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Toni Snowflake ❄️💙🌊🧙‍♀️

@tonisnowflake.bsky.social

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Left of liberal, intersectional feminist, treehugger, animal lover, witch, history nerd. Doing my best to #Resist in the heart of Texas. #BLM #LGBTQIA+ ally #TheResistance (I block DMs, MAGA, crypto, porn, or asking for $)

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Toni Snowflake ❄️💙🌊🧙‍♀️ @tonisnowflake.bsky.social · Jan 24

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

― Elie Wiesel

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Weirde how we let a bunche of nerds monetize conversation

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12h

The great actress Diane Keaton has left us at the age of 79. Too soon to say good-bye to the woman who made us smile at the quirky Annie Hall, and who broke our hearts in Reds. Your charm and talent will be sorely missed.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

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The Liberal Page @theliberalpage.bsky.social · 11h

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Ephlam @josephlm.bsky.social · 2d

The Fog

#photography #ForestFriday

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 1d

The Mid-Autumn, or Moon Festival, is a harvest festival held late September to early October using the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival celebrates Chang'e, the moon goddess, with moon cakes and lanterns of all sizes.
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#FolkyFriday #art #illustration #mythology

Maxfield Parrish - The Lantern Bearers by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

The Lantern Bearers - Maxfield Parrish Please look in my shop for more work by Parrish and his contemporaries.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 1d

In Irish tradition, Puck Fair crowned a wild goat king. The captured animal presided over days of revelry before being released to the hills. A festival both pagan and pastoral, half sacred, half satire. #FolkyFriday

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 1d

🌿🐍🌿The sap from Goose Grass (cleavers) mixed with wine, was an old English remedy for adder bites.
#FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

Loy Krathong is the Thai lantern festival, taking place at the end of their lunar calendar and often in November. Lanterns are lit in biodegradable (often bread or flowers) boats and sent to see, meant to represent the Buddhist concept of letting go. #FolkyFriday

A woman in pink-purple-red Thai garb with a crown of flowers in her hair sending out boats of flowers to the water while wooden candles float around her in a relatively shallow area; the wooden candles do not appear to move, and are likely just for illumination. Hanging modern lights can be seen in the trees behind her.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 1d

The Lammas and Harvest Fairs were once the social heart of the countryside. Pipers played, apples were pressed, and livestock changed hands. Beneath the trade was gratitude; a farewell to summer’s plenty. #FolkyFriday

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 2d

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a #yokai known as azuki baba (bean hag). She often appears on rainy autumn nights, glowing white through the mist, singing hoarsely as she shakes and washes beans by the river. She is a more sinister variant of azuki arai who despite singing about...
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An old woman sits beside a river washing a strainer of azuki beans. Trees with autumn leaves above. Swirling mist around her.

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 1d

October folklore includes traditions surrounding the thinning of the veil between the worlds during Halloween and the Celtic festival of Samhain, the importance of the Hunter's Moon, and the symbolism of harvest. Hares are associated with the moon and liminality.
Art my own.
#FolkyFriday #Folkore

An original mixed media artwork of a hare and full moon. Created using acrylic paints on mulberry paper with copper leaf.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 1d

Even today, echoes of the fairs remain. Autumn craft markets, cider festivals, and county fairs still carry the hum of barter and the smell of hay. All remnants of a time when the year turned in music and trade. #FolkyFriday

Art: Karl Weysser

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 1d

Michaelmas daisies bloomed as coins changed hands. Folklore said to place one in your hat for luck when buying stock. Rural superstition twined through trade like ivy on a fence post. #FolkyFriday

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 1d

“I found, and plucked, an autumn-blooming rose,
And shut my eyes, and scented all its savour
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#poetry #photography #flowers

Close-up of a fully open rose with warm autumnal tones of golden yellow and peach, its layered petals softly glowing against green foliage.

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Papaver Green Witch @papavergreenwitch.bsky.social · 1d

My Mexican bush sage living the happiest life in the late season. It’s so soft and fuzzy.

#plants #gardening #photography #plantsky #pagansky #greenwitch

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Witch What 🇨🇦🇺🇦🧙🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @witchwhat.bsky.social · 1d

What do the cards hold for you today?
#witchsky

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🎃𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖚𝖑𝖆 𝕬𝖗𝖈𝖆𝖓𝖆🎃 @crystalcirclecoven.bsky.social · 1d

From Halloween until the end of the Wild Hunt if you have a fireplace or if you make a bonfire there is nothing better than writing a letter for the dead or for the spirits and burning it
#witchsky #occultsky #druidry #druidsky #pagansky #druidism #witchcraft #pagan #witchy #Celtic #Halloween2025

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Katz Photography @kathleenlamoureux.bsky.social · 1d

Need a pumpkin, take a pumpkin

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#31DaysOfHalloween #pumpkins #halloweens #orange #fridaymood

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layla victoria @laylavictoria.bsky.social · 1d

#ForestFriday #scape #ColorADay #Spooktober #31DaysOfHalloween #SensoryArt #shadow
Alas...the rain continues and no moon tonight, but I do have a pic of a recent moon hanging above my forest. Looking all spooky 🌝

An almost full moon, caught above the trees in Layla's home grown forest.

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LaffingKat @laffingkat.bsky.social · 2d

I always get a bit giddy when the leaves finally start to change. Partly because I just love the colors, and partly because I know it's spooky season. #Autumn #31DaysOfHalloween #Photography

Closeup of maple leaves. The bottom leaf is a bright orange red with gold veins. The top leaf is a rose red with bright green veins.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d

Goodnight.
🖼️ Maggie Vandewalle #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

Black cat with bat wings and stripy tail sat in tree under a full moon and night sky, painting.

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