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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Day 3 of #FolktaleWeek25 prompt is rain. My hand-carved, hand-printed lino block print of the well-known, ancient Chinese folktale of the magpie bridge linking the lovers, The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, separated by a great river, which is the Milky Way, is printed on lovely Japanese paper. 🧵

My black and white linocut the Chinese folktale of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, shows the Cowherd at the bottom right, reaching up towards the weeping Weaver Girl at the top left. Each stands on a stylized raining cloud. There are 6 magpies in flight, flying over raining waves of the river between them. As you look from the bottom left of the river up towards the top right the waves transform into the simple dots of the stars in the Milky Way.

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Faunalia @effiedream.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

🙌The Very large Array🙌 (of course I fucking LOVE Plur1bus)

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The watcher. One of a pack of coyotes I met the other morning while out on the kayak. This one kept a close eye on me from it perch on the cliffs. #mammals 🌿

A regal-looking coyote sits up on a mossy bed atop a layered limestone cliff. A thick forest is only just starting to feel the warmth of the rising sun.

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Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New Medieval MiniComics Prize Just Dropped! www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Cartoon Crest for Newberry Library in a medievalizing style. Art by Lucy Bellwood.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 02/09/2025

Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

A little #scicomm in the garden: you might remember I repurposed one of the prints I was working on for #ManufacturedEcosystems for a local pollinator garden. It’s now up, with its hand-printed collection of native bees and message in amongst the pollinators in the garden. 🧪🐡🧵 #linocut #printmaking

Display case in pollinator garden with my 16” x 20” linocut print with a ring of bees plus one in the middle with collaged text in bronze. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta). The text reads “Our Fate is Tied to that of the Insects” in a ring around the assorted bees. Some small typed signs with captions are included.

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Bill the Cat @billthecat71.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

People stigmatize the unhoused most unhoused people are survivors—of eviction, domestic violence, medical debt, systemic racism, or broken safety nets. Many work, many are disabled, many are veterans. The problem isn’t moral failure—it’s policy failure, economic cruelty, and social abandonment.

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Faunalia @effiedream.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

#15MoviesToGetToKnowme One Flew Over a Cuckoos Nest The Black Stallion The Fifth Element Time Bandits Howl's Moving Castle The Fall The Fantastic Mr Fox Twelve Monkeys Moon Flow The Secret of NIMH The Dark Crystal Logan The Big Lebowski Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

extremely good fish website

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Enjoy this lucky mink and elegant swan in the Humber for #CanadianRiversDay

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships. Jorge Luis Borges

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators. 🐡🧪 The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in our human biases. 🧵

My linocut print on Arches paper with a deckle edge shows a common milkweed plant on collaged washi papers in green and plum overprinted with magenta sans serif text “WE’RE NOT WEEDS” with the Robobee pollination drone in black on an angle inside the O. The little drone is a vertical shaft with a dot and two wings at the top and a tripod at the bottom.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Yesterday was lovely & we went to Tommy Thompson Park on the Leslie spit and we saw river otters! We sat down for a snack and to watch the birds and these two otters swam by and circled back to get a good look & got quite close to us. Apparently they are shortsighted. Never seen them so close!

North American river otter swims in pond. You can see its long body along the surface.

Two North American river otters checking us out from the water. One faces left and is giving us the side eye. The other has its head way out of the water and looks straight at us. There's some long grass in front of the camera, but it doesn't obstruct the otters.

Otter with his head out of the water looking right at the camera

Otter with most of his head out of the water swimming towards shore

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Sometimes things don’t go as planned but, you make a new plan. Working on my (bee propaganda) next print about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems, I dropped my inked plate with the text & slipped - after printing 9 bees. 😔 I was pretty frustrated, but I started again. 🧪🐡🦋🧵

As described, this is my 16” x 20” print with a ring of bees plus one in the middle with collaged text in bronze. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), the rusty patched bumblebee* (Bombus affinis), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta). The text reads “Our Fate is Tied to that of the Insects” in a ring around the assorted bees.

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Lori Grace @lorigrace.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

end of a typical monsoon day.

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Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com · 21/03/2025

#severance is renewed for Season 3. #PraiseKier and Tim Cook. film still #67 Choreography & Merriment

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"I am a crooner, a screamer, a rapper a chanter, a beatboxer and a growler. I sing English, Spanish, German and Portuguese. People ask me why I can't just stick with one. My answer is, I sing from my heart and my heart isn't a one-way system. Fuck Genre." Mike Patton, Faith No More

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

was talking with a friend last night about the sharp divide between people whose trauma tells them "it can happen anywhere" and the people whose trauma/denial tells them "we made it, we're safe now, it won't happen here no matter what". And the people with no trauma who just don't believe it's real.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Breaking Bad Creator Calls For "Less Grimdark And More Hopepunk". "We need more wholesome and cozy media," said Gilligan. "Perhaps about a witch trying to find her lost cat in a ghibli-esque world"

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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I realized something recently. There are so few older women in illustration & comics to look up to, to see how they did things, to inspire us & even more so for LGBTQA women. Then I realized at 37 that’s me & my peers. It’s hard because we are trailblazing. It feels both saddening & empowering #art

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

If I see 11:11 on the clock, I make a wish. Earlier this evening, it happened and I blurted out, “I wish raccoons had their own pockets.” Don’t know why I said that, but I can’t take it back. Sorry gang. This one might have far reaching implications.

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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Affirmation Coyote approves. Be audacious.

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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Cornwall smashing it out of the park today.

Winter sun hanging low in a blue sky over a sandy bay. There are two rocky islands just offshore. The photo was taken from atop a dune covered in marram grass.

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Faunalia @effiedream.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"Wake me when it's quitting time"

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch

People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

—David Lynch

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

"Wintry clouds over the snow-capped Dartry Mountains tonight from Tullan Strand, Donegal, Ireland 🇮🇪." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Paul McGahon©️ | The Cloud Appreciation Society

Landscape photo of snow-capped Dartry Mountains from Tullan Strand, Donegal, Ireland by Paul McGahon©️.

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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

"They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." —Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

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Faunalia @effiedream.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My cat Leeloo has a passion for the kind of gold elasticized string that often comes on boxes of chocolate at Christmas! (silver/other colours are okayyy, but Gold is very much her fave)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2024

"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.

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Faunalia @effiedream.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline...

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