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Kat Tancock

@kattancock.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, editor, Russian > English translator. Gardener + crafter. Syilx + Secwépemc territory, British Columbia. kattancock.com

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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Juvenile white tips coming back was a great surprise,” Jenkins says. “Over time now, we see larger sharks swimming around day and night. A sighting can be rare, but it shows our reef is supporting a larger ecosystem, and we need to carry on.” www.rewildingmag.com/the-reef-men...
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The reef menders of Padang Bai
In this bustling port of Bali, Indonesia, a group of dedicated divers is rebuilding reefs one metal frame and piece of coral at a time.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026
We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.
Four young barn owls jostle onto the small wooden ledge of their nest box, fixed to a huge oak tree behind themA young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the cameraA young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the cameraA barn owl swooping down with its wings fanned wide across a field of long purplish grass
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I think that those of us who are in liberal education, humanists especially, need to stop apologizing for what we study – to assert that no, actually, these are the most important things."
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's something I've been working on for a while, that I'll be getting into a lot more soon. This is where Land Acknowledgements come from, this is what they mean, and this is how you've all been doing them wrong.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
just keep planting
grouping of potted Okanagan native seedlings on an outdoor deck
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Got to dip into a little rocket science (and a lot of acronyms) for this new story for @be-giant.bsky.social. www.begiant.ca/stories/idea...
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The Canadian tech hitching a ride on NASA’s lunar mission
How a lunar lawn dart and its ‘CubeSat‘ companion will help expand our understanding of the moon’s geology
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BC Federation of Labour @bcfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Those airports Carney wants to privatize are making Canada more than half a billion dollars a year. But instead, billionaires and big foreign corporations are about to get a bonanza. And everyday travellers and airport workers will pay for it. #BCLab #CanLab #CdnPoli @canadianlabour.bsky.social
Headlines reading "Carney is serious about privatizing airports, Australian pension executive says," "Carney government eyes privatizing airports to attract investment, cut travel costs," "Canada's government is looking at privatizing airports. What would that accomplish?"
NEW CLC REPORT: PUBLIC RUNWAYS, PRIVATE PROFITS
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"One 2023 study by researchers at Concordia University showed that the decrease in available pollen due to the presence of honeybee colonies in cities puts wild bee species at risk." www.rewildingmag.com/the-trouble-...
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The Trouble With Urban Beekeeping
Trying to help the bees? Here's why experts say it’s time to rein in the honeybee craze and turn to pollinator gardens instead.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
same, toad. same
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TORONTO! 🇨🇦 I'm coming to launch the Invisible Books edition of FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION next month at TYPE Books in conversation with Claire Foster ! More Canada dates TBA, and hopefully a New York date too... North American edition of FAIR (3 Nov): invisiblepublishing.com/product/fair/
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Katrine Øgaard Jensen, ALTA: “If we think of the literary translation of a book as a cover song, just imagine if Jimi Hendrix had been asked to post-edit an AI cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along the Watchtower’ instead of creating his unique take on the song.” www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Lost in Translation
Tech developers think automation will fundamentally reshape the work of literary translators, but not everyone is on board.
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 14/09/2026
A cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and they want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way. www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...
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They want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way
Read to the end for Braden’s Infinite Tour Of Italy
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If it's fall where you are, it's a great time to plant trees, shrubs and other perennials. Here's how to find the right plants for your region >> www.rewildingmag.com/how-to-shop-...
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How to Shop for Native Plants
So you want to put native plants in your yard – great! But where do you find them, and how do you know they're the right ones?
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“When we did our work, it was just like magic,” Roe recalls. “The Gorge came back to life like you would not believe.” www.rewildingmag.com/the-restorat...
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“The restoration is real, but the pressures remain”
Community-led cleanup work made Victoria's Gorge Waterway swimmable again. But the rewilding work has just begun.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For those who missed it, my reading with Riva Evstifeeva from her book Boarding School Tales (in her Russian and my English) for #WITmonth is now online, along with the other fantastic readings from so many languages: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RgO...
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Women in Translation Month 2026: French, Spanish, Russian, Mayan Ch’ol, and German
YouTube video by PEN America
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Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you missed me and Claudia Nina reading from her beautiful novella Benedita, now you can watch the recording on YouTube! While you're there, be sure to watch the other two #WomenInTranslationMonth events hosted by PEN America. Here's the link to the second of three events: youtu.be/k3Wwf6m0k24?...
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I was both surprised and tickled to see Irene and Jon turn up in my neck of the woods. #forsytesaga26 Here's where they might have gone swimming not long after their arrival: www.oldphotos.ca/archivos/rec...
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Archivos - PEN 670 | Okanagan Lake Beach
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Be Giant @be-giant.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Electrifying a fleet of school buses is a costly endeavour. But a pilot project out of B.C. could provide a way for companies to offset the cost and help power the electric grid for the rest of the community. 🚌 www.begiant.ca/stories/idea...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/09/2026
Every tenth of a degree of global warming matters. Every fraction of temperature rise we avoid saves lives, reduces disease, food and water shortages, disasters.
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Just think about how this used to look. How it used to feel,” says Grey, as much to the reader as to Ezzy. “All I want is to see a herd of a million bison storming across the prairie.” www.rewildingmag.com/q-a-with-aut...
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“I started to wonder, what if?” Q&A with author Conor Kerr
The Métis writer’s new novel imagines setting a herd of bison free in downtown Edmonton – and the fallout that comes from it.
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 02/09/2026
something fascinating happened this week. after a year of cheering ICE on, milo yiannopoulos has mysteriously changed his stance on ICE deportations. it wasn’t a slow change of opinion. it happened overnight: www.webworm.co/milo/
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Milo Yiannopoulos Mysteriously Changes His Stance on ICE Deportations
David Farrier's Webworm reports on former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos being detained and deported by ICE - and how conservative empathy is so incredibly short-circuited, it only extends to...
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“The onus is on everyone,” Tilbrook says, to help preserve the night sky. No matter whether you work or live in a city high-rise or have a suburban backyard there is something you can do. www.rewildingmag.com/why-and-how-...
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Why – and how – to rewild the night
Light pollution puts wildlife at risk. Learn why darkness matters and some steps we can take to make things better.
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Barbados is one of the few places in the world where the entire landscape was plantationized.” www.rewildingmag.com/the-filmmake...
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The filmmaker growing food and rewilding a forest in Barbados
How Mahmood Patel has restored Coco Hill Forest into an example of agroforestry and ecosystem preservation.
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IndigiNews @indiginews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Keep the syilx Okanagan beat strong! We're raising $35,000 to keep Aaron Hemens reporting from syilx Okanagan territory. Aaron has spent four years building real relationships with the communities he covers. After losing funding, his reporting in the Okanagan is at risk. Donate and share today.
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Keep the syilx Okanagan beat strong - Indiginews
Aaron Hemens spent the last four years building real relationships with the communities he covers. Then IndigiNews’s funding was cut. Help us keep the syilx Okanagan beat strong, steady and spirited. ...
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I mean this very, very seriously: It is absolutely an option for us to ignore his idiotic Lake America stunt. We can do that. We can just tune it out like you would block out a child howling at you in the cereal aisle, recognizing that to do anything else would be to give the whiner what they want.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And just like that, we've arrived at plum torte season.
top-down view of a plum cake on a wire rack on a kitchen counter
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cutting off TP to a country experiencing turbo-diarrhea is the kind of diabolical Canadian idea I am here for
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“It all comes down to not ripping your forests apart and hoping they’ll come back in 30 years,” Gary says. www.rewildingmag.com/rebuilding-f...
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Restoring PEI's Forgotten Forests | Rewilding Magazine
Prince Edward Island used to be home to a rich variety of trees. Then agriculture took over. Here's how one project is working to bring back the woods.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I took @bookhugpress.bsky.social's #WITmonth quiz and it led me to a book I already own. 😂😂 Now to change my answers a bit. bookhugpress.ca/women-in-tra...
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Women In Translation Book Recommendation Quiz | Book*hug Press
Book recommendation quiz Find Your Next Favourite Read From Our Women in Translation Sale and Get 25% Off Answer a few questions and we'll match you with personalized recommendations from our Women in...
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
IT RAINED! For all of 10 minutes but I'll take it.
a deck with plants during rainfall
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Art makes you feel something. It makes you think in a different way." www.rewildingmag.com/the-sculptor...
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The sculptor digging up the politics of lawns
Through her work, multidisciplinary artist Carrie Allison interrogates the value placed on that perfect patch of grass.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You know how M in James Bond is called M no matter who's working in that role? Maybe we could come up with something like that for the current British PM so we don't have to keep remembering a new name every few months?
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“The program has exceeded all our expectations,” said Loretta Holmes. “The owls, which we call sq̓əq̓axʷ, have responded better than we dared to hope ten years ago. And community interest and involvement has been strong since the start.” indiginews.com/features/syi...
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In 'B.C.'s' interior, a syilx program is returning burrowing owls to the grasslands
The Upper Nicola Band released 11 captive-born owls in spax̌mn — part of a decade-long effort to reinstate the tiny birds of prey whose populations have plummeted
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"He resembled one of his own gilt-edged securities, and to knock the gilt off by seeing anything he could avoid seeing would be, he felt instinctively, perverse and retrogressive." A poetic way to describe the all-too-common human tendency toward denial and wishful thinking... #forsytesaga26
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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A gripping read. Full of lots of incredible details.
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The more time I’ve spent working on ecological restoration, the more obvious it has become that environmental degradation and human disconnection may be symptoms of the same problem." www.rewildingmag.com/the-land-nee...
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The land needs rewilding. But people need it too
In the beginning, this New Zealand project focused on ecological restoration. Now, it's about reconnecting humans with the world they live in.
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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
STORY: After my 93-year-old grandmother was evacuated from a Summerland seniors home, no one could tell us where she was. My family wasn't alone. I went hunting for answers for how this happened.
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‘They Lost Granny’ | The Tyee
My grandmother was evacuated from Summerland. We spent days trying to find her.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“If you’re buying literature in translation online, buyer beware.” French and Belgian translator Terry Bradford warns about undisclosed AI use in translations published online, and how to spot these before you buy them. Support human translators, go to The Conversation now. buff.ly/8fdB7dR
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AI is flooding the online book market with poor translations – here’s how to spot them
AI translations push the crafted work of real translators – with qualifications, genuine language skills and experience – to the back of a very busy marketplace.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My morning watering has been interrupted. The fawns are around somewhere too.
A deer lying down resting next to a small tree inside a protective wire cage
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"The research noted injuries were 4.5 times higher for people with off-leash dogs than on-leash, and more bear encounters took place with off-leash dogs." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Off-leash dogs increase chance of human-bear conflict: study | CBC News
A high-profile encounter with a grizzly bear that was caught on camera, and a new study analyzing human-bear conflicts that involved dogs, are highlighting the need to keep dogs on-leash when hiking.
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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The suggestion that the evacuation of Summerland created massive emergency resource challenges does not fill one with optimism for how we'd handle a real big disaster. Over the last 30 years, we've evacuated 7k plus in Salmon Arm, Kelowna, West Kelowna, Williams Lake and I'm probably forgetting some
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Join us in celebrating #WomenInTranslationMonth! On August 13, 20, and 27, PEN America will host our free, online Women in Translation Reading Series. Across the three sessions, hear from pairs of authors and translators whose work spans more than a dozen languages. Details: pen.org/women-in-tra...
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Women in Translation Month Reading Series 2026
This year, our free, virtual reading series gathers voices from across time zones for an international celebration!
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Love this! After recent russian attacks on Ukrainian publishers, Ukrainian Railways has launched a new initiative to support Ukrainian books. Passengers can order books when buying a ticket and receive them directly on the train.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's almost #womenintranslation month, and on August 13 I'm going to be reading from my (as yet unpublished) translation of a chapter of Riva Evstifeeva's Boarding School Tales at this virtual @penamerica.bsky.social event. Hope to see you there! pen.org/event/women-...
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Women in Translation Month 2026: French, Spanish, Russian, Mayan Ch’ol, and German
These events bring together three panels of translators, joined by their authors, working in a diversity of languages.
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"We must learn from the complex habitat mosaics that once characterized Britain’s uplands, while preparing them for a climate with no historical equivalent." www.rewildingmag.com/how-rewildin...
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How rewilding could help stop the spread of Britain’s wildfires
These five key steps can help restore natural processes and functions to build ecosystems resilient to a changing climate.
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If there's one thing I'm never going to forgive fossil fuel companies for it's that I'm stuck doing burpees in my basement on what should be a glorious August afternoon instead of out at the lake for a hike and a swim.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 07/08/2026
Last weekend, the Bradley Creek wildfire exploded in size, prompting the sudden evacuation of the Okanagan Indian Band reserve. kelsie kilawna shares her experience in the midst of evacuation. Co-published with our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/bc-okanagan-...
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What it was like to flee the Bradley Creek wildfire | The Narwhal
A celebration of three generations became a race to evacuate as a wildfire swept toward the Okanagan Indian Band, revealing the strength of syilx teachings on grief and belonging
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IndigiNews @indiginews.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Okanagan Indian Band's chief is asking for "everybody’s thoughts and prayers" as his community continues to deal with a devastating wildfire. “Our loss is measured in the family histories that have been lost." Story by Aaron Hemens
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Okanagan Indian Band ‘getting stronger everyday’ amid devastating wildfire
Entire reserve has been evacuated and more than 30 people have lost homes, chief says, as blaze continues to burn as of Wednesday
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Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oh how I love that Aunt Juley had an album of pressed seaweed. #forsytesaga26 observatory.wiki/Victorian_Se...
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Victorian Seaweed Collecting and the Seaweed Albums of 19th-Century Naturalists
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