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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong

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On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether. Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Niche sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. From Tkaronto. She/her. Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social with @tidbit.bsky.social.

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 4h

Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to press on the hashtag #PortfolioDay and to like lots of art and to repost something from an artist whose work speaks to you.

Because Bluesky needs more art on the timeline… and Bluesky artists need your support.

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PeterS @paradiddletriplets.bsky.social · 18m

As a drummer, I feel that Cindy is as good as they get - male or female:

youtu.be/JGgiN1YNoQ4?...

Cindy Blackman Santana Drum Solo - Drumeo Festival 2020

YouTube video by Drumeo

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 22m

Tilly’s thoughts on getting going this morning

A blue tick coonhound sleeping on a couch with a lot of pillows under her and she designed with one eye open sceptically and really she just wants to go back to sleep

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 44m

I am very much! Have a great day, Susan!

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 59m

Good morning, Susan! Doing lots of busy reposting on @womensart2.bsky.social for Portfolio Day.

Hope the coffee is keeping you warm!

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Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 1h

Writing "what you know" is memoir, not fiction

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

She knew human nature. Intimately.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 6h

Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector.

Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:

No Going Back

Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

There are a good few Hannah Arendt quotes that I love but this is probably my fav:

‘The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.’

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𝖂𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖗 @wertheimer.bsky.social · 1h

No one has the right to obey.

Hannah Arendt
14 Oct 1906🎂

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

Reposting for those who got up at a regular EST hour. 🕖

#PortfolioDay

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

More women drummers 🥁🥁🥁!!!

m o c h y @mochy.bsky.social · 1h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiD4...

Sheila E. SOLO DE BATERIA com a Orquestra CBS David Letterman HD

YouTube video by Renan Nascimento

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m o c h y @mochy.bsky.social · 1h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiD4...

Sheila E. SOLO DE BATERIA com a Orquestra CBS David Letterman HD

YouTube video by Renan Nascimento

www.youtube.com

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

This sounds DELISH!

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1h

Extraordinary woman in STEM for #ald25 #AdaLovelaceDay 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡🧮🔭🎢 #histsci

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Sep 29

I’m not sure if today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt of “happily ever after” is a thing that happens in real life but I thought of the great mathematician, writer and polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). 🧮🎢🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🔭#histsci Arguably the best thing that ever happened to her was when she became a 🧵1/n

My linocut portrait of Mary Somerville in a dress with lace collar and fur trim, surrounded by math, physics and astronomy diagrams from her publications, in a gradient of turquoise at the bottom to violet at the top.

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

I’d wager it’s the best. But it’s a great piece of writing as well as it hits all the sports profile tropes.

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 1h

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 4h

Cinnamon & Sugar Pumpkin Bread Toast 🎃🍞🍽️🍜

A plate with cinnamon and sugar pumpkin bread toast.

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

I saw some really pretty frilly kale on Saturday:

Purple frilly kale in a white plastic box near other varieties of kale at the farmers market

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 12h

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 2h

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Title page of a collection of animal stories by Henry Williamson: TARKA THE OTTER, SALAR THE SALMON, THE EPIC OF BROCK THE BADGER, CHAKCHEK THE PEREGRINE.

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h

The athletes who play murderball on the Canadian Wheelchair Rugby 🏉 Team are all baddies.

And Reese Ketler’s challenge of living on the Canada Disability Benefit of $6.67 a day shows the heartlessness of people in power and their lack of support of those with disabilities. #cdnpoli

Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 2h

Wheelchair rugby player tests disability benefit budget to expose gaps

Reese Ketler, an offensive player for Canada’s wheelchair Rugby team, challenged himself to live on a food budget of about $6.67 per day for a month.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 2h

Wheelchair rugby player tests disability benefit budget to expose gaps

Reese Ketler, an offensive player for Canada’s wheelchair Rugby team, challenged himself to live on a food budget of about $6.67 per day for a month.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2h

This is the coolest.

Mainly reposting for the #CraftSky fan service.

Eileen @geoleeny.bsky.social · 9h

All of this yarn was dyed with one species of mushroom, Phaeolus schweinitzii, commonly known as the dyers polypore. What a variety of color from one mushroom

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Eileen @geoleeny.bsky.social · 9h

All of this yarn was dyed with one species of mushroom, Phaeolus schweinitzii, commonly known as the dyers polypore. What a variety of color from one mushroom

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you eat a madeleine while wearing a pretty coral blush, it becomes a Maybelline.

Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you eat a madeleine whilst performing a soliloquy and lose your place, it becomes a hadeleine.

Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you eat a madeleine while participating in this meme, it becomes a fadeleine.

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