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friends: staring at the different rockfish an the exhibit at @montereyaq.bsky.social me: staring at the nudibranchs on the sponges in the same exhibit 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

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Hey folks, this campaign has been pretty stagnant lately, with over a week since the last donation. Please donate if you can, but also share!

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it has been wild moving from a tiny state that has the highest density of osprey in the world to a city that has a single mater pair, but it has given me a deeper appreciate & fondness for a bird I already loved so much 🌊🪶🌿🌎📷

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hello sweet little chonk 💛 I wonder if the feeding barnacles tickle their foot, assuming nudibranchs are ticklish 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

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february is normally a slow time for baleen whale activity but the second half of the month was busy with dolphin activity & the non-migratory humpbacks really bridged the gap in the gray whales migration 🌊🐋🐳🐬🦑🌿🌎

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Day 26: A Medieval Ethiopian Royal Family Who says I can't go light w/ color every once in a while?! This pastel medley tells a story abt Black familial bonds, let's take a closer look. 🧶 The depiction of the Ethiopian royal family: 1/ #yarnsky #BHM #handdyedyarn #craftsky

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Day 25: Black Heraldry In medieval German heraldry, coats of arms often featured human figures, including representations of Black individuals. These depictions, known as "Moor's heads" or "Maure," were stylized 🧶 1/6 #yarnsky #craftsky #indieyarndyer #handdyedyarn #BHM

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Day 24: Black Sheba Sheba was often depicted as a Black woman in medieval manuscripts & later became white-washed. Let's learn a little more abt her & this image. 🧶 #yarnsky #handdyedyarn #craftsky #indieyarndyer #BHM 1/7

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Day 22: Pedro de Arobe. This is the Afro-Indigenous young man whose portrait was painted in 1599 along w/ his father Francisco de Arobe & younger brother, Domingo. The painting was commissioned in the late 16thc as a gift for the King of Spain, Phillip III, 🧶 1/7 #indieyarndyer #BHM #yarnsky

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Day 22: Candace, Queen of Ethiopia (Kandake) We have a regular Queen Candace colorway called "Candescence Indigo" based on a different image of Candace, but this queen deserves all the attn & praise. This is her special colorway for the #monthlyyarnclub called "Candescent Queen."🧶 1/5 #yarnsky #BHM

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Day 21: Balthazar's Story-telling Outfits Did you know that a lot of pre- & early modern Black figures are telling you more about themselves through their clothing? The Met Gala doesn't have anything on these fashion statements. 🧶 1/7 #indieyarndyer #handdyedyarn #yarnsky #craftsky #BHM

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Day 20: Afro-European Portraiture Look at the little glisten on this young Black woman's nose. Her features are most beautifully exhibited. A reminder of her humanity after centuries of being dehumanized. 🧶 1/7 #BHM #indieyarndyer #handdyedyarn #yarnsky #craftsky

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me: I need rest, my mental health is dismal & I wasn't allowed to rest at all in 2024 work & gov't: best we can do is inundate you with triggering experiences like antisemitism, queerphobia, sexism, ableism, etc.

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Day 18: Black Figures in Pre-Modern Tapestries We don't often think of or see Black representations in tapestries but there are some! Most representations are of Balthazar, the Black Magus in the Nativity story but there are other representations. 🧶 1/7 #yarnsky #BHM #indieyarndyer #craftsky

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Day 17: Pre & Early Modern Black Archers Black archers appear in both historical records & artistic representations throughout the Middle Ages & beyond, though they are often overlooked in mainstream narratives. 🧶 1/6 #yarnsky #craftsky #indieyarndyer #BHM #blacksky

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Day 16: The Apostles' Black/diverse Audience The Black audience members in a dreamy visionary scene are wearing some beautiful colors. It's all wrapped up in medieval symbolism. Let's take a closer look. 🧶 1/7 #indieyarndyer #yarnsky #BHM

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mid-February means it is time for the western monarch migration! it's been a rough year as the population overwintering in California has been devastatingly low, but they are capable of rebounding if the next generations have a better summer this year 🤞 🦋🐙🌿🌎📷📸 #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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majestic 🦌🌿🌎📷📸 #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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Day 15: Medieval Courtly Black Figures Did you know there are Black representations in courtly scenes in medieval art? Not just Black knights of the round table, as we've discussed before, these are other figures. 🧶 1/7 #indieyarndyers #BHM #yarnsky #handdyedyarn

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Day 14: Early Modern Black Boys w/ Parrots In paintings where the central figures were yt & had Black figures in the background, that framing sometimes depict status & wealth. We undo those readings & focus on the marginal figures who were special ppl in their own right. 🧶 #BHM #indieyarndyer 1/8

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Day 13: A 17thc Black Nobleman In Luca Giordano's painting "Saint Francis Xavier Baptizing Proselytes and Saint Francis Borgia" (c. 1680s), a prominent Black figure is depicted kneeling among the proselytes. He's no regular man & not a servant! 1/5 #BHM #indieyarndyers #yarnsky 🧶

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if you're feeling overwhelmed & burned out by the blitzkrieg of EOs bumblebutt & co have put out lately, @/zombiespaceship on IG has created a document that organizes the EOs (as of 2/5) based on content for those who want to contact their representatives about them docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Day 12: Attendant to the Princess of Zanzibar This beautiful mysterious woman is painted beside a woman in which she attended to. The painting is titled "Portrait of the Princess of Zanzibar with an African Attendant," by Walter Frier. 🧶 1/7 #BHM #indieyarndyers #yarnsky #craftsky #indieyarndyer

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Day 11: The Steward of Emmaus How many of you know the aftermath story of Jesus' crucifixion? Did you know that a lot of the events afterwards made it into medieval art? In one story surrounding the "House of Emmaus" (Emmaus is a town), 1/8 🧶 #BHM #yarnsky #indieyarndyer #indieyarnshop

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Day 10: Caspar, the Black Magus We learned about one of the 3 magi in the nativity story who was most often presented as a Black man (Balthazar), but in various narratives & depictions one of the other wise men was also Black. 🧶 1/6 #BHM #indieyarndyer #yarnsky #craftsky

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Day 9: Balthazar, the Magus If you know the biblical story of the nativity, you'll know that baby Jesus was visited by some "wise men." This reference is only present in the Gospel of Matthew. As the story travelled across Europe over time, Western 🧶 1/ 7 #BHM #indieyarndyers #indieyarndyer

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I've been seeing more & more healthcare specialists lately (psychiatrists, podiatrists, rheumatologists, etc), getting blood draws, x-rays, ultrasounds (even of my hands?!), & new meds now it feels like after all this work to keep my body alive, the fed are going to 🔪 me anyway, here's a cute 🦀

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Absolutely horrible news this morning from a dear professor that has been working as everything I'm working to be. If you can, please help out. Sharing helps too. 🏺 gofund.me/ef8f62d3

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