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Dihya Tamaghza
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Disabled indigenous Imazighen visual artist, poet, writer, and biologist primarily interested in invertebrates and plants (working on deep sea coral genomics). Writing a novel.

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Apr 23
Dihya Ammar on Substack
Hiya! I’m Dihya, an indigenous Imazighen writer, poet, artist, and scientist based in Scotland. My first post is an introductory one found here: https://open.substack.com/pub/dihyatamaghza/p/writing-t...
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Driving home from a Nova Twins gig late at night in the fog and seeing flashes of deer-signs & roadkill makes for some strange dreams... 🦌🍂🌗

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#poetry #deer #naturepoetry #litmag #scottishcreatives #art #writing
illustration of a dear accompanied by blood-red text reading: search the doe on roadsides winding vestigial flesh a wounding fall witness the torrent of crimson gather at her hooves life’s lashes l i n g e r only guilt fills the silence with its dull thud
October 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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lunarsealiterary.bsky.social
We have decided to offer FREE FEEDBACK & EDITS to writers under 25 years of age submitting to us in October, February, and July! Simply make a note in your submission if you would like to opt in.

#litmag #literary #editorial #freefeedback #writers #youngpoets #youngcreatives #youngwriter
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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lunarsealiterary.bsky.social
We have officially opened for General Submissions! Simply email us at: [email protected]. Read our first post below to get a feel for what we are after. Always free 🌙

lunarsealit.wordpress.com/writing/

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#writers #litmag #artmagazine #submissioncall #shortfiction #poetry
Lunar Sea Literary
Exploring the vastness and diversity of human voice from the Moon to the deepest seas.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Just launched an online literary magazine that I've been working on this past year. Eager to read what everybody has to send us! We are accepting fiction, poetry, CNF, and artwork. #literarymag #openforsubmission #fiction #poetry #writersofbluesky #artmagazine
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Submissions
Submissions are presently accepted via email: [email protected], or via the online submission form below. We do not presently accept snail mail due to timing and geographical difficulties …
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October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open!

One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory.

This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction.

Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com

#FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize
June 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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New book club just dropped! If you live in the UK and identify as LGBT+, POC, or disabled and want to discuss the greatest literature has to offer with your peers, then bop into our Discord to join our free book club! 🏰
discord.gg/WpPYY55B #bookclub #lgbtbooks #pocbooks #disabledbooks
Marginalia literary circle is a new free book club for UK-based LGBT, POC, and disabled peoples. This is a cover image featuring a unicorn wearing pink sunglasses.
June 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Dihya Ammar on Substack
Hiya! I’m Dihya, an indigenous Imazighen writer, poet, artist, and scientist based in Scotland. My first post is an introductory one found here: https://open.substack.com/pub/dihyatamaghza/p/writing-t...
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April 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Casually waking up in the middle of the night remembering that great crested newts smell like pea shoots or roasted nuts and nobody knows why...

#herpetofauna #biology #evolution #insomnia #herpetology #newts #greatcrestednewts
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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What is 'Dark Oxygen' and why is NASA interested in it?

#deeepsea #sciencecommunication #biology #chemistry #geoscience
Is Oxygen Produced in the Deep Sea?
The year 2013 was characterised by the Zombie Apocalypse Hoax, a third North Korean nuclear test, the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion, the start of Pope Francis’ reign, the largest tornado ever record…
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April 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This week's reading 💙📚
One for leisure, one for research for my next write.

#books #witches #history #literature #bookreview #literaryprize #booksky #readingsky
November 26, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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Getting a cat for a trial period to make sure she'd be happy in our living space and with our lifestyle. Trying really hard to contain my excitement 🥹 hoping it goes well. Any advice on making a cat comfortable in a new space and with new people?
#pets #catadvice #catsofbluesky #vet #furryfriends
November 26, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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The stereotype of what I get gifted for my birthday as a writer...

#writerscommunity #writers #typewriter #antiques
November 19, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Woah!
rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Oct 28
Y’ALL! Scientists at Schmidt Ocean just captured this rare video of an open-ocean squid caring for its young. That pearl-packed black bag between its tentacles is a brood pouch, each pearl is a developing baby squid (you can see a few hatch out at the end).

Nature is so cool. 🧵

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November 18, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Vintage photograph of a potato field. Was stranded on the side of the road for eight hours (entire night) and starting looking around for pests or disease at 4am. Even in dire situations, the need to be a biologist persists 🫡🌱🥔 #STEM #biologist #fieldwork #artphotography #vintagephotography #potato
November 18, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Not sure there's enough talk about going from able-bodied to disabled out the blue. Like it's not as shocking when it happens to people doing dangerous jobs because the risk is known but the fact of the matter is, you can wake up one day and be ill and that's not talked about enough. 1/5
#disabled
November 15, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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I love the folks at @mbarinews.bsky.social b/c they'll just announce the discovery of the first known nudibranch that lives in the midnight zone very casually on a Tuesday 🧪🦑https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MszfZriuVVs
MBARI researchers discover remarkable new swimming sea slug in the deep sea
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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November 12, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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Doing some research for my writing and the stark similarities between the early modern era and today's world is wild - science was gaining momentum but religious extremism and conservatism was intent on stamping it. Women were subjugated due to morality laws. Propaganda vs. Fact. #history #witchhunt
November 14, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Why do my toads look so standoffish? 🤌🏾🐸

#toads #frogs #pets #herpetofauna #herpetology #cutefrog #texastoad #derpy
November 12, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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In the process of writing another novel. Something witchy this way comes... where are my witchy fiction lovers at?

#witchcraft #magic #speculative #fantasyfiction #fiction #debutnovel #pendle #witchtrials #death #writersofcolor
November 12, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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Nettle Dance.

Art Photography with manual edits.

#art #artphotography #photography #artist #visualpoetry #disabledartist #artistofcolor
Art Photography of nettles swaying in which the blues and purples are enhanced
November 12, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Skogkatt and Other Felines is an essay in the form of a poem covering the history of cats as human companions from Old World origins to Vikings sailing them around the world. 1/2

#poet #poetry #writer #writers #writingcommunity #art #cats #cute #poem
Dr. Eva-Maria Geigl concluded that Vikings likely helped spread the joy of feline companions around the globe. From wildcat to lap pet, they still stalk weary critters hiding in dark corners, under brambles, in the overgrown dirt, in your jumble-sale basement. We know these furry friends are ancient, sacred, clever, agile. From sandy-coloured African Wildcats haunting the Nile Deltas to frosty Freya’s gib-cats with blue-black hair, large enough to pull a chariot carrying a goddess of war. These wily creatures are thought to have sailed the world on the back of knarr. Legends speak of a poor man who found his princess in the head of a cat. Whispers of ghost cats roaming the Danish wilderness, larger than a house, traipsing misty spruce woodland. The cats hunted stowaway rodents, protecting Viking food supply on the high seas.
November 11, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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A dipper poem on a tomato's shelf life 🍅

#poetry #poets #poet #gardening #fruit #tomato #art #writers
For the Juicy Flesh of a Tomato Fruit: plump plum-plucked pomodoro your gold skin hides ripe marrow, seeds belly-deep in a row juice trickles staining yellow, big beef big rainbow big boy lush live leaves lick lips enjoy, sweetness bitterness surly sanguine slop slushing spores bloom within, blemishing rotting rancid revolting mycelia spread choking, I hear you, see your aching, A lifecycle finishing.
November 11, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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She Weeps.

Vintage art photography with manual edits.

#art #photography #visualpoetry #artist
Photograph of a statue featuring a female figure glancing down, holding flowers to her bosom against a pale, dusty sky.
November 11, 2024 at 9:07 PM