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Emma Reid

@emusingemma.bsky.social

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An artist, illustrator, crafter (and now voice actor?!) who once met Johnny Ball while dressed as a giant caterpillar. Neurodivergent. She/her

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 8h

Plastic skeletons have a very high carbon footprint, so over Halloween, stick with hanging out the bones of those who wronged you.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 10h

Yesterday my etsy shop had preciously one view. (And i think that was probably me) If you like my stuff please repost. An eccentric millionaire with lots of empty wall space could be scrolling your timeline right now. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/listing/1579...

One of my prints “And now we’ll abseil down the other side” Shows a mountain that’s actually a monster with abseilers on top of it.

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dogwelder @ga2so.com · 19h

Botober day 13: pickled cubiwery. I thought drawing more was supposed to make your drawings get better.
www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/10...
#botober #drawing

line drawing. A man is faced down at a bar, his right arm raised with a glass in it. around him are various bottles and glasses. Text at the top reads "You might know about Dry January, but very few people know about the secret month known as Pickled Cubiwery.

A word balloon pointing to someone out of frame reads "What'll you have now?" The man responds "Yes."

On the wall behind him is a calendar showing Cubiwery, with a picture an arrow pointing at a wine bottle, with "YES!" written next to the arrow.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 16h

14. Lightly spather
I imagine to “lightly spather” would be to gently joust or fence using flower spathes! Possibly an action carried out by fairies or pixies.
#botober #botober2025

Illustration of two green spathes, held by tiny hands, being gently bopped against each other with puffy clouds around them on a lilac background. Lines around them emphasise their gentle movement

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent technique! I shall try that next time!

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 1d

Haven’t had a proper lemuffir in years

I heard they might be opening a lemuffiry downtown

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 2d

12. Lemuffir
#botober #botober2025

An illustration of a black and white cupcake/muffin, the top of which is white and fluffy and has a lemur’s head and tail

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 1d

I eat the tail first. How about you?

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 1d

"Post you from a different era" 1990s with a 1920s look!

Sépia photo of me in a glasshouse with tree ferns, with bobbed hair, long beige coat, waistcoat

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Keith Foster @keithrfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Postcard from Glenrothes.

Graffiti on a bus shelter in Glenrothes that reads "Kyla is a fishy weirdo" but someone has scored out 'Kyla' and replaced it with 'Zoey'.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 1d

I finished the wonderfully eerie Pine by Francine Toon, and am now reading The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi, in which the recently deceased choose a photo for each year of their lives

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 1d

13. Pickled cubiwery
I pictured this as cubes of some sort of knobbly hairy cucumber
#botober #botober2025

A jar with a green lid, containing green cubes floating in green liquid. On the green label is a green vegetable which is very hairy and knobbly

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Area Man @areamancm.bsky.social · 2d

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 2d

12. Lemuffir
#botober #botober2025

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 3d

Been doing a lot of reading on the shoe industry. Interesting fact, a Skiver as in the trade of thinning leather down on seams etc, is from the OE/ON ‘skifa’ ‘to cut or split’. The term skiver to avoid work is from the Middle French ‘esquiver’ to escape.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 3d

If I was less dirty minded I might see ET’s finger, but, nah, it’s a peepee

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 4d

this was on my wife’s timeline and she said to me, how long did it take you to realize it was a paw? and I said it is what

A FB post about a new tattoo that has a hand reading for a paw but the paw just straight up looks like a penis idk

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

okay so if Pepe is chaotic evil and Portland frog is chaotic good, where are our other frogs

Kermit is lawful good obviously

I think Frog and Toad are true neutral. they do them and that’s it

Michigan J. Frog is chaotic neutral

Tiana, Naveen and Keroppi I’m uncertain

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 3d

11. Catsian spinach

#botober #botober2025

An illustration of a spinach leaf, the top of which has cat ears. The stem forms a tail

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 13d

"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for #October eves!"

By Humbert Wolfe

#October1st #BookChatWeekly #Autumn 🎃🍃🍂

🖼️ 'La Bourrasque' (The Gust of Wind) by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, 1896

Painting of a shocked looking lady dressed in black standing in an autumnal woodland while the wind whirls gusts of orange leaves all around her.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 4d

10. 1/4 can cool soup

#botober #botober2025

Illustration of a tin of gazpacho with a glass jug beside it a quarter full of soup

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 5d

Powerful and disturbing documentary, but with hope because of the librarians who are standing up against the book bans. Everyone shoild watch this! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 5d

9. Small sweet pipes
#botober #botober2025

An illustration of Truly Scrumptious from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang playing a tune on a Toot Sweet

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 5d

Behold onion!

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 5d

Ki-tan the helpful but clumsy onion is the mascot for Kitami City in Hokkaido.

An onion-headed mascot in a light green T-shirt stands in a crowded courtyard.

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 6d

Damn, the ceiling sauce reminds me of the time that I was trying to put a lid on a plastic tub of baked beans… and they ended up on *every* possible surface!

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 6d

8. Ground mayonnaise

#botober #botober2025

An illustration of a jar of mayonnaise, Hellman’s style, lying on the ground with mayo spilling out. The yellow, blue and white label reads “oh, hell”

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 7d

This helped me a lot when I needed it. Also mefenamic acid which helped with the pain