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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦

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Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Readily distracted by birds. 🐦‍⬛ theunhurriedreader.substack.com @the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing). #InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · May 30

The fact that @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has continued to produce such thought-provoking, heart-warming and beautifully-constructed tales, full of wisdom and wit, whilst being so ill all the while, has always seemed a kind of miracle to me. Please support her via Patreon or Ko-fi if you can.

Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · May 30

I've had medical appointments every day this week & I'm having an infusion tomorrow. I'm so tired, I can't get out of bed today. Please support me! Join my patreon, which has hundreds of stories & recipes, or buy me a chocolate over on Kofi! ko-fi.com/annelouiseav... www.patreon.com/c/annelouise...

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 11h

Very beautiful, thank you.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 11h

'Embroidery.' (1817) The paintings of Georg Friedrich Kersting have proved perennial objects of admiration, not only for their atmospheric use of colour, their meditative serenity and (what we all need from time to time) a sense of seclusion from the outside world.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 16h

"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."
~ Virginia Woolf

'Autumn, collecting firewood' (1915)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

It's pope vs. president now. "The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," the pontiff writes in the document, titled "Dilexi te" (I have loved you). "She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."

www.reuters.com

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16h

a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

ALT: a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 16h

I translate from Indonesian to English, & do art & writing projects that expand understandings of translation: access as translation, intermedial translation, incl latest books amuk (translating a word thru poetry, tracing colonial mistranslation) & ANNAH, INFINITE (translation of a painting). #xl8

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thursdays are for Translators!

If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other

#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚

alt text please

an icon showing a circular translation from one language to another

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 16h

The stone is beautiful & the silverwork is OMG phenomenal!

WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1d

First up is "Indian Summer Dreams" [and no cracks about his name for it; I've explained it ad nauseum]: wingssilverwork.com/indian-summe....

Sterling silver; ultra-high-grade black-web Kingman turquoise. Spare freehand stampwork, heavy-gauge band; elevated cab; fine framing stampwork:

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16h

I'm so glad that I don't commute to London any more. 🥺

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16h

Listen to Rabbit.
#CreativeBizCreativeBuzz🐝

Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 16h

Rabbit says One week to go!

RABBIT SAYS HEY ONLY I WEEK TO GO!
great northern contemporary craft fair
VICTORIA BATHSI
MANCHESTER
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Search #GNCCF
-CRAFT SAYS SOMETHING

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 16h

🧶Finally, it is time to share the well guarded secret of the Stitch & Witch spooky season library fundraiser project - flower crown wearing cherry leaf dyed botanical boo crochet lavender filled ghosts & most simple knitted socks for to fill a drawer for them to snugly nap in...

A whole of heap of softly coloured naturally dyed yarns - cherry crochet ghosts with mother of pearl eyes & tiny flower crowns on copper wire, very simple knitted colour work socks in progress using buddleja dyed wool, perched on an open illustrated book page of a ghost napping in a sock drawer, with more hand made sweet spirits in a tray to the side, yarn scattered all about.

A more pulled back picture of the first as so as to see more bits!

A montage of the first pictures & the front cover of the illustrated book - how to make friends with a ghost by Rebecca Green - as it was a huge point of inspiration for this project!

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16h

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

The guy responsible for trying to provoke a civil war via extreme violence on elders, women, children, journalists, clergy, elected officials, workers, longtime residents, and refugees wants a Nobel Peace Prize. The same guy ordering them to murder people in boats in the Caribbean.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16h

I am pleased. These things have a habit of trailing on and on into the weekend, which makes everything 10x more difficult.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16h

Has there been any progress on this, today? ❤️‍🩹

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

Noor Inayat Khan was in the Special Operations Executive, a UK government department. She aided the French Resistance against the occupying Nazis. She was betrayed, captured and executed at Dachau Concentration camp.
#Antifa #History #WomensHistory #WomenAreBadAss

A black and white photo of a young woman in military uniform. She has black hair and is smiling into the camera. Photo is public domain (I nicked it off of Wikipedia).

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 17h

I do. ❤️‍🩹

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 19h

October 9th. #HelpFolksLive2025 thread. Something's *always* due & food is *always* needed. Things only get better with community action. *Now* is when folks need food, water, shelter, meds. *Now* is when we/the community needs to be there for each other. There's no one else. Just us.

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 19h

"Those of the Quaking Aspens"
#NativeWriter
40 new patrons at $25/month - get daily vignettes of life on the alpine desert (Taos) Reservation where Aji lives & cover all her monthly household bills. Today is a good day to subscribe.

AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 1d

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 17h

#PuertoRico #Vieques

bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 18h

#PuertoRico #Vieques (small island off the big island of Puerto Rico used by the Navy for target practice for decades. Populace has much "higher than normal" cancer & other disease rates.)

2,941 days, 8 long years, and counting since #HurricaneMaria . Still no actual hospital.