Word_Geek
@word-geek.bsky.social
I read and I stitch, but more often, I go down ADHD rabbit holes. UK based She/her http://word-geek.dreamwidth.org @word_geeking on Insta
They used to sell this as a thing to play so that kids wouldn't hang out in a specific location. Like bus stops and stuff The kids turned it into a ring tone their teachers couldn't hear (this was before All Phones On Silent Always)
Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · yesterdaywho even manufacturers something like this
This thread, but especially this post Getting treatment for ADHD makes you better able to learn, less disruptive in school, and more productive in work Exactly what is their beef with it?
Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 2d agoThey all talk like being diagnosed gets you on permanent benefits vacation instead of getting treated then being ok
“how much shit can you deny yourself? cheese, gender, the fuck’s next?” truly humanity is a rich text
Krinn DNZ@krinndnz.bsky.social · 3d agoimages that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"
Today a medical professional asked if my weight had changed Honest answer? You took me off my ADHD meds (for good reason) so yes, I have put on weight but I'm 100% sure that's just the chocolate I ate to survive work My medical notes are going to be a joy We prob solved why I'm coughing, tho
FFS, I went to read the stupid motion and they actually are suggesting one state in the disputed area that was Palestine/is Israel I hate this timeline
Today, I avoided being a weirdo twice, once when a group of teens were confused by the names of different train tickets and then when a different group encountered a book by Tom Holland and I didn't gleefully tell them that the historian had interviewed the actor See, info dumping *can* be deferred
GOOD NEWS!
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · last wk.The global population of greater one-horned rhinos has hit a record 4,075. Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, shelters more than 2,600 of them. Poaching has fallen 86% since 2016; India, Nepal and Indonesia all recorded zero rhino killings in 2025. buff.ly/O4lKhqy #ShareGoodNewsToo
I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.
gamera obscura october edition@ohrobin.bsky.social · last wk.I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.
This is Ihor Malchevskyi, a 69-year-old scientist at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, escaping the flames after a Russian attack. I could also write, "the whole world watched this live," but we can see that news from Ukraine has long been out of focus. 📹: DW
I looked up the cast list for Reacher season 3 to find out who the Guy Bigger Than Reacher was (in replies elsewhere, but I decided not to hijack the original thread more) The guy who played the dad had looked faintly familiar. It was Anthony Michael Hall
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
I am starting to really hate it when you look up something and it's illustrated with something egregiously inaccurate In this case, films that used Kedleston Hall, text says Jane Eyre, image is of Princess Bride
OMG, @seananmcguire.bsky.social have you seen this?
Tom Larkin@tomlarkin.bsky.social · 2w agoWe’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.
The first time Passport actually swam, it was an accident. A very happy accident. #CatsOfBluesky
Re: last repost, this one is definitely a trope to avoid, but I also see it in discussions of real life, most recently people talking about disabilities caused by measles The real people affected by that can see it when you present their lives as a terrible consequence of not vaccinating
Disabled people do not exist as life lessons for your nondisabled characters/readers. Plenty of people believe that’s what we’re for IRL. I am not your teaching tool to remind you to be grateful or whatever. I am a human being with rights and dignity and needs. So must your disabled character be.
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social · 2w agoWe now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
Wow Google trained its sarcasm detector on Bluesky
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w agoGoogle Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
People living on easy mode with respect to executive function are so resentful that another group is breaking away from being a target for their contempt An ADHD diagnosis reframes your whole life. And it is so wonderful to break the cycle by giving the next generation that information early
Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 2w agoYes. Understanding my struggles through a lens other than being a moral failure helps me. The meds help me be an almost functional human being. My adult ADHD diagnosis has been life-changing. I want that for others it would help; fuck you for not wanting that for other people too.
