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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · Apr 11

I think it's important for people to realize that many of the world's largest tragedies were not inevitable; they were allowed.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

Ay me, this tyrant fever burns me up

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 1d

Bodies are difficult. Sending all the love your way, friend. 💕

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 7d

#Inktober entry number two: #weave!

An ink drawing of a spider weaving a web in a small notebook. A glass pen and black ink bottle are placed next to the drawing.

Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 7d

A day late for the start of #inktober, but here's my inky #moustache for those observing. Decided to use my glass pen for this.

A cartoon of a suave person with a top hat and a giant moustache doing a little dance. A glass pen and black bottle of ink are seen on a table covered in cardboard next to the drawing.

Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 11d

Today is my birthday. Two years ago, I launched my dream job at NASA. Now, I face my last day of employment there. My position, along with thousands of others, evaporated at the whim of a wannabe dictator and his self-serving lackeys. I'm thankful for the time I had, but sad it's ending like this.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15d

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 19d

This image is triggering my trypophobia real bad 😬🤢😫

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 20d

At the ACIP meeting this afternoon, a representative from the American Pharmacists Association had to point out to members that in many states, the authority for pharmacists to give vaccines is based on ACIP recommendations.

It's as if the new ACIP members don't actually know what ACIP does.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 22d

how to write a book (gothic font) step 1 (wordart). a woman lying on the floor (stock image) surrounded by stamps of a pile of books around her. there is a translucent thumbs up behind her. on the forground, the words "lie on the floor. contemplate life."

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 24d

Dude! You're killing it with those glasses! Love the colorful fit. 💖

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 24d

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 25d

Swans should be always accompanied by their own musicians.

Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-3516, folio 207r.

Illustration from MS: a bearded man with a reddish-brown tunic and a red robe sits on a stool, playing a harp decorated with an animal head. Facing him on the right is a large, grey swan with an open beak. The figures are positioned on a green, grassy area with brown, undulating shapes below, likely representing ground or hills. The background is a solid red color. The entire scene is framed by a decorative border with a parchment-like background and red and white corner embellishments

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Southpaw @bettercallsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24d

Not the brightest bulb of the bunch, but definitely the most adorable one.
Found @ imgur.com/gallery/halp...

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 25d

The Pigeon Wears Prada

Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 25d

I painted the runway pigeon

Painting of a black and white pigeon against a red background on 8x8” paper

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ᗰᗩTT @kelarax.bsky.social · 25d

Absolutely 😸😹😻

That second picture, she most definitely was like "Why me??" 😂🤣😹

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 25d

“Just we two” Postcard from my collection. Copyright 1907, mailed 1909. This is by C.E. Bullard, my favorite of the Victorian/Edwardian cat photographers. He seemed to genuinely love cats and didn't restrain them or cram them into tiny costumes.

Black and white photo of two white cats on a cushion or folded blanket. A shorthaired adult cat is on the right while a fluffy long haired white kitten is snuggled into her on the left. They appear to be a cozy mother and kitten, cuddled and relaxed.

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Grig "Punkie" Larson @griglars.bsky.social · 28d

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28d

THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-Al generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/ crafts and I will repost! From now until 5:00 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!

Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie meowing at the camera with her little pink, toothless mouth open looking like the cutest lil gremlin. The words art show are written in sloppy digital crayon above and below her face.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28d

My fellow parents of kids with disabilities, we had A Win here today and it just feels incredibly good.

I hope you and yours get A Win soon.

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 29d

O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee
To make the charmèd body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality!
-James Russell Lowell

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 28d

Let's get the petition started for the official name change. Who should we target next? Percy Bitch Shelley? Oscar Gone Wilde?

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 28d

It's the end of the week so it must be #PublisherFriday!

If you are an #IndependentPublisher why not let us know a bit about your press, some links, current projects, crowdfunders, submission windows, some of your authors

#publisher #SmallPress #publishing #IndiePress

alt text in pictures please

old engraving of a Tunis Press, which is a large wooden structure, with one man pulling the lever to make a print and another man who is smoking a pipe checking some copy, with sheets of paper strewn on the ground

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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 28d

I have been drawing horses for Patreon.
Project called Horrible Horses 🐴

And this is a lobster horse!

Drawing of some sort of hippocampus creature; half horse, half lobster.

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