 2: It wouldn't be Oregon if 3 out of 5 cars weren't carrying chainsaws 😂
I might be one of them myself if I hadn't been a coward and had bid on that mini chainsaw at the Christmas party!!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oacfsdsj4xjebtgrpprh4ubw/bafkreihyln2abexgnxnakf753rxyikqy7xcxugtwrghcuk6pho7ubebt6q@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Life today lol
On the upside, I am collecting a lot of rainwater to use for my new little Carnivorous Plant Child for whom tap water is apparently deadly!
I don't regret winning CPC at the silent auction, but the chainsaw might have been nice too...
On the upside, I am collecting a lot of rainwater to use for my new little Carnivorous Plant Child for whom tap water is apparently deadly!
I don't regret winning CPC at the silent auction, but the chainsaw might have been nice too...
It is astounding to me, with my Swiss cheese memory, that I can see the title "Bogoróditse Djévo" & instantly remember the song - even though the last time I sang it was in high school & that was decades ago.
I don't have the words (I don't speak russian) but I can hum my part & all the others.
I don't have the words (I don't speak russian) but I can hum my part & all the others.
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It is astounding to me, with my Swiss cheese memory, that I can see the title "Bogoróditse Djévo" & instantly remember the song - even though the last time I sang it was in high school & that was decades ago.
I don't have the words (I don't speak russian) but I can hum my part & all the others.
I don't have the words (I don't speak russian) but I can hum my part & all the others.
The world may be sliding backwards, the Internet is enshittifying by the hour, but at least it has all come together to allow me to venmo 10¢ to my boyfriend to "share the windfall" of the 20¢ refund check I was sent from my orthodontist.
😂
😂
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The world may be sliding backwards, the Internet is enshittifying by the hour, but at least it has all come together to allow me to venmo 10¢ to my boyfriend to "share the windfall" of the 20¢ refund check I was sent from my orthodontist.
😂
😂
Big social events need a stage manager.
Like, an actual, from-the-trenches stage manager.
One who either has a voice loud enough to stop traffic or is able to deputize someone who does.
Wandering around aimlessly looking for the One Person to Get This Started a good 15min LATE?
Like, an actual, from-the-trenches stage manager.
One who either has a voice loud enough to stop traffic or is able to deputize someone who does.
Wandering around aimlessly looking for the One Person to Get This Started a good 15min LATE?
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Big social events need a stage manager.
Like, an actual, from-the-trenches stage manager.
One who either has a voice loud enough to stop traffic or is able to deputize someone who does.
Wandering around aimlessly looking for the One Person to Get This Started a good 15min LATE?
Like, an actual, from-the-trenches stage manager.
One who either has a voice loud enough to stop traffic or is able to deputize someone who does.
Wandering around aimlessly looking for the One Person to Get This Started a good 15min LATE?
Again, this is such utter bullshit. 🤬
They're advertising for guards already.
They pushed the Coast Guard chopper 100 MILES AWAY for this bullshit!!
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November 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Again, this is such utter bullshit. 🤬
They pushed the Coast Guard chopper 100 MILES AWAY for this bullshit!!
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November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They pushed the Coast Guard chopper 100 MILES AWAY for this bullshit!!
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Just unsubscribed from a company's emails & was very happy there was a "why did you unsubscribe?" question with an "other" field. I was able to put "I do not purchase from our support businesses that use AI".
Thanks for outlining your "new, great feature" in your email update! Buh Bye! 🫡
Thanks for outlining your "new, great feature" in your email update! Buh Bye! 🫡
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Just unsubscribed from a company's emails & was very happy there was a "why did you unsubscribe?" question with an "other" field. I was able to put "I do not purchase from our support businesses that use AI".
Thanks for outlining your "new, great feature" in your email update! Buh Bye! 🫡
Thanks for outlining your "new, great feature" in your email update! Buh Bye! 🫡
It's November, so even though the official organization has imploded, I'm still writing a book.
i just used the word "gloat" in my novel and holy hell, why does it look like it's something i just made up? That can't be a word. Gloat gloat gloat. It's a glowing goat.
i just used the word "gloat" in my novel and holy hell, why does it look like it's something i just made up? That can't be a word. Gloat gloat gloat. It's a glowing goat.
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It's November, so even though the official organization has imploded, I'm still writing a book.
i just used the word "gloat" in my novel and holy hell, why does it look like it's something i just made up? That can't be a word. Gloat gloat gloat. It's a glowing goat.
i just used the word "gloat" in my novel and holy hell, why does it look like it's something i just made up? That can't be a word. Gloat gloat gloat. It's a glowing goat.
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For the quintillionth time for those who aren’t getting it:
The shitty people of the world aren’t seeing or hearing your scathing burns about their looks - their weight, the way age impacts them, etc - but people you know are and they’re seeing you aren’t a safe person to be around.
Do better.
The shitty people of the world aren’t seeing or hearing your scathing burns about their looks - their weight, the way age impacts them, etc - but people you know are and they’re seeing you aren’t a safe person to be around.
Do better.
October 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
For the quintillionth time for those who aren’t getting it:
The shitty people of the world aren’t seeing or hearing your scathing burns about their looks - their weight, the way age impacts them, etc - but people you know are and they’re seeing you aren’t a safe person to be around.
Do better.
The shitty people of the world aren’t seeing or hearing your scathing burns about their looks - their weight, the way age impacts them, etc - but people you know are and they’re seeing you aren’t a safe person to be around.
Do better.
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Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”
“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”
Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men
October 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”
“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”
Holy HELL!!! have we ever actually seen this before?!? 🤩
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Holy HELL!!! have we ever actually seen this before?!? 🤩
Welp, there's my anxiety gone bonkers. Ugh.
September 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Welp, there's my anxiety gone bonkers. Ugh.
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deeply offensive that actually doing the chores that have been hanging over my head for weeks feels good
and also that this will in no way help me to do those chores faster the next time
and also that this will in no way help me to do those chores faster the next time
July 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
deeply offensive that actually doing the chores that have been hanging over my head for weeks feels good
and also that this will in no way help me to do those chores faster the next time
and also that this will in no way help me to do those chores faster the next time
Thanks, AI that my work has enabled in my browser and I can't turn off. Your offer to summarize this two sentence email is a truly, massively useful thing. How did I ever live without you. 🙄
I highly suspect the summary would be longer than the actual email. Not clicking on it to confirm, though.
I highly suspect the summary would be longer than the actual email. Not clicking on it to confirm, though.
July 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Thanks, AI that my work has enabled in my browser and I can't turn off. Your offer to summarize this two sentence email is a truly, massively useful thing. How did I ever live without you. 🙄
I highly suspect the summary would be longer than the actual email. Not clicking on it to confirm, though.
I highly suspect the summary would be longer than the actual email. Not clicking on it to confirm, though.
One of my boyfriend's green flags: if there is an animal in the house, he will immediately begin singing to it.
June 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
One of my boyfriend's green flags: if there is an animal in the house, he will immediately begin singing to it.
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time for my new favorite tumblr post
June 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
time for my new favorite tumblr post
I've been working the same fish science job for over 20 years now. Wy do I know what brutalist architecture is off the top of my head? 😂
June 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I've been working the same fish science job for over 20 years now. Wy do I know what brutalist architecture is off the top of my head? 😂
An 80k grant for a seemingly pointless "let's poke it with a stick and see what happens" research project is the reason why entire fields of medicine, genealogy, forensics, and more even exist. (1/5)
May 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
An 80k grant for a seemingly pointless "let's poke it with a stick and see what happens" research project is the reason why entire fields of medicine, genealogy, forensics, and more even exist. (1/5)
I now have a wee buddy to keep my @secondlina.com crow company! Welcome to the flock, Gay Crime Goose! @gaybreakfast.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I now have a wee buddy to keep my @secondlina.com crow company! Welcome to the flock, Gay Crime Goose! @gaybreakfast.bsky.social
Just sitting here in the lunch room at work crying, hoping no one else comes in before I can blow my nose properly... 😭
March 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just sitting here in the lunch room at work crying, hoping no one else comes in before I can blow my nose properly... 😭
THE TIME HAS COME
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
THE TIME HAS COME
Reminder that paid weather services (ie AccuWeather) rely HEAVILY on the FREE data put out by the National Weather Service (ie NOAA). If NOAA gets gutted, that data is likely to disappear. So the paid services will have to find some way to backfill that loss. Or just make (even more) shit up.
March 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reminder that paid weather services (ie AccuWeather) rely HEAVILY on the FREE data put out by the National Weather Service (ie NOAA). If NOAA gets gutted, that data is likely to disappear. So the paid services will have to find some way to backfill that loss. Or just make (even more) shit up.
Fuck.
Four people in my building were fired today. It's not a big building. That's what, 5%-8%? Caught in the "probationary" bullshit.
And my boss finally admitted that us contractors aren't safe either.
I have no idea when my 20 year career will just... Stop.
Four people in my building were fired today. It's not a big building. That's what, 5%-8%? Caught in the "probationary" bullshit.
And my boss finally admitted that us contractors aren't safe either.
I have no idea when my 20 year career will just... Stop.
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Fuck.
Four people in my building were fired today. It's not a big building. That's what, 5%-8%? Caught in the "probationary" bullshit.
And my boss finally admitted that us contractors aren't safe either.
I have no idea when my 20 year career will just... Stop.
Four people in my building were fired today. It's not a big building. That's what, 5%-8%? Caught in the "probationary" bullshit.
And my boss finally admitted that us contractors aren't safe either.
I have no idea when my 20 year career will just... Stop.
Just spent a decent amount of time going through replies to a post explaining to various people that sighthounds Just Have Visible Ribs, and even when this particular dog settles into full couch potato life, he'll still be ribby. So no, he's not being starved. 😅
January 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Just spent a decent amount of time going through replies to a post explaining to various people that sighthounds Just Have Visible Ribs, and even when this particular dog settles into full couch potato life, he'll still be ribby. So no, he's not being starved. 😅
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The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.
January 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.