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prairiefan.bsky.social
@prairiefan.bsky.social
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Lover of the planet Earth
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simonchapman.bsky.social
What sheep know about the benefits of wind turbines that Australia's National Party doesn't
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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paulgp.com
This Pope guy has some bangers
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.
Sheffield charity given grant to fit 'swift bricks' in homes
The Sheffield Swift Network was given £7,000 by the council for a project to help the birds nest.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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rboomhower.bsky.social
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
prairiefan.bsky.social
Wow!
Red and green of the northern lights shining through trees
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
prairiefan.bsky.social
Happy Iowa winter! Take every opportunity for joy these days.
Cattle dog mix in an orange vest stands on a gravel road surrounded by open fields and prairie. There is snow along the middle and sides of the road. The road stretches into the horizon and a pale, pearly morning sky.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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pennyjs.bsky.social
I was raking, just now. The leaf in the upper right corner of the first photo made me drop my rake and rush indoors for my camera.

Sometimes, out in nature , my heart overflows to the point where I want to cry.
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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stevewaycott.bsky.social
A pretty portrait of one of my year-round Black-capped Chickadee backyard buddies.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
March 2025

📸 #birds #chickadee #BCCH #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor800pf
A small bird with white cheeks and breast with tan sides and a black face and head cap is perching on a lichen-covered tree branch and looking to the left, in front of a soft forest green background.
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
prairiefan.bsky.social
Time to re-post this again.
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · May 29
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937
November 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
prairiefan.bsky.social
This is a wonderful podcast! Did you know that the word wealth is derived from a word originally meaning wellbeing or happiness?
raylovegrove.bsky.social Ray Lovegrove @raylovegrove.bsky.social · 23d
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ray...

New Radical Simple Living Podcast is out S3E4 - all about #Distributism and why it relates to #Hobbit holes. S3E4 wherever you normally listen to podcasts.
A front view of a Hobbit hole. Nice day possibly May.
November 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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raylovegrove.bsky.social
A new edition of the Radical Simple Living Podcast has just been published in all the regular places of podcast Or here
www.podomatic.com/.../2025-10-...

It's all about how we can take ideas that developed in the Arts and Crafts Movement and apply them to simple living in the twenty first century.
A nineteenth century poster for an Arts and Crafts Exhibition. A painter is shaking hands with a carpenter.
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
prairiefan.bsky.social
Morning in the Midwest
Pink and blue sky over dry cornstalks.
October 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
Of course I cannot see such a still, flattened gray squirrel with a fluffy tail ##Sqrlpix
Gray squirrel flattening itself onna cypress branch overhead
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
prairiefan.bsky.social
Morning moon
October 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
🖼️ Stephen Message
Treecreeper in tree painting.
October 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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pennyjs.bsky.social
A milkweed seed waited for its moment in the sun to venture out into the world.
October 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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jocelynanderson.bsky.social
A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.
October 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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elderman.bsky.social
This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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juliwils.bsky.social
Pollen-dusted bee, sun-dappled flower

#bees
#hikes
#nature
#nativeplants
A bumblebee with large pollen basket forages on a purple aster with curled rays
September 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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ichiloe.bsky.social
Nighttime scene from Arches last week, faintly photobombed by the aurora. 🔭
Nighttime photo with the black silhouette of a desert rock formation against the Milky Way and a starry sky tinted red toward the horizon.
September 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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raylovegrove.bsky.social
A new episode of the Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and running. S3E2 "Cherry Picking, or Gold Mining?" You can listen in your regular podcast places, or follow this link www.podomatic.com/.../2025-09-...
A painting of cherries falling from a picture frame.
September 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
prairiefan.bsky.social
Sunrise over sorghum
Tiny punk sun rising over a field of sorghum. The scattered clouds make streaks of shades of pink orange green and blue
September 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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raylovegrove.bsky.social
After a long break (all is explained in podcast) I'm back! Listen here, or find on Apple, Audible, Spotify and all other podcast places.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ray...

#SimpleLiving
Keep on Keeping on!
I've been away for some time - why?
www.podomatic.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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raylovegrove.bsky.social
Frost is on the way next week here in southern #Sweden so time to harvest what's left on the pumpkin patch. It's been hard to get any crop this year due to a summer long drought! #Homesteading #GrowFood
A colourful selection of pumpkins and squash.
September 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM