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Bryn Robinson, PhD
@brynphd.com
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A creative and curious sort, writing poetry and photographing all the birds on Wolastoqey lands.

UNB PhD '10. Wife, stepmom, she/her. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☕️

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How your email finds me.
Hand-painted sign in Yarmouth NS, portraying a Victorian-era woman riding a cart pulled by two harnessed lobsters. As one does. On the cart also sits one giant lace-up ankle boot.
July 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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East Coast Bistro is easily the best restaurant in Saint John send skeet.

Clockwise from bottom right: Smoked salmon/goat cheese/dill quiche; pain au chocolat; double chocolate puff pastry pop tart; vanilla crueller; ham/pesto/cheese croissant. #NewBrunswick
A wood cutting board with five pastries sitting on checkered wax paper.
July 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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And in Saint John, 12K customers out for…reasons.
GIS map of Saint John with neighbourhoods blacked out that are experiencing a power outage on a hot sunny day
June 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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If you need a new lunch box, the Grand Bay-Westfield Town Yard Sale has you covered.
Blue and white Coleman lunch box with “Saint John Sexual Health Centre, 28 Richmond St” written in Sharpie on top.
June 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.
Napoleon Dynamite slapping his brother Kip in the face.
June 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Always a genuine LOL when the flight crew says to “check the board for your connection status” on arrival at YSJ.

Ma’am, I don’t think Vet’s Taxi has a codeshare with Air Canada.
A tiny airport at night, as seen from the plane.
May 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Maude Flanders exclaiming, “Won’t someone think of the middle-aged white men?”
May 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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A smol toad in a smaller frying pan on a pink and white towel. The toad is mouth open with its strangely large tongue protruding out. The caption underneath is in brackets and says, (violent gag).
May 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I loved my visit to DC, but then it wasn’t overrun by overt fascists.
A black and white photo of the U St station on the DC Metro in June 2019. The ceiling is curved and indented like an ice cube tray. The train runs along the right hand side to the vanishing point, exaggerated in effect by the ceiling. More joyous is the lack of Nazis patrolling the concourse.
May 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Who is this dude? He blocked me too.
Mr Crabs squinting at a chalkboard that says “0 days without nonsense”.
May 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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First time* getting #covid19 and it sucks.

(*Admittedly, that I know of. But any time I’ve been sick in past 5 yrs, I’ve taken test, and always negative. This one didn’t even make it past the Test line 🫠)
Mocking SpongeBob meme with the text “Just a cold” over his head.
May 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Day 72 into #The100DayProject, and all the #dinosaurs are complete: painted two coats, then wrapped with embroidery floss, before clear coat.

(Click photo to see the panoramic.)

Next steps: Distribution, video of project, then upload to website with info. #100DaysOfDinos
A panoramic photo of 100 toy dinosaurs painted with greenish-black glitter paint, then wrapped with different colours of embroidery floss. The colours run from white, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, indigo. With a few rainbow and biro/ace thrown in 😊
May 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Worth the wait. Always.
Selfie of two people in sunglasses and hats on a sunny morning in front of a yellow Elections Canada sign.
April 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I’m at an open mic poetry reading @thewritecupsj.bsky.social - Hot Bottled #Poetry on Local 107 - and randomly decided to sign up for my first reading! 😅🫠

(The theme is “Family” and I’m going to read “Acts of Preservation”, because nothing says warm and fuzzy like family trauma 😂)

#CanLit
People sitting on couches and comfy chairs in a cafe with pink walls and white ceilings as two men prepare a microphone for an open mic night.
April 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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A sudden influx today of new followers. Not sure why but welcome!

I’m Bryn (she/her). Live in #NewBrunswick in Menahqesk (Saint John).

Some things I post on:
🩵 Writing poetry, writing #BookReviews, #Birds photography, #FlyTying)
🩵 Sharing #SciArt
🩵 #PatientEngagement
A splendid yellow warbler on an apple tree resplendent with white blossoms.
April 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Thanks to some quality deer hair locally harvested from Alex Swartman #FlyFishing Bushwhacker, easily whipped up these Deer Hair Caddis on #16 Classic Dry hooks. (Recipe: Tightline Video) #WomenWhoTieFlies #SciArt #NewBrunswick
Shot of tan and black deer hair caddis dry fly on a tiny #16 hook in a vise, with blurred supplies on table in background.
April 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#RSD2025 haul from Backstreet. #RecordStoreDay
Four used records, clockwise from top: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”, The Moody Blues “Long Distance Voyager”, Bonnie Raitt “Sweet Forgiveness”, and Boney M “Night Flight to Venus”.
April 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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After organizing all the new goodies from LG Fly & Rod in Clair, #NewBrunswick, had to do one tie.

Dark Montreal on #8.

#WomenWhoTieFlies #FlyTying #FlyFishing
Dark Montreal on a #8 hook. A claret-coloured fly with a brown and white turkey wing.
April 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Local #SaintJohn #FlyTying representing at the Moncton Sportsmen Show. Cassie Ross did a great job leading us through a few #trout patterns. She’s been a great ambassador for the craft and support for me. 💕🐟🐡 #WomenWhoTieFlies #FlyFishing
Woman with short hair sits at table, demonstrating fly tying (with a TV screen showing close ups of her vise behind her).
April 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Made a few on a size 10 to get the hang of it. (Will have to be used later in our season!)

Thanks for the inspiration @aarnegranlund.bsky.social!

#FlyTying #WomenWhoTieFlies #SciArt
Glittery body dry fly with white poly yarn wing and post, with hackle parachute.
April 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Full house at Wasted Day Brewing for the International Fly Fishing Film Festival - the first showing in #SaintJohn!

Congrats Arliss and @rossgalbraith.bsky.social for a successful event!

#FlyFishing #FlyTying #IF4
Close to 70 people in a room with stone walls and pillars painted with green hops. A man on a stage introducing films on a screen behind him. Local fly fisherman against a bar with brick walls and lime green pipes, speaking before the start of the festival. Men laughing and drinking beer, sitting together on a brown leather couch with a hot pink abstract canvas on a brick wall. Close-up of the crowd chatting and drinking beer at intermission.
March 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Gremlin yoga.

#TimelineCleanse #PuppyYoga #Puppies
A grey and white Boston Terrier puppy gnawing on my left hand.
March 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Spring has officially arrived in #SaintJohn. 🥰
Text reads: The Saint John Harbour Bridge will be reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction starting March 32, 2025 to allow for the continuation of multi-phase work on the project. During this work, the on-ramp and off-ramp from Chelsey Drive will also be closed to traffic. Delays are expected for traffic in both directions approaching the bridge during this period.
March 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Last night, kicked it back old school with the classic Woolly Bugger fly. #SciArt #FlyTying #WomenWhoTieFlies
An olive green and gold bead head woolly bugger in a vise up close, with blurred supplies in background. Six olive green and gold bead head woolly buggers in a row in cork board, ready.
March 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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When Party City is woefully underprepared for a Happy #Hysterectomy party.

(The manager said it’s the strangest day she’s ever had, and I feel good about that.) 🧪

#SciArt #Endometriosis #Uterus
A piñata of Blue the Dog, of “Blues Clues” fame. A uterus piñata with happy kawaii eyes and mouth, using the inverted head of the Blue piñata and moving the ears up to become fallopian tubes and ovaries. It’s now covered in various pink crepe papers cut into fringe, with red crepe flowing from the cervix. I’m not sorry at all.
March 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM