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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · Feb 18

So honored and excited to be a part of this excellent issue of Prairie Fire. www.prairiefire.ca/current-issue/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

Ten years ago today I published my first story at @theurbanist.org. 886 stories later, here we are. What a wild ride.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 3d

Last hurrah.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 6d

This looks like the chart for a city that is making little to no effort to reach its Vision Zero goal by 2030.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 7d

He says that as if ten is acceptable.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 9d

This Henrik Ibsen play, that explores the harsh consequences faced by those who challenge established systems, was written 143 years ago and is so relevant today it had the audience enthralled. Highly recommended! At Seattle’s ACT Theatre through October 5th.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 10d

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

—Charles Darwin

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 11d

You got outside today, right?

Pathway through Interlaken with brown leaves starting to take over the path and sun filtering through the leaves, starting to turn

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 14d

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 14d

You are not.

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 14d

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 14d

Back in Seattle.

Italiano and soda back at Analog Coffee with rainbow flag in background

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 15d

Funny. Their original catch phrase was: "Only in Canada, you say? Pity..."

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 15d

Though not scented, I used the dividers in Red Rose tea boxes for decades.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 15d

"Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion."

James Baldwin forever.

In James Baldwin’s words: “Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. ... Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion.”

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Autumn and Mabon to all.
🖼️ Autumn Morning, Grigoriy Myasoyedov.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 16d

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Fisherman's Blues - Galway Flash Mob

YouTube video by The Waterboys

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks! It’s from a couple of years ago, looking from Freeway Park across Hubble Place.

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Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social · 24d

Read "In every religion, a purifying" by the legendary Diane Seuss in our latest Flight 23.4. Link in bio and below! 🐦‍⬛

blackbird.vcu.edu/in-every-rel...

A black-and-white portrait of Diane Seuss. She has long dark hair with bangs, wears dark eyeliner, and looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. The image is framed by a salmon-pink border.

A white graphic bordered in salmon pink featuring an excerpt from Diane Seuss’s poem "In every religion, a purifying." The excerpt reads:
“The rain came in multitudes, / in droves, like supplicants / to a holy place, almost // beautiful, as a shattered / windshield is beautiful, / especially when it rains.” At the bottom, text notes: Poetry / Blackbird v23n4, with a small blackbird silhouette.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 16d

When I posted this back in June, I had no idea they were going to tour The States and that I’d get tickets to see them. The show last night in Seattle was brilliant!

Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 16d

Welcome, Autumn!

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been wandering about on a 4th century BC hillfort (Blackbury Camp, Devon) on this very mellow autumn equinox.

Oak trees growing in the bank ditch of a hillfort

Bright orange mushrooms growing on a mossy tree stump. (Can anyone identify them?)

Many acorns, green and brown, on the ground. It has been a good acorn year

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 17d

The Waterboys in Seattle tonight. This is the sea.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19d

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

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Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social · 20d

I will have a conversation with Mary Mulholland of Red Door Poets in London on Sunday, September 28th at 1 p.m. EST. We'll do a deep dive into Modern Poetry and to the writing life. The link to sign up is below. Hope to see you there. ❤️

Opening the Door to...Diane Seuss

In the next in our series of online interviews, Mary Mulholland talks to Diane Seuss about her writing life and inspirations.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Martin Empson @resolutereader.bsky.social · 21d

There are 2883 food banks in the UK

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Hood River Cabin @hoodrivercabin.bsky.social · 21d

The Columbia gorge

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