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Nibedita Sen

@hernibsen.bsky.social

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She/her. Nebula&Hugo-nommed queer Bengali lady geek/gamer/editor/writer/dice&jewelry maker. ADHD. Cat mom. Too many hobbies; always hungry. 🌺patreon.com/hernibs 📷https://www.instagram.com/her_nibs/ 💎https://www.peculiarityshop.com/nibs-corner

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 21d

these guys have been sitting in my corner of @peculiarityshop.bsky.social for a while, and they're all down to only ONE pair remaining. If I can get them cleared out, that makes room for more Halloweeny goodies... 👀 🎃

www.peculiarityshop.com/nibs-corner

Round earrings with black flowers & silver beads set in resin within metal frames

Dangling stud earrings with shimmery purple cicada wings and green glass leaves strung from brass hoops

Oval earrings made of real flowers set in resin within metal frames, paired with pale green jade beads

Black stud earrings with dangling ribcages made of partially translucent white polymer clay

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 6h

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 2d

The last weekend we can ship for receipt before Halloween. So, a thread. Mute if jewelry offends, please! We're an LGBTQIA+ art collective, so thank you in advance for your support and boosts!

This is a hand-poured/painted brooch by yours truly, $20.80.

www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Hillary's A Good Head on Your Shoulder | Peculiarity Shop

Hillary brings us a handcrafted and painted skull pin for your morbid accessorizing! Components: plaster of Paris, epoxy clay, acrylic paint, Mod Podge, base metal pin Lead/nickel free

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 4d

1. We earlier reported that the volume of protests in 2025 has been far greater than during 2017, that the movement remains overwhelmingly (and even historically) nonviolent, and that protests have been geographically far-reaching. But just how far-reaching have they been?

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating

Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 3d

EEEEEE I’m so glad! They look great on you!

Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 3d

I hand-painted bones and mushrooms on clay for these, because I am a masochist. Neither pair has sold, which on the one hand is good because it means I should not subject myself to the torture of making more... but...

$38.40 with the sale!

www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Oval black polymer clay earrings hand-painted with tiny animal jawbones and mushrooms

Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 3d

I want to do stained glass, but I have nO ROOM for another craft, so I've been making resin dupes instead to soothe the itch. The frames for these were hand-sculpted, molded, then cast in black resin and filled in with red and blue. $33.60 with the sale! www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Resin earrings shaped like flat anatomical hearts, mimicking stained glass

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 3d

Where are my bitey bitches at? I still have three pairs of these fossilized shark chompers up. $28.80 for days when you've just enough and the next person to try you is gonna get it in the neck.

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Black metal earrings with copper-wrapped fossilized shark teeth

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 3d

Or maybe you want to adorn yourself with some different body parts? These are marked down to $12.60 right now~
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 3d

Pssst....it's almost Halloween. Do you have all the spooky goodies you need? Because the final pair of these lil' grabbers are currently marked down to only $9.60~
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Black metal skeletal hand earrings dangling on thin black chains

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3d

Thread of COOL STUFF ON THE SHOP AT 20% OFF.

LGBTQIA+ Staffed, artist named takes 70% of the sale. Flat $4 shipping in the States.

La Lune. Handmade moon ceramics from England with ornate boho blades, $16.

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Hillary's La Lune | Peculiarity Shop

The moon hangs in the sky, a companion to our midnight revels. Components: ceramics from ScorchedEarth, copper/zinc alloy Lead/nickel free

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 3d

Very proud of these!! The nails are hand-cut traditional iron tremont nails from MysticMountainMetals

Pumpkin Spice Twatté @fairylogic.bsky.social · 3d

These coffin nail earrings are *intense*. I can feel the energy radiating from them and just looking at them makes me want to hex a bitch. Wearing them is going to require intent and I will be fucking unstoppable. @peculiarityshop.bsky.social

A hand holding earrings made of coffin nails bound in rough wire circles. They are big and heavy and full of magic.

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 4d

Truer words were never spoken

Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 4d

Timeline cleanse: May you all know the joy of a cat whose mama is working in bed under the electric blanket

Morty, an old gray cat, is cuddled up in Nibs’ lap under a fold of a blue heated blanket, with his two front paws sticking out by his head. He looks half asleep and cozy as fuck.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 6d

I may have to call back my dentist and be like “hey yeah so I’m still showing no other cough/cold signs, would you consider prescribing me antibiotics anyway” 😭😭😭

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 6d

(I’ve been to my dentist, he took xrays, teeth look normal, he said “I’d normally expect you to have been sick if it was sinus-related”, but here I am. OTC pain relievers aren’t doing shit, and it gets worse as soon as I lay down, so I’m not sleeping either 🙃)

Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone knows how it’s possible to have sinusitis so bad it gives you tooth pain and headaches but is also entirely absent the normal signs like nasal drip or coughing / how to fix it, PLEASE TELL ME

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 6d

Weeks of mystery tooth pain (possibly sinus related??? Who knows??) and the consequent sleepless nights + novel deadlines have reduced me to a barely functional shell of a human lately. But at least I have a cute and drooly nurse.

Nibs, a desi woman, lies in bed looking at the camera with an expression that suggests she has given up on life. Morty, an old gray cat, is cuddled into her chest with a paw draped over her shoulder

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 8d

Resources for Whistle Warriors
Spanish and English flyers
Zines
Supplies– Metal and Plastic Whistles

link:
www.pilsenartscommunityhouse.org

or Google Drive via @tracyabell.bsky.social:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Resources for
Whistle
Warriors

WHISTLE ZINES

WHISTLE FLIERS

DOWNLOAD HERE / This is a PDF with
both English & Spanish one page fliers
that do not need to be folded.

SUPPLY LINKS

graphic of whistle

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.