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Nicole Gratton 🎨🖌️📷🇨🇦 @nicolegratton.bsky.social · 1d

#ImageAndVerse
Poem by Gérald Godin, poet and politician 1938-94
Engraved on house in Carré Saint-Louis in Montréal.
See the French snd English texts in ALT.
We need more humans like him.

Sept heures et demi du matin métro de Montréal
c’est plein d’immigrants
ça se lève de bonne heure
ce monde-là

le vieux cœur de la ville
battrait-il donc encore
grâce à eux

ce vieux cœur usé de la ville
avec ses spasmes
ses embolies
ses souffles au cœur
et tous ses défauts

et toutes les raisons du monde qu’il aurait
de s’arrêter
de renoncer
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Seven-thirty in the morning on the Montreal metro
It's full of immigrants
They get up early
This crowd

Could the old heart of the city
still beat
thanks to them

This old, worn-out heart of the city
with its spasms
its embolisms
its heart murmurs
and all its faults

and all the reasons in the world it would have
to stop
to give up

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Nicole Gratton 🎨🖌️📷🇨🇦 @nicolegratton.bsky.social · 2d

Two for the price of one !
#SaturdaySnails #mobilephotography
#PhotographersUnited
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin

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Nicole Gratton 🎨🖌️📷🇨🇦 @nicolegratton.bsky.social · 2d

Reading There Are River In The Sky by Elif Shafak

« One man’s rebellion, if left unchecked and unpunished, can emboldened many dissidents «

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Nicole Gratton 🎨🖌️📷🇨🇦 @nicolegratton.bsky.social · 2d

Reading There Are River In The Sky by Elif Shafak

« One man’s rebellion, if left unchecked and unpunished, can emboldened many dissidents «

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 3d

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch (or Rewatch) the classic (and ever relevant) film: "All the President's Men" (1976) - Dir. Alan J. Pakula

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC3Y...

All The President's Men (1976) Official Trailer - Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman Thriller HD

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

www.youtube.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

María Corina Machado of Venezuela, the opposition leader who built a powerful social movement challenging President Nicolás Maduro and has been living in hiding since last year, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Here's what to know: nyti.ms/47iFxzh

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 3d

EN DIRECT, Gaza : le cessez-le-feu est entré en vigueur, selon l’armée israélienne ; des milliers de Palestiniens marchent vers le nord

L’armée israélienne a annoncé un « redéploiement en préparation de l’accord de cessez-le-feu et du retour des otages ». Selon cet accord, le Hamas a désormais soixante-douze heures pour libérer les derniers otages retenus. Selon le gouvernement israélien, sur les 48 otages restants, 20 seulement étaient encore vivants.

www.lemonde.fr

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 3d

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Así ha anunciado el Comité el Nobel para María Corina Machado, "una defenosora de la paz valiente y comprometida, una mujer que mantiene viva la llama de la democracia", han destacado tinyurl.com/tacjk57m

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Nicole Gratton 🎨🖌️📷🇨🇦 @nicolegratton.bsky.social · 3d

Fall forest in Quebec
#ArtChallenges #ForestFriday #mobilephotography
#PhotographersUnited
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#Quebec #Canada #EastCoastKin

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Super Sonic Star, 2014 by Zarah Hussain, artist who creates mathematically precise, geometric art inspired by Islamic Geometry #womensart

Sculture, a symmetrical form with twelve points in white with regular pink lines creating flower like patterning

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Nicole Gratton 🎨🖌️📷🇨🇦 @nicolegratton.bsky.social · 4d

A group of friends painting in plein air this summer in Montreal.
#HumansOfBlueSky
#ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #mobilephotography
#PhotographersUnited
#PhotographersOfBluesky

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 5d

Wendy Caldwell Maloney, Fading Hostas (watercolor)

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Mark Vasey @markmakingmarks.bsky.social · 5d

Just came across this painting from summer last year. Wasn't keen on it at the time but looking through some bits it stood out to me today.
#watercolour #landscape #memory #abstract #art #industry

This is an abstract cityscape landscape watercolour painting.

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you all so much. 💐

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Tim Edwards @timzero4.bsky.social · 6d

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Keyser Lauze 🇨🇦 @keyserlauze.bsky.social · 6d

Goodnight my #bluesky friends!🌊✨️🦋😁💙

"Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away'

- Robert Fulghum

#eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #sunset #dog #walk #waves #peace #pacificocean

The suns sets in golden hues over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Vancouver Island. A couple walks their dog along the water line, taking in the last rays of sunlight. The rocky shore glows in shades of amber. Peaceful evening for a lovers stroll.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 8d

Hector McDonnell (Irish Artist, born 1947)
"Café on Canal Street, New York", 1989.
Oil on Canvas, 101 × 76 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 8d

This.
Is.
Brilliant.

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moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 9d

Pope Leo: It's not "pro-life" to be anti-abortion but support
"the inhuman treatment of immigrants"

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Lejuan @lejuan.bsky.social · 9d

Compliments to the chef

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 9d

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Nicole Gratton 🎨🖌️📷🇨🇦 @nicolegratton.bsky.social · 9d

A painting from a few years back…deckchairs in Hyde Park for watching people go by…or just relaxing 😎

#blueskyartshow #relax
#painting #montrealartist #originalart #womensart #watercolour #watercolor
#aquarelle #canadianart #artyear #EastCoastKin
#London #HydePark

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 10d

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch (or Rewatch) the excellent, and sadly timely, film: "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005) - Dir. George Clooney

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv4s...

Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) Official Trailer - George Clooney, David Strathairn Movie HD

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

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