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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

started watching a comprehensive miniseries on watercolour clouds and of course it turns out i started by trying to learn the hardest type of cloud 🙃😂

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1st attempt at a concept vs most recent attempt i keep reminding myself that learning is a Process and it's important to revisit ideas to see progress. I'm getting there

a small watercolour of clouds on a sunset sky labeled clouds vii. it's pretty bad.

a medium watercolour of clouds on a sunset sky. it's not great, but it's much better. it's labeled cloud xv

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

why is this so divisive? even some of the comments are heated

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

just checked the pantry to look for an extra bottle of sauerkraut and i noticed that the serving size is 1/4 of the entire jar lmao bit excessive for my purposes but i can see how someone would easily have that much

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one thing i wish a lot of artists-who-dont-think-theyre-artists would do is sign their work. my mum has sooooooo many pieces bought from so many people that just don't have signatures at all, & i'd love to see where the artists ended up!! so yeah sign your work, even if you're "not that good"

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the watercolour doodle wall is growing 👀

a wall with a window on the left with 8 watercolours of trees of varying quality, 17 watercolour clouds of varying quality, 2 testers of figuring out how to paint wrinkles and barnacles, 3 experiments with gradients and layers (i'd like to brag about the long rainbow one, i made it using just red blue and yellow from beam paints), 1 blue flower, 2 snowflakes, 2 small mountains, a badly painted tomato with a cute boat in the corner, and 1 mussel. In the bottom of the picturez some paintbrushes in cups, water, and a hairdryer are visible

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

watercolour mussel doodle 💚 it's more purple in person 🤷

a small watercolour painting of a weathered mussel shell with a bit of beard clinging to it

a close up of the aforementioned small watercolour painting of a weathered mussel shell with a bit of beard clinging to it

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i thought this was satire at first but no you still couldn't pry me away from a hot latte with a crowbar though

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

looks like a gorgeous day for berrypicking; unfortunately there was nowhere near enough breeze to keep the bugs off 😂😭 i def got some new bites but i also got a litre of berries!

a beautiful view of a meadow on a cliff from the top of a rock on which sits a steel bowl with some blueberries in it

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today's tiny #watercolour paintings are mountains, because that's the next thing I want to get better at paints are mostly Beam Paint stones, aside from one my sister made www.beampaints.com

a small watercolour of snowy mountains above a forest

a similar painting as the previous, but with way better clouds and forest

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

anybody know how to fix my camera? the first one is a screenshot when my camera is open vs the 2nd one which is a photo taken with the camera. the screenshot is more accurate and pleasing to the eye 😭 I'm using a tcl xe50

a small watercolour of a mountain and forest

the same small watercolour but its like the saturation and contrast are turned up, ruining the details and completely changing the colour

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy labour day, the day established by governments to distract from the otherwise internationally recognised May Day, the day with socialist roots where labourers have taken direct action to fight for labour rights

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

card fees are a large part of why i still carry cash. I always use cash at small businesses, especially if I'm at a local market or fair.

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

painted to tree to encourage myself instead of trying more clouds today because i already have a way i like painting trees 💚

a small watercolour of a big leafy green tree

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

im trying to learn to paint clouds in watercolour and its so damn hard, definitely harder than i expected, but i refuse to be discouraged until i'm at least a dozen attempts in so i'm starting a thread to document my efforts lol in case anyone is curious, I'm mainly using Beam Paint stones

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

if i could not be depressed and anxious for like 6 months i think it'd be life changing to an astonishing degree

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

i don't know where @weathernetwork.bsky.social gets their info for newfoundland but it's wildly off every day lol #NLWx

the weather network's page for my community of Millville, NL. It says it's 17C, with a high of 20C

the digital thermometer at my mother's house, which reads an outdoor temp of 25C.

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

calling paganism non-traditional is fucking comical lmao

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

we gotta get rid of urinals across the board, after cleaning (around) too many of them i'm convinced no one knows how to fuckin aim

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

fucking hate shoe shopping, went to 3 different stores and called 3 others before i finally found a pair of work boots and they still don't fit perfectly anyway, the toe box is too wide because of fucking course i had to buy mens shoes

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

i know its a weird time in history because i'm actually on the pope's side for once

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

cadbury changed the blue they use on minieggs sometime in the last few years and it tastes faintly of coconut and is a much brighter blue while it's better than other blue dyes, i unfortunately dislike coconut

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

seeing / hearing stuff about trees flowering and how japan in in full on cherry blossom season, meanwhile we've got another month of wet snow here in newfoundland 😭

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

how dare you think i'd forget the first thing even referencing sports i'd ever care about, 17776 is a masterpiece

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

got sick of staring at the long term sea of blue #embroidery project so i grabbed something else from the mend \ modify pile dmc colour 355 neckline on 100%(?) cotton tee. i wanted a deeper neckline on it

deep red thread embroidered onto a neckline to hold over a new collar on a black tshirt

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

change dot org is useless, inadmissible in the house by any MP. If you want to make a real government petition (including e-petitions), see here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

ourcommons.ca

Home - Petitions

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

one of the contestants on jeopardy tonight presses the button with his whole body lol

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

kinda funny how daylight savings landed on international womens day. This year their day is almost as short as their pay lol

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

wow these Paralympic curlers are stellar, get them to go against an able bodied team 👀 i'd watch that match

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

i know people like to rag on cbc but at least they dont have an article limit

PNI atlantic news saying register to unlock more articles

halifax examiner saying to access this post, you must purchase a membership plan or log into an existing membership

the chronicle herald saying register to unlock more articles

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

every single person in public "service" (i refer to rcmp as such very dubiously) needs to actually read treaties and understand their role in relation to them this is fucked

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

im gonna blame that blood moon for why we did so shit at crib last night 😭 we WERE in the running, but definitely not now!

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

finally, some good news on my feed lol

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

i'm back home and after the constant stimulation in st johns i can HEAR the silence

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

come manhandle my #embroidery at the gallery at 235 Water Street in the Arts for Equity exhibition by @easternedgearc.bsky.social there's so many beautiful pieces included!

2 embeoidered textiles on plinths, one is a green button up shirt with a fern and flowers embroidered on the front, and the other is a patch from the front of a pair of jeans in a hoop embroidered with flowers and leaves

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

i think about this with fruit in general a lot. there are so many fruits i've never actually tasted because they just don't grow here like, i hate coconut, but i've also never had one straight off a tree, so have i really tried coconut?

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

wtf is with team canada's passes?? just awful

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

missus at the olympics is making good progress on her knitting

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

all the sad faces on screen n im like "yay we got silver 🤓"

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

hoe lee shit that womens gold hockey game was bananas, got that last goal by a HAIR DAMNIT

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

honouring local bluesky elder for the evening lol nice tie, as always

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

so the hypercuriosity and ADHD blurb that's been making the rounds seemed really incomplete to me (hence me not saying article) so i did some digging (hello aforementioned curiousity) and found the full article it's referring to. It's an interesting read! www.sciencenews.org/article/adhd...

sciencenews.org

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity

ADHD is officially a disorder of deficits in attention, behavior and focus. But patients point out upsides, like curiosity. Research is now catching up.

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Liss (they/them) @melissasamms.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

every time we see headlines like this i think its important to remember that humans are also animals. if it negatively effects wildlife, it probably effects us too

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