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@siares.bsky.social

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Pre-K #teacher (public), mother to the best people ever, collector of banned pictures books, and bonafide history & sarcasm enthusiasts. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦🇲🇽🇨🇦🇵🇸Ally #artist 🎨 #neurodiversity #Xennial #trigeminalneuralgia #kentucky 💙 https://ko-fi.com/SiaresMeg

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Meg @siares.bsky.social · Dec 21

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 18h

Hendrick ter Brugghen in 1628, so brilliantly returning The Gold to his vision of The Annunciation.

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November First
Andrew Wyeth, 1950
Watercolor

Bone Structure.

#artsky
#arthistory
#Wyeth
#painting

The painting "November First"- a watercolor that depicts a stark, barren farm landscape in late autumn.
Subject: The foreground is filled with a dense cluster of tattered, dried cornstalks that have been left standing after the harvest.
Composition & Viewpoint: very low to the ground, so you are looking up at the sharp, skeletal stalks as they rise and tilt against the sky.
Color Palette: The colors are severely muted, dominated by earthy tones, dry ochres, grays, and pale browns, perfectly capturing the cold, damp feeling of a wind-swept November day.
Atmosphere: It is a scene of decay and stillness, awaiting the full onset of winter. The brushwork, though detailed, retains the raw expressiveness of watercolor.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

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Meg @siares.bsky.social · 1d

I was saddened by the callousness of a colleague who suggested that losing SNAP benefits would force people to get jobs, especially given our students' poor, rural backgrounds where many are raised by grandparents.

Troubling times reveal true character.

#SNAP
#Teaching #children
#rural #poverty

Meg @siares.bsky.social · 2d

#artsky
#arthistory
#pottery

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/29/m...

MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs

The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Kentucky Democrats @kydemocrats.org · 3d

SNAP cuts will leave thousands of families hungry in Kentucky.

Get the facts below ⬇️

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Mosie @mosiefar-27.bsky.social · 4d

Eeyore the Smart Ass was not impressed with my choice of a costume for him this year. He is styling an eclectic ensemble consisting of a pink tutu and a wizard's hat. 😜

#donkey #eeyorethesmartass #Halloween

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Kentucky Democrats @kydemocrats.org · 5d

Republicans are willing to let more than 600,000 Kentuckians go hungry.

Their government shutdown will cut off SNAP benefits in November because feeding Kentucky kids isn't their priority, but Trump's golden ballroom is.

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Council for Exceptional Children @cecmembership.bsky.social · 5d

The removal of federal leadership in special education puts eight million children and youth with disabilities at risk. Join us tomorrow to help protect their services. All donations will be matched! #4SpecialEducation

Learn more: https://exceptionalchildren.donorsupport.co/page/GivingDay2025

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KDOG @khaosdog.bsky.social · 6d

Chicken of the wood.

For @sushiartstudio.bsky.social's chicken card project.

All proceeds generated from the chicken card project will be donated to the British hen welfare trust. www.bhwt.org.uk

Watercolor painting of two chicken merging into the mushroom 'chicken of the woods'.

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Meg @siares.bsky.social · 7d

Child abuse.

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toonerman @dptoon.bsky.social · 7d

Int’l Artists Day
Howloween

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 7d

'I am but a shadow, come from the meadow
Where many lie, but no tree can stand.'

From Christina Rossetti's 'The Ghost's Petition'
Illustration by Florence Harrison
#BookWormSat