calliaphone
@calliaphone.bsky.social
An actual huming bean. She/her. Writer. Editor. Parent. Grappler with chronic fatigue.
For some odd reason my grape hyacinth has come up early. And there are leaf buds all over the blackcurrant bushes and flower buds on the camellia. It's a lot busier out there than I was expecting. I do need some miniature crime tape for the bulb theft scene in the lawn, tho.
January 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
For some odd reason my grape hyacinth has come up early. And there are leaf buds all over the blackcurrant bushes and flower buds on the camellia. It's a lot busier out there than I was expecting. I do need some miniature crime tape for the bulb theft scene in the lawn, tho.
Landed on this thread by happenstance and I swear every time you mention a human author you like my ears perk up and rotate forwards to catch every word.
January 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Landed on this thread by happenstance and I swear every time you mention a human author you like my ears perk up and rotate forwards to catch every word.
SHELLS (scuze me I had a bit of wine which has amplified my delight)
January 2, 2026 at 8:29 PM
SHELLS (scuze me I had a bit of wine which has amplified my delight)
I'm a confidence trickster cat, I guess. Or a rotund bureaucrat with a crush on a guy with nice socks. The last is a little near the knuckle, I'll take the cat.
January 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I'm a confidence trickster cat, I guess. Or a rotund bureaucrat with a crush on a guy with nice socks. The last is a little near the knuckle, I'll take the cat.
Wait wait what is chest feeding? I've not heard this term before!
December 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Wait wait what is chest feeding? I've not heard this term before!
I would be cautious even with gloves - squirrels can bite thru leather gauntlets. Is there an animal rescue charity who could help trap and release?
December 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I would be cautious even with gloves - squirrels can bite thru leather gauntlets. Is there an animal rescue charity who could help trap and release?
Gosh he's much prettier than I imagined, no wonder everyone fell for him lollll
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Gosh he's much prettier than I imagined, no wonder everyone fell for him lollll
Perhaps @adrianhon.bsky.social would be a good person to ask
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Perhaps @adrianhon.bsky.social would be a good person to ask
Ah, those kind of essays. I thought maybe you'd both been reading the same commentary on the phenomenon. Don't look them up if it's traumatic for you.
December 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ah, those kind of essays. I thought maybe you'd both been reading the same commentary on the phenomenon. Don't look them up if it's traumatic for you.
I would like to read these essays. Are they online?
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I would like to read these essays. Are they online?
Yeah. I just ... yeah.
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Yeah. I just ... yeah.
I woke up to the news with a shock. I have family in the community there. All safe tg, but your thoughts are appreciated.
December 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I woke up to the news with a shock. I have family in the community there. All safe tg, but your thoughts are appreciated.
Hm. I wonder, if the pattern isn't more the point than the cause he's hung it on.
December 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Hm. I wonder, if the pattern isn't more the point than the cause he's hung it on.
Ah this is wonderful to hear. Congratulations 🥂
December 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Ah this is wonderful to hear. Congratulations 🥂
Some of them are quite sophisticated about it and take more effort and skill to weed out. Others are just astoundingly obvious and can only have got published if the peer reviewers or editors were ill-trained/rushed/incompetent at best, corrupt/malicious at worst. 2/2
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Some of them are quite sophisticated about it and take more effort and skill to weed out. Others are just astoundingly obvious and can only have got published if the peer reviewers or editors were ill-trained/rushed/incompetent at best, corrupt/malicious at worst. 2/2
Re: intellectual work - Papermills turn out masses of slop papers and desperate authors pay for their names to go on them. There are usually other "tells" beside nonsense images altho that's obviously a massive red flag. 1/?
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Re: intellectual work - Papermills turn out masses of slop papers and desperate authors pay for their names to go on them. There are usually other "tells" beside nonsense images altho that's obviously a massive red flag. 1/?
I have done the same, much to my own astonishment.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I have done the same, much to my own astonishment.
this is glorious.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
this is glorious.
It's so good, Naomi.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It's so good, Naomi.
