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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 6h

We were all Indigenous in the Before.

“In our common collective genetic ancestral mind, not one of our ancestors went for the new show. They wouldn’t buy the tickets. So the show was going to die. The show decided rather than die, it would make our ancestors die until they accepted the show. This is what happened. It happened to all of us. Whatever happened to the Indigenous people here [in Turtle Island], trust me, it happened to the tribes in Europe.”
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 8h

“We all belong to the same galactic oneness.” ~Carlos Santana

Female lion resting in in natural area at dusk.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 14h

"The purpose of craft is not so much to make beautiful things as it is to become beautiful inside while you are making those things." ~Susan Gordon Lydon

Beautifully gentle face of a man with white beard wearing a kufi. He is knotting in front of a marble column.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CHAMPION THE ENEMY'S NEED Ask about your enemy's wounds and scars. Seek his hidden cause of trouble. Feed your enemy's children. Learn their word for home. Repair their well. Learn their sorrow's history. Trace their lineage of the good. Ask them for a song. Make tea. Break bread. Kim Stafford

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just said "tomfoolery." I am officially 100 years old. Now I want the perks I'd hoped would come with age. These include (but are not limited to) dispensation for my: outlandish enthusiasm, excessive tenderness, beleaguered wardrobe, and chronically awkward demeanor.

Cartoon character with a half smile and side eye, wearing a ducky swimming ring.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When the shoe fits The foot is forgotten, When the belt fits The belly is forgotten, When the heart is right "For" and "against" are forgotten. ~Chuang Tzu

Black and white photo of white haired, white bearded street musician playing fiddle.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” Richard Feynman, physicist and bongo player

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Researchers already say humans are likely to reshape themselves to be better understood by chatbots, service robots, etc in a sort of existential drift... nautil.us/are-you-in-d...

Drawing of one child on laptop in shadow of AI chat, another child reading a book with an imaginative shadow of landscape, animals, planets, rocket.

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." Sydney J. Harris

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m ready for some time in an enchanted cottage with a crackling fire, bookshelves on every wall, pots of homemade soup, and talking woodland animals. Here is where magical friends and I will cast spells bringing peace to the world now and forever amen. (art by Joe Gilronan)

Twilight clearing with stars in sky and a tiny magical-looking round cottage with peaked roof and dozens of vibrant flowers.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“’Weep! Weep!’ calls a toad from the water’s edge. And I do. If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.” ~Robin Wall Kimmerer

A particularly charming toad sitting in the grass passing judgement on all who pass by.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call 'aware' - an almost untranslatable word meaning something like 'beauty tinged with sadness.' " ~Gretel Ehrlic

Photo of ripe apples in tree, some showing signs of rot.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

$suraj sharma14 posted "Bro, I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird. The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts, answers for free. AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions. And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable. We built the library. They charge admission. fractally replied "This has been my main argument against AI from the beginning. OpenAI scrapes the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of LLMs and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us. And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this."$

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative & preventative, used to heal fatigue & prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice & guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life." ~ Clarissa Pinkola

Footpath through tall grasses toward a line of trees, with bright blue skies overhead.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CARL SAGAN on Libraries: "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory. The warehouse of that memory is called a library."

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sorry, my mind drifted again. In my reality I live among tiny beings in a mossy mushroom village where we sing our greetings, share our meals, dance away our problems, and have never ceded our rights to corporations. (art by Shirley Barber)

Charming illustration of a tiny hillside with orange-capped mushroom homes and happy creatures living there.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How cool is this? "Some comb jelly species have recently been observed reversing their development from adult to larval stages. Others have special types of lipids that help them withstand extreme pressure in the deep sea. They hold clues to the evolution of more and more complex body shapes."

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Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. | Quanta Magazine

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.” ~ Aldo Leopold, from A Sand County Almanac (art by Aili Vint)

abstract painting in bold colors with naturalistic themes

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Peter Max, another icon who stepped off the planet recently.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"To generous souls every task is noble." Euripides Oh Euripides, you set the bar so high.

Statue of Euripides, one of those creepy eyeless statues...

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When the overwhelm from ongoing crises is too much, it helps to fully envision the future you hope for. See it, feel it, let yourself believe it. Here's what that looks like to me. lauragraceweldon.com/2026/09/10/e...

Small bird on branch, beak open, singing.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.” –Ludwig Wittgenstein (photo by Carol Sawyer)

Black and white photo of what appears to be an older woman in a lawn chair, holding a giant leaf over her face with two holes for her to see through.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"I think of art, at its most significant, as a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it." ~Marshall McLuhan

"We shall have such a balance of trade as will go far to carry out my often-criticized yet completely sound idea of from $3000 to $5000 per year for every single family—that is, I mean every real American family.”

This is a quote from the 1935 dystopian Sinclair Lewis novel, “It Can’t Happen Here” that warns how fascism could take over the US. A character named Buzz Windrip wins the presidential election by promising economic renewal, traditional values, a return to national greatness…. and $5 K payments to every family. Once elected, Windrip destroys democratic institutions, silences Congress, and creates a private paramilitary force to crush dissent. And the checks never arrive.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Experiencing sudden urge to wear noggin blossoms.

Photo of the late author Tove Janssen swimming in lake outside of small cottage on stony beach.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.” Virginia Woolf ~ (art by Adam Oehlers)

Painting of nighttime woods, child reading while sitting against a tree, falling leaves all around.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One person's generous and enlivening enthusiasm, I swear, outweighs the nasty vibes of a dozen selfish bastards. I give you the joyfully creative Nicholas Bras.

youtube.com

DIY Giant Quintuple Modular Flute

YouTube video by Nicolas Bras

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My two little boys were in Washington, DC with their uncle on 9/11. Their agenda included morning visits to the Pentagon and the White House. For six hours on this tragic day they were unaccounted for. lauragraceweldon.com/2016/09/06/a...

Two young boys playing by a pier close to the water.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say... I have been there myself. Each of us is more alike than we are unalike.” ~Maya Angelou

image of cloth worn to ripping point, with nature scene visible beyond.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Be careful how you check your voter registration Vote.gov does NOT ask for personal info or track you. VoteSafe.org is funded by Elon Musk’s super PAC. It collects your data, tracks your online activity, and sells your information. Thanks @popular.info popular.info/p/the-hidden...

Pic of Elon Musk in front of giant VOTE signs.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hope is subject to extraordinary duress, so make sure yours is the durable variety. ~ Art by Asako Eguchi

Painting of a small rabbit walking through starlit woods pulling a crescent moon behind it.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

After a NDE, a vet named Zach (with no experience sewing or embroidering) evolved into the artist Nuestro. He seems to be living the definition of inspired (from the Latin 'inspirare' animate with purpose). NDE www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGm6... site www.nuestronanamoli.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The whole company should have been shut down for what they did and the people who run it should be stripped of their flash homes and cars and given 50 years community service picking plastic out of the sea.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

May life bring you all the cackle laughs you want.

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Let us remember ... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.” ~Padraig O'Tuama

image of Padraig O'Tuama at a book reading, head up, smiling

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