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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 22/01/2025

Fylgja are spirit companions that connect immediately with newborns and follow them throughout their lives, most commonly taking the form of animals. Often the animal reflects the person it is attached to, and can appear physically or in dreams. #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️: J. Bauer

John Bauer's "Poor little Basse!" Showing a little girl comforting a bear in his den by kissing him and surprising him on the nose.

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Michel JS Soucy @micheljssoucy.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A few 2024 pix. I don't hike as I once did due to how Long Covid has changed my health, but still try to get out. Mother Black Bear w/3 cubs, a 2.5 year old bear cub on it's own, a bull moose & a cow moose. All in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. © Michel JS Soucy #photography #wildlife

A mother Black Bear with 3 cubs taken in 2024 in our Cape Breton Highlands National Park just a short drive from where we live.

I don't do the hikes I once did due to how the Long Covid has impacted my health, mostly the shortness of breath and the exhaustion factors, but I still do try to get out a bit when I can.

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A two and a half year old black bear cub now on it's own, taken in 2024 in our Cape Breton Highlands National Park just a short drive from where we live.

© Michel JS Soucy
#CBHNP #photography #wildlife #nature

Bull Moose taken in 2024 in our Cape Breton Highlands National Park just a short drive from where we live.

© Michel JS Soucy
#CBHNP #photography #wildlife #nature

Female moose taken in 2024 in our Cape Breton Highlands National Park just a short drive from where we live.

© Michel JS Soucy
#CBHNP #photography #wildlife #nature

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Tammy Armstrong @tammyarmstrong.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Happy to see Pearly Everlasting in The New York Times this week alongside some other wonderful historical novels.

picture of Pearly Everlasting cover and The New York Times review

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

love’s austere and lonely offices Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’

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Saving Wildcats @saveourwildcats.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We're on Bluesky 🎉 We're a European partnership project dedicated to Scottish wildcat conservation and recovery. We aim to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild, while mitigating the threats they face 🐾 Follow to find out more 😺

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Krampus loves you. 🎨 J. E. Larson

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen

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Matt Bibbings Photography @mattbibbingsphotography.co.uk · 28/11/2024

Light breaking through the chaos of a plantation woodland. #photography #nature

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The Keeper of the Boneyard is 75 years old today. Happy birthday, Tom: Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"Tigers can generate wind, dragons can summon rain(虎能生風，龍能喚雨)." In ancient #China, #dragons were considered divine beings who controlled water sources and rainfall. During droughts, people would conduct rain-praying ceremonies, beseeching the dragon deity to bring rain to nourish the fields and 1/3

《山海經·大荒北經》：「應龍已殺蚩尤，又殺誇父，乃去南方處之，故南方多雨。」「「蚩尤作兵伐黃帝，黃帝乃令應龍攻之冀州之野。應龍畜水，蚩尤請風伯雨師縱大風雨，黃帝乃下天女曰魃，雨止，遂殺蚩尤。」《山海經·大荒東經》：「大荒東北隅中，有山名曰兇犁土丘，應龍處南極，殺蚩尤與誇父，不得復上，故下數旱。旱而為應龍之狀，乃得大雨。」《楚辭·天問》：「河海應龍，何畫何歷?」

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Montreal to shine with 15th beam in tribute to all murdered women on Polytechnique anniversary #EcolePolytechnique #Montreal #Quebec #qcpoli Commemoration comes day after Ottawa announced new gun control measures Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Image of 15 beams of light going up to the sky in remembrance - Montreal to shine with 15th beam in tribute to all murdered women on Polytechnique anniversary #Quebec

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Tamsin Abbott @tamsintheshed.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Advent window 5th December. The White Rabbit. I made this for a wonderful Alice exhibition we had at the much missed blue ginger gallery in autumn 2017. It was a particularly fabulous event and I made many pieces.

Stained glass panel of the white rabbit (from Alice in Wonderland) entering a glowing underground passageway with chequered floor. The entrance is lit by a lantern but the scene is surrounded by the dark red earth of a burrow in which a mole emerges and beetles crawl. It is strangely lit by enchanting star like lights. How did they fall into this subterranean world?

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 30/11/2024

Typed in old fashioned font ‘It was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials. ‘. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

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brais lamela @braislamela.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"Cold, delicately as the dark snow A fox's nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that now And again now, and now, and now Sets neat prints into the snow Between trees, and warily a lame Shadow lags by stump and in hollow Of a body that is bold to come" The Thought Fox, Ted Hughes

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Joseph Lee @josephvlee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

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Tammy Armstrong @tammyarmstrong.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging . . . we are saying thank you . . ."

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ACQL-ALCQ @acql-alcq.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The ALCQ is new here, but has existed since 1975. Dedicated to promoting research, teaching, knowledge, literary criticism and theory related to Canadian and Quebec literature, the ALCQ facilitates intellectual exchanges in French and English.

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Essie Fox Writer @essiefox.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Here's a quick starter pack for Gothic and Historical accounts here - I hope to add to it more when I have more interactions. go.bsky.app/EmzH3bp

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

As we’re all starting out, here’s a Starter Pack of LGBTQIA+ writers to enrich your life and feed. Will update as more folk arrive. 🌈 📖 ❤️ go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7Wa

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

As folks are starting to move over here, I made a starter pack of writers of fiction and CNF in "Canada." Let's get the party started! Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added. Fun! go.bsky.app/8VVZv4i

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