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Mark Tate
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Inspired by: Michelle Obama Muhammad Ali Kamala AOC Ms Crockett numerous writers including Toni Morrison Basho Merwin. See www.markstephentate.com Walking Scarecrow (poems) won BLP Book of the Year (2023) ©️ posted poems. No DMs
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I took this pic a few years ago but I’d like to dedicate it to my lovely wife of twenty plus years
Good morning Bluesky — go out there and make some good trouble. If you have to shop, make it support small local, your neighbors.
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Monday #mono
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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On this day in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. For 381 days people boycotted the buses. They walked, carpooled and organized every single day until segregation cracked. Nothing will change today without that same resolve. Freedom isn’t granted, it's taken one step at a time. #Resist
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Phil Penman

I was shooting low with the Leica SL and 90-280mm, trying to capture people with umbrellas against the NYC fog and light from 42nd Street. Most shots felt cliché, but then... this one happened. A passing car perfectly framed my subject. You can't plan moments like this!
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I proudly follow Kike@Kailua zany doodler mandala man Xtrodinair @hale-ie-maia.bsky.social 😂😂👠
The ne’er do well detective having lost his phone finds a ruby slipper and fiddling around with it turns it into a phone he nicknames the pink panther Stumbling through the dark theatre he tries to find whose foot fits the shoe 👠
#art #psychedelic #drawing #ink #watercolor #doodle #trippy #mandala #tondo #LGBTQ #Hawaii #bsky.art #pizza #paella #collage

30th November 2025 Doodle

"The Missing Pink Shoe" - a film noir classic 🤡

Aloha to ALL !
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The ne’er do well detective having lost his phone finds a ruby slipper and fiddling around with it turns it into a phone he nicknames the pink panther Stumbling through the dark theatre he tries to find whose foot fits the shoe 👠
#art #psychedelic #drawing #ink #watercolor #doodle #trippy #mandala #tondo #LGBTQ #Hawaii #bsky.art #pizza #paella #collage

30th November 2025 Doodle

"The Missing Pink Shoe" - a film noir classic 🤡

Aloha to ALL !
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Brick House
The Commodores

Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Temptations

Rock Steady
The Whispers
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A great list of accounts from Marcie I recommend you Vet Follow and Repost @mlipsitt.bsky.social and @just-jillg.bsky.social 💜💜🌎
Find community in Marcies pack. These are wonderful people. We all go through something so let’s go through together 💙
I’m always curriously struck by people that think I’m so positive and happy, when I live in the land of outrage and heartbreak. I guess I’m glad to appear this way if it makes me more effective. Fighting for All children is a lifetime commitment. Join me! youtu.be/I_CE7GqqrvY?... go.bsky.app/CFsxihr
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Facts.
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Repost this everywhere everyday
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A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack.

The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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We can have this again. Yes we can.
American politics wholesome moments #1
YouTube video by D Carl
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November 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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the chapter of
colorful leaves
cool autumnal nights
sweaters & hoodies
comes to a close
some go hand in hand
others walk alone
yet all are loved
by sky & trees
and all the earth
November 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Omen—double dragonfly—
Autumn

#haiku #shortform
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Trump removed Obama’s portrait from public viewing, but we can share it here for everyone to see!
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Collecting newspaper—
fog so thick I’m wiping dew
from my eyelashes—
migration must be at a standstill!
Somewhere a query of geese.
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
morning #mono
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
suns in systems of dazzling color and windmills cool the brave horsemen of imagination Kike and Kailua @hale-ie-maia.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Minotaur in a labyrinth
Alice and Martin Provensen
November 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Saturday nostalgia (pics in family since 1950s Japan)
November 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
mood music 🎼 color of pomegranate
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM