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she/they, new books at https://doublejoybooks.com read more about my new books - go to https://books2read.com/paulaj and click on any cover image :) I wrote a book on earthquakes - during an earthquake!

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Here's one for fellow fans of cryptids!

09.03.2026 22:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Available now at your favorite digital store! Science Critters by Paula Johanson

So wow, a ruler, Erlenmeyer flasks, and... brains?
cool!
You'd LOVE my Science Critters patterns. Here's the link: books2read.com/sciencecritters
ebook is 99cents for the rest of March
Let me know if you'd like a pdf.

09.03.2026 22:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
local stories about Cowichan woolwork
Woolgathering by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/woolgathering

local stories about Cowichan woolwork Woolgathering by Paula Johanson books2read.com/woolgathering

knit invertebrate friends!
Science Critters
by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/sciencecritters

knit invertebrate friends! Science Critters by Paula Johanson books2read.com/sciencecritters

Okay, you're going to have to spell out the mistake so I understand how not to do it. Thanks!
In thanks, my two books on knitting are discounted to 99cents for the #ebook during the rest of March. #knit
books2read.com/sciencecritters
books2read.com/woolgathering

09.03.2026 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Okay, the mantis shrimp is pretty much my special animal. Punchy, stabby, scuttering about, and sees trippy colours like I do when migraining.

09.03.2026 18:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's good to know your quality assurance team is on site.

09.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am feeling better and better about paying for a Sunseeker Eco-Tad and 5 years later a Catrike Pocket.

09.03.2026 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To be fair, if you waterboard a doctor, they're as likely as anyone to admit they have leopard spots and a tail. Not gonna get reliable Intel.

09.03.2026 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Available now at your favorite digital store! Science Critters by Paula Johanson

That's one cute sea slug! And I've got a pattern you can use to make one of them.
books2read.com/b/sciencecritters

09.03.2026 05:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reading this thread brought back the memory of realizing (during a long, cold winter in northern Alberta) that the Little House books were horror.

09.03.2026 02:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh dear... the original Little House books are horror. Always were.

09.03.2026 02:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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holy shit

09.03.2026 01:20 — 👍 13354    🔁 2932    💬 219    📌 567

I know, right?

09.03.2026 02:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My recumbent trike is my mobility aid!

09.03.2026 01:42 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

That is the sky over Mordor.

08.03.2026 22:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Children in hospital paint pebbles for penguins to gift their mates
YouTube video by Washington Post Children in hospital paint pebbles for penguins to gift their mates

This is exactly the stuff technology is meant for.

youtube.com/shorts/hghlx...

08.03.2026 05:47 — 👍 34    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 0

I concur.

08.03.2026 06:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You appear to have written somethings of disciplinary significance ALREADY

07.03.2026 06:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Based on my experience here the content Bluesky likes the most is when I share my favourite crank theories.

06.03.2026 23:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like that people are able to make usable prosthetics that are comfortable when a silicone one is uncomfortable & expensive. It's a neighbourly gift that helps someone feel well and whole.

06.03.2026 23:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Plum Tree
by Paula Johanson
real life - but as if it counted
books2read.com/plumtree

Plum Tree by Paula Johanson real life - but as if it counted books2read.com/plumtree

Want to go into the weekend with good news? You can pick up my #ebooks for a song at the #ReadAnEbookWeek sale. Fiction? fantasy, science fiction & cosy mystery.
Nonfiction? get your history, sports & science.
www.smashwords.com/profile/view/PaulaJohanson6936

06.03.2026 22:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Blessings of the Blood:a book of menstrual lore and rituals for women
Deepening the Power: Community Ritual and Sacred Theatre
by Celu Amberstone
Nonfiction from Kashallan Press
books2read.com/amberstone

Blessings of the Blood:a book of menstrual lore and rituals for women Deepening the Power: Community Ritual and Sacred Theatre by Celu Amberstone Nonfiction from Kashallan Press books2read.com/amberstone

A reminder for #booksky that Celu Amberstone's books are on deep discount during Read An Ebook Week on Smashwords.
Get her popular Rituals books at your favourite online vendor at
books2read.com/blessings
books2read.com/deepening
or free on Smashwords
www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/63929

06.03.2026 22:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
7 - Teach your Children - Crosby, Stills and Nash 1970
YouTube video by stin 7 - Teach your Children - Crosby, Stills and Nash 1970

youtu.be/zj8FlXGPcOQ?...

06.03.2026 19:50 — 👍 2855    🔁 676    💬 100    📌 42
local stories about Cowichan woodwork
Woolgathering: Awareness of the Foreign in Published Works About Cowichan Woolworking
by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/woolgathering

local stories about Cowichan woodwork Woolgathering: Awareness of the Foreign in Published Works About Cowichan Woolworking by Paula Johanson books2read.com/woolgathering

Nice!
I got to turn my master's essay into a little book that is actually being read by some folk interested in knitting history.

06.03.2026 21:30 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A good link! I like how some of these handmade breast replacements are shared locally, and some are sent overseas. Wherever they are needed!

06.03.2026 21:18 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And library use DOES support an author, via the sale to a library and also Public Lending Rights in many countries.

06.03.2026 21:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our VIRL branches are TREASURES in our communities. 📚
Local library branches rock!

06.03.2026 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

06.03.2026 17:13 — 👍 566    🔁 159    💬 13    📌 11

No, volunteers knit these "puffs" for the Canadian Cancer society, who try to make sure everyone who has a breast removed has a "puff" when leaving the hospital.
Some volunteers knit for overseas donations, too.

06.03.2026 08:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Knitting for healing, one stitch at a time A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ones are expensive.

When she received her cancer diagnosis, she did not expect that her hobby of knitting, which she took up while recovering, would affect the lives of thousands of breast cancer survivors. She now makes knitted breasr prostheses for other breast cancer survivors.
apnews.com/article/keny...

06.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 210    🔁 48    💬 6    📌 2

These knitted breast prostheses are made by volunteers locally also, in Canada. A wonderful way for people to be helping each other.

06.03.2026 06:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0