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Pearl Pirie

@pearlpoet.bsky.social

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slow-living poet, insect- & mushroom-portraitist, Good Omens DT & MS fan, f/t incessant reader & writer. If you need me to know something, email me. www.pearlpirie.com 🏳️‍🌈 she/her Alt image: long wavy greying hair, red framed glasses, black top.

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 10h

apart from the camera spinning moments this looks better than all of S3.

Trek Central @trekcentral.net · 11h

🖖 BREAKING NEWS - FIRST Look At #StrangeNewWorlds SEASON 4 Clip!

At #NYCC, a new First Look preview of the upcoming #StarTrek season has landed!

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Clip | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)

Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is coming soon to Paramount+! One show. Infinite Adventures. Join the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise as they discover new civilizations, test their resolve…

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

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Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 10h

such a pretty face.

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 14h

Canada Post striking now as it’s losing market share is like telegraph operators striking while phones come into vogue.

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 14h

heh. hard to put odds on it but that they run at all is a blessing.

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 14h

that can happen?

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 14h

home feels so good. bless your cat nurse.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s the map for the swallow. Each dot represents a bird, and each line links the places where they were found.

A map of Europe and Africa, with multicoloured dots, and connecting lines leading roughly north to south.

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 16h

The predicted barnacling occurred during nap.

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 1d

Head's Up: Explore Hintonburg and Wellington West through fiction and poetry with Susan Johnston and Jane's Walk. Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 9:30 am. Advance sign ups help estimate the number of walkers. www.janeswalkottawa.ca/en/walks/td-...

Hintonburg & Wellington West in Literature

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a sentence.

“In October 2020, Costco dropped Chaokoh coconut milk over the allegations of forced monkey labor.” (Wikipedia)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1d

We could be treating Canada Post as not just an essential delivery service, but an essential social infrastructure in our communities.

Instead the government prefers to treat it as a costly burden that must be subject to death by a thousand cuts.

For isolated seniors, Canada Post delivers more than mail | CBC News

As the Canada Post strike hits the one-week mark, there are growing concerns for one group of Canadians who typically rely on the delivery service more than most — seniors.

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 1d

each fern unfurls
a slower version
of my breath
#haiku #poetry

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

After bans on religions end, shrines pop back up. After resistance to nazism lulls, it pops up intact. after dangerous conditions pass, seeds, good bad or neutral flourish. so what conditions do we want to make?

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

seeds wait. 150 years if they need to. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How these 100-year-old seeds returned to their home as plants in Toronto's Port Lands | CBC News

The discovery gave researchers a glimpse into how plants would have grown in the area over a century ago if industrial pollution and sewage didn't hamper the former Ashbridges Bay Marshland.

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

gad I love essays on process, the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...

On the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, October 2025) and an Except

by rob mclennan I don’t hold too much stock in ideas of the muse, instead seeking the attention of craft. The working class farm-lad in me, I suppose: writing as simultaneous muscle and study, a bl…

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

makes sense it would slide. I should get one of those for our Mr. Bean.

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 1d

Unfiltered Narrative: Strengthen Your Fiction by Minimizing Filter Words

"Filter words are verbs that refer to a character's senses or cognition, such as seeing, hearing, or thinking."

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Unfiltered Narrative: Strengthen Your Fiction by Minimizing Filter Words

By reducing unnecessary sensory and cognitive verbs, you allow your audience to slip into the shoes of the protagonist and experience events as they unfold, without redundant reminders that the scene…

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

is it on a chest strap?

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 2d

Poor cat, she went to nuzzle and encountered citrus breath. What a wince.

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason why Signal is better than telegram…bot accounts are popping up on telegram. WhatsApp is worse for encryption even if more commonly used.

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 2d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodo... The biggest bible with 9 extra books.

Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon - Wikipedia

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 2d

I expect to be alternately barnacled by cat & dog for a few days.

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🎃Bushybritches🎃 @bushybritches.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know that anyone can turn someone in to the United Nations for crimes against humanity???

I’ll just leave this here.

www.ohchr.org/en/reporting...).

Reporting violations

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