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Lily Respair (Susan Marie Makes)
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Stalled Artist, Nature Lover, Gardener, Knitter. Living in the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa, Sylix, Sinixt. Kootenays, BC, Canada. She/her. Love Is Love. 🖤🤎💜🩵💙💚💛🧡🩷❤️🤍
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Lily Respair (Susan Marie Makes) @lilyrespair.bsky.social · Jan 1
My husband buys us a new calendar every year. This year, he picked one with quotes and calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh.

May we all find peace, joy, & kindness this year. 🙏
Photo of a calendar with a quote by Thich Nhat Hanh. 'We believe that happiness is possible only in the future. That is why the practice 'I have arrived.' is very important. The realization that we are already here, can give us peace and joy.'
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When fighting fascism, sometimes incompetence is the hero. LOL

The real heroes are the folks who recorded the segment and continue to share it worldwide, imo. And the reporters at 60 minutes, of course.

May the men who were illegally detained find justice.
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I am infinitely grateful that my friend will let me play the Jazz Christmas or the Cozy Celtic Christmas music stations at the yarn shop. I might go a bit mad if I had to listen to the supermarket Christmas music for 8 hours straight. Today & tomorrow, work, then off for five days. Woot!
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Yessssss
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5d
Man, I'm done with the days getting shorter! I am talking to MANAGEMENT. I will GET RESULTS. If the days get longer here on out, you'll know who to thank.
December 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Happy Winter Solstice, everyone. May the light find you wherever you are.
A Christmas Yule tree with white lights in our living room.
December 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Good Morning and Happy Solstice.
stinasdemons.com ⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 5d
Happy Sunday. Never give up against the monsters. And always save the cat.
BE THE RIPLEY YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD [POSTER BOARD WITH THIS TEXT AND A PICTURE OF RIPLEY HOLDING JONESY]
December 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Socks for my brother for Christmas are done! This hand dyed yarn has been in my stash for a while & needed to be knitted. Unfortunately, I lost at yarn chicken on the 2nd sock but found a blue sock yarn in my stash to finish. Then I ripped the toe back on the 1st stock & re-knit it to match.
Hand dyed multi-colour socks in blues and pinks. Photographed laying flat on a wooden floor.
December 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I almost forgot to post a pic of our walk this morning. It was a cold one but at least the rain has stopped. For now.

#DogsOfBluesky
An old black dog standing on a trail looking back at me. She is wondering what the hold up is as I admire the beautiful woods surrounding us. There are snow pellets on the trail and green trees and foliage along the sides.
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Uggi tested and approved!
hildur.bsky.social Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11d
GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!

Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)

Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Uggi the dog and a copy of The Night Guest
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reposted by Lily Respair (Susan Marie Makes)
thenarwhal.ca
It’s not easy to access documents that governments would prefer to keep out of the public eye. But reporters at The Narwhal love a challenge — and filed 218 freedom of information requests this year.
Northwest B.C. reporter Matt Simmons sits and talks with a community member at a public meeting
December 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Well done, Skate Canada. 👏👏👏
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This morning's walk was pretty in a dark, grey, damp way, but I will be happy when the light returns.
A path in the woods on a dark, grey morning.
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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One positive side effect of all the rain we have had lately are wee discoveries like this on our morning walk. 🌧💚
Close up photo of an old tree stump that is covered in wee mosses and fungi.
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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We really should have snow by now, but here we are.
At least we aren't on flood alert like the Fraser Valley.
And Mitra doesn't seem to mind.
Silhouette of a black dog standing on a rocky, lakeside beach. It's a grey day and the mountaintops are hidden in grey clouds and fine rain.
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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❤️❤️❤️
gurdeep.ca Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 23d
True joy recognizes and acknowledges pain, tears, sadness, and every other emotion that exists within the spectrum of human experience. It is about discovering and finding balance, equilibrium, and a sense of steadiness even in the midst of difficult, trying, and turbulent times.
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
lilyrespair.bsky.social
Yesterday was my 60th birthday! I have entered my mostly tea drinking, occasional cheap drunk era.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18d
If anyone wants to get drunk quickly and inexpensively I highly recommend being quite old.
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The snow didn't last. The rain has returned. Mitra and I are still walking in the woods.

#DogsOfBluesky
A photo of an old, mostly black dog looking to the right. She is on a trail littered with leaves in the woods. There are mossy green banks and trees in the background.
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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From the "Crushed" series: "Crush (Inv.1890:1456 cat:00287181)", oil on canvas, 12x12", 2024- regularly $800(Cdn), on sale for $600(Cdn). DM if interested. #art
An oil painting of 3 crushed drink cans against a dark brown background. Behind a dark pink Cush cream soda can is a can crushed down to a small crescent & a Pabst Blue Ribbon can. The catalogue number in the title will lead to the historical work being referenced if you feel like googling it.
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Unobstructed view (2024) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography #Landscape
Wide angle colour photograph of a bright blue sky with wispy white clouds over a distant dry ridge with green coulees.
December 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago.

Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago

Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🧶My brother and sister in law are coming for Christmas! So I've decided a knitted skinny scarf would be just the thing for her.
Pattern: Riptide Scarfette
Designer: Jennifer Shiels Toland
Yarn: Sandnes Garn 100% Cashmere fingering weight.
This was a fun knit, and the yarn is divine.
#Knitting
A knitted skinny scarf in a camel colour. Photographed on a cedar chest with the left over yarn and a cup of tea.
December 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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35 years ago today, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality
December 6, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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Please get the flu vaccine if you are able. For yourself and everyone you love.
ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 20d
Confirmed flu cases jump nearly 61%: federal data - Laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza have jumped by almost 61 per cent, according to recent data released Friday.
Confirmed flu cases jump nearly 61%: federal data
Laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza have jumped by almost 61 per cent, according to recent data released Friday.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar

Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
A practice artwork of a nuthatch. It is a pencil drawing on grey toned paper, overpainted with acrylics loosely, and finished off with some coloured brushes in photoshop. The bird is looking to the left of the image. I have added some turquoise tones over the top in photoshop. There is a terracotta colour acrylic background.
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
lilyrespair.bsky.social
This is delightful.❤️
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24d
Dear Bluesky. I'm giving away two signed paperbacks of my novel Villager.

All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.

You also get a free map!

You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM