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Linda Watson
@varyingviriya.bsky.social
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Wildlife gardener and photographer by day, cartoonist by night. Follow my comic @OurTurning. 2025 graduate of the Sequential Artist Workshop’s year-long program. I’ll post about native plants, pollinators, comics, sci-fi, solar punk, activism, and beauty.
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First Halloween for the new wall. Great place for pumpkins and warty big squash. #halloween #pumpkins #stonewall #naturallandscaping
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Reverend William Barber spelled out the GOP lies and the unfair, racist new district map they just approved for NC, flipping one district from blue to red. #repairersofthebreach #gerrymandering #nc #raleigh #votingrights
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Rev. Barber speaking surrounded by supporters. Signs say “Stop the steal” and “District 1 is our Edmund Pettus bridge” Supporters hold signs including “Keep the Black Belt whole” and “We won’t be diluted, dismissed, or denied” Press conference attendees in front of the NC Legislature. A member of the Raging Grannies singers talking with a young woman with many political buttons, with Rev. Barber in the background.
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The main characters in my comic strip would have been at a #NoKings protest today. Follow their efforts to build a kind, just, and green world at ourturning.com
Comic panel showing protestors on a highway overpass with a No Kings sign, American and rainbow flags, and a peace sign. In a car below, someone says “Look! There’s the Bridge Brigade!” Someone else replies “Let’s ask JJ to brunch. He’s part of it.” A motorcyclist cheers the protestors: “Whoohoo!”
October 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#nokings rally in north #Raleigh. Huge cheerful, peaceful turnout demanding change. Signs protested our loss of freedom, voting rights, and democracy. The wolf in the business suit is holding a bag of money and a sign that says “Beware of fascist wolves in Republican clothing.” #resist #NC
October 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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More signs from #WorkersOverBillionaires in #Raleigh #LaborDay
Protest sign -Dissent is patriotic Protest sign - Belssed daughter of a Union man
September 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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About a thousand people in Raleigh for #WorkersOverBillionaires protest. Good speeches, short march, perfect weather. A grandmother I marched next to said she was there for family and friends afraid to risk public protest.
September 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Thousands out for peaceful protest at the North Carolina Capitol, with more all around the block. Speaker is Anderson Clayton, @ncdem Chair. #nokings #raleigh #ncdp #nc
June 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Great turnout for #NoKings in north Raleigh #raleigh #nokings #nc
June 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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My sign for today’s protest in north Raleigh: In the USA, the only monarch is a butterfly. #nokings #raleigh #nc #monarchsagainstkings
Woman wearing a monarch-butterfly cape with a protest sign saying “In the USA, the only monarch is a butterfly.”
June 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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There’s a triceratops in my bog garden with the carnivorous pitcher plants.
May 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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As the crimes and outrages add up, the signs get longer. #mayday2025 #mayday #raleigh #nc
Signs: 1) seize stolen wealth, build public power 2) we’re all illegal on stolen land. Imprison Trump. It’s not manufacturing jobs you want, it’s a stable jobs with a middle-class wage. People are undocumented because capitalists are greedy for exploitable labor. Choir on stage, general sunny protest scene
May 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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May Day rally downtown. Music in the sunny center, more people on the shady edges. 90 degrees. #mayday #raleigh #nc
May 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Bug is the name of the hirsute-shinned demon in Demons: Rise and Grind by Hyena Hell. This proves @franzanth.bsky.social ‘a point and is a fun read too.
April 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I repurposed the signs I made for the election. Made them with the hope of connecting with my suburban, beach-loving neighbors. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Huge and witty #HandsOff crowd in Raleigh NC. The Bicentennial Plaza is jammed, with an overflow crowd across the street at the Capitol. #raleigh
April 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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A patch of sunflowers and cosmos still blooming at the NC Museum of Art. It’s alive with bees, hover flies, and grasshoppers. #sunflowers #garden #ncma #beautiful
Hundred of yellow sunflowers in front of a pine woods in the sunshine. Feels happy and bright.
November 14, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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My garden has a welcoming bench and signs that let the neighbors know that it’s a wildlife garden, not just messy. 😂
Photo of dogwood tree with red leaves, a bench, and signs for a certified native plant garden and a wildlife habitat. Sunny and cheerful.
November 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Let’s layer on pleasure and connection like fat for the winter.
Four panel comic. 1. A polar bear leans their face on the ice. Text: the election wiped me out. What will happen to the ice? Bear says “mrff.” 2. The bear offers you a pint of Jenni’s Lemon Bar. Text: I had some of my favorite nicecream to think about it. Bear says “Have you tried it?” 3. Bear is sniffing flowers on a sunny day. Text: Then to the arb. Love seeing the bees there. Bear says “have you tried it?” 4. Bear is in a silly rolling position, saying “Roll with it, Baby.” Text: I’m going to take it easy and layer on the pleasure and connection like fat for the winter.
November 12, 2024 at 3:18 PM