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Valorie Nichols

@meadowdays.bsky.social

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Artist 🎨 Writer ✍🏼 Gamer 🎮 Cosplayer ⚔️ French-fry fan. Twitch affiliate 💜 Dwelling in the Adirondack foothills 🌱 https://linktr.ee/ValorieNichols

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · Oct 28

Hi I'm Val! Looking for moots who like:

~Ghibli
~Gardening
~Visual Art
~Zelda
~Fallout
~Greek, Egyptian and Mayan Mythology
~Cultural Anthropology
~Ancient Places
~Poetry
~Ttrpgs
~SFF stories & shows
~Forest Conservation
~Libraries
~Indie Bookstores
~Cosplay
~All kinds of human art!

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 12m

😋

Tossed cubed apples in cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter

Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 16m

Making things with apples (again). Today it's my first cobbler!

A black dish on a cutting board with a bunch of cubed honeycrisp, gala, and red delicious apples

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 2h

Such a great list.

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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Winter Is Coming @wicnet.bsky.social · 2h

These five books by indigenous authors are pushing the boundaries within the realms of fantasy and horror, bringing native myth and culture into the forefront of modern fiction.

5 speculative fiction books to read this Indigenous Peoples' Day

Once, the fantasy genre was primarily dominated by European-inspired fantasy filled with knights, dragons, and the like. But these days, the genre and its inspi

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 3h

"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift." -Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

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Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 2d

Caribbean Matters: Belize celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Caribbean Matters: Belize celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day

Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day. n.pr/47nGDK8

Highlighting Indigenous stories from across NPR's network

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Layla ᎴᎳ @laylajohnston.bsky.social · 6h

Currently reading Wandering Stars. His debut novel, There There, is a masterful exploration of Native identity. Congratulations Tommy Orange!

Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 11h

Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author of There There and Wandering Stars, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors in the arts.

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#macarhurfellowship #MacArthurFoundation #redpopnews #tommyorange

Wandering Stars Align: Tommy Orange Named A 2025 MacArthur Fellow

When the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 Fellows, one name carried through Native communities like a spark. Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author from Oakland, was named one of this ye...

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 4h

Twas. I think ima make it again 😄

A grilled cheese with apple slices and cheddar sandwich cut in half, spilling out onto a green, leafy plate

Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 4h

A tree farm, yeah. We have two small orchards here but don't use them for business. Just maintain them

Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 4h

Enjoying a moment of peace on this rainy morning, listening to Glitch Mob and Electric Fields. Happy Indigenous Day, everyone!

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WIRED @wired.com · 12h

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. www.wired.com/story/more-e...

More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research.

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 16h

Making grilled cheese sandwiches with apples from the orchard

Slices of fried apple on slices of cheddar cheese, on a slice of sourdough bread

A grilled cheese with apple slices on a green, leafy plate

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social · 1d

24 #sff stories across the spectrum in ZNB PRESENTS YEAR TWO, a #sciencefiction and #fantasy anth from ZNB ed by @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social!

Kindle: amzn.to/4btfm8y
Trade: amzn.to/3VNf6e3
B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/znb-presen...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

#booksky #urbanfantasy #scifi

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

Well it's Sunday. And you know what happens on Sunday? Show-and-tell happens on Sunday! So show us something you made or found, somewhere you've been, something you're proud of, family, pets... anything neat, really! Go on! Show us!

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 1d

That’s such a fluffy, sleepy pumpkin 🧡

#art #cozyart #caturday

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

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C Z A R I N A @czarinaofficial.com · 1d

Just got these custom, hand-casted glow-in-the-dark neon buttons for my GKD Pixel handheld.

It’s so cool 💚💚💚
Created by Pixel Empire Clan

Retro handheld console with custom hand-casted glow in the dark buttons

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 1d

Whaaat! That's so pretty 💚✨️

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Woah 🤩 I love the colors in this

Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Bday Brink! I hope it's rad! 🥳🎉

Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Caturday from these two ladies!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 2d

This is just one entry in a 16-part Bluesky series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala.” The full hour is streaming free & ad-free on the @pbs.org app and at www.ricksteves.com/hunger.

Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala

In his new hour-long special available February 1, 2020, Rick Steves travels through Ethiopia and Guatemala to learn about extreme poverty — the more than 700 million people who struggle to live on le...

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 2d

Or the Mr. Bean in Cyberpunk 2077 edits