‘Protect trans lives’ cute floral cross stitch pattern 🏳️‍⚧️✨ (link in bio) This small cross stitch pattern is super cute and beginner friendly, but also quick and easy to make for a transgender friend, partner, family member etc. #crossstitch #stitchsky #needlework #fiberarts #craftsky #transart

Art by @neverstaydead.bsky.social Found on ig

The worst part about hay fever season in Japan is that Japanese people believe it’s rude to blow your nose so instead they sniff constantly. Which is not rude.

I love seeing all the cross stitch designers I follow sharing other designers work. It helps me find new designers and gives me warm fuzzies.

New cross stitch pattern - Ghost Bat Sampler If you need to know anything about it, it's that I friggin love bats. Find this pattern for Tier 2 & 3 on my patreon until 2/15/26. www.patreon.com/badstitch #CrossStitch #StitchSky #Bats #Needlework #Cottagecore #FiberArts

My first finish of 2026. Yule Cat by @badstitch.bsky.social stitched 28 count Cashel Picture This Plus echo. I imagine this is what Tanjiro would do if he was a giant cat.

It's 2026 in Japan so Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2026 is a gentle year.

Wishing meri kirihimete & happy everything always to everyone who seeks Palestinian liberation, blessings to you friends ❤️🖤🤍💚

A quick little finish. Tiny Christmas Light by The Little Stitcher. Done on 32 count raw natural linen.

Just bought Lullaby by Together For Palestine - many great artists including Brian Eno, Nadine Shah, and Neneh Cherry - let’s get this to the top of the charts - please buy, please share - please help show that peace and camaraderie are vital values togetherforpalestine.org

I shouldn’t have to teach annoying kids on my last day or work for the year.

“We make really good games everyone loves, let’s shit that up big time” is a hell of a self-own

I’m tired of working with adult men who don't know how or think it’s not their job to tidy up after themselves.

I hate that left wing politicians have allowed themselves to be pulled over to the right so now left wing policies that were previously considered ordinary (the weird idea that everyone should have a warm place to live, food to eat and access to affordable healthcare) are now considered radical.

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

I just had a student describe a cd player as vintage audio equipment. Am I vintage?

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The problem with that Whamageddon thing is that Last Christmas is a stone cold banger and trying to avoid it proves that you don't truly understand the meaning of the season, to celebrate our Lord and Savior, Saint George Michael.

How anyone can talk about the flu going around at the moment as nasty and still not wear a mask is beyond me. Have people forgotten that flu cases went down dramatically while we were all wearing masks?

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

It’s a warm sunny day in Tokyo so I’m looking forward to students wearing long sleeved tops and jackets telling me it’s hot.

Dear public facilities designers. For the love of god give women more cubicles in their bathrooms.

I don't drink coffee so not crossing this picket line won't be difficult for me, but the rest of you should probably be prepared to caffeinate in an alternate fashion

I regret to inform you all that I listened to a Christmas song today and it made me happy.

Abroad in Japan just released a really well done and important video about the absolute slop fest of misinformation about Japan that is harder and harder to navigate through these days, highly recommended. youtu.be/jEWhmQjeh_I?...

Yes, the actor who takes a role in any Harry Potter work is telling you that they are a bigot - let's not couch it - and that they aren't safe people to invite to LGBT+ events, spaces, or interact socially with LGBT+ people, and you should protect LGBT+ people from them in future.

Did you know that @drmorsetattoo.bsky.social @lofty.tattoo does HP tattoo coverups? For any J K Rowling-related coverup at Dr Morse studio, they’ll donate 20% of the price to Gender Minorities Aotearoa.

Autumn socks!

If you can't come out right now, please don't hate yourself. One day, the meaning of labels will disappear. Please love yourself as you are. The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself. Because that is your strength and beauty. Chiitan loves you

KĀREAREA WINS BIRD OF THE YEAR! (and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...) Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest. Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com

Lesssshgooooo

My current act of petty rebellion is filling my tiny, quaint and very British village library with (mostly) queer horror.

I’m working with a new teacher today and apparently she told management she couldn’t teach preschool classes because of trauma. Turns out there is no trauma, she just doesn’t want to do them. 🤬

Went to the doctor today to discuss my blood pressure medicine (working beautifully) and while I was there I asked about this year’s flu and Covid vaccines.

I’d like it if the reboot of Murder She Wrote is actually Jessica Fletcher killing someone every week and elaborately framing someone to settle some decades old grudge.

It’s cool enough in the evenings to open the windows and/or go for a walk. I’m so happy to be able to be outside again I could cry.

Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church

Fuck them all.

September is Bi Visibility Month, so perceiving me may be easier, as all bisexuals have disadvantage on stealth rolls until Halloween 1st.

It’s 35 degrees outside and I’m wearing some autumnal jewellery. I’m manifesting.

Is it wrong to want to keep the ac at work set to 20 even as the temperatures outside cool down (not happening yet!) just so I can move into my autumn cardigans sooner?

Always happy for a chance to say: I read every real study on the impact of bike lanes on street-level retail. They never hurt. They often help. Sometimes they help a lot: www.businessinsider.com/bike-lanes-g...

What does it say about a 4 year old kid when they make no attempts to colour inside the lines?

Rich, weak, ignorant and greedy people have so many platforms and so much power and so few high profile critics - it is not sleepwalking to fascism it is a happy sprint - it is a case of “first they came for !@% and I said ‘yeah, take ‘em away’”

First day back at work and my first lesson has a student sniffing and blowing his nose. No mask of course.

Heartbreaking to watch a much of our world descend into misogyny, butchery, homophobia, transphobia and out and out racism and realise that those politicians and media outlets we thought would fight them actually are more confident encouraging them, platforming them and silencing criticism

@kawaiicon.bsky.social has updated their Health and Safety page for the con. Props to them for doing a threat model for airborne infection vectors and also for streaming the con if your personal threat model requires it! kawaiicon.org/health-and-s...

Seven and a half months to completely mod an AI pattern into making sense is going to be my crowning achievement as a cross stitcher. I am so proud of making this Stardew Valley map just how I wanted 🥰 And lo, the collage is now a quartet! On to the next work! #StardewValley #crossstitch