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MJ Shanklin
@mjshanklin.bsky.social
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Always a #nature worshipper. RN for 30 yrs. Married. WVU grad who lived on the Central Coast of CA for 13 years and NM for 17 years. Now in rural KS. Not naive anymore. Activist. 350 #StandingRock ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PPC #NNU #joyofsolidarity
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#BlueskyArtShow asked for favorite things, so photos of flowers, food and a monarch butterfly will suffice. What lovely memories of spring and summer!
Flower garden with a hummingbird feeder and red square pavers fir a walk path. Behind are trees, a huge sycamore tree and a hill. A baking dish with cut up tomaroes and fresh basil. It will be baked down into marinara. A red hummingbird feeder in a flower garden with a monarch butterfly on an orange flower. A rick-walled iris garden with purple, mauve and yellow iris that have been in the family for generations.
December 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Another #sunset photo taken out of a kitchen window. Have a good weekend, everyone!
A yellow, pink and orange sunset behind a hill and a large sycamore tree. The creek flowing through the photo reflects the sunset.
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Another SE Kansas pre-sunrise sky. Do you ever feel like you're just holding your breath all the time?? Like you just can't relax your muscles or drop your guard enough to exhale fully?? Wondering what life will be like when the Epstein files are released?? They can bring the rich and powerful down.
Just before the sun brightens everything, the sky is different shades of blue with streaky wispy clouds of orange and pink. A small house, a shed and some bare trees are silhouetted at the bottom.
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Pre-dawn sky in SE Kansas. This #sunrise on a day when Republicons will show their true colors and millions of folks us will lose their healthcare coverage.
Photo showing a pre-dawn SE KS sky. Wispy pale pink, purple and gray clouds with a small yellow moon. Dark trees and garage roof are at bottom.
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The #sunset tonight in SE Kansas was just neverending. It was breathtaking. Thank you Universe!
Bare tree in front of a blazing pink, mauve, purple, gray and blue sunset. Blazing yellow, pink, mauve, gray and blue sunset behind a bare tree and a small hill.
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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My husband repurposed an old grain bin. Lot of work but they're holding up well after 8 years. These bins lie around old farms, you might get them for free.🤷🏼‍♀️ If you're using bricks you'll need rebar. But it will be beautiful!
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Yes, we live on the edge of every change in the weather and it makes for a crazy sky sometimes! This was last week.
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Early morning in SE Kansas in September, looking at wispy clouds in the beautiful blue #sky. Thank you #BlueskyArtShow.
Wispy gray and white clouds against a blue sky. A few treetops are dark at the bottom.
December 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Chilly, still, sunny morning here in SE Kansas. The squirrels love my bird feeding platform!😂 After a while they leave and the birds come back. Can someone please leak or release the Epstein files today? THX
Sun starting to shine on big sycamore tree beside a still cold creek. In the background is a hill. In the foreground is a bird feeding platform that the squirrels just love! There is a dusting of snow.
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Back in the #warmth of September, this squirrel would sploot in the cool watered dirt of this miniature rosebush. Thank you #BlueskyArtShow for the memories.
Red squirrel splooting (belly flat on cool surface) in the cool moist dirt of my potted miniature rosebush. Squirrel is looking at the camera with one front paw hanging onto the edge of the pot. Photo was taken through a dirty front door glass pane.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Beautiful muted colors of a chilly sunrise in SE Kansas. Please quit being distracted by his consequential soap opera, Folks. Priorities are ICE, Epstein files, BOYCOTT and eventually a General Strike. Hope you find joy in solidarity against the rich.
Soft pink, blue and purple sky above farm buildings. Naked tree limbs with an old oriole's nest are seen above.
November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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It was foggy all day yesterday here in SE Kansas. Everything was dripping. It fit my sullen mood as I watched our country imploding under Empire. WHEN WE ALL STAND UP TOGETHER THIS WILL END.
A photo of a creek flowing through a fall pasture- leaves on the ground, not on trees. Obscured by a heavy fog is the hill in the background.
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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If #women and men of conscience don't rise up together and SHUT IT DOWN by withholding our labor, nothing will get better. It will only get worse as we slide onward into authoritarianism. It is way past time.
Silhouette of a chicken inside the house in front of an open door. She is eating a snack and looking out the door and inside the house at the same time. Schroedinger's Chicken.
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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My Chileboy lying in a #bright ray of sunshine! He was the best boi. Thank you #BlueskyArtShow for being here.
A small mostly shiny black dog with pointy ears and a piercing stare splayed out in a ray of bright sunshine on a multicolored patterned rug with his chewy toy chicken nearby. His tail sticks up and is curved at the end. His muzzle is a bit gray. He was my best boi.
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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We have some color here in SE Kansas, but nothing visible to the naked eye yet.
#auroraborealis #aurora #NorthernLights
A starry sky with some purple, some red and some green but not very bright or defined.
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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From SE Kansas!
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I have never seen the colors of the aurora borealis with my naked eye until tonight! In SE Kansas!!! What an amazing gift from the Universe.
#aurora #auroraborealis #nature
Bright red over green colors of the aurora borealis, with light pink streaks vertically in the middle over a dark pasture in SE Kansas. Same as last photo, slightly different but not much.
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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What a beautiful #evening this was in SE Kansas! Thank you #BlueskyArtShow for being here.
White whispy clouds in a deep blue sky with the sun n setting over a darkened pasture.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I'm not sure who hasn't figured this out yet, but this is a class war. The rich want you to be traumatized, in pain and dying until they have achieved global apartheid. They don't give a shit about you.
Whispy white clouds seeming to radiate from a small hill at sunset.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! It will be their undoing.
A photo of the book by Virginia Roberts Giuffre titled "Nobody's Girl".
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM