Lyss
@lysscypher.bsky.social
Any Pronouns | Poet-Artist-Weightlifter-Wanderer | Goth-Punk Hybrid | Disability Justice + Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting |📍Pittsburgh
It actually feels like fall, and I’m trying to re-emerge. We’ll call this my therapist-prescribed rest day of sacred creativity - maple spice latte, vegan carrot cake, writing and a good library book (“Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability”)
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It actually feels like fall, and I’m trying to re-emerge. We’ll call this my therapist-prescribed rest day of sacred creativity - maple spice latte, vegan carrot cake, writing and a good library book (“Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability”)
It’s a beautiful morning, and I’m finally feeling semi-human again post-Norovirus
March 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It’s a beautiful morning, and I’m finally feeling semi-human again post-Norovirus
Overcoming a mind-body block to finally snatch 45kg/99lbs again. Thanks, parts theory.
February 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Overcoming a mind-body block to finally snatch 45kg/99lbs again. Thanks, parts theory.
Today’s morning coffee read
This coffee ritual is balm for these times
Being renewed by beauty is an essential grief practice.
open.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today’s morning coffee read
A lovely morning cemetery walk and a newly acquired hag stone for Imbolc
January 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A lovely morning cemetery walk and a newly acquired hag stone for Imbolc
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Don’t say Olympic weightlifting has no use in the wild, because I just hip muscle snatched my Christmas tree (gotta recycle it).
January 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Don’t say Olympic weightlifting has no use in the wild, because I just hip muscle snatched my Christmas tree (gotta recycle it).
As seen in Garfield (a neighborhood in Pittsburgh)
January 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As seen in Garfield (a neighborhood in Pittsburgh)
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One year ago today
In memory, Shane Patrick MacGowan, former member of the punk band Nipple Erectors, co-founder and lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, founder of Shane MacGowan and The Popes, died of pneumonia after a long illness.
#punk #punks #ShaneMacGowan #punkrockhistoy
In memory, Shane Patrick MacGowan, former member of the punk band Nipple Erectors, co-founder and lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, founder of Shane MacGowan and The Popes, died of pneumonia after a long illness.
#punk #punks #ShaneMacGowan #punkrockhistoy
November 30, 2024 at 4:38 AM
One year ago today
In memory, Shane Patrick MacGowan, former member of the punk band Nipple Erectors, co-founder and lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, founder of Shane MacGowan and The Popes, died of pneumonia after a long illness.
#punk #punks #ShaneMacGowan #punkrockhistoy
In memory, Shane Patrick MacGowan, former member of the punk band Nipple Erectors, co-founder and lead singer of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, founder of Shane MacGowan and The Popes, died of pneumonia after a long illness.
#punk #punks #ShaneMacGowan #punkrockhistoy
The tattoo on my wrist reads 29/11/14, and here I am, a decade later, writing poetry at the bar, hot toddy in hand, previously a rusty nail or two, while the original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre plays in the background, without subtitles.
November 30, 2024 at 12:55 AM
The tattoo on my wrist reads 29/11/14, and here I am, a decade later, writing poetry at the bar, hot toddy in hand, previously a rusty nail or two, while the original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre plays in the background, without subtitles.
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I wrote about people insulting Elon Musk and his relationship with Trump by calling him ‘Elonia’ or ‘First Lady.’
This approach doesn’t work both because it reinforces the language and approach of bigotry, and because it doesn’t hurt our powerful targets one bit.
We have to learn to punch up.
This approach doesn’t work both because it reinforces the language and approach of bigotry, and because it doesn’t hurt our powerful targets one bit.
We have to learn to punch up.
Learning to punch up
The vital nature of power analysis
www.jphilll.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:55 PM
I wrote about people insulting Elon Musk and his relationship with Trump by calling him ‘Elonia’ or ‘First Lady.’
This approach doesn’t work both because it reinforces the language and approach of bigotry, and because it doesn’t hurt our powerful targets one bit.
We have to learn to punch up.
This approach doesn’t work both because it reinforces the language and approach of bigotry, and because it doesn’t hurt our powerful targets one bit.
We have to learn to punch up.
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
One year ago I started my Substack. It’s been a lovely space for my musings without the anxiety of a deadline. I’m inconsistent with it, but that’s part of the calmness.
Golden-Jagged Rays
I've been listening to a lot of Fiona Apple lately and finally gave some space to this years-old poem and collage combo.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM
One year ago I started my Substack. It’s been a lovely space for my musings without the anxiety of a deadline. I’m inconsistent with it, but that’s part of the calmness.
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Released 38 years ago today
I Against I, the third studio album by American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track I Against I
Bad Brains - Netherlands 1988
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
I Against I, the third studio album by American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track I Against I
Bad Brains - Netherlands 1988
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
November 21, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Released 38 years ago today
I Against I, the third studio album by American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track I Against I
Bad Brains - Netherlands 1988
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
I Against I, the third studio album by American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track I Against I
Bad Brains - Netherlands 1988
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Early Morning Sourdough Baps
November 21, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Early Morning Sourdough Baps
And also, the owners of the gentrified monstrosity next door are going to have to put a clause in their rental agreement that states, “Must be okay with neighbor scream-singing Fiona Apple at 7am,” because I am a menace and forget the windows are open often.
November 19, 2024 at 4:20 PM
And also, the owners of the gentrified monstrosity next door are going to have to put a clause in their rental agreement that states, “Must be okay with neighbor scream-singing Fiona Apple at 7am,” because I am a menace and forget the windows are open often.
In serendipitous moments, while walking the dog I found a copy of Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel on CD, soaking in a puddle on the sidewalk alongside tossed Polaroids and Christmas decorations. I had to rescue it. It’s one of my favorite albums, and now my vinyl copy has a sidewalk CD companion.
November 19, 2024 at 2:39 PM
In serendipitous moments, while walking the dog I found a copy of Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel on CD, soaking in a puddle on the sidewalk alongside tossed Polaroids and Christmas decorations. I had to rescue it. It’s one of my favorite albums, and now my vinyl copy has a sidewalk CD companion.