May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.

Your voice matters: Giller Prize parts ways with sponsor Scotiabank after more than a year of protests www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

Fylgja are spirit companions that connect immediately with newborns and follow them throughout their lives, most commonly taking the form of animals. Often the animal reflects the person it is attached to, and can appear physically or in dreams. #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️: J. Bauer

A few 2024 pix. I don't hike as I once did due to how Long Covid has changed my health, but still try to get out. Mother Black Bear w/3 cubs, a 2.5 year old bear cub on it's own, a bull moose & a cow moose. All in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. © Michel JS Soucy #photography #wildlife

Profile of Alan Garner at 90. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Happy to see Pearly Everlasting in The New York Times this week alongside some other wonderful historical novels.

love’s austere and lonely offices Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’

We're on Bluesky 🎉 We're a European partnership project dedicated to Scottish wildcat conservation and recovery. We aim to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild, while mitigating the threats they face 🐾 Follow to find out more 😺

Krampus loves you. 🎨 J. E. Larson

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

Light breaking through the chaos of a plantation woodland. #photography #nature

The Keeper of the Boneyard is 75 years old today. Happy birthday, Tom: Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.

"Tigers can generate wind, dragons can summon rain(虎能生風，龍能喚雨)." In ancient #China, #dragons were considered divine beings who controlled water sources and rainfall. During droughts, people would conduct rain-praying ceremonies, beseeching the dragon deity to bring rain to nourish the fields and 1/3

Montreal to shine with 15th beam in tribute to all murdered women on Polytechnique anniversary #EcolePolytechnique #Montreal #Quebec #qcpoli Commemoration comes day after Ottawa announced new gun control measures Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Advent window 5th December. The White Rabbit. I made this for a wonderful Alice exhibition we had at the much missed blue ginger gallery in autumn 2017. It was a particularly fabulous event and I made many pieces.

On Rainer Maria Rilke's birthday: poems.com/poem/you-who...

"Cold, delicately as the dark snow A fox's nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that now And again now, and now, and now Sets neat prints into the snow Between trees, and warily a lame Shadow lags by stump and in hollow Of a body that is bold to come" The Thought Fox, Ted Hughes

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

"back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging . . . we are saying thank you . . ."

The ALCQ is new here, but has existed since 1975. Dedicated to promoting research, teaching, knowledge, literary criticism and theory related to Canadian and Quebec literature, the ALCQ facilitates intellectual exchanges in French and English.

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Here's a quick starter pack for Gothic and Historical accounts here - I hope to add to it more when I have more interactions. go.bsky.app/EmzH3bp

As we’re all starting out, here’s a Starter Pack of LGBTQIA+ writers to enrich your life and feed. Will update as more folk arrive. 🌈 📖 ❤️ go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7Wa

As folks are starting to move over here, I made a starter pack of writers of fiction and CNF in "Canada." Let's get the party started! Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added. Fun! go.bsky.app/8VVZv4i

© Laura Makabresku

12.5 years of being a sometimes- very-good-boy ❤️ #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky

Happy to have my new collection, Votive, now out with Gaspereau Press.

There’s a word in modern Hungarian slang, egérmozi, which describes watching films (or shows) on your phone. It means “mouse cinema”

“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we were in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.” —E. M. Forster