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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Remember today that people calling you "oversensitive" has zero to do w/ reality-- it's 100% them trying to control you by evoking shame. 100%. People are as sensitive as they are. Slapping an arbitrary label on it is a control move, not a valid judgment. Remember.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Trauma tries to leverage our pain to distract us from our goals. It's hard enough for humans to set goals & stay focused them, but CPTSD inserts harsh inner criticism & dissociation into the equation. That's what we're up against. It's figure-outable, but it's heavy.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Managing a hypervigilant nervous system adds a layer of stress & distraction to every task on CPTSD survivors' plate every day. Trying to stay grounded adds a layer of stress. Fending off sucidal & self harm urges adds a layer. And none of it feels easily explainable to anyone.

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories SHUNBAISAI HOKUEI (active 1824 - 1837), “An Imaginary View of Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of the Murdered Oiwa on a Broken Lantern”, 1831. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City USA Story in ALT #arthistory #art #Japan #Oiwa

Although Hokuei was only active as an artist for a short period of time before his death in 1837, his prints dominated the market in Osaka (he reportedly published close to 60% of all prints produced in Osaka between 1832 and 1836). This print of Arashi Rikan II as Iemon shows why Hokuei was so revered: dramatic, action-filled poses, very expressive facial expressions with bulging eyes and strong jaws, and dynamic interaction between figures in the composition. This print refers to the very popular story of Oiwa, the tragic wife who was first disfigured by poisoned face cream and then murdered on the orders of her husband Iemon. In this depiction of the story, Hokuei places poor Oiwa’s damaged face onto a paper lantern; this transposition became wildly popular following an 1825 Kabuki performance in which the ghostly Oiwa made her entrance onto the stage by coming out of a burning lantern. Hokuei’s depiction of Iemon, the dastardly husband, is full of bluster and determination as he begins to draw his sword once he recognizes Oiwa in the lantern above. Arashi Rikan II was a famous Kabuki actor who appeared often in Hokuei’s actor prints. Hokuei was influenced by Hokusai’s “One Hundred Ghost Stories”; one of Hokusai’s five completed prints for that series featured Oiwa as a paper lantern.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trauma survivors are an overwhelmingly diverse group, but one thing we all seem to have in common is that we've had to launch our expectations about what our life "should" have looked like into the sun. I've come to understand that as the good, if bittersweet, news.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We are NOT who our bullies & abusers told us we were, we are NOT what they made us feel, we are NOT what they did to us. Even if those bullies & abusers happened to share our name & DNA. We are who WE train ourselves to be, day by day. minute by minute, choice by choice.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Maple colour, 2019 by US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #AutumnWeek 🍂

Painting of a tree in a kandscaoe. The tree has bright red and orange autumn leavers

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Shibui Shashin @shibui-shashin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Replica of The Matthew sailing ship weathervane - Watershed building, Bristol #weathervane #watershedBuilding #BlueSkyArtShow #weather #classicMono

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760 – 1849), “The Mansion of Broken Plates”, from the series “One Hundred Ghost Stories”, 1830s. The British Museum, London UK. Story in ALT

Hokusai planned to produce 100 different prints for his series “One Hundred Ghost Stories (Hyaku monogatari)” but, alas, only five were ever published. “The Mansion of Broken Plates” is one of the five. This popular story featured the ghost of Okiku, a maidservant who accidentally broke her master’s favorite dish; the master killed her in a rage and threw her body down a well. Okiku’s ghost haunted the well with sounds of breaking dishes and a voice that counted “one, two, three…” at night. Her story was told in writings and in several Kabuki plays. Hokusai’s Okiku is an eerie sight, with a ghostly woman’s head atop a snake-like neck made up of overlapping plates. The rich, lush sky is made using the synthetic pigment known as Prussian Blue (sometimes called Berlin Blue), which was accidentally concocted in 1704 and quickly became a favorite of Hokusai (“The Great Wave”) and other artists. Picasso’s Blue Period blues were Prussian Blue, as was Van Gogh’s sparkling sky in “Starry Night”; it is the color of cyanotypes and blueprints. Artists loved Prussian Blue because it was more vibrant, could produce multiple tones and was more fade-resistant than previous blue pigments. Japanese print makers, including Hokusai, had an entire style – aizuri-e prints – that were made only using Prussian Blue pigments. The color became associated in Japan with the supernatural.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Indigenous leaders, unions, environmentalists and folks across Canada are uniting against Carney’s corporate-backed agenda.

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories SHUNKŌSAI HOKUSHŪ (active 1802 – 1832), “Onoe Kikugoro III as the Ghost of Oiwa”, 1826. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts US. Story in ALT #arthistory #art #Japan #Ghosts

The full title of this woodblock print is “Onoe Kikugoro III as the Ghost of Oiwa in the Play Irohagana Yotsuya Kaidan”. Onoe Kikugoro III is the Kabuki actor in the performance depicted.
The prints we have looked at so far this month have all been created by artists working in Edō (modern day Tokyo). Shunkōsai Hokushū, today’s artist, lived and worked in Osaka and was a leading artist of kamigata-e, Osaka style woodblock prints. Hokushū and the Osaka school focused almost exclusively on Kabuki actors in their printwork whereas the Edō school had many subjects (landscapes, warriors and beautiful women, for example). Hokushū’s style was refined and dramatic, as seen in this featured print of the Oiwa ghost story. Oiwa was the wife who was wronged by her husband Iemon, who first tried to kill her with a poisoned face cream and then with a hired assassin. She returned from the dead as a vengeful ghost and vigorously haunted Iemon into insanity. Hokushū has doubled-down in his print on Oiwa’s facial disfigurement from the poison. Oiwa’s white burial kimono has more detailed draping than what we saw in the Edō depictions of this tragic spirit. Hokushū and the Osaka school were known for their incorporation of metallic pigments in their designs and, in this version of Oiwa (the first of three that he created) he has used silver pigment for the inscription against the black background.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The details of a triggering situation may or may not resemble anything we’ve ever experienced in the past— but our hypervigilant nervous system isn’t just sniffing for details. It’s sniffing for the “feel” of a situation or person. The vibe. The context & subtext.

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Laurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I must’ve zoomed out, because it suddenly looked as dark on the screen as it was around me. Katydids calling, thunder rolling, flashes all around the bay from east to west.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Olga Wisinger-Florian Falling Leaves, 1899 Austrian painter. The painting shows a popular woodland walk of the age near Vienna #WomensArt #Autumn

Painting looking down a path surrounded by trees with autumn colours at a female figure in dark Victorian dress and hat next to a black dog

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Ugly Reykjavik @uglyreykjavik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sure there's a good reason this door has two handles. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #door #red

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI (1769 – 1825), “Onoe Matsusuke as the Ghost of the Murdered Wife Oiwa, in ‘A Tale of Horror from the Yotsuya Station on the Tokaido Road’”, 1812. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Story in ALT. #arthistory #art #Japan #GhostStories

Toyokuni’s woodblock print spirit is taken from Japan’s favorite tragic ghost story, that of Oiwa. Oiwa was a faithful wife but her husband, Iemon, wanted to marry a rich neighbor’s granddaughter instead, and so he conspired with the neighbor to take Oiwa out of the picture. The neighbor gave Iemon poisoned facial cream, which disfigured poor Oiwa but did not kill her. Iemon then sent an assassin to finish her off; she accidentally fell on the assassin’s sword and died, cursing Iemon with her dying breath. She returns as a disfigured, vengeful spirit (onryō) and haunts Iemon everywhere, eventually driving him insane. The spirit Oiwa is quick to anger; actors and film crews traditionally pay her shrine a visit to pay respect before starting any new adaptation of her story. “A Tale of Horror from the Yotsuya Station on the Tōkaidō Road” was an extremely popular Kabuki play written by Tsuruya Nanboku IV. The production incorporated actors flying through the air with wires and lots of smoke and fake blood. It was so popular that artists like Toyokuni created prints for theater goers to collect as souvenirs of the play. His depiction of Oiwa is the classic yurei depiction: pale skin (Oiwa’s is also disfigured), wearing a white burial kimono, hands that dangle, and loose, long black hair.

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Suzie always empties a few pockets with her cover of Muskrat Love.

sidewalk chalk drawing of a muskrat with coins at her feet playing a cigar box banjo. She is singing, and may or may not be jinging the jango.

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760 – 1849), “One Hundred Ghost Stores in a Haunted House”, c. 1790. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA. Story in ALT. #arthistory #art #Hokusai #GhostStories

Remember sitting around a campfire at night and telling ghost stories to scare your friends? Well, in the Edo period (17th to 19th century) the Japanese had a similar activity called “Hyakumonogtari kaidankai” in which participants told scary stories in a circle lit by one hundred candles. One candle was extinguished for each story told, and each extinguished candle was supposed to open a supernatural channel that allowed spirits to return to the living world. And if you are a fan of Japanese horror stories and movies, you are well aware that Japanese ghost stories can be quite frightening and very gory. Hokusai (yes, the same artist who gave us the wonderful “Great Wave of Kanagawa” woodblock print) also produced a series of yurei-zu prints of ghosts (we will see some of those in this month’s theme). “One Hundred Ghost Stories in a Haunted House” is a print showing a house filled with beasts, phantoms and demons, presumably summoned by the seated men playing the ghost story game. Hokusai, it turns out, was fascinated by the supernatural world.

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Horst-Peter @horstp8r.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Nothing Gold", one of my very few personal paintings of recent years and despite seemingly not resonating with others, one of my favourites I'm very content with. Maybe because its an expression of my grief, losing my "soul cat" Oskar back then and it turning out exactly as I intended.

A long format painting, with a harsh dividing line in the middle. The bottom is almost pitch black with the top depicting a purple cloudy sky with the remnants of a gold orange sunset glow against the black bottom part. In the middle of it is a backlit golden sphere with closed eyes. Its bottom parts which reach below the line has the gold crumble away and sink to the bottom, revealing the teeth and bone of a skull underneath. The painting's title "Nothing Gold" originates from Robert Frosts's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay", distilled into what to me is the most powerful two word combination to describe immense loss.

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🧙🏻‍♀️ Raina, Queen of Redundancy @brightwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🌱 Reminder to go peat-free! 💚

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Birdingplaces @birdingplaces.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Blond-crested Woodpecker is our Sunday-bird of the week. Have a nice Sunday! Check out Birdingplaces.com whenever you go birding and discover birdwatching areas worldwide. Made by birders #Birds #woodpecker #nature #birdphotography #Brazil photo uploaded to Birdingplaces by Carolien Hoek

Blond-crested Woodpecker with a beautiful blond crest sitting on a branch.

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories TORIYAMA SEKIEN (1712 – 1788), “Kintoki and Demons Arm Wrestling” from unidentified book, c. 1788. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Kintoki was raised by a mountain witch and grew up wrestling bears and other beasts. #arthistory #art #Japan #Yokai

Kintoki (also known as Kintaro) was raised by a mountain witch and grew up wrestling bears and other beasts. His superhuman strength was his claim to fame. As an adult, Kintoki served the famous samurai Minamoto no Yorimitsu and hunted down wicked demons (oni). The artist Senkien followed in the footsteps of Sawaki Suushi and produced volumes cataloguing a hit parade of demon images. Senkien’s demons came from literature and folklore, like Suushi’s images, but he also made up some of his own supernatural characters. Kintoki was a mythical hero figure with a yokai (supernatural beings) connection, due to his witchy upbringing.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no shame in struggling w/ emotional regulation. Truly. It's one of the most complicated life skillsets we humans require, & most of the people we meet every day haven't actually mastered it-- they've just developed various levels of denial & unhealthy "coping."

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky

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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An unexpected and shocking bright flash of colour today with a fuchsia and yellow #Garden cosmos I spotted on my travels! They actually thrive in poor soil. Too much rich fertilizer or rich soil causes the plants to grow tall, weak, and leafy with very few #flowers #BloomScrolling #Gardening

Bright fuchsia and yellow cosmos flowers

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories KATSUKAWA SHUNSHŌ (1726 – 1793), “The Actors Danjuro V as a Skeleton and Hanshiro IV as Princess Sakura”, 1783. Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois US. Story is in ALT. #arthistory #art #Japan #GhostStories

The full title of this woodblock print is “The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Princess Sakura, in the Joruri ‘Sono Omokage Matsu I Sakura (Vestiges of Pine and Cherry)’, from Part Two of the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga (Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Saga), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Second Month, 1783”. The Japanese love of ghost stories found an outlet not only in woodblock art prints but also in Kabuki theater productions. In this scene, Shunshō gives us the story of Seigen, a Buddhist monk, who was expelled from his temple because of a forbidden love affair. Seigen died alone and in poverty and held an enormous grudge about how he was treated. He returned as a tormented (and tormenting) spirit that obsessively stalked Princess Sakura. The artist Shunshō shows Seigen (in Kabuki, Seigen is often a skeleton) accosting Princess Sakura, who cringes in her cherry blossom robes. On stage, the actor was costumed in a black layer with white bones painted on the surface. Shunshō helpfully placed an actor’s crest on Seigen’s shoulder so that we know, in this performance, the role was being played by Ichikawa Danjuro V, one of the most famous of all Kabuki actors. The renegade monk Seigen is an onryō, a subgroup of yūrei that are vengeful ghosts.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Telling yourself it's "okay" to struggle or fail doesn't mean you're "giving up." It means you're realistically managing the result you just got without setting fire to the project. Our trauma conditioning wants us to get dramatic & give up-- but we don't have to.

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Kilian Schönberger @kilianschoenberger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Moon Tree Wanted to capture the moon behind that tree for a while now. The harvest moon was a good opportunity. The cirrus sky is a bit special. Bavaria, Germany #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #moon

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October's theme: Japanese Ghost Stories SAWAKI SUUSHI (1707 – 1772), “Yūrei”, 1737. Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan. Sawaki Suushi’s most famous work is the picture scroll known as “Hyakkai Zukan” (The Illustrated Volume of a Hundred Demons). #arthistory #art #Japan #Ghosts

Sawaki Suushi’s most famous work is the picture scroll known as “Hyakkai Zukan” (The Illustrated Volume of a Hundred Demons). This work greatly influenced later generations of Japanese Yūrei-zu artists. The demons and ghosts portrayed were sourced from literature and folklore and given visual form by Suushi. His forms became the “norm” for ghosts in Japanese art: they are easily identified by long and uncombed hair, very pale complexions, jangly hands and by the garment they wear, the katabira, which is a white burial kimono. Suushi also created non-ghostly scenes but the Hyakkai Zukan is his masterpiece. His artistic style is marked by careful brushwork and soft colors. This particular yūrei is not a depiction of a specific ghost from a specific tale.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Melissa Blue. What a lovely name for a butterfly (Plebejus melissa) #invertebrates

Close-up of a lavender/blue butterfly perched on a purple clover flower. It has a narrow white edge around its wings, and a very fuzzy body.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trauma survivors can be MERCILESS w/ ourselves, telling ourselves EVERYTHING we feel or need is a "dramatic" "burden" we're imposing on someone else (even if we're alone in a room eating crackers). And right now someone's reading this thinking "OK, but I really AM that burden."

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CPTSD is not primarily about what happened to us. It's about how what happened to us turned us into someone we didn't choose. The "just get over it" people don't understand that. We don't "just get over" who we've become. We have to recondition, rewire, reshape ourselves.

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kathleen @kathleencoultes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Canadian Geese having a rest before continuing south.

4 Canadian Geese walking slowly along the quiet road.

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Open Art @open-art.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ogata Kōrin's 'Plum Tree' dates to around 1700. It's a hanging scroll painted with ink on silk. The artwork resides in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Edo period, Japan.

A hanging scroll depicting a plum tree with twisting branches, painted in ink on silk, showcasing traditional Japanese art style.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Your quality of life is important enough to not spend one more second than necessary tolerating a person or a situation that makes you feel like sh*t. No matter what that voice from your past is whispering in your ear— or screaming in your face— as you read this.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Textile embroidered art by Sophie Standing, British born textile artist #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring an elephant facing forwards

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remember that CPTSD can both mimic & exacerbate symptoms of ADHD, OCD, & even bipolar disorder. There is no psychiatric or behavioral struggle that isn't better understood by factoring in the role trauma may play-- & sometimes understanding the trauma piece can be live saving.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We often don't have "control" over what we think. That's not the point of trauma recovery. The point is to develop influence-- not "control"-- over what we amplify in our heads & how we make decisions. "I have to control what I think" is a panicky setup for failure. Don't bite.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For polar bears, fat is fit. Hudson Bay polar bears spend over 5 months on land, not eating. So when ice is present and seals are accessible, they go into hyperphagia, eating as much as they can, to pack on the fat and counter a loss of 1 kg/day in the summer months. #FatBearWeek

A male polar bear is quite good condition for mid-November walks atop the thin layer of snow dusting the grasses of the tundra. His body is still pretty plump after many months of fasting.

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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Recently I have been enjoying photographing some Deep Space objects right from my home in the middle of the Netherlands. More info on deepspace.albertdros.com

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"They" will likely never understand-- what you experienced, what you need, what you deserve, what you can do. We have to stop hoping that someday, somehow, they will. Assume they'll never get it, and build from there. It's a little sad-- but a lot liberating.

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