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Vanessa Fuller
@vlfuller.bsky.social
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Independent writing instructor & editor by day
Reader, writer, science communicator & politics junkie by night
Obsessive runner later in life
Crazy cat lady forever
[NB: If you know the artist for the banner pic in my profile, please let me know.]
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No...! Really?! I'm shocked! Shocked I say!
Picture of a woman's torso and part of her hand holding a square paper hand fan emblazoned with a blue drawing of the White House with a flag atop it, which reads 'Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project Project2025.org' Above the picture a headline reads: 'A Trump appointee confirmed that Project 2025 was the plan all along'.
September 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I see this image and I just want to know that one day each of these individuals will be held accountable for their crimes. I want to know that a jury of their peers (meaning, normal thinking people, not their cultish worshipers) will hear evidence against them and decide they are guilty.
August 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This is the only flag I'll be waving today and until this nightmare ends.

{If anyone knows who created the image, please let me know. I'd like to credit them.}

#USflag
#IndependenceDay
Black and white image of the American flag using fencing. The stars are a chainlink fence in the top left corner. The strips are barbed wire.
July 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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This is so not comforting.
Screen grab from The Guardian which reads: Trump in situation room with Hegseth and Caine amid Iran attack on US bases – report Joint Chiefs Chair General Dan Caine and Secretary Pete Hegseth are in the Situation Room right now monitoring potential Iranian retaliation, per a senior White House official. Trump is currently in the room with them, CNBC reports.
June 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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My nutter of a cat, who sleeps like this on my legs whenever I am on our sofa.
June 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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This is my freshly filtered cold brew concentrate. Let me tell you: it's awesome!
June 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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I opened substack, and this was the first post at the top of my feed.

Thank you, @earthlyeducation.bsky.social. I needed that reminder.
Substack screenshot from @earthlyeducation, which reads, 'If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction, remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you'.
June 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Scenes from an evening stroll in Helsinki.

Everything in this world seems heavy and hard. But, there is still beauty out there. And I'm embracing it.
A blazingly bright orange and purple sunset sky above the treetops reflected in the calm waters of a bay, separated at the horizon by a treeline both above and below the water line. A few clouds add more drama to this sky and its refection. A cluster of bright yellow and rather huge daffodils create what looks like a hill of daffodils in full bloom.
May 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Timeline cleanser. My handsome boi.

#catsofbluesky
#crazycatlady
Image of my gorgeous grey and tan tabby cat's face with his little white beard and big beautiful green eyes staring straight at me. A less than thrilled judgemental expression on my lovely grey and tan tabby cat's face, with one ear very much indicating that I am inferior.
April 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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My husband and I were talking about Johnny Cash recently. This song from his last collection of covers is perhaps one of my favourites. But really, his entire discography is epic. We need more Johnny Cash's right now, y'all.
Image of Johnny Cash holding a guitar staring down the lens of a camera flipping the bird and looking as if he is about to scream 'fuck'. Johnny Cash at San Quentin in text at the top of the image.
April 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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I'm sorry: Do you know anything about Johnny Cash? No one made him do anything ever in his life. Except maybe June Carter Cash. But that man bowed to no one's whims.
Johnny Cash holding a guitar and flipping off the camera, looking like he's saying 'fuck'. Text reads Johnny Cash at San Quentin.
April 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Buckle up if you have investments or a retirement fund. The current psycho in the White House is likely to tank them this week.
Just a reminder, the Constitution is rather clear on how many terms a President may serve.
#twentysecond
Twenty-Second Amendment Section 1 No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term. Section 2 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
March 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I loves him.

#catsofbluesky
#petsofbluesky
#cats
My tan and grey tabby cat is laying down with his paws stretched out in front of him on a floral bedspread. His head is slightly tilted to the left of the image and his ears are perked, and he appears to be smiling.
March 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Next up in #myyearinbooks2025

'Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help', by #larissamacfarquhar.

I need to read something inspirational and which gives me hope for us as humans.

#booksky
💙📚
#reading
#books
#readersofbluesky
#womenwriters
The book cover of Strangers Drowning is laid on a floral throw, with my grey-tan tabby cat looking annoyed over his shoulder at the camera. The book cover shows an expanse of water and empty skies.
March 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Do not obey in advance.

Until the White House cuts off DOGE and goes through proper channels and Constitutional channels, I demand my senators vote no.

@schumer.senate.gov @blumenthal.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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This is Squeaky Pollito Pito Frito Fu. He's not impressed with these times. In the second pic, he seriously thinks the hoomans have lost it.
March 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Trying to find glimmers of goodness wherever I can.

It was a sunny day in Helsinki yesterday and we took advantage of that with a walk to the bay near our flat at sunset.

#glimmersofgoodness
#urbannature
#sunset
Panorama of a frozen bay at sunset, with a tiny patch of open water near a dock on the right-hand side. Firey horizon above a frozen bay at sunset with a tiny bit of open water near the shore.
March 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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This #InternationalWomensDay, my mood is best described as f*cking fuming. And that's entirely because of the patriarchy. My kitten's faceplant is rather perfect for today as well.

Today, here's to us women. We deserve all the days really.

Men, do better. And not just today.

#women
#feminist
March 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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I'm now addicted to knitting little emotional support chickens.

Pattern by #theknittingtreela
Yearn by #novita

#kniitersofbluesky
March 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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OOf. This lands HARD.

Accurate AF.

Thanks, @mortenmorland.bsky.social of The Times.

#politicalcartoon
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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@mluckovich.bsky.social is spot on. Again.
March 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Taps mic.

To those of you in the US, here's what is happening in Europe. Europeans are now boycotting American products and companies. And, that is entirely because of the policies of our government.

The image here is something which was posted by Europeans I know.
Table of companies to avoid or consider instead for products and services made in the US vs Europe.
March 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Next up in #myyearinbooks2025: 'Transcendent Kingdom' by @yaagyasi.bsky.social.

I've been looking forward to reading this book since I bought it. Yaa Gyasi became one of my favourite authors after I read Homegoing. From the story to the prose, I love her writing.

#sundayreads
#booksky
💙📚
Green and pink cover of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, laying next to my sleeping grey and tan tabby cat on a blue blanket with white geometric swirls.
March 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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My husband has wanted an emotional support chicken for some time now. We live in a flat with a territorial cat, which limits our options. So I knit him this chicken. He loves her.

#knitting
#knit
#emotionalsupportchicken
Knit chicken sitting on a desk. Chicken is red with melted grey and white stripes, orange stripes and blue strips. Knit chicken sitting on a desk. Chicken is red with melted grey and white stripes, orange stripes and blue strips.
March 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 5:47 AM