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S. K. Riley
@skriley.bsky.social
Writer, PhD, gardener, educator, tree planter, and so forth.
www.skriley-author.com
Lover of Australian wildlife, re-wilding, mythology, music, cinema and democracy. 🇦🇺
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Dingo Roaming

Dingo was roaming, seeing, feeling − falling toward the stars.

- JP Quinton

#Dingo #Stars #Dreaming
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“Crown Jewels” by Crystal Miller (American) - Mixed media on canvas / 2023 - Discover the Promise: Impact, Legacy & Perspective, Cleveland City Hall (Ohio) #WomenInArt #Afrofuturism #BlackArt #CrystalMiller #MixedMedia #art #artText #BlueskyArt #MixedMediaArt #WomanArtist #WomensArt #WomanArtist
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Leonora Carrington :
Bird Superior, Portrait of Max Ernst, 1939

Oil on canvas
19.75 x 10.5 in. | 50.2 x 26.7 cm

National Galleries of Scotland

More info in the alt text 👇
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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BTS of the carving behind this months print.

printclub.cristianpintos.com

#art #print #linocut #illustration
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Emu Travelling Dreaming, 1972

TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI
powder pigment on composition board
30 x 50 cm

#Art #Australian #AboriginalArt #EmuDreaming #NaturalPigments #Painting
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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✨The Seasons✨

This #FrescoFriday we travel to Block 10, Regio IX of Pompeii to enjoy some of the details from the blue room unveiled during archaeological work in 2024. The room is thought to have been a sacrarium — “a shrine devoted to ritual activities and the storage of sacred objects”.
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Sustainable water usage - #DataCentres

“Data centres must make maximising recycled water in their operations a top priority, and source their electricity from 100% renewable sources.”

~ Lord Mayor of #Sydney, Clover Moore

#ClimateChange #AI #Emissions #Renewables

www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Australian cities lead global push to green the data centre boom
The AI boom and the power hungry data centres behind it could transform cities for good or otherwise.
www.smh.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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“Farewell and adieu to you
fair Spanish ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you
ladies of Spain;
For we've received orders for to sail for old England / back to Boston,
and so never more will we see you again"

— Robert Shaw: Buccaneers / Jaws

#filmsky #cinema #jaws #seashanty
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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#humansofbluesky #humans #eastcoastkin #dance #swing #tallships #åland #photography #storytelling #reportage #dancing #happy #joy

Swing time on the tall ship Pommern
Mariehamn, Åland, Finland, 2023

Photograph © Rob Watkins
Find more Rob Watkins Photography at 
www.alamy.com/portfolio/photorobw
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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POV you’re in a crabby mood

🦑 🌊 🧪 🦇
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” Rumi
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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“In the punk-rock world, she was thought of as a poet; in the literary world, she was thought of as a punk rocker—exceptional by definition in both spheres.”

Taking Stock: Patti Smith Looks Back on Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
Taking Stock: Patti Smith Looks Back on Everything
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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A historic day for Victoria.

Australia will see its first ever treaty with Aboriginal people signed and formalised as law today.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people becomes law in Victoria
Victoria's first treaty with Aboriginal people has been signed by members of the Aboriginal community, the premier and state governor.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Hitchcock enjoying the snow with his grandchildren, 1962.

#AlfredHitchcock #WinterScene
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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We had our first snow today. The snowflakes were fluffy, lazily drifting down. 4 hours later they were small projectiles, whirling in crazed asymmetrical spirals. By sunset the sky was clearing above the blanket of white.

Winter knows that every year I greet its snowy arrival with this attitude…
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Street Art Masterpieces!

Brazil. A mural of a boy climbing a painted wooden ladder up a wall filled with colorful books. The book spines are individually detailed. It's a wonderful illusion and hopefully encourages reading! 🤠📚🎒

#ArtSky #StreetArt #EduardoKobra #Brazil
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” — Rumi.

#MacroMonday
#MagentaMonday
#dahlia

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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#StephenKing's 10-Year-Old Horror Short Story Getting Movie Adaptation For The First Time screenrant.com/mister-yummy...
Stephen King's 10-Year-Old Horror Short Story Getting Movie Adaptation For The First Time
A Stephen King short story is being adapted next.
screenrant.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Contortionist!

Topknot pigeon feasting on the fruits of the bangalow palm just now. 🪶 #wildoz
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Greek archaic period, ca. 600-570 BCE. Museo Archeologico Regionale, Palermo.
#archaeology #antiquity
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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OMG SPEECHLESS

#Aurora has erupted & gone coronal (directly up).

Now the entire southern sky
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Straight out of the phone, Culburra NSW South Coast. #Aurora #solarstorm
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM