Linda Watson
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Linda Watson
@varyingviriya.bsky.social
Wildlife gardener and photographer by day, cartoonist by night. Follow my comic @OurTurning. 2025 graduate of the Sequential Artist Workshop’s year-long program. I’ll post about native plants, pollinators, comics, sci-fi, solar punk, activism, and beauty.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
First Halloween for the new wall. Great place for pumpkins and warty big squash. #halloween #pumpkins #stonewall #naturallandscaping
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Reverend William Barber spelled out the GOP lies and the unfair, racist new district map they just approved for NC, flipping one district from blue to red. #repairersofthebreach #gerrymandering #nc #raleigh #votingrights
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October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The main characters in my comic strip would have been at a #NoKings protest today. Follow their efforts to build a kind, just, and green world at ourturning.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
#nokings rally in north #Raleigh. Huge cheerful, peaceful turnout demanding change. Signs protested our loss of freedom, voting rights, and democracy. The wolf in the business suit is holding a bag of money and a sign that says “Beware of fascist wolves in Republican clothing.” #resist #NC
October 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
@relindsey.bsky.social As a wildlife gardener, I use Climate.gov to understand how changing temperatures and precipitation will affect plants and wildlife. As a human being, I use climate science to help me understand and protect our amazing, living world. Eager to support you at Climate.us.
September 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@relindsey.bsky.social As a member of Raleigh NC’s Environmental Advisory Board, I frequently used resources on Climate.gov to prepare presentations and to understand how Raleigh should respond to changing conditions.
September 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
September 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
About a thousand people in Raleigh for #WorkersOverBillionaires protest. Good speeches, short march, perfect weather. A grandmother I marched next to said she was there for family and friends afraid to risk public protest.
September 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Joanna Macy is an ancestor now. What a gift it has been for us to have her on the planet these past 96 years. May we carry her legacy onward, ever loving the Earth and all her creatures.

#buddhism #deepecology #workthatreconnects
July 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Thousands out for peaceful protest at the North Carolina Capitol, with more all around the block. Speaker is Anderson Clayton, @ncdem Chair. #nokings #raleigh #ncdp #nc
June 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Great turnout for #NoKings in north Raleigh #raleigh #nokings #nc
June 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My sign for today’s protest in north Raleigh: In the USA, the only monarch is a butterfly. #nokings #raleigh #nc #monarchsagainstkings
June 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
As the crimes and outrages add up, the signs get longer. #mayday2025 #mayday #raleigh #nc
May 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
May Day rally downtown. Music in the sunny center, more people on the shady edges. 90 degrees. #mayday #raleigh #nc
May 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The propaganda of end-game capitalism is to get us to believe action doesn't matter. Why shop intentionally? Why vote? Why protest? It won’t save the world, so why bother?

This pervasive mentality leads us to shut up and consume, which ironically, are choices and actions.

Each. Choice. Matters.
April 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Huge and witty #HandsOff crowd in Raleigh NC. The Bicentennial Plaza is jammed, with an overflow crowd across the street at the Capitol. #raleigh
April 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
@rebeccacampbell.bsky.social thank you for writing Arboreality. I just read “Scions and Root Stocks.” Such vivid solastalgia, heartbreaking and hopeful. I’m reading slowly so I can feel each story deeply, but this one is too beautiful to not praise right away. 🙏
March 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Funny, chilling, and educational Substack series by Alexandra Leaver, which she describes as being about “Cinderzilla is a personification of P2025 as an adorable monster, attractive to her fans and frightening to her detractors.” : alexleaverart.substack.com #project2025 #comics #whatshappening
Alexandra’s Substack | Alexandra Leaver | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read Alexandra’s Substack, by Alexandra Leaver, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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February 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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February 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A patch of sunflowers and cosmos still blooming at the NC Museum of Art. It’s alive with bees, hover flies, and grasshoppers. #sunflowers #garden #ncma #beautiful
November 14, 2024 at 2:18 AM
My garden has a welcoming bench and signs that let the neighbors know that it’s a wildlife garden, not just messy. 😂
November 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM