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Susan 🍁

@susanbytheriver.bsky.social

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Fibre and mixed media artist https://www.susanbytheriver.com Living on the traditional territory of the Audenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Haudenosaunee (St. Lawrence Iroquois), and Huron-Wendat. Cats, every day magical stuff, resting she/her 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸

www.susanbytheriver.com

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · 7h

I love it 🥰 🍄 🥰

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · 12h

More about the whale sanctuary project 🧐

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12h

Four things about Nova Scotia’s decision to approve Whale Sanctuary Project #NovaScotia #WhaleSanctuary

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Four things about Nova Scotia’s decision to approve Whale Sanctuary Project

The Nova Scotia government has approved plans for construction of North America’s first coastal refuge for whales and dolphins retired from marine theme parks. Here are four things you need to know ab...

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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Nova Scotia has approved Canada’s first-ever whale sanctuary! Located in Port Hilford Bay, the Whale Sanctuary Project site could open by summer 2026—giving around 10 of #Marineland’s captive belugas the chance to finally live in the ocean. Act now 🐳➡️ bit.ly/4o2MPNu

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · 7d

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 14d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · 20d

A new magical critter to join the family of #felted folk. Henry the #gingercat served as nose model for this little #needlefelted guy. I think he may be a sort that lives inside tree trunks and sleeps a lot.

#needlefelting #woolfelting #feltart #art #artist

Needle felted critter: grey with a pink nose and sparkly white belly. Longish pointed grey ears with pink inside.

Four needle felted critters: Simple cone shapes with ears, horns, tufts, tails, and expressive faces. One has haunches and a pouch holding a heart. Colours are blue, grey, orange, and pink.

Henry the ginger cat laying on a wool felting pad with a little grey needle felted critter in progress. Felting needles and a window in the background.

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yipeng ge @yipengge.bsky.social · 24d

People often ask me, how do you keep going? We must keep going. When we are not the ones living with bombs falling from the sky, when we have food on our tables, and clean water to drink, and money to spend. We have to put our feelings aside for a moment. We have work to do.

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 24d

Citizens of the world can use this tool to push for action by #TheUnitedNations to fight for #peace in #Gaza.

#cdnpoli #usapoli #EndTheWaronGaza #DemocracyMatters

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks for the heads up - I’ll prepare myself 💪

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · 27d

Loved Remarkably Bright Creatures and Shark Heart. Bear is on my book shelf - waiting to be read! ♥️

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 19

Before and after #wetfelted mushroom 🍄

#woolfelting #wetfelting #wetfelt #feltart #feltartist #artist #art

Colourful, fluffy wool roving laid out on an off white background: an amanita muscaria mushroom (red cap with white spots) surrounded by blue, yellow, and pink bits up top, and green, yellow, pink, and brown grasses down below. Ready for wet felting!

Same wool layout as previous photo, but now wet felted. The fluffy fibres have merged together to make a firm, flat piece of felt with the colourful mushroom image.

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 15

Transness has always existed and always will. Understanding, celebrating, and loving transness leads to liberation for everyone.

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 15

Beloved people in my life have taught me that experiencing gender identity and sexuality as a journey is healthy, safe, life affirming & natural. The extent to which these are fluid varies from person to person. I’m grateful to trans folk for helping me overcome fear around change in these realms.

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Sep 14

Younger daughter and I have been working on prototypes for the small portable museums that will be in my Etsy shop soon. We’ll be making a wooden grid in each tin for the finds & a booklet about the neuroscience of how collecting & arranging your finds alleviates anxiety & lifts mood #mentalhealth

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 14

Love this idea. Looking forward to seeing what you create!

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 13

Ouch! Heal well!

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thanks for sharing this!

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m a big fan ♥️

Libro.fm @libro.fm · Sep 11

When you find out about Libro.fm, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 11

Because, once again: the first violence the authoritarian right commits is against fact, truth, history, meaning, language, science, and this version keeps committing it. They bring liberation from reality, though maybe disinhibition is a better word.

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 10

Oh I love it! So charming and delightful. I feel a lot of creative sparkles just looking at it!

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 6

This little charm pin holds a #needlefelted mushroom heart and beaded bits with a dragonfly, gnome, and deer. I’ve had a bunch of kilt pins in my supplies for a while, meaning to give this a try.

#charmpins #needlefelt #needlefelting #feltart #art

Kilt pin with five charms hanging from it: needle felted heart with a red spotted mushroom, dragonfly bead, metal gnome, assorted beads, and metal deer.

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 4

Finished my #painting project! Hurray! I’m really happy with how it turned out. Thanks everyone for your encouragement along the way ♥️

#upcycling #art #artist #paint #frontporchart

Three painted cans hanging vertically on a string of beads and bells on a front porch

Six painted cans hanging vertically on two strings of beads and bells

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Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 2

Finished all six cans! Now to assemble them into two beaded strings for hanging. I did rabbit silhouettes for the last one because I was running out of detail energy and wanted to finish today 😄

#paint #painting #art #artist #upcycling

Can painted with two rabbit silhouettes in front of a big full moon

Susan smiling with all six painted cans: blue jay, toadstools, bee, deer, rabbits, and chickadee

Susan 🍁 @susanbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 2

4 of 6 cans complete…The blue jay was tough. First time I’ve tried painting, drawing, or felting one!

#paint #painting #art #artist #upcycling

Can painted with a bee, flowers, and leaves. Turquoise to lavender background.

Can painted with blue jay and evergreen branches

Four cans painted with blue jay, toadstools, bee, and chickadee

Four cans of rainbow colours with stenciled patterns

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