Valentina Sarno
@windruffle.bsky.social
Language teacher, TEFL certified. Building Kiwake - a phone-free language & culture space in Gallipoli. kiwake.substack.com
The rest of the photos... I feel shame, even though it's not my fault that local fishermen, who clearly don't have a conscience of their own to inform them, are not forbidden from buying heavy dreadfully murderous plastic :(. When on earth are we going to ban this stuff?
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The rest of the photos... I feel shame, even though it's not my fault that local fishermen, who clearly don't have a conscience of their own to inform them, are not forbidden from buying heavy dreadfully murderous plastic :(. When on earth are we going to ban this stuff?
Only those who play Death Stranding can understand how I felt when I saw the usually sandy beach of Mancaversa (near Gallipoli) all algae-black.
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Only those who play Death Stranding can understand how I felt when I saw the usually sandy beach of Mancaversa (near Gallipoli) all algae-black.
Reposted by Valentina Sarno
Ignazio La Russa, di gran lunga il peggior presidente del Senato della storia della Repubblica Italiana, ben spiegato da un giustamente incazzato Luca Bizzarri.
La vergogna nazionale ai massimi livelli istituzionali!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfvg...
La vergogna nazionale ai massimi livelli istituzionali!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfvg...
Ep.766 - Quando m’incazzo
YouTube video by Chora Media
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December 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Ignazio La Russa, di gran lunga il peggior presidente del Senato della storia della Repubblica Italiana, ben spiegato da un giustamente incazzato Luca Bizzarri.
La vergogna nazionale ai massimi livelli istituzionali!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfvg...
La vergogna nazionale ai massimi livelli istituzionali!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfvg...
Can I just say to people reposting ugly crap from ex-twitter... please don't. We are here to avoid it, there's no real point in being on Bluesky if you're resharing stuff from ugly Twitter.
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Can I just say to people reposting ugly crap from ex-twitter... please don't. We are here to avoid it, there's no real point in being on Bluesky if you're resharing stuff from ugly Twitter.
November Sea in Mancaversa (Gallipoli, Heel of Italy) to the gorgeous music of Tim Croce.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
November Sea in Mancaversa (Gallipoli, Heel of Italy) to the gorgeous music of Tim Croce.
Reposted by Valentina Sarno
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
This dancer, created by the artist Paolo Puggioni, is my spirit.
I am a mix of all the colours and cultures of the places I've lived in throughout the world.
I am colours, though my stupid pale skin and my gray blue eyes don't show it. This is my spirit, this is my warmth, this is my dance.
I am a mix of all the colours and cultures of the places I've lived in throughout the world.
I am colours, though my stupid pale skin and my gray blue eyes don't show it. This is my spirit, this is my warmth, this is my dance.
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This dancer, created by the artist Paolo Puggioni, is my spirit.
I am a mix of all the colours and cultures of the places I've lived in throughout the world.
I am colours, though my stupid pale skin and my gray blue eyes don't show it. This is my spirit, this is my warmth, this is my dance.
I am a mix of all the colours and cultures of the places I've lived in throughout the world.
I am colours, though my stupid pale skin and my gray blue eyes don't show it. This is my spirit, this is my warmth, this is my dance.
Starting up this song and the ensuing album full blast when you're feeling slightly icky or anxious is like standing in a fresh mountain waterfall when you're parched and dried out by the sun. Thank you forever #thecure
tidal.com/browse/track...
tidal.com/browse/track...
The Cure - Plainsong (Remastered)
Listen to Plainsong (Remastered) on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Starting up this song and the ensuing album full blast when you're feeling slightly icky or anxious is like standing in a fresh mountain waterfall when you're parched and dried out by the sun. Thank you forever #thecure
tidal.com/browse/track...
tidal.com/browse/track...
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My small but pretty November garden.
Dog in background.
Dog in background.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My small but pretty November garden.
Dog in background.
Dog in background.
Just some of my flowers this morning: some tiny purple and a chocolate red rose.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Just some of my flowers this morning: some tiny purple and a chocolate red rose.
Reposted by Valentina Sarno
everyone look ... somewhere!
📷Gerard Koopen
#streetphotography #street #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #flickr flic.kr/p/2r5PwML
📷Gerard Koopen
#streetphotography #street #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #flickr flic.kr/p/2r5PwML
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
everyone look ... somewhere!
📷Gerard Koopen
#streetphotography #street #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #flickr flic.kr/p/2r5PwML
📷Gerard Koopen
#streetphotography #street #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #flickr flic.kr/p/2r5PwML
Listening to Tracy Chapman's "The Promise". God, such beautiful tunes, gives me shivers.
tidal.com/album/533196...
tidal.com/album/533196...
Tracy Chapman - Greatest Hits
Listen to Greatest Hits on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Listening to Tracy Chapman's "The Promise". God, such beautiful tunes, gives me shivers.
tidal.com/album/533196...
tidal.com/album/533196...
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Wake up babe, new Tade Thompson story just dropped.
[And its an expansion of one of my favorite Tade stories]
[And its an expansion of one of my favorite Tade stories]
Hey, Kids, Stories!
Clarkesworld # 230.
Features my science fiction novella THE APOLOGISTS.
Also stories by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social and @izom-chisom.bsky.social and others!
Clarkesworld # 230.
Features my science fiction novella THE APOLOGISTS.
Also stories by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social and @izom-chisom.bsky.social and others!
Issue 230
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Wake up babe, new Tade Thompson story just dropped.
[And its an expansion of one of my favorite Tade stories]
[And its an expansion of one of my favorite Tade stories]
I would love to live surrounded by more nature than people. Like I did in New Zealand. In the meantime I'll just have to settle with sun, sea, and looking at gorgeous flowers that bloom in November as though it were spring. And, of course, my life-savers, my dogs, my angels in furrs.
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I would love to live surrounded by more nature than people. Like I did in New Zealand. In the meantime I'll just have to settle with sun, sea, and looking at gorgeous flowers that bloom in November as though it were spring. And, of course, my life-savers, my dogs, my angels in furrs.
An obsession against waste
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open.substack.com/pub/kiwake/p...
An obsession against waste
There are various parts of me that are part of whatever mental health issue ails me.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
An obsession against waste
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open.substack.com/pub/kiwake/p...
Today in Mancaversa: dogs, sea, flowers in the morning.
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Today in Mancaversa: dogs, sea, flowers in the morning.
Yes!
Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Yes!
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New prints available up in my shop! You can see the newest additions here: jocelynandersonphotographyshop.com/collections/... . The Great Blue Heron moon prints are now available.
Calendars are also available at: www.createphotocalendars.com/Store/Jocely...
Calendars are also available at: www.createphotocalendars.com/Store/Jocely...
October 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
New prints available up in my shop! You can see the newest additions here: jocelynandersonphotographyshop.com/collections/... . The Great Blue Heron moon prints are now available.
Calendars are also available at: www.createphotocalendars.com/Store/Jocely...
Calendars are also available at: www.createphotocalendars.com/Store/Jocely...
Reposted by Valentina Sarno
A White-breasted Nuthatch doing a floof at me because I am taking photos and not offering peanuts. (I did offer peanuts after this photo.)
October 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A White-breasted Nuthatch doing a floof at me because I am taking photos and not offering peanuts. (I did offer peanuts after this photo.)
My comfort zone among the clinks
kiwake.substack.com/p/a-comfort-...
kiwake.substack.com/p/a-comfort-...
A comfort zone among the clinks
I had recently decided not to engage in the harmful and terrifying realities of the world, because I know too little.
kiwake.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
My comfort zone among the clinks
kiwake.substack.com/p/a-comfort-...
kiwake.substack.com/p/a-comfort-...
