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Meg
@siares.bsky.social
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Pre-K #teacher (public), mother to the best people ever, collector of banned pictures books, and bonafide history & sarcasm enthusiasts.
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#artist 🎨
#neurodiversity
#Xennial
#trigeminalneuralgia
#kentucky 💙

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Meg @siares.bsky.social · Dec 21
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#WordoftheDay

At least I have something to call it, instead of wondering WTF my issue is.

🫤
The ocean at sunset. The definition of the word Decathect overlay. Text: To detach oneself emotionally from a person, idea, or object, typically in anticipation of a loss or to cope with a difficult situation.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Partridges in the Snow
by Józef Chełmoński (1891)

Melancholy with birds.

#artsky
#arthistory
#painting
#cold
A realist painting depicting a bleak winter scene features a small cluster of six speckled partridges huddled together on a vast, low-lying expanse of snow. The snow dominates the composition with a muted, textured blue-gray and white palette, suggesting an immense, cold, and desolate landscape. The birds are centered in the foreground, their dark plumage providing a subtle contrast to the empty white field, emphasizing their small size and exposure within the environment.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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EVIL POS‼️
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Happy Sunday!
🩷
#radiolab
#evolution
#science

www.wnycstudios.org/story/creati...
Creation Story
The most unlikely origin of an evolutionary biologist.
www.wnycstudios.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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kydemocrats.org
Democratic county parties are taking part in our Charitable Day of Action this Saturday with food drives for neighbors in need. There will be other drives throughout the month.

Check the document below for more information.

Kentucky, we’re all in this together.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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caterwaulerin.bsky.social
wistful history
no longer a mystery
wishing faithfully

#vss365 #history #haiku
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Autumn Leaves
John Everett Millais (1856)

Youth, briefly gathered. Fleeting.

#Artsky
#arthistory
#autumn
#painting
The painting is a quiet, melancholic scene depicting four girls in an evening twilight, gathered around a pile of freshly raked and burning autumn leaves. It is a vertical composition, dominated by the group of figures and the dense atmosphere of the garden setting.
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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npr.org
There's a lot of talk about how to monitor screen time for kids. But for kids to have healthy relationships with technology and smartphones, parents need to model good habits. Here's how. n.pr/4qUnkjx
Want less screen-obsessed kids? Set better tech boundaries for yourself
There's a lot of talk about how to monitor screen time for kids. But for kids to have healthy relationships with technology and smartphones, parents need to model good habits. Here's how.
n.pr
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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A gorgeous #Uhura piece for you today from @pop_goesmyheart on IG! Who wouldn’t want to love on a #tribble?!? I bet they’re soft and floofy…

#SupportArtists #ArtNotAI #StarTrekArt #TroubleWithTribbles #StarshipTempest
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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caterwaulerin.bsky.social
woodpeckers reveal
ants marching between panels
two by two by fours

#DailyHaikuPrompt #woodpecker #haiku
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #AllSoulsDay #AllSouls
All Souls' Day, Jakub Schikaneder, 1888
Painting of despondent woman leaning against a cemetery wall where a wreath has been placed under a red lantern on a stand in front of a large stone monument. She wears a red skirt, dark shawl, and white headscarf and leans on a cane. There are leafless trees in the background.
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Since I'm on a Wyeth kick, have some recent news!
#Wyeth
#artsky
#painting
#arthistory

www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
For The Wyeth Dynasty, A Full Circle Moment
In a round barn Jamie Wyeth brings his grandfather, N.C. Wyeth’ s, largest mural home. Meanwhile never before seen works of Jamie’s are unveiled for the first time.
www.forbes.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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caterwaulerin.bsky.social
Laying torn in pain,
struck by scorn in silent war,
heard faint tune from coppered horn~

"Everything you love matters as self scatters~
when battles thought fought reveal true tattered banners.

Your blood, sweat and tears, amidst unwitnessed fears, are enough."

🕊️
#PoemsAbout #blood #micropoetry
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Hendrick ter Brugghen in 1628, so brilliantly returning The Gold to his vision of The Annunciation.
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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November First
Andrew Wyeth, 1950
Watercolor

Bone Structure.

#artsky
#arthistory
#Wyeth
#painting
The painting "November First"- a watercolor that depicts a stark, barren farm landscape in late autumn. Subject: The foreground is filled with a dense cluster of tattered, dried cornstalks that have been left standing after the harvest. Composition & Viewpoint: very low to the ground, so you are looking up at the sharp, skeletal stalks as they rise and tilt against the sky. Color Palette: The colors are severely muted, dominated by earthy tones, dry ochres, grays, and pale browns, perfectly capturing the cold, damp feeling of a wind-swept November day. Atmosphere: It is a scene of decay and stillness, awaiting the full onset of winter. The brushwork, though detailed, retains the raw expressiveness of watercolor.
November 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I was saddened by the callousness of a colleague who suggested that losing SNAP benefits would force people to get jobs, especially given our students' poor, rural backgrounds where many are raised by grandparents.

Troubling times reveal true character.

#SNAP
#Teaching #children
#rural #poverty
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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#artsky
#arthistory
#pottery

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/29/m...
MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs
The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements
www.theartnewspaper.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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kydemocrats.org
SNAP cuts will leave thousands of families hungry in Kentucky.

Get the facts below ⬇️
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Eeyore the Smart Ass was not impressed with my choice of a costume for him this year. He is styling an eclectic ensemble consisting of a pink tutu and a wizard's hat. 😜

#donkey #eeyorethesmartass #Halloween
October 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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kydemocrats.org
Republicans are willing to let more than 600,000 Kentuckians go hungry.

Their government shutdown will cut off SNAP benefits in November because feeding Kentucky kids isn't their priority, but Trump's golden ballroom is.
October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The removal of federal leadership in special education puts eight million children and youth with disabilities at risk. Join us tomorrow to help protect their services. All donations will be matched! #4SpecialEducation 

Learn more: https://exceptionalchildren.donorsupport.co/page/GivingDay2025
Graphic with red background and a smiling child giving a peace sign in a white t-shirt showing CEC's logo. The text reads, "Tomorrow: CEC Giving Day; October 28, 2025"
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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khaosdog.bsky.social
Chicken of the wood.

For @sushiartstudio.bsky.social's chicken card project.

All proceeds generated from the chicken card project will be donated to the British hen welfare trust. www.bhwt.org.uk
Watercolor painting of two chicken merging into the mushroom 'chicken of the woods'.
October 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Int’l Artists Day
Howloween
October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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'I am but a shadow, come from the meadow
Where many lie, but no tree can stand.'

From Christina Rossetti's 'The Ghost's Petition'
Illustration by Florence Harrison
#BookWormSat
Illustration from 1910, depicting a Pre-Raphaelite styled woman with red hair. She is sitting on a chair in a wood panelled room. Standing before her is a ghostly figure.
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM