Reposted by Denise McQuistonSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 23hA teenager used a gun to murder innocent children. An educator died in a job that should not be life threatening. And yet the GOP majority will again resist any meaningful effort to stop the next school shooting. This is the reality of the current Congress. And it’s heartbreaking.washingtonpost.com3 children, 1 adult killed in Oregon elementary school shooting, authorities sayPolice in Bend said the shooter is dead. The assailant was believed to be a 16-year-old. 51578146 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonTim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026SCOOP: Katie Zacharia may not have actually been a lawyer, but she was a marketer for a fitness MLM called Beachbody with an ... extensive legal history. From me and @tessowen.bsky.social!wired.comWhite House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Was an Affiliate Marketer for a Fitness MLMTrump's newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.” 1116031 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The White House is melting down over The Chicks’ front woman for calling out the president on stage.thedailybeast.comWhite House Melts Down at Music Legend for Humiliating Trump on Stage“The Chicks” frontwoman did not hold back. 43312 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonI’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 15/10/2026🚨 WTF Did Trump Just DO?! youtu.be/DU2eciGRWQUyoutu.be🚨 WTF Did Trump Just DO?! ALL Hell Breaks Loose!YouTube video by I've Had It 62811 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Arnold Bocklin, 'Moonlit Landscape With Ruin', 1849. #Gothtober #gothic #Bocklin #landscape #art 07213 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison. 1632691218 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonSETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Could ancient alien technology be hiding in Moon dust? 🧪 🔭 A new study proposes searching lunar regolith for microscopic technosignatures that could have crossed interstellar space. @allplanets.bsky.social talks with lead author Dr. Lewis Pinault on a special #SETILive. 📅 Fri., Oct. 9 | 2 pm PDT 3183 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Old Farmer's Almanac @oldfarmersalmanac.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades star cluster, is one of the most recognizable patterns in the night sky. This sparkling group of stars becomes especially noticeable in the fall and spring evenings, when it rises at nightfall and glitters low in the west ✨️ Almanac.com/seven-sistersalmanac.comThe Seven Sisters: Pleiades Star Cluster Meaning, Myth, and How to See ItDiscover the Pleiades star cluster, also called the Seven Sisters. Learn its mythology, meaning, symbolism, and how to see it in the night sky. 042 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He went on to be known as St Joseph of Cupertino, largely as a result of being (in the words of Carlos Eire, author of They Flew – A History of the Impossible) a “shrieking aerial ecstatic”, because he also used to emit cries “as if someone had stabbed him with a knife” 1202 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonArthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 04/10/2026French artist and Illustrator Bruno Mallart We will attack at dawn (stone collage on wood, 2020) #BrunoMallart #ContemporaryArt 1249 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonIndie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026‘Be very angry about how the world is being fucked.’ King Guillermo, I adore you. 👑♥️ [Not my video! Saw on Reddit!] 21364518 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Amen. #BookSky 26699208 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A group of interfaith leaders in California is marching 96 miles from an ICE processing center in the Mojave Desert to Downtown L.A. to protest ICE and demand a shutdown of "all detention centers." 622565952 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonBevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Clarke [saw] the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all.... The wood was hushed, and for a moment he stood face to face with a presence neither man nor beast." - Arthur Machen, "The Great God Pan" #BookWormSat 1336 0
Reposted by Denise McQuiston#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden #TheGuardiantwp.aiwww.theguardian.comThe American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden 0124 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonMr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Johnathan Harris (1979, USA) Reach for the Clouds. acrylic on canvas. 7696102 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonRep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As the President attacks the Kennedy Center, the free press, & the Smithsonian, his intentions are clear: He wants to rewrite our history, & control how it’s told. That’s why I joined Rep. Jackson and Rep. Mfume to introduce our Smithsonian Integrity Act: To keep our museums & history in OUR hands. 12581165 0
Denise McQuiston @dlmc.bsky.social · 01/10/202660,00 ancient books under the protection of bats. 010 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026 The Sisters G Achille Volpé, 1931 intriguing-people.com/the-sisters-g/ 311623 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonRep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Happy National Public Lands Day! 🌅 From the Rio Grande to the top of our mountains, our national parks, and the forest lands and acequias that have sustained our communities for generations, these lands are part of who we are. Public lands are our lands. And we will keep fighting to protect them! 672907652 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hokusai: 'One Hundred Ghost Stories In A Haunted House', 1790. #SpookySunday #ghosts #yokai #Japan #JapaneseArt 05216 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Knut Baade: Coastal Landscape in Moonlight. #Gothic #sublime #GothicArt #SublimeArt #landscape #art #Norway #Scandinavia 56820 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonDuncan Crombie @the-art-of-web.com · 24/09/2026`A lone oak tree amongst ruined walls, layered forested valleys` #synthart #landscape 1394 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 24/09/2026The fire has burned more than a week and closed an area that includes Glacier Point Road. Access to Yosemite Valley is mostly unaffected.bit.lyUpdate: Wildfire closes Mariposa-Yosemite airport as crews battle Dome FireThe fire has burned more than a week and closed an area that includes Glacier Point Road. Access to Yosemite Valley is mostly unaffected. 012 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonArt & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#Poetry #Painting #Provincetown looking out for sorrow, slowing down for happiness... the narrow streets, the houses, the past, the future, the doorway that belongs to you and me. - Mary Oliver 🎨 William Low 09013 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonMuppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today is Jim Henson's birthday! Born this day in 1936. Why not celebrate by hanging out with your weirdest, funniest and most creative friends? 613656777 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Marzia Colonna (Italian Artist, born 1951) "The Teapot", 2026. Mixed Media Collage on Board, 60 × 50 cm. Portland Gallery London. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 0408 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonBertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026‘Has the world changed or have I changed?’ I find the the paintings of George Shaw really haunting. The absence of people gives them such a melancholy edge. They remind me of a photographic essay I produced many years ago where I captured images with a similar aesthetic. 2427 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 24/09/2026The moon is linked to the official start of fall.bit.lyHarvest moon to shine soon in sky above California. Here’s when to look upThe moon is linked to the official start of fall. 031 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt 92383395 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonJoanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 23/09/2026“Autumn Arrival,” watercolor from several years ago…the season blowing in. Can you feel it? Happy fall! Getting spooky. Getting cozy. 212022 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🧵 I would read this essay with an open mind - as I did as a scientist and atheist. It doesn't matter whether spirits and the afterlife are real. The perception of communication with lost loved ones is a healing experience regardless, and empirical studies support this. 1915754 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonA. Rivera @bloodravenlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026> 71% of Americans Say They’re Completely Exhausted. A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. gizmodo.com/71-of-americ... Gee, I can't imagine why. . . #ThisIsAmericagizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 2114 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie. 17971157 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The ghosted glass rarely offers comfort. The faces we see in it are usually hollow folk. Occasionally they may even be monstrous things. Either distorted manifestations of echoing trauma behind the pane or reflections of our own spectral travellers. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts 219627 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New article! I am back with a piece on AI and the nightmare for writers -- or anyone who values life, love, and independent thought. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...sarahkendzior.substack.comI Wandered Lonely in The CloudHow AI is destroying the life of the mind. 515858 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered... 591077376 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonVast Country Hypnosis @vasthypno.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You may think #TransRights apply to a tiny minority whose votes you can afford to lose, but you'll also lose the confidence of the 10% of folks who are gay and lesbian and a huge chunk of the 25% of folks who are bisexual doing so. You aren't entitled to the #LGBT vote by right, democrats. 13516 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonCoffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026FENRIR the most infamous of the many #wolves in NORSE mythology; son of the god Loki and the female giant Angrboda. It is Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin and destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok 🎨John Bauer #WyrdWednesday 08312 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026'O Grave, Where Is Thy Victory?' by Jan Toorop, 1892. #SpookySunday #Symbolism #artnouveau #art 06115 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Wave, a famous wind-eroded sandstone rock formation located on the slopes of Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in Arizona 622777479 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2026Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harristheguardian.comWarning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John HarrisWhile fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris 3416958 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonWIRED @wired.com · 12/09/2026The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects.wired.comAstronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With ItThe intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects. 514040 0
Reposted by Denise McQuistonWIRED @wired.com · 13/09/2026“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.” www.wired.com/story/physic...wired.comWith a Better Understanding of Physics, We Could Predict Volcanic Eruptions“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.” 36412 0
