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Smiling Cucumber @smilingcucumber.bsky.social · Nov 24
Mudita, baby.
smilingcucumber.bsky.social
"...the measure of a country is how it protects the smallest and softest lives in it."
To this video essay a resounding "AWOMEN, and AMEN".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=olYi...
On What We Should Be Protecting
YouTube video by Robert Arnold
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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rleggos.bsky.social
So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍

Berthoud Pass, CO last night
Milky Way to the left and red glow to the right above mountains with just a little snow on them in a very starry sky. I didn't use a star tracker and this was a 30 second exposure so some star trailing is visible.
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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missmarplesback.bsky.social
The world is SHIT, but knowing a couple got their dog a beekeepers suit so he wouldn’t feel left out or stung, has given me hope again …
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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nicilaskin.bsky.social
Northern lights in the Arizona desert

#aurora #northernlights #photography
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
smilingcucumber.bsky.social
Bluesky is Aurorasky tonight! 😍🎨 So gorgeous, woohoooo!
Surfing hundreds of images from all over the map yet my "trending" has yet to register the event. 😱 So may I suggest that the top trending "Dancing With The Stars" serves (poetically) to cover both? 🤩🤩🤩
skwinnicki.bsky.social SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 4d
I took over 800 aurora photos tonight. I'm not going to share every one of them, but I'm definitely gonna share a bunch. So you might wanna mute me if you don't wanna see sky colors! I'll try to get it out of my system tonight, we'll see how long I can stay up sorting photos.
skwinnicki.bsky.social SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 4d
Just unreal, it will never get old. I feel like I just feel more awe every time.

#aurora
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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climatologist49.bsky.social
I might have taken a few aurora photos.
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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spookybiscuits.com
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
smilingcucumber.bsky.social
This Veterans Day morning fog made a huge flock of crows invisible, but boy were they chatty!
Seaweed is flattened atop shoreline rocks during low tide while a thick fog drifts across the water and blurs the outlines of a stretch of land in the distance.
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
smilingcucumber.bsky.social
Things are terrible but one selfless human has changed the lives of many children and families for the better and Go Baby Go is still mobilizing! 👍😍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NE...
How One Man's Trip to Toys 'R' Us Brought Mobility to Hundreds of Disabled Kids
YouTube video by NationSwell
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November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won.

A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.

He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Makes me feel like Horton Hearing The Whos! 🍀😍
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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repstansbury.bsky.social
My hot take on this moment: the American people have spoken loud and clear—we’re ready to reclaim our country!
Rep. Stansbury: the people have spoken!
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
smilingcucumber.bsky.social
I ❤️
NY!
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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It's raining here but "Mr. Blue Sky" fits my mood this Bluesky day. 🎹🎻🎶 (Via Paul Krugman newsletter.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTbN...
Mr. Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra) - Postmodern Jukebox ft. Allison Young
YouTube video by PostmodernJukebox
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November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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singeli.bsky.social
A beautiful story about a beautiful man in an occupied neighborhood in my occupied city. We are all worse off for this loss, and I am so grateful to local independent journalists for calling attention to it.
51st.news The 51st @51st.news · 12d
Gael Gomez and his family are all but certain to leave the country this week, upending the lives they’ve built in D.C.

But Mount Pleasant's 19-year-old sidewalk astronomer wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.

@samdelgado.bsky.social reports:
Mount Pleasant’s sidewalk astronomer might have to leave his home
But Gael Gomez wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
51st.news
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
smilingcucumber.bsky.social
In The Guardian today, by David Smith:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Four paragraphs highlighted from linked article: "Progressives and moderates were both given fodder to make a case that they have the antidote to Trumpism. The reality, of course, in a wildly diverse country of 50 states and 340 million people, is not one or the other, but all of the above. The maxim that all politics is local has taken a beating in recent years, but is not entirely dead. The Democratic party is a glorious melee of different constituencies and viewpoints in contrast to the brittle monoculture of the Trump cult. What unites it ahead of next year’s midterms is a desire for fighters rather than folders and for a relentless focus on the affordability crisis even as the president flaunts power and wealth. Asked whether Mamdani or Spanberger is the future of the party, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told the MSNBC network: “At the end of the day I don’t think that our party needs to have one face. Our country does not have one face. It’s about all of us as a team together, and we all understand the assignment. “Our assignment everywhere is to send the strongest fighters for the working class wherever possible. In some places, like Virginia, for the gubernatorial seat, that’s going to look like Abigail Spanberger. In New York City, unequivocally it is Zohran Mamdani.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
smilingcucumber.bsky.social
Tonight you have delivered a mandate for change.

If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.

New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. -ZM
Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City, smiles as he begins his election night speech. Zohran Mamdani waves to crowd last night, pictured below overlay in the New York Times of the article "Zohran Mamdani Is Elected Mayor of New York City".
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
smilingcucumber.bsky.social
Fascinating to watch a lapidary master cut a garnet gem! (3 min)
www.youtube.com/shorts/oOI-O...
This 45 carat rough revealed an unforgettable gem that we cut from it! #gemstone #lapidary #art
YouTube video by MoreGems.com
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A breakdown of this moment.
Hank's guest Jeannie Hunter is the Regional Director of the Society of St. Andrew, a nonprofit that gleans food that may otherwise go to waste:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwLa...
This Shutdown is Different
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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📚🙏Extralibrary Loan: placesjournal.org/article/extr...
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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theobserveruk.bsky.social
“Prisoners who join our choir echo this account. One describes how the rats have learned to wait for the last inspection at night before squeezing under cell doors in search of food stored inside,” writes Paul Webster.
https://bit.ly/3JDjnPg
What I learned singing with prisoners every week
Behind bars, violence and despair are overwhelming. But when Liberty Choir meets, something extraordinary happens
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM