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@brewergnome.bsky.social

He/Him - Gnomewood/Gnomespun Owner, Biologist, Woodworker, Army Vet, Gardener, Fiber Artist, Baker, Professional Dilettante https://gnomespun.com/

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A photo on the mossy floor of a leafy garden. The photo focuses on a purple and green hut with an eyeball that stands on two orange-ish bird legs with purple toes. It's a tiny Baba Yaga shackling

A photo on the mossy floor of a leafy garden. The photo focuses on a purple and green hut with an eyeball that stands on two orange-ish bird legs with purple toes. It's a tiny Baba Yaga shackling

I've been staring at this picture for a few days (using my old work as reference for new work) (how did I do that thing?) (lol)
Anyway you can stare at it for a bit now, also.

A wee Shackling in the garden.
(cosclay, watercolor, glass, wire, acrylic)

20.05.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
Felted white mouse and badger with foraging buckets filled with wooden bead hawthorn sprigs

Felted white mouse and badger with foraging buckets filled with wooden bead hawthorn sprigs

β€œI think we’ve got enough hawthorn berries for the jam now, what’s next?”
β€œCheese! All the cheese!”

Mouse is hoping for a home with someone who also buys ALL the cheese for Christmas.
Badger says they’ll bring hawthorns for jam to their new home

04.12.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ancient DNA reveals China’s first 'pet' cat wasn’t the house cat The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat β€” the leopard cat β€” hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

Leopard cats! So cute.

04.12.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wicked Discourse: Proving that no, no matter how carefully you explain it and how obvious you make it, some people WILL NOT comprehend structural/systemic bigotry, much less the ubiquity and inescapability of its effects.

04.12.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I read the whole thing. It's really that bad. I just... I don't understand. First we take out mRNA vaccines, one of the most field-shaking developments in medicine in decades. Now we target standard vaccines... The administration USES THESE, whatever their rhetoric! But if they don't exist...

04.12.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
a blue dragon prepares to land on its nest which has two eager dragonlings waiting for it. In the background are pink misty mountains.

a blue dragon prepares to land on its nest which has two eager dragonlings waiting for it. In the background are pink misty mountains.

'The Brood' - another dragon piece from this year. Also available in my shop with a layaway payment (if desired) over 3 months. Any big pieces like this I would wait to send in January anyway so as not to get lost in the melee of Xmas shipping!
www.emilyhare.co.uk
#dragon #art #originalart

04.12.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Green forest roots painting with curling tendrils and an orange fox pausing for a moment to peer at the viewer.

Green forest roots painting with curling tendrils and an orange fox pausing for a moment to peer at the viewer.

There's a holiday sale over at Every Day Original from today until Dec 10th!

A few of my paintings are on sale, including Ever Patient Fox!

All the art! everydayoriginal.com/winter-sale
**Fox: everydayoriginal.com/product/ever...
More of my work: everydayoriginal.com/artist/Laura...

03.12.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book cover for Endless Blue Beneath by Shannon K. English
Design by: Lisa Marie Pompilio
AD: Lauren Panepinto

03.12.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A++ pun

04.12.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I Know What You Did Last Sumer

04.12.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 396    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 3
A greater sage grouse portrait picture in golden light

A greater sage grouse portrait picture in golden light

Sir. πŸͺΆ

04.12.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I believe it!

04.12.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why would it? It's a thing that's existed through presidents of both sides. Until Trump, both parties were notable only in their equal refusal to do anything to make it better and often making it worse.

Trump just happens to be making it LOTS worse, faster.

04.12.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I used to think a *LOT* about "what if I did X differently." And then I married my Blue, husbeast @thorotonbrewer.bsky.social and I really don't anymore, because almost any other choice anywhere in my life would likely have made me miss out on the man who made me believe in the word, "Forever."

04.12.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I like how he looks like he has lazy eye.

04.12.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Media can make anything seem common or widespread even as the numbers are still vastly outrun by people being denied accommodation that needs them. 30 wheelchairs a day are damaged by airlines in the US. American Airlines was so bad they were fined for it in 2004

04.12.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

See the thing is that at the absolute HEIGHT of this being β€œso widely abused” I had friends getting turned down for Lift and Uber rides because of actual seeing eye dogs. I had a friend who couldn’t go see family because the airline said β€œno” to letting her dog on the plane.

04.12.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the prime reasons I refuse to use rodent poisons is because I love seeing all the things that come to eat the rodents - from gopher snakes to owls. Chip in if you can!

04.12.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 289    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Please signal boost. Need a wheelchair tech who can help troubleshoot in Silver Spring, MD.

03.12.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 246    πŸ” 526    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

"β€ŠThe long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."

It's like they looked at NFTs and said, "This just isn't horrifically stupid enough. How do we make it even worse?"

03.12.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, now we know they know he is definitely in dementialand.

Also, OH COME ON!!

03.12.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And not even a β€œbig” election!

03.12.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OK that rocks

03.12.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wut

03.12.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.

03.12.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1403    πŸ” 501    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

There’s The Ables but it does what a lot of comics stuff does where it’s there but it doesn’t seem to affect them much.

03.12.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

02.12.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5777    πŸ” 2177    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 138

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

03.12.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1761    πŸ” 787    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 14

Absolutely this. The idea that 20% of a student body couldn't be disabled is an expression of ableism (not understanding disability) but also an implicitly normative statement -- that 20% of students shouldn't be disabled.

02.12.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 173    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

It’s wild how much it’s changed even in the last ten years

03.12.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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