@athelinde
Interests: Fantasy and SciFi Books (and TV), Mythology, Rewilding, Cats, Computers (former software developer), Videogames (mostly RPG/choices matter/Cosy). Favourite places: The Lake Disrict (Cumbria, UK) and Scotland. Me: LGBTQ+ and AuDHD and UU.
The book Tevinter Nights sits on a bed of leaves. A plush mabari dog stands next to it.
Happy book birthday to Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights.
I was already writing Neve, Evka, and Antoine behind-the-scenes, but this was their first appearance 💜
Meta has deliberately cut civil rights and civil liberties out of its calculus. As an internal Meta memo reasoned, “Many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” The company presumably sees a business opportunity in the ongoing assault on American democracy. That’s where Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, is wrong: We are paying attention, and we understand clearly that this technology is part of that very same assault on our rights. We are always ready to fight, and we will continue to defend everyone’s rights — from both the government and Big Tech.
It was recently leaked that Meta plans to quietly roll out smart glasses equipped with facial recognition while civil liberties groups like ours are busy dealing with the Trump administration.
They're wrong. We can walk and demand Meta halt production on these creepy glasses at the same time.
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.
Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth
Read up on your favorite ElfQuest characters in the official "Who's Who" at ElfQuest.com.
Want to know how the correct pronunciation of "Tyldak" or "Rayek"? Or read up on your favorite character's background, family connections and wolf-friends?
It's all in the official ElfQuest Character "Who's Who."
elfquest.com/elfquest-cha...
Four images featuring a work of art in wire and small pieces of colourful glass
“Unwoven Light” by Korean artist Soo Sunny Park, sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt
To all the different women across the Continent, Night City, and beyond… In every universe, remember your strength, have the courage to fulfill your dreams, and always cherish yourself! Happy International Women's Day #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay
Spring forward... Fall back... whatever.
Can we just pick ONE & stick with it once & for ALL?!!! ⏰
Night night sweet dreamies
People won’t remember the labels you wore, the size of your home, the numbers in your account
They’ll remember how you made them feel, the love you showed and the gentleness you brought to their lives
Real wealth is written in the hearts you touched
Good morning & welcome to #Caturday
If today gets difficult try & remember the way sunlight dances on a window, the sound of your favourite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on
The colour of the sky at dusk and that we’re here to take care of each other.
This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?
The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens wil snel AI-regels: 'Grondrechten moeten beschermd'
De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens wil dat het kabinet opschiet met het maken van regels voor het gebruik van AI. De waakhond zegt dat er nu een gebrek aan toezicht is. Volgens voorzitter Aleid Wolfsen kleven er...
Bringing you this beautiful picture of Scale Force this #WowWednesday, the tallest waterfall in the Lake District National Park.
This approximately 170ft tall waterfall was once described by William Wordsworth as 'a fine chasm, with a lofty, though but slender, fall of water'.
📸traceandtrails
A graphic titled “MASKING” lists examples of behaviours associated with masking in neurodivergent individuals, including not speaking for fear of appearing awkward, practising conversations and phone calls, mimicking others’ gestures and tones of voice, suppressing stims and feelings of overstimulation, forcing eye contact, rehearsing social scripts, and sacrificing personal needs for the comfort of others. The design features layered side-profile silhouettes.
As SEND reform evolves, there’s a real risk that children who mask will be overlooked, despite carrying significant hidden anxiety & exhaustion. We believe true inclusion starts with emotional safety, so young people can unmask, belong, and be valued for who they are, not just how well they cope.
Textile artwork featuring an image of a landscape with fields of purple flowers under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds
Monika Kinner-Whalen, contemporary Canadian textile artist known for her thread paintings #WomensArt
Enbridge paid police to protect the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin, this time in an effort to shut down #Line5 resistance. #WaterIsLife grist.org/indigenous/e...
A pale beige vintage mohair baby rabbit toy sits against the wall on the back of a sofa that is covered in a Welsh tapestry blanket in soft red pale grey and ivory wool . His peach silk lined ears are moth eaten
I rescued a baby rabbit from someone’s rubbish. Now he’s telling me how it feels to be discarded after dedicating his whole life to giving love and comfort
The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills.
The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.
The hole in the ozone layer was actually very serious and a global effort allowed it to recover. Y2K WAS actually a serious problem and people worked countless hours to make sure nobody even noticed. Air and water pollution was catastrophic in many places and incredible effort reversed that damage.
Moon Fairies are Faerie Folk who inhabit blackthorn and protect the tree from human interference. Never cut blackthorn, or these faeries will burn down your house. Blackthorn is the 'mother of the woods'. art: Moon Fairies by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Moon Fairies are Faerie Folk who inhabit blackthorn and protect the tree from human interference. Never cut blackthorn, or these faeries will burn down your house. Blackthorn is the 'mother of the woods'.
#fairytaletuesday #fullmoon
art: Moon Fairies by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Luxemburgse bank blokkeert rekeningen Internationaal Strafhof
De Luxemburgse oppositie hekelt dat de regering oogluikend toestaat dat twee rekeningen van het Internationaal Strafhof zijn geblokkeerd. „Dit is een capitulatie voor de wet van de jungle.”
“'If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone,' the judge wrote...”
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
I predict this man has a very bright future.
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Congratulations, pal.
#WellDeserved
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 2 NBC
Supreme Court bars CA from enforcing rules restricting when schools can notify parents about students who come out as trans and requiring teachers to use children's preferred pronouns based on rights of parents who claim to have religious objections.
went to the local nerd store and ended up spending a fortune woops
people who pull this “ah, but the science is inconclusive!!” shit on gender affirming care for trans youth are wrong on so many levels it drives me up a wall
there is already a solid evidence base for trans youth specifically, but even if there wasnt *trans adults exist and we all used to be kids*
Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shown from the chest up.
“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Evil politicians plan to give AI automonous control use of weapons of mass destruction knowing full well that AI will opt to use these weapons
“Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases.”
if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE
it will result in dead trans people
and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing
you see the pipeline right?
we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die
WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS
