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Nancy H (she/they)

@sweetpeppah.bsky.social
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Canadian in New England. Nature nerd. Hiker, hockey player, outdoor adventurer. Stepmom (not evil!). Computer engineer & tech writer.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 7h
Birding road trip today. Might count a few Snow Geese today 😂 #birds
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alexsavin.bsky.social @alexsavin.bsky.social · 15h
October blueberries Kodak Gold film and Hasselblad camera #finland #filmphotography
Close-up photo of a delicate wild blueberry plant standing upright in a dark forest setting. The slim branches hold small oval leaves tinted in soft pink and muted red hues. A few plump, dark blue berries hang from the branches. The background features lush, dark green and shadowy forest undergrowth blurred out of focus.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."
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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security
The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A young human (8?) is running through the markets, roaring to someone behind her: "I'M GOING BUT I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE I'M GOING!" A passing man (60s?) saying: "Isn't that all of us?"
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 03/10/2026
Fireflies “have been doing computer science well before we even existed.” — Andrew Moiseff, a biologist at the University of Connecticut www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-firef…
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/10/2026
Billionaire political spending was about $16 million in 2008. In 2026, it could reach $2–3 billion. Whatever your politics, that’s a staggering shift in who has the financial power to shape American elections.
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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rubha Hunish, Skye All nine wood blocks are engraved and ready for test printing. Then a lot of faffing about to develop methods and workflows that minimise the effort and error involved in producing a run of perfect prints in perfect alignment. How hard can it be...?
A walnut ink sketch of sea cliffs running towards the horizon, left and right. Above, nine engraved and aligned woodblocks, detailing the cliffs and ready for test printing.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On this day in 1972, The Beachcombers debuted on CBC. Filmed in Gibsons, BC, it aired for 350 episodes and 18 seasons. It played a large role in building Vancouver's film industry. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/lU7ei4o
Relic and Nick in a small motorboat at sea. Relic is wearing suspenders and looks concerned while Nick steadies the engine as both stare toward the camera.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 01/10/2026
Carrots are my love language.
Photo of Jen in her backyard wearing a white dress with carrot pattern and rainbow converse shoes and holding a large bunch of garden carrots like they’re a bebe. Photo of Jen in her backyard wearing a white dress with carrot pattern and rainbow converse shoes and lying on a putting green surrounded by a line of garden carrots. Photo of freshly picked garden carrots with greens sitting on a green background. Photo of three bowls of garden carrots with the greens cut off on a grey background.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October Sky Holly Dyrland 2024
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Karakwan 🇨🇦 @karakwan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today was good; together with fellow First Nations/Metis and supporters. I walked for my grandmother and her sister who survived Youville residential school and for all of us impacted. For my mother who denied her heritage. Grandma went in speaking only cree at 6; left at 16 never speaking it again.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Phew, the news is dark. Here’s a moment of beauty to catch your breath 🌿
The sun sets in a layer of yellow sky at the horizon and the blue sky and pink clouds above and a line of trees silhouetted and a dark stone wall in the foreground. It’s very peaceful.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/
Image of a scientist - me! - waist deep in peat.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 30/09/2026
Fuck yeah Backpack! www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/world/gentle...
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Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska's Fat Bear Week
After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. First observed in 2013 as Orange Shirt Day, it is a day for public commemoration, learning and reflection on the history and intergenerational trauma of the Residential School System in Canada.
Poster announcing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — September 30 — orange background with white Indigenous-style artwork showing a jumping whale, flower, dotted waves and night symbols, with the Government of Canada wordmark at the bottom.
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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
Rainbow sea slug on a rockRainbow sea slug on a rockRainbow sea slug on a rock from aboveRainbow sea slug on a rock
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ErinReed Ky Gov. Andy Beshear, who vetoed a sports ban in in a state Trump carried by 30% and is likely presidential nominee, tells CNN's Jake Tapper he has one message for Dems: "We don't throw anybody under the bus." www.erininthemorning.com/p/ky-gov-bes...
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Libby 🎃Stink Gourd🎃 @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and
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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Three men. Three states. Twenty-four hours. ICE calls two of the dead “collaterals.” They were fathers, partners and human beings. #immigration @urbanviewradio.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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MereTheeWell @mymerehut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We took a drive on the Peak to Peak Highway to see the aspens before the rain arrives (or doesn't). There was plenty of color and not a lot of traffic. #LeafPeeping #Colorado #QuakingAspen #Autumn #otoño #amarillo
A closer look at the aspen leavesA clump of colorful trees View from a turnout on the Peak to Peak Highway Red leaves and rose hips on a wild rose
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here there be giants (Eastern White Pine)
Low angle view of a huge tree trunk with massive roots littered with brown needles. The trunk splits into three parallel trunks and extends above the top edge of the frame.
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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Academy of Natural Sciences was one of my most FAVORITE museums growing up. I loved it so much that I illustrated a version of it in one of the scenes in All the Greatness in You by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social and @mackidsbooks.bsky.social! I’ll miss it. So many great memories. 💜💛✨ #kidlitart
The cover of the picture book All the Greatness in You, written by Tameka Fryer Brown and illustrated by Alleanna Harris. The cover shows a Black woman and her young son stargazing outside under a starry night sky. The son points toward the Big Dipper.
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Laura Lee @lauraleeactor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sanderling morning grooming session! 🪶
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Linocut by contemporary printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
more of this worm. he reminds me of a convenience store or gas station logo
three flat color drawings of a long bodied worm or snake like fantasy creature with six wings and a body that is striped with black on top, then blue, then red, and then yellow on the underside. it appears to be crying.
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Nancy H (she/they) @sweetpeppah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 27/09/2026
Spent 45 minutes today watching a hermit crab trying to decide whether to change shells. Don’t tell me I don’t know how to have a good time
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A few phone pics of various chunks of public land for National Public Lands Day. Keep Public Lands public. #publiclands #thislandisyourland
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Susan (Morhar) Andrews @andrewssusanm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#HaikuSaturday #haiku seasonal visitors... acorns knock on rooftops Please add a version if you feel like it. If you want your version posted with the other versions please include the hashtag #VersionsHaikuSaturday.
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Dancing Vulture @dancingvulture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He's done!!!! And now I'm obsessed with the idea of making cecropia eggs and a chrysalis out of different fiber mediums! Cecropia caterpillar crochet pattern by Kabelbinder! I made a lot of mistakes and had to nix the last xxs spikes when I ran out of blue yarn, but I'm so happy with him ❤️
A huge (4') felted Cecropia Moth on a wall with a crochet Cecropia caterpillar held in front of it
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Nyura Kim✨Pixel Art @nyurakim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
just look up #pixelart #ドット絵
A landscape done in Pixel Art. Airy clouds on the sunset with a muted ghibli-like color palette. There's a mountain range and in between is a small lake that mirrowing the clouds formations. In the middle of the set are three traveling whales. There're flying across, their inside bone structure is visible and there's something else - like a hint of the tilt sparkly essense that imminates light from within. They're transperent to the eye that suggests their unreal nature.
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
so anyway the North Cascades are pretty nice
A mountain valley overlooking a small lake. The foreground is mostly short bushes with red and yellow leaves, with a few dark spruces and lime green larches scattered around. The background shows craggy mountains under a blue sky
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 25/09/2026
waiting out the weather (2023)
2023 limited color commission

in a forest, a tapir wearing a mushroom hat and a trenchcoat crosses his arms and waits out a curtain of rain, ears perking at the paradiddles
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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good morning! The outer clouds of the nor’easter are here, and the sea and wind are roaring here on Outer Cape Cod. This is from White Crest. It’s going to be an… interesting weekend! I’ll share videos throughout the storm (safety permitting). #OceanDevotion
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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Jason SF @jboyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
giving money directly to the people involved with the problem is pretty much always the best answer, from conservation to poverty, but the people with all the money hate that
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99% Invisible @99pi.org · 24/09/2026
Turn your next walk into a walking tour. 99% Invisible is featured in Hidden Histories, a new series of podcast guides from Apple Podcasts and Apple Maps across 5 iconic cities apple.co/podcasts-on-maps
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you want a full rundown of the Academy of Natural sciences situation, this video does a really good job of covering it. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/09/2026
All right, all, it’s…certainly been a day that ended in Y. Tomorrow, I get to talk mushrooms and mycology at Clarion West! You can get tickets to attend virtually here! www.clarionwest.org/event/deep-d...
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Mycology, Decay, and Metaphors for Community
From fungus to slime molds, nature has always held lessons for us in collapse, renewal, and connection—sometimes sticky, sometimes horrifying, always a little weird. Author T. Kingfisher (What Moves…
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I recently had a chance to examine the world of wonders under an old cow pie on a natural grassland and for those who've never looked, I assure you it's AMAZEBALLS. So. Much. Life. Check out this report, "Cow Patty Critters", by KD Floate, AAFC Lethbridge publications.gc.ca/collections/...
Screen shot of cover of a report called "Cow patty critters: an introduction to the ecology, biology and identification of insects in cattle dung on Canadian pastures"
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com
5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.Galaxy and Moon Bunny Compression Gloves Galaxy, Cat and Mushroom Wrist BracesMushroom and Cat Artist/Drawing Gloves
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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy Bisexual+ Awareness Week! What better way to celebrate than with this comic from our archive? Menthaam knew she was straight until she fell for a boy online- who turned out to be a girl! Clearly, her sexuality required a deeper investigation after that. 1/2 www.ohjoysextoy.com/why-not-both...
Why Not Both? by Menthaam, published March 22, 2022 on https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/why-not-both-menthaam

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Menthaam depicts herself as a pinky-orange cat-person who wears a big baggy knitted sweater with a white Peter Pan collar poking out around the neck. She sits with a mug in her hand, talking to another blue cat-person who plays on her phone while they both sit in their own easy chairs. 

The Friend says confidently, "You know- I have never understood how it's possible to fall for someone of the same sex as me.  I just can't imagine dating another girl!"

Menthaam responds, "Oh? There's nothing strange about it."

Her interest piqued, the Friend leans forward, asking incredulously, "Oh yeah? Would you be able to do it?"

Laughing good naturedly, Menthaam shares, "Dude, I'm bi. I've dated both guys and girls!"

"No way!" Exclaims the friend, now a little embarrassed but also curious. "I hope I wasn't rude? But, like I'd love to know more!"

"Sure!" Replies Menthaam. "To be honest it took me a long time to figure out."
Menthaam stands next to a child-like illustration, showing a stick-figure version of Menthaam (labelled "Me") and a blue canine-person (labelled "Boy"). Shrugging, Menthaam explains, "Before puberty, I had no doubts at all! I definitely liked boys!"

Now we see a brown cat-like person with pink hair who is texting with a smitten Menthaam. The narration reads, "And then one day I mutually fell in love for the first time. It was long distance, and I was like, "Wow, what a cool guy!" And only when we met for the first time, I realized I'd been growing feelings-" Here Menthaam and the new person are united, holding hands as they walk. 
"FOR A GIRL!" Exclaims Menthaam, seeing her partner for the first time. 
Narration: It filled me with doubts and confusion about my sexuality. 
Image: Alone, Menthaam unlocks her door while looking thoughtful.
Narration: Coming home and thinking hard, I realized that my feelings remained the same. 
Image: She hangs the lesbian pride flag on her wall. 
Narration: Being interested only in her, I concluded that I must be a lesbian. 

Now back in the sitting room with her friend from the beginning of the story, Menthaam takes a sip of her drink and concludes her story with, "Shortly after, as happens, we broke up."
"Aw yeah- early romance. What happened next" Asks the friend, on the edge of her seat. 
"Well..." Menthaam drinks from her mug. "I met some one new, and- it was a guy!"

Sitting beneath her lesbian pride, Menthaam looks up at it in confusion. 
Narration: My new found attraction had me in a loop. Maybe I wasn't gay? And what did that mean to who I was? 

"Maybe my relationship with that girl was a mistake or mere teenage infatuation?" She asks herself, head in her hands. "What if the attraction to women is simply imposed on me by society? Or maybe relationships with men were a mistake. What if I've been making the wrong choice all this time?"
Menthaam takes the form of a big pink anthropomorphized ball being batted between two blue figures, one labelled "Gay" and the other "Straight".
Narration: I was tormented by doubts for several years. 


Narration: Sometimes I felt that I was more attracted to girls, but other times I was more strongly attracted to guys. 

Menthaam, back to her cat form, sits on an old-fashioned apothecary scale which wobbles back and forth between the weight of a girl fox and a box fox. "I can't just pick one!" She exclaims. 

"For a long time, I shied away from finding a real partner." She shrugs.
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sarah webb! @sarahwebb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
happy first day of fall! 🪶
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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My painting 'Northern Reflections' is available as a unique wooden jigsaw puzzle from The Puzzle Lab. It's available through their website and at their store in Victoria, BC puzzlelab.com/collections/...
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Nancy H (she/they) @sweetpeppah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(cheering for oneself, too!) let's get it done!
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 22/09/2026
a fantastic article for many reasons, but it also gives me occasion to share my emotional support Wikipedia page, "List of rivers of New Hampshire." Just imagine so many of these names, lent to us from the wonderful Abenaki language, being mangled by centuries of New England accents. beautiful.
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List of rivers of New Hampshire - Wikipedia
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026
Having exhausted the possibilities of “doing a good job” and “making Americans happy,” Republicans have resorted to swamping the opposition with cash in a bid to salvage what is shaping up to be a disastrous midterm election. buff.ly/xNspSlm
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Money Can’t Buy Me Votes - The American Prospect
Republicans are going to try to solve their midterm problems with money. Good luck to them.
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dream job for an #editor & nature lover! 🐦🌿Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📅 Full time, Permanent. 📝 £38,710.00 per annum. 📍 BTO HQ in Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid working). Deadline for applications: 30 September 2026. #Ornithology
A Nightingale perches on a branch amongst the green foliage of a bush. Wording over the image reads: We're hiring! Science Communications Manager.
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