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K.Journeay - मेघान्त
@dervishspin.bsky.social
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Poet, sword fighter, history nerd. Studying animism, myth, business architecture, and plant wisdom. Also there are likely cats. She/her
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#cats #cat #blackandwhitephotography
A close up, black and white photo of a tabby cat. He is laying on a textured quilt on a bed, pale curtain behind him. Morning sun beams illuminate his belly, the side of his face, and his forward extended paws. The cat is peering off camera, a proud & noble look on his face.
April 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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My cat judges me.
I probably deserved it

#cat #cats
A silver tabby cat with a white smudge on its nose peers out from behind a Roman shade. In its eyes is a deep, coruscating, judgement. What has the picture taken done? What is their crime? Only the silver tabby knows.
April 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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This is a useful reminder.
Actually, I build my work teams like this too.
#resist
April 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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#poetry #themoon #moon
There is a quote on a dark blue rectangle. The dark blue rectangle is positioned on top of a picture of a stone Greek temple, grey columns rising into a pale blue sky. "What have you mused on, Moon, In your day, So aloof, so far away?" "O, I have mused on, often mused on Growth, decay, Nations alive, dead, mad, aswoon..." -Thomas Hardy
April 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Gratuitous seedling post!
Look at my babies!
April 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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#poetry #hope #resist
#nakitagill
The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns and the fire consumes all You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. -Nakita Gill
March 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Bots or People I have blocked today, an occasional series:

Tell me why the hell this account thinks I would follow it back?
What about this tiny little fragment of information is compelling enough for me to go "ooo! I DEFINITELY want to know more about this guy"?
#bots #womanontheinternet
Screen cap of an Instagram notification that an account called "risingwarrior67" wants to follow my account. The icon is a black and white photo of a movie star handsome man with an 8-pack set of abs wearing sunglasses, staring off into the distance with the ocean behind him. His name is Gerard. He has 4 posts, 571 followers and 72 following. His description reads: God and family Father of two mastiffs 🐶 ❤️ Fitness Adventure.
March 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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A good reminder
#mushrooms #resist
A comic called Mushroomed: First panel has a sketch of a gilled mushroom "After a rain mushrooms appear on the surface of the earth as if from nowhere." Second panel: a sketch of many gilled mushrooms, "Many so so from a vast underground fungus that remains invisible and unknown. Third Panel: a sketch of the same mushrooms connected to the mycelia underneath them. "What we call mushrooms mycologists call the fruiting body of the larger, less visible fungus" Fourth panel: a sketch of a first with trees and many mushrooms clustered underneath the trees. (Uprisings and revolutions are often considered to be spontaneous). A small note at the bottom of the comic: "from Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit.
February 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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#poetry #resist
To the Oppressors By Pauli Murray Now you are strong And we are but grapes aching with ripeness. Crush us! Squeeze from us all the brave life Contained in these full skins. But ours is a subtle strength Potent with centuries of yearning, Of being kegged and shut away In dark forgotten places. We shall endure To steal your senses In that lonely twilight Of your winter’s grief.
February 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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As an American I feel like this eagle right now, hunkered down, weathering some icy, wretched, miserable shit, while trying to protect the future.

#birdwatching #americawatching #resist

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A bald eagle huddles in her nest at the top of a tall tree. The tree, the bird, the cloud-shrouded lake in the distance are covered in snow. You can almost hear the storm she is enduring, the pellets of ice hitting her, the wind howling. At the bottom of the screenshot is FriendsofBigBearValley.org 2025-02-14 08:28:45
February 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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It's not a Business Architecture meme. And yet it is.

#businessarchitecture #swords
A cartoon of Skeletor from He-Man, sitting on his bone throne, looking thoughtful. The meme text reads "I hate how most of my problems are abstract or systemic. I want to fight them with a sword.
February 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Snow hats on echinacea
A winter scene. A close up of the dried brown stems of echinacea plants from a garden. All the other vegetation in the garden are in various shades of brown, but they are out of focus. On the top of each stem is a domed hat of snow. Even further out of focus, behind the garden, are blue and green houses with sloping roofs also covered in fresh snow.
February 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Whiskey Cat content:
This is Woodford Reserve, or Woody. Woody was trying to take swipes at me while I was folding laundry. Then one of his claws got stuck on the coverlet. He kept reaching out with his other paw, until that one got stuck. And thus, this photo.
#catportrait
The light in this photo comes through white curtains, softly diffused. A grey tabby cat with white paws and a white chest is splayed out on a blue coverlet at a flattened, awkward angle. It's clear that his claws are hooked into the coverlet, and his arms make a more than 90° angle. He is stuck. He also looks deeply confused.
January 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Stone wall in the woods, after a storm.
The photo is of a winter scene, bare branches in the snow. The end of a new england style stone wall is in the lower right foreground of the image, it stretched diagonally up and across the field of vision, vanishing into the distance. At that point it meets the pale yellow and blue of a clouded sunset.
January 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Welp
January 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Goodnight, Mr President.
I have snuggled down with your poetry and warm coffee as a way of honoring your memory.
May deep thinking, wonder, ethics, and love of democracy not have gone with you into the void.
We need it more than ever.
#MrPresident #JimmyCarter
Considering the Void by Jimmy Carter When I behold the charm of evening skies, their lulling endurance; the patterns of stars with names of bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin; other planets that the Voyager showed were like and so unlike our own, with all their diverse moons, bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces; comets with their streaming tails bent by pressure from our sun; the skyscape of our Milky Way holding in its shimmering disc an infinity of suns (or say a thousand billion); knowing there are holes of darkness gulping mass and even light, knowing that this galaxy of ours is one of multitudes in what we call the heavens, it troubles me. It troubles me.
December 30, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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Am taking a MasterClass featuring Joy Harjo. The interface has a "Class TA" on the side. This is an extremely poorly thought out "feature", doubly so for a poetry class. If you have a master of the craft teaching you, what, precisely can an AI offer the student?
Photo of a laptop screen that is displaying a MasterClass class. The teacher is poet Joy Harjo. On the right of the screen is a chat looking feature. A red arrow has been crudely drawn into of this picture, pointing to the chat looking feature.
December 27, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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My cats and their stockings.
A small but big boned tortoiseshell cat sits on a red oriental rug looking up and to the left of the camera. Next to her is a small paw shaped stocking. The stocking has Angel embroidered in red thread at the top. The stocking is brown and has stitched down brown stripes on it, meant to look like tortie cat stripes. There is a package of cat treats sticking out of the top of the stocking. Angel is her first name. Her full name is Angel's Envy, she is named for the Bourbon. A Grey tabby cat is crouched over a grey Christmas stocking shaped like a paw, with black felt to represent black cat pads. The stocking is embroidered with red thread and ready Knob. "Knob" is his proper first name. His middle name is Creek. He was named for the Knob Creek Bourbon. We call him Knobby. A silver tabby with a white chest and white pass sits next to a white paw shaped stocking, with pink felt that represents the paw pads. The name "Woodford" is embroidered in red thread at the top of the stocking. Woodford is his proper first name. He full name is Woodford Reserve, also named for a bourbon. We call him Woody.
December 25, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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I forgot to post this! We went to the Poetry Pharmacy in London. It's a pop-up bookstore in a Lush which sells mostly poetry. You can even get small poems in gel capsules, tucked into bottles labeled Joy or Resilience, "For a Broken Heart. It's a marvelous place. I could have spent hours there.
A chalkboard shop placard at street level. It has a logo on it which reads "The Poetry Pharmacy". Under that it reads "Poetry on Prescription". Under that is a quote which reads "What inexhaustible food for speculation do the streets of London afford!" - Charles Dickens. This is a white bookcase with a red painted frame all the way around. It contains small capped bottles, a deck of cards with Shakespeare's face on it, small colorful books, a skull with its mouth open, and several small volumes of poetry. Another bookshelf, there is a sign over the top which reads "prescriptions". Under that there is a section called "First Aid", with 6 cubbies of books underneath is, a section called "Calm" with 6 bubbies of books under that. There is a 3rd section with books, but there is not enough in the picture to know what that section is called.
December 21, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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I have seen the parakeets of London.
Three green, long tailed parakeets are perched on a backyard bird feeder. Two are on the hooks at the top, one is feeding. There is a brown gardenshed in the background.
December 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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Chilta hazar Masha, "coat of 1,000 nails". This is out of period for what I study, but the shape of the armor has influenced my own fencing kit.
The side view of a suit of Indian fabric and metal armor. The fabric is a dark green, and there are elaborate Islamic patterns all over the fabric, made up of tiny rivets. The arm pieces cover the shoulders and hang down loose to the elbows. Closeup of a suit of Indian fabric and metal armor. The fabric is a dark green, and there are elaborate Islamic patterns all over the fabric, made up of tiny rivets. This is a close up of the tip of the arm piece Side view of the skirt of the indian armor, showing of the sides of the skirt are open, but overlap. Boots that match the indian armor.
December 18, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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These gave me ideas for my new fencing helm cover,. specifically a new nasal, as my old one got destroyed in a ravine battle.
December 18, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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The spurs were an unexpected find.
December 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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The Wallace Collection, on the whole, is a frustrating experience for sword nerds. You see the sword, you note the number, and then you have to walk back to a book, look up the number, and it tells you as much as it knows about how the sword got in to the collection.
December 18, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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This dagger was beautiful, and it was in it's own case in the Wallace Collection and was the most well documented of the swords.
December 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM