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ephant.bsky.social
MerriLe 🎄 [they/them]
@ephant.bsky.social
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BOLDNESS IS ALL

#ActuallyAutistic writer of neurodivergent & queer romance & family drama.

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Knits socks when not #writing.
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I had to change the text size on my device in order to get this screenshot. What a pivot!
Screenshot from Rahaeli@bsky.social in reference to a guardian article “MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul”. Rahaeli’s comment reads: “I don’t ever wanna hear someone from the UK talking shit about the US court system again, lol” The bsky thread following this post has been collapsed. After a “show full thread” link we see the final post in the chain. The post reads (in part): “But like everything about DC fandom it comes from…”
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - I just didn't expect them to be such losers —Rebecca Shaw
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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An illustration of a horse-shape. The front half is black, the back half is white. Text reads “I defragged my zebra”
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Well this should be fun (not actually fun) 😒
Wed 🌧️ 100%
October 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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It looks different, therefore it wasn’t green before. Or wasn’t neon green, it must have been a deeper or lighter or mintier green. Nope, it was just a slightly faded version of this same neon green it’s been all year!
A picture of my face. I have BRIGHT neon green hair flopping over my forehead, my hair is shaved on the sides. I am wearing bright yellow sunglasses
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I think the #soulidified single is fine… but the cover art is WILD to me because WHY does this clearly pirated home-burned CD have “exclusive” and “best value” stickers on it?? #BuildingTheBand
A writable CD in a cracked jewel case. “One & Only” is scribbled at the top of the disk, “Soulidified” is written on the “contents” line. The jewel case has several stickers on it that say “best value”, “exclusive” and “previously unreleased material”. The type of CD is “SMBL” (solidified members initials) and there a buncha numbers that I don’t think it is worth transcribing but probably have some Easter-egg type meaning that I can’t be bothered to investigate.
August 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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This is fine
Rain for next hour: a bar chart showing increasing rain over the next 60 minutes. (No scale on the graph but it’s sloping upwards) Hourly Forecast: a chart showing 95% chance of rain from 9pm through to 4am (where the chart cuts off)
July 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Yeah it’s weird. The summary on the ABC news app has one headline, but the full article has another
Analysis by Alan Kohler The United States has proven itself an incomprehensible and unreliable ally America's economic and political chaos has implications for Australia By Alan Kohler
June 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Post the first 4 characters you know from your results. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Waymond Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once George Michael Bluth from Arrested Development Aram from The Blacklist Otis Milburn from Sex Education
May 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - I just didn't expect them to be such losers —Rebecca Shaw
March 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Then I had to triple check when I got to here
Though Machado described himself as a supporter of the president, he said his faith in Trump's administration has diminished following his being detained.
March 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Had to double check that I wasn’t reading the onion when I got to this quote.
"I was a Trump supporter," he said on Wednesday. "I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be like ... against criminals, not every Hispanic, Spanish-lookalike."
March 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Investing in new knitting needles! TAAT should be a breeze with these!! I could probably even do two PAIRS at once with these lmao.
Close up of the label on a set of circular knitting needles. Label reads: 2.5 mm - 100 cm / US 1.5 • 40" Fixed Circular Needle
February 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Valentine’s Day flowers from my husband 😍
Two boxes of Lego botanicals, from the four seasons collection. They are the mini orchid, and lucky bamboo.
February 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Casting off (Jenny’s surprisingly stretchy bind off) was very frustrating and confusing until I worked out that it was just crocheting! Much easier with a hook 😅
Some knitting is visible. Most of the knitting is one a knitting needle but instead of a second needle there is a crochet hook on the right. Three stitches (actually it is one stitch, a yarn over, and another stitch but you can’t tell that from the photo) are sitting on a crochet hook.
February 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Another pair of socks done! I learned toe-up, TAAT, wrap and turn heel… and I also learned to bind off! I hadn’t had to do that knitting cuff-down because they’re grafted instead! #knitting
A pair of hand-knitted ankle socks.l in brightly coloured rainbow stripes. Each sock has the stripe colours going in opposite directions (one sock goes orange->yellow->green etc, the other goes orange -> pink -> blue and so on)
February 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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My t shirts from Lonely Kids Club!
A pale pink t shirt with illustrated badgers, mushrooms and a snake. The word “badger” is repeated all over the image A white t shirt with a colourful design on it. It has stars and hearts and says “powered by the autistic need to know WHY” (WHY is in big bubble letters and takes up most of the design)
February 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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First time knitting toe-up… and also first time knitting Two At A Time… pretty great so far! I think I am sold on TAAT! #knitting
A set of long circular knitting needles. Two socks are being knitted at once so there is the toe part of two socks sitting on the cord. Two balls of yarn are visible. The yarn (and socks) are BRIGHTLY coloured rainbow stripes. One sock has green/yellow/orange/dark orange stripes (so far), the other sock has light blue/dark blue/pink/dark orange.
February 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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This is so funny to me
Screenshot of an SMS bubble. (Today 08:38) Your Lonely... parcel is coming today at 11:55am-01:55pm. Not home? We'll leave it in a safe place.
February 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Remind me never to try and finangle patterns out of self-striping yarn again!!!

This was the best photo I could get as Zip put them on immediately and wouldn’t cooperate with being a sock model.
Two feet shed in watermelon-striped (green/white/pink/red) socks. The leg of the sock has dark seeds in the red stripes. The foot simply has dark stripes between pink and red.
January 31, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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I glow under UV light
My face. I am standing in the dark but there is a UV light and my hair is glowing fluoro green, and my sunglasses frames are flowing fluoro yellow. My loop ear plugs are also flowing fluoro pink!
January 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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FML
Bottom rack of dishwasher with large scary broke. chunks of glass interspersed with the rest of the dishes
January 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Pretty thrilled with my display shelf now!!
A shelf decorated with some decorative teacups as well as several sets of Lego flowers and botanicals. A pot of orchids, a chrysanthemum, some plum blossoms, a vase of daisies and roses, a vase with poppy and lavender, some Lego succulents… Other Lego leaves and flowers that I can’t identify (forgot what they are supposed to be)
January 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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My husband gave me flowers for my birthday 🥰
Two boxes of Lego from the Botanical Collection. The left box is a pot of orange Chrysanthemums, the right contains a pot of Plum Blossoms. In the background above the boxes a shelf is visible which displays Lego orchids, a Lego bouquet of various flowers, and a set of Lego succulents along with some other non-Lego things like fancy teacups.
January 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Also the second tallest building on this (very cool!!) Lego set
A set from the Lego Architecture series. It is Sydney and features the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, Deutsche Bank Place, and Sydney Tower.
January 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM