LilyLeftTheValley
@lilyleftthevalley.bsky.social
I have lived in many valleys. I have left them all.
#NOICIUTU
Hobby level naturalist in 5b & er58g.
What a timeline to be living!
PFP: Balloon art lily of the valley
Banner: ink drawing of a forest of fantastical beings of many sizes and types
#NOICIUTU
Hobby level naturalist in 5b & er58g.
What a timeline to be living!
PFP: Balloon art lily of the valley
Banner: ink drawing of a forest of fantastical beings of many sizes and types
Pinned
Just dusting this off and sharing it from the vaults as we head into interesting times.
Never forget: we are stronger and more resilient when we work together.
Never forget: we are stronger and more resilient when we work together.
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Any day Mendel lets me pick him up and walk around the house without freaking out is a good day.
Tried to push my luck and put him down in the office, but he noped right on out and beelined to his basket under the bed upstairs. Thankfully, he purred as I spoke to and petted him.❣️
Tried to push my luck and put him down in the office, but he noped right on out and beelined to his basket under the bed upstairs. Thankfully, he purred as I spoke to and petted him.❣️
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Any day Mendel lets me pick him up and walk around the house without freaking out is a good day.
Tried to push my luck and put him down in the office, but he noped right on out and beelined to his basket under the bed upstairs. Thankfully, he purred as I spoke to and petted him.❣️
Tried to push my luck and put him down in the office, but he noped right on out and beelined to his basket under the bed upstairs. Thankfully, he purred as I spoke to and petted him.❣️
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Never wish death on someone.
Remember there are worse things.
Get creative.
Remember there are worse things.
Get creative.
a woman in a black dress is holding a cup of coffee in her hands .
Alt: a woman in a black dress is holding a cup of coffee in her hands .
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Never wish death on someone.
Remember there are worse things.
Get creative.
Remember there are worse things.
Get creative.
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You’re not weak for avoiding bad news — you’re human. Behavioral science calls it the “ostrich effect,” a reflex to help the mind manage what it can’t control.
Inside the Ostrich Effect: How Ignorance Has Become a Survival Strategy
Research suggests our tendency to ignore bad news isn’t irrational — it’s self-preservation, and could help explain why older people are often happier.
bloom.bg
November 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
You’re not weak for avoiding bad news — you’re human. Behavioral science calls it the “ostrich effect,” a reflex to help the mind manage what it can’t control.
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Don't send your coins to the wealthy trolls that live in high castles this holiday season.
Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.
Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Don't send your coins to the wealthy trolls that live in high castles this holiday season.
Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.
Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.
Flurries starting to stick as the temps have been dropping while the sun is coyly hiding in the fluffy layers of passing clouds.
Should be a little over three hours 'til sunset, and I'm curious to know how long the flakes will last.
Should be a little over three hours 'til sunset, and I'm curious to know how long the flakes will last.
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Flurries starting to stick as the temps have been dropping while the sun is coyly hiding in the fluffy layers of passing clouds.
Should be a little over three hours 'til sunset, and I'm curious to know how long the flakes will last.
Should be a little over three hours 'til sunset, and I'm curious to know how long the flakes will last.
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"Isn't that lovely? It's my favorite program-fifteen minutes of silence-and after that there's a half hour of quiet and then an interlude of lull. Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Isn't that lovely? It's my favorite program-fifteen minutes of silence-and after that there's a half hour of quiet and then an interlude of lull. Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.”
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Ozark Trail Tabletop 1-Burner Butane Camping Stoves Recalled Due to Serious Burn and Fire Hazards; Imported and Sold by Walmart; Manufactured by China Window Industry Co. | CPSC.gov share.google/rKCxoQpcV2Ge...
CPSC.gov
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November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ozark Trail Tabletop 1-Burner Butane Camping Stoves Recalled Due to Serious Burn and Fire Hazards; Imported and Sold by Walmart; Manufactured by China Window Industry Co. | CPSC.gov share.google/rKCxoQpcV2Ge...
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You know, it's a slap in the face to have corporate Black Friday before Small Businesses Saturday, while also expecting the small businesses to give you some deal on Friday.
How about forget all these idiotic named days and just shop small every day.
How about forget all these idiotic named days and just shop small every day.
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
You know, it's a slap in the face to have corporate Black Friday before Small Businesses Saturday, while also expecting the small businesses to give you some deal on Friday.
How about forget all these idiotic named days and just shop small every day.
How about forget all these idiotic named days and just shop small every day.
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Today is Octidi the 8th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate honey.#JacobinDay
More information on honey
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate honey.#JacobinDay
More information on honey
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Octidi the 8th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate honey.#JacobinDay
More information on honey
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate honey.#JacobinDay
More information on honey
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Reposted by LilyLeftTheValley
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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Most artists started on lined school paper and used ballpoint pens, #2 pencils and crayons. They became artists because they stuck with it, not because Sennelier oils and squirrel brushes were bestowed upon them in preschool
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Most artists started on lined school paper and used ballpoint pens, #2 pencils and crayons. They became artists because they stuck with it, not because Sennelier oils and squirrel brushes were bestowed upon them in preschool
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The Pentagon announced an investigation into Mark Kelly, but there is no need to waste taxpayer dollars. He has already confessed he is guilty — guilty of following the law and Constitution and encouraging others to do the same. He doesn’t even show remorse for his loyalty to the Constitution!…1/2
Trump essentially said loyalty to the Constitution is punishable by death. Those are dangerous words coming from the President of the United States, but I’m not going to be intimidated.
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The Pentagon announced an investigation into Mark Kelly, but there is no need to waste taxpayer dollars. He has already confessed he is guilty — guilty of following the law and Constitution and encouraging others to do the same. He doesn’t even show remorse for his loyalty to the Constitution!…1/2
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Pardons for sale, get your fresh hot pardons for sale...
Yes, you have to pay the convicted fraudsters to get your presidential pardon, but that's how the United States of America sells 'em now:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Yes, you have to pay the convicted fraudsters to get your presidential pardon, but that's how the United States of America sells 'em now:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon
Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in April to three years for defrauding the government of $38 million. Seven months later, Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying t...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Pardons for sale, get your fresh hot pardons for sale...
Yes, you have to pay the convicted fraudsters to get your presidential pardon, but that's how the United States of America sells 'em now:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Yes, you have to pay the convicted fraudsters to get your presidential pardon, but that's how the United States of America sells 'em now:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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ICYMI, the Utah State Legislature will consider a bill that will force data centers to disclose how much water they use: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
ICYMI, the Utah State Legislature will consider a bill that will force data centers to disclose how much water they use: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah
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"Pardoned by George H. W. Bush, 1989. Currently serving a life sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Gobbler was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder, both committed during a botched robbery in 1992."
Pardoned Turkeys: Where Are They Now?
Gobbler Pardoned by George H. W. Bush, 1989. Currently serving a life sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Gobbler was convicted of two counts of ...
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Pardoned by George H. W. Bush, 1989. Currently serving a life sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Gobbler was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder, both committed during a botched robbery in 1992."
Flurries...earlier than expected.
Otherwise, most of the plant matter in the backyard save some stubbornly still green grasses are various shades of warm browns dotted with grays--the latter mostly milkweed seed pods.
Otherwise, most of the plant matter in the backyard save some stubbornly still green grasses are various shades of warm browns dotted with grays--the latter mostly milkweed seed pods.
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Flurries...earlier than expected.
Otherwise, most of the plant matter in the backyard save some stubbornly still green grasses are various shades of warm browns dotted with grays--the latter mostly milkweed seed pods.
Otherwise, most of the plant matter in the backyard save some stubbornly still green grasses are various shades of warm browns dotted with grays--the latter mostly milkweed seed pods.
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A recent episode of NPR’s CodeSwitch mentioned an NEH award to Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and the University of North Dakota which preserved archival material and oral histories related to the history of North Dakota’s Indigenous population.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
Tribal colleges are a unique resource — and they're under threat : Code Switch
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College has classes on everything from Native American studies to gardening to equine sciences to the Hidatsa language. Like other tribal colleges and universities (aka TCUs), it...
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A recent episode of NPR’s CodeSwitch mentioned an NEH award to Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and the University of North Dakota which preserved archival material and oral histories related to the history of North Dakota’s Indigenous population.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
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Choose kindness.
Choose love.
Choose books, both fun & powerful.
Choose a vehicle capable of outrunning the law, and fill it with banned books and friends who excel at a certain kind of mischief.
Choose love.
Choose books, both fun & powerful.
Choose a vehicle capable of outrunning the law, and fill it with banned books and friends who excel at a certain kind of mischief.
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Choose kindness.
Choose love.
Choose books, both fun & powerful.
Choose a vehicle capable of outrunning the law, and fill it with banned books and friends who excel at a certain kind of mischief.
Choose love.
Choose books, both fun & powerful.
Choose a vehicle capable of outrunning the law, and fill it with banned books and friends who excel at a certain kind of mischief.
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