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@queermedieval.bsky.social

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Queer, trans, purveyor of werewolfy things // PhD candidate, medieval lit // Muldumarec's number one fan // they/them // 🌈 ∞ 🌈

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · Nov 11

if we are all reintroducing ourselves: I’m Miles, I’m doing my PhD on rhetoric and nonnormative embodiment (disability, neurodivergence, animality) in late medieval literature, and I am very much into werewolves and shapeshifting and premodern trans studies. Also Muldumarec the birdman’s no. 1 fan

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Lis is writing you a lovely postcard 💌💙 @ghostalservice.bsky.social · 11h

-call your local clerk's office to be an election volunteer!
-give blood! www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/fi...
-call your state rep & tell them to protect immigrants & trans folks! www.congress.gov/state-legisl...
-call your local food bank and volunteer! www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12h

If you’re particularly despairing tonight, remember that you can always choose to show up tomorrow and help people. Narrow your capacity for concern to a specific person or place through volunteering. It feels good. Call your local school or aldercritter’s office to ask about opportunities.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 13h

the iNaturalist photos are so funny because the tadpoles are all at least the size of a human hand and sometimes even longer than that, and the frogs are just. regular medium-sized frogs

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 13h

like, look at this! that is a paradoxical frog! (tadpole photo via Wilson Lombana Riaño and frog photo via Mike G. Rutherford on iNaturalist)

a very, very large tadpole in a person’s hand. it is literally the size of their hand and then there’s a little more of its tail hanging off the end

a photo of a medium-sized green frog in the palm of a person’s hand

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 13h

just learned about the paradoxical frog (yes, that’s its real name), which is so named because the tadpoles are bigger than the adult frogs. can you imagine if we had giant babies that turned into regular-sized adults? wild

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 14h

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 16h

for instance, re: Bring Her Back:

A screenshot of a four-star letterboxd review from a user named Preet, reading "maybe he just has iron deficiency"

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 16h

new favorite hobby is looking at the letterboxd reviews for horror movies I'm watching and finding the funniest ones

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 17h

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18h

I grew up like an hour outside of Detroit!

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LOVE this, omg!

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18h

not even my fucking pdf reader is safe from this bullshit. AUGH.

a close-up cropped screenshot of a pdf, showing an “AI: Explain” option popping up over highlighted text next to the option to add a note or a highlight

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18h

I need to start drawing manicules in the margins of books and articles instead of highlighting/underlining. I am going to do that right now with this new book I got from the library today

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18h

I just saw a news segment about the skate witches at U of M and the comments were like "I love their Michigan accents!" and I'm just sitting here like "wish I knew what y'all were talking about"

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18h

every time someone talks about people having Michigan accents it makes me sooo curious about how I sound to other people

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 20h

spiny dogfish

(Swim On 5, 2019) #art #sciart 🎨🦑🦈

Illustration of a spiny dogfish and smaller fish swimming among stylized kelp strands, white lines of current threading around it and its surroundings.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23h

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 21h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 21h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 19h

it is FINALLY the part of fall where stores have those little cinnamon brooms and I can make my apartment smell aggressively spicy, yay

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 20h

so cool!!

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 20h

Hey @queermedieval.bsky.social your illustration prints *beautifully*!!

Anti-fascist frogs hot off the press

A print made from wood type and linoleum. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

The ink is green on an off white paper.

wood type and linoleum set for printing in a proofing press. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 21h

or the electricity needed to power assistive tech, or single-use plastic more generally that disabled people need (see also the whole plastic straws thing), etc., etc.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 21h

like you could be putting this energy toward the data centers, the highways, the factories, the environmental racism actively polluting communities and disabling low-income people and people of color, but noooo let's frame the disabled people as the problem!

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 21h

this type of shit is so infuriating. just come out and say you think disabled people are a drain on the world like you clearly are implying here

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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