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Writer. Photographer. Irish mamaí (she/her) 🌈all opinions here are my own • Settler. Kjipuktuk. SSHRC Canada Graduate Research Award • MFA Creative Nonfiction (26) • MA Doc Photography & Photojournalism (21) ✨noli timere • b. 322ppm linktr.ee/nancyforde

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · Nov 17

Good morning. I aim to regularly share a photo either recently made or from cutting room floor.

From my recent trip researching #bogs in Ireland (I #AmWriting about bogs, #IronAge Bog People, death, photography and preservation for my current MFA):

Here are some magnificent, 200+ year old beeches.

A strand of 200+ year old beeches, I think copper beeches, in late afternoon sun in County Kildare, Ireland. Photo credit: Nancy Forde. All rights reserved. | nancyforde.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 5h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 8h

If you want that cap RM is wearing, check out the Reading is a Right limited-edition apparel & accessories collection from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social & Online Ceramics.
100% of the net proceeds are donated to ALA! ❤️
online-ceramics.com/collections/...
#BannedBooksWeek

Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 3d

It's officially the start of #BannedBooksWeek!

How are you observing the week? #BTS' RM is reading a book by Patrick Süskind, an author whose work has been banned.

Find ideas for titles to read or actions you can take on #LetFreedomReadDay (10/11) at UniteAgainstBookBans.org #UniteAgainstBookBans

BTS member RM wearing a dark "Read Banned Books - Penguin Random House" hat.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 8h

Frog eschewing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction for a more amphibious genre... #AmWriting

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 9h

“Frog,” asked Toad, “was that a true story?”

“Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t,” said Frog.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16h

The arraignment of James Comey takes place today.

The Trump administration is hoping to produce its first show trial.

James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 13d

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks, Fred. Yes! Regret that I ran out of room for the skeet. Looking forward to this.

nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 13h

📸 #Photographers in #HFX #HRM Don't miss tonight's event at St Mary's Boat Club "Underexposed: #Photojournalism @theglobeandmail.com" featuring Fred Lum @2manycameras.bsky.social, Theresa Suzuki, and Darren Calabrese.

Visit globeandmailevents.com/underexposed to register. Doors open at 6:30 PM ADT.

Photo says
"Underexposed"
Photojournalism at The Globe
October 8, 2025. | 6:30-9:00 PM (Atlantic)
St Mary's Boat Club, 1641 Fairfield Rd
Halifax NS
Register Now
Registration closes 3 hours before the event starts.
If you need assistance with registration, please contact marketing@globeandmail.com.

5 photographs showing (clockwise from top left):
- A dancer in an elaborate dress performing;
- Mushrooms on top of some herbs;
-A guitar player shaking hair;
- Someond walking on rocks with the ocean behind them;
- a person lounging against a tree checking their smartphone with their little dog on their lap looking straight into the camera.
Credit: photographers for The Globe and Mail.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 16h

Absolutely shameful at this point, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social. We are in a #ClimateCrisis.

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 1d

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 16h

This is fascism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 16h

The pen he digs with in his breast pocket. 😍 Miss him. Such a poet and human.

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 16h

It has been wonderful to see this image of Seamus Heaney in his study circulating ahead of the launch of his new collection.

The books seen here are some of the many which will be housed in our new Seamus Heaney Poetry Library at No. 11 Parnell Square.

We can’t wait to share them with you all.📖

nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 20h

this is a poem
(photograph and words)

Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 1d

& you find fullmoon eventually - cowl of cloud streaming off - slanting fast into dark

nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 20h

someone say #IronAge? 😍

Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 22h

#HillfortsWednesday
Old Sarum was an Iron Age #Hillfort constructed around 400 BC during the Iron Age by creating enormous banks and ditches surrounding the hill.

The site was then used by the #Romans, who called it Sorviodunum

#Archaeology

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

Narrator: This is fascism.

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis
) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 1d

Shoutout to Frost and #wetlands: 10K years of dead plant matter giving me/my WIP so much life.

"a place of... decomposition where... vegetation liquifies slowly into peat...also a place of...becoming... No one knows why Frost didn’t commit suicide in the swamp; instead he found a way to keep going"

Longreads @longreads.com · 1d

"They don’t confront us like mountains, comfort us like oceans, or envelop us like forests; they don’t seem to want to have anything to do with us at all. Swamps hide. Swamps demur."

longreads.com/2025/10/02/t...

Swamp People - Longreads

Finding refuge and resilience in America’s most reviled landscapes.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 1d

This photograph is 30 yrs old from the LA Riots. Thanks to those who already clocked it like @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com. Photography credit to Mark Elias/AP. CNN ought to do better, be accurate and truthful in its photojournalism (and its journalism, overall.) Shameful. Add accurate captions.

Photograph and caption is: "The National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992. The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark Elias/AP)"

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 1d

So lovely of them to share. Comfort fly to their hearts. What a human and what a soul. ❤️✨

nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 2d

Trust matters. As do libraries. 😅

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 2d

If they were doing anything up front and legally, they wouldn't have to mask themselves and hide their identity.

nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, damn. Intervene like this. Who are these anonymous do-called 'agents' making arrests without miranda rights, without cause, and imprisoning American citizens without due process? This is how to stand up to fascism.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 3d

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful!

Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, we signed on as one of the founding supporters of Everywhere is Queer, a new application that promotes queer-owned business and safe spaces across the country and today, our publisher is going to the first local meetup! The app is free to download -
www.everywhereisqueer.com

Everywhere Is Queer

www.everywhereisqueer.com

nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 2d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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