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Persiflage
@persiflage.bsky.social
😶 not a girl 🍓 birbs 💘 blogging from deep into the woods 🌳 (bio from not a pornbot: https://perchance.org/botdescript)
Reader; writer; lover of great acting & storytelling; fannish; word nerd; semi-cripple; non-binary. pfp - Red Kite photo by me.
Fuzzy floofsters one, two, three,
All looking at thee and me! 🦉💙
Good morning! 🪶
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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My order book will close at 10pm tonight - last chance to place a Christmas order for one of my jewellery pieces 👇🌿
I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It’s the time of year when I do my Christmas auction. This mouse icon is up for auction and it’s to raise money for Shelter Cymru & Doctors without borders. 100% of the money raised will go to these charities on a 50-50 basis.
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Daily #BirdWatch (1/3)
Heard: Robin, Goldfinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Dunnock, Pied Wagtail, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Redwing, Starling, Black Redstart, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Collared Dove, Stock Dove, Rock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow,

#UKBirding
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Bigots of every stripe just being openly bigoted these days.
It doesn't occur to him that we're 5 YEARS into an ongoing global pandemic?
Or that a lot of people have spent years, if not their entire lifetimes, minimising their own struggles in an attempt to fit into an ableist, neurotypical society?
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Hi #BookSky 💙📚
I've started re-reading Christmas at Applemore by Rachael Lucas
Christmas at Applemore
Harry Robertson is determined to make the Applemore Hot…
www.goodreads.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Dec 4: Lighthouses #watercolour #watercolor #seascape #ArtAdventCalendar
The bottom left painting is in tribute to Stan Collins from Newfoundland, whose photograph of the Lobster Cove Lighthouse I used as a reference. Sadly, Stan passed away a month ago after a lifetime of engineering & photography.
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Annoyed by the realisation I can't go to the launderette tomorrow as I don't have enough money left. It cost me £17 last week as I needed a bigger and more expensive machine to wash my stuff since I'm wearing multiple layers against the cold weather.
£3 ain't enough. Can only hope it's not busy.
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I make lovely things out of silver reclaimed from old electrical devices-I cast real flowers in said silver & sculpt teeny wearable versions of birds eg.wrens.My necklaces make smashing presents but take a while to make so order before tmrw eve if you'd like one in time for🌲 (also pls RT tysm x)
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I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hi #BookSky 💙📚
I've finished re-reading Midsummer House by Rachael Lucas
Midsummer House (Applemore Bay, #3)
Self confessed control freak Charlotte Fraser takes a l…
www.goodreads.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The @ec.europa.eu has gone berserk. It wants to open the EU water framework directive to allow mining corporations to pollute water and increase costs for all, the interests of the few before that of all of us

Out of control

Folks - please repost, inform, resist

@epsu.bsky.social
@politico.eu
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Really big moon really low in the sky this afternoon.
Tried to get a photo, but it looked shit.
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Gorgeous! 💙
Here's a Dipper painted in watercolour for today's #ArtAdventCalendar and also #BirdOfTheDay theme #OnTheRocks ! I've only ever seen a Dipper once, they really are wonderful birds 🪶 🤎

Painting inspired by one of the @rspb.bsky.social website dipper images!

#Birds #Art #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Right then. That's 6 Xmas cards plus a long letter written today. No more 'cos my writing wrist is screaming (bloody tendonitis!) at me.
4 cards left to write, which I'll do tomorrow.
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Heads up, writers! 📝💻
Submissions are open for our Welsh folklore anthology, They Are Still Here: wizardstowerpress.co...
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Fuzzy-headed floofsters!! 😍🦉💙
Good morning! 🪶
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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I condemn in the strongest possible terms the exclusion of trans girls from Girl Guides.

So I want also to spread the word about Woodcraft Folk, who have never waivered in their support & inclusion of trans kids (& were founded in rejection of the patriarchal & imperialistic values of Scouts).
December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Oh fuck your sodding red lines!
Do what's best for the country for once in your goddamn life!
“The PMs chief economic adviser has recommended a customs union with the EU as one of the most effective ways of generating growth..” - Ed Davey

“We do have clear red lines in relation to the single market & the customs union” - Keir Starmer
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Here are the other two images. They can be framed on request. www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Three of my cartoons have been released as prints by @theguardian.com. They are an open edition in two sizes and are available for two weeks only. Get one here:
www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Don't let Eric's smile fool you; this jar has a lid for very good reasons.
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Highly recommended, as ever, #BookSky 💙📚
Book Quote Wedneday's word is 'world' #BookQW
Being able to see those who live in the supernatural realm is all very well, but there's a lot which Dan Mackmain and his girlfriend Fin don't know, and that can land them in a world of hurt. Modern fantasy rooted in British myths and folklore #Booksky
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The emergence of Molly, who takes winter very seriously.
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Or he could give his bank account a workout (ie become a philanthropist) and give up his unhealthy and very toxic fascism - that *might* reduce his chances of being assassinated.

(I doubt working out will help - but you know, whatever! 🤷 I don't care.)
Musk told a gathering of former DOGE employees at his facilities at Bastrop, Texas, that he now believed he was one of the top assassination targets in the US behind only Trump and Vance.

Bizarrely he said he should start working out more to reduce the risk of assassination.
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM