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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 1d

Happy Ace Week from Scarleteen! To celebrate the last day of this special week, we have compiled a list of resources within and beyond Scarleteen for you and yours:

Text: "Are you new to the asexuality spectrum? We've got resources for you at and beyond Scarleteen! P.S. Happy Ace Week," alongside hands holding a heart with the ace flag colors.

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 5d

& 19. 'Botanicals', 20 'Wand' and 21 'Eyes'

A pen and ink drawing of a witch wearing a hat shaped like the top of gin distillery. She is wearing an apron and holding up a glass bottle.

A pen and ink drawing of a wand with a bulbous end, a polished handle and a rougher stick end.

A pen and ink drawing of a thick tree trunk, eyes look out of the shadows on either side of the tree and one set of eyes peers out from a hollow at the base of the tree.

Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 5d

Week 3 of #Inktober: 15. 'Lightning', 16. Cauldron, 17 'Mushroom' and 18. 'Star'

A pen and ink drawing of a small cottage, its chimney being struck by lightning

A pen and ink drawing of an old cauldron sitting in the middle of crude fireplace

A pen and ink drawing of a witch with a hat like a mushroom cap which has smaller mushrooms growing out it. He has a basket of mushrooms in the hand closest to the viewer and is holding a toadstool in his other hand. He has a handlebar moustache and a beard

A pen and ink drawing of a witch on her broom, she has her back to the viewer and holding onto her hat as she looks up at a shooting star

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 6d

I agree (on both fronts).

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 8d

True. So the rest of us have to be scarlet for them.

Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 12d

A pen and ink drawing of a moth holding a small candle in its front legs

A pen and ink drawing of a snake wearing a knitted full body warmer and wrapped around a cup of hot tea.

A pen and ink drawing of a small rolly-polly kitten licking from a puddle. A glass bottle of its side is on the left and batwings are appearing on the kitten's back.

Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 12d

Second Week of #Inktober

A pen and ink drawing of a honey bee with a wicker skep in the background wearing a witch's hat

A pen, ink and ink wash drawing of an open fireplace, a cat is curled up on the lap of someone wearing skirts on the right.

A pen and ink drawing of a key with an ornamental snake winding around the top.

A pen and ink picture of a witch with an apron and crystals in her pockets, in her walking stick and coming out of her hat and dress.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 12d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 14d

Three hours v. ten minutes.

A photo of a cutting mat with lino carving of a cat on the left and the pencil sketch it was based off on the right. There is a pencil at the bottom edge of the mat and a lino cutter at the top.

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 15d

I mean, I could see someone thinking that's funny but how the hells does something like that get through to production?

Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 15d

......I...They. WHAT THE FUCK?

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 18d

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI
meme by @FLScience

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 19d

And the other three

An ink drawing of a stylized harp with a vertebra and skull details, done for the Inktober prompt 'Music'

An ink drawing of an amulet, shaped like a stylized wing with an eye in the centre, done for the prompt 'Amulet'

An ink drawing of a witch in a large hat carrying a very large spellbook, done for the Inktober prompt 'Spellbook'

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 19d

First week of #Inktober in the books.

An ink drawing of a witch with a very large hat, also wearing a scarf and carrying a basket, done for the Inktober prompt 'Hat'

An ink drawing of a large, goofy toad done for the Inktober prompt 'Familar'

An ink drawing of a crystal ball on a stand with a bat crest, done for the Inktober prompt 'Crystal ball'

An ink drawing of a besom broom leaning against the wall with a chaotic brush and a bent handle, done for the prompt 'Broom'

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 20d

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 23d

Honestly, around us, it was more likely to be the local club flags. (The joke was that you could always tell who had family in the club and how many by the number of flags).

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 23d

Random power-outage but all kudos to National Grid. Filled in the online form and they kept the website updated and managed it in one hour instead of the two it was supposed to take.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 24d

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 26d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 25d

In 2022 WE put up fake police incident boards highlighting institutional misogyny and racism in the Met police. Tonight’s BBC Panorama hows how bad it is. To quote one of our boards, the police cannot stop violence and discrimination if they do not recognise it in their own ranks.

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 25d

One thing I miss about the bird site was the ease with which I could find alternative #inktober lists.

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 26d

'Moonflow' by Bitter Karella. Picked up yesterday at the bookshop.

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · 27d

Y'know, I'm looking forward to the day when 'new phone' does not include several hours of 'no, really, how do I turn off THIS BS AI feature.'

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endora bullshit @endora-bullshit.bsky.social · 27d

....i didn't realize this sort of thing was going on.....

i recommend *not* wearing a titanium ring with a lithium battery in it ?? and if it starts to swell while you're wearing it to absolutely not get on a plane ???

Daniel
@ZONEofTECH
Ahhh…this is…not good.

My Samsung Galaxy Ring’s battery started swelling. While it’s on my finger 😬. And while I’m about to board a flight 😬

Now I cannot take it off and this thing hurts.

Any quick suggestions @SamsungUK
@SamsungMobileUS
?

photo of side of ring showing swollen battery and photo of swollen red finger with the ring on

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Ara @arasigyrn.bsky.social · Sep 24

The Fat Bear Week emails are oddly charming.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · Sep 24

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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