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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies

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HS English Teacher, Author of Spine booklife.com/project/spine-2422 Seeking Literary Agents for two new novels: Stage Six Does Not Exist -Literary Women's fiction about the land mines of teaching Maeve Messiah SF -a female ship captain/god

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Blue Army Truth @bluearmytruth.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Optimism is a Duty #booksky
Pic of this open called optimism is a duty 

Not like a rifle.
Not like a burden.
Shoulder this.
Like an oath.
Like a privilege that you live
Where you have
The expectation that
around the next corner,
Past the next sunset,
Over the next hill, hope is waiting.
Shoulder this for your neighbors who
Don’t live in your world.
Shoulder this.
Like a hand on a shoulder.
Like a band of brothers.
Like a raven of sisters and mothers.
Shoulder this to carry others.
Shoulder this
Like solidarity without silence.
Like a conscience.
Like the piercing arrow of art,
Like the shield of science.
But it is not—
It is not—- The-hope-that-kills-you.
It’s laying hope down that kills it.
Optimism is a duty. Shoulder it.
 —-For Major Tom
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Omar Artan, a FIFA-approved Somali referee, denied entry by Trump’s administration. Canada offers a fix, FIFA’s bureaucracy kills it anyway How can anyone support the World Cup while this blatant racism and hypocrisy is being normalized?
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We Need To "Claw" Back All Of Our Money, From Fraud Felonious !
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The gravity of human misery is an irresistible tide. Stage Six Does Not Exist #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'm attending The Workers Circle's event, “Freedom Vigil: Chantilly ICE Processing Center” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...
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Join community members, faith leaders, and advocates for a peaceful Freedom Vigil outside the ICE Washington Field Office. Together we will gather in solidarity with immigrants and families impacted b...
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?...
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Conor 📎❤️ #LaraCroft ❤️ #TombRaider ️❤️ #TombRaider30 ❤️ #gaming ❤️ @conormcl2026.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Always... repost if you agree 🔄 #BlackLivesMatter #BLM
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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A three year old shouldn't have been imprisoned by the federal government in the first place. This is institutionalized child abuse by the federal government! Release ALL the children from ICE custody NOW!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
We need your help please. Please share. Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing over a thousand years of Indigenous history ancient ruins, sacred sites, and cultural landmarks built by the ancestors of today’s Pueblo peoples.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Yet another ICE impersonator caught. How many are they not catching? As @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson & Sexton try to protect masked unidentified vigilantes with legislation— we should be banning this dangerous insanity instead.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
@tizzyent.bsky.social It would be a real shame if this query filled up with how to correctly remember history: National Park visitors opt not to flag signs with 'negative' information www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n...
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. —1984.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2025
MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This isn’t policy. It’s cruelty plain and simple. And it’s happening on U.S. soil.
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C🌹B, MPH✨ @tinarose0103.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The neuro spice is extra spicy this morning. I’ve got water, sparkling water, coffee, and orange juice because I need ✨options✨.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New pitch for #smallpitch: Facing police questions after a student commits suicide in her classroom, a teacher finds herself with no answers, but her upbeat, irreverent fellow teacher fights to save her best friend from being consumed by guilt and grief.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This…
It's depressing. It's confusing. It's fraught. You don't like where the world is going. You don't like what's happening.
What are we supposed to do? Especially when we are so powerless, as ordinary citizens, people who do not hold office, especially when we are matched against billionaires, against madness, against inertia, against so much.
"Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being," Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, in reaction, it must be said, against his own dysfunctional and cruel times. "Remind yourself what nature demands of people," he added. "Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it."
We are not emperors. We are not senators. But we are human beings, connected to all other human beings. Our job is to do our job-to do it virtuously and honestly. Our job as citizens is to participate in politics—not to cede the field simply because it disappoints and disgusts us. Our job is to help the people we can help closest to us-those who have lost their jobs, those who have been targeted, those who do not have the advantages we have.
And most of all, per the tradition of the Stoic Opposition (which as we discuss in Lives of the Stoics included hallowed figures like Cato and Helvidius and Thrasea and Rutilius Rufus), is to courageously speak the truth as we see it. To not go along with lies. To call things what they are. To condemn what deserves condemnation. To stand up for principles and programs that deserved defense. To say who we are, which is good, which is kind, which is very much not on board with any of this and that even if we can't stop it, we can say clearly and loudly that we do not accept it being done in our name.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
youtube.com/shorts/7FKmS... US yard Sale? Pimping Lady Liberty?
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Sen. Murphy blasts Trump's 'public corruption tour'
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Carl Saga. 1995 Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America […]when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped,
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Making the world better for others is what a society is— a place where we all agreed to give mutual aid and to expect mutual aid. It’s not about making a dollar—it’s about making a difference.
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Check out this documentary about the Richmond, Va biking community known as the Broad Street Bullies in #rva April 5, 2pm Byrd Theater Trailer at Insta: @broadstreetbullies804 See the clip: www.instagram.com/reel/DH82FHk...
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
FAFO: The high cost of owning the libs means giving yourself away for free and selling your children’s education off to a corporation and giving your parent’s social insecurity, and selling oligarchs our national parks.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@georgetakei.bsky.social Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, easy rallying cry for this message: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@booker.senate.gov Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliterative or rhyming non-wonk rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@vanjones.bsky.social Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliterative or rhyming non-wonk rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@joyannreid.bsky.social Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliterative or rhyming non-wonk rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliterative or rhyming non-wonk rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@warren.senate.gov Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, easy non-wonk rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@alyssamilano.bsky.social Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, easy non-wonk rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. Voters 💜 their wallets.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@michelleobamanews.bsky.social Keep the message simple + repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops & hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, easy rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood.To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@kaine.senate.gov Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, alliterative or rhyming rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, easy unifying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@schiff.senate.gov Keep the message simple & repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliterative/rhymed rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social Keep the message simple & repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliteration/rhyme rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@mcuban.bsky.social Keep the message simple & repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliterative/rhyming rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@repjasmine.bsky.social Keep the message simple & repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliterative/rhyming rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@sanders.senate.gov Keep the message simple and repeat: #STOPTHESCAM Rich Men Lied To Rob You Blind Chant it to the hilltops and hollers. Get hats printed. We need a SHORT, Alliterative/rhyming rallying cry: the rich are doing a reverse Robin Hood. To get voters turnt, hit their wallet.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“Whatever you do, don’t let them take your books.” “All things flow from Source.” —Spine Manual Free book for librarians in the 10yr anniversary of Spine! (2/7-2/11) The Spine, an order of librarians, emerge from their self-imposed hiding to fix the world. #librarians #libraries
This is the back cover  of the book with author photo. It reads An explosion releases a deadly spore that kills every tree on the planet. The printed word fades into obscurity before finally disappearing from all memory. Centuries later, an order of mythological women emerge from their self-imposed hiding into a world where metaphor is dead.
In a future where sunlight is measured, sidewalks charge user fees and you can be torn apart by virtual bears, the heroine, Kenda, is an everyman caught up in a future that has no past. Due to a faulty grid on the console embedded in her head, she is able to resist the lure of screens. Will it be enough to help her chart humanity's new course?
Author bio
The author lives in Falls Church, Virginia. She received her M.Ed. from George Mason University and is an honorary member of Spine.Book cover for Spine shows a green and black swirl encasing a woman’s face.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Candid Candide I don't want more leaders. I want more plant shepherds, patiently doing faith-work that things will grow with care & effort. It is not influencers and not grifters and not reptilian words and not speeches given from podiums hewn from once mighty trees That can summon life from earth.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
#P2Ppit The sun set. Slow darkness descends on this tiny corner of the world. Two souls suspended in mid-air over the river, stone and steel, wood and wire holding them in place, halfway between a humble memorial and a parking lot, against sacred nature and mundane utility. Stage 6 Does Not Exist
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I want to find readers in 2025. My teaching job takes up lots of emotional bandwidth which makes it hard when it comes to sending out my work. #P2Ppit.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I’m a HS teacher who writes about compassion and truth. I’ve written a dystopian (Spine, 2014) about mythic librarians & journalists who seek to save the world and am querying a new Sci-fi about the legend of a female messiah + another about a teacher who is reeling from a student tragedy. #P2Ppit
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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS Virgil Mora, Hell's consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell to save the angel he's fallen for. Feat. ❤️‍🔥 Grumpy X Sunshine ✍️ Magical Contracts 🦋 AuDHD Rep 🖤🐘🤍💜 Ace Romance 👨‍💼 Cosmic Power, Imposter Syndrome #BluePit 📖 #W #A #F #LGBT #Hu
A 3x3 grid surmounted by the words "Hell Is Work" in yellow on an orange background. Images are: 1 - A black pawn topples a white king on a chessboard. 2 - A man in a white suit is back to back with a man in a black suit. They are holding hands. 3 - A puppet about to have it's strings cut. 4 - An angel with a glowing orange halo casting him in a red light. 5 - A lit lighter being held in a man's hand. 6 - A businessman with steepled fingers. 7 - A weeping man is crouched in a tunnel hiding from the light. 8 - A businessman stares at his shadow which has horns and a tail. 9 - Sand running through a person's fingers.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
STAGE 6 DOES NOT EXIST would be the resultant progeny if the movie Steel Magnolias and the show Abbott Elementary immaculately conceived while reading Catcher in the Rye with Brene Brown as their midwife & spiritual guide quoting the late great poet and GMU professor, Mark Craver. #Q #A #BluePit 📖
A split picture on the left thunderstorm on a dark night clouds, pulling the sky, and a young man in a black wool coat has snowflakes on his jacket and is looking sadly down to the left. on the right, a vague photo of a woman running towards the alley entryway in desperation in the center is the title stage six does not exist.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Maeve Code: There are no small deeds. Be nice first. But, when needed—the fangs. The Archivist’s Lament: The past millennia, all I have given to the ages is to me—the blade of loss—but reposting is your resurrection- still, Nera, I miss you. MaeveMessiah #Spaceopera #Bluepit #Q #SF📖
A spaceship captain stairs into the void of space her back to the camera. Her hair is tightly wound in a bun. She seems calm and resolute the title Maeve, Messiah reads out at the top.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We trusted the Captain. We'd have run straight into that Riven ship if she’d asked us. No question. Followed her into that void that she made us stare into on our first day. No small deeds. That’s what service is. -Security Officer, Zace Nyin on The Riven Incursion #SF #Q #Bluepit 📖 Space Opera
On the left is a spaceship captain for the tight bun in her hair and the title of the book made Messiah on the right is a tentacle holding an iPad type device with a glowing screen
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Teacher, Mayzie Coates never needed anyone, until a student’s suicide shakes her foundations. In her room. His 5 final words scrawled on her board. From her lessons. All she has is her bff Olivia, fiercely, aggressively in her corner. Stage 6 Does Not Exist. #BluePit #A #Q📖
Two women with their backs to the viewer stare over the Potomac River from a bridge side rail. The title reads Stage Six Does Not Exist. A glow is shown between them.
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies @scatteredgreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
World, Meet Leela Lilu Dallas Multipass AKA…Nosfuratu
Tiny dog with teeth bared laying on her back.
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