Common or Garden Variety Emma

@emmavaria.bsky.social

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An eclectic assortment of organic molecules and highly impure water in the shape of a professional rando and technomantic adept (fourth class). Unrepentently trans and queer af.

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Darth Pie. Yummy. I am okay with this.

Darth Cheese

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Bring out your raptors! 🦅🌿🪶

Birds Feed! 🪶 today calls for some bald eagle photos! Bring out your eagles (or other raptors if the baldies aren’t in your portfolio) 🦅🌿

In Alaska last month we saw puffins while trying to photograph wildlife in high winds and heavy seas. No, really. Despite all lack of evidence. I promise. #worstbirdpic #badpics

If you have some bad pic favs, let's see 'em! Quote reply with your #badpics! Somehow nothing at all is in focus in this attempted shot of a Bufflehead Duck. In my defense it was waaaay past sunset & my camera said "you're kidding, right?" Over on Twitter we called this a #WorstBirdPic #birds 🌿

There are holes in the fence which I objected to ever being built. I'd love nothing more than to see the hateful eyesore crumble to the ground. Why are some so intent upon fixing it, rebuilding it, reinforcing it, spending on hate and exclusion over awareness and compassion? Ugliness over beauty?

#FromOneLine 342 Where can we go with just one connecting #prompt line? Let's see how many different places we can discover from just one starting point! Start your poem/vss with the opening line : There are holes in the fence #FromOneLine 342

I like dragonflies.

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If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Due to misadventure I find myself needing to replace my venerable Manfrotto 190XDB tripod legs. I'm not fully sold on the most direct successor, the 190XPro3, which seem much heavier for not much benefit unless you pony up $100 extra for carbon fiber, which are the same weight for not much benefit.

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For the remainder of #PrideMonth, my latest collection of stories is on sale! I consider all my stories queer, whether through subtext or overtly, as they are written by a most queer individual (in every sense of that word). $.99 gets you 18 stories & 19 illustrations! books2read.com/ABrokenThing

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remember friends: only you 🫵 can mute & block clout gremlins!

New lifer. Sorta. I didn’t actually see it, but go easy… it’s 4 am and I’m supposed to be sleeping.

So who wants to post a picture they've taken about something they feel passionate about? Explanation or not, as you like.

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery. Or don't. I ain't the boss of you. I love purple sunsets.

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery. Or not.

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Happy Neurodivergent Pride Day! Treat yourself to a copy of our book written by @whistberry.bsky.social and me for $1.99. This is the link: books2read.com/WaveOfWitches

Karen will have you know that she is a *very* important loyalty rewards club member and she insists upon speaking to your manager.

I've been trying to drum up the motivation to start posting threads of my Alaska photos, but that makes me want to have finished organising, weeding out, and processing all my Alaska photos, and therein my inability to regulate focus fails me. I'm stuck permanently about halfway through the process.

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Not sure quite how to describe watching OpenAI becoming a load-bearing source of content across every platform, but it's certainly Not Good™ in a variety of ways we haven't tried before

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I was marked wrong in college for answering on a Comp 101 exam that it is possible to manually format a 720kb floppy diskette for 1.44mb, despite offering to come up and demonstrate it for the class. (I don't RECOMMEND it, but it can be done.)

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I taught my 4th grade teacher how to use WordPerfect. In DOS. While she hid behind a chair because she was scared of the computer.

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trans women are still living our ancestral roles of apothecaries (barista, budtender) witches (programmer) and soothsayers (posters, noise musicians) the problem is our career paths are being ground to dust by capital instead of being lavished as they should be. in this essay i will,

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The past two and a half weeks: 🏡🚙✈️🚗🛥️🚗🚌🚢🚞🚢🚙🚆. Just 🚗 left and then 🏡. 😪

Any insect people know who this guy is? Spotted in Skagway, Alaska today (01 Jun 2024). Better photos when I have a chance to pull them off my DSLR.

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Pride month reminder that sometimes I write books:

Looking for a supernatural queer read? 🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers 💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god 🦅 Weird birds 👼 Queers with wings and claws 🌲 Cursed forest 🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell Available here: a.co/d/bufFU4f

It is one of my goals in life to be the sort of person who is more ready with a kind word than a sharp one. I’m not always good at that. Sometimes I am! Often not. I’ll continue working hard to be better.

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A transphobe Finds Out. You truly love to see it. 🥰

A Democratic lawmaker in Texas voted for legislation targeting LGBTQ people. She just lost her re-election race overwhelmingly in a Dem primary. The winner, Lauren Ashley Simmons, is LGBTQ herself, and a labor organizer. t.co/ZX0mWK3xuv

Lauren Ashley Simmons declares victory over Texas Rep. Shawn Thierry,…t.co The Simmons-Thierry contest emerged as a test of whether Democratic lawmakers who do not fully support LGBTQ+ causes can remain in good standing with their own party’s voters.

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The solution is to stop using it. futurism.com/the-byte/ceo...

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Informationfuturism.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.

Celebratory birb in a blue sky! Yay DMs! #birds

Posting a celebratory blue bird because DMs JUST DROPPED on Bluesky 💙🎉🪶

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