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Trish Paton
@trishpaton.bsky.social
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Saskatchewan, farm/town split. Photography, books, frustrating machinery, single malts, craft beer, watercolour & sketching. Profession: research & evaluation. Boards: Canadian Evaluation Society, Saskatchewan & Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief
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They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I was a grad student in poli sci. If I’ve been on a campus, I’ve attended the memorial. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget
realstirfryguy.bsky.social John Robb @realstirfryguy.bsky.social · 1d
On this day in 1989 misogynist terror was committed on all women thru the violence of a man. With a semi-automatic weapon he took the lives of 14 women, wounded 13 more and left a murder list of even more. This post reminds everyone that violence never ended. Now with alt-text. #MontrealMassacre
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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www.cbc.ca/player/play/... There are other people fighting this now, fortunately. #YQRcc #ArcolaAve
East Regina residents and conservationists have concerns about a potential roadway expansion
The City of Regina is considering extending Wascana Parkway through a conservation area. A group of residents and conservationists are banding together against the proposed project.
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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December 5 #ArtAdventCalendar a classic portrait photo.

Yes, it’s a cat portrait. Tippy (also Tipperary, Tippy-my-love, Tipster-bipster…etc)

#art #photography #cat #CatsOfBluesky
A portrait of a striped tabby cat sitting in the sun. He’s lit from the right, showing off the brown highlights of a black-grey striped tabby coat. He’s lit has brilliant green eyes, and whit fur on his nose and chin (looks like he dipped into cream. He also has magnificent whiskers and eyebrows.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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December 4 for #ArtAdventCalendar
Looking through some folders and saw a bunch of shots from Newfoundland - the Insectarium & Butterfly House in Deer Lake. (Of course I didn't make any notes, so I have no idea what *type* of butterfly any of them are.)

#art #photography #butterfly #Newfoundland
A butterfly sits on bright green leaves, with its wings fully extended. The body and most of the wings are black or a deep, dark blue. There are smaller white markings, dots and patterns, along the lower edge. The far ends of the wings have two larger white areas running from the top of the wing to near the bottom; those areas shade from white to light blue to the deep blue of the main wing.
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Amazing! The African Translation Project is 98% funded--we are so doing this! ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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For Dec 3 #ArtAdventCalendar it’s something entirely new to me. Photography has always been my go-to art, but I’ve tried out more stuff in 2025 thanks to a local art store’s “try everything” classes. Here’s a #gouache on black paper. #art #painting
My first ever try with gouache. Blue star-shaped flowers with yellow centres, and think green leaves. The ID elements in my phone photo app recognizes it as blue-eyed grass, which is what I was going for. It’s an interesting medium, and one I may play with more as I’m already started and enjoying regular watercolour.
December 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Dec 2 #ArtAdventCalendar is 2025 autumn winding down to winter. Blue, green and gold.

#photography #art #photo #trees #saskatchewan
Photo looks skyward, with a golden larch tree on the right (making a big triangle on that side, wide at bottom & disappearing at top). The sky is a bright clear late year blue (making a big triangle on the left, wide at the top of the photo and disappearing on the bottom left), with small peaks FFS of light cloud. Between the sky and larch is a pine tree, a pop of deeper green in the middle of the photo.
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Australia? Home of the big corps wanting to strip mine the eastern slopes of the Alberta Rockies for all to coal they can get? The selenium in the watershed will be FINE gang?
nationalobserver.com Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 5d
But some interesting news out of COP: @chrishatch.bsky.social: "A breakaway set of countries formed that are going to go on to start laying out a roadmap for getting off fossil fuels. And they include countries that are pretty significant comparables for Canada, like Australia."
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Ready Set Go #ArtAdventCalendar

Get your #art out!
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Let's get #ArtAdventCalendar rolling!

It's December 1 somewhere right now.

Saskatchewan Supercell 32x40in 81x102cm
Oil on Canvas
2019

#Art #Painting
Abstract landscape painting: Blue green mothership storm with heavy rain at bottom with a green field in foreground.
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Wisdom’s mate joins
her!
🎼 #Reunited
USFWS staff spotted band EX25 on 11/25. No, he has not been named; we await that news.
So far we have a few photos and we'll share more as we receive them.
Here's to a successful egg laying and hatching season for these two!

Photos by Chris Forster.
#Birds
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Does anyone I know here - folks #yeg or wider - have a copy of Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky? @alauder.bsky.social @alisonborealis.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Oh I think #UglyDogs would enjoy these! “To bork or not to bork” 😂😂
kbspangler.com K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 9d
My sister @briespangler.bsky.social has a new etsy shop! She's a professional illustrator and is doing pet designs

Also she's been staying with us and for unknown reasons she added two dog shirts to the store, no idea why, these dogs certainly don't look familiar to me

www.etsy.com/shop/yellows...
Murder Mittens Survivor, black text on white background "Murderbeans" yellow text on a blue background A black lab with a suspicious look to him in an oval saying "To Bork or not To Bork." A little white cartoon dog making a big BORK with the text "Loudest Potato."
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
trishpaton.bsky.social
Okay you have to scroll down a few to see the bricks and the construction but jesus h christ on a crutch it’s worth it. Maybe let your engineers enjoy their dinner first though.
lucytoner.bsky.social Spooky Boner @lucytoner.bsky.social · 12d
Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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This is one reason I still love social media. In the midst of a 48 hour elder care disaster, this gave me a few minutes of “OMG that’s so cool” boost. 💜💙
drandrewthaler.bsky.social Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10d
Did you know there's a 500-million-year-old species that lives in the deep sea called Paleodictyon, but we only know it from trace fossils and marks on the seafloor and have absolutely no idea what the animal is?

It could be a sponge or a foram or a xenophyophore or something totally different.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Last night supper; I’ve still got a few tomatoes ripe for eating. I just take a big thick slice and pretend it’s a hamburger patty. Brandywine variety, which I maintain is one of the best tasting varieties. Heritage plant, and fruits can be weird and a bit finicky. But delicious.
A toasted tomato sandwich for supper - an extremely thick slice of tomato sits on a piece of toast. Two boiled eggs, cut in half, off to the side. This is a Brandywine tomato, a weird and somewhat finicky heritage breed, but I still think one of the best tasting tomatoes out there. The tomato slice is a brilliant red, with thick pulp and relatively small seed pockets around the outer area.
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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In which Mike tells a heartwarming and fun story about Thanksgiving and pie. Read it - it will do your heart good.
questauthority.bsky.social The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 11d
OK - pie discourse - best pie story:

In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*

The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.

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November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Astounding achievement!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.

“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —

altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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#YQR #Saskatchewan

🌟 GIVEAWAY 🌟

Over 40 species of forbs & grasses

📅 Saturday, November 29, 2025
🕑 10 a.m.to12 p.m.
📍Albert Branch RPL
mâmawêyatitân centre
3355 6th Avenue, Regina

#natureregina #nativeseeds #giveaway #nativeplants
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Wow! 🥰
magpie.tips lyndsay @magpie.tips · 15d
Tomorrow I'm going to check out a show and sale held by the Printmakers of the Salish Sea and I will be losing my mind about the linocut quality. There are so many skilled reduction linocut artists involved. Excited to see their work. Look at this! It's a reduction linocut! By Anne Jones:
'Sand Patterns’ Cox Bay; a very organic linocut showing sand at low tide in shades of blue to black
November 22, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Got to be very short, based on the typeface above/below that d say between 18 & 21 characters & spaces.
kenwhite.bsky.social Fat, Illiterate And Violent Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15d
I wonder what that phrase is. "Ball is in his court"? "Up to him"?
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM