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cutiepiepuppy.bsky.social
Duchess
@cutiepiepuppy.bsky.social
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Mathematician, engineer, scientist
Amateur at life, nature & Free Speech enthusiast
Relishes her stupidity, eternal student
Dislikes hatred, vitriol and violence
Liberal-minded on just about everything - but not everything
🌈 Supports her Aunt🌈
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Duchess @cutiepiepuppy.bsky.social · Nov 16
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tizzywoman.bsky.social
It seems that Grok has the answers sometimes.
@tizzywoman Grok @grok •37m Yes, federal law (Public Law 88-260) designates the Kennedy Center as a memorial to JFK, and legal experts confirm that renaming it requires congressional approval. The board's vote alone likely isn't enough without legislative changes.
December 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
While in Chicago, I took a tour around the Obama Presidential Center. I can’t wait for you all to visit in June 2026. Here’s a sneak peek:
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
Not all fire burns.

#whistpr #Fire #Monostich #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Flowers #RedGinger
#ImageAndVerse #Haiga
Bright Red ginger bloom (bracts) rising from green leaves with soft ferns and dried grass blurred in the background.
December 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
quiet winter trees
softly learning light again
we remember hope

#Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #Nature #Hope #Winter #Sunrise #Skyscape
Early morning sun - Bare winter trees under a clear blue sky with a bright sunburst shining on the right side of the frame.
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
This strange royal dream
where moonlit steeds arise
as a comet-born team
chase dawn across the skies

#2WordPrompt #Team #Royal
#Quatrain #Poetry #Micropoetry
#BlueskyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky
#Dreams #Dreamscape #Mythic
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
Runway 1986
My Last Landing at O'Hare

the jumpy landing
ended in a field of grass
my pulse took longer

#Emoetry #Jumpy #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky #Airports #Runways
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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mariahbrown.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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michaeledward.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
cutiepiepuppy.bsky.social
Certainty without understanding,
obedience without inquiry,
confidence without competence,
and dogma without curiosity.

Things that ruin public health, distort history, fuel conflict, steal lives, shut down minds.

My heart is breaking.

#Measles #Vaccinations

publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/2025/us...
U.S. Measles Cases Hit Highest Level Since Declared Eliminated in 2000 | International Vaccine Access Center
The United States surpassed a milestone in reported measles cases, with 2025 now having the most cases since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 and the most cases in more than thr...
publichealth.jhu.edu
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
cutiepiepuppy.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYyc...
Perfect! So funny!
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
cutiepiepuppy.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
clear wings flashing light
along the purple blossoms
summer breathes again

#dailyhaikuprompt #Moth #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Writing #Photography #Nature #Insects #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #ClearwingHummingbirdMoth
Summer 2025 - Close-up photo of a Clearwing hummingbird moth hovering at a purple Butterfly bush (Buddleja) blossom. The background is a blur of blue and grays.
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
she’s dim and she’s bright
steady in a shifting world
my anchor of night

#haikufeels #prompt #Dim #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Astrophotography #B&W #Moon #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #MoonPhotography
Close-up black and white photo of the Moon showing detailed craters and surface texture against a black, gray, night sky.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
I am often still
yet easily jumpy
quick to catch nature
and quicker to hug Puppy

#emoetry #Jumpy #FreeVerse #Poetry #Photography #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky #Beagle #ImageAndVerse #Haiga
A photo of a brown and white beagle, Puppy, The Garden Guardian, resting with eyes half closed, head nestled between a brown leather couch and my side.
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
Consider the legality
of being oh so beautiful
Mother Nature’s soft reality
should still be deemed unlawful

#2WordPrompt #Consider #Illegal #Quatrain #Poetry #Micropoetry #Writing #Photography #Nature #Insects #Butterfly #EasternTigerSwallowtail #ImageAndVerse #Haiga
Summer 2025 - Close-up photo of a yellow and black Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly perched on pink milkweed blooms.
December 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
whistpr fades to hush
soft prompts drifting into dark
but the echoes stay

#Whistpr #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #WritingCommunity #Farewell #Thanks #Gratitude
whistprword.bsky.social #Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 2d
News from @whistberry.bsky.social for regular #whistpr participants: I will be winding down the whistpr prompt and closing this account at the beginning of 2026. I've had a lot of projects going and have not been able to devote the time and effort... 1/3
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
softly falling snow
glittering across our path
a wall for the birds

#DailyHaikuPrompt #SnowDrift #Snow #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Writing #Photography #Birds #Birding #WhiteThroatedSparrow #ImageAndVerse #Haiga
Yesterday - A White-throated sparrow is stepping through soft snow beside a wooden railing. Afternoon sunlight is casting shadows.
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
What’s an ideal day?
Hot tea, cold front, with Puppy
and no explosions

#Emoetry #Idealistic #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #PoetsOfBluesky #Writing #WritingCommunity
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
Not all leaves are created equal.

#Whistpr #Leaf #Monostich #Poetry #Micropoetry #WritingCommunity #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #Insects #PrayingMantis #ImageAndVerse #Haiga
Green Praying mantis camouflaged among the soft green needles of a Cyprus with sunlight filtering through.
December 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
Why must people stare
at unusual people?
Please don't look at me.

#2WordPrompt #Why #Unusual #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPoets #WritingCommunity #Anxiety #FearOfBeingFoundOut
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...
Rest in Peace, Mike "Meathead" Stivic. You will be missed🥲
Rob Reiner, Actor Who Went on to Direct Classic Films, Dies at 78
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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jefftrnka.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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tizzywoman.bsky.social
The President has shown us once again that he has no empathy nor humanity. Just unapologetic, relentless cruelty.

May Rob and Michele Reiner rest in peace.

This #CupOfJoe served by @balint.house.gov speaks for us all.
December 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
cutiepiepuppy.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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globalabortionnews.bsky.social
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM