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S. K. Riley
@skriley.bsky.social
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Writer, PhD, gardener, educator, tree planter, and so forth.
www.skriley-author.com
Lover of Australian wildlife, re-wilding, mythology, music, cinema and democracy. 🇦🇺
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S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · Mar 8
Dingo Roaming

Dingo was roaming, seeing, feeling − falling toward the stars.

- JP Quinton

#Dingo #Stars #Dreaming
Seen from above, the tracks a dingo makes when it runs across shallow water on a desert clay pan. Overlapping, concentric circles that look like a painting stretch out in a single line behind a dingo, running ahead. Photo credit: Greg Robertson, while mustering cattle in far north western New South Wales, Australia.
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drmichellelarue.bsky.social
We captured 18 birds today and then we surveyed the colony for bird flu, which we thankfully saw no evidence of.

Cape Crozier remains magical!
🌍🧪🦑🦉
A bunch of emperor penguins right near the camera with text overlay that says “surveying for bird flu involved lots of… birds. Curious, adorable birds.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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mikehudema.bsky.social
Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
skriley.bsky.social
Neon-clad protesters stage ’80s aerobics demonstration outside Portland ICE facility 👯

#LegWarmers #Leotards #Neon #Resistance #Portland

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Neon-clad protesters stage ’80s aerobics demonstration outside Portland ICE facility
Dozens gathered outside Portland’s ICE facility Sunday for a high-energy aerobics protest in leotards and striped socks.
www.oregonlive.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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mjwyatt.bsky.social
Cut flowers from my garden. River Lily. She’s so elegant. 🧡🩷
My garden. River Lily. Close up of three elegant coral blooms with dark stigmas and curly stamens.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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adpco.bsky.social
#Otomiwoman #mural #womenonwalls Artist: #BimmerT
#anarchivistphotography
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Because everything is shit, I give you ... Puggles. #Platypus #AustralianWildlife
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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lcodonnell.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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robklippel.bsky.social
"It is your duty in life to save your dream."

- Amedeo Modigliani
1884 – 1920
July 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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milenarejc.bsky.social
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, Including you." Anne Lamott
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
skriley.bsky.social
‘Do what you wanna
Do what you wanna
Do what you wanna
Do what you wanna
Do what you wanna
Do what you wanna’

~ Do Whatcha Wanna by Rebirth Brass Band

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQz...
#Brass #NewOrleans #Music #NOLA #Lyrics
Do Whatcha Wanna
YouTube video by Rebirth Brass Band - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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lcodonnell.bsky.social
Whoa now, have a listen...

"This is a mushroom playing in the wild in some woods near Glossop in Manchester. The attached sensors measure bio-electrical fluctuations in the mushroom. The fluctuations are converted into signals that control the robotic arms."
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
skriley.bsky.social
‘Earth Greetings’ supports Australian artists & designers, partnering with organisations to nurture & protect Australia's unique native wildlife, flora & fauna. Every order grows a #tree.

www.earthgreetings.com.au/our-purpose/

#EarthFriendly #GiftGiving #AustralianWildlife #Sustainablilty #Artists
Our Purpose
About Earth Greetings Australian made earth friendly, 100% recycled greeting cards and sustainable stationery.
www.earthgreetings.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Martin is a fisherman from Negril, Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa caused devastation. Working side by side with him—and using the fish he caught—WCK teams prepared and served beloved local dishes for St. Anthony’s Soup Kitchen, a community organization supporting families in need. #ChefsForJamaica
November 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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mandolinmama.bsky.social
youtu.be/xqe6TF2y8i4?...

every few months i feel the need to hear this haunting song...

it has the most magical guitar chords. 🌟

🩷🎵🕊

#nickdrake #moonsongs
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
YouTube video by NickDrakeVEVO
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November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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surferplanet.bsky.social
“ Love is the answer, and you know that's true “.- The Beatles
Good Morning 🌊
#Surfer
October 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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glastomichelle.bsky.social
Rainbow through the archway. This morning on Glastonbury Tor.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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dean.bsky.social
Joni Mitchell by Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal, 1968

Joni’s birthday was yesterday, but I saved this shot for #caturday
Joni in a fur hat, holding a kitten in her arms
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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gavingatenby.bsky.social
This Australian Fur Seal is having a nice little snooze. I've watched them do this in a swell, off a rocky shore, by anchoring themselves in floating kelp. The world's biggest fur seal, they mostly eat squid, octopus, fish and lobsters & can dive to 200m. #WildOz #seals #AustralianWildlife
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Supartini Partini :
Drummer in Abstract Style, n.d.

stainless steel
17.7'' x 12.6''

Further description in the alt text 👇
The depicts a stylized illustration of a man playing a djembe drum. He is seated on a stool, wearing a green shirt and black pants, with his right hand resting on the drum. The background is a vibrant abstract composition of geometric shapes and colors, including green, yellow, orange, red, and blue.
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
skriley.bsky.social
It’s the weekend, so the loud construction workers have gone home.
In the quiet, I was finally able to reach my weekly writing goal.

But, the good people of Jamaica are still in my thoughts.🇯🇲

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmNJ...

#Writing #PressureDrop #TootsAndTheMaytals #Jamaica
Pressure Drop - Original
YouTube video by Toots and the Maytals - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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apothecaryartist.bsky.social
Why I love Florence! Art traditions on view and continued practice.
#florence #marbling #artistprocess #traditionalart #arthistory
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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divinedropbear.bsky.social
A wonderful day spent with the Rock-wallabies on Magnetic Island, Qld
#NaturePhotography #Marsupials #Macropods #AustralianWildlife #wildoz #wallaby #wildoz
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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jaimehylton.bsky.social
Looking at the world from a different perspective.
#zen #nature #autumn #mentalhealth #mobilephotography
Fall foliage is reflected in the surface of a pond. Many trees, both deciduous and evergreen, grow on a hillside in the distance.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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treadwells-books.bsky.social
Today I celebrate our 'Honouring Nature' shelves. Plant folk lore, foraging, forest bathing, right to roam, organic farming, climate crisis, kids' activities. Because it's important, because it's sacred to us.
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
Autorretrato con monos (Self-Portrait with Monkeys) by Frida Kahlo (Mexican) - Oil on canvas / 1943 - Gelman Collection of Mexican Art (Mexico City, Mexico) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #WomensArt #WomenArtists #arte #art #artText #BlueskyArt #pintura #MexicanArt #Monkeys #Symbolism #FridaKahlo #Kahlo
Inspirational Mexican artist Frida Kahlo appears frontally, filling the frame from chest up against a dense curtain of glossy green leaves that press forward like a living wall. Her warm brown skin, direct dark gaze, and almost-joined brows are rendered with meticulous clarity, framed by sleekly braided black hair threaded with pale ribbons. A crisp white blouse lifts her figure out of the foliage, while four spider monkeys cluster intimately around her (two at her shoulders, one peering over her left side, another tugging near her neck). Their dark fur, slender fingers, and bright black eyes encircle her without fully eclipsing her self-possessed presence. The structure around her shoulders and the monkeys’ paws, suggesting a fragile tether between artist, animals, and jungle. The space is shallow, quiet, and airless, heightening the feeling that we have stepped into her private, watchful world. Painted in 1943, when Kahlo’s health was deteriorating yet her fame was rising, this self-portrait turns her animal companions into complex emblems of care, control, and self-mythology. The monkeys were actually real gifts from friends and from Diego Rivera. They had appeared as playful familiars in other works, but here their closeness reads more ambivalent: affectionate guardians who also clutch and claim her, echoing how love, public attention, and nationalist expectations pressed in on her life. The luxuriant foliage situates her within an idealized, Indigenous-inflected Mexicanidad, while the looping vines hint at both rootedness and constraint, echoing her experience of chronic pain, medical harnesses, and life increasingly confined to Casa Azul (aka the “Blue House” which was Kahlo’s cobalt-blue home in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City and now the Frida Kahlo Museum). Her unwavering gaze refuses victimhood; instead she stages herself as author and icon, using the monkeys and jungle not as decoration but as proof of autonomy, vulnerability, and power.
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM