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🌞 🎃 🐸 @solarpsychedelic.bsky.social · 20h

Cleared up after the storm.

Bright colors with lens flare photo of the sun peeking through tree branches against the backdrop of a blue sky.

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 10h

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world.

It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

L.R. Knost

A simple blue and white design with the following quote by L.R. Knost:

It’s not our job to toughen our children up
to face a cruel and heartless world.

It’s our job to raise children who will make
the world a little less cruel and heartless.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 16h

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 1d

Why study history? Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who was born on this day in 1917, had what I think is a great answer. Not only is it a "fascinating intellectual enterprise" and "a necessary background for wise public decisions," it also is essential for "a civilized personal life."

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🌞 🎃 🐸 @solarpsychedelic.bsky.social · 20h

Cleared up after the storm.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

happy bday ancient Roman poet Virgil, b.70 BC.

“Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”

“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The expressive singer made just three albums, including his 1995 debut, Brown Sugar, but retreated from the public after each. He had been battling cancer, according to a statement from his family. n.pr/438VrK8

D'Angelo, R&B's reluctant icon, has died at 51

The expressive singer made just three albums, including his 1995 debut, Brown Sugar, but retreated from the public after each. He had been battling cancer, according to a statement from his family.

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🌞 🎃 🐸 @solarpsychedelic.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been raining since 4 AM!

a cat is holding an umbrella with a dog in it

Alt: a cat is holding an umbrella while large rain drops containing cats and dogs fall down around him

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 2d

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

-Charles Mackay

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𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 @pierpaolo.bsky.social · 4d

In un'aiuola creata da un muro di contenimento in pietra a lato di una strada, delle rose rosse che hanno perso del tutto o in parte i loro petali si stagliano di fronte ad un paesaggio collinare che, all'alba, è illuminato dai primi raggi del sole.

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LynnMac 🐞🇨🇦📎 @lynnmaccanada.bsky.social · 3d

Mom's Butter Tart recipe, as promised:

Just prepare your favourite double crust pastry recipe for the tart shells. Enjoy!! 😋🍁

LynnMac 🐞🇨🇦📎 @lynnmaccanada.bsky.social · 29d

My Mom's Butter Tart recipe; and some other butter tart recipes from Canadian Living magazine:
Enjoy one of our Canadian traditions!🍁❤️

www.canadianliving.com/food/baking-...

Mom's Butter Tart recipe:
1/3 C butter
1 C packed brown sugar
2Tbsp cream
1/2 C raisins or currents (optional)
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
(1/2 C chopped walnuts or pecans)
Please let me know if you'd like the method.

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🌞 🎃 🐸 @solarpsychedelic.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! We definitely need rain. Hopefully a good pour and that's it.

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🌞 🎃 🐸 @solarpsychedelic.bsky.social · 2d

Clouds piling up as a weather system moves into CA.

Light colors, soft focus photo of a large puffy white cloud hovering above a set of power lines.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Thanksgiving Canada 🍁 🇨🇦

Fill in the blank ✍️

Canada what are you thankful for ________?

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 2d

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

a tree reaches above a small hamburger stand framing a "dinner" sign with it's leaves.

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Jessie @bicyclegal.bsky.social · 2d

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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LGpix @lgpix.bsky.social · 3d

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light
Today there is no black or white
Only shades of gray

#ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #ShadesOfGray #TheMonkees #Photography

Monochrome image of a mass of chrysanthemums. Lyrics are from Shades of Gray by The Monkees.

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 3d

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

— James Baldwin

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 3d

46 years ago
Members of British ska groups The Selecter, Madness and The Specials on Brighton Beach at the first date of the 2 Tone Tour in October 1979.

Photo by Chalkie Davies

#punkrock #ska #thespecials #madness #theselecter #history #skahistory

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Traveling The Road Images (E.C.Teodoro Photography) @travelingtheroad.bsky.social · 3d

Joshua Tree National Park

Nature offers a path carved in stillness.
Clouds drift like passing thoughts.
The landscape holds its breath.
Each moment deepens the journey.
Let your spirit unfold where the desert listens.

#photography #joshuatreenationalpark #landscapephotography

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 3d

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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 4d

This WMP skin is peak 2000s aesthetics.

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Sebastian Tomasz Drozdowski @stdrozdowski72.bsky.social · 6d

#photography #nature #color #canon #butterfly #noAL (c)stdrozdowski72

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