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Nina Crittenden
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kid book maker. tea drinker. pug snuggler. bunny hugger. ninacrittenden.com
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Join me next week for Playful Character Creation!

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November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Nerrrrrrrrrrrds!

To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!

Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...

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a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
ALT: a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
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November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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ranamooncat.bsky.social
I was out of town when they arrived but LOOK. look at my beautiful girls done as ceramics by @kness.bsky.social !! They're so perfect 😭💕💕
Two ceramic cats, one gray tabby rolling on her back and one black and white loafing with her feet tucked underneath her body, in front of small cardboard boxes featuring drawings of the same cats in the same poses. A closer look at the ceramic gray tabby cat A closer look at the ceramic black and white cat
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
What we’re watching right now 🧐

DemoGARgon lives here in the right side up! #StrangerThings
Photo of a gar (fish) with its mouth open. Text in the font style of the tv show “Stranger Things” is displayed across the top of the image. Stranger is spelled “Strangar”
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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pgirouard.bsky.social
Air Traffic Control
#birds #migration #city #illustration #kidlitart
#childrensillustration #illustrationartists
A uniformed officer stands on a platform high above a city at dusk and directs the flight paths of passing birds. Here's to unsung heroes managing the chaos.
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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jvp.bsky.social
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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
ninacrittenden.bsky.social
*catnap
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6d
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Monday huh? Do I have to?

#birds 🌿 (a young hawk, maybe Red-shouldered?)
Close up photo of a brown and white streaked hawk looking straight towards the camera, looking a little bemused.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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cleonique.bsky.social
My project “No Human is Illegal” won the student award for Print Design at AIGA St. Louis Design Showcase 28✨👻
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“No Human is Illegal” is a St. Louis-focused immigration resources zine featuring an interior poster and published as a 2-color risograph 8-page zine.
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#printdesign #illustration #zine
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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pgirouard.bsky.social
Cannedberry Sauce
#cranberrysauce #thanksgiving #illustration #kidlitart
#childrensillustration #illustrationartists
A cylinder of jelled cranberry sauce from a can reacting to being sliced
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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mondomascots.bsky.social
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
A yellow lightbulb mascot is stuck in a doorway.
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Glazing in watercolour. The first brush is clean water; the second, paint. Both are stroked very gently on.
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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dmuth.bsky.social
Cheetahs continue to be scary predators.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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basil-mage.bsky.social
Puppy on a leaf
Drawing of a puppy on a leaf with the caption; "Don't measure your progress by someone else's rules"
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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pghgraffiti.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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leciamichelle.bsky.social
So round and cute. #darkeyedjunco

#birds
#photography
Bird with gray feathers perched on a branch, its back to the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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pccmdoc.bsky.social
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Ok I know I’m missing a ton of people, but wanted to get a #PedsICU starter pack going.
November 10, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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greybriar.art
11/21 #illustration #darkart #artistsonbsky #birdart #botanicalart
A coloured drawing of a gnarled and broken tree with a small wren perched on a piece of it.
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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davidacody.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is theme is #Thrushes

We don’t get a lot of Thrushes so I learned that Bluebirds are in the Thrush family. I captured this Mountain Bluebird in Teddy Roosevelt NP earlier this year.

#birds 🪶 #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM