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kinelfire.bsky.social
Ms. Atoz (she/they)
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I have a very healthy obsession with Star Trek.

Pour one out; COVID ruined Earl Grey for me.

Longer form on Star Trek: https://angel-two.ghost.io/
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kinelfire.bsky.social
I've saved this because it seems to get more and more true. Lying in bed seems to have put my back out to the extent I could barely walk for 2 months last year.
An Extra Fabulous 4-panel comic strip. First image, top left: stylised blond-haired white guy in tan trousers and a red shirt stands slightly bent, with his left hand against a mail box and his right hand on his back, pain lines radiating from his back. His face has a downturned open mouth and scrunched up eyes. The chat bubble reads "Ah shit I looked in the mailbox weird and threw out my back". Second image, top right: the guy is in the middle ground of the image, standing on green and with the shape of houses in the background. In the foreground is the side of a very large red car (or truck) and a very small child following his ball into the path of the vehicle. The child is wearing a purple shirt, grey shorts, red shoes and a pink baseball hat, backwards. The kid's eyes are pointed at the black and white ball and their tongue is sticking out in a fairly universal signifier of concentration. A heavily emphasised bubble comes from the vehicle reading "BWOM" Third image, bottom left: the kid goes under the wheel of the vehicle; the bubble - in the same style as the previous one - reads "CRUNCH". I don't know how to describe the drawing, except to say that the kid is pretty comprehensively squished (in a non-gory way; this is a comic comic) Fourth image, bottom right: the kid runs across the grass past the guy who's still standing by his mailbox, completely unharmed and still focused on their ball, much to the guy's seeming envy. At the very bottom right, the artist has signed it ZMS and written the name of his strip, extra fabulous
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
"You know what? Some people are less worth than others. You can tell by the money they have and how they spend it."

"Haha fat/poor/disabled/immigrant (delete as applicable) people.”

"Enterprise is my favourite Star Trek series - and everything since then sucks. Bring back Berman."
Grey background with white centre justified text that reads: You've been kidnapped (In smaller writing) Your kidnappers allow you to keep posting on social media to pretend everything is alright. What would you post that would alarm your followers, without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Either I'm far too online, or the photo editor at the Independent feels a certain way about Linehan and his campaign of bigotry... He can't even claim to be ordering five beers here.
A photo credited to Reuters of anti-trans bigot Graham Linehan, outside Westminster Magistrates' Court. He's facing charges of harassment and criminal damage against a young trans woman. In the photo, one of the most divorced middle-aged white cis straight men in the world is wearing a white shirt (open at the neck, no tie) and a grey suit jacket, open. Behind him are a plate glass window and automatic door, which reflect buildings in sunlight. Linehan's expression is probably meant to be a smile, but it looks more like a gurning approximation of whatever a black soul; wizened by years of focused hatred and emptiness, would think a smile is. His right arm is raised in what is described in the Independent's photo description calls a "gesture": straight arm and all fingers extended. I don't think he has a heart to go out to anyone - not that Elon Musk does, either. He's pleaded not guilty, btw; even though Sophia recorded the harassment on the day of the criminal damage, and video of him throwing her phone across the road exists and will likely be entered into evidence.
September 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Saw this on Tiktok, and it occurred to me that the lad who was meditating might be on to something here - the arrest might not be safe enough for a conviction, and given how many cops it took to lift him, maybe more protesters could find their zen in the crowd?
August 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
From Wikipedia (I can still access it!):
Screenshot of mostly white text of a black background, from the Wikipedia page 'Harry Potter influences and analogues': "In a 2000 interview with BBC Radio 4, Rowling revealed a deep love of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book Lolita, saying, "There just isn't enough time to discuss how a plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in Nabokov's hands, a great and tragic love story, and I could exhaust my reservoir of superlatives trying to describe the quality of the writing." [26]
August 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Wake up, babe. A new* gender test just dropped.

*Old. Very old. Monstrous Regiment was first published in 2003
Photograph of printed text that reads: "A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman." It is a quote from Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
June 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
It's just past Spouse and my 3rd anniversary, but could I suggest Bubblebots?
Your friendly poster is standing on the right foreground of this photo, facing Spouse who is standing on the left facing me and squinting into the sunshine. They are wearing a slate blue suit with a brighter blue waistcoat and white shirt and an enby flag bowtie. They have dark brown hair, black glasses and a small goatee, tied in a braid. I'm wearing a navy blue dress that has a very full skirt because of many underskirt layers. The topmost layer has stars, moons and little dots all over it, in holographic silver. Around my shoulder is a light blue crocheted shawl, and I'm holding my bouquet of purple flowers (no idea what type of blooms, sorry) in my left hand, so it obscures my upper body. I'm grinning at Spouse. I have blue hair, styled with a quiff and some braiding along the top. The sides are shaved down and are my natural light brown hair colour (white/grey at the temples). Behind us, out of focus, are most of our wedding guests arranged up the stairs to the door of the building we had the ceremony in. The building is blond sandstone; a pale brown tone. A lot of the guests had bubbles and were blowing them. Some of the bubbles are in focus, but most are out of focus; they are all different colours as they caught the sunlight.
May 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Worst Double Dip ever.
A photograph of two empty sachets of Laxido, an allegedly orange flavour osmotic laxative, still attached down the middle and with the tops torn open. The torn off section is still attached at one side. The sachets are white with an orange design of various intensities across the lower half; above that is the information of what each sachet contains and what it will provide as a solution in water in black. The branding is in orange and on the torn section; the batch code and expiry date is in black and across the bottom. The sachets are sitting on a scratched bamboo chopping board, which is a light wood colour.
March 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
I'm still very new to the Kobo platform, but it's heartening to see that there's a thriving self-published smut market here, too. I won't be buying this (already got enough to be going on with) but it's not subtle, is it?
Screenshot of a book listing from the Kobo app. The title is across the top in white writing on a black background: "Shy Amber Hires an Escort to Turn Her into a Moaning Slut". Below this is the cover image: a topless white woman with long blonde hair is wearing dark jeans. Her back is to the camera, and her right arm is bent upwards with her hand against what might be a doorframe? This hides any view of her breasts from the side. Her face is slightly visible in profile. The background of the image appears to have been edited to black and white; the top half seems to be windows with an upright bar between two panels. The windows are bright white. The bottom half of the background is dark, so I can't really make out what the shapes are. Overlaid, the title is in red letters - left justified, with the author's name in the bottom left corner in white (L.J. Harper) Under the cover image is the white outline of 5 stars with 0 in brackets. This means there are no reader reviews - yet. Below that is the author's name "by L.J. Harper" in a bold and underlined white font, suggesting that a user can click through to their other works, if there are any.
March 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Maggie and her sometimes-used ramp.
Maggie, a black and white tuxedo cat, sitting on a grey sofa, in front of 2 grey throw cushions. Below the main seat cushion is her new home-made ramp; a cut down IKEA shelf with a blue-grey doormat nailed to it, so that she can walk up it without slipping. Well, unless I'm here to lift her, then it's just a minor tripping hazard on the way to the bookshelves.
March 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Liz Truss falling back on the old Tory excuse of blaming Labour; specifically a PM who left office in 2007. Her lot had 14 years to change things; including her 49 days in No.10. Her assumptions about American ignorance are doing a lot of heavy lifting! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
A screenshot from the linked article that reads: Earlier in the speech, Ms Truss said: "We now have a major problem in Britain that judges are making decisions that should be made by politicians". Blaming reforms by her predecessor Tony Blair - who she argued gave power to an "unelected bureaucracy" - the former PM said the judiciary in Britain is "no longer accountable".
February 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Sorting out a heap of paperwork, I found this photo in a file. I should really get a frame for it.

I was 18; it was 1997 and I did kind of have a tiny crush on Rick Biggs for a while after this. His (at the time) fiancé Lori was also very lovely. His passing was a tragedy.
An old physical photograph from around March on 1997 of the actor Rick Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin in Babylon 5), who wears silver oval glasses, a light blue polo shirt and dark blue jeans. He is sitting to the right of me, with his arm around my waist. I'm wearing a black v-neck sweater that I think I stole from my Dad? And a black skirt. Towards my left shoulder, and starting to disappear under my hair are two badges; one light blue and one white. Flash photography has never been kind to me, so the details of my face are almost lost, though you can see where my eyes are, and the line of my closed-mouth smile (years of orthodontics had yet to be unlearned) My left arm is awkwardly slung around Rick's shoulder. We are sitting behind a table and in front of some wood panels, having been working the autograph line at a fan event; I sold Rick's photos for him, and he was very generous with his thanks. The photo was subsequently written on by Rick, at the big Babylon 5 convention in Blackpool that year; using a gold paint marker he wrote "To Fiona, "Don't forget!” then signed it. I'm still very sad that he died in 2004. He was a very beautiful person.
February 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
I can't share the tiktok I saw this in because it's about 30 seconds too long - here's the link tho: vm.tiktok.com/ZGdArSEXY/ - but godsdammit, Sagan is probably spinning in his grave by now. A Demon Hunted World is going on the reading list.
A screenshot of a quote from Carl Sagan's A Demon Hunted World, first published in 1995: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), the lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
January 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Dried sheening ink is like dried nail polish, except that nail polish doesn't leave me with blue finger tips when cleaning it off the bottles and lids. Today's lesson is that if you use inks, especially sheening inks, and/or nail polish: wipe the necks of the bottles regularly!
A white person's left hand, palm facing the camera, with the fingers somewhat curled up so the fingertips are visible. The pads of the thumb, first and second finger are dyed teal with various inks, as is part of the third finger to a lesser extent. There are also yellow stains in there, but they're far less visible. The person is also wearing a plain gold wedding ring. The background is light wood style lino.
January 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Despite it being difficult to stand, I've cleaned some of my favourite pens; and as always happens, I fumbled the Custom 74 as I was about to reassemble it after filling with Tender Purple. Most of it washed off, and somehow I've not dyed a nail??
The right hand of a white person (me!), palm facing the camera. On the thumb and the opposite side of the hand are sizable purple stains that are somewhat washed out but still very visible. There is a small silver ring on the middle section of the middle finger, and a greyed-out rainbow stripe watch strap around the wrist. The background is a marl grey carpet.
January 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Just nuke the UK from orbit. Don't try to save anyone, it's not worth the effort.
A cropped screenshot of a comment on YouTube in dark mode, so white text on a black background. The username and profile pic have been blanked out. Text reads: "@[redacted] 7 minutes ago And? Africa got rich off borrowing off UK where's our money?” Below this, there's the option for thumbs up or down (this user chose down) and the option to reply to the comment.
January 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?
The Star Trek: The Next Generation cast as Lego Muppets, in front of an LCARS display panel. From the left: Rowlf the Dog as Geordi La Forge; Fozzie Bear as William Riker; Janice from the Electric Mayhem as Beverley Crusher (probably; it could be Troi); Kermit the Frog as Jean-Luc Picard; Animal as Worf; Miss Piggy as Deanna Troi (or, as previously noted, maybe Crusher); and Gonzo as Data.
December 30, 2024 at 7:14 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
I've still got a long way to go with learning Polish (and I don't think I'll ever get the conjugations right, except by pure chance) but today I have a new challenge: Shepherd's Crown, which I have never read in English, and classic Polish fairytales. What could go wrong?
Two books, slight overlapping. On the top is a paperback edition of Terry Pratchett's Shepherd's Crown, in Polish. The cover reads "Pasterska Korona" [Shepherd's Crown, in the feminine because of course Polish is a language with genders] - "Ostatni tom Świata Dysku" [roughly, the last from the Discworld]. The cover art is much the same as most editions I've seen before; Paul Kidby's illustration of Tiffany Aching in a light blue dress and heavy black boots, and a black cloak and pointed witches hat; her hands turned palm up and somewhat outspread. There's a white cat by her feet, and she's surrounded by the Nac Mac Feegle [tiny blue people with red hair, wearing kilts and waving an assortment of swords and clubs], and bees swarm around her head and hands. The other book is a hardback edition of Maria Konopnicka's "Świat Baśni - Co słonko widziało Na jagody O krasnoludkach i sierotce Marysi" (I'm relying on Google Translate now) "What the Sun saw for berries about dwarves and orphan Marysia". The cover illustration is a stylised beared dwarf? gnome? in a red hat and pince nez style glasses, with a large white beard; holding a large feather quill pen and the book. He's looking to the right side of the cover, where far behind him a girl with blond pigtails and wearing a purple top and long red skirt under a white apron feeds a small flock of 8 white geese. There's a brown dog running nearby. Further behind them is a small cottage with a thatched roof, and then the background fades into rolling fields and a wide blue sky. Dandelion seeds float across the middle of the image, seemingly from a fuzzy dandelion that is just behind the gnome earlier described.
December 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Maggie has settled in at Mum's, just in time to go back home tomorrow. She's 19 now. How on earth do I have a 19 year old?? How has it been 15 years since she came to rule my life???
Maggie, a black and white tuxedo cat, lies sleeping on a grey fleece long hoodie that has a pattern of astronauts in white spacesuits and yellow stars printed on it - though it's all bunched up under her, so the print isn't very visible - on a greige sofa that has a multicoloured embroidered cushion to the right of her, and a light brown velvet cushion just visible to the left of her. There is also the edge of a multicoloured batik fabric quilt Mum made along the top of the sofa. Maggie has tried to get under that at least twice in the past couple of days. The way that Maggie is lying on her side, her belly is quite visible, and she appears very relaxed and comfortable. I think she was sleeping, though she may have just been resting her eyes.
December 27, 2024 at 4:22 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
TFW yr scrolling Reddit bc upset stomach and insomnia and...

Blocked and reported because this lot already has xitter and they can make that whatever they want it to be, surely?
A screenshot, probably from the anti-trans bigot clone of Reddit, that reads in black against a white background: "As the title says, I'm willing to bet I get banned within the next 24 hours lol I'm Mary Jaden Bruce Dyer (@zarajaide.bsky.social) I initially started the profile to be "undercover" and an "authentic" biotrans woman, just to see how that went over. My persona was going to be that of a very moderate, reasonable biotrans (uwu) person who tried to get radical activists to question their tactics by asking them questions such as "HOW is this person a Nazi? Can you give examples or are you just throwing around words?” But, well, I'm not very good at remaining cool in the face of idiots so I kid you not, the facade crumbled within about 10 minutes. Honestly closer to five minutes 😆 Now, since most of the people I interacted with yesterday blocked me, I've taken to just posting examples of trans hypocrisy. You ladies should consider joining. It needs more terf voices. The weirdos over there are wayyyyyy too comfy."
December 10, 2024 at 4:08 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Saw a pure belter of street art the other day:
An A4 size piece of paper pasted to a sort-of black wall. There's a tear at the top right corner, and a smudge that might be a thumbprint above the Q in 'quite', and the page has a box drawn within it. A message is inside the box, in a mix of styles, and lower lines escape the boundary of the line down the right side of the sheet. For some reason, there is a date stamp at the bottom right corner that says 25 JUN 2022. Handwritten text reads: [block capitals, with some flourishes] I'M QUITE DRUNK AT THE MOMENT. [changes to a more common cursive that looks quite hurried and somewhat careless] how e v e r (spread out to cover the width of the page) I'm about to drink a coffee with some speed in it which should sort me out before 5pm. I have 1 hour and 40 minutes to fully sober up. That's a piece of piss.
December 2, 2024 at 7:04 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Gotta love it when people flag themselves for a blocking.
Screenshot of a Bluesky post from user @jillsreddresses(JillsRedDresses).bsky.social replying to someone - this user was criticising pasteurisation of milk, for context. Post reads: "I don't know you guys all ran away and we came over here to laugh at you. I've actually been pleasantly surprised by the discourse aside from you. How's your mom's basement ?” November 27, 2024 at 10:08 AM
November 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM
kinelfire.bsky.social
In with a blisteringly hot take here: why were inhalers the target for medical-use plastics? Pill strips are right there!

I've probably averaged out to a strip a day over the last ~18mths without including the other oral medication I have to take. Why can't the plastic be compostable or something?
A strip of 10 pills, with 4 removed. The seal is silver foil/paper with "Co-codamol 30/500mg Tablets | Codeine Phosphate | Paracetamol | Palla Pharma (UK) Holding Limited" printed in black, in a repeating pattern across the length of the strip. The background is a bamboo chopping board that resembles a light coloured wood. A strip of co-codamol pills, turned over to show the white plastic side with the pills individually separated from one another. The pills are at a jaunty angle to the edges of the strip, making it longer for absolutely no reason I can determine. (If you're unfamiliar with this style of medication packaging, you press the pill out from the back though that requires more and more strength these days; I usually pierce the film seal first then push it through. These taste bad enough without breaking them and exposing the inside of a pill to my tongue.)
November 23, 2024 at 7:55 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
I can't remember if I've done #ProofOfCat already, but here's my furry overlord.
Maggie, a black and white tuxedo cat, looks sort of at the camera. She has green eyes and a pink nose, and a black patch under her jaw that's just visible on her chin. She is sitting on a light grey textured fleece blanket and against a cushion that depicts 2 otters against a light blue background. The arm of the multicoloured sofa is just visible to the left of the photo. Maggie's tail is slightly curled over one of her back paws, the other is sticking out a bit, with a visible toe bean. Her front right leg is also sitting forward at a very similar angle, while her left paw is curled under herself loosely.
November 17, 2024 at 12:10 PM
kinelfire.bsky.social
Cheese. Time.
A block of light yellow mild cheddar cheese on a large bamboo chopping board. The shadow of my arm and phone is cast over the right side of the image.
October 22, 2024 at 2:36 AM