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@retractus.bsky.social
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Wanderer, ne’re-do-well, US expat. 🇳🇴 MSc. Plant Ecol.
Creative meanderer: author/musician/photographer/artist
Far Left. Crazy old 🐈‍⬛ person. Fond of mosses🌿
Except for reposts all content is mine.
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Author site: https://www.nordicnoirpress.com/
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Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · Nov 27
We just published The Way of the Raven, vol. 2 of the Lost Viking Saga. Based on Greenland’s mysterious lost Viking colony, a timeslip thriller of love unbound by time. A tragic but ultimately uplifting saga of troubled souls diving into the dark abyss of past lives.
Amazon: a.co/d/ezfLDYi
#writing
The Way of the Raven book cover featuring a raven sitting in a dream catcher, which is bisected by a Viking broadsword and a Native American arrow. In the background is a landscape featuring Native American teepees.
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Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Forest Tableaux

#ForestFriday #Scape #Forest #Moss #Bryophytes #Trees #Stone #Plants #Green #Photography #LandscapePhotography #HDR #PhotographersofBluesky #EastCoastKin #Norway
A photograph of a moss-carpeted forest, populated by small and large spruce trees, set against a background of moss and plant-covered boulders.
February 13, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Two Windows

‘Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.’
~ George Edward Moore

#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #Reflections #Flowers #Plants #Urban #UrbanGaze #Buildings #Colorful #Photography #StreetPhotography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Oslo #Norway
A photograph of bright blue venetian blinds behind a white framed window, with a reddish-yellow flowering vine creeping up alongside. An adjacent building with windows is subtly reflected in the window panes, creating the illusion that the image is on the blinds themselves. A photograph of a black framed window set in a white brick wall reflecting a brightly colored sunset in its glass panes.
February 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Toilets, Kafé Hærverk
Oslo, 2024

From Kafé Hærverk (hærverk=vandalism), one of my absolute fav pubs/concert venues in Oslo. Uncompromising, intimate, diverse, cool AF.
Both photos from a superb Gnoomes concert.

#TagTuesday #Graffiti #UrbanGaze #Urbanart #Concerts #Photography #EastCoastKin #Norway
A photograph featuring the colorful graffiti-covered toilet stalls in the basement of Kafé Hærverk in Oslo. A photograph of stargazer/kosmische-shoegaze band Gnoomes performing in concert at Kafé Hærverk in 2024.
February 10, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Ripples & Waves

#ClassicMono #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #AlteredPhotography #Ripples #Water #Trees #HighContrast #Dark #Atmospheric #Art #Sunday
An altered/edited high contrast black and white photograph of raindrop ripples and reflections of trees across the surface of a forest pond.
February 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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'Pinnacle of Light' (2025) -- a Barren Snowy Campground on the Outskirts of Town Provides Solace & Beauty In the Midst of a Forest, Thomas Point Beach, Brunswick, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
an image of impressively straight trunks of pine trees stretching as far as the eye can see, in the distance the sun peeks through the clouds casting long shadows that radiate outwards
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Winterscape
Ljanselva, Oslo

Just a short walk from where I live on the outskirts of Oslo.

#ForestFriday #Scape #River #Water #Trees #Forest #ForestScape #NatureLovers #Winter #Snow #Icecles #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #HDR #LongExposure #Norway
A HDR (High Dynamic Range) long exposure photograph from a local winter scene, featuring a snowy forest, with an icicle-decked river flowing through it.
February 6, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Greenpoint, Brooklyn
[2016]

“All green. Abandon everything else.”
~ Allen Ginsberg (in a letter to Jack Kerouac)

#UrbanGaze #Urban #Buildings #Green #CityScape #City #Photography #StreetPhotography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #NewYorkCity #USA
A photograph of a bright green apartment building with a rusting fire escape casting long shadows across the front of the building.
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Havnelageret (Harbor Warehouse)
Oslo, Norway

#PinkMon #Pink #ColorADay #Buildings #Architecture #UrbanGaze #Photography #CityscapePhotography #CityScape #EastCoastKin #Oslo #Norway
A photograph of Oslo’s Havnelageret (Harbour Warehouse), built in 1916/1920 —a special landmark in the Oslo harbor skyline.
February 2, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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The Usual Suspect

Findus doing his unsuccessful best to evade the long arm of the law…

#Caturday #Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #BlueSkyCats #CatWorldDomination #CatPhotography #OrangeCats #GingerCats #CatLover #Photography
Two photographs, side by side, the first of a plant lying in a broken flower pot spilled out across the floor, subtitled ‘The Crime Scene’, the second of an orange cat hiding under a blue bathmat, subtitled ‘The Main Suspect’.
January 31, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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A Blackbird feeding on rowan berries
Prinsdal, Oslo

This particular bird has a small white patch on his wing, a phenomenon known as leucism.

#SmallBirdSaturday #FeedingTime #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #Trees #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Norway
A photograph of a Blackbird with a small patch of white (leucism), perched in a rowan tree, feeding on the berries.
January 31, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Mire Portal
Stensrud, Oslo

#ForestFriday #Scape #Green #Bryophytes #Mosses #Trees #Forest #Bog #Mire #Reflections #Nature #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Norway
A photograph of birch and spruce trees reflected in a tiny forest mire, surrounded by bright green sphagnum (peat moss) and other mosses.
January 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Ljanselva
Nordstrand, Oslo

#WaterfallWednesday #Water #River #Landscape #Scape #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Naturephotography #LongExposurePhotography #Norway
A photograph of a waterfall with different subtle shades of color and two branches sticking up at the bottom.
January 28, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Findus, 5:30 am

#Cat #Cats #Caturday #CatsofBluesky #BlueskyCats #CatWorldDomination #CatLover #Photography #BWPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #B&W #DigitallyEnhanced #ClassicMono #Monochrome #Mono
A slightly digitally enhanced black white photograph of my cat, Findus, taken at 5:30 AM
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Our veranda, eight years ago, when the world suddenly turned into Marshmallow Land. Lovely to look at, not so much fun with the shoveling. Beauty always has its price. The cats were not amused. 😅

#JanuArty2026 #Soft #Snow #Winter #Urban #Photography #B&W #Monochrome #EastCoastKin #Oslo #Norway
Wintery photograph of deeply piled snow on our veranda, featuring a buried table and grill, making it look like the world was made out of marshmallow.
January 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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A congregation of magpies have lived on our property for years. My office window looks out on the backyard, with a view to a moss-covered outcrop of stone. The magpies bury tidbits under the mosses, then a local squirrel sneaks in, finds and steals them. The magpies just don't get it.😅
#MagpieMonday
A photograph from my backyard in Norway of a European magpie standing on the edge of an outdoor planter, looking warily back at me.
January 19, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Norwegian advertisement from 1915.

Photography Studio
Olaf Foss
Enlarging Establishment

Outstanding results when photographing in the dark season utilizing newly invented devices for artificial lighting.

Christiania [Oslo’s former name until 1925]

#ArtNouveau #AdArt #AntiquePosters #Norway
A Norwegian advertisement poster from 1915 advertising a photography studio located in Christiania [Oslo’s former name], done in a kind of Art Nouveau style. The text is presented in graceful fonts and illustrated with yellow flowers and leaves.
January 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Melis, New Year’s Day, 2016
Tempus fugit

#Caturday #Cat #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky #BlueSkyCats #CatWorldDomination #WhiteCats #CatPhotography #Photography #NewYear #BlueSkyArtShow #Norway
Melis, our white cat, sitting on the dining room table staring back at me, on New Year’s Day, 2016.
January 3, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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Morning light through window frost
Prinsdal, Oslo
[31.12.25]

#Frost #WindowFrost, #FrostedGlass #Window #Winter #Cold #MorningLight #Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Oslo #Norway
A photo of window frost with the morning light shining through.
January 1, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Rattlesnake Shake
Fleetwood Mac, Then Play On [1969]

If you know, then you know. A timeless blues rock album with an undefinable something else from Peter Green featuring a classic Fleetwood Mac line up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob5Q...

#Music#Rock #RockMusic #60s #MusicFromTheSixties #BluesRock
Rattlesnake Shake (2013 Remaster)
YouTube video by Fleetwood Mac - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The true elixir of life

Freshly ground Monsooned Malabar beans brewed in a stove-top Bialetti Moka pot, served with warm, frothed milk. The only way to start to the morning…

#FoodOnFriday #Coffee #CoffeeLovers #CoffeeTime #Moka #MokaPot #Photography #EastCoastKin
Bialetti Moka pot, Monsooned Malabar coffee beans, milk in a Bodum milk frothier, and brown sugar. Freshly brewed moka coffee with frothed milk and a dusting of brown sugar. Also pictured: Bialetti Moka pot, and Bodum milk frothier.
December 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I personally don't care to have AI in my life whatsoever, but if it is inevitable, as so many are saying, then…

#NoAI #HumanArt
A photo of a meme which states “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
December 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Melis in situ

#UrbanGaze #Cats #WhiteCats #Surrealistic #Dreamscape #Dark #Atmospheric #Clouds #Reflections #CatArt #Photography #ArtPhotography #MutedPalette #PurpleHaze #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #Thursday
A white cat sitting on a windowsill in a purple-tinged surrealistic setting amidst reflections of trees and clouds.
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM