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Susan Wingate
@playswithdeer.bsky.social
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Writer of things, deer and other wildlife like raccoons, nature, wind, earth and fire. Lives in the PacNW.
My webby thing is www.susanwingate.com often on https://substack.com/@playswithdeer and facebook.com/authorsusanwingate
Jesus freak but not a freak.
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#authors #books #romancelandia 📚😱 📚👀 📖 🌈📚 indie writing
December 17, 2023 at 10:57 PM
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#BookSky admin here! 💙📚🪐📚🌶️ There are a bunch of improvements and expansions I'd like to make to the BookSky ecosystem of feeds and I'm hoping to crowdfund some of the costs associated with upgrading and running these feeds.

If you've enjoyed BookSky, please consider chipping in (see comments!). ⬇️👇🏻⬇️
December 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Bluesky officially crosses 25M users 🦋
December 13, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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#dogs #cats #dogsandcats
December 18, 2024 at 6:11 AM
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December 17, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Look what just happened to The Heartbreak of Time Travel!
Thank you everyone who picked up a copy of my memoir. I hope you enjoy its artistic take on time travel and caregiving.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD27DK6B
#Bestseller
December 17, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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@the-close.bsky.social thanks for the follow! 😀
December 16, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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I'm in love ❤️
unicouniuni3.bsky.social I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · Dec 16
Am I a Christmas tree? Aren't I Santa?

ぼくはツリー？
サンタさんではなくて？
December 16, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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December 15, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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I nearly space about the #ebook of my #memoir being #free today!
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oops.
#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #literarymemoir
I almost forgot! Free book day!
The ebook of The Heartbreak of Time Travel is free today only until midnight. I almost forgot to mention to anyone. Ooops.The publisher, August Twelve Books hopes you will get the download, READ the s...
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December 16, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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First of all, gino smith takes way too long after the ball is snapped. #Football #seahawks
December 16, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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I think they're only using me. :)
December 11, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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#cats #animals #funny
December 11, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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This luna moth emerged last night, and she's definitely the biggest one I've ever raised! #moths #insects #lunamoth #moonmoth #bugs #lepidoptera
A large female north American luna moth rests on a black mesh label above a smaller luna moth. A female north American luna moth rests on my middle finger. She has a very large, eound abdomen, which is about as wide as my finger. Her head is turning towards the camera. She has large black eyes and the space between here eyes is a buttery yellow. Her legs are dark burgundy. The fluffy scales on the outer edge of her head, ans well as her abdomen, are white. The picture is close up enough that each individual horizontal strands coming off the vertical center of the antenna are visible. The antenna are buttery yellow. A large, female, north American luna moth in a resting position on a hand. The picture shows a full back view of her bright green wings in a resting position. The eye spots on both the top and bottom wings are visible. She is angled with her antenna towards the middle left of the frame, and her wing tails towards the upper right corner of the frame. A large female north American luna moth rests on the finger of a hand which is hollering hee up. Her wings are in a three-quarters back view. Her two front legs are extended above her head grabbing my fingertip.
July 30, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Today my backyard habitat photography #artadventcalendar: Beetles, the unsung pollinators. Beetles are incredibly cool, often as colorful and interesting as butterflies, but without wings. This is the Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle, which I think is adorable.
A small gold and black beetle perches on a milkweed leaf.
December 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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This is Bigg's Brownwing, Miletus biggsii, an amazing butterfly from Vietnam. As a caterpillar, they eat aphids!
December 11, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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The Whiskey Tree: Untamed Nature (Wave 2) doesn’t tiptoe around nature—it stomps all over it.
Raw, visceral poetry that tackles the wild with no apologies. This isn’t safe. It’s powerful.
#TheWhiskeyTree #UntamedNature #Wave2
Mark the date: Jan 13. Details: shorturl.at/GpgBB
The Whiskey Tree: Untamed Nature (Wave 2) Is Here to Smash Your Nature Poetry Expectations - The Broken Spine
Nature poetry. For too long, it’s been the domain of soft-focus sentimentality: predictable scenes of meadows, rivers, and, yes, even gliding gulls. But in
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December 11, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Not only is this short-sighted but it's also cruel.
#animalrights #animaladvocate #animals #wildlife
rns.org RNS @rns.org · Dec 11
In the Breckenridge Park river bend, the city of San Antonio plans to remove 69 of 83 trees and prevent bird nesting to allow for the remodeling of a wall. Two ceremonial leaders of the Lipan-Apache Native American Church are suing to protect it on religious grounds.
https://religionnews.com/2024/1…
Indigenous leaders bring first case under Texas' COVID-19-era religious liberty measure
(RNS) — In oral arguments before the state Supreme Court, Texas’ deputy solicitor general argued that the amendment was ‘not a Swiss Army knife of religious liberty’ and that ‘the amendment’s scope…
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December 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Oh. My. Goodness!
#amazing #sky #universe
stsci.edu Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · Dec 11
#NASAWebb recently found a galaxy that not only existed around 600 million years after the big bang, but is also similar to what our Milky Way galaxy’s mass might have been at the same stage of development. See its 10 distinct star clusters: webbtelescope.pub/3O5IJUD 🔭 🧪
A frame split horizontally down the middle. At left is a galaxy cluster and background galaxies, showing thousands of overlapping objects at various distances on a black background. Just above center is a bright white oversized oval, a supergiant elliptical galaxy. Around it are many thin, long orange or pink arcs. These are background galaxies that appear stretched and distorted. To the bottom right is the outline of a small box. On the right side is a zoomed in view of this area. There are two smaller circular outlines flanking a larger central oval outline, labeled Firefly Sparkle galaxy. Within it is a long line, pointing from bottom left to top right with 10 circular star clusters in pink, purple, and blue. The circled galaxy to the bottom left is labeled Companion 1 and looks like a bright red dot. At top right, the circled galaxy labeled Companion 2 is lighter red and surrounded by a red disk.
December 11, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Imagine, if you will, hashbrowns (which are late out of the oven), next to the eggs. Mmmmm...
#food
December 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Sometimes people are NOT supposed to make their own decisions! 🤣 I think I'm one of those people.
#podcasting #writingcommunity #writing #authors #books
Somebody Stop Me
"She dropped it two years after Covid sunk its ugly teeth into the neck of the world."That's a great line for a new story I may or may never write. I'm talking, of course, about my podcast, Dialogue: Between the Lines. Some of you may remember it. Others may not. Either way, I produced a weekly podcast for twelve years, one where I interviewed and featured other authors' work. I thoroughly enjoyed speaking with most my guests. Started in 2010 and ended 2022.I started Dialogue with one of my dear
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December 10, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Please enjoy this peek inside and out at issues 3&4 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery! Digital, soft, and hardcover are all available now: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
December 10, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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New publisher looking for submissions!
#writingcommunity #amwriting
bencameronuk.bsky.social Ben Cameron @bencameronuk.bsky.social · Dec 10
New publisher Li'l Factory is on the hunt for the best unpublished science fiction short stories and novellas (10-20k words) for beautifully designed ltd editions. More details, including terms can be found at lilfac.com

Spread the word! #sciencefiction #scifi #amwriting #amwritingscifi #booksky
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December 10, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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Something important to read.
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The Implications of a Broken Right Headlight
We can't go back. This is the best it's ever been. And that's terrifying.
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December 10, 2024 at 5:15 AM