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

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

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 10h

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 · 2h

is it on a chest strap?

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 21h

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

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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🎃Bushybritches🎃 @bushybritches.bsky.social · 1d

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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🎃Bushybritches🎃 @bushybritches.bsky.social · 1d

The full dimpled smile after🥰

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

wow!!! great news!

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

which day is it now?

24 hours and 3 hospital visits. Followed by 12 hours sleep.

Fancy med to widen the ureter so the stone doesn’t scrape the edges as it works its way down.

Pain level went from resetting upper limit for 10 to a manageable everyday 2. Blood pressure went from 200 to 112.

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Two Winters Woods @2winterswoods.bsky.social · 1d

Stream crossing, late September

#trailcam

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 1d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

a 5mm sand in the ureter is worse than than pebble in a shoe.

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

And day 2. left home at 9am. saw doctor at 6:30 pm. more meds.

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

Once I saw art exhibit that was in this style but the holy gold leaf was around portraits of deer, or raccoons,

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Maryann Corbett @maryanncorbett.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's fair to say that poets would like their work to be read. So it's reasonable to ask: Where / how should one publish in order to be read? What form of publication is most likely to get a poem read? Granted, we try to put our eggs in multiple baskets. But where do we find the most readers?

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

how do parents cope?

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

Without downloading anything new…

manywinged Follow
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*bleeding out from my horrific injuries as you carry me in your arms* make sure you lift with your knees and not your back

Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 1d

Can I get earplugs puralatored directly here?

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