Tympanic & Frisketty
@luckyerica3.bsky.social
Yorkshire based printmaker, tarot nerd, mad person and carer, passionate about disability rights, BSL and mad/crip/MMIND culture.
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I might've studied & joined in the diplomatic service if a colleague (he was 28, I was 17) hadn't picked me out as young and dumb enough to have a 'romance' with. I left my job in IT after our break up; he felt I was too fat for him. I was one of three women in our department, 17yo, a size 12.
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
October 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I might've studied & joined in the diplomatic service if a colleague (he was 28, I was 17) hadn't picked me out as young and dumb enough to have a 'romance' with. I left my job in IT after our break up; he felt I was too fat for him. I was one of three women in our department, 17yo, a size 12.
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$1000 grants for trans people of color. deadline Oct 31st
Call for Applications: Gender Reveal Grant - fundsforNGOs
The Gender Reveal Grant Program for 2026 is now open for applications, offering financial support for organizing and community projects led by trans people of color. This opportunity is provided by Ge...
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October 8, 2026 at 10:05 AM
$1000 grants for trans people of color. deadline Oct 31st
Babies survive on connection and emotional, relational exchange.
Cw: baby in temporary stress.
youtu.be/FaiXi8KyzOQ?...
Cw: baby in temporary stress.
youtu.be/FaiXi8KyzOQ?...
October 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Babies survive on connection and emotional, relational exchange.
Cw: baby in temporary stress.
youtu.be/FaiXi8KyzOQ?...
Cw: baby in temporary stress.
youtu.be/FaiXi8KyzOQ?...
There are reasons to be hopeful*, people out there who want to relate to others in human, harm reduction based ways. Things are changing, slowly but surely.
* I have a complicated relationship to hope!
* I have a complicated relationship to hope!
Today I'm chatting about alt2sui stuff with workers from a pilot project that aims to give people who attend A&E for sui and self harm a consistent level of wraparound social and mh support - without any conditionality that people reduce their A&E usage.
October 8, 2026 at 1:04 PM
There are reasons to be hopeful*, people out there who want to relate to others in human, harm reduction based ways. Things are changing, slowly but surely.
* I have a complicated relationship to hope!
* I have a complicated relationship to hope!
I made this with kids plasticine and two stamp pads from a kids art supply shop. You don't need AI.
#Printmaking
#Printmaking
October 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM
I made this with kids plasticine and two stamp pads from a kids art supply shop. You don't need AI.
#Printmaking
#Printmaking
This is not #Printmaking, it's not etching, it is a digital photoediting process. I keep seeing art shared with hashtags suggesting the piece is a woodcut or etching when it's very clearly digitally created and rendered. And that's not printmaking, it might be art of a kind but it's not printmaking.
Ever wanted a photo to look like an etched print? The etching effect turns edges and tone into incised lines, and the density of directional marks shapes the form.
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#Etching #Printmaking
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#Etching #Printmaking
Etching Line Art Effect Online | Pixoate
Etching converts edges and tone into cut or incised linework, using directional mark density to reproduce form with a printmaking character.
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October 8, 2026 at 9:10 AM
This is not #Printmaking, it's not etching, it is a digital photoediting process. I keep seeing art shared with hashtags suggesting the piece is a woodcut or etching when it's very clearly digitally created and rendered. And that's not printmaking, it might be art of a kind but it's not printmaking.
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Tiny tiger. From a glass plate negative in my collection, no date/info.
October 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Tiny tiger. From a glass plate negative in my collection, no date/info.
I have so many but one genre is 'Phantom lets me put an empty yogurt pot on his head' because it's absurd and sweet. He loved to finish any leftover yogurt and would wear a yogurt pot on his noggin for a sec. Staffies/pitties are silly.
October 8, 2026 at 8:57 AM
I have so many but one genre is 'Phantom lets me put an empty yogurt pot on his head' because it's absurd and sweet. He loved to finish any leftover yogurt and would wear a yogurt pot on his noggin for a sec. Staffies/pitties are silly.
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For #BannedBooksWeek we’re highlighting Reading Wars by Don Herzog 📚
From Reformation England to contemporary book bans, Herzog explores the long history of attempts to control who can read and what they can read, and what this reveals about equality and freedom.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ue0C7w
From Reformation England to contemporary book bans, Herzog explores the long history of attempts to control who can read and what they can read, and what this reveals about equality and freedom.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ue0C7w
October 8, 2026 at 8:14 AM
For #BannedBooksWeek we’re highlighting Reading Wars by Don Herzog 📚
From Reformation England to contemporary book bans, Herzog explores the long history of attempts to control who can read and what they can read, and what this reveals about equality and freedom.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ue0C7w
From Reformation England to contemporary book bans, Herzog explores the long history of attempts to control who can read and what they can read, and what this reveals about equality and freedom.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ue0C7w
Today I'm chatting about alt2sui stuff with workers from a pilot project that aims to give people who attend A&E for sui and self harm a consistent level of wraparound social and mh support - without any conditionality that people reduce their A&E usage.
October 8, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Today I'm chatting about alt2sui stuff with workers from a pilot project that aims to give people who attend A&E for sui and self harm a consistent level of wraparound social and mh support - without any conditionality that people reduce their A&E usage.
An excellent and balanced essay on taking meds throughout (and beyond) a crisis.
Sertraline and Me
No woman should be required to be a martyr
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October 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM
An excellent and balanced essay on taking meds throughout (and beyond) a crisis.
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“Six studies were included … reflecting a small and methodologically diverse body of longitudinal research that provides preliminary support of prospective associations between online pornography exposure or cyber-sexual harassment and mental health outcomes among adolescent and young adult women”.
Is exposure to online misogyny associated with mental health outcomes in girls and young women? A systematic review of longitudinal studies - Ciara Thomas, Laura E Tinner, Jacks Bennett, Lucy G Anders...
Introduction The mental health gender gap is well established, but there is limited understanding of why girls and young women consistently report higher rates ...
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October 7, 2026 at 9:03 PM
“Six studies were included … reflecting a small and methodologically diverse body of longitudinal research that provides preliminary support of prospective associations between online pornography exposure or cyber-sexual harassment and mental health outcomes among adolescent and young adult women”.
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Some of my lovely students are making a zine about SEX / sort of in the style of something like napkin I think / if you have short writing or other artifacts about SEX consider sending it in to
bit.ly/sitesofpleasure
bit.ly/sitesofpleasure
October 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Some of my lovely students are making a zine about SEX / sort of in the style of something like napkin I think / if you have short writing or other artifacts about SEX consider sending it in to
bit.ly/sitesofpleasure
bit.ly/sitesofpleasure
This looks good, I've spent the last few days explaining to each crisis team worker that the way I present and how I really feel are disconnected. Also staff member is also at a disconnect from me because BPD is in my notes and in my head as I talk with them. Its the gulf between us.
PUBLICATION DAY! I am so proud of my extraordinary colleague, collaborator, and friend @drflewis.bsky.social whose wonderful monograph 'New Materialist Encounters with the Borderline' is out today! I can't recommend this sparkling new work enough 💫✨ www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
New Materialist Encounters with the Borderline | Unstable Knowledges |
This innovative book, written by an author with borderline experiences of her own, explores the lived experience known as “borderline personality disorder”. It
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October 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
This looks good, I've spent the last few days explaining to each crisis team worker that the way I present and how I really feel are disconnected. Also staff member is also at a disconnect from me because BPD is in my notes and in my head as I talk with them. Its the gulf between us.
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Were the cruelty of social and ethnic cleansing 'psychosis', it would be a temporary and changeable state, not a permanent public policy.
Its genocide apologia as well as slur usage imo.
Its genocide apologia as well as slur usage imo.
October 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Were the cruelty of social and ethnic cleansing 'psychosis', it would be a temporary and changeable state, not a permanent public policy.
Its genocide apologia as well as slur usage imo.
Its genocide apologia as well as slur usage imo.
This! Matt Bernstein and Mohammed el-Kurd spent over an hour on the A Bit Fruity podcast discussing hateful anti Palestinian Zionists by calling them 'literally psychotic' 'delusional' insisting using psychotic this way wasn't a slur. Unless the person is dx'ed w psychosis, it's akin to the r slur.
psychosis is a serious medical condition that causes by far the most amount of harm to the person actually experiencing it. psychotic is not a fun and emphatic way to say irrational, violent, confusing, incomprehensible, hypocritical, or evil.
October 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
This! Matt Bernstein and Mohammed el-Kurd spent over an hour on the A Bit Fruity podcast discussing hateful anti Palestinian Zionists by calling them 'literally psychotic' 'delusional' insisting using psychotic this way wasn't a slur. Unless the person is dx'ed w psychosis, it's akin to the r slur.
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This chirimen (crepe) silk kimono showcases a sophisticated interpretation of the traditional yabane (arrow-feather) motif through a distinctive vertical stenciling technique. Early Showa period (1926-1940), Japan
October 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
This chirimen (crepe) silk kimono showcases a sophisticated interpretation of the traditional yabane (arrow-feather) motif through a distinctive vertical stenciling technique. Early Showa period (1926-1940), Japan
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You must confront things as they truly are
Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur
October 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
You must confront things as they truly are
Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur
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Watching the leaves flutter on the cherry tree and clouds float by.
October 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Watching the leaves flutter on the cherry tree and clouds float by.
"One in four men said women would need "some convincing" in order for sex to happen; this was not twenty or thirty years ago, mind you: this was 2016. Those perception gaps are a setup not only for assault- out of unexamined entitlement,
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a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
October 7, 2026 at 11:24 AM
"One in four men said women would need "some convincing" in order for sex to happen; this was not twenty or thirty years ago, mind you: this was 2016. Those perception gaps are a setup not only for assault- out of unexamined entitlement,
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This bugs me so much because as an econonically poor, disabled person shut out of higher ed, I have to educate myself with library and other free media. Disabled people often share knowledge for free/low cost/via charity funded places.
October 7, 2026 at 11:03 AM
This bugs me so much because as an econonically poor, disabled person shut out of higher ed, I have to educate myself with library and other free media. Disabled people often share knowledge for free/low cost/via charity funded places.
'Learn about this new harm reduction approach to suicide developed by people who have been suicidal and supported others, as well.
BECAUSE SUICIDE IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE.'
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BECAUSE SUICIDE IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE.'
www.eventbrite.com/e/shares-on-...
SHARES on Suicide Core Training (Oct '26)
Learn about this ne harm reduction approach to suicide developed by people who have been suicidal and supported others, as well.
www.eventbrite.com
October 7, 2026 at 7:17 AM
'Learn about this new harm reduction approach to suicide developed by people who have been suicidal and supported others, as well.
BECAUSE SUICIDE IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE.'
www.eventbrite.com/e/shares-on-...
BECAUSE SUICIDE IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE.'
www.eventbrite.com/e/shares-on-...
I haven't had much #Printmaking to share lately but I do have a session at the Imperial Press booked, my turned Burton pins all set up and these new inks to play with. Soon, I'll have prints to share!
October 7, 2026 at 7:11 AM
I haven't had much #Printmaking to share lately but I do have a session at the Imperial Press booked, my turned Burton pins all set up and these new inks to play with. Soon, I'll have prints to share!
I was discharged from CMHT in 2021 and been under shared care agreement w GP since then. I saw a crisis team consultant psych this week and he noted that prescribing guidance re: max doses of my current meds have changed /1
October 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
I was discharged from CMHT in 2021 and been under shared care agreement w GP since then. I saw a crisis team consultant psych this week and he noted that prescribing guidance re: max doses of my current meds have changed /1