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Avimatic

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Knitter, tea drinker, table top gamer. Post-Evangelical church lady. Chaos courtesy of cats. Introverted but willing to discuss: Bridgerton, Outlander, Slow Fashion.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 01/10/2026
Happy 91st birthday to the legendary Julie Andrews.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1944 #womensart
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, sculpture with Azores crocheted lace #WomensArt
Photo of a sculpture resembling a snake covered in green lace
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yarn-bombing, thought to have originated in Texas USA, instigated by clothes-shop owner Magda Sayeg and her group Knitta Please, who began the "knit graffiti" movement to brighten up public spaces in a form of street art popular with women particularly #WomensArt
Photo of a pavement with circular barriers covered in coloured yarn
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Delicate crocheted/embroidered leaf sculptures by UK artist Susanna Bauer #womensart ##AutumnEquinox 🍃
Two real brown leaves joined by delicate white embroidery,  all against a white background
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Avimatic @avimatic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Blessed are those who persist and restart a third time, they will be rewarded with functioning software. #modernbeatitudes
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
N.K. Jemisin is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 3 consecutive yrs for her Broken Earth series & first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020. She was born #OTD in 1972. Happy Birthday @nkjemisin.bsky.social 🎈 #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky
A montage portrait of science fiction author N.K. Jemisin. On the left, she appears in a close-up photo with long, dark braided hair, wearing earrings, a delicate necklace with a pendant, a deep maroon sweater, and a shimmering green scarf draped around her neck. She has a calm, confident expression and gazes directly at the camera against a softly blurred dark background. To the right are three stacked book covers of her works. Top: The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth trilogy), with a dark, textured design and metallic title. Middle: The Obelisk Gate, featuring an intricate, glowing red-and-purple circular mandala-like emblem. Bottom: The Stone Sky, showing a dramatic stormy sky with a massive floating obelisk.

The overall composition highlights the author alongside prominent covers from her award-winning Broken Earth series.
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Q Christian Fellowship @qchristianorg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The Episcopal Church has its First Transgender Dean" buff.ly/WBLYXxu
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The Episcopal Church has its first transgender dean
Micah Cronin was named to a position at Milwaukee’s All Saints’ Cathedral.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The work of Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart
Photo of a circular group of three dimensional realistic shell shapes in different colours and sizes against a black background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wild Flowers, 1995 by Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye #womensart
Colourful painting with canvas covered in tiny flower motifs
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Avimatic @avimatic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This might be the best start to Rochester Fringe ever!
Program for the Fringe Festival show "Mass Drag: How the Catholic Church Came to Bless Gay Love... Again." / Feast of Saint Henry Newman October 9 / Order of Service / The Sisters of the Blessed Canon Rochester Chapter
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 14/09/2026
Legendary fashion designer Bob Mackie has died at the age of 87.
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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.zip · 14/09/2026
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh my god this is a work of genius
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Avimatic @avimatic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have a print of hers in my office! Unsurprisingly it features several wooly sheep by the sea in Dingle 🥰
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Avimatic @avimatic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What tips & tricks do you have for managing multiple yarns for intarsia? This sweater has 10 blocks per round, normally two of each color, 9g per color block. I think it's too much yarn for tidy butterflies but will 10 bobbins be too heavy? 🧶 #knitting #intarsia #colorwork #sweater
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Aheneah is Ana Martins (b. 1996), a Portuguese artist and designer who created a cross stitch mural as street art #WomensArt
Four images featuring a mural of a blue fish created with yarn fastened around screws on the wall of a white building
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of six angular cups and saucers with long shadows
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape of a field with treeline in the distance under a dramtic sky
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani depicting Timocleia of Thebes pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well #womensart
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Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart.com · 02/09/2026
Sanctuary city policies are legal. Congratulations to the City of Rochester.
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Federal judge tosses out Trump administration complaint over Rochester's sanctuary policy
In a decision Tuesday, Judge Frank Geraci threw out the Department of Justice's claim against the city, arguing it had failed to state a legitimate claim.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trout Creek Wildflowers - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2m8oJqv
For anyone who could use a cool breeze or some light in the dark.

Single exposure at Trout Creek, Utah.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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NPR @npr.org · 01/09/2026
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is canceling exhibit honoring British designer John Galliano. The exhibit had led to backlash because of the designer's past antisemitic and racist statements. n.pr/4zMs52O
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Amid backlash, museum cancels planned Met Gala exhibit on fashion designer John Galliano
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is canceling exhibit honoring British designer John Galliano. The exhibit had led to backlash because of the designer's past antisemitic and racist statements.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fritz Sonderland, German (1836-1896), Forbidden Pleasures. Girl and Cat in the Kitchen, oil on canvas 62 x 48 cm, private collection
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Many early films created at the beginning of the 20thc were made in colour and one of the first careers in film production for artistic women was hand painting in film-colouring workshops #WomensArt
Four film stills in colour featuring scenes with figures and props on the theme of the moon and planets
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Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart.com · 30/08/2026
Don't anyone let Trump know New York has an Ontario County and a Town of Ontario. 🤫
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cat, c.1904, by Welsh painter Gwen John #WomensArt
Cat with white face and chest lying down facing forwards
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Julia Eberlen @juliaeberlen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As we will get used to inferior, “good enough” language productions, we have gotten used to inferior textiles a long time ago. @trufelman.bsky.social made a wonderful episode about the history of lace and the labour behind it (crochet and bobbin). articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/lace-and-l...
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Lace and Labor
Lessons from the actual luddites.
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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 27/08/2026
Ben Gregor's adaptation of Enid Blyton's books meets our stultifying times with a full-bore charm offensive. buff.ly/PEk6DgE
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'The Magic Faraway Tree' Is a Charming, Whimsy-Maxxed Win - Pop Heist
Ben Gregor's adaptation of Enid Blyton's books meets our stultifying times with a full-bore charm offensive.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/08/2026
U.S. health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new approach to treating the deadly form of cancer, by blocking a protein that fuels tumor growth in the vast majority of cases. n.pr/4d6XUtt
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FDA approves landmark pancreatic cancer drug that's shown to improve survival
U.S. health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new approach to treating the deadly form of cancer, by blocking a protein that fuels tumor growth in the vast majority of cases.
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Avimatic @avimatic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My pre-order arrived today! Maybe (hopefully?) coming to a church book group near you! #post-evangelical #chelseakimlong
Paperback book on a cloth covered surface of "Faithfully Dissident Daughters" by Chelsea Kim Long. Subtitle: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood beyond Patriarchy, with the foreword by Christina Cleveland .
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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home
YouTube video by THIRDPROJECT
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Emilie Flöge (1874-1952), innovative fashion designer who aimed to reform dress designs for women. Though not noted widely by history, she influenced the work of her companion, the artist Klimt and featured in his work #WomensArt
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Grant Bailie @grantbailie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Pink cat 20”x20” acrylic on canvas
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Susie Freeman, Jubilee, 2000, wedding dress with (a lifetime average) 6,279 contraceptive pills, from a women’s health exhibition #WomensArt
Long dress with tight pink top and wide skirt in which different coloured pills are encased in the silver material
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ultraviolet Saturn (NASA, Hubble, 2003) - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/8LuCdh
This is an archive image from 2003, part of our "Think Pink" gallery, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625045060125/
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One of a series, this ultraviolet image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal tilts away from and toward the sun, much the same way Earth does. This happens over the course of its 29.5-year orbit. Every 30 years, Earth observers can catch their best glimpse of Saturn's South Pole and the southern side of the planet's rings. 

Between March and April 2003, researchers took full advantage to study the gas giant at maximum tilt, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to capture detailed images of Saturn's Southern Hemisphere and the southern face of its rings. 

Image credit: NASA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)

View original image:
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1074.html

More about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sheena Liam, aka Times New Romance, has created various stitched self-portraits #womensArt
Four images of embroidery hoops with an embroidered image of a woman in each in black thread on a cream background
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Avimatic @avimatic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
2026 is turning out to be a big year for puppets.
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 19/08/2026
This was an unexpected (and delightful) surprise! www.slashfilm.com/2232943/proj...
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Project Hail Mary Writer Andy Weir Has A Great Book Recommendation For Alternate History Readers - SlashFilm
Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir loves giving book recommendations, and this alternate history book about space travel is a must read.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
​Babs Pease artist and printmaker who lives on a small farm in Perthshire, Scotland #womensart
Print featuring three geese standing on grass facingbright in the sun with long shadows
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Cats by Shou Xin
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NGC 1365 and Supernova SN2012fr - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/dsnfg9
This image shows the large elegant barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, located in the southern constellation of Fornax at a distance of 56 million light years.
The bright and intensely blue star directly below the galaxy core is supernova SN2012fr, which was discovered by Alain Klotz (TAROT La Silla telescope) on 27th October 2012.


As of 10th November 2012 the supernova appeared to be nearing its peak, with an R magnitude of 11.90. To get an idea of how bright this event is we can calculate the absolute magnitude M of the supernova using the following formula where m is the apparent magnitude and  D the distance in parsecs:

M = m - 5(log10(D) - 1)

This gives an absolute magnitude of -19.27 for SN2012fr. This means that if the supernova had occurred at a distance to us similar to Betelgeuse (643 light years), then its apparent magnitude would be -12.80, same as the full Moon!

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Date: 7th and 9th November 2012
Exposure: LRGB: 205:57:56:51m, total 6hrs 9mins @ -30C
Telescope: 10" Serrurier Truss Newtonian f/5
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider
Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lucy Telles (c.1870-1956) master basket weaver of Yosemite Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute descent #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a woman holding up a large-scale woven basket
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Janet Echelman, US sculptor and fiber artist, known for her large-scale floating fiber sculptures and site-specific installations #WomensArt
Large-scale floating fiber sculpture over a landscape at dawn
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