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melisa
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Bluesky Aficionado * Adjunct Professor * Business Owner * Dog Lover * Writer
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she could never quite contain
her pastel-stained compulsions:

the tangerine sting
of a sunrise,

the magenta infatuations
in birdsong,

each captured her heart,
excited her passions,

filled her barren white canvas
with such verdant wonder.
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?

Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?

Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?

Try reading a book in public! 📖

#WritingCommunity #BookSky
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.

Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack.

The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The crow king and Queen Bee meet in a neutral spot for a parlay. In this meeting of the monarchs, the king comes eye to eye with the queen who sits atop her crown.

#crows #Queenbee #monarchs #Raven #art #animalart #bskyart #artsky
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Witkoff : ‘Russia always wanted a peace deal’ .

Meanwhile, the ‘peace deal’:
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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❄️Sundays are all about your favourite women printmakers!...And there is a more wintery theme today ❄️❄️❄️
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers 🤍
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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This is my kind of good trouble.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Maybe it’s just my brain chemistry changing, but I’m starting to enjoy books in the way mid-2000’s library propaganda said I would.
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
8AM lecture topic: A.I.

Had a student majoring in graphic design argue persuasively(!) the college is endangering the programs and careers its students are paying $$$$ for by using A.I. to create all its marketing material.

Higher ed's complicity in job obsolescense is bugging me now.🫩
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think. Toad thought about giant sunflowers. He thought about tall oak trees. He thought about high mountains covered with snow.
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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🔥🏈LAWYER on the ugly incident during the Texas A&M game: “As a 3rd generation A&M grad that trooper should be fired, not just pulled off duty. He is a huge asshole. I would love to see those South Carolina players file assault charges.”
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Way to go! 🔥👍💯❤️👏
This 14-year-old girl hands Megyn Kelly her ass for her utterly disgusting minimization of child sexual abuse.
You go girl! #cdnpoli
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Glory to our Defenders 🇺🇦
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The comment thread!
freaking the fuck out @ 6am bc I just found out how british people spell “cozy”
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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freaking the fuck out @ 6am bc I just found out how british people spell “cozy”
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Government shutdown: US Army tells soldiers in Germany to go to the food bank
US Army advises food bank to soldiers in Germany amid pay uncertainty
US soldiers in Germany may not receive November pay amid the prolonged US government shutdown. Emergency funds covered October salaries, but future payments are uncertain.
www.euronews.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The comments do not disappoint. Mayo clinic! 😆 Assault and vinegar!
Look if anybody’s ever been victimized by a sandwich while they were wearing a bulletproof vest & armed, you know. That’s not an experience you ever forget or forgive. The night terrors. The shakes you catch in the day. The flashbacks to the scent of onions & mustard assaulting you.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Gold.
I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I keep seeing the beauty
and showing it to you –
to inspire you to look around,
to remind you how beautiful Kyiv is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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I want to thank and honour the person who harvested the potatoes I ate for breakfast, for using their bodies in exchange for very little money. May they be blessed abundantly.
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM