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Tristan F.
@tristanaef.bsky.social
Writer, history enthusiast. Queer 19th-century naval history, lit, and art. Probably thinking about medieval Arthurian lit or trees at any given moment.🌿he/they🌲My highlights: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6dyms7eafdp4wvoybtxx5nbo/feed/aaacmdeeay5mc
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Ok! Clips that will attach the seed packs to the posters have been added. Next batch of seeds arrives tomorrow, so I can make seed packs of these 3 species (milkweed is already here, stratified in my fridge).

Should be able to get them out into the neighborhood this weekend??
March 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Shameful interview about gender-affirming trans healthcare on today's @npr.org Here & Now. The UK is an example of how NOT to treat trans youth. No mention of the recent report from several European countries that SUPPORTS trans healthcare for minors and rebukes the Cass Review. (1/)
#trans
March 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Peter Carney gets up close and personal with some #FranklinExpedition relics at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution following a talk by @illuminator.bsky.social. erebusandterrorfiles.blogspot.com/2025/02/four...
Four Rusty Tin Cans in Three Different Sizes
In January 2024 I had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful and historic city of Bath to attend a fantastic presentation by Logan Zachary...
erebusandterrorfiles.blogspot.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Visited Thomas Abernethy yesterday after a long time. His gravestone had survived another winter - no mean feat in Peterhead AND facing the sea - but this is Abernethy, whose widow would have needed a massive wall of granite to reflect his service record in the Arctic and the Antarctic alone.
February 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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#StainedGlassSunday
1898 memorial window to Edward Oates, Lord of the Manor of Over Hall, in Gestingthorpe.
Erected by his children incl Capt Laurence Oates, the man on Scott's Antarctic expedition in 1912 who went into the blizzard to die in hope of saving his fellow explorers.
February 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I should also say that this museum is completely volunteer-led. They are redoing their displays, and clearing out objects that are not linked to Newhaven, so there's room to develop a narrative of Newhaven's long history. The Brazen wreck is an important part of their identity. #NavalHistory
Photographed some artefacts from wreck of HMS Brazen in 1800. I tried to see if the spoon had been engraved, and who the maker was. It looks like there's a W and an N visible on the back of the stem. Who might be able to help? Recommendations gratefully received! @danpascoe79.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Are you an independent researcher, writer, artist, or creator? Are you fascinated by the history of polar exploration and looking to explore this in your work? The New Polar Times needs you!
February 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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In 1960, Library and Archives Canada took possession of a can of Mystery Meat recovered from Beechey Island in Nunavut, and put it on display.

(They thought it was a #FranklinExpedition artefact, but it's likely to have been from the Search. Image below is of a replica).
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.

But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years
It's nothing new.
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January 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Business in Hispanic neighborhoods is already down: restaurants, grocery stores, everything. Immigrant customers and employees are afraid to leave their houses.

If they can't leave, we can. Show up for your immigrant neighbors and their businesses, everywhere.
January 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Now more than ever 🏳️‍⚧️
January 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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As many of us seem to be undergoing our own little Winterreise...

'Krähe, wunderliches Tier,
Willst mich nicht verlassen?
Meinst wohl bald als Beute hier
Meinen Leib zu fassen?'

~ Wilhelm Müller

Crow. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, 85 × 132 mm, 2022.

1/2
January 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Green
January 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Robert Anstruther Goodsir died OTD in 1895, aged 71. Much of his life is opaque. But what we /do/ have shows a brave, brilliant, compassionate man, who often put himself at great risk to help others.

He's also the best writer by far of all the people who searched for the #FranklinExpedition.
January 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Now available in paperback for preorder.

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November 27, 2023 at 9:08 PM
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The latest Polar Artists Collective exhibition is now LIVE!! Check it out from our linktree here: linktr.ee/polarartcoll...
January 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Cracks in the Ice: An Installation || Mary Walters

An installation describing the decline of Arctic sea ice, for the Edinburgh Science Festival
January 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Please help me! I’m on X because that’s where my paintings sell. I shift about 95% of my work there. If I could just get my followers up to the same level here, it would release me from the swamp. I live in the middle of nowhere so I rely on social media to share & show my work.
January 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Red Admiral
Digital painting
January 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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For New Year’s Day 2025, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.

A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!

‘The Pomegranate: Greek Symbol of Good Fortune for the New Year’: greekreporter.com/2025/01/01/p...

#Archaeology
January 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Flew over Greenland a few days ago. That was a cool experience. I had the only open shade on the plane. Look what they all missed out on! I am guessing the mountains are flat-topped from glacial/icepack action.
December 24, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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old art, still a good crimus movie :]

#thegreenknight #fanart #jaradraws
December 25, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Merry Christmas to all! 🎄💖
[Letter from Robert Coningham to Fitzjames] #19thC #NavalHistory
December 25, 2024 at 12:20 PM