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Sarah Land 🌱

@sarahland.bsky.social

Alfie's working on his Aladdin Sane look, very fitting 😀 #dogsofbluesky

A golden retriever with a muddy lightning streak on his face

December 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM

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Tom Cox

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Spring, summer and autumn are the party seasons for trees but winter is when you really get to know them as people.

A huge tree arches its bare tendrils across a country lane in an attempt to open itself up to the world in the most naked and emotionally vulnerable way possible.

November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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AuDHDeepdive 😁I share stuff I've read, watched and liked.

@audhdeepdive.bsky.social

How parents who deny their neurocomplexity accidentally train you to disappear. open.substack.com/pub/lindseym...

And here is the part people rarely admit:
Your parents might not be the place where you first unmask.
Often they are the last place you ever can.

You may need friends, partners, therapists, online communities, and safer environments to see your real self before you can even begin to let that self breathe around family. That is not disloyalty. It is developmental reality.

You cannot unmask in an environment that taught you masking was the condition for love.

December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦

@tenoaks6.bsky.social

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." Rita Mae Brown

#Stunday #Image&Verse #quotes #photography #art #nature #beyourself #youarebeautiful

Tall evergreen trees stand firmly in the moss covered ground in a small clearing in the forest. Blue sky sifts through the giants illuminating the forest floor. One tree (an Arbutus or for my American friends a Madrona) leans in to the other trees and appears to be in motion, it's leaves green & moving with the wind.

November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Anna Howard

@earthandsand.bsky.social

All sorts of mini fruit trinket dishes, all present and correct! You can find them in my Etsy shop. Shop small folks 😊
earthandsandbyanna.etsy.com
#fruit #handmade #gifts #art #MHHSBD #bsnm

November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM

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Kerria

@kerria.bsky.social

Thrilled to learn that my Appalachian Green Man mask has found a home at the Stone Branch Gallery.

November 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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america.is.not.free

@antifapatriot.bsky.social

Java Moss Agate Cabochon, a variety of Chalcedony known for its distinctive scenic inclusions 😍

November 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM

Sarah Land 🌱

@sarahland.bsky.social

If anyone is looking for a truly life enhancing gift for a gardener, or wants to treat themselves, can I recommend a thermal teapot. Every time I come in from evening smallholding chores to a piping hot pot of herby ginger tea is a joy!🌱🎁

November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM

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Amanda Tuke

@amandatuke.bsky.social

Seems only right for a massive shout out today for Rach Appleby (www.instagram.com/rachapplebya...) - who was chosen to illustrate my book cover. Do have a peek at Rach's fab portfolio... I particularly like her #birdart #nature #natureart #wildlifeart #urbannature #naturewriting

November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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John Kennedy

@micefearboggis.bsky.social

Imagine if all the hundreds of billions of dollars being pumped into AI was given instead to artists, writers, musicians. If/when the AI bubble bursts, everything will get crappier, but you give that money to artists: no bubble, just a world more humane and human in a million little ways.

November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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aj onis

@awarenesswillcome.bsky.social

Botanical Art Mia Fotografie

November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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Oregon 🕎🎲

@oregonthedm.bsky.social

November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Sarah Land 🌱

@sarahland.bsky.social

I know it's early but my inner child needed fairy lights 😊🌱

Toadstools and a mouse in a tutu on a Christmas tree

November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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Chronic Illness Humor

@chronicillness.bsky.social

What is a chronic illness It's like your whole body threw a party and didn't invite you. And all you want to to do is sleep. And the party never ends. And more people keep showing up. And when you call the cops to make a noise complaint, their suggestion is to to start doing yoga

November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM

Sarah Land 🌱

@sarahland.bsky.social

I wonder how many little beings live in this old birch tree, I think the ivy is holding it up at this point!🌱

An old tree covered in ivy, ferns and lichen

November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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rru.bsky.social

@rru.bsky.social

Featuring:
@rspb.bsky.social , @rspbengland.bsky.social , @rspbscotland.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social ,
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social ,
@nationaltrust.org.uk
Nice reminder to support charities and local businesses this time of year!

Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 3d

Resharing my #GoodGifts guide for all you #BlackFriday shoppers.

100+ links where you can spend your cash with charities, museums, artists and small businesses rather than billionnaires.

Good Gifts 2025

Use your Secret Santa or present giving to support charities, museums and small businesses.

madlinblog.wordpress.com

November 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM

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𝓛 🪷🐾

@l-isme.bsky.social

📸 mine

November 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM

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Tom Cox

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

September 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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Richy Craven

@richycraven.bsky.social

Five years since I originally posted this on the other place. Mad!

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · Nov 27

The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.

November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM

Sarah Land 🌱

@sarahland.bsky.social

On a gloomy grey winter's day like today it does you good to remember that there will be that lovely day in spring when you hear the cuckoo for the first time 🌱😊

November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Helen Whistberry

@whistberry.bsky.social

New design in my threadless shop!

They are having a huge sale right now... great time to get gifts for others or yourself for less 🙂

Available in lots of different t-shirt colors! Also hats, mugs, pillows... all froggy! 🐸

whistberry.threadless.com