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mandy-m-andersen.bsky.social
@mandy-m-andersen.bsky.social
International nomad.
Travel, collecting museums, photography, volunteering, writing, and researching family history. 🇨🇦🇬🇧
Happily married to the same man for 36 years.

All photos are my own unless otherwise indicated (eg. reposts), and copyrighted.
If tear gas is too dangerous for a battlefield, there is no justification for using it against people in our cities. Sign the petition. sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
Tell Congress: Don’t silence dissent with tear gas
If tear gas is too dangerous for a battlefield, there is no justification for using it against people in our cities. Sign the petition.
sign.moveon.org
February 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Just anthropomorphizing for the moment . . . I wonder if nature ever sweats, has angst or turmoil creating her works of art?

Beautiful capture by @misheleneous.bsky.social
Last one for #WeekDforDramatic

Thanks Sheena its been another great week of the #AlphabetChallenge

Nature is a dramatic artist given the right weather conditions and Jack Frost leaves his beautiful marks on our glass overnight sometimes

#EastCoastKin #StunDay #Photography #Nature #Weather #Winter
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM
An installation outside the #MinneapolisInstituteofArt always makes it a #Stunday for me.
Large enough to climb inside - weighing in at nearly 4,000 lbs, the 12’ by 7’ mammoth head is hard to miss.

#artimpersonatingart #snowscape #blueskyart #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky

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February 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
January 31, 2026 at 11:25 PM
. . . aaaaand it’s #BlueSkyArtShow #clouds - and I finally have a place to share the freakiest sky I ever saw!
Over #Portland #Oregon some years ago.

#classicmono #greyskies #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #cloudscape #ominous
January 31, 2026 at 1:15 AM
January 30, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Watching a sunset at the town dock, taken through metal cables securing a boat to dock. For today’s #JanuArty2026 #connection #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic #EastCoastKin #photograph #Scape
January 30, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Post-sunset glow. Crystal Pier, Pacific Beach, San Diego, California

#sandiego #pacificbeach #sunset #ocean #crystalpier #photography
January 28, 2026 at 4:43 PM
January 29, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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January 27, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Trumpington Street, Cambridge, with the Loch Fyne restaurant, pastel (sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition. The channel that runs along the side of the road is Hobson's Conduit. I love drawing and painting chimneys.
#Cambridge #pastel
January 26, 2026 at 9:56 PM
One of my family is an ER physician in the Minneapolis hot zone, laboring to treat patients in spite of cruel and unnecessary interference from rogue humans.
The initials are apt - there’s no blood running through these goons' veins.

#Minneapolis #democracy #resistance #heroes #community #strength
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.

The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Volunteering as a K-3 literacy tutor with vulnerable children in a small school in Minneapolis was one of the most joyous experiences of my life.

#humanity #Minneapolis #lightindarkness #volunteering #community #vulnerability #resistance #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #strength #courage
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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I have never been more proud in our Prime Minister! Wow.
youtu.be/dTvFnC-oFGw?...
FULL SPEECH: Canada’s PM Carney Says US-Led World Order Is Breaking at World Economic Forum | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
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January 20, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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January 18, 2026 at 9:39 PM
January 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I really like this more unusual viewpoint of a city that gets a lot of repetitive coverage.
Venice, Italy 🇮🇹
#photography
January 6, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Best wishes to you all.
May 2026 bring back sanity.
January 1, 2026 at 12:03 AM
December 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Emma Haworth, contemporary UK painter #WomensArt #BoxingDay
December 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Bright light will always banish the dark ... pass it on 🤍

#meaninglesshashtag #mhclub

A dark path in need of #illumination

#lightandshadow #lightinthedark #lamppost #pathway #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #hope

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December 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM