Maureen Gibbon
@maureengibbon.bsky.social
Novelist: Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet, Paris Red, Thief, Swimming Sweet Arrow. Poet: Magdalena.
Rep'd by Nicole Aragi.
www.maureengibbon.com
Rep'd by Nicole Aragi.
www.maureengibbon.com
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Maureen Gibbon
@maureengibbon.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Two of my muses: Maria Schneider & Victorine Meurent.
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Last week I happened on this tree. From a distance its floodplain silhouette struck as different—beautifully rugged, wonderfully imposing. Wild, rare, declining, endangered: it's a black poplar. Grateful to have spent time in its presence, gripped in awed delight. This tree hugely brightened my day.
December 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Last week I happened on this tree. From a distance its floodplain silhouette struck as different—beautifully rugged, wonderfully imposing. Wild, rare, declining, endangered: it's a black poplar. Grateful to have spent time in its presence, gripped in awed delight. This tree hugely brightened my day.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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i love ads for high tech kitty litters looks like we're sending them to space
boldly go kitties, boldly go
boldly go kitties, boldly go
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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If the House passes a 3 year extension of the ACA tax credits - which they now have the votes to do - then @LeaderJohnThune has to call it up for a vote in the Senate.
GOP leaders have tried as hard as they can to hurt families, but the dam is breaking. Let's get this done.
GOP leaders have tried as hard as they can to hurt families, but the dam is breaking. Let's get this done.
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If the House passes a 3 year extension of the ACA tax credits - which they now have the votes to do - then @LeaderJohnThune has to call it up for a vote in the Senate.
GOP leaders have tried as hard as they can to hurt families, but the dam is breaking. Let's get this done.
GOP leaders have tried as hard as they can to hurt families, but the dam is breaking. Let's get this done.
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absolutely stunning powwow stamps from USPS
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
absolutely stunning powwow stamps from USPS
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Niwaabamag nikig miinawaa niibowa gigoog. 🦦❤️
From: Dominic Beaudry - Associate Vice President of Academic and Indigenous Programs at Laurentian University
In Ojibwe our word for otter is nikig (pronounced ni-kig). Caretakers of the water and forest.
Anishinaabe art by Nyle Miigizi Johnston.
In Ojibwe our word for otter is nikig (pronounced ni-kig). Caretakers of the water and forest.
Anishinaabe art by Nyle Miigizi Johnston.
December 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Niwaabamag nikig miinawaa niibowa gigoog. 🦦❤️
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Baking tip from my Romanian grandmother-in-law - f you're making anything with nuts, buy them whole and chop them the day you use them. There's less surface to oxidize, they won't have time to oxidize, and they will taste a hundred times better.
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Baking tip from my Romanian grandmother-in-law - f you're making anything with nuts, buy them whole and chop them the day you use them. There's less surface to oxidize, they won't have time to oxidize, and they will taste a hundred times better.
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can anyone suggest a summer writing session that includes a course in YA fantasy fiction? preferably a workshop taught by a published YA writer and/or a YA editor.
thank you for helpful suggestions!
thank you for helpful suggestions!
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
can anyone suggest a summer writing session that includes a course in YA fantasy fiction? preferably a workshop taught by a published YA writer and/or a YA editor.
thank you for helpful suggestions!
thank you for helpful suggestions!
Listen to this "croaker"!
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Listen to this "croaker"!
Writing a novel is a love affair.
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I'm at that point in writing where I need to remember why I'm in love with the characters, and why I want to tell their stories.
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Staying IN LOVE is part of it.
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I'm at that point in writing where I need to remember why I'm in love with the characters, and why I want to tell their stories.
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Staying IN LOVE is part of it.
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Writing a novel is a love affair.
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I'm at that point in writing where I need to remember why I'm in love with the characters, and why I want to tell their stories.
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Staying IN LOVE is part of it.
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I'm at that point in writing where I need to remember why I'm in love with the characters, and why I want to tell their stories.
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Staying IN LOVE is part of it.
Operation Beluga
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Operation Beluga
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Ilyoplax dentimerosa, a beautiful specimen, found in Korea. It's funky dance is coming soon!
チゴガニの仲間、Ilyoplax dentimerosa の美個体です。韓国にて。本種の面白いダンスは後日アップ予定です、乞うご期待。
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#crab #カニ #invertebrate
チゴガニの仲間、Ilyoplax dentimerosa の美個体です。韓国にて。本種の面白いダンスは後日アップ予定です、乞うご期待。
🦀🦑🧪
#crab #カニ #invertebrate
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Sonia Romero (USA, b.1980)
#Bee Pile (Found 'em), 2010
Screenprint 37 x 26 in. (94 x 66cm)
McNay Art Museum 2011.3
collection.mcnayart.org/objects/1951...
#ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists
#Bee Pile (Found 'em), 2010
Screenprint 37 x 26 in. (94 x 66cm)
McNay Art Museum 2011.3
collection.mcnayart.org/objects/1951...
#ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Little bit of a painting WIP. Gouache.
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Little bit of a painting WIP. Gouache.
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CPTSD is like someone in your ear, 24/7, listing all the ways you suck, & anyone who says you don't suck doesn't "really" know you, & you may as well not try to not suck, because you just SUCK so much.
And they don't shut up & they don't get tired & they don't stray off message.
And they don't shut up & they don't get tired & they don't stray off message.
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
CPTSD is like someone in your ear, 24/7, listing all the ways you suck, & anyone who says you don't suck doesn't "really" know you, & you may as well not try to not suck, because you just SUCK so much.
And they don't shut up & they don't get tired & they don't stray off message.
And they don't shut up & they don't get tired & they don't stray off message.
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Me as your Bsky therapist:
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Me as your Bsky therapist:
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Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
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I can see for miles.
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I can see for miles.