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Suzy Bates

@suzybates.bsky.social

Quilter, mother, us fleer

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Letโ€™s talk about that chestnut about only having to run faster than your friend, not the bear.

This only works if the bear stops to eat, or thereโ€™s only one bear, or if youโ€™re allowed to run.

19.09.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s the calm before a daily storm.

Monday mornings being the quietest you can pretend itโ€™s 2024.

14.09.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Video shouldnโ€™t take 6 weeks & $15K+
Orcana delivers in 24 hours: multiple cutdowns, polished & branded.

From one asset or a script to platform-ready videos.
Starting at $1K. Ready tomorrow.

Book your One Day Pilot now
tinyurl.com/yk8j6p8x

#VideoMarketing #ContentStrategy #DigitalMarketing

10.09.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Testimonial graphic featuring Abby Pilarski, Senior Brand Manager at Culligan, praising Orcana agency. Headline reads โ€˜Clarity builds momentum.โ€™ Quote highlights the flexibility and fast action of a small agency with the polish and strategic talent of a big agency. Orcana is described as a trusted marketing partner that builds clarity, speed, and trust. Logos of Orcana and Culligan displayed at the bottom.

Testimonial graphic featuring Abby Pilarski, Senior Brand Manager at Culligan, praising Orcana agency. Headline reads โ€˜Clarity builds momentum.โ€™ Quote highlights the flexibility and fast action of a small agency with the polish and strategic talent of a big agency. Orcana is described as a trusted marketing partner that builds clarity, speed, and trust. Logos of Orcana and Culligan displayed at the bottom.

Clarity builds momentum.

@heyculligan.bsky.social described working with Orcana as "the best of both worlds." The flexibility of a small agency combined with the polish of a big one. That balance builds trust, sustains speed, and makes clarity real.

Read more: tinyurl.com/568tw3v6

06.09.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Graphic with a mountain landscape background and bold text reading โ€˜More isnโ€™t the problem. The system is.โ€™ Orcana brand logo at the bottom. Promotional creative for Orcanaโ€™s video marketing and content production services, highlighting speed, clarity, and digital strategy.

Graphic with a mountain landscape background and bold text reading โ€˜More isnโ€™t the problem. The system is.โ€™ Orcana brand logo at the bottom. Promotional creative for Orcanaโ€™s video marketing and content production services, highlighting speed, clarity, and digital strategy.

Every team is being asked for more video. More formats. More versions. More speed. The problem isnโ€™t demand. Itโ€™s the systems built to deliver it. Weโ€™ve been building a new way forward. Stay tuned.

#VideoMarketing #ContentMarketing #DigitalStrategy #CreativeStrategy #BrandStrategy #VideoProduction

04.09.2025 23:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Abstract red and purple canyon background with digital design overlays and the words โ€˜Hot Take: Data alone wonโ€™t build trust.โ€™ Orcana branding in white at the bottom. Visual concept highlights how data without design, story, and user experience cannot build brand trust.

Abstract red and purple canyon background with digital design overlays and the words โ€˜Hot Take: Data alone wonโ€™t build trust.โ€™ Orcana branding in white at the bottom. Visual concept highlights how data without design, story, and user experience cannot build brand trust.

Hot take: Data only shows you the what.

It doesnโ€™t build the why.
Design, story, and user experience give your product its soul.
Thatโ€™s where brands earn trust, not just attention.

Curious how to bridge the gap between what users do and what they remember?

#branding #startups #userexperience

19.08.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just had a very specific memory of evacuating my high school because of a bomb threat.

We were bombing Iran and I went to The American School in London.

23.06.2025 05:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Revisited some old favorites on Spotify who had been filtered out.

Morphine is still excellent

Randy Newman, howeverโ€ฆ

08.06.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We are on the opposite cycle. I put our dehumidifier away last week. We have damp winters/dry summers.

15.05.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a kid I thought it was โ€œWaterburgerโ€. Could never figure out how the water figured in there.

I finally looked at the sign and I remember exclaimingโ€ฆ
โ€œWhat A Burger? No way!โ€

I was in my 20โ€™s.

12.05.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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No lack of container ships here!

10.05.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It Could Happen Here episode with Mike Duncan talking about our current times repeating history and mirroring his fictional Martian Revolution.

I have spent many hours listening to these two podcasts.

Worlds who coexist in my mind now made real! Questions answered!

So cool @iwriteok.bsky.social

21.04.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Prediction on the environmental causes for Autism RFK jr will find:
Mainstream media, memes making fun of Trump, not shining a bright light on your insides when you get sick, and avoiding brain eating worms.

19.04.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Something something taxation without representation.

15.04.2025 05:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Never before have I paid my taxes and thought โ€œthey are just going to take my money and give it to themselvesโ€

14.04.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No one died when the Titanic hit the iceberg, it was the subsequent events that killed people.

We just drove straight into the iceberg on purpose.

03.04.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trans Visibility Day

I am celebrating by sharing this in progress โ€œVisibility Quiltโ€.

When the light shines through you gain more insight.

#Quiltsky #Transvisibilityday

31.03.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They are celebrating International Womenโ€™s Day here and it feels like a gut punch every time I see a sign.

08.03.2025 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can we start calling every death a Kennedy Assassination?

27.02.2025 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I need a new passport.

I am terrified to send it to the State Department.

Happy Tuesday.

18.02.2025 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The SNL50th anniversary show feels like we all went to the Kit Kat Club for one last show.

17.02.2025 14:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I started reading The Sirens Call but I was distracted by my phone alerting me to the dismantling of our world.

Trump took your analysis of a problem in our culture and turned it into a ProTip.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

17.02.2025 08:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Remember in 2020-21 when all the low paying jobs were being done by people with 15 years of experience?

Tell your high school and college kids that summer jobs are going to be hard to find.

17.02.2025 08:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When you work for an unreasonable asshole, you acquiesce to the demands of impossible deadlines, knowing that you wonโ€™t meet it and will move the date later.

If weโ€™re living in a tech-like government world, then this is our future.

17.02.2025 06:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just watched The Substance then caught Cher on the SNL50 anniversary show.

Coincidence?

16.02.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป

15.02.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60056    ๐Ÿ” 11162    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 742    ๐Ÿ“Œ 323

This all feels like a huge overreaction to the Barbie Movie.

13.02.2025 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This seems quaint and antiquated.

www.state.gov/eeo-no-fear-...

#NoFEAR

12.02.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Movie idea:

Red Dawn but
the US are the Russian invaders and Canadian Hockey kids are the Wolverines.

Red White and Blue Dawn

11.02.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We had a chat with friends

Them:
โ€œWe thought you guys were overreacting, moving to Portugal, talking about things with potential tragedy. Turns out you werenโ€™t overreacting.โ€

Us:
โ€œWe wanted to be proven wrong. Thereโ€™s no joy in being right.โ€

06.02.2025 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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