Emma Sicantyred

Yep, you're in trouble. But on the plus side your staircase is very pretty.

Aw, but she looks so pleased with herself!

Will she do Christmas dinner in the UK?

If you're going to read one article this weekend, make it this interview with the wonderful Zack Polanski.
Share it widely.

Honest answers to warm your heart fill you with hope. 💚

COP30 evacuated after fire breaks out Thousands of people are attending the UN climate talks in Brazil.

Perfect metaphor for how effective COP is at tackling climate change:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.

That noise you can hear is probably me screaming in rage at this fucking incompetent, transphobic, racist, and ableist government.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Michael, what do you know about the Cloudflare outage?"

👍

We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether

Unprecedented plans for asylum system sees government walk tightrope Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plan is unprecedented and marks an enormous change in policy, writes Dominic Casciani.

Lately I've seen numerous stories about asylum seekers on the BBC News website. Without exception, every article has been headed with an image similar to the one below, regardless of whether small boats are even mentioned at all. That's real BBC bias for you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't do emails. I don't do any technology at all, really. Give me your postal address and I'll use my quill to send a handwritten message on parchment. I'll send via carrier pigeon.

I don't do DMs

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Ah, that's ok then.

I'd love the AI writers and AI beta readers to get caught in an endless feedback loop. Then they can stop interfering with the world of books written by humans for humans.

It's a bot

It's a bot

Covid really is the gift that keeps on taking.

Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.

My jewellery designs, individually handmade by casting real flowers & feathers in silver and I sculpt much-loved British birds to make tiny wearable versions of them

Some of the Victorian ink bottles available in my shop as part of creative mental health kits

One of my photos that I create using recent research into the beneficial effects to our brains of looking at images of nature, botanical patterns and things we find beautiful, of a collection of flowers I grew and others I bought at a tiny local honesty florist in Wicken, Cambridgeshire

The botanical and nature collection photos that make up my 2026 calendar

I'm taking🌲etsy orders for just a few more days:
🌿Real flowers cast in silver+ tiny hand-sculpted silver wren necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle kits to improve mental health
🗓️A very few calendars*
🪸Ltd ed'n art prints of my photos*
*Looking at them's likely to ⬇️⬇️ anxiety:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Crusading on social media, in small ways. Love to all the gay sheep, and penguins, and gulls, and goats, and humans…🏳️‍🌈❤️💪🏼xxx

I have no problems liking this at all!

Print of garden bats at dusk. Linocut.

Print of Blue Tits in branches. Linocut.

Print of Auricula flowers in terracotta pots. Linocut.

Print of Whippet with cocked ears, linocut.

Now if all the 20 million BlueSky users will re post this post it would be utterly marvellous. The counter is ready to start, so off you all go!
Handmade prints available here> littleramstudio.etsy.com
*sits with expectations of lots of noughts next to post*
#art

What Muskshit is this? All they need to do is actually look at your account to see you are not spamming anyone!

If only Starmer weren't such a spineless twat.

The irony of a man claiming to have written The Power!

NION logo In the news Pink News logo mobile phone with headline: 60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: 'We have had enough'

Over 60K women have signed our letter standing with the trans community. We've had enough of anti-trans rhetoric claiming to speak for us. If you agree...

📰 Read their article here: tinyurl.com/NION-PN-60K
✍ Sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk
📣 Share widely

#StrongerTogether
#TransAwarenessWeek

I'm so sorry you're having to suffer those clear blue skies while missing out on Storm Claudia.

I just want a government that stands up to fascists instead of trying to placate them.

My mind immediately went to exactly this image.

Ugh, I've seen the same person posting their transphobic crap elsewhere. Of course some random idiot is going to know more about your lived experience than you ever could. 🙄