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Carolyn Kay
@bewitchinghips.bsky.social
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Author, photographer, dancer, cat mom.
🏳️‍🌈 She/her
✊🏿 Black lives matter
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Guys! I finally got my ducks in a row! 🪶
Three brown and yellow-cream mallard ducklings swimming in a diagonal line.
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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October currently inked.

#fountainpens
Ink and pen combos top to bottom: Gray - Van Dieman's Kookaburra Crest in a Pilot Kakuno Madoromi Brown Green - Sailor Ink Studio 960 in a Jinhao 10 Gradient Green Purple - Diamine Imperial Purple in a Pilot Metropolitan Violet Leopard Brown - Colorverse Coffee Break in a Jinhao 10 Gradient Gray Pink - Lamy Rhodonite in a Kaigelu 316 Pink
October 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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New inks for September.

#fountainpens
A notebook page showing ink swatches paired with the fountain pen they're in. Top to bottom: Lamy Safari Blackberry with Noodlers Purple Mountain Majesties ink ; Pilot Kakuno Madoromi Brown with Robert Oster Napa ink; Jinhao 10 Gradient Gray with Van Dieman's Kitten Paws; Lamy AL Star Lilac with Pilot Iroshizuku Yama budo; Pilot Kakuno Clear with Diamine Tropical Glow.
September 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Home from Bubonicon and chilling with my familiar.
A black cat sleeps on an open book with one paw outstretched.
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Timeline cleanse.

#sleepingcats
A long haired gray cat sleeps curled up with her paw over her nose.
July 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Starlings are invasive, noisy, and obnoxious, but their fledglings are quite intense. 🪶 #birds
A young starling with brown feathers and a black eye love flats at the camera. Photo by me.
July 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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LibertyCon is this weekend! I have art in the Art Show and will be on quite a few panels. Please say hi if you see me at the con!
June 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Flowers! 🌹
June 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Being out in the wild for a few days was great. I never should have looked at social media when I got home. All that peace I had while disconnected is gone.

#rafting
Two vultures perched on an old train power line. One is on the cross beam, the other on the top. Two crows on a sandstone ridge telling Odin about the group of humans camping below them ( that would be me and my co-workers.) The white, sun-bleached skeleton of an elk lays in golden grass. The sun highlights the red sandstone cliff across from our camp, casting an orange glow on the river below.
June 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Snowy Egret

🪶 #birdphotography
May 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Come find your next favorite read! May 17th from 2-4pm at the Bluegrass Lounge in Old Town Arvada.

#books
Books and Brews - Author book signing. May 17th 2-4pm 7415 Grandview Ave, Arvada CO 80002
May 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Grackles!!!
A female (less iridescent) grackle stands alertly on a branch. A close-up of a male grackle, showing the blue-purple iridescence of his feathers and his bright yellow eye.
April 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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New pen day.
#fountainpens
A smiley face with its tongue stuck out is etched into a silver fountain pen nib.
April 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Doom-scrolling check point. Stretch, drink some water, scream into the void.
April 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Bird dump! Says Phoebe, song sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Cedar Waxwing. 🪶
A says Phoebe goes after an itch on it's back, almost looking like it's tucked its head to sleep. A song sparrow grips the y shaped branches of a tree. Facing the camera, it shows off the dark spot on its chest. The red eyes of the spotted tower stand out in its inquisitive pose. A cedar waxwing grips a branch. Its white-lined black mask stands out in the morning sun.
April 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I won at yarn chicken!!
#crochet
A small tangle of dark green yarn is left next to a finished baby blanket.
April 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I hope all the protest voters and people who couldn't be bothered to vote at all "because they don't do politics" have the day that they deserve.
April 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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On Trans Day of Visibility and every day:

Trans rights are human rights!🏳️‍⚧️
Black Lives Matter!✊🏾
My body, my choice!👩🏻‍🦰
Love is love!🏳️‍🌈
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality forever! 💖
March 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by Carolyn Kay
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wired is really doing the work and it is so appreciative. this was a great, informative watch that im about 2 seconds away from sending to my shitty father @wired.com

youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
youtu.be
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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If you think this is ok, unfriend me now. This is authoritarian bs.
paulecohen.bsky.social Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Mar 19
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Two new lifers for me: rock wren, and a black-throated sparrow. 🪶
Rock wren Black-throated sparrow
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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@kevinhearne.bsky.social any favorite birding places in Phoenix? I'm heading there next week.
March 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Have some birds to cleanse your timeline.

#birds
#wildlife
#nature
A Downy woodpecker clings to the underside of a tree branch. A Blue Jay perches on the decorative curls on the top of a metal gate.
March 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Hey Canadian friends - can you send all that US liquor you're taking off the shelves back to us? We're going to need it for...medicinal purposes. (Also, so sorry. Most of us don't want to be the asshole neighbor.)
March 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Hey there. Got any good news?
A squirrel peers from behind a large branch.
March 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM