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2diamondeyes.bsky.social
@2diamondeyes.bsky.social
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INFJ, BFA, MS, published researcher in speech synthesis, 15 yr collaborator in SGD/AAC dev, dog mom, aunt, uni teacher, lifelong learner, retired 30 yr traveling med specialist NC, SC, VA & DC. Described as effervescent by peers.
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2diamondeyes.bsky.social @2diamondeyes.bsky.social · Dec 3
Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another. ~Neville Goddard
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Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt
Textile piece with embroidered representations of plants and flowers in a busy composition in pinks and purples predominantly
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Coastal Foam, 2019
by US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
Painting of a seascape with rocky shore and foamy sea
February 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Angela Smyth, contemporary artist & illustrator #womensart
Illustration of two stylised sitting cats, one tabby to the right, the other black and white, both facing forwards, the tabby bending it's neck to look sideways with large round curious eyes
February 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Ellen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt
February 7, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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Your vote counts! Please see the important dates and deadlines for the 2026 NC Primary Election.

#DST1913 #NorthCarolina #Vote2026

Salisbury Alumnae_DST
February 4, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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Paris by night, 1951 by Portuguese Modernist painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva #WomensArt
Semi abstract painting with areas of dark blue and small squares in white and gold
February 4, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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Please consider supporting this cause. Thank you. ❤️ RESIST!! ✊️
Fight Against Federal Overreach
The Fight Against Federal Overreach (FAFO) is a national coalition of District Attorneys collaborating to ensure federal officials are held accountable when they exceed their lawful authority.
federaloverreach.org
February 3, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Angela Smyth, contemporary artist & illustrator #womensart
Cartoonist illustration with black dog flying right over a tiny house
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Angel De Cora (1871–1919) artist of the Winnebago people, forcibly taken from her family by US authorities as part of a programme to assimilate Native American girls into white society. De Cora later became a Native American rights advocate #WomensArt
Sepia photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a Native American woman with long dark hair, wearing a top with beadwork and looking outwards
February 3, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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Joaquin Castro: Liam & his Dad walked out of Dilley detention center last night. They should have never been there in the first place. Thanks to your voices & outcry they are now free.

Not going to lie, I lost sleep over this precious boy. Glad he's home!
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Students protest against ICE during a walkout at the University of Minnesota on January 26, 2026 (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
Sign reads: America cannot be great while ruled with hate.
February 1, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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No one is illegal just because they are an immigrant or different from anyone else. You would think this would not be necessary to say, but here we are.

🌍🌏🌎

Love. ❤️
Resist. ✊️
Solidarity. 🇺🇸
No Kings. ❌️👑
Here's some history on legal vs illegal things: Legal: Slavery llegal: Helping people escape slavery Legal: the Holocaust llegal: Smuggling Jewish people out of Germany Legal: Segregation Illegal: Refusing to move to the back of the bus Legal: Apartheid lllegal: Fighting apartheid If the extent of your morality is based on whether or not something is legal, then you'll find excuses to accept some truly horrific, evil things We are 7.5 billion tool-using primates stuck on one giant rock rotating in one painfully average star system. Our borders are arbitrary. We're all one species. Our differences are superficial. Either you're a compassionate, decent, fair-minded person, or you're not.
February 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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‘Mommy, why don’t you pick us up?’: Mother of Liam Conejo Ramos shares her story from hiding
Liam and his father are currently being held by federal authorities in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, an hour plus drive southwest of San Antonio.
www.mprnews.org
February 1, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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She loves her denim jacket that Santa brought her.

My heart. ❤️
January 31, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Ojibwe (Chippewa) Tribe Parade in Minnesota

youtu.be/tjEJJBequ8w
Chippewa Tribe Parade in Minnesota 🇺🇸 | Native American Cultural Celebration & Traditions
YouTube video by Festival Drift
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January 31, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare | Moustafa Bayoumi
Mobile Fortify lets agents obtain vast amounts of information on anyone by scanning their face
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Parisian avant-garde painter
Marie Laurencin,
Tête de femme de profil, 1909 #womensart
Painting of a stylised head of a woman in profile, with long hair, facing right, eye looking outwards
January 30, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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ICE/CBP is building up the USA's Facial Recognition database using the app Mobile Forify. Amy breaks it down.

Mask Up!! 😷
Gaiter Up!!
RESIST!! ✊️
ICE Agents Film Minnesota Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Massive Facial Recognition Push
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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January 29, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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'Never Sleep' plate
by Carrie Reichardt,
British artist and figurehead for the Craftivism movement #WomensArt
Plate with central eye motif in black and white and text of the title in Latin, the border is decorated with repeated patterns of flowers and diamond shapes
January 29, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
for Civil Rights

~Youngsters who began a hootenanny to raise funds for civil rights work in the South on Thursday in the Community Church Center continued it yesterday on the sidewalks of Boylston Street and raised $700 for their cause.

[ca. June 1964]
Date: ca. June 1964 Photographer: Dixon, George Poster reads: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for Civil Rights
January 29, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Portrait of a young woman, 1909
by Gabriele Münter, German Expressionist painter #WomensArt
Painting featuring the upper half of a white woman wearing a hat jacket and tie
January 29, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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January 29, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
Painting portrait of the upper half of a white woman with brown hair tied up and pale top.
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM