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Amanda Dorts
@mx-creant.bsky.social
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Evidence-based creative. I learned most of my science and history through reading SF

AuDHD, Disabled, queer, non-binary, anti-Zionist Jew for a free Palestine

Captures birds and politics in pixels

Fights for a better today

Dreams of a better tomorrow
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Amanda Dorts @mx-creant.bsky.social · Nov 19
so last week I was jogging... (When did I start jogging?... a mix of a frustrating day at work that literally saw my blood pressure spike, and the realization that with fascism on the rise, if i can’t fight I better be able to run)... and it finally happened. The #crows came along! 🪶🧵
mx-creant.bsky.social
#BirdoftheDay

Tufted titmice may common further south but the quite rare here. And they’re fast. This is my second time seeing one.

And of course, the relatively common white breasted nut hatch is always a delight, and the black capped chickadee is perhaps Ontario‘s most iconic #Songbird

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A tufted grey titmouse perches on top of a log. A white breasted nut hatch and chickadee perch further down, looking for seeds
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
mx-creant.bsky.social
Their laughter has taunted me ever since I learned how to recognize it. I’ve caught sight of them, of course, and got my lens on it once or twice, but this a gift. Chased from the river by a neon-blade walker, she ended up flying closer to my home and settling on this low branch for a photo shoot.
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A pileated woodpecker purchase on a thick branch in front of a trunk. Her red crest is bright in the sky and her black and white face are looking forward. Her talons are sharp in the foreground.
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
mx-creant.bsky.social
I’m confused… I thought racism was essentially what his platform was built on
traumainformedcontent.com Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com · 1d
Didn’t stop Boris Johnson.
Racism allegations could derail right-wing populist Nigel Farage's bid to become Britain's next PM.
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
mx-creant.bsky.social
To paraphrase Yeats, nature waited patiently while my senses developed.

My first ever #HoodedMerganser 🪶

Also, I just discovered #BirdOfTheDay and I'd say I have both #Couples and #YellowEyes covered

#EastCoastKin
#BlueSkyMonday
A male and female hooded Merganser swim in a blue river. The female is muted browns with a orange beak and blurred in the background. The mail is in front with a reddish belly, black and white chest and back and a black head and beak with a white swoop and a yellow eye.
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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smokehead.bsky.social
Possibly a #Mr&Mrs shot for #BirdOfTheDay? 😜
Two goldfinches fighting over the bath

#stunday #EastCoastKin #ItsMyTurn
Two brightly coloured goldfinches fight at the edge of a mosaic bird bath
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
mx-creant.bsky.social
I love odd duck season. Even though the mergansers are theoretically here year round the seem to disappear in summer.

🪶 #EastCoastKin
A common merganser perches on a log in a river! Is red head turned and twisted to look up and back. Its hooked beak is open. I’m the background, a wife in floats in the water
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
mx-creant.bsky.social
Pease activist Ayman Ghraieb kidnapped but Shin Bet (Israeli Security/Intelligence Force)

Call to action: Email/call Israeli Embassy in you region and demand his immediate release.

In Canada:

(613) 750-7500

[email protected]
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Andrey X on Instagram: "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Palestinian peace activist Ayman Ghraieb kidnapped On 17th November 2025, in al-Fasayil (Jordan Valley, West Bank), Palestinian peace activist Ayman Ghr...
Ayman Ghraieb, a nonviolent human rights defender, was detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank. His lawyers and the Red Cross have been unable to reach him. The Israeli Security Agency, Shin Bet...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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johncke.bsky.social
I'm really thrilled to be putting on this one-day version of my Fighting to Win course for union and community activists for tfhe Kingston and District Labour Council.
kingstonlabour.ca/events/fight...
Fighting to Win Workshop – Kingston & District Labour Council
This one-day workshop will consider the type of mass movement necessary to confront our current reality of austerity, militarism, climate disasters, and attacks on workers and immigrants and win real ...
kingstonlabour.ca
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Stop saying the Senate Dems lost. This was a forfeit, not a loss.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
mx-creant.bsky.social
this was a great result to wake up to NYC. And, to paraphrase @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social since Zorhan can never be president it’s less likely that he will later become a war criminal, like so many politicians before him.
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Remember that Trump barely won the popular vote which comes out to just about half of the people who voted which comes out to about 25% of the US population.
kalimurray.bsky.social Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29d
Politico, et al: President Trump did not win a “decisive victory”; he actually only won the popular vote, 49.6% to 48.3%. The “decisive victory” was in the Electoral College, which imposes a super-majority requirement, at the behest of enslavers during the founding. www.politico.com/news/2025/11....
Democrats didn’t just rebound. They dominated.
"This is a foreshadow of what we're going to see next year," said one strategist.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mx-creant.bsky.social
Marvin’s opinions do not reflect my own about humanity. But I appreciate his actions immensely.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
October 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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jefftrnka.bsky.social
This !
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Oct 27
Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.
A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states: “FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine. They do not have large cocaine factories. They do not produce fentanyl either. What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Post from The Tony Michaels Podcast - YouTube
👇👇👇Get Your Free Pocket Constitution | https://thecoffmanchronicle.kit.com/pocket-constitution
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October 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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birdturntable.bsky.social
Another angle on this morning’s altercation. 🪶
A Cooper’s seen hawk seen from the back with wings flared over a lunging squirrel. The squirrel is lunging AT the hawk to defend themselves.
October 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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grakkers.bsky.social
Woody in the Woods

Pileated woodpecker mid-peck pause.

#woodpecker #pileated #bird #birds #photography #daily
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
mx-creant.bsky.social
And I especially love weird duck season at sunrise and sunset.

(forgot the tags in the original post...Bluesky really needs a fully accountable editing option)
#EastCoastKin
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#Ontario
#BirdPhotograpy
#MigratoryBirds
A silhouette of a northern shoveler, with its large beak open, on a glowing river
October 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
mx-creant.bsky.social
I love weird duck season!
A group of gadwall ducks play on a river. A mal3 and female in the middle are facing each other with beaks open and one to the dice is stretched up as though standing at attention A pair of Northern Shovelers swim on a river. The female, with patterns of brown black and white, has its large shovel-like beak to the water and the male, behind her, has it's green head with yellow eye turned to preen it's black and white and brown feathers A common Merganzer floats on an autumnal river and has its head, (with spiky feathers like an 80s punk rock Auburn hairstyle ) turn to free its tail feather in a way that makes it look as though it is reclining on its back. An American Widgeon swims on the water towards the camera. It’s brown chest and green and brown and white face face the camera.
October 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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johncke.bsky.social
A very welcome elbows down for one of Canada's predatory #miningcompanies.
October 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
mx-creant.bsky.social
Since I’ve been taking pictures of birds, I’ve lost my neck for more abstract landscape. But autumn colours and changing light makes it very tempting.

#AlphebetChallenge
#QforQuiet
#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
Concrete barriers and in a picnic table interrupt running water with reflections of autumn colours is blurred in the slow shutter speed
October 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
mx-creant.bsky.social
this is pretty #vertical for a Merganzer!

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin 🪶
A duck with red spiky hair, a longish beak and grey, black and white wing feathers is stretched vertically, almost standing tall on the water, it’s wings akimbo
October 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
mx-creant.bsky.social
this was one very tall, vertical... #BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical
A very tall, vertically oriented/portrait, oriented banner is being held by a person in overalls with a novelty, backpack and a bike the banner read saving the planet means a free Palestine, and has a globe super imposed on a Palestinian flag
October 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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theonion.com
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
mx-creant.bsky.social
They’re still pretty elusive to my lens, but I feel like after a year of hunting I can pretty reliably eyeball them when I hear them. And once in a while, they pose for me. All hail the belted kingfisher
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A male Kingfisher… A greyish black bird with spiky head and long beak, and a white spot that sort of fakes an eye in front of the real eye, purchase on a branch with lots of branches and leaves in the background
October 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
mx-creant.bsky.social
All hail the Mikeno! It broke through the Israeli offensive and made it!

That is bad ass folks!!!
October 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM