Julie T in WNC
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Julie T in WNC
@juliejeant.bsky.social
Naturalist + Environmental Educator+ Black Mountain College Collaborator + Ray Johnson Scholar + Photographer+ Pocket Artist + Weaver + Documentarian
Seen today: Chickadee fledglings learning to fly and recover. #ncbirds #doyouhearbirds
May 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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May 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Between science and magic – how hummingbirds hover at the edge of the possible www.themarginalian.org/2021/05/07/s...
Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength.
www.themarginalian.org
May 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
#mericawtf as Wilco says " you have to learn how to die if you want to be alive" #avlhipsterdrinks
May 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This Endangered Species Day is about more than the species making the South great, it’s about the Endangered Species Act. This powerful law saves from extinction 99% of the species it protects.

Now it’s the ESA’s turn to be protected: www.selc.org/news/save-th...
Save the Endangered Species Act
Most people remember the first time they saw a bald eagle in the wild.  From their unmistakable white feathered head to their mighty beak and piercing eyes, it’s a bird with Hollywood caliber charisma...
www.selc.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Releasing 5/13, available for pre-order now wherever good books are sold (Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day!)

(or you can request a copy from your local public library!)
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Emerson died on this day in 1882, leaving his abiding wisdom on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means
Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means
“It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
www.themarginalian.org
April 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Happy 77th birthday to Kate Pierson, one of the lead singer and founding member of the B-52s

The B52s - Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored

#punk #punkrock #newwave #katepierson #theb52s #history #otd
April 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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“Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

-James Baldwin quoted in The Atlantic by Clint Smith, author of How The Word Is Passed, is indispensable, writing here on the National Museum of African-American History and Culture:

berto.fyi/ClintSmithNM...
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
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April 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Just wow
Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
April 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Mar 31 @ 6:30 PM via Zoom

"Massumi’s theorizations of the treacherous times we inhabit offers both a compelling account of new machines of rule and desperately needed glimmers of the anti-fascist forms of life that can and must oppose them.” - Jack Halberstam

Register: bit.ly/personalityo...
March 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Chenjerai Kumanyika and Astra Taylor on the corporate coup—and how progressives can win by organizing to capture the groundswell of public opinion.
Now Is the Time for Big Ideas
A post-inauguration roundtable hosted by Haymarket Books with Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the dismantling of the administrative state and the path to…
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March 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true ... to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge."

Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney's magnificent advice on life
Seamus Heaney’s Advice on Life
“The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.”
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March 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The Dalai Lama's ethical and ecological philosophy for the next generation, illustrated
The Dalai Lama’s Ethical and Ecological Philosophy for the Next Generation, Illustrated
“We are all interconnected in the universe, and from this, universal responsibility arises… Everyone has the responsibility to develop a happier world.”
www.themarginalian.org
March 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
March 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.
#WomensHistoryMonth: The City of Women Map is a fascinating visualization of women’s history and urban transportation. Created by Molly Roy, Rebecca Solnit, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the map renames subway stops after notable women with links to that area, offering an entirely new way to view #NYC.
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Love this David Bowie quote + encouragement at the public library in Cashier, NC! #davidbowiefanclub
March 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
💗Keep on Knocking💗
53 years ago
A band called 'Death' was punk before punk was punk

Formed in Nov. 71' by the 3 Hackney brothers, they were influential pioneers of the genre and, along with Pure Hell, the first all-black proto-punk/punk band.

#knowyourroots

#protopunk #history #punkrockhistory
March 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
And now #47 is asking for the elimination of IMLS! I urge you to use the 5 Calls app to call your senators + representative to ask them to support funding for IMLS. #saveourmuseums #saveourlibraries #saveimls #useyourvoice #useyourvoicepersist
March 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
It's Spring!
March 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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We invite you to join us next Tuesday, 03/25, as we gather with our partners at the NC General Assembly in Raleigh from 9 am-2 pm.

Everyone who attends will be put in a group to speak with legislators here in NC.

Register here: https://bit.ly/rainbowrepro25
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March 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The Trump administration is planning to completely eliminate the CDC Division of HIV Prevention, cutting $700 million that should be used to prevent HIV infections and control HIV the HIV epidemic. Such cuts would have horrific consequences for the health of Americans. aidsunited.org/action/polic...
ACTION ALERT: CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back - AIDS United
CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back We have heard very unfortunate news that there is an effort un...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM