frank n furter

frank n furter

@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social

✨💀✨ I make pictures, many of which are crow-adjacent ORIGINAL ART & TAROT DECK ➡️ shop.frankduffy.co.uk ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN ➡️ frankduffy.co.uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Caerfyrddin One of several people on this site who is not American I block A/I & mansplainers 🏳️‍⚧️ they/nhw

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ANYWAY ICYMI I received the test deck of the little tarot, it's adorable. The box is a little marked (this is what happens when you excitedly take your new deck to the queer night at the local pub) so I'll have to 'shop that out for the website, but super stoked with these little dudes #tarotsky

injured my back last year & when trying to get back into working at a desk I trained myself into sitting very upright & it has become clear that this is actually making my back worse, silly Frank, slumping like a sack of potatoes is clearly where it's at

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today's cards (using the mini test deck, taken at an angle so you can see the Nice Texture): something broken left you bereft? where can you find comfort? if you were a sad child, how would you treat yourself? nice food, a blanket, a cuddle? parent yourself gently & you'll gain perspective #tarotsky

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I'll soon be taking some prints to a gallery to sell, so if you want either "Mugwort" or "Birth" now's your chance to buy before I take all remaining prints of them off sale. They're both on this page, £22 each, scroll down! shop.frankduffy.co.uk

I feel about Bylines the same way I felt about the Canary: just because a media outlet writes things you wish to believe are true, it doesn't mean those things are factually accurate or indeed the whole picture. Every media outlet shapes stories & it's wise to utilise critical thinking w all of them

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Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

today's cards (using the mini test deck, taken at an angle so you can see the Nice Texture): something broken left you bereft? where can you find comfort? if you were a sad child, how would you treat yourself? nice food, a blanket, a cuddle? parent yourself gently & you'll gain perspective #tarotsky

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Replying to @louiestowell.bsky.social

With Microsoft Publisher, any village fete could knock up a decent poster with minimal skills and effort. With AI, those same people can put together a real piece of shit.

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"Japanese participants were more likely to frame not having children as increasingly normalized and justifiable via entrenched gender inequalities whereas American participants were more likely to emphasize the socially isolating and publicly contested nature of childlessness"

Holly Hummer@hollyhummer.bsky.social

Super cool! The newest issue of Social Forces has a theme of "gendered lives: inequality across the life course." My article on childlessness in Japan and the U.S. is included, as well as many articles I can't wait to read 🤩 academic.oup.com/sf/issue/105...

normally he hangs where he can look upon the toilet, and whatsoever is being done on the toilet, which feels much more appropriate, especially with that facial expression (gods it feels strange using he/him pronouns for Divine, but in this doc that's what everyone said he used so...)

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Don't give up! There are RX meds that help a lot of people manage symptoms and you deserve to try them to see if they help you. If your doctor only gaslights it may be worth trying🧵

Solve M.E.@solveme.bsky.social

Myth #6: Doctors cannot help people with ME/CFS. ❌ There are no FDA-approved treatments yet, but doctors can help manage symptoms like poor sleep, pain, and heart issues. Swipe to see what the science shows. ➡️ Part 6 of our six-part Myth vs. Fact series. #MECFS

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apropos of me considering setting up a little youtube channel just showing shorts of my sped-up linocutting & printing, here's an unedited snippet from the making of this little dude #printmaking

every time I make a pasta bake I must appease the Oven God by getting a little burn at the base of my thumb. some might say I could get oven gloves rather than using a tea towel; those people are Cowards, and know not the ways of the Oven God

When I bought my house in late May this year the garden had been mostly suffocated by fake grass for several years. Underneath it the soil was dead - there were a few earthworms and woodlice at the edges but nothing in the middle. never seen soil like it. I dug it over to get air in,

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but mostly we wrap the soil that feeds us in a duvet of leafmould & mulch & let it rest its long slow sleep in the dark half of the year. Knowing your soil is witchcraft, knowing the weeds that grow through the cracks is witchcraft, knowing the hedgerows that the birds glimpse through is witchcraft.

the closer we are to the land we walk on the more powerfully we stand on it, stand with it. & as these narratives can get hijacked, let me be very clear: anyone who lives on this land can do this, wherever they are from, wherever their ancestors' bones are buried.

When I bought my house in late May this year the garden had been mostly suffocated by fake grass for several years. Underneath it the soil was dead - there were a few earthworms and woodlice at the edges but nothing in the middle. never seen soil like it. I dug it over to get air in,

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& made fat golden tubers as the earth nourishing them became rich black loam. & now the last of the potatoes are up & I've just sown broad beans & the soil is full of feisty plump worms & all sorts of darting critters. This is magical activism. Make a pact with the soil & it will change you both x

A way to look at the wheel of the year (I don't mean that wiccan wheel) is to ask: what is the soil doing? Saturn rules the earliest spring flowers who push their way up from corms and bulbs when the soil is cold hard iron. & at this time we harvest what we grew in the summer & sow for the spring,

When I bought my house in late May this year the garden had been mostly suffocated by fake grass for several years. Underneath it the soil was dead - there were a few earthworms and woodlice at the edges but nothing in the middle. never seen soil like it. I dug it over to get air in,

covered it in year-old leafmould from my old place, & freshly shredded wood and leaves from the hedges I'd trimmed back. I watered it through the drought with my used washing up water, & white threads of mycelium appeared. I sowed new potatoes in August and they burst green out of the ground,

apropos of me considering setting up a little youtube channel just showing shorts of my sped-up linocutting & printing, here's an unedited snippet from the making of this little dude #printmaking

It's so lush, feels all warm and gooey hearing people's responses to the little deck, & bit blown away by all the orders suddenly coming in 🥹 TYSM for all the shares, I really appreciate it!

frank n furter@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social

ANYWAY ICYMI I received the test deck of the little tarot, it's adorable. The box is a little marked (this is what happens when you excitedly take your new deck to the queer night at the local pub) so I'll have to 'shop that out for the website, but super stoked with these little dudes #tarotsky

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i just preordered this and i am very excited to have a pocket tarot :3

frank n furter@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social

ANYWAY ICYMI I received the test deck of the little tarot, it's adorable. The box is a little marked (this is what happens when you excitedly take your new deck to the queer night at the local pub) so I'll have to 'shop that out for the website, but super stoked with these little dudes #tarotsky

the cat does a very sweet thing where if I'm later to bed than normal she will start to herd me to the bedroom & she did this last night because the clocks had changed & no-one had run this past her

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"Men are an embarrassing cringe gender" - this is true (go on, label me @moderation.bsky.app, I dare you)

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

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The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

...& today's two cards are from the new smaller version of the deck. A way to marshal your destructive thoughts is not suppression but recognition - see them, acknowledge them, know they are made of past thought habits & once served you, & also that they are not you & not real. You are in charge.