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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 19h

"Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like." ~ Jane Austen 🌱 Hot! Hot! Hot! Get out there early or late & drink! drink! drink! #MagentaMonday 🩷 #InMyGarden 🐝 #BloomScrolling ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ #Gardening 🌸 #Zone10a

Group of petunias growing in the garden, mostly hot pink, peek of a purple-spotted bloom, green leaves

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." ~ Joseph Wood Krutch 🐈‍⬛ Thomas Stearns always asks. Today he urges all the #CatsOfBlueSky to stay cool on this hot hot #Caturday. 💙 💙 💙 He'd also like for the #LADodgers to win.

Big fluffy black cat on the bed, with green eyes slightly closed, head tilted slightly up. He looks like he wants to be pet (he does).

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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Marigold, October’s birth #flower, offers natural pest control, soil health, and pollinator support. With their cheerful visual appeal, these low-maintenance annuals bring a bright, sunny autumnal warmth to the #garden #Bloom#Scrolling #FlowersOnFriday #Autumn #Gardening

Bright orange marigolds planted in an autumn garden

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good on you Sister's 👏

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Fall doesn't say goodbye to flowers; it dresses them in copper, gold, and burgundy.” ~ Unknown #FlowersOnFriday 🌱 #FlowerReport ☀️ #FloralFriday #BloomScrolling 🐝 #Gardening 🌻 #Zone10a

Dahlia flower bloom -- center is yellow, circled by darkening oranges, in the garden, some water spots

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lol!😂 TODAY IN SPORTSBALL: The Iowa Hawkeyes play the Atlanta Hawks in an exhibition game to raise awareness of GOP stupidity.

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Dad Bod E @dadbode.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hawkeyes. In Maryland. Your gotcha is showing.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love these adventures! Look at all the smiles! From the people too!

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Every white hair is one day of experience in being the very best friend you’ve ever had.” ~ Jaymi Heimbuch #TongueOutTuesday and #TerrierTuesday too?!? Cynthia is delighted to celebrate both with all the wonderful #DogsOfBlueSky 🐶

White and cream-colored terrier dog looking a bit scruffy, sort of yawning with her tongue out, on a couch with teal and white sofa pillows behind her

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” ~ Lauren DeStefano Hope you get a lovely day in your garden 🌱 🩷 #MagentaMonday 🐝 #BloomScrolling 🌸 #FlowerReport #Gardening ☀️ #Zone10a

Pink and magenta Cosmos flower blooms, green stems and leaves, in the garden

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The best #LADodgers tradition! 💙 💙 💙 #BracketSZN26 Give here: fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/GoDodgers...

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"One cat just leads to another." ~ Ernest Hemingway T.S. believes every day is #caturday, stares (glares?) Willie assumes a position reflective of his typically chill self and sends kind greetings to all the #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛

Two cats on a couch, looking up -- black cat with green eyes staring, gray cat looking at the black cat, patiently, living room background

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” ~ Douglas Adams 🌱 Happy garden wishes to all you wonderful ☀️ #GardenersOfBlueSky on this first fall 🐝 #FloralFriday🧚 #FaerieFriday 🌸 #FlowersOnFriday

Magenta-colored petunias and small daisy flowers in a blue garden pot in the garden, a small fairy playing a small flute, and a "We Believe in Fairies" sign visible

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. I visited it today. russian drones burn warehouses full of books and damage whatever they can reach. A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. russia will never win.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." ~ Maya Angelou 🌱 Hope you get time to enjoy your garden today #InsectThursday 🐛 #BugSky ☀️ #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🐝 #Zone10a

Caterpillar climbing up a Milkweed stem, in the garden

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"More exquisite than any other is the autumn rose." ~ Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigné 🌱 Wishing all the #GardenersOfBlueSky a glorious #RoseWednesday 🌹

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 22/09/2026

Welcome back having to turn on the kitchen light to see in the morning. I did not especially miss you

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.” ~ Dean Koontz A happy, tails-up #TerrierTuesday to all the good #DogsOfBlueSky from Cynthia ~ always the goodest girl 🐶

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There will effectively be no TV coverage of Trump's UN visit or other presidential events, though I imagine smaller networks may take the White House's own feed. This is a very big deal and one only possible because of solidarity from the whole pool. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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CNN, MS NOW, Politico to sue over White House bans

President Donald Trump banned the news organizations from the White House in recent days, calling them “fake news.”

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” ~ Oscar Wilde 🌱 Happy almost fall, all you lovely #GardenersOfBlueSky on this 🩷 #MagentaMonday (that's magenta, right?) #Bloomscrolling🐝 #FlowerReport ☀️ #AutumnalEquinox

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georgesellers.bsky.social @georgesellers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Rain. Lovely.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits." ~ Samuel Butler 🌱 Happy Sunday, all you'se guys! I love saying "autumnal equinox."

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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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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution." ~ Hazel Nicholson Willie wishes all the #CatsOfBlueSky an enigmatic, loafy #Caturday 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This should be the new School House Rock. 🤣

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Wilbur72 @wilboo72.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I guess Ed Sheeran won’t be eating canned food for a while, since all of his openers stopped working.

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Patric Bates @patricbates.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My wife got me a little press for our anniversary and I just had to make a quick little linocut and try it out! #art

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away.” ~ William C. Bryant 🌱 A joyful #FloralFriday to all you kind #GardenersofBlueSky 💮 #FlowersOnFriday 🐝 #BloomScrolling ☀️ #Gardening 🌸 #Zone10a

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“The thorns we endure in life are but shadowed by the precious petals of a rosey outlook.” ~ Andrew Pacholyk 🌱 The happiest of #RoseWednesday ssss to all the lovey 🐝 #GardenersofBlueSky🌹

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🌺HippiesRule🌺 @teresa555.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And, if you're lucky, one day you wake up with all those pieces of unconditional love inside you & your heart is 100% dog ❤️😭❤️

Every dog is a once-in-a-lifetime dog. Doesn't matter how many you've had. Each one changes you, heals you, owns a piece of you. And when they go, that piece stays theirs forever.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes." ~ Tom T. Hall Cynthia wishes a very happy #TerrierTuesday to all the loving #DogsofBlueSky 🐕

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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The horrors persist, but so do I:

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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The horrors persist but so do books, flowers, animals, the ocean, sunsets, trees, libraries, iced coffee, spooky season, the word ‘fuck’, and the moon.

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Larrish 💙 @larrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This mural, located in Los Angeles, California, is by Los Angeles-based muralist Eric Strae. Photo credit goes to the artist himself. #art #mural #streetart #losangeles #LA #california

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” -HAL 9000

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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey you guuuuuys 🎶🦍⚡️ I grew this! 🌱🍅🥒

Photo of a kitchen table with various bowls on a platter with a windowsill behind it. Tomatoes in various shades are in the bowls and on the windowsill ripening. A lone cucumber sits in the foreground.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” ~ Theodore Roethke 🌱 Sweet, sweet hopeful greetings to the delightful #GardenersOfBlueSky on this #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow 🐝 #Stunday ☀️ #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Way to go Ireland!! 🇮🇪 👏👏👏👏 TT: @higovisuals

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“You’re going to turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented house cats.” ~ Thackery Binx, Hocus Pocus 🖤 Thomas Stearns wishes all the #CatsOfBlueSky a glorious #Caturday 🐈‍⬛

Big fluffy black cat, green eyes, sitting on the bed, staring a bit

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is nothing like eating a tomato that you grew. Garden magic! 🌱 #FloralFriday 🍅 #FruitOnFriday 💮 #Bloomscrolling

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good morning sunshines 🌞 A memorial to 9/11 search dogs 👇

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sorry I was so late. I was trying to open one of those thin plastic bags in the produce aisle.

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