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Birds…Aurora…Nature…Serenity Now!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota, known for her work highlighting cats #WomensArt
Photo of a white shirt with embroidery resembling a realistic image of a tabby cat's head peeping out of the pocket and tail appearing through the buttons
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
debmaluk.bsky.social
I spent some quality time with the Bohemians this afternoon...such a treat! #birds
A Bohemian Waxwing on a branch near a cluster of red berries. The bird is light gray and brown with peach patches above the eyes and on the cheek. There is a black band across the eyes and forehead and under the chin. 2 Bohemian Waxwings on branches with red berries. The sky is cloudy white behind them Two Bohemian Waxwings on branches with red berries. The bird in the upper right is looking down at the second bird. The lower bird is hanging upside down biting a berry A flock of around 40 Bohemian Waxwings on a snow lawn surround by fallen red berries.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
debmaluk.bsky.social
I'm honestly terrible at this "circle of life" business but it was neat to see the Bald Eagle 😬 #birds
A Bald Eagle near a carcass with 3 Magpies in a tangle on the right
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
We had a couple wonderful encounters with Leopards in Kruger Park, SA. This female had finished eating and had just jumped down from a branch, when a Hyena came sniffing around.
I believe the hyena asked if he could have some of her kill, and I’m pretty sure this is a fairly emphatic “NO!”
#Mammals
A leopard walks towards us through some out of focus green leaves. She has stopped and is snarling, while looking to the left ( her right) A hyena is out of the picture and her snarl is telling it to go away!
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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alisonborealis.bsky.social
Hello Alberta!

Did you know that 211 is a 24 hour sexual violence survivor support line?

You can call any time for help coping with the aftermath of, or getting out of gender-based violence or similarly dangerous situations.

#ableg #abpoli
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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maxfawcett.bsky.social
My take on today's big announcement. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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anarchoshanties.bsky.social
This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

(1/3)
mylordshesacactus Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours. (Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.) Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it. All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once. I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope. Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets. And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support. Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster. I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done. Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half. No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
debmaluk.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #Headshots
A Blue Jay and snowfall. The bird has a blue crest and a white face with black lines
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Do you make...

Paintings, pots, sculptures, sketches, photographs, quilts, digital art, beading, textiles, mini figs, printmaking & any other visual art...

Whatever skill level you're at, if you made it, it's mostly sfw, and not AI (never AI) I want you to participate!

Starts in 4 days!
#art
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
debmaluk.bsky.social
Jay of the day in the snowfall #birds
A Blue Jay perched on a branch. There are berries and branches in front of the bird. Snow is falling
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
debmaluk.bsky.social
I saw a few Bohemian Waxwings today☺️ #birds
a huge flock of birds in flight against a white sky A huge flock of Bohemian Waxwings sitting on the top of a Spruce tree 10 or so Bohemian Waxwings perched on the top of a Spruce tree.
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
The complete set of 8 Dragons of Wales books is now on sale with 25% off. The perfect gift for any dragon lover. These books feature hundreds of illustrations with accompanying notes. Every picture, every word, created by a human artist with zero AI.

dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/1517...
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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izique.bsky.social
Apareceu aqui na sequência do aleatório o YouToba e lembrei desse post

youtu.be/KVT0S0j7F9Y
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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franlaura.bsky.social
Art & science make perfect bedfellows…😲🫨😊
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
debmaluk.bsky.social
#sunset
Chunks of ice on a shoreline at sunset.
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy.
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
A bull African Buffalo crosses a river in Kruger park, South Africa. He is walking towards us and has quite large horns. He is carrying about a dozen red-billed oxpecker birds on his back. The oxpeckers are eating ticks and parasites off the buffalo and also acting as sentinels to warn the buffalo about approaching predators.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
debmaluk.bsky.social
Things got a little Hairy for the Blue Jays today😂 #birds
A Blue Jay flying away from a purple coiled peanut feeder. A Hairy Woodpecker is hanging from the bottom of the feeder with only the wing and tail feathers visible. A Hairy Woodpecker in the centre of a purple coiled peanut feeder. A Blue Jay is approaching the feeder. The Woodpecker is staring at the Jay A Hairy Woodpecker in the centre of a purple coiled peanut feeder. A Jay is perched on the feeder and they are staring at each other. A Blue Jay in the centre of a purple coiled peanut feeder looking down at a Hairy Woodpecker that is hanging from the bottom of the feeder.
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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outonthemoors.bsky.social
It's that time of year
The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but their heads are now: Guy - a wide-eyed cat Girlfriend - a cat tree Red dress woman - a Christmas tree
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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songbirdfibres.bsky.social
I’m auctioning off a bevy of beautiful knit-by-me samples starting Nov 27th over on Instagram. All proceeds will be donated to Birds Canada.

I’d love if you could help broadcast to a wider audience. A small sampling below:
A Shawlography by Stephen West knit in Cock-of-the-Rock and 3 semi-solids. All dyed and knit par moi 💁🏼‍♀️ A Slipstravaganza by Stephen West knit in Great Blue Heron and 3 semi-solids. All dyed and knit par moi 💁🏼‍♀️ A Texture Time by Stephen West. All dyed and knit par moi 💁🏼‍♀️ A Snark-O-Meter by Casapinka knit in sparkly Eastern Bluebird and 3 semi-solids. All dyed and knit par moi 💁🏼‍♀️
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
debmaluk.bsky.social
not the best pic but the Squirrel's expression just cracks me up...a very "get out and stay out!" vibe😂
A Squirrel on a tree watching an out of focus Blue Jay flying away. The Squirrel looks annoyed.
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
debmaluk.bsky.social
ice....
a long ice structure on the lake. jagged ice on a lake.
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
debmaluk.bsky.social
absolute mayhem at the spa today😱😂 #birds
4 House Sparrows in a green water dish. The one in the centre has it's beak open and looks angry. The other 3 are facing away from the camera A group of House Sparrows in a water bowl. Many wings are raised and one is flying away Four House Sparrows in a green water dish. The 2 in the centre are facing each other with their wings raised and are having a squabble. The other 2 are on the edge of the dish.
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM