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Harpist/Creative Artist/Teacher/Forever Student “All flourishing is mutual.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer https://michellegott.com/ https://www.harpsparks.ca/
Your morning dose of something besides politics, because, ya know, we all need a break...
T123A "Stanley" showing his impressive size before landing a belly flop. It hurts for us to do belly flops. What does that feel like for a whale!? 🤔😅
#orca #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #killerwhale
So glad you guys are on BlueSky!
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The @nonhumanrights.bsky.social was founded 30 years ago! We're still the only US organization dedicated solely to securing #legalrights for #nonhumananimals. To celebrate we set an ambitious goal–30 new monthly donors in 3 days! Will you help? 💙 nonhumanrightsproject.donorsupport.co/page/anniver...
27.02.2025 00:22 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Destroying things is much easier than building meaningful improvements.
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19.02.2025 15:47 — 👍 144719 🔁 30160 💬 2305 📌 1522I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter!
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What an exciting day on @bsky.app
A message for all my fellow creatives who are struggling to produce right now: Every page you write, every melody you play, every brushstroke you take, every image you create, is an act of defiance.
We are the new Degenerate Artists and it’s time to get to work.
Watch Rob Shriver, Managing Director of Civil Service Strong & Good Government Initiatives at Democracy Forward speak with @wbaltv11.bsky.social. Our team is working to ensure federal employees have the resources they need to navigate this difficult time. Visit civilservicestrong.org to learn more.
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14.02.2025 13:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sign Ottawa Riverkeeper's road salt reduction pledge today!
ottawariverkeeper.ca/sign-the-roa...
Really great book!
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
Arthur C. Clarke
Upcoming performances in Calgary, Toronto, and Ottawa 🎵
Feb. 14: Solo Performance for Concerts in Care Ontario
Feb. 28/March 1: Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
March 8-9: Toronto Symphony Orchestra
March 15-16: Ottawa Pops Orchestra
For tickets and more details, please see my website!
He’s a very stable genius. 🤮
07.02.2025 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love seeing this!
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Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Harpist Michelle Gott, bathed in blue light during a performance for the inaugural HarpSparks Festival. March 2024 in Ottawa, Canada
Hello, BlueSky! I’m a harpist, creative artist, and teacher based in Ottawa 🇨🇦 I am hopeful that BlueSky and Flashes will allow me to engage differently with social media and to build new connections.
📷: Curtis Perry
Live performance for the inaugural HarpSparks Festival, March 2024.
Did you know that we have an email list? It’s the best way to stay up-to-date with our most recent whale encounter reports and the latest information about our research, education and conservation work! Sign up at the link below!
#whaleresearch #salishsea #srkww #southernresidents #killerwhale
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war."
—Howard Zinn
RESIST
05.02.2025 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yessss. Let’s fucking go!
05.02.2025 14:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is amazing news!!!
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Greeting you on Bluesky with this reminder
They are living, thinking, feeling beings
And they deserve our respect, even if we haven't earned theirs.
One love
🥰 this is wonderful!
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Our most recent encounter with SRKWs was tricky due to challenging weather conditions but we were able to document members of J Pod, including the newest calf J62, as well as members of the L4 matriline. Read the full report and see more photos from Encounter 5 - Jan 23 2025 at the link below.
28.01.2025 18:37 — 👍 151 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 5Super exciting stuff!
03.02.2025 19:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 05 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)
1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card
We look forward to sharing photos, videos, whale sightings, data, action alerts, news and more about the orcas we study here on Bluesky.
If you're new to learning about us, our work is focused in the Salish Sea where we primarily study the Southern Resident killer whales and Bigg's killer whales.
