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Queen of Land

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Singing to the sea, the sky, the land. They/Prefer Not to Say. Blendian. Immunocompromised af. “Trauma is an unrelenting beast. It never quite leaves our side. But that doesn’t mean we owe it a damn thing.”

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot stress this enough, and I am tired of saying it: British white people, everything you are seeing in the US is coming here and you cannot watch Eurovision or Great British Bakeoff or sign petitions and think you can stiff-upper-lip or ignore your way out of this.

Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 3h

I had a real issue at a lot of therapists taking a crack at !Adolescence Reactions: just like the Discourse, it was all about the boy, and not a damn thing about the girl he killed.

She was never even NAMED in any discussion I saw. Felt like whatever lesson that was teaching fell hella short...

Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 3h

My day has been enriched

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Rocky Horror Picture Show 50th Anniversary: Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick & Cast Reunite

YouTube video by Entertainment Weekly

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 3h

We die in committees
Apologize before you say please
Pride cuts you at the knees
—Dead Pioneers

Changelog: Added “Dead Pioneers - My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal (Official Music Video) - YouTube” to our “Respectability Politics” glossary page.

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Respectability Politics

Our movement needs nothing of respectability politics.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 4h

In addition to destroying ICE and DHS, we should probably start thinking about a reparations framework. If they keep records on which officers conduct arrests, we could make individual officers liable to pay damages to their victims.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 5h

Always wondered why Mel warned her away from protectors of the forest. Oak and Willow will spurn a faerie walked counterclockwise, or so my GG taught me.

Hands up if you have seen the "bluebells" cut version of the film.

Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 1d

a princess character jumping out of a doorway of a cottage in the woods. captions read “Oh, and you look out for spriggen and banshee, my girl.”

a woman who lives in the woods wearing a red dress and a white bonnet, captions read “Stay clear of toadstool rings and willow trees and old oaks.”

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 20h

Black Women are officially fed up — collectively, unapologetically, and visibly. Y’all fucked yo bad and now you don’t have us to help you and trust y’all about to suffer because of it. AND we’re going to be just fine 😎

a close up of a man 's face with a mustache .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a mustache .

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Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 7h

Caribbean Matters: Belize celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day
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Caribbean Matters: Belize celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day

Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

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Jay 🌲 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 10d

🐺⚠️🦇

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A picture of a 1.5 inch acrylic pin on a green cutting mat. The pin is rectangular and depicts a formline bat head with wings and long fangs. Text on the top and bottom reads “CAUTION, BEWARE OF VAMPIRE”.

A picture of a 1.5 inch acrylic pin on a green cutting mat. The pin is rectangular and depicts a formline wolf head with long teeth and claws. Text on the top and bottom reads “CAUTION, BEWARE OF WEREWOLF”.

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 7d

-This is not the sky-

😢It is really sad to see adorable birds dying because of the reflection on windows, so I made this illustration for some bird protection organizations to propagandize this situation.

#bird #illustration #animalprotection #originalart #animal #digitalart #animalart #artist

an illustration of a long tailed strike hitting onto the glass, which reflects the the sky

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h

Ok, well now I feel better about doing the same. Solidarity! But I won't blame hormones of those valid feels. I see you, I hear you, I witness.

For me it was the "I actually think I did a good job. I did okay." The RELIEF put me on the ground.

Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h

Racism, man. It's racism. It isn't hard to say, but it seems REALLY hard to acknowledge.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h

You can get kosher sausages sometimes, but I know there ain't no kosher Andouille.

I just...we gotta shut off the internet and let it think about what it's done.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h

There's.....shrimp....in there. Dafuq is this?!

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h

Damn, Minnesota, get it together!

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

153 kids are in quarantine in South Carolina.

118 kids in Minneapolis.

This is what happens when we ignore the science.

When we stop vaccinating, long eradicated diseases come back.

The kids deserve better than this. Measles can disable. It can kill. And it’s completely preventable.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 8h

Happy birthday! Be blessed!

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Linda Lithén @lindalithen.bsky.social · 22h

Now that I've recovered from my cold and isn't sneezing my brains out, I finally managed to finish up my piece from @paulscottcanavan.com 's mentorship :D

Knew I wanted to paint a horse, so decided to draw some inspiration from the wild hunt folklore and ended up with bonus doggies.

A male rider dressed in leather armour rides across the sky. He's carrying a spear, and a half cape is flying out behind him. His horse have blue glows across its body, and they're flanked by two demonic canines with red glows across their body. Behind them is a eclipse and clouds.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 8h

I've got offspring's first art book in a drawer. Every scrawling, every scratch. It will have to be pried out of my cold, dead hands, and then I'll haunt the fucker who did it.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 10h

From Catch the Fair One to True Detective: Night Country, Kali Reis has shown us what Indigenous strength looks like beyond stereotypes. Now she’s stepping into Raccoon City bringing that same energy to one of horror’s most iconic franchises.

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#residentevil

From True Detective to Resident Evil: Kali Reis Expands Her Reign

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot just became a lot more interesting with the announcement that Kali Reis has joined the cast. Her addition is already one of the most talked-about moves in the proje...

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 8h

I'll give you the time you need to recover after typing that...

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 8h

Same, offspring was here last year and TOWERED over me, starting second year of uni, and like a damn nelly I just S O B B E D.

Turn around, and they're two, turn around and they're four...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 8h

A man walked out of the sea one February morning dressed in a boilersuit & bunnet, and wearing a tartan scarf which had been tucked crosswise under each oxter…

—James Kelman, “Incident on a Windswept Beach”
in THE STORY OF THE STONE, @pmpress.bsky.social 2025
#Scotstober
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James Kelman
Incident on a Windswept Beach

A man walked out of the sea one February morning dressed in a boilersuit & bunnet, and wearing a tartan scarf which had been tucked crosswise under each oxter to be fastened by a safety-pin at a point roughly centre of his shoulder blades; from his neck swung a pair of heavy boots whose laces were knotted together. He brought what must have been a waterproof tobacco-pouch out from a pocket, because when he had rolled a smoke he lighted the thing using a kind of Zippo (also from the pouch) and puffed upon it with an obvious relish. It was an astonishing spectacle.
Hastening over to him I exclaimed: Christ Almighty jimmy, where've you come from?
Back there, he muttered oddly and made to proceed on his path.
At least let me give you a pair of socks! I said.
But he shook his head. No ... I'm not supposed to.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 8h

I used to play with a crew in WoW who would all religiously take a slug of hard liquor every time I had a Humira injection lined up. It was silly, but a rather sweet show of solidarity. "Pick your poison, kids - I'm going in."

It is Humira o'clock: if so inclined, kinfolk, I won't stop you.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 9h

Are there any aspiring or developing fiction writers out there who’d like to have a look at/ join in conversation in my free to access ‘sandbox’ blog? I’ve published in the academic arena for nearly 25 years, but only started writing fiction in lockdown. Lots of fun - and frustration!

Writing fiction: Characters, Storylines and Believability

Someone asked me recently- how do I develop the characters and storylines in my novels? It was something I hadn’t systematically analysed, but on reflection, I realise that my process is highly rhi…

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 8h

We blink and you're grown. It sounds really dumb, and I would have rolled my eyes at your age.

And then I had kids, and experienced it myself....

Yeah. It's something else.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 9h

I am, once again, asking the UK if we're going to keep waving American tourists in if we don't know if any of them are even vaccinated anymore. By the rise in measles here, I suspect the answer is "£££TOURISM£££" but we're already suffering labour shortages here due to everyone getting sick.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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