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Lynn Winx

@lynnwinx.bsky.social

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46, pre-transition trans woman, leftist, atheist, goth, ex-astronomer, hobbyist game programmer, French and Dutch. Fan of rabbits.

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Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 17h

Someone asked me on Instagram to explain why I said that Charlie Kirk was a bad person. If you don't get it, you're a bad person too.

I didn't answer though. I don't believe the question was an honest one.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 17h

Puff mushrooms

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 18h

It's not weirder than point-and-click adventure games where you need to solve a sliding-tile puzzle up disarm a bomb or solve a sudoku to flush the toilet.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 20h

Please detain me in Bunny Alcatraz.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 1d

You gave her her glitters back!

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 1d

1. Flora, then Stella
2. Tough question! Not sure I have a favorite but I'll pick World of Winx.
3. A friend mentioned it to me in 2006, when I was 27. Fan ever since!

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 1d

I've got a crazy idea: let the people who put server farms everywhere pay for the electricity they use.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it is a terrible idea that's never going to work.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nooo, poor hedgies! I made a hedgehog house out of wood for them to shelter in winter safely from cats. But I also have pumpkins in my garden. I'll read about that. I want my spikey boys to eat the slugs, not rotten veggies.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 1d

Cozy autumn here in the Netherlands!

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 2d

I like how Alaska is still at the bottom for no reason.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 2d

From the mudcrab. You know the one.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 2d

Because "Kay" was just above "poop", I read "K-pop is stored in my brain".

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 2d

My copies of #DetectiveBeans by @exocomics.com arrived today! I picked them up on my way to the bakery. Page 10 of the first book made me laugh out loud 😄.

Photograph of a faux-rustic table from above. On the table are a croissant on a little plate, a coffee cup on a smaller plate, a little pot with orange flowers, and the two Detective Beans books.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that a debate can be "won" makes no sense. The one who's right is the one who has the facts on their side, even if they're terrible on stage. Debates are spectacle and advertising, using rhetoric and manipulation to persuade (not convince) the spectators.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 4d

Wait. He actually believes in that stuff? Or is he seeing the end approaching and he's trying to Pascal's-Wager the thing just in case?

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 4d

Get in my purse, we're going shopping.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 4d

It must be so weird for her to not lie. Imagine saying true things, you don't need to work hard to remember them, and facts even back you up.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 4d

That craftsmanship is incredible. Cutting, polishing, inserting all those little gems must have taken ages. And imagine doing all that tiny work without spectacles or a magnifying glass.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 5d

In France we've had five I think. We've been thinking of writing a sixth one since I was a kid. We don't worship our constitution, not because it's bad but because it's just a legal document and not a holy relic. We don't teach our kids we're the best nation on earth.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 5d

Why are you sharing a picture of a warzone?

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 5d

"involuntary lethal injections" to solve homelessness. They say that on TV now. And they mean it. They've always meant it.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 5d

The people who sign up for ICE think it is a very cool thing for a president to say. Very cool and strong and badass and manly and very easy to understand.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 5d

"Kill them all and let God sort them out". A technique familiar to those who've studied the Albigensian Crusade.

Lynn Winx @lynnwinx.bsky.social · 5d

I hate that well very much.

I bought a bird ladder for the bunny sand box in my garden because I didn't want mice to get stuck. It was a 15 cm high wall. That well is just cruel.

Also, hug.