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Janey Colbourne
@janeycog.bsky.social
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Peer support facilitator Brain Health Breakthrough CIC | Nonfiction Writer | Performance Poet | Embroidery Hobbyist | Gender Nonconforming | AuDHD | she/her

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Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you’ve shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews

#Books #Nature #Naturewriting
#naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Book cover with title ‘The Mind of a Bee’ by Lars Chittka, in white text on a black background. A close-up photograph of an iridescent bee is the centre image.
October 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you’ve shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews

#Books #Nature #Naturewriting
#naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#moss #bryophytes
The cover of the book ‘Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The cover shows an illustration of moss, and a quote by Robert MacFarlane which says, ‘Grounding, calming and quietly revolutionary’
October 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Happy #WorldEmbroideryDay ☺️
Some pieces from my embroidery journey 2021-2025 (the last one is still unfinished)
A compilation of 12 photos of my embroidery pieces. Some are stitched words or line drawings in backstitch. Some are thread paintings. Ex There is one rectangular redwork piece in a frame, which is a stitched poem entitled ‘redwork’ and one piece that is a simple house design stitched on a mini canvas. The other ten are all in circular embroidery hoops. There are positive messages in the pieces with words. For example, the first piece in the top left, an embroidery piece in a hoop, with freehand words stitched in red. In the centre is a heart, around which is the phrase ‘create & chat’. All the words begin with the letter C. There are some flowers stitched with daisy chain stitch, and heart motifs. The stitched words are: contentment, conversation, calm, cherish, cozy, cheer, connect, craft, companions, comfortable. The bottom left piece is an embroidery ‘thread painting’ in an orange hoop. The scene is a pond in the woods. A tiny figure in the centre stands on a hillock just beyond the water. There are patches of ground stitched in orange and russet, where there is a carpet of fallen larch tree needles. The last piece, at the bottom right, is an unfinished embroidery in a detailed thread painting style, of a woodland scene, framed in a green embroidery hoop. The large central tree is growing on rock. In the foreground, the purples in the rock strata have been accentuated.
July 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Incredibly slow progress on my #HandEmbroidery #ThreadPainting

#WIPWednesday
Hand embroidered ‘thread painting’ work in progress, depicting a woodland scene, with a central tree growing on rock, and framed in a green hoop.
June 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The article that got #RebeccaSolnit FB account disabled. They are also taking it down if anyone else shares it.
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jun 11
For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Today I’d like to #LiftToTheSky @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for starting #LiftToTheSky an absolutely joyful, positive, community-building concept. Thank you 🥰
June 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
Bluesky is an "echo chamber" but Twitter is some kind of what, salon? An egalitarian agora where ideas are respectfully exchanged?

Twitter is a smoking Cybertruck with a greasy dude reeking of Axe Body Spray offering Circus Peanuts out of the back seat. I have no interest in getting into that ride.
June 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My personal embroidery has taken a bit of a backseat as I’m working on a community textile project with our #LongCovidSupport group at #BrainHealthBreakthroughCIC
Some beautiful contributions from our group members

#CommunityArts #LongCovidBanner
#crochet #embroidery #CrossStitch #WIP #TextileArt
Two fabric pieces in the shape of ginkgo leaves, in two shades of green. The dark green leaf has the words resilience and strength embroidered on it. The bright green leaf has the words hope and endurance embroidered in it. A selection of textile pieces laid out on a bright green background as part of a banner work in progress, including a cross stitch piece that reads ‘Brain Health Breakthrough’ circled by crocheted hands that are linked together. There are crochet sunflowers and a heart, and two pink Suffolk puffs in the shape of hearts. Various leaf shapes in three shades of green cotton fabric, laid out on a coffee table.
June 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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“When the Amazon is in flood - deep enough to submerge well-grown trees entirely, over an area not far short of England - the fish feed on fruit & river dolphins race through the upper branches of what should be the canopy”

Colin Tudge
The Secret Life of Trees

#naturewriting #thesecretlifeoftrees
March 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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asheradrienne.bsky.social
Harriet McBryde Johnson: disabled people take conditions that people would never ask for and make beautiful, thriving lives out of them. We have to remind ourselves that there will always be disabled people living thriving lives. There will always be moments of beauty and joy.
#LongCovid #ME/CFS
February 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I’ve solved the overheating problem
#mytitsarehot #titsonfire #mastitis #longcovidsymptomsareweird #cabbagebra
Series of six images, five of which are screenshots from an IT Crowd episode. First three images are of Jen in a meeting. The captions say: ‘my tits’ ‘Oh, my tits are hot’ ‘My tits are on fire’ Fourth image is Moss holding a burning bra. The fifth image is of me, Janey Colbourne, wearing two cabbage leaves as a bra. The sixth image is of the main characters in IT crowd, with the caption ‘It’s a living bra’
February 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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quillkukla.bsky.social
Just spent another proud day managing to be autistic without uncontrollably performing Nazi salutes
January 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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longcovidsupport.bsky.social
📣 Share your voice!
Contribute to our Long Covid Support Banner, a collective tapestry representing those living with #LongCovid & their caregivers.

This banner will be the centrepiece of our Long Covid Awareness Day campaign on March 15th.

See more exciting details here:
tinyurl.com/LCSBanner
Sky blue background with white text: "SHARE YOUR VOICE. Click the link to learn more..." Small Long Covid support logo in bottom left corner.
January 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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My piece for this week’s #WIPWednesday is for @longcovidsupport.bsky.social Long Covid Banner. Those numbers are my lowest & highest recorded heart rates since I started wearing an armband monitor this year. A slightly rushed freehand piece because of the deadline. I’m using coton a broder thread
A black linen fabric piece 30cm by 6cm. Two felt pink hearts are pinned onto it, with the numbers 41 and 211 stitched on them in red. In the centre of the piece is some unfinished stitched lettering and a needle and thread. A black linen fabric piece 30cm by 6cm on a table. Two felt pink hearts are pinned onto it, with the numbers 41 and 211 stitched on them in red. In the centre of the piece is some unfinished stitched lettering and a needle and thread. Also in the table are sewing accessories and embroidery threads in different colours
January 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Beautiful 💕
January 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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How is it #WIPWednesday again already? Did a bit more on my woodland #embroidery ‘Life Force’ at the weekend but I’ve ground to a halt again. I’ll come back to it.
Embroidery work in progress portraying a woodland scene with a central tree trunk growing on rock. Unbleached cotton fabric in a green embroidery hoop.
January 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
janeycog.bsky.social
My current work in progress is very slow progress, but that’s ok.

The embroidery style is known as thread painting, stitched with single strands of embroidery floss to build up layers of detail. It can take hours to do a very small area.

#WIPWednesday #embroidery #threadpainting #textileart
Embroidery hoop with unfinished embroidery of a large tree trunk standing on rock in the woods. Other trees are silhouetted in the background. The tree trunk has shades of dusty pink, green and grey and the rock has shades of pink, purple and blue. There is still a lot of blank space as the work is less than halfway finished.
January 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Reposted by Janey Colbourne
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UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important.

www.gov.uk/government/c...
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Lovely to see @earthpathways.bsky.social is on here 💚

#naturewriting
earthpathways.bsky.social Earth Pathways @earthpathways.bsky.social · Nov 28
Hello #Bluesky 🦋

The Earth Pathways 2025 #Diary and Wall #Calendar is available now and as #artist & #writer Glennie Kindred says "it's beautiful" > www.earthpathwaysdiary.uk/the-2023-ear...

Deepen your relationship with the seasonal year through #inspiring #art, #photography, #poetry, and #prose.
December 15, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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It’s a beautiful morning
Clouds lit by sunrise, in orange and pink, looking almost like rolling flames in the sky. Telegraph wires cross the scene
November 29, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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That’s me! 😊
handle.invalid Susie Dent @handle.invalid · Nov 24
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.

(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Dandelions are amazing. Beautiful, strong and important. They are great for tired bumblebee rescues. This photo is from a few summers ago
@dandelionappre1.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
A rescued bumblebee is nestled in a dandelion flower on an outdoor table. A rescued bumblebee is nestled in a dandelion flower on an outdoor table, with one leg outstretched, grasping the flower
November 24, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Honouring all those who were killed because of anti-trans hate & violence. Let’s work to make a safer world for the living
#transgenderdayofremembrance
November 20, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Reposted by Janey Colbourne
jhorganism.bsky.social
I just posted a column deploring Scientific American's loss of its courageous, progressive editor, Laura Helmuth. This is a sad day for science journalism. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...
Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader — John Horgan (The Science Writer)
HOBOKEN, NOVEMBER 15, 2024. Well before Scientific American ’s editor vented her despair over the election, social in justice warriors were bashing the magazine for its political views. Critics in...
johnhorgan.org
November 15, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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wildflowerhour.bsky.social
How to take part in Wildflower Hour which is EVERY Sunday 8-9pm. During the week find an open flower (wild or naturalised, not planted) from anywhere across Britain & Ireland & share on Sunday evening using #wildflowerhour! Fancy an extra challenge? See if you can find ten blooms for #thewinter10!
November 15, 2024 at 4:26 PM