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isabella mori

@moritherapy.bsky.social

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making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she. unceded, traditional, ancestral musqueam, squamish & tsleil-waututh lands aka vancouver.

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · Nov 11

May all beings be happy
All beings without exception
Weak or strong, omitting none
Great or mighty, seen & unseen
Near & far
Born or yet unborn
May all beings be happy
Let no one deceive another
Or despise anyone anywhere
Or in anger wish another harm
May all beings be happy

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 3h

Yay! My husband got a publication at McSweeney's!

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14h

Head shaking (all beats, heavier on beats 2 and 4).

Hand drumming on every surface—steering wheel, tables, grocery cart.

Get excited when, in the noise of the mall, you hear the perfect high-hat rhythm. Only to find that it's coming from a coffee machine.
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This Is What Happens When You Listen to Too Much Jazz

Foot tapping (beats 2 and 4!). Head shaking (all beats, heavier on beats 2 and 4). Hand drumming on every surface—steering wheel, tables, grocery c...

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 6h

covered in ash her days
these days full of blue skies
and happy bees

suffocating

while sunflowers laugh
and the grass is warm

covered in ash
from her heart burning down

#vss365

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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 7h

Great news for US harm reduction!
Dasgupta's groundbreaking research now recognized by MacArthur Foundation with a coveted "genius" fellowships ... his work outside lab helping develop "harm reduction" programs aimed at reducing drug deaths @sanho.bsky.social

www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating history!

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 18h

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 7h

Necessary viewing

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 11h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 1d

When anger and fear are your motivation, they will eventually fizzle out and you will burn out.

When love and hope are your motivation, you will find that you can keep going.

Anger feels powerful. But that power is fleeting.

Find what you want to fight FOR, not against.

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C.D. Burr @cdburrwriter.bsky.social · 19d

Before FREE SPEECH: TONGUE SCREW.... A way to silence opponents in the Middle Ages. "Anabaptist Hans Bret's tongue screw was taken from his ashes by another Anabaptist and preserved in the Mennonite church in Amsterdam." Image purchased from the Mennonite Archival Information Database.

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ChuckCjmmn @chuckcjmmn.bsky.social · 14h

This is the epitome of the nonstop perverted maga propaganda that has dissolved the moral fiber of our nation. The majority of the press never pushes back.

We’re on our own to defeat this fascist regime.
#DefendersOfDemocracy

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today's Featured Poem:

"Owed to My Father's Accent" by Ally Ang from Let the Moon Wobble published by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/owed-to...

Owed to My Father's Accent

The way I train my tongue to imitate his, words clumsy and labored in my imposter mouth.

spare.poems.com

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 13h

Ontario’s “Safer Municipalities Act” (Bill 6) and the Criminalization of Indigenous People in the City, by Brianna Olson Pitawanakwat, Mskwaasin Agnew and Kelsi-Leigh Balaban (2025)

Ontario’s “Safer Municipalities Act” (Bill 6) and the Criminalization of Indigenous People in the City

Cities have been and will always be Indigenous land. Yet, these lands have witnessed continuous assaults on Indigenous sovereignty. Demarcations of belonging and un-belonging legislated by governments...

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🎃SCARY PENDRAKE🐍 @peripendrake.art · Sep 7

Are you tired of not being a bird? Are you already a bird and want to be a DIFFERENT bird? Well worry no more- I’m here to solve your life’s problems by making you into a BIRD. What more could you want?!

Doing these in small batches at a time as warm up work- inquire below!! 🦅

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 14h

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 12h

“A complaint lodged with the world court points to the Italian government’s role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid its war on Gaza.”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Italy’s Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity

A complaint lodged with the ICC points to the Italian government's role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid Gaza war

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 13h

"Yellowhead Institute’s Mskwaasin Agnew detained, flotilla to Gaza ‘pirated by Israel’"

BREAKING: Yellowhead Institute’s Mskwaasin Agnew detained, flotilla to Gaza ‘pirated by Israel’

The Freedom Flotilla Commission said all boats delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza have been boarded by Israeli forces.

theeyeopener.com

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 6d

sleepless
above this heat
the night sky

-martin gottlieb cohen
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/02/43842/

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 1d

Just found this again. Now I actually have a plate that needs to be kintsugi'd. Can't wait to see the result.

isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · Jan 3

kintsugi
turning heartbreak
to gold

#vss365 #haiku #senryu

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Japanese art of 'kintsugi' encourages us to see beauty in brokenness

YouTube video by RubyCornish

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 1d

For a while I worked for the Mennonite Central Committee. I thought I’d clash with all the evangelical Christians and the little old ladies in their sensible shoes. How wrong I was! This tarot-reading Christo-Buddhist Pagan was welcomed with open arms. Best workplace ever. #truestory #vss365

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

I was completely unprepared for the threat posed by the Antifa super soldiers.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Did Air Traffic Controllers just start the general strike?!?? 🤝

“…Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that many air traffic control workers were calling out sick.”

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

#GeneralStrike #ShutItDown #AirTrafficControllers #50501movement

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 3d

ruins and roots irl

Ruined stone barn with ivy taking root near Birtley, Hexham

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 1d

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Two psychiatry organizations have released statements saying that the actions of the RFK Jr have increased stigma, instilled fear and hurt access to mental health and addiction care.

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

www.npr.org

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