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K. R. Gardiner
@krgardiner.bsky.social
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🫖 I sometimes drink things other than tea.
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In every way.
February 12, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Prescient.
nikitagill.bsky.social Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Jan 3
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.
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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The colors. The subject. Everything. 💜
womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 4
The Sock Knitter, 1915 by Australian painter Grace Cossington Smith #WomensArt
Painting featuring a sitting white woman facing forwards in the act of knitting in an interior with patterned wallpaper
January 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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My 2026 word. 🫰
January 1, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Happy New Year from ArtfulTea! As we enter 2026, we’ve compiled a list of our most popular blends from 2025: artfultea.com/pages/top-te...
December 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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🖼️ Elisabeth Sommerville.
Painting, a winter scene of numerous tall, slender white birch trees set against a muted background. The ground is covered in snow. In the foreground, a group of crows are gathered on the snow and a patch of ice or water.
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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No worries! Haven’t made a single purchase on Amazon since Jan 2017. No intention of ever doing so again. 😎
bookshop.org Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Nov 10
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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'Tea and Books' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt
Painting of a transparent round teapot half full of reddish brown tea, resting on top of a pile of books with two further piles of books either side
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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A painting of a bird beside the text "how do regular people tolerate your bullshit"
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Could not have said it better… Please stop buying from Amazon.
bookshop.org Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Oct 30
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Discovered an unexpected bit of decor in our employee bathroom this morning—courtesy of an anonymous member of our team? Spooky. @artfultea.bsky.social 💀🧘🏻
A sink in a bathroom with a small skeleton in lotus pose sitting just above the faucet and just below a sign that says “Employees Must Wash Hands.” The skeleton also has its hands folded in prayer position.
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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What a marvel. So impossibly delicate. Makes me very happy.
womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Oct 24
Embroidered leaves by US artist Hillary Waters Fayle #WomensArt
Photo of three green leaves placed in a horizontal position against a white background, all with embroidery of blossoms or leaves
October 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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So dismayed by the demolition of our democracy.

Self-soothing with knitting.

(This is pair #2 completed. Third pair is currently in progress)
A pair of colorful hand knitted socks on feet.
October 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Today in Santa Fe, NM.
No Kings protest in Santa Fe, NM on 10/18/25, showing a woman in a crowd holding a sign that says, “We R Here Because We Love Our Country”
October 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Began knitting my first pair of socks in February. Finished them in June. And now it’s FINALLY chilly enough to wear them!

(Have since finished a second pair — pics coming soon — and am now working on the third)
A pair of hand knitted socks on feet shown lounging. The yarn is multicolored, mostly green, with some pink & blue.
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A neighborhood in Santa Fe showing its unity. “Resist”
October 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#RFKjr
September 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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CO Representative Jason Crow @crow.house.gov making it clear exactly how we demonstrate our power:
“If those with power and influence want to sell off our rights and freedoms to enrich themselves, then Americans should make it clear that cowardice and greed will fail them,” he said. “We will not shop at your stores. We will not tune into your TV and radio stations. We will not send our kids and our money to your universities, or use your services if you are going to enable our slide to authoritarianism.”
September 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Good Morning, have a great Wednesday! 🥰
July 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Yeah, us too.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jul 11
Our teaware is imported from China. Our California-based supplier just notified us that prices are going up due to tariffs. Which is weird because I was assured China would pay for this.

Of course, when we pay more, our customers pay more. Our U.S. customers. Here. In America. Not China.
Email Tariff Price Adjustment Notice Dear Valued Customers, We have tried to postpone the introduction of new prices for as long as possible; however, the recent spike in tariff rates have now become too great to absorb and we are left with no choice but to adjust prices. The fluid and ever changing nature of U.S. tariffs made it difficult for us to finalize prices until now. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience this may cause your business. We would like to notify you of a price adjustment effective August 1, 2025. Please find the attached price list. [Please note that these prices are subject to change at any time. We may introduce a new set of prices in the future if there is a drastic change to tariff rates.] The new minimum wholesale order requirement is $500. In order to make your transaction more cost effective, please consider bank transfer to make payments moving forward.
July 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Yellow poster featuring a stylised sun flower to the left and black text tobthe right
June 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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“No Kings” protest at the Round House in Santa Fe, NM. (Sound on!)
June 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🤭
June 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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warren.senate.gov
I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla.

This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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A good batch of strawberries from the garden requires strawberry shortcake. Even for breakfast.
In the foreground: a small blue and white dish, piled high with strawberry shortcake and a fork on the dish, sitting on a counter. In the background (out of focus): a family room with a large window overlooking greenery.
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM