A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird
@shinybluething.bsky.social
Ugly bird girl.
Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her.
Not anyone of note. Cat pictures happen here. I block image scrapers.
Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety, autism, untreated ADHD and a couple chronic diseases. You've been warned.
Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her.
Not anyone of note. Cat pictures happen here. I block image scrapers.
Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety, autism, untreated ADHD and a couple chronic diseases. You've been warned.
Pinned
People who are following me and have fundraisers: I do not have any money to spare, that's why I've had a little fundraiser to help pay for taking basic care of some street cats who live under my porch.
My roof leaks, my car is 22 years old. I don't have anything to give you but cat photos.
My roof leaks, my car is 22 years old. I don't have anything to give you but cat photos.
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The only other kind of stories that could compare (and would be a contemporary to the original tale’s popularity) would be Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg
One of the things about the Wizard of Oz, and the Oz series in general, is that it's arguably the first big fantasy series heavily steeped in Americana.
one of the core myths of American stories and art. i really enjoyed the documentary “Lynch/Oz” which came out a few years ago, about the ways WoO shows ups in Lynch’s works
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The only other kind of stories that could compare (and would be a contemporary to the original tale’s popularity) would be Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg
My longtime friend Justine, who I have known since before she was an egg, needs help covering last minute expenses for her gender affirming surgery. Can folks share this around?
www.gofundme.com/f/justines-g...
www.gofundme.com/f/justines-g...
Donate to Justine’s Gender Affirming Care fund, organized by Justine Mehnert
Hello everyone, I’m Justine. I am trying to raise funds to help pay for the gende… Justine Mehnert needs your support for Justine’s Gender Affirming Care fund
www.gofundme.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
My longtime friend Justine, who I have known since before she was an egg, needs help covering last minute expenses for her gender affirming surgery. Can folks share this around?
www.gofundme.com/f/justines-g...
www.gofundme.com/f/justines-g...
Post your favorite LOTR character, wrong answers only
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Post your favorite LOTR character, wrong answers only
I have to go out and buy cat and dog food.
Today.
The day nothing should drag my ass out of the house.
Today.
The day nothing should drag my ass out of the house.
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I have to go out and buy cat and dog food.
Today.
The day nothing should drag my ass out of the house.
Today.
The day nothing should drag my ass out of the house.
I did my cooking for the big family feast yesterday.
Bread, crustless and eggless pumpkin pie, cornbread dressing for Spouse.
I amongst all that I made French Onion Soup.
My closest sib and their spouse are here, and we haven't seen each other for a decade. Might be the best harvest feast ever.
Bread, crustless and eggless pumpkin pie, cornbread dressing for Spouse.
I amongst all that I made French Onion Soup.
My closest sib and their spouse are here, and we haven't seen each other for a decade. Might be the best harvest feast ever.
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I did my cooking for the big family feast yesterday.
Bread, crustless and eggless pumpkin pie, cornbread dressing for Spouse.
I amongst all that I made French Onion Soup.
My closest sib and their spouse are here, and we haven't seen each other for a decade. Might be the best harvest feast ever.
Bread, crustless and eggless pumpkin pie, cornbread dressing for Spouse.
I amongst all that I made French Onion Soup.
My closest sib and their spouse are here, and we haven't seen each other for a decade. Might be the best harvest feast ever.
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$300
so if
30 people chipped in $10
or 60 people chipped in $5
or 300 chipped in $1
it would mean freedom from an abusive environment for the lovely raccoon moose
so if
30 people chipped in $10
or 60 people chipped in $5
or 300 chipped in $1
it would mean freedom from an abusive environment for the lovely raccoon moose
$300 to go! The goal is within sight!
I just need $303 more to pay for the movers Dec 1 to escape my abusive family. Thank you so much, my original goal was $1000 and we’re almost there! Thank you friends!
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
$300
so if
30 people chipped in $10
or 60 people chipped in $5
or 300 chipped in $1
it would mean freedom from an abusive environment for the lovely raccoon moose
so if
30 people chipped in $10
or 60 people chipped in $5
or 300 chipped in $1
it would mean freedom from an abusive environment for the lovely raccoon moose
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The men who get mad at liberal women and decide to comment about that woman "being a three" or a "cat lady" inevitably look like the product of a ham fucking a yeti.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The men who get mad at liberal women and decide to comment about that woman "being a three" or a "cat lady" inevitably look like the product of a ham fucking a yeti.
New ancient Yelp Review just dropped!
Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey.
It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.
It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New ancient Yelp Review just dropped!
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I want to talk about how people in pain have less usable time than everyone else.
I'm in the parking lot on campus, hoping my ibuprofen does something since I'm in too much pain to walk into the building and I didn't take my stick today.
1/2
I'm in the parking lot on campus, hoping my ibuprofen does something since I'm in too much pain to walk into the building and I didn't take my stick today.
1/2
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I want to talk about how people in pain have less usable time than everyone else.
I'm in the parking lot on campus, hoping my ibuprofen does something since I'm in too much pain to walk into the building and I didn't take my stick today.
1/2
I'm in the parking lot on campus, hoping my ibuprofen does something since I'm in too much pain to walk into the building and I didn't take my stick today.
1/2
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
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It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.
Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats:
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.
Could we maybe go back to discussing the genitals of the universe? I don't actually want to know about the sex lives of people on earth any more
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Could we maybe go back to discussing the genitals of the universe? I don't actually want to know about the sex lives of people on earth any more
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Selkie content!
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Selkie content!
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All of Bluesky this morning:
a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
Alt: a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
All of Bluesky this morning:
Now can the evil turtle resign? Retire? Finish becoming a ghoul?
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Now can the evil turtle resign? Retire? Finish becoming a ghoul?
Trying to wake up 2nd shift spouse and I'm urging him to drink his coffee so he has to get up and go to the bathroom.
Me: Drink the Shit Juice!
Spouse (tiny voice): Don't call it that
Me: Drink the Shit Juice!
Spouse (tiny voice): Don't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Trying to wake up 2nd shift spouse and I'm urging him to drink his coffee so he has to get up and go to the bathroom.
Me: Drink the Shit Juice!
Spouse (tiny voice): Don't call it that
Me: Drink the Shit Juice!
Spouse (tiny voice): Don't call it that
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
I cannot even express how utterly terrifying the gleeful evil of the ICE troops stopping cars and pulling screaming people out is.
I experienced that kind of thing once as a tiny child on a bus and it haunts me. Memory of guns and the dull sounds of violence that still rings in my head 50 years on.
I experienced that kind of thing once as a tiny child on a bus and it haunts me. Memory of guns and the dull sounds of violence that still rings in my head 50 years on.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I cannot even express how utterly terrifying the gleeful evil of the ICE troops stopping cars and pulling screaming people out is.
I experienced that kind of thing once as a tiny child on a bus and it haunts me. Memory of guns and the dull sounds of violence that still rings in my head 50 years on.
I experienced that kind of thing once as a tiny child on a bus and it haunts me. Memory of guns and the dull sounds of violence that still rings in my head 50 years on.
This thread is a fascinating take on the dangers of LLM use for people with delusional disorders.
I'm sharing it for others that also dislike "AI" but also because I'm going to share it with my psych prof later.
I'm sharing it for others that also dislike "AI" but also because I'm going to share it with my psych prof later.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This thread is a fascinating take on the dangers of LLM use for people with delusional disorders.
I'm sharing it for others that also dislike "AI" but also because I'm going to share it with my psych prof later.
I'm sharing it for others that also dislike "AI" but also because I'm going to share it with my psych prof later.
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There should be a yoga pose where you lie under a bed and grab people’s feet like a monster.
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There should be a yoga pose where you lie under a bed and grab people’s feet like a monster.