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Emilia Phillips
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Poet. 5 books @uakronpress.bsky.social. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Prof @mfagreensboro.bsky.social. #OCD. #hEDS. #Trans #Nonbinary. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
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dancingsue.bsky.social
#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography
I’d given up hope of finding any this winter. Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster mushrooms) yesterday.
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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andystep73.bsky.social
Another shot from yesterday's Misty morning hike on the Arbutus Ridge trail in Goldstream Park.

#yyj #nature #lush #forest #flowing #photography #vancouverisland #WestCoastBestCoast
February 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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mxscottkernest.bsky.social
Mountain Goats? Noooo!

An iconic species is declining in Glacier National Park www.sfgate.com/national-par...
An iconic species is declining in Glacier National Park
Researchers found Glacier National Park's mountain goats have declined by 45%.
www.sfgate.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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roostersworldja.bsky.social
Some mushrooms I encountered today in Kingston ,Jamaica.
Check out #Roostersworldja to see more cool stuff from the island d of Jamaica
February 6, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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lalahaenzy.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
Ancient Greek for “thousand years”?
emdashphillips.bsky.social Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 3d
The word we are missing: millennialphobic
February 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
The word we are missing: millennialphobic
February 6, 2026 at 5:33 AM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
I want an AIM message sound for text messages. I’d turn my phone sound back on for that dopamine drip.
February 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
Death by Lightning was terrific! The acting, goodness. Oof. Michael Shannon & Matthew Macfayden, with a Nick Offerman bonus? Stunning.
January 26, 2026 at 11:57 PM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
Big head.
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
My wild Saturday night, with Bo He Moon’s Birthstones in the Province of Mercy (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2026)!
book titled Birthstones in the Province of Mercy by Bo Hee Moon
January 11, 2026 at 1:57 AM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
Oooo, I need to read this! Long COVID has been one of the hardest things I have experienced in my life. Thought I was going crazy & I’m pretty sure others did too.
January 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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biometlab.bsky.social
Really clear night. Got much better images of Orion nebula and Andromeda galaxy, M31, than posted last time. And took longer exposures. Enjoy
January 10, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Charles Wright, from Littlefoot (2007)
I am the sign, I am the letter. I am the language that cannot be come to terms with. I will go to my resting place and will not be born again. I am what is scattered and cannot be gathered up. I am small, I am silence, I am what is not found.
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
Somehow my power bill keeps going up & up & up every single month that I have lived in my house (since September).

I know it’s January, but the last month has been warm overall in NC. I’ve even cut off my heat a few times. I haven’t even been here all month. Wondering if it’s data centers…?
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
I updated Word & now I can’t highlight more than one word of text. What’s happening? I’m trying to update my syllabi & now I can’t effectively do so. Help!
January 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
emdashphillips.bsky.social
Every time there is a new Jenny Johnson poem, I scramble to read it! “Queer Trivia Night” doesn’t disappoint! I can’t wait to open my Queer Poetry & Poetics class with it next Tuesday!

poets.org/poem/queer-t...
Queer Trivia Night
A friend on a rival team confesses / they’ve always been into it.
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. She was also a prize-winning poet.
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
buff.ly
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Amanita mascaria. NWT, Canada.
#mushroom #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a large red mushroom with a white stem and white spots on the cap. A second, smaller mushroom of the same species is to the right. These are the famous toadstool mushrooms of many story books.
January 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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pbump.com
[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”
January 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
I never get why these guys think it's out of bounds to just ... write the kind of anti-Trump column they want to see in the world. Why rush to the internet to condemn an anti-war movement that doesn't exist yet?
We’ll all know more soon about the Venezuelan operation. But we know plenty already about the anti-Trump opposition. The qualities itemized above are not all faults. It’s good to care about law, institutions, and facts. But even good qualities can produce bad outcomes if they are not self-understood, self-restrained, and directed in the service of good goals. Trump thrives on the ineffectiveness of his opponents. The military operation in Venezuela is a warning that Trump’s imperial ambitions are growing. He’s building himself a triumphal arch in Washington. He craves gaudy acts to justify his monument to himself. He announced his operation first on his own wacky social media platform, then on a phone call to Fox—as if his fan base were the only part of the nation to whom the president owed an explanation for his actions. Trump’s ego poses clear and present dangers to American democracy and American world leadership. An ineffective anti-Trump movement is an indulgence American democracy cannot afford or accept.
January 3, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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truthout.org
Legal experts called for Trump’s impeachment as world leaders condemned the strikes as a violation of international law.
Experts Decry Illegal Aggression After Trump Says US Captured Maduro
Legal experts called for Trump’s impeachment as world leaders condemned the strikes as a violation of international law.
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January 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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jeremyvoh.bsky.social
Moody mountain layers. A quiet morning following the meltwater back to the source. The PNW doing what it does best. 🌲🏔️

#scape #ForestFriday #pnw #mountains #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #nature #washington
A dramatic mountain landscape under a heavy, overcast sky. A rocky stream flows from the foreground toward a snow-dusted, jagged peak partially veiled by low-hanging mist and clouds. Steep, green hillsides lined with tall, slender evergreen trees frame the valley, with a narrow dirt trail visible along the left bank.
January 2, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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nikkimwalls.bsky.social
HE JUST SAID "THE US IS GOING TO RUN VENEZUELA!!"
January 3, 2026 at 4:46 PM