Maria Hjerppe

Beautiful northern lights tonight.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie it's not a distraction

stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...

Photo of an Arabian horse

A favorite image from my trip to Egypt in 2020, right before the pandemic changed life as we knew it. The stallion EAO Shafea, bred and owned by the world-famous El Zahraa Stud.

When your dog reminds you of your average Sunday morning in your early twenties 🤣🤣

(He had a procedure involving anesthesia today. He’s fine, but mighty hungover.)

YouTube video by ZEIT ONLINE Vuvuzela Concert

Do you need a good laugh during these trying times? Of course you do. I recommend watching until the end. You’re welcome. ☺️

youtu.be/wf2P8SnOwLo

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An alternative to Instagram is coming!

🎭🎶🎨 TAKE BACK THE ARTS DAY | Saturday, March 8th

They can take the Kennedy Center, but they cannot take our voices, our vision, our art. Artists across all mediums are encouraged to stand up against creative censorship. Post your art, tag #TakeBackTheArts. For more info, visit: TakeBackTheArts.org

Twenty Lessons On Tyranny From the Twentieth Century

An important read and an equally important share.

snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

a collage of various artwork, ranging from birds, bugs, bears, and other things that don't start with B like whales and flowers

Hello, internet!

Things are bad for our trans & queer friends in the US, so I teamed up with bsky's nature artists to create this pack containing 80 wallpapers and growing.

1. Donate to one of the two orgs below
2. DM me your receipt
3. I'll give you a download link

Valid til the end of the month

My darling Cleo, who may or may not have an aggressive spleen tumor. I’ll know more by Monday but I’m already crying non-stop. Treasure your seniors and hold them close.

You don't have to do it all.

Just what you can do.

If enough people do that, the oligarchs don't have a chance.

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

In a world gone mad I’ll take my moments of awe and wonder wherever I can find them. Beautiful sunrise and blue skies on my morning walk. Spring will come.

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."

Time to go check out Pixelfed! 👀 www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

Sure, why not? Conventional couch use is for boring dogs. 😁

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...

It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

Cleo says she knew she could count on you for support.

So just in case anyone is wondering, the video I just posted that Bluesky has labeled “adult content”… it is a view of the sunset as seen from inside my studio, with a touch of Händel as my soundtrack. Don’t culture them kids! 🤣

Really, @moderation.bsky.app ? The garden view from inside my art studio and some Händel is adult content and requires a warning? 🤣 I appreciate the laugh after a hard day. 😁

I’m never leaving this room. The acoustics are amazing right now with hardly any furniture, even my tiny little Anker speaker makes it sound like a church. 🥰

I’m not sure she has enough pillows.

go.bsky.app/9VPp69Z

Model horse people, please share this!

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations.

Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

Thank you! It’s going to be a fantastic place to work in once done so all the extra maintenance will 100% be worth it.

Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other

I hear you on the two steps! I had to really force myself yesterday because unfortunately for me parts of the ceiling needed to be masked too. 🫠 And thank you, it really is a dream come true and I can’t wait to move in!

Thankfully the siren song of the future studio is strong. 😆 Not strong enough to drown out all of my anxiety but hey, can’t have it all.