purpurina ✨🪡
She/they. I do cross stitch & hand embroidery. I also write stories and essays. I like cephalopods, movies, and when people are kind. Producer/writer on @observableradio.com. RRR is my favorite movie.
Be warned: I block folks who post AI/have AI avatars
- We need a word for when you’re already feeling a little down and then the new to you movie you took a random chance on bc it SHOULD have worked on paper absolutely didn’t work for you and now you’re extra bummed
- Ugh I’m so over censored movies on Zee5 Like muting cusses in streaming services and not referencing them in the subtitles is absurd
- I’m so different from the me of 12 months ago
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Already reposted the quoted post but just started cracking up all over again because I can’t believe we saw a wholesome example of this exact format in the wild
- From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Attention Artists of Philadelphia! The time has come to find an artist for our next Philly Biodiversity Mural! This project will take place in April/May. Pay = $20k The form to apply is as short as I could possibly make it. Please tell your friends and apply! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡And I'm wondering--I know a fair numbers of knitters or crocheters here, and you KNOW how we accumulate yarn and tools, and I wonder if I could find enough people up for donating used plastic or wood knitting needles or crochet hooks and extra yarn (or I guess $ to get new ones).
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡While I have a lot of people's attention: As some of y'all know, I volunteer at a women's shelter in Brooklyn. Over the time I've been there, a lot of women have approached me about starting a knitting/crocheting group. The Big Barrier to this is that there is no money for supplies. (cont'd)
- Congratulations, bsky is now officially the new “raise your blood pressure” app lol I know I always say your timeline is what you make of it but boy is it harder and harder to manage avoiding cynicism. I don’t mind being informed/sharing actionable items but this place heavily ain’t that
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡I've got about 100 packs of valentines left! I'll be packing them up this afternoon and hitting the post office tomorrow. They're cute as hell, each has a fact about the animal on the front of the card inside ❤️🐟❤️ Valentines support @skypeascientist.bsky.social! Art by @aprilfinfrock.bsky.social
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡This is a great time to get off Substack. Beehive and Ghost are good alternatives. As an added benefit, your blog won't be driving traffic to Nazis and their sycophants.
- The popular blogging platform Substack – used by numerous British comic creators to promote their work – has suffered a data breach. The company is warning users to take extra caution with any emails or text messages you receive… downthetubes.net/substack-data-breac…
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Support Black Horror creatives 365/366 go.bsky.app/9ZAuBdYat://did:plc:rd4ewcuwczliidwmzhmdjzfr/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lakl6odkit2g
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Just saw the headline “cannibal jellyfish with a disappearing anus are terrorizing Venice” with a picture of a comb jelly and 1) LOL 2) terrorizing who?! The other comb jellies?? Comb jellies don’t sting 3) who told the shock jockey writing the headline about the disappearing anus thing?!
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡You can really watch Black horror movies every single day this month. Here’s 28 I recommend to help you get started!
- From classics to films that deserved far more love, @sharai.bsky.social shares 28 Black movies to watch this Black History Month. 👻📽️ #NightTideMag nighttidemag.com/2026/02/03/s...
- It is very funny to me when the person who is about to draw your blood refers to your vein as “juicy”
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Today's the last day for the pre-order phase of these shirts! Want to be sure you get one in your size? Now's the time 🌱 About half of Skype a Scientist's funding comes from merch runs like this. Help us continue our work while lookin hot as hell. SquidFacts.net
- I like when the DS9 writers went “you know what? I think it’s time for O’Brien to have another really bad day”
- Ok I think I’m getting the hang of the shared dives. I still wish they were longer/you could choose to extend your session at least once, but it is helpful to break my completionist tendencies in favor of a more loosey-goosey “do what you can and have fun” approach
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Just a reminder that on Bluesky blocking doesn't unfollow, so you might look like you're following him because you've blocked before unfollowing. If you're unsure, unblock, unfollow, reblock.
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡One of my favorite jokes of all time is "Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide" being a tiny headline under the banner story about a hare-vs-tortoise race ... in 1943, two years before Hitler committed suicide. He was alive and well when the Warner Bros. cartoonists made this joke.
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Texans: TODAY (2/2/26) is the last day to register to vote for the March primaries.
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡The Punxsutawney mayor should hold up the meteorologist providing the forecast (dressed in furry groundhog costume)
- Today is the first day I’m trying the shared dives on Endless Ocean: Luminous and I gotta say my chief complaint is that the dives are too short Also I forgot how to make friends with other players. Idk why waving hi isn’t a default emote
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Hi folks! Here's a list of the journalists who have had their work lifted by AltNPS. This list is VERY much incomplete. A lot of the people affected aren't on Bluesky, and I need to update my master list, but this is a decent way to follow (and credit!) some great journalists.
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- “But you get on my nerves… and I don’t like your hat”
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- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡With no due respect, I’m not reading your substack screed about how Democrats are enabling fascism. You’re in a Nazi bar, bro.
- I’m barely 30 mins into this 3 hour movie on Tubi and I’ve already had so many poorly timed ad breaks (I couldn’t find it anywhere else, including buying it, otherwise I would be watching it there)
- The only good thing I remember about 2016 is that’s when @cameronsuey.com and I became friends Everything else: 🗑️
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Call your reps to demand they: 1) Abolish ice (every day!) 2) Vote no whenever the "Make Elections Great Again" Act comes up. It's an atrocious set of restrictions on elections made to make voting harder. Fuck that! Don't let them hear the end of it. Remember. Squid can't use phones, so we have to.
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡1. Nothing Beats A Jet Set Holiday (0:10) 2. Jon Hamm goes Ham (0:10) 3. Sparkly Interstellar Theme (0:10) 4. That One Sigur Ros Song The Zoomers Think Is Scary (0:10)
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡They should reboot Now That’s What I Call Music as Now That’s the Stuff I Heard on Instagram Reels This Month
- This is really the core of my artistic arguments against engaging with art made with AI (entirely or in part). Why should I use the limited time of my life to engage when you decided it wasn’t even worth your time to make it?
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?
- Watching movies from a time when drunk driving was normalized/used for comedy is wild
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡I was gonna hold off on releasing these shirts, BUT they are sick as hell & I wanted to show you. Imagine a world... in which Goth Girls Gardened... GASP! You're living in that world RIGHT NOW. Bring the Goth into Gardening at SquidFacts.net Designed by the amazing @seaofdoom.bsky.social
- Overstimulated by my own hair I can’t wait to see my stylist Saturday 😭
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- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Hey cuties. Everything sucks ass. Get some valentines and send them to your friends. I'm sad. You're sad. They're probably sad. Send them a valentine. It keeps Skype a Scientist running, which hey, is very good too. squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/deep...
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- It is weird to experience something wonderful within your microcosm when the macrocosm is… as it is
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- I find myself missing Los Espookys today
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- “It was never about this, it was always about this” I need y’all to accept that they can have multiple evil aims and erasing the impacts on Black and brown folks, on trans folks, on disabled folks, on all marginalized populations by saying that shit puts you in alignment with them more than with us.
- When was the last time you had a three and a half hour phone call that filled your cup? Bc 🥰🥰🥰
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund
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- Just got mine in the mail!! They look (and feel-paper texture is important) fantastic!! I know of at least one that I’m gonna be giving out :3 Anyway, these are super cute and you should totally get some
- Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside. I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start! SquidFacts.net
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡TCM will become the “ongoing home” of the LOONEY TUNES library. A six-year licensing deal for more than 750 shorts starts in Feb. "We’re able to present these cartoons with the care they deserve alongside the classic films they helped influence." www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t... #FilmSky
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.
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- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.
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- Re: LRT: it’s a better use of your time and better for your blood pressure to just block folks who are wagging their fingers at people and saying “why aren’t y’all doing more”
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Taking a closer look after a prior thread I deleted & something I’ve noticed more & more is that many of these agitating white Canadian accounts talking about “what Americans aren’t doing” have that weird AI lighting sheen on the faces of their avatars. IYKYK Be mindful of whom you engage with yall
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Call your senators and tell them to vote NO. You can find them at reps.fyi
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡If you are a game developer working on a modern military shooter and want to speak to me about Call of Duty being mentioned during this most recent ICE shooting, please reach out at gita at aftermath dot site. I am happy to keep you anonymous.
- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
- According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
- The problem with watching good movies right before bed is then I get too keyed up to sleep
- Five stars for Trapped (2017) from me: boxd.it/cNovRv
- I just started a survival horror movie that’s beginning with a really cute romance so I’m even more excited to see how they wanna break my heart
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- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
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- Reposted by purpurina ✨🪡Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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