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@michanko.bsky.social

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Chronic illness warrior… Plus I’m a music, art, science, nature, language/etymology, equality and sci-fi fantasy lover!
😎✌️Peace and rock on!
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michanko.bsky.social @michanko.bsky.social · 2d

#resist #resistance #fightingforfreedom #protest #fightfascism #savingdemocracy #everyonedoingtheirpart🙂 #strongertogether #community #fightingforAmerica🇺🇸

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🏃‍♂️The Runner🏃‍♂️

@therunnner.bsky.social

Justice redacted

February 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM

michanko.bsky.social

@michanko.bsky.social

#thoughtfortheday #wisewords #wordsforthesetimes #onholdingon #resilience #darktimes #beingtruetoourselves #remainingtruetoourselves #thehumancondition #hanginthere #onedayatatime #staystrong #loveisstrongerthanhate
#lightisgreaterthandarkness
#wordsoftruth #deepthoughts #wordsofaffirmation

February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM

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Dorota

@dorotapawlak.bsky.social

Signs of spring.

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #FlowersOnSunday #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #crocus #VancouverIsland #PhotographersOfBlueSky

February 15, 2026 at 12:56 PM

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Brian Smith 📷

@ibriphoto.com

Clever stuff. 👏

Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 8d

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

bluesky-map.theo.io

February 9, 2026 at 7:53 AM

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈

@kennedytcooper.bsky.social

Become ungovernable

A photo of a cat under a bed with a rotisserie chicken with the caption:

This is Beans. Beans stole a while rotisserie chicken off the counter. Not a piece. The whole chicken. Beans dragged it under the bed and growled at us for forty minutes. Beans is 9 pounds.

February 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM

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Patricia Wallinga ⛵🎵

@pwallinga.bsky.social

27. Sara Teasdale is like, THE composer's poet to me. Look at this! They're her SONGS!!!

What Do I Care
Sara Teasdale
What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,
That my songs do not show me at all?
For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire,
I am an answer, they are only a call.

But what do I care, for love will be over so soon,
Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,
For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent,
It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

October 4, 2024 at 5:51 PM

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Frank Hudson

@frankhudson.bsky.social

Here another poet looks at Winter Stars in troubled times.

Teasdale’s poetry is so musical that it’s led me to combine her work with music—this poem’s performance linked here: frankhudson.org/2023/03/02/w...

Winter Stars
BY SARA TEASDALE

I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea Seemed to have drenched my spirit's wings—
I bore my sorrow heavily.

But when I lifted up my head
From shadows shaken on the snow,
I saw Orion in the east
Burn steadily as long ago.

From windows in my father's house,
Dreaming my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
Above another city's lights.

Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars, All things are changed, save in the east The faithful beauty of the stars.

December 28, 2024 at 6:31 PM

michanko.bsky.social

@michanko.bsky.social

I know times are currently so heavy… And while we can’t quit and have to keep up the good fight or nothing will change! -likewise another truth of life, is that you cannot pour from an empty cup. ❤️Flesh and blood we all need an occasional break from the horrors… and so I just made a list to that end