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gwin
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🌹 she/her • 20s • virgo • introvert • 🖤🩶🤍💜 • i ♡‬ tolkien, cats, & overcast weather • 🇵🇸🕊️📚
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Who speaks for Earth?

Carl Sagan, Cosmos
January 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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V MECHOVÉM KRÁLOVSTVÍ…
fotka z nedávné návštěvy jižního vnitrozemí Islandu.

#bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature #iceland
September 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This is oddly soothing. What a beautiful idea. Eco-friendly, unlike embalming. Where can I sign up to have my remains reclaimed by a tree? #greenburial
🌿🪦🌿"Folklore claimed that churchyard yews would stretch a root to the mouth of each corpse, making a hidden green-man of every buried body. Their essence would be drawn in with the sap. The tree would remember them."

📖Deeper Older Darker
#FairyTaleTuesday #thicktrunktuesday #FairyTaleFlash
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I love this set in my collection showing that magic moment when a cat sees you and decides to come visit. ✨
October 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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✨Mein Sehnen ✨
New piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class, featuring Lúthien Tinúviel from Tolkien's Silmarillion.

#art #juliametzgerart
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Today in Mark As Read, @mollytempleton.com's ode to the vanishing mass market paperback:

reactormag.com/we-all-miss-...
We All Miss Mass Market Paperbacks - Reactor
It's partly nostalgia, but there really is something special about those books...
reactormag.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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The Electric Tower
August 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

- Carl Sagan
August 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Our health care system is close to collapse.

Not enough doctors, nurses or dentists.

Costs are skyrocketing.

Trump’s legislation will cause hospitals, nursing homes & community health centers to cut back services.

We need a simple, universal system: Medicare for All.
August 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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🌿 Restful Bobcat 🌿
August 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Why are some still spreading misinfo that "masks only work when everyone wears one," & use it as an excuse not to mask as "no-one else is."

It isn't all or nothing. While it's safer when more mask because there's less virus in the air, a well-fitting mask protects you even if no-one else masks.
August 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Today's figure drawing. 25min.
Reference: trueref.io
(‪ @trueref.bsky.social ‬)
August 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Patiently waiting for bird videos to be invented. Photo from my collection, 1956.
August 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Support independent journalism! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
“EXCLUSIVE: Zeteo Acquiring Film About Gaza Doctors That BBC Refused to Air”

Big news folks! I’m proud to announce that Zeteo will be stepping up to ensure that the hugely important ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ documentary will be available to watch globally on our site from Wednesday.
EXCLUSIVE: Zeteo Acquiring Film About Gaza Doctors That BBC Refused to Air
‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ documentary will be released globally by Zeteo after being dropped by the BBC.
zeteo.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.
June 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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these vintage library promotional posters go so hard
June 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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A cosmic umbrella in the sky?

NGC 4651, known as the Umbrella Galaxy, is surrounded by a stunning tidal stream — stars torn from a smaller galaxy during repeated encounters. This galactic dance is captured in this deep sky image from Saudi Arabia.

Credit: Rabeea Alkuwari & Anas Almajed
June 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"Monsters are more than just horrid looks and claws and teeth. Monsters are born of deeds done. Unforgivable ones."
—The Witcher, "Grain of Truth"
June 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Gorgeous photo from The Color Nature Library: CATS by Peggy Wratten, 1977. I can't find the photographer's name, unfortunately. None is noted anywhere in the book.
April 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Here's a life-affirming comic for ya
April 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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No, the finding *wasn’t surprising.* It was in line with previous research findings. As the article says!
April 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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We can discuss how self-serving it was, but I do think it was valuable that Americans *used* to think that we *should* be a force for good and be willing to reach out and help. Beyond soft power, it was a good thing folks would expect us to send aid, to organize around it and to offer support.
March 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird
April 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM