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Autistic(she/they) ~Bangalore,India ~
Maker of beautiful things 🧶
Bedbound by #MECFS and
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · Nov 23
PSA for #Malayali or people from #Keralam - We have two active feeds
1. നീലാകാശം feed which picks up all the posts in Malayalam
bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. Keralam Sky for which I maintain a user list - @me if you want to be added/removed

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Both feeds are fairly active feeds!
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My sister gifted one my handknitted socks to her friend and that friend told her that the socks are too beautiful to walk on. I am over the moon today even though I have not slept much last night and my head and eyes are hurting. 🥰🌺 #pwme
September 16, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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🧶🧦 Socks 21 of 2026 - Basic Ribbed Socks by @kateatherley.bsky.social
I love how snug the fit is. Used a self striping yarn with a solid to make it more unique. 😎
#knitsky
#bsnm #nightmarket
A pair of handknitted socks on my feet A pair of handknitted socks with stripes on sock blockers
September 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
Do any of you use Amazon Smart Biz in India? I have used multiple platforms over the years and everything keep shutting down. I cannot really manage selling by chatting and distributing catalog. :( Please Help!!
September 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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Chronic Artist Spotlight: Sarah Johnson is a self taught painter, disabled by chronic illness. She leads free online paint along sessions via zoom. I’ve included the link to Sarah’s profile on my Facebook post of her art.

#painting #watercolour #art #chronicillness #mecfs #chronicfatigue 🖼️ 🎨
A fun watercolour painting by Sarah Jonson. A green cartoon frog with purple spots is smiling broadly while hanging from the stern of a flower. Hans town next to this is the phrase’ sometimes all you can do is just hang on’. A framed watercolour painting by Sarah Johnson of a branch of delicately painted autumn leaves in fiery colours. Two grey birds are spring on offshoots of this branch. A delicate watercolour painting by Sarah Johnson features a curled up fox, mushrooms and a curved branch detail with autumn leaves ranging from green to orange. A colourful watercolour painting by Sarah Johnson of a highland cow with a stylised multicolour shaggy coat ranging from yellow and red to green to blue and purple.
September 15, 2026 at 11:59 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
You need not die today.

Stay here-through pout or pain or peskyness.

Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow.

Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.

- Gwendolyn Brooks
#Poetry 💙📚👀
To the Young Who Want to Die Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here-through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring. - Gwendolyn Brooks
September 16, 2026 at 8:17 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
I accidentally watched a viral video by Vidya Balan doing this scene. So I had to cleanse my senses by watching the original. I have nothing against Vidya Balan except that she is not Urvashi. 🙈
youtu.be/bvrQDNX945Q?...
Achuvinte Amma comedy scene| യൂ ആസ്ക്‌ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ക്യുഎസ്ടിൺ ഐ റിപ്ലൈ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ആൻസർ😀
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September 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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🧵🧶NEW SHOP THREAD! I've got some new items here, plus some older ones that would still like a home. I also sell original knitting patterns. I'm disabled and this is MY ONLY SOURCE OF WORK.

#BSNM #SmallBusinessSaturday #DisabledArtist #Knitting
Photo of me modeling a green headband with a purple flower A pink/white/blue shawl hanging on a mannequin A set of cotton washcloths hanging from a hook.
September 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM
chembarathi.northsky.social
In this immeasurable darkness, be the power
that rounds your senses in their magic ring,
the sense of their mysterious encounter.

And if the earthly no longer knows your name,
whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing.
To the flashing water say: I am.
- Rilke
#Poetry 💙📚👀
Silent friend of many distances, feel by Rainer Maria Rilke English version by Stephen Mitchell Original Language German Silent friend of many distances, feel how your breath enlarges all of space. Let your presence ring out like a bell into the night. What feeds upon your face grows mighty from the nourishment thus offered. Move through transformation, out and in. What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. In this immeasurable darkness, be the power that rounds your senses in their magic ring, the sense of their mysterious encounter. And if the earthly no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing. To the flashing water say: I am.
September 15, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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Our neighborhood owl 🦉

Hoot!

Great Horned Owl 📷🌿
Great Horned Owl portrait in a tree
September 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
chembarathi.northsky.social
What can poets do?

They can write stars all over the sky while astronomers sleep.

They can write roses all over the garden while May sleeps.
.....
They can write hope all over the lingering time, while people sleep.
-
Szilágyi Domokos
#Poetry 💙📚👀
WHAT CAN POETS DO? What can poets do? They can write stars all over the sky while astronomers sleep. They can write roses all over the garden while May sleeps. They can write sunshine all over the beach while sunshine sleeps. Oh, they can umpteen times get round the dawdlers! They can write hope all over the lingering time, while people sleep. Szilágyi Domokos Translated by N. Ullrich Katalin
September 14, 2026 at 7:11 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
🧶 #knitsky I have started the decreases on this one. The green looks a bit darker in this one, but it is more of a neon green.
I have adjusted price on this one. if anybody is interested, this is the link
ko-fi.com/s/883f5beb89
#bsnm #nightmarket
September 13, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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A couple of weeks ago it was my 3000th day bedridden. I drew this to mark the occasion. It's a long time for both illness-haver and carer
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs
#ChronicIllness #DisabledArtists
A three panel one page comic featuring a white woman in a profiling bed in grey blue watercolour and the words 3,000 days in bed with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis. Other colours are brick red and muted orange
September 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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germainehypher.bsky.social
All the Flowers That Still Bloom made it to #1 in Amazon’s Hot New Disability Releases list this week.

Includes letters, short stories, poetry and narrative non-fiction from a selection of disabled and chronically ill writers, including me!

#chronicillness #disability #mecfs #invisibleillness 💙📚
The book cover of the anthology All the Flowers That Still Bloom also has the following information: A collection of lives lived with, not in spite of, disability. Foreword by Fazilet Hadi MBE. The text is written on a cream background with torn edges, while the border of the front cover is of spring blossom against a blue sky.
September 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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The image is of a four panel comic. The title for the first two panels is "Young Me". In panel one we see a young version of Sarah, the protagonist. She says, "I want to achieve great things". In panel two we zoom in a little on young Sarah's face. She continues, "An astounding career! An amazing house! World peace!" The title for the last two panels is "Adult Me". In panel three we see adult Sarah, looking down. In panel four we zoom out and see she is in front of a basil plant. She simply says "I want to grow a basil plant".
September 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
chembarathi.northsky.social
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
....
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
- Lucille Clifton
#Poetry 💙📚👀
blessing the boats BY LUCILLE CLIFTON (at St. Mary's) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that
September 13, 2026 at 7:21 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
Yesterday I read a quote about the cruelty of criticising the way someone swims when they are drowning. It made sense then why I have been feeling crushed after having that call. #pwme #mecfs
chembarathi.northsky.social Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 15d
On most days I hang on to hope. But today I had to talk to someone about finding a way forward with respect to generating an income. I know they were trying to help, but I am losing that thin thread of hope. Where are all my people with #mecfs and no support system?
September 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM
chembarathi.northsky.social
I haven't casted on any new socks as I am working on a leaflette request. I couldn't let go of my original leaflette, so decided to make a new one. The most terrifying part is the blocking. I don't know if I have the health for that now. But doing this only for survival. 🧶 #knitsky
A green scarf with leaf motif on person's head
September 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
Socks 20 of 2026 - Simply Sporty Shorties by This handmade Life. This one has ankle support with slip stitches, so it hugs that curve perfectly. Since I don't walk in socks, I am unable to comment on that part. 😬There are 3 more textures available in the same pattern.
#knitsky 🧦🧶
A pair of handknitted Shorty socks in blue color with some texture on the foot A pair of handknitted Shorty socks in blue color with some texture on the foot
September 12, 2026 at 10:42 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness
#Poetry 💙📚👀
Kindness Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952 Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
September 12, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
The UK is voting on the Assisted Dying bill today.

Most disability organizations oppose it.

Safeguards have already been removed or rejected.

Please listen to disabled Canadians.

What was meant to be dignified quickly became coercive eugenics aimed at the most vulnerable.
September 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.
...
Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded
River beds
With other impetuous Fools.
- Alice Walker
#Poetry 💙📚👀
Be Nobody's Darling by Alice Walker Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. But be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.
September 11, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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madhav.bsky.social
Elizabeth Strout's The Things We Never Say begins with this quote and it's all I've been thinking about since #booksky
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. -CARL JUNG
September 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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What the *FUCK*?!
florarenz.bsky.social Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 10d
Why yes, I am indeed extremely cool
A screenshot of a telegraph article with the title “ How having a disability became cool Young women, nicknamed 'sickfluencers, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity”
September 6, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Hi from North Sky!!
September 6, 2026 at 7:58 AM
chembarathi.northsky.social
On most days I hang on to hope. But today I had to talk to someone about finding a way forward with respect to generating an income. I know they were trying to help, but I am losing that thin thread of hope. Where are all my people with #mecfs and no support system?
September 1, 2026 at 6:43 AM