Lacerta "Free Łink" Winters
@antarcticempire.net
Poet, posthumanist, & author since 2009 (she/her)
Spiders are my people and I am a bug. Disability justice & total liberation through decentering the human. 🏴 Arm the left and talk about power!
www.antarcticempire.net
💚 @magicspearmint.myatproto.social
Spiders are my people and I am a bug. Disability justice & total liberation through decentering the human. 🏴 Arm the left and talk about power!
www.antarcticempire.net
💚 @magicspearmint.myatproto.social
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No thanksgiving related art today, but here is Theresa! Happy thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
No thanksgiving related art today, but here is Theresa! Happy thanksgiving!
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I can't stop thinking
about the health of us
& I'm looking at libraries
when I just want to be looking
at you
and I'm heartbroken
at the tragedy,
where love once issued forth endlessly
it turns now to blood
and the warmth bleeds
for time and space
punishes ideas in the absence of action
#vss365
about the health of us
& I'm looking at libraries
when I just want to be looking
at you
and I'm heartbroken
at the tragedy,
where love once issued forth endlessly
it turns now to blood
and the warmth bleeds
for time and space
punishes ideas in the absence of action
#vss365
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I can't stop thinking
about the health of us
& I'm looking at libraries
when I just want to be looking
at you
and I'm heartbroken
at the tragedy,
where love once issued forth endlessly
it turns now to blood
and the warmth bleeds
for time and space
punishes ideas in the absence of action
#vss365
about the health of us
& I'm looking at libraries
when I just want to be looking
at you
and I'm heartbroken
at the tragedy,
where love once issued forth endlessly
it turns now to blood
and the warmth bleeds
for time and space
punishes ideas in the absence of action
#vss365
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it's a shame that damselflies will never know just how cool their eyes look. at least the ones that are often photographed.
August 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
it's a shame that damselflies will never know just how cool their eyes look. at least the ones that are often photographed.
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🥲 Meet Diva, one of my newer tarantulas. Right after cleaning their water dish they just filled it up with dirt again right away. Then they sat down and looked all cute. Even added a leaf on top of the dirt pile. I had to doodle it xD
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🥲 Meet Diva, one of my newer tarantulas. Right after cleaning their water dish they just filled it up with dirt again right away. Then they sat down and looked all cute. Even added a leaf on top of the dirt pile. I had to doodle it xD
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Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
everything hurts and i'm tired and broke. I want to molt
i want to be a pampered little insect given the safest, most comfortable environment, and i want to molt into a beautiful new shiny exterior. i want my insides to make space for themselves. i want my blood and breath to shape my new body
i want to be a pampered little insect given the safest, most comfortable environment, and i want to molt into a beautiful new shiny exterior. i want my insides to make space for themselves. i want my blood and breath to shape my new body
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
everything hurts and i'm tired and broke. I want to molt
i want to be a pampered little insect given the safest, most comfortable environment, and i want to molt into a beautiful new shiny exterior. i want my insides to make space for themselves. i want my blood and breath to shape my new body
i want to be a pampered little insect given the safest, most comfortable environment, and i want to molt into a beautiful new shiny exterior. i want my insides to make space for themselves. i want my blood and breath to shape my new body
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Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.
@profanity.accountant am i a good bug
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
@profanity.accountant am i a good bug
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Dedicated to bumblebees, who've within the past few years been the first insects to demonstrate "play" behavior, including rolling a tiny wood ball into a goal.
August 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Dedicated to bumblebees, who've within the past few years been the first insects to demonstrate "play" behavior, including rolling a tiny wood ball into a goal.
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Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
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thinking about... tarantula paw
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
thinking about... tarantula paw
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Stouffer’s Targets People Spending Thanksgiving Alone With New Single-Serve Frozen Family https://theonion.com/stouffer-s-targets-people-spending-thanksgiving-alone-w-1848105159/
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Stouffer’s Targets People Spending Thanksgiving Alone With New Single-Serve Frozen Family https://theonion.com/stouffer-s-targets-people-spending-thanksgiving-alone-w-1848105159/
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i...don't remember why I made this image?
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
i...don't remember why I made this image?
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Drinking water was invented by big toilet to cause more piss
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Drinking water was invented by big toilet to cause more piss
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bf just referred to the little brains at the base of each octopus tentacle as the octopus' "gang of ganglia" and i'm stunned
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
bf just referred to the little brains at the base of each octopus tentacle as the octopus' "gang of ganglia" and i'm stunned
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leaves spiral down
I’m so afraid
of falling
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leaves spiral down
I’m so afraid
of falling
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🍁
leaves spiral down
I’m so afraid
of falling
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leaves spiral down
I’m so afraid
of falling
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Being bitten by a radioactive spider is always a bit of a gamble tbh.
19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Being bitten by a radioactive spider is always a bit of a gamble tbh.
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Armaldo's Bug Lair still has the juice 🔥
![Screenshot of a text channel in the Armaldo's Bug Lair Discord server. User FelixCroc replies to user PacBrad the Shapeshifter's comment 'feels good to be a free thinker' with 'So-called "free thinkers" when [anorith_loaf emoji]'
FelixCroc's comment has three prism_anorith emoji reacts on it. Below, users High Priestess of Armaldo, Broken Mirror, Mac, and PacBrad the Shapeshifter post the anorith_loaf emoji in succession](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbxe7jbtwjczcq4z4gnqy5tf/bafkreicazyxnlqztg4c3js6ycxkgkkomc2w6cpzsqeyulc7aqdbsuqlnwu@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Armaldo's Bug Lair still has the juice 🔥
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Moths are my friends!!! ₊✩‧₊˚ ཐིཋྀ ˚₊✩‧₊
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Moths are my friends!!! ₊✩‧₊˚ ཐིཋྀ ˚₊✩‧₊
I want to write a novel of that one meme of Gregor Samsa waking up like "Yes, ha ha ha, YES!!!" Literally a whole novel about the joys of suddenly becoming a giant insect
Adventure. Romance. Revenge fantasies. Fantasies of passion. Anarchist praxis. The remaking of the world and society writ large
Adventure. Romance. Revenge fantasies. Fantasies of passion. Anarchist praxis. The remaking of the world and society writ large
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I want to write a novel of that one meme of Gregor Samsa waking up like "Yes, ha ha ha, YES!!!" Literally a whole novel about the joys of suddenly becoming a giant insect
Adventure. Romance. Revenge fantasies. Fantasies of passion. Anarchist praxis. The remaking of the world and society writ large
Adventure. Romance. Revenge fantasies. Fantasies of passion. Anarchist praxis. The remaking of the world and society writ large
Let's give it up for Murray!!
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Let's give it up for Murray!!
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Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.