Talia
@pirateshipdream.bsky.social
30 something. Internet weirdo. Bi. Knitter. Obsessions: Byron, Black Sails, Vampires. Will post a lot of pictures of my face. Likes to go off on a tangent. Likes to make lists. She/Her.
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Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
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Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
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✨BUST COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!✨
to help me pay for extra expenses in preparation for top surgery in jan, i've decided to open up bust commissions! 🏳️⚧️
send me your beloved tavs, durges, dnd ocs, rooks, inquisitors, ocs, and more to: 🌿[email protected]🌿(pls don't dm me on here!) (rts = 💖🙏😭)
to help me pay for extra expenses in preparation for top surgery in jan, i've decided to open up bust commissions! 🏳️⚧️
send me your beloved tavs, durges, dnd ocs, rooks, inquisitors, ocs, and more to: 🌿[email protected]🌿(pls don't dm me on here!) (rts = 💖🙏😭)
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
✨BUST COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!✨
to help me pay for extra expenses in preparation for top surgery in jan, i've decided to open up bust commissions! 🏳️⚧️
send me your beloved tavs, durges, dnd ocs, rooks, inquisitors, ocs, and more to: 🌿[email protected]🌿(pls don't dm me on here!) (rts = 💖🙏😭)
to help me pay for extra expenses in preparation for top surgery in jan, i've decided to open up bust commissions! 🏳️⚧️
send me your beloved tavs, durges, dnd ocs, rooks, inquisitors, ocs, and more to: 🌿[email protected]🌿(pls don't dm me on here!) (rts = 💖🙏😭)
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I love this illustration of book accurate Carrie by Dominic Bustamante
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November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I love this illustration of book accurate Carrie by Dominic Bustamante
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Horrendously stressful week at work. I plan to rectify this with wine and an enormous burrito.
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Horrendously stressful week at work. I plan to rectify this with wine and an enormous burrito.
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This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
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Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
I know I'm really boring on social media because I'm not funny or hugely interesting, but then sometimes I see what people post on their own feeds and I'm just like, well at least I'm not *that* boring? So what I'm saying is, yes, I am a hypocritical bitch.
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I know I'm really boring on social media because I'm not funny or hugely interesting, but then sometimes I see what people post on their own feeds and I'm just like, well at least I'm not *that* boring? So what I'm saying is, yes, I am a hypocritical bitch.
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Happy International Mensis Day, everyone! Don't forget to strap a cage to your head and lose your mind in an attempt to communicate with The Great Ones!
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Happy International Mensis Day, everyone! Don't forget to strap a cage to your head and lose your mind in an attempt to communicate with The Great Ones!
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Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
Man at train stations: people are queuing for a reason. Shoving in while people are still trying to get off the train just makes you look like a bellend.
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Man at train stations: people are queuing for a reason. Shoving in while people are still trying to get off the train just makes you look like a bellend.
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender:
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender:
I see Amazon is trying to get in on the "buy cheap tat, dropshipped from China" act 🙄
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I see Amazon is trying to get in on the "buy cheap tat, dropshipped from China" act 🙄
I always thought I didn't like knitting socks, but tiny sock needles and interesting yarn might be the answer?
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I always thought I didn't like knitting socks, but tiny sock needles and interesting yarn might be the answer?
This is really good. What absolutely gets me is that the AI generated images are so...cute? Like they do not fit the aesthetics of CodBlops at all?
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is really good. What absolutely gets me is that the AI generated images are so...cute? Like they do not fit the aesthetics of CodBlops at all?
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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
I don't think knitting on the train is that weird, but the man sitting opposite who just not very subtly told the person he's sitting with clearly disagrees 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I don't think knitting on the train is that weird, but the man sitting opposite who just not very subtly told the person he's sitting with clearly disagrees 🙄
Socks might actually be the best "I don't have to think about this" knitting when you're poorly.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Socks might actually be the best "I don't have to think about this" knitting when you're poorly.
I will die on the hill that Mary Shelley and Lord Byron were friends. They wrote to each other even after Percy was dead! GdT ending Frankenstein with a Byron quote is good (and it's a quote that makes sense in context!). Stop writing terrible takes about how it's disrespectful!
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I will die on the hill that Mary Shelley and Lord Byron were friends. They wrote to each other even after Percy was dead! GdT ending Frankenstein with a Byron quote is good (and it's a quote that makes sense in context!). Stop writing terrible takes about how it's disrespectful!
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Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
I am so full of cold and feel horrendous and so stressed about calling in sick for a third day. I am ill. I am allowed time off to recover! Why does my brain want to punish me for this?!
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I am so full of cold and feel horrendous and so stressed about calling in sick for a third day. I am ill. I am allowed time off to recover! Why does my brain want to punish me for this?!
Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
I appear to be knitting a sock.
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I appear to be knitting a sock.
The BBC is so much more than its news output. Do people who want it defunded realise what they're going to lose? TV drama, radio comedy, so much educational kids content!
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The BBC is so much more than its news output. Do people who want it defunded realise what they're going to lose? TV drama, radio comedy, so much educational kids content!
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Controversial take, perhaps, but for all the political interfering and all its faults, the BBC is a positive institution. Like the NHS, it's a remnant of socialism in an increasingly capitalist hellscape. This is why the right on both sides of the pond are coming for it. It needs support.
a bbc logo with a blue and green globe
ALT: a bbc logo with a blue and green globe
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November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Controversial take, perhaps, but for all the political interfering and all its faults, the BBC is a positive institution. Like the NHS, it's a remnant of socialism in an increasingly capitalist hellscape. This is why the right on both sides of the pond are coming for it. It needs support.