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Jes Steele

@piratito.com

Film, Theatre, Tennis, Politics, Human Rights. Not in that order, obviously. Professional maker and unprofessional pirate. Metalsmith. AuDHD. Crohn's. Chronic pain. Lives Slowly. Just trying to be helpful. A Ngarigo Country girl, now in the UK. ✊🏿🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally

created July 24, 2023

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Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Yeah, we really hate those nazis.

2/9/2025, 4:10:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin Biba (@erinbiba.bsky.social) reposted

ICYMI: they added a search function to user profiles (FINALLY) We can now go to any user profile including our own and tap the three dots at the top right and select “search posts”

2/9/2025, 3:59:41 PM | 370 107 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Me too. I'm nervous. Our flats share an indoor hallway so we get made pretty aware of each other's comings and goings.

2/9/2025, 1:08:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

yup

2/9/2025, 12:22:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Oh you need milk! If I'm having a milo (not tea-lo) hot drink I usually make it half milk half water. Or if it's a cold drink, all milk. I also put it in vanilla yoghurt, and on vanilla ice-cream. It's versatile 😂

2/9/2025, 11:43:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Hmm.. Maybe I made your expectations too high, I have a habit of that. Or maybe you have to grow up with it, and have some sentimental attachment to it. I'm not sure. Will ponder..

2/9/2025, 11:33:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

oh I can be awkward in both awful and awesome. My awkward is all-encompassing.

2/9/2025, 11:28:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

VENDING MACHINE HOT CHOCOLATE. You spit on the soul of Australia. (maybe you didn't put enough in??)

2/9/2025, 11:26:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

LOL

2/9/2025, 11:24:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

Isn't it weird how awesome and awful mean opposite things.

2/9/2025, 11:22:19 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

(fucking awesome mug, btw!)

2/9/2025, 11:20:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

ooh ooh ooh! *sits on the edge of my chair watching you intently to see your reaction*

2/9/2025, 11:19:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

yup

2/9/2025, 11:09:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

He took a parcel for me once. The only time I've ever seen the inside of his flat. He opened the door to me and all the walls were painted a sort of nightmare red colour. I didn't mean to but I sort of recoiled in horror. He didn't take any more parcels for me after that.

2/9/2025, 10:58:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

👀 There is someone making noise in the flat next to mine (it's council, mine isn't). It has been empty about a year since my neighbour (I think) got sectioned. Looks like they're doing it up to let out again.

2/9/2025, 10:56:47 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

2/9/2025, 10:47:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Guy Pradel (@pradaldi.bsky.social) reposted

New product on my shop, The Longest Cat. This is a set of four stamps to create cute mutant cats. guypradel.fr/produit/the-...

The set of four stamps, with an example of a really long cat with two backsides.
2/9/2025, 8:08:38 AM | 1712 483 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Nigel Fletcher (@nigelfletcher.bsky.social) reposted

As if I couldn’t love him more, Ncuti Gatwa trying to explain Ribena to his American co-star is the joy we all need in the world today. You’re welcome.

2/9/2025, 8:51:36 AM | 392 126 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

Well, it’s ABOUT TIME.

2/9/2025, 9:36:45 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Yeah what is that all about? They don’t want you to record the music for your own, offline, enjoyment?? 😂

2/9/2025, 9:32:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says,
1/9/2025, 11:16:00 PM | 40796 4762 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

you and me both 😂

1/9/2025, 3:30:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Ugh. I would too - don't they know how annoying this is when they choose it? I don't know why they can't just play the radio or something.

1/9/2025, 3:26:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

I think that might be worse actually, at least I'm not too likely going to be triggered into an undue rage in the supermarket because of clarinet music blaring from the speakers unexpectedly 😂

1/9/2025, 3:21:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Probably! 😂

1/9/2025, 2:14:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zaratustra (@zaratustra.bsky.social) reposted

"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me

1/9/2025, 10:39:58 AM | 2691 378 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Ah! lovely! I couldn't get a good feel for the size in the pics so I wasn't sure. I love the glaze work you have done on them.

1/9/2025, 1:49:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spark & Twig (@sparkandtwig.bsky.social) reposted

New feed! Definitely worth checking out if you love tangible art #artinstallations #installationart #publicart #artsky

1/9/2025, 1:20:26 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

I know, right? I have been a fan of Marianne Jean-Baptiste for ever, I'm so excited for this.

1/9/2025, 1:36:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Your work is always so beautiful Emma.

1/9/2025, 1:32:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

I dreamt about my grandfather last night. He died over 30 years ago, so I'm not sure where that came from, but I'm feeling a bit sentimental today because of it. What funny things, our brains are.

1/9/2025, 1:28:36 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Beautiful!

1/9/2025, 1:26:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

These are gorgeous, but... what are they? Are the vases? Incense holders?

1/9/2025, 1:26:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Street Art Utopia (@streetartutopia.com) reposted

Urban walls, sidewalks, and even utility meters are the unlikely canvases behind this clever collection of genius street art. From an illusion of a zebra being striped to a sidewalk creature with a real rock for a head, these eight works turn... 👇

Street art sticker of the character E.T. placed on a stone wall, cleverly aligned with a red metal fire hose fixture so that the two circular outlets resemble E.T.’s large eyes. The setup transforms the fixture into the alien’s head, while the drawn body shows his wrinkled skin, long arms, and glowing finger.
1/9/2025, 7:24:31 AM | 6251 740 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

The on-hold music for my council is just 8 bars of music played by a clarinet, over and over again. I have been on hold for 43 minutes so far. I wasn't built to deal with such torture on a monday.

1/9/2025, 12:37:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

piss off, bot.

1/9/2025, 1:01:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ABC News Bot (unofficial) (@abcnewsbot.bsky.social) reposted

An increasing number of women are pulling on up to 40 kilograms of steel armour to take part in historic medieval combat.

30/8/2025, 9:28:23 PM | 974 273 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

I saw the play a few years ago with Sally Fields and Bill Pullman, which was also excellent.

31/8/2025, 1:23:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to seeing this. I mean, just look at this cast! 😍 😍 😍 #MakeTheatreNotWar

The play All My Sons by Arthur MIller, directed by Ivo Van Hove, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu. Begins at the Windham's Theatre on 14th November 2025.
31/8/2025, 1:22:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Ugh, cannot believe she is back in the fold again. I thought we got rid of her for good in the 90s. Fascists, the lot of them.

31/8/2025, 1:01:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social) reposted

oh my the baby raccoons seem to like the kiddie pool--all three of them!

31/8/2025, 11:01:28 AM | 594 58 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Indeed. Australia appears to have its own far right issues too it seems, going by this weekend’s events. I hate this all so much.

31/8/2025, 12:47:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) reposted

And what happens if you abandon a temple in the jungle for 500 years? Ta Prohm Temple Cambodia (apparently known to some because of the Lara Croft Tomb Raider movie).

Huge tree dramatically taken root on the roof of a stone temple building.
30/8/2025, 8:27:59 AM | 103 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

Excellent news! #VaccinesSaveLives

31/8/2025, 12:40:54 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hunter Felt (@hunterfelt.bsky.social) reposted

Ah, this explains so much.

31/8/2025, 11:10:49 AM | 13 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Joanne Williams (@jowilliams.bsky.social) reposted

For anyone finding the need to explain the British tabloid print media of the 1990s to a bemused teen, this is the transition from part 2 to part 3 of the Princess Diana story distilled and bottled. Serve in your 1981 wedding commemorative mug.

31/8/2025, 11:14:27 AM | 13 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jilly (@jillysnaps.bsky.social) reposted

Fields of Morning Light I’m not usually an early bird, but on mornings like this one last week - when I’m up before my comfort zone and greeted with a view this beautiful - I can’t help but wonder if it’s worth trying to change my body clock. #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin

A serene sunrise over a grassy field, with golden light streaming through trees and illuminating the landscape. The sky is filled with scattered, fluffy clouds glowing in soft hues of yellow and orange against a bright blue backdrop.
31/8/2025, 9:40:03 AM | 795 91 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nina Willburger (@drnwillburger.bsky.social) reposted

We all need a timeline cleanse! A recent discovery made in Peru: a figurine depicting two #toads. Happy Sunday! 😃 newsweekespanol-elsalvador.com/2025/08/29/h...

Clay figurine depicting two toads joined side by side, with rounded bodies and simple carved features. The toads have slightly smiling faces and wide-set eyes, giving them a stylized, almost playful appearance. The surface shows signs of age and wear, with an earthy brown tone.
31/8/2025, 9:28:42 AM | 347 59 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack - Oi, Shiny! (@oishinythings.bsky.social) reposted

If you've thrown out the manuals, they're often online, that's how I fixed my housemate's 10 year old fan. Worth downloading and saving now.

31/8/2025, 11:17:12 AM | 17 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

And charge you extra for having to wait.

31/8/2025, 12:35:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Bevan (@katebevan.com) reposted

You can't make a good joke today. Because of hoax.

31/8/2025, 11:19:59 AM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Stanley (@benstanley.eu) reposted

Encouraging people to “do their own research” has consequences.

31/8/2025, 11:21:27 AM | 270 72 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sooz Kempner (@soozuk.bsky.social) reposted

I know it’s been said but WOW nothing makes me think someone is more pathetic than obsessing over the flag assigned to the manmade borders you’re born in to. Frightened little rabbit boys, they’re so pathetic x

31/8/2025, 11:24:47 AM | 686 64 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Artologica aka Michele Banks (@artologica.net) reposted

New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate

31/8/2025, 2:43:55 AM | 5460 886 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Well I hope someone is recording exactly what those people did/ate/took to get better from it, and is applying that information to something. Somewhere. Hopefully.

31/8/2025, 12:31:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

Marlon Wayans >>> Snoop Dogg.

31/8/2025, 12:28:47 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

Jesus fucking Christ.

31/8/2025, 12:26:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

The bastard of diseases. I like that. One day they will discover that some random chemical from lizard blood or something will contain a cure and you’ll be cured with a snap of your fingers. One day. 🤞

31/8/2025, 12:23:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ᚈᚆᚓ ᚆᚔᚁᚓᚏᚅᚔᚐᚅ ᚋᚓᚅᚐᚉᚓ (@ciara2001.bsky.social) reposted

You'd hardly know the Guardian had partnered with an AI company 🙄

The big idea The Big Idea: why we should embrace AI doctors People are understandably wary of new technology, but human error is often more lethal
31/8/2025, 11:25:49 AM | 453 126 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted

IMHO, these are all inextricably intertwined: 1) authoritarianism 2) eugenics & racism & sexism 3) vandalism of public goods, property, and services 4) pseudo-science & anti-science They feed into one another and they never travel alone. Find one, and you'll find elements of all the others.

31/8/2025, 2:10:33 AM | 756 182 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stone Cold Jane Austen (@abbyhiggs.bsky.social) reposted

I think when it happens we should call it “congestive heart success”

31/8/2025, 11:34:03 AM | 1295 201 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

No worries love. I can’t begin to imagine how your condition feels, but I know I feel absolutely rotten when I can’t get enough sleep. I think it’s insane though that me/cfs is still so chronically under-researched in 2025. I remember hearing about it on the golden girls in the 80s!

31/8/2025, 12:19:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Mather (@katiematherkm.bsky.social) reposted

I need to speak to a Polish chef and so far nobody is keen!! If you know a Polish chef, please ask them if they would be willing to speak to me about ̷C̷h̷r̷i̷s̷t̷m̷a̷s̷ Food!! Thank you!!

31/8/2025, 11:14:36 AM | 9 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

This was the relevant bit, to save you reading it all.

Info re melatonin and zinc Info re melatonin and zinc
31/8/2025, 12:09:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

This is what I was reading. meassociation.org.uk/2021/07/the-...

31/8/2025, 12:07:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Fuckin bodies. I had a bit of a Google earlier and saw that some cfs people find it helps to take it with zinc. I’m not sure why but maybe worth looking into?

31/8/2025, 12:03:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

🤞

31/8/2025, 12:01:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

My Aussies, what are we buying our Dads for Father’s Day this year please and thank you. Mine just had a birthday and I bought him titanium chipping boards and a large supply of biltong. Now I’m out of ideas.

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Profile picture JFA (@jabbott28.bsky.social) reposted

www.postandcourier.com/business/tou... if you live near Charleston, SC go visit this wonderful museum for free tomorrow.

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Profile picture Amy Tryphena (@realkernow.bsky.social) reposted

Down Tor stone row and cairn - Dartmoor #StandingStoneSunday

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Profile picture Flesh Banana (@notimeforpoopin.bsky.social) reposted

I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.

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Profile picture Greg Jenner (@gregjenner.bsky.social) reposted

Yes! Still remember how a senior archaeology professor took a ten minute detour from his lecture to tell us how best to dispose of a body

30/8/2025, 5:30:40 PM | 720 69 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

31/8/2025, 2:53:33 AM | 15955 4940 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Whaaaat? Oh no!! Maybe it’s something that only works for you on occasions but not every night, if you know what I mean? So you don’t build up a resistance to it? Ok so I’m saying this without any knowledge of how it works but maybe a few days off and try again? Ugh, what a pain!

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Profile picture Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) reposted

future historians are going to have a tough job combing through the Posting Archives to figure out the politics of our era

31/8/2025, 1:07:47 AM | 734 66 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matty! (@mattythemouse.bsky.social) reposted

What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.

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Profile picture Megaholt 𓅃 (@megaholt.medsky.social) reposted

I AM FUCKING PISSED OFF NOW. BRING BACK DOLLY’S IMAGINATION LIBRARY RIGHT FUCKING NOW, YOU FUCKING COLD HEARTED FUCKSTICKS, OR I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD, I WILL MAKE YOU REGRET YOUR DECISION FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES.

31/8/2025, 3:01:48 AM | 11 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 💉Josh Rubin, MD 🩺 (@drsandman11.medsky.social) reposted

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme
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Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s

As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
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Profile picture Sandra (@mockingbird713.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

1/👍And this quote always sticks in my mind: "The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. At the crest of their popular strength, in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 per cent of the vote. But the 63 per cent of the German people

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Profile picture derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) reposted

love Kazuaki Kitamura's cat tattoos IG horitomo_stateofgrace

Two cat tattoos, both located on the person's upper arm. The first shows a cat carrying a flower in its mouth while it's surrounded by flowers. The second also shows a cat surrounded by flowers, but it looks like it's stalking something. Two cat tattoos. One shows a cat roaring while the image of a tiger is on its chest. The other shows a black cat holding a hair comb in its mouth while the image of a Japanese woman is on its back. Two cat tattoos on the same person. Both show warrior cats with the image of a fox in them. Two cat tattoos. One has a knife in its mouth and the image of a Japanese woman on its back. The other shows a black cat with flowers all over it. It's carrying a purse with a small kitten behind her.
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Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

'night!

30/8/2025, 7:18:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Ahh, I'm really happy for her

30/8/2025, 7:09:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Damnit Janet (@damnitjanet.bsky.social) reposted

They should invent a dish towel that dries the dishes

27/8/2025, 5:27:53 PM | 425 92 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Uhh, I think we jinxed something.

30/8/2025, 6:29:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Osaka is playing brilliantly at this comp, I have to say.

30/8/2025, 5:58:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

I am loving the purple/grape theme that's going on at Flushing Meadows this year.

Daria Kasatkina in purple Adidas Carlos Alcaras in grape Nike
30/8/2025, 5:57:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Medvedev had one the other day too. Everyone thinks they're Kyrgios these days (one of him is too many, frankly). What on earth is going on with Kasatkina? Are you watching?Osaka just took the first set against her 6-0.

30/8/2025, 5:49:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

She really is. Some of the more established players could learn a thing or two from her. *side-eye to Jelena Ostapenko*

30/8/2025, 5:36:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

Coco Gough thanking the janitors working at the US Open, after winning her 3rd round match 🥹

30/8/2025, 5:01:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

oh. 🙁

30/8/2025, 3:34:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

It's a thyroid condition. Ha, jinx on the mediterranean diet! I can't eat seafood (allergic to shellfish, don't like normal fish) but chicken and mediterranean veg is what makes up the majority of my dinners.

30/8/2025, 1:29:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

oof, I'm so sorry, that sounds awful. Mine did't get bad till maybe a decade ago too, and it took ages to work out what was wrong with me. I also have hashimotos and chronic pain so basically my body is just a weird bowl of jello most of the time.

30/8/2025, 1:22:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

CAN'T EAT CHEESE omg I would die. I probably shouldn't be able to but I've eaten so much dairy over the course of my life I've probably built up some sort of resistance (princess bride iocane powder-style).

30/8/2025, 1:20:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Anyway I'm not giving up diet coke. I can't eat gluten or most sugar substitutes or basically any FODMAP foods at all, so fuck 'em if they think they can take my diet coke too.

A woman hugging a diet coke machine
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Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

perfect!

30/8/2025, 1:01:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Funnily enough, I already follow almost everyone on this list. Clearly you have excellent taste.

30/8/2025, 12:59:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com) reply parent

Did you know that there is apparently a link between the 'tism and having one of these digestive conditions? Every time I learn something new about this it blows my mind a litttle.

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Profile picture Jes Steele (@piratito.com)

I have missed something. Did he die?

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