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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Charming images, the video is fascinating. 😍

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Harvest Moon, full in half an hour! 🌕

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Unveiled today under a clear blue sky. 😭

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"An excellent speech advocating for peace, solidarity, generosity, unselfishness, fellowship, collaboration and rational thinking, directed against evilness, greed and stupidity." (YT comment) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vTA... (15 min)

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Dutch PM Rob Jetten Defies Trump at UNGA, His Blunt ICC Warning Draws Huge Applause

YouTube video by Hook Global

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fairy handkerchiefs and brilliant decorations up in the hills today, but left them in place for others to pocket and enjoy. 🕸️🍂

Top image: A delicate square of spiderweb floats horizontally atop forest-floor green foliage on a damp morning after rain, coated by tiny white drops.
Bottom image: The red, white and blue autumn colors of tiny lichen and leaves and a berry caught my eye, with a bend of yellowed grass in the center.

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Comet comments by a *cometator*. 😄🤩☄️ "I love space because it really requires your imagination to appreciate it. Like this video isn’t really that mindblowing on its face, but when it hits you that you’re looking at a COMET, something no human has ever touched or seen up close, it blows your mind."

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do watch the whole thing.

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sharing this bright thread full of goooooood news. 🌐💪

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No words, except for Go Vote.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i was today years old when i found out that the iconic pale blue dot image was taken on valentine’s day somehow that adds way more meaning to the picture 🥺

The iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photograph taken by Voyager 1, with Earth appearing as a tiny point of light inside a pale vertical sunbeam against the dark expanse of space.

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Terry Nunn 📷 @terrynunnphoto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love the late summer butterfly migration and this shot last year will always be one of my favorites I have taken #Golden #BlueSkyArtShow

Eastern Tiger Swallow Tail on yellow wildflowers

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This one and half year-old bald eagle flew right over me while I bobbed in the kayak, watching the coyotes. This coyote was just as taken by the spectacle as I was. 🌿🪶🦊

A large juvenile bald eagle flies in front of a forest. The eagle has a dark brown head and eyes, white underwing feathers and black feather tips.

A large coyote stands on a leaning limestone boulder and looks off to the right with great interest, tracking the flight of a bald eagle that was photographed in the previous image.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TOOK THIS PHOTO OF THE MOON THROUGH THE CLOUDS TONIGHT!!! SHE LOOKS SO SPOOKY AND ETHEREAL!

Close-up telescopic view of a waxing gibbous Moon against a dark gray sky. The lunar surface is bright and highly detailed, with visible craters, darker maria, and rugged terrain along the shadowed right edge. A soft glow surrounds the Moon, giving the image a slightly hazy, atmospheric look.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Jackson speech (partial)

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You just got off a 10-hour shift and looking forward to a quiet and soothing session with that new novel, and then this... 😳😱 But still, this makes you so happy for some reason. 😹🐶💖🎉🥰 P.S. Which one's the dog and which one's the cat again? 👀😵‍💫 #dog #cat #homesweethome

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kyiv. It was early evening when I came to the Dnipro River. A fisherman was preparing his fishing rod. I came there to read, but instead I just sat on the bench, and silence sat beside me.

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a great gift to give. 🧒🧒🏘️🌳

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh, my. A total of 2,753 empty chairs were set out in New York’s Bryant Park on Friday, September 11, to represent those killed at the World Trade Center during the 2001 terrorist attack. www.youtube.com/shorts/PsGqk...

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2,753 World Trade Center victims honored with empty-chair tribute

YouTube video by KTLA 5

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yummy wabi-sabi carousel, pretty pics in the comments. ✨

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Rasta @rastasack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Food Critics

Three Peppers cut open on a plate, each with two eyes and a face made from the sliced inside

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It may still be officially summer, but autumn is approaching.

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Josh Johnson on Bluesky ☑️ and in a small independent Canadian bookstore 🍁. Outstanding.

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"You could fit the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe into Africa and still have land to spare." The "Correct the Map" resolution was passed at the UN yesterday despite one country (the US) voting against it: www.bbc.com/news/article...

A colorful representation of the shapes of 30 countries fit compactly into the shape of the African continent with chart below listing the square kilometers of the countries, totaling fewer than the 30.4 million square kilometers of all African countries combined.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve always wanted to do this.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not saying anything a lot of you don’t already know, but one of the great talents to emerge on these internets in recent years is this brilliant young woman, @ellecordova.bsky.social.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In Steinem’s words:

“If feminism means each of us finding our unique power, and helping other women do the same, Dolly Parton certainly has done both.”

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mon Rovia backed here by his merry band of musicians just made my day. 💝

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Lorraine Parramore @loriargyll.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The sands of #Luskentyre on the island of Harris for #LowTideTuesday #Photography #Landscape #Scotland

$A vista of a wide bay with sunlit coloured sand either side a freshwater low tide river wending its way towards the ocean, The foreground shows the curve of the waterway across the textured sand taking the eye to distant hills. The sky is a mix of light and dark clouds fractured across a blue sky.$

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I do believe that we can (and should) notice beauty even in challenging times. It won’t heal us or work magic. But beauty can be something positive we need right now. Seen in Kyiv.

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Images that testify to the profound drama of August, 2026. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26082...

"Explanation: Eclipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the new and full phases of the Moon, separated by just over 14 days, create a solar and a lunar eclipse. But only rarely is the alignment at both new moon and full moon during a single eclipse season close enough to produce a pair with both total solar and lunar eclipses. More often, partial eclipses are part of any eclipse season. But, the last eclipse season of 2026 did produce this fortnight-separated pairing of a total solar eclipse on August 12 (top) and an almost total lunar eclipse on the night of August 27/28. At New Moon, the solar eclipse was captured at Peñafiel, Spain near the begining of totality in this HDR composite image, revealing a flash of Bailey's beads and a golden solar corona. At the following Full Moon, the deep partial lunar eclipse was recorded from Sèvres, France. Also an HDR composite, the image shows this partial eclipse at closer to half its 93 percent maximum phase, so about half the visible lunar disk appears darkened and reddened within Earth's umbral shadow. The coming eclipse season will see an annular solar eclipse on 2027 February 6 paired with a penumbral lunar eclipse on February 20/21."

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#FullMoon in #August is also known as the Barley Moon or the #SturgeonMoon Artwork by Tamsin Abbott, English stained glass artist #WomensArt

Stained glass artwork featuring a hare faceubg right lying diwn in a golden field at night under a full moon

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other." He added that many Norwegians have emigrated from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Poland and other countries and that they "believe in God, Allah, the universe and nothing." 💔🕊️🤍

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 27/08/2026

I was today days old when I learned Dolly Parton covered Collective Soul’s “Shine” alongside Nickel Creek and the dobro player from Alison Krauss & Union Station. She won a Grammy for it. Blew me away. youtu.be/plUD6vN80dg?...

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Dolly Parton - Shine (Official)

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 26/08/2026

Happy National Dog Day to all the cynophilists out there.

cynophilist
sə̇-ˈnä-fə-lə̇st
noun
{cyn + phile + ist]
someone that is favorably disposed toward dogs

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A great loss for us all. A light in our darkness, a talent like none other. Rest in song and mirth, Dolly. The heavens have a new star among them.

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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“None of this moves forward without all of us working collectively,” said Anissa Martin, who leads NDN’s Black Hills Land Back campaign. “Everybody had a role, and we understood that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week

At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026

Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program. Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.

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Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served

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