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Susan Ray, Writer

@creativewordcraft.bsky.social

Curiosity is underrated. Not knowing is just the start of the adventure! I am the author of multiple books including (but not limited to) poetry, folklore, family activity books, history, foodie everything. www.SusanRayWriter.com

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Our understanding of the Universe is stronger because of Bill Nye’s remarkable leadership and advocacy.

Thank you, Bill, for your 15 years leading the Planetary Society, and I look forward to continuing to work with you to advance science and space exploration!πŸš€βœ¨

pasadenanow.com/main/bill-ny...

29.01.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 11986    πŸ” 1582    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 46
Graph showing (x axis) January to December measles cases; number of measles cases (y axis), and annual curves, with massive increases from 2023 to 2024 to 2025 and now more cases in the first month of 2026 than any previous year's January (478 cases so far).

Graph showing (x axis) January to December measles cases; number of measles cases (y axis), and annual curves, with massive increases from 2023 to 2024 to 2025 and now more cases in the first month of 2026 than any previous year's January (478 cases so far).

"The RFK Jr. Measles Curve"

28.01.2026 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 10
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More snow coming to the Triangle this weekend Meteorologists project that central North Carolina will see more snow this Saturday, but it won't be as intense or hazardous as the ice storm last weekend.

Meteorologists project that central North Carolina will see more snow this Saturday, but it won't be as intense or hazardous as the ice storm last weekend.

www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

28.01.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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I have long enjoyed writing to my literary heroes. No more so than as a romantic book-mad 20year-old, pre library employment. Muriel Spark was quick to recommend the library as a source for her further reading faves to save me 'dipping into my dole'. How I treasure this letter #libraries

28.01.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 530    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 0

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

28.01.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 27895    πŸ” 8185    πŸ’¬ 1149    πŸ“Œ 347
Monochrome photograph of a young standing white woman in bold stance, wearing a cap, shirt and breeches, smoking, in a photography studio

Monochrome photograph of a young standing white woman in bold stance, wearing a cap, shirt and breeches, smoking, in a photography studio

Norwegian photographer, women's suffragist Marie HΓΈeg (1866-1949) made late 19thc and early 20thc photography including self portraits which challenged how women were expected to be portrayed #WomensArt

27.01.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 426    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5
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To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.

Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs

28.01.2026 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1363    πŸ” 293    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 119
Painting portrait of the upper half of a white woman with brown hair tied up and pale top.

Painting portrait of the upper half of a white woman with brown hair tied up and pale top.

β€œLock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

28.01.2026 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 559    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
Four images, artworks with symmetrical geometric designs in various colours with many lines

Four images, artworks with symmetrical geometric designs in various colours with many lines

Emma Kunz (1892-1963), Swiss healer, visionary and outsider artist who published three books and produced many drawings #womensart

28.01.2026 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 264    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Garden watercolour drawing with ripe plum tomatoes and G in her sun hat.

Garden watercolour drawing with ripe plum tomatoes and G in her sun hat.

Watercolour drawing (quite large) of the garden a couple of summers ago. A very hot year and we had a good crop of plum tomatoes.
#watercolour #penandink #pleinair

28.01.2026 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3965    πŸ” 331    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 8

I haven’t bought a book today.
True, it’s not dawn yet.

27.01.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 930    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 6
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That’s salt water out there people !

27.01.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2081    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 4

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the six million Jewish lives β€” and the millions of others β€” senselessly murdered by the Nazi regime. We remember not only the unimaginable loss, but the warning history leaves us.

27.01.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2990    πŸ” 543    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 15
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Abolish. ice. πŸ’”

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Wake County approves designs for new animal center Wake County Commissioners approved a new animal center to replace the county’s current one, which has been running for about 30 years.

Wake County Commissioners approved a new animal center to replace the county’s current one, which has been running for about 30 years.

www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

27.01.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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An acrylic painting of a woman with purple roses as hair, created by artist Loetitia Pillault.

28.01.2026 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 413    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

27.01.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 18501    πŸ” 4524    πŸ’¬ 284    πŸ“Œ 164
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Be safe and stay warm, New York.

28.01.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2088    πŸ” 293    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 50
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🎯🎯🎯🎯

27.01.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 16219    πŸ” 6564    πŸ’¬ 758    πŸ“Œ 437
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Snirtle is absolutely the perfect word for what it means.

27.01.2026 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

27.01.2026 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11771    πŸ” 5844    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 330
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ICE murdered RenΓ©e Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

26.01.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 54533    πŸ” 13929    πŸ’¬ 816    πŸ“Œ 492
Monochrome photograph of a group of women sitting around a table on which a quilt is being created

Monochrome photograph of a group of women sitting around a table on which a quilt is being created

Quilt with square design and patterned border

Quilt with square design and patterned border

Quit with a a central square design created with twenty five smaller squares in which are different images, including vases of flowers

Quit with a a central square design created with twenty five smaller squares in which are different images, including vases of flowers

US quilting bees, where women communally created quilts, aided women's rights by providing a safe women-only space for shared ideas, economic empowerment, and political organisation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries #WomensArt

26.01.2026 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 316    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Wolves have a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, after seven seconds of silence several fans yell "FUCK ICE"

25.01.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 9981    πŸ” 2220    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 66
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Sunlight on brownstones - Edward Hopper, 1956.
Source : Wichita Art Museum, Kansas πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

26.01.2026 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1553    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 7
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

25.01.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 28683    πŸ” 10712    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 981
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I made this yesterday. Two colours of very diluted acrylic paint applied to a canvas board with a wallpaper scraper. So simple and poetic.
#irishartist #acrylicart #abstractart #interiordesign #meditativeart

25.01.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 585    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 1
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

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Photo looking down on a number of bluish stones covered in crochet of different designs in white and yellow

Photo looking down on a number of bluish stones covered in crochet of different designs in white and yellow

Margaret Oomen, contemporary Canadian textile artist who creates 'Little Urchin Crochet Covered Sea Stones' #WomensArt

26.01.2026 05:51 β€” πŸ‘ 554    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 11
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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

5calls.org

25.01.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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