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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

There’s no advantage in trying to understand the calculus of insanity. There’s nothing to comprehend in darkness. Love is the only valid frame of reference. Only love sustains and endures. Only love brings the silence of inner peace. Thankfully, love is our true identity. #SilentSunday

A tree-shrouded creek empties into a small pond over moss-covered boulders in the Portland Japanese Garden.

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Someone snuck up behind me out of the fog on my river walk this morning. The grinning train engineer blasted the horn not three meters away from me. Thanks, fella! 🫨😵‍💫😂 It was worth it to hear the echoes ricochet through the fog. #trains #pnw #washington #photography

A freight train, shrouded by fog, rolls along an aging trestle bridge across the Deschutes River in Washington state

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Back in the day, my son did some sketching aboard a WSF 😊

A young boy taylor-sitting alone, sketching on a wooden deck seat on a Washington state ferry

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The hot shop at the Tacoma Museum of Glass, shaped as an angled cone, is the museum's most striking architectural feature. This inside view gives this glass blowing studio a cathedral-like vibe. #pnw #tacoma

The cone, inspired by the wood "beehive burners" of the sawmills that once dotted the waterway, is composed of 2,800 diamond-shaped stainless steel panels and is 100 feet (30 m) in diameter at its base.

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The Museum of Glass is a must see if you’re visiting Tacoma, Washington. This little guy is made from blown glass! #pnw #tacoma

Blown glass figure of a sea turtle, exhibited at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The assistant checking us in at our Japanese hotel … this was back in 2018

A robot dinosaur checking in patrons at a Japanese hotel

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Have used Mason jars as drinking glasses most of my adult life

Mason jars in a kitchen cupboard being used as drinking glasses

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Me, walking the dog in my living room, after fully committing to exercise more.

Man lying on his back with a dog lying on top of him

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The square rod is cut into individual pieces, which in turn will be formed into an intricate design of a glass bowl! The residency program at the Museum of Glass is a fascinating viewing experience if you are in the #Tacoma area. #art #glass

A multicolored glass rod cut into scores of cubes resting in a bowl.

Four glass cubes that have been cut from a 15 foot glass rod

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The block is fused and shaped before being elongated into a square rod. #art #glass

Glass blower working a block of glass on a steel table

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Corey Pemberton (coreypemberton.com) working with the amazing glass blowing team at the Tacoma Museum of Glass. He is their artist in residence this week. Working with glass at this level of complexity is very much a team sport. #art #glass #tacoma #pnw

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Today, thousands converged on the Washington state capitol to #protest the #dictatorship in the United States. It’s a start. But we must build on this. He has the police in his pocket already and probably the military as well. #resist #handsoff #pnw #olympia

Thousands of protesters with their signs listen to a speech in the capital campus area

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Yeah, I guess that SCOTUS victory didn’t age well. Mary Sue Coleman:

"I believe these rulings in support of affirmative action will go down in history as among the great landmark decisions of the Supreme Court. And I am proud of the voice the University of Michigan provided in this important debate. We fought for the very principle that defines our country's greatness. Year after year, our student body proves it and now the court has affirmed it: Our diversity is our strength." —Mary Sue Coleman

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The whites were mad, Ochwiay Biano said, because they claimed they thought with the head, whereas the native peoples think with the heart. #nativeamericans #colonialism #History #psychology

See how cruel the whites look. Their lips are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by folds. Their eyes have a staring expression; they are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something; they are always uneasy and restless. We do not know what they want. We do not understand them. We think they are mad.

Ochwiay Biano, dignitary of the Taos Pueblos, 1925

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Not sure of the sp., but right back at you from Ruby Beach, #Washington !

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Red-necked grebes and harbor seals feasting on a school of fish in the West Bay harbor off Budd Inlet, creating quite the commotion, in a quiet kind of way. Could this meal be young salmon venturing out of the Deschutes, starting their journey towards the Pacific? 🤷🏼‍♂️ #PNW #nature

Grebes and seals milling about on the surface of the water

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I don’t tell the murky world to turn pure. I purify myself and check my reflection in the water of the valley brook. —Ryokan

Japanese watercolor of Zen master Ryokan playing with children, his favorite way of socializing.

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Fractured Fairytales

$Characters from the fractured fairytales, cartoon series: Mr. Peabody, the genius dog, and Sherman, a young boy$

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Happy #PresidentsDay ! Scrap the federal government altogether. We’re saving sh!t, not “democracy.” The time for childish games is over. Anybody else interested in making #Cascadia ? Seems like a good time to start that project! 🏳️‍🌈🏔️⛴️ #fungi #fungifriends #PNW

Dog scat sitting on the forest floor, with a coat of white fungus growing over it, symbolizing the state of the federal government.

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Western Varnished Conk (?), Olympic National Park I found this friend one rainy October day in the Quinault rainforest. I was captivated by its outlandish, grotesque beauty. #fungifriends #fungi

Western Varnished Conk mushroom growing out from the moss on a decaying cedar trunk in the rainforest. It looks bloody and gooey on top and marshmallow-like on the bottom.

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Scotus • 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Cheerful mushroom from the Hoh rainforest in Washington state. #fungi

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