Just waiting for my latest Employee of the Month certificate to come out. I don’t like to count my chickens… …but I have cleared a space on the wall. 😌🐾🏆

Thrilled to pieces to be shortlisted @wainwrightprize.bsky.social! My quirky fusion of a book & its delightful & opinionated ghosts (human, wild & otherwise) revisiting the points in recent wildlife & rural history where we could have taken different paths, why we didn’t, & what we do now!

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The Carterhaugh School | Folklore, Fairy Tales, Everyday Magic@carterhaughschool.bsky.social · yesterday

Join us TOMORROW, Wednesday, August 5 at 6:45 PM ET for an online talk with Smithsonian Associates on Bluebeard! We explore what some of the oldest versions look like and how the story has been retold in contemporary times. Art by Edmund Dulac.⁠ smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr... #fairytales

How much more cynical can South East Water get? I've just been sent a link, inviting me to Have My Say on their 2027-2032 draft Drought Plan. This is the first I've heard of it. Deadline for comments? Thursday 6 August.

Femme avec un chat.' Paintings made by Louis Anquetin in the 1880s and 1890s influenced a number of his contemporaries, especially van Gogh, Emile Bernard and Toulouse-Lautrec. Of these, it was Anquetin who received the first serious attention from art critics.

$1350 AUG FOOD/MEDS/HYGIENE, BILLS, RENT, TRANSPORTATION URGENT! Disabled. Chronically ill. No vehicle. ~$400 of this RN urgent. That's 40 ppl $10 each. Any combo ppl x $ = $1350 keeps them safe. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

$0/$1350 URGENT MA- Eldritch Galaxy Slime 『 Fen Novapuzzle 』 🔞@voidbus-slimeboi.bsky.social · yesterday

Thank you so much for this 🙏❤️‍🩹 CA: cash.app/$Nerdku PP: www.paypal.me/SebbyMoonthe... Ve: venmo.com/u/Nerdku_Sli... Mutual Aid MA Boost 💕💸 🆙💰 #MutualAid #MADBoost #MABoost #HelpSky #SignalBoost #HelpFolksLive2026 #Urgent #UrgentNeeds #UrgentMutualAid #survive2026 #disabled

~$700 JULY MEDS/MEDICAL SUPPLIES + AUG FOOD, HYGIENE, BILLS, MEDS/MEDICAL SUPPLIES. Disabled. Chronically ill. Bedridden. Too sick to post which means Mori needed those meds weeks ago. 70 ppl $10 each to get Mori safe. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

mori (goal: $296.14/$500)@kookysnell.bsky.social · yesterday

Hello, this is Mori’s friend posting for them. They still need to complete their July goal, before they can move on to August. Thank you very much for boosting or donating. ko-fi.com/moriende paypal.me/belzomalsh CA/ven: kookysnell

#PuertoRico #Vieques #HurricaneMaria

bfitzinAR@bfitzinar.bsky.social · yesterday

#PuertoRico #Vieques (Small island off the big island of Puerto Rico used by US Navy as target practice for decades. Populace has much higher than normal cancer/other disease rates.) 3,239 days & counting since #HurricaneMaria Still no hospital but US reopened the base in 2025

"Wistful" #NativeWriter 40 new patrons at $25/month cover all Aji's household bills & get daily vignettes of life on the alpine desert (Taos) Reservation where Aji lives. Today a good day to subscribe.

AjiWings@ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 2d ago

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Those feral churches – beyond diocesan office, enjoying green communion – call the imagination. Even before visiting, we've a knowing their ivy-blinded windows, their ghost-congregation cooled interiors, refuse this barbarous heat. Offer spirit-shaded sanctuary. – #DAKilroy

Happy International Owl Awareness Day! I would like to thank all our owl friends for being so alert & aware. And curious—never ceasing in their desire to know whooooo.

Nicola Pitchford@npitchford.bsky.social · last wk.

In light of certain discourse lately about Greek deities, not to mention a developing Bluesky consensus that all important artists love owls, I hereby unearth a major archival artwork by my then 7-year-old friend/goddessdaughter who has since grown into (I am certain) a wise & gifted adult.

I picked the last of my (very) few climbing French beans this morning and cooked them for lunch. Completely inedible—just pith and strings.

August 4th. New month. #HelpFolksLive2026 thread. Something's *always* due & food is *always* needed. Things only get better with community action. *Now* is when folks need food, water, shelter, meds. *Now* is when we/the community needs to be there for each other. There's no one else. Just us.

This would be rare here - a sign of the depth of the drought. Rabbits normally have no need to drink water - they are surrounded by pastures & hedgerows filled with green grass & juicy vegetation. Now the fields are scorched brown and dry - birds & animals & insects face dehydration. #Droughts

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Top 30 drought tolerant plants in ordinary soils 2026

Plants thriving in drought and heatwave, as reported by you

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#CreativeBizCreativeBuzz🐝

Claire Leach@claireleach.bsky.social · yesterday

I’ve just listed this framed drawing in my shop, a whimsical, delicate bluebell inspired work. Perfect for lovers of nature and pretty springtime scenes.

#CreativeBizCreativeBuzz🐝

Claire Leach@claireleach.bsky.social · yesterday

Wondering whether this one is good enough to list in my shop?

For day two of our watercolour themed week, here's "Walberswick (The Blyth at Walberswick)" by Harold Steggles from 1934. I have included a photo that comes from Harold's brother, Walter's archives, for interst. #HaroldSteggles #Walberswick #Suffolk #EastLondonGroup

Cover price plus p&p if you're in the UK and would like one of these (the hare postcard, designed by my mum, comes free). Drop me an email at hello@tom-cox.com with your address... Happy to sign and personalise the books, of course.

Friends in the Pacific Northwest, I hope you’re safe.

4 Aug ‘57 Whatever differences of opinion we may hold about roses, whether our taste inclines to the hybrid teas or to the ramblers or the old shrub roses, there is one thing on which we are all in agreement: it is an advantage for a rose to smell like a rose. #gardening

The work by Vanessa Bell was painted at the Chateau de Fontcreuse, Cassis, on the estate of which she and Duncan Grant had their house, La Bergére, in April 1932.

NEW: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's demand for Illinois voters' sensitive data. The DOJ is now 0 for 19 — and counting.

$300 RN URGENT ROOM RENT, FOOD, MEDS, HYGIENE Homeless. Husband started a new job but no paychecks for weeks. 30 ppl $10 each RN keeps them safe RN. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

Ingrid@gr00vyghoulie.bsky.social · 2d ago

Since yesterday was a bust, Today’s goal: $300 (200 for room, 100 misc needs). We are ‘ihomeless & need safety/stability. Husband just started @ new job and I need him to succeed & cont working. Linktr.ee/igvazdi0 #mutualaid #helppeoplelive2026 #urgentMA #helpsky

$9985 TO GO AUG FOOD/MEDS/HYGIENE, BILLS, RENT, & MEDICAL CARE - URGENT! Disabled writer/streamer w/ disable dad. Both have serious med issues that aren't being treated. Any combo sales, subscriptions, donations = $9985 gets/keeps them safe. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Farronox | $15/$10k | ❤️🧡💛💚@farronox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thank you for the thread ❤️🧡💛💚 Two Disabled Adults hanging by a thread. Seeking $10k for survival, and three urgent medical/dental procedures. farronox.carrd.co bsky.app/profile/farr...

~$400 AUGUST FOOD/MEDS/HYGIENE & UTILITIES Disabled. In SSI appeals. Seeing a job coach in hopes of finding work they can actually do. Meanwhile 40 ppl $10 each keeps them safe. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

SJWJamesBond@mvbrat10.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seeing the job coach tomorrow. Help me pay for internet and electricity this month please. bsky.app/profile/mvbr...

~$2000 LIVING EXPENSES + ~$7000 REPLACE THE VAN THAT BLEW UP. Disabled. Their job is medical transport. Until the van is replaced, they've got no income. They still have to eat. & the rent has to be paid. Any combo ppl x $ = $9000 does it. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

@nyanderqueer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Disabled, recovering from top surgery and car blew up www.gofundme.com/f/keep-aster...

ANYTHING to help them recover from wildfire destruction of their community. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

@nyanderqueer.bsky.social · last wk.

Wildfires on native lands: yakama.com

~$500 RN URGENT FOOD RN & SHELTER NEXT WEEK. Unemployed for months. Evicted. Currently sleeping in a men's homeless shelter (they just provide a bed, not food) but will time out the end of this week & need a place to stay. 50 ppl $10 each is good. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

Gonza Gonzalez@gonzaegonza91.bsky.social · last wk.

URGENT NEED!!! Living day by day Unemployed, waiting to get some more consistent work Thanks for all your support. 💸💕🚨 #mutualaid #MAboost #helpsky #helpfolkslive www.paypal.me/GGonzalez756

~$900 AUG FOOD/MEDS/HYGIENE & BILLS ASAP & now they have to replace their PC's power supply (fried by lightning strike) Disabled. Chronically ill. Housebound. Looking for remote work. They've GOT to have a working PC to work at all. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

Rie Sonomura, NeoY2K Hacker Vtuber@riesonomura.bsky.social · 4d ago

ko-fi.com/riesonomura new month new goal. Still struggling on the job hunt. Would appreciate any and all help. #mutualaid #maboost #helpsky #helpfolkslive2026