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frances 🖋️
@francesferguson.bsky.social
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francesferguson.bsky.social
there should be another bluesky for the service industry. monday and tuesday posts would go crazy
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
Nostalgic for a couple weeks ago when I was under the weather and allowed myself to simply vibe out with Gus everyday for a week
Black short hair cat with very big green eyes sitting on my lap. The same black cat squinting his eyes on the couch. Various sickbed accoutrements can be seen on the table beyond him. (Tea mug, half eaten bowl of gardettos, etc)
September 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
being into historical novels is so embarrassing because why am I completely gutted over 230 year old events I already knew about
September 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
perhaps being gently eaten by a lion could fix me
oregonzoo.bsky.social Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · Sep 11
If you place a camera in the lion habitat …

They’re going to turn it into a giant cat toy
September 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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samuelpepys.bsky.social
I waked with the noise of the rayne, having never in my life heard a more violent shower.
August 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
I found @brianphillips.bsky.social's defense of the em dash to be thoughtful, beautifully expressed, and human!!!
Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please
Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.
www.theringer.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
francesferguson.bsky.social
Iggy Pop :)
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
you simply love to see it
July 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
Gone berry crazy
Woman lying down in the clover and grass and sun with her cardboard flat of berries Six pints of berries nestled inside a cardboard flat upon the grass. There are two pints of golden raspberries, one pint each of marionberries, blueberries, cascade raspberries, and boysenberries. Provisions for the excursion: some tofu sandwiches I made
July 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social
Gentling the sun with the shade of my hand,
Intercepting the blue bolts of a cold moon?
The voices of loneliness, the voices of sorrow
July 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
And she’s done. Mostly. Not sure how I would be faring without the gleaming kernel of serenity I have found in calligraphy and lettering— I suspect more rested, less sane.
Handmade Japanese stab-binding book open on a table outside. You can glimpse some uncial calligraphy of an excerpt of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, as well as an intricate botanical vine border opposite, on the illustrated pages.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
francesferguson.bsky.social
Tangential, but I noticed that after disabling autocorrect on both my phone and laptop, my spelling has improved. I used to make jokes about how, for a writer, I am an embarrassingly poor speller. 4+ years without autocorrect now begs to differ!
natedhernandez.bsky.social Nathan Daniel Hernandez @natedhernandez.bsky.social · May 24
I hate crypto, I hate online gambling, I hate AI, I hate pay-later, I hate subscription models, I hate the gig economy, I hate ring cameras, I hate drones, I hate self checkout.

I don't want to come off as a luddite but capitalism's hold on tech sucks.
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
made a cake, frosting broke, still a good use of my free will
Gus looks at a strawberry shortcake I made
May 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
Card for my chosen mother on this strange holiday
Fineline botanical water color of cherries and butterflies with decorative botanical and bows border; uncial style calligraphy of the name Lisa Inside of mothers day card. More calligraphy with daisies and pink clouds
May 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
My first uncial #calligraphy work in progress— a part of my favorite #Shakespeare speech from #Macbeth. 🖋️
Celtic knot with medieval style calligraphy that reads “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
May 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
francesferguson.bsky.social
My husband does a very awesome radio show on @xrayfm.bsky.social — and you can stream it online :)
April 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
francesferguson.bsky.social
officially begun dressing for the weather i want (80°f) rather than the weather i have (59°f)
April 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Pimpernel fell out of a tree while saving his bird friend from another cat! From The Fat Cat Pimpernel by David Walker, illustrated by Alan Howard, 1958.
Children’s book illustration of a fat grey tuxedo cat lying flat on its belly with limbs splayed out in the grass. He bears a grumpy, defeated expression. A happy blackbird swoops down near his head. The illustration is mostly black and grey but the grass and birds’ beak are cheerful yellow.
April 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
francesferguson.bsky.social
Get a load of this
I’m holding a pretty stone (in the background are a lot of other stones and the Oregon coastline.)
March 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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martharichart.bsky.social
A square piece of artwork with a black background. There are slim almond shaped pieces of cut paper that are collaged onto the black background in a circle that radiates outwards from the center. The almond shapes are varying shades of pinks, oranges and reds. In the center is the word fury in an old English type. Art is by Martha Rich.
March 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
francesferguson.bsky.social
been very ‘the ice is thawed and so i feel alive but the ice is thawed which stirs the dangers in the forest and so i feel my own mortality— these two points making the other felt more keenly’ if that makes any sense no worries if not
March 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
francesferguson.bsky.social
pretty stones
Smooth blue, charcoal, and pale yellow stones in a slab of mosaic adjacent to a patch of sidewalk
March 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
francesferguson.bsky.social
witnessed my first thrust of crocus for the season
Small bright purple crocus flowers in the mud, some with their bright saffron-colored stamens peeking out from between their petals.
February 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
francesferguson.bsky.social
how do i inform my professor i’ve never earned a ‘B’ on an assignment in my life and his decision to give me one for turning something in 12 minutes late is giving me psychic damage
February 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM