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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Goo morning, monsters. “Chorus” is too soft a word. The second the night sky bleeds to morning gray, the shrieks start to ricochet off the stained canyon wall. The laughing roars come next, then honks that swing up at the end, layering, sonically shoving until it’s too hot for the scream symphony.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One night, after trying to write about this troubled world, after crossing out pages and pages of what I'd written, I fell asleep, dreamt of being visited by the great poet Rumi, and woke with this poem.

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Beastie and Bone @beastieandbone.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This new mini collection of paper art moths is a take on Memento mori and ethical specimen collecting is for you, fellow little beasties with proverbial broken wings and senses that seek the light because of, or in spite of, how you know the dark. #paperart #bugsky #papercraft #sciart #moths

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Stromness Museum @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

#internationalbathday is a good day to share this 'Animating Scapa 100' film featuring a seal kept in a bathtub full of fish as a pet by bored German High Seas Fleet crew members, interned at Scapa Flow towards the end of WWI. It could eat up to 1000 fish a day! 🦭🛁🐟 vimeo.com/splicefilm/s...

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ANIMATING SCAPA 100

To commemorate the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919, West Side Cinema and Stromness Museum ran a series of community workshops during Stromness Shopping Week with London based animator ...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Perhaps the best way to understand ETs is as artefacts of our alienation from folklore; they are embodiments of our longing to have folkloric beings in a world where we're told we're not allowed to have them

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Michelle Hébert (she/her) @hfxwordy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So proud that Nimbus is publisher for my novel, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, and my upcoming memoir, A Good Girl's Guide to Lying. AI is incredibly damaging to the writing and publishing industries. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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The AI book wave and how a Halifax publisher is resisting it | CBC News

The publishing house hasn't been immune to the many AI controversies impacting the world of books.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A Great Blue Heron applying the brakes for landing in the lily pads.

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Thank you to the Observer for publishing my new poem ‘Nettle Dress’ as The Sunday Poem on 31st May 2026, the poem will appear in my next collection so thank you for encouragement.Thank you @chris_riddell for the beautiful illustration and for including a fox!

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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I call River Otters (Lontra canadensis) "The Keepers of the Slide." They don't get stuck in muck; they reshape it into a doorway from land to water. They embody liminality, dissolving the bank's friction with a single move, to merge earth with the dark channel. Stay fluid. #SwampLifeSunday #Nature

Public domain photo from the National Parks Gallery: "A river otter pauses at the edge of a grassy bank, its face reflecting clearly in the still, dark water below. Tall stalks of green and yellow marsh grass surround the otter, framing its movement as it prepares to transition from land to water."

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I just found this gem of a poem by R L Stevenson

'The roadside lined with ragweed, the sharp hills'
The roadside lined with ragweed, the sharp hills
Standing against the glow of eve, the patch Of rough white oats 'mongst darkling granite knolls,
The ferny coverts where the adders hatch,
The hollow that the northern sea upfills, The seagull wheeling by with strange, sad calls,
All these, this evening, weary me. Full fain Would I turn up the little elm tree way
And under the last elm tree, once again Stretch myself with my head among the grass;
So lying, tyne the memories of day
And let my loosed, insatiate being pass Into the blackbird's song of summer ease, Or, with the white moon, rise in spirit from the trees.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 22/05/2026

I went to read a different post in @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social's Substack this morning, after @victoriaspires.bsky.social said it made her want to revisit everything she's written. That post was indeed a thought-provoking read. But THIS one, sitting half a scroll below it, is what made me subscribe.

Screenshot of a Substack post by poet Adam Cairns, in which he argues that revision isn't about improving a poem but about discovering what it actually is.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New art should be a joyous addition to thousands of years of beauty and mastery, not a cheap, glittering lure to lead you off-trail into a tar pit.

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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

just putting it out there that any books made using generative AI in any capacity will never be found in our store and we’ll never force AI Slop on you ourselves through merch, posters, or anything here on social media

king’s co-op bookstore ai policy, a poorly drawn Paint picture with a stop sign that says SLOP on it

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

your moment of calm

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The river is a crowded folkloric ecosystem. There are Greyhands, Reed-hags, Stay Belows. There Swimming Demons, Neckers, Red Maidens. Willow-sprites and Alderlings. So dense is the lore that an encounter with its fluid mysteries almost feels inevitable. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore

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Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The weaver (2) I picked the crottals from the stone so rough and warm to dye my cloth as deep as amber, I spread it on the field to clean, and brighten I gather to my face A dry and mushroom smell #PegsPoyums

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

went full silly for my last moment submission, also felt like we needed more 'broidy* * this was a joke embroidery for a Portuguese friend, Libelula is both the latin name for a group of dragonflies (minus a missing L) and the word for dragonfly in Portuguese #InverteFest #SciArt #embroidery

photo of an embroidery hoop on a grey speckled carpet, the cloth is cream white, and with simple black thread there is a line embroidery drawing of a journalist dragonfly, with a little hat, holding a newspaper that says EXTRA EXTRA and the text above them says LIBEL!(ula). the word Libelula is how dragonflies are called in Portuguese.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#InverteFest is here (24-30 April), show us your invertebrate-themed creations!

A poster showing 14 crabs of various shapes and colors. some are spiky, others have suspiciously long limbs, serrated claws, hairy shell, and so on. a bunch of weirdos.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Eric Fraser is one of my favourite illustrators. I adapted a Radio Times piece of his from 1944 for my cover art for the book “Evolution on British Television and Radio: Transmissions and Transmutations” by Alexander Hall (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). #sciart

Fraser's original illustration in the Dec 8 1944 issue of Radio Times accompanying a broadcast of The Origin of Species. The illustration features a large human holding the hands of a chimpanzee with other life below it.

My adaptation of Fraser's illustration, featuring a large human with a chimpanzee holding onto his hands, with various other forms of life bursting forth from a watery cube surrounded by stars and clouds. Within the human's head is a radio tower, with a reel of film depicting human evolution in the background.

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Emily Higgs Art @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ammonite Rock ~ 🐚🦑🦀🪸 . For years I’ve been curious by all the different ammonite shapes and types, I knew I wanted to create a design that brought them altogether! . #paleoart

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 23/04/2026

I saw a ruby-crowned kinglet through the kitchen window this morning, & knew it from a distance, without binoculars, by its tinyness & the shape of its flitting, & the joy I felt doing so was again the joy of feeling a new piece of language settling into my chest, gaining another layer of legibility

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I have seen an angel. We breathed the same air, if only for a moment.

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Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜 @pamelajeong.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hello, lovely #WritingCommunity 📚💚 Here’s some morning #poetry brew. ☕️✨ I get a lot of inspiration from poetry, so I might keep sharing a poem a week in case others enjoy it as well. “Loaves and Fishes” by David Whyte

Loaves and Fishes

This is not
the age of information.

This is *not*
the age of information.

Forget the news,
and the radio,
and the blurred screen.

This is the time
of loaves
and fishes.

People are hungry
and one good word is bread
for a thousand.

-David Whyte

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Steve Ormerod @steveormerod.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Oak-tree Pug - fairly regular in our Cardiff garden. Eupithecia dodoneata Eupithecia - a goodly dwarf dodoneata - from an ancient Grecian town whose oracle spoke when the wind blew through a grove of sacred oak trees - hence belonging to the oaks. V poetic. #mothsmatter

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Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Waternish The path is steep, packed with stones and mud From the bend I see roof beams Broken, sagging or fallen I don't venture But stand at the gate Looking out over the sea Knowing Finn McCool Strode here When young, we sat in our basalt throne, warmed by light We were kings #PegsPoyums

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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

one cannot press flowers in an e-book.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/04/2026

God said: Let the dark be dark. Let the stars shine properly. And let darkness with no stars heal the damage caused by light… —Robin Fulton Macpherson, “In the Dark” Today, 13 April, is the start of #InternationalDarkSkyWeek #poem #poetry #DarkSkies #DarkSky #astronomy idsw.darksky.org

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

GRACE ABIDE Integrity has never been so far away Safe home dearhearts, safe home Whatever foolish words were spoken yesterday Safe home, dearhearts, safe home Courage takes the Kindest ride Cancel hate and Puncture pride Earth will rise, and Grace abide, See you on the other side 1/? #peace

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Lisa who used to use her last name here but deleted it:) @amidprivilege.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Wow. First contact after the Far Side of the Moon is two women talking to each other about how we are fragile and interconnected. That's the matriarchy, baby, that's what it sounds like.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

York, painting by Keith Melling.

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I Am I - Earth @iami.earth · 07/04/2026

Libraries as prefigurations of a solarpunk future. Yes. A building where knowledge is shared freely, maintained by community, open to everyone regardless of status. The most radical infrastructure we already have.

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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or invisibility. Tonight I wish to have the valor and daring to belong to the moon. ~Virginia Woolf (A Writer's Diary)

["So this is how" from Jules Verne's novel Around the Moon. artists Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville]

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

i made a sparkly moon mug in honor of the incredible scientific feat NASA astronauts are undertaking today 🌕 🌙💫 🧪🌎🌐👩🏻‍🔬 #nasa #moon #pottery

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

”Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen” on quartz rock. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Photo of crustose orange lichens growing on mostly white quartz rock. The photo shows several of these lichens of varying sizes. All are made of narrow, branching lobes radiating out from a centre. The middle portions of the lichens are dotted with tiny orange discs(apothecia)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🖼️ Vicki Weight-Short

Rabbit sleeping in ferns and snowdrops, with starry night background and golden rays, painting

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A #painting to look at. "Clare Road" came out of a day I mostly spent cycling high above the Shannon estuary after crossing it from north Kerry. A road populated by wildflowers and not much else, until these houses. I like walls. I like red corrugated roofs. So I painted them. #art #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View along a small road on the right, grey-blue and light purple, with grass down its middle. It bends past 2 derelict buildings on the left with the gables facing the viewer just past a roadside bank of overgrown tall grasses and weeds of greens and yellows and browns. Near gable has flat stones, of greys and browns, like slate making up its gable and from its roof is growing an orange-cream brush. The other building is inset further back and its stones are mostly covered by a cream textured plaster attached to which we see a sliver of a red roof, and chimney with a dark red-ish plant growing alongside it. Sky is very dark grey of purple and blue except for bright horizon of pale horizontal clouds. Roadside poles lean slightly and are covered in ivy. Signed bottom left in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

#OwlishMonday Esoteric Owl as psychopomp, guiding souls between this world & the next? By influential Austrian artist, Kolomon Moser (1868-1916) whose work often erred to the mystical.

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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Good morning! For #PoemsAbout #InBloom Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I look forward to this every week. No Kings tomorrow, Saturday, March 28!

Poem:

Flowers
(In Memory of Renee Nicole Good)

One spot—as a seed—
blossoms into a sticky, crimson flower,

a giant poppy
unfurls across her shirt,

drops black pips
carried on wind and whistles—

(I hear—
ghost voices,
long time passing)

flowers know what to do,

(fleeting, eternal)

from sidewalk cracks
and suburban gardens,

they multiply--
with nectar and thorns,

they wake. Rise. Bloom.

Beckon to bees, birds,
continue.

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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bugweirdo🪲🦋🐝 @bugweirdo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I know beauty exists because bugs are so full of it💞 . #bugs #myart #arthropods #biology #art

This is a drawing of multiple pink arthropods on a light pink background. In the middle of this drawing there's a text "pink bug club". Each arthropod is labeled with their scientific name. Bugs shown are: gyponana gladia, phromnia rosea, asphaera quadrifasciata, cheilomenes aurora and cheilomenes bidentata,thomisus onustus, microphotus angustus, cubaris cherry blossom, dryocampa runicunda (aka rosy maple moth), hymenopus coronatus (aka orchid mantis),aedophron rhodites,cithaerias aurorina snd brachycybe rosea

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

“The Poets Agree to be Quiet by the Swamp”—David Wagoner

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

‘We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.’ ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters. #BookWormSat #InternationalDayOfForests 🖼️ Woodland, Ivan Shishkin.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Artwork Grace Yencer, a contemporary artist living and working in the US #womensart

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 21/03/2026

Here's a song about partying while empires crumble around you and the sky fills with smoke and soot (which I wrote in 2013) (day 66) unwoman.bandcamp.com/track/flower...

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Flowering Vines, by Unwoman

from the album Circling

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Jeanie Tomanek @jtomanek.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

“We Parted Each Spring”, 10x10 inch acrylic on panel. I’ve always felt a little sorry for Hades as he must share Persephone with Demeter each year. I’ve always loved this myth and have painted it from all three points of view.

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