Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Chembu🌺🧶

@chembarathi.bsky.social

1K followers 200 following 5.3K posts

AuDHD, CPTSD (she/they) ~Bangalore,India ~ Maker of beautiful things 🧶( #Knitting #Crocheting) Bedbound by #MECFS Appreciate any kind of Support through https://ko-fi.com/chembarathi

ko-fi.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · Nov 23

PSA for #Malayali or people from #Keralam - We have two active feeds
1. നീലാകാശം feed which picks up all the posts in Malayalam
bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. Keralam Sky for which I maintain a user list - @me if you want to be added/removed

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Both feeds are fairly active feeds!

5 4 15

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 18h

Got an email from Amazon to be part of their invite only "Brands of Ireland" campaign which apparently aims to help businesses for Black Friday, Christmas etc. Sounds nice but Amazon is a killer of small businesses and they can fuck Black Friday. Buy independent and buy local when you can.

2 16 43

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 16h

Welp that article is going to be seared into my brain.

I'm not linking to it, but I will shout again that DISABILITY IS NOT STATIC. Disabled people, like everyone else, have a range of capabilities.

Just because you see someone do something you don't think they can do doesn't mean they're a fraud.

9 43 170

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 15h

🧶 Got a commission for crocheting a cat bed. Doubled up blanket yarn and realised why I stopped using bulkier yarn. 😭 Anyway, I dont mind going extra mile for the fur babies, humans never 🥰 #crochetsky

A wip crochet piece in round with hook and markers

2 10

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Good Food Kitchen @goodfood.kitchen · 19h

Neighbours on the adjoining plot have this beautiful living wall of green, red, orange, and purple. #autumn 🍂🍃🍁

A vibrant wall of autumn colours at an allotment on the Kent Coast in the UK.

3 9 79

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Fallon | find me on disabled.social instead of this nazi bar @fallonturing.bsky.social · 6d

I'm opening up EMERGENCY COMMS! Please commission me for custom hats, scarves, gloves/mittens, or socks! I will take 3-4 of these. Note that I still probably won't be able to ship anything until after I return home in late October.

#BSNM #CommissionsOpen #OpenCommissions #Knitting #Knitsky #comms

CrippledCommie's Commissions

Commissions Open! Click to see CrippledCommie's commission menu.

ko-fi.com

3 44 42

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 1d

Finished this giant long-term embroidery project 😌✨ I’ll take a full photo tomorrow in the daylight, but here’s a preview featuring fuzzy moth. #fiberArt

A small section of a large embroidery piece on a leafy background, with colorful flowers, a big moth with a fuzzy faux fur body, and a little shimmery butterfly

2 11 52

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

PP @plainparanoid.bsky.social · 18h

Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega is a powerful and emotional finale. The suspense never lets up, and Joe Hill blends heartbreak with closure beautifully. Gabriel Rodríguez’s art captures every tone perfectly, making this a thrilling, satisfying end to a brilliant series. 💙📚 #BookSky #GraphicNovels

A book titled Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez lies on a white surface. The cover features a large metallic key shaped like the Greek letter Omega against a dark circular gate or lock design, giving a mysterious and dramatic appearance.

1 1

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

PP @plainparanoid.bsky.social · 18h

Locke & Key: Heaven & Earth is a short but touching addition to the series. It gives small, emotional glimpses beyond the main story. Joe Hill’s writing and Gabriel Rodríguez’s art shine as always. Not as thrilling as the main books, but still full of heart and magic. 💙📚 #BookSky #GraphicNovels

A book titled Locke & Key: Heaven and Earth by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez lies on a white surface. The cover features an illustrated house with portraits of people framed in windows and different keys in what shaped like keyholes, blending gothic and mysterious design elements. Key house written under.

1 2

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 18h

Someone is busy

in the kitchen of the heart with the window wide open.

Someone is cooking joy soup with mint leaves.

Let the aroma pull you awake and draw you toward the pot.

Watch the light simmer on top. Someone waits for you. - William Palmer
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

JOY SOUP

by William Palmer

"We should start cooking/the joy soup." - Rumi

Too much sad soup will turn your raspberries gray.

Sleeping all day won't make them red again.

But Someone is pulling up humble carrots, rutabagas, and sweet potatoes. Someone is busy

in the kitchen of the heart with the window wide open.

Someone is cooking joy soup with mint leaves.

Let the aroma pull you awake and draw you toward the pot.

Watch the light simmer on top. Someone waits for you.

1 3 10

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Paj @pajdabun.bsky.social · 1d

The most toxic interactions I've seen have been from the CEO @jay.bsky.team and her obvious and open disdain for the user base and the mods banning people like Link... but I think you already know that, and i don't expect this question to be in good faith

2 15

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be ordering the @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social book on walking from bookshop.org for Anti Prime day. Care to join me in support of Independent Bookstores?

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

bookshop.org

1 2 13

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

♥️

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 1d

Love leaves leftovers, I've learned. It's never a clean escape. Oh but what a way
to say goodbye: here, I've loved you, save some for later.
-
MARIA GIESBRECHT
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Love leaves leftovers

It's been three years and I still have the French keyboard enabled on my phone. Occasionally, when I comment on poems on the internet, it autocorrects love to liberté. (Which is fitting, I suppose.) It's been three years and I still sleep facing the window because it's good to feel the sun when you wake. Everytime I see a squirrel I think of how you, completely amazed by their existence, tried to feed them peanuts off your balcony railing. And how they came to you and gently nuzzled your hands. I've never shit-talked squirrels since. Love leaves leftovers, I've learned. It's never a clean escape. Oh but what a way to say goodbye: here, I've loved you, save some for later.

MARIA GIESBRECHT

1 4 13

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

ines 🧇 wristless @inesvisual.bsky.social · 3d

if you need some good news today, the first openly gay sportswoman dancing tango in a celebrity-centred competition on Polish TV just got maximum points for her dance and she is making queer history while also looking incredibly hot n cool dancing with another woman

2 44 160

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · Nov 19

I have low vision and I rely on alt text and image descriptions to provide context about images on platforms like BlueSky. If you don’t know how to write #AltText yet, I have several guides on my website that can show you how— take the #AltTextChallenge! veroniiiica.com/how-to-write... (1/10)

How To Write Alt Text And Image Descriptions

The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text

veroniiiica.com

180 1.2K 2K

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 2d

I am not okay today. So, in the absence of okay, what else can I be?

I can be gentle.
..

I can be awake to nature. I can sharpen my empathy against the stone of my discomfort.

I am not okay today, but I am many worthy things.
-
Jarod K. Anderson
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

I am not okay today. So, in the absence of okay, what else can I be?

I can be gentle.

I can be unashamed.

I can turn my pain into connection.

I can be a student of stillness.

I can be awake to nature. I can sharpen my empathy against the stone of my discomfort.

I am not okay today, but I am many worthy things.

Jarod K. Anderson

5 19

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I would share some non colourwork socks I made. 🤭 The bright pink one is the Java socks which hooked me to making fancy socks in the first place!! I love that design so much. Second one is the Pomatomus by Cookie A, another wonderful design 🧶🧦 #knitsky

#ShowMeYourKnits #Socktober

A pair of purple handknitted socks with fish scale lace design on my foot

A bright pink handknitted socks with tiny cables on my foot

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 3d

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into the round jubilance of peach. - Li-Young Lee
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

From Blossoms

From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the joy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands, from sweet fellowship in the bins, comes nectar at the roadside, succulent peaches we devour, dusty skin and all, comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

Li-Young Lee

1 6

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social · 4d

Can Bsky owner @jay.bsky.team stop trying to dunk on trans people and focus in hiring a competent Trust & Safety team ?

These attempted shitposts against a core element of founding users are as harmful as they are self-defeating. This place will suuuuuck without the trans & queer folks.

1 3 16

Reposted by Chembu🌺🧶

Samantha West @samantha-west.bsky.social · 4d

I have a buy one get one free sale on at my Ravelry store it's running until the 5 October SAST with the code Socktober!

www.ravelry.com/designers/sa...

A photo collage of a two hand knitted colourwork hats, the first one is a cream hat with dark pink orchids on alongside a floral tin and a ceramic bowl with the yarn. The other is a pink hat with variegated bird designs. On the right hand side there is a oair of hand knitted colourwork mitts with rose and geometric imagery, the mitts are navy with white and blue colourwork. And finally there is a dark gray colourwork cowl with a gray fox/wolf image alongside three small ceramic bowls with geometric designs.

5 37

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 4d

♥️

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 4d

Hope's secret:
it doesn't know
the destination-
it knows only
that all roads
begin with one
foot in front of the other.
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

HOPE

Hope has holes in its pockets.

It leaves little crumb trails so that we, when anxious, can follow it. Hope's secret: it doesn't know the destination-it knows only that all roads begin with one foot in front of the other.

6 14

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes even getting the medicine delivered to the apartment is a task. The delivery guy couldn't find my address on Google map(been using same service for a year and never had any issue) and I suck at giving verbal directions and phone calls are too much when head is hurting. #pwme

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 5d

♥️

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 5d

Made a list of all the free hat patterns I knitted and loved incase anyone is looking for inspiration for the winter #knitsky 🧶 #knitting

Add some style to your winter wear with these free knitting patterns

YouTube video by chembarathi

youtube.com

2 4 20