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Julé Cunningham

@JD_Cunningham@sunny.garden

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860 Posts

Artist (thread painting, pencil, ink, mixed media - no AI used); voracious reader; advocate and supporter of libraries; trying to walk as lightly as possible on our beautiful land of the Pacific Northwest; accidental haiku writer. (Posts are usually deleted after six months.)

#art #embroidery #EmbroideryArt #FineArtInStitch #MastoArt #haiku #SmallPoem #NoAI #PacificNorthwest #PNW #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateJustice #nature #wildlife #libraries #FreedomToRead #reading #bookstodon

Julé Cunningham 15h ago

"What’s funny is that you keep calling wealthy Russians “oligarchs,” when the truth is that the only real oligarchs are in the West. That’s where billionaires stand above the law and above the people, that’s where they buy government officials and write laws in their stead." -- from 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' by Giuliano da Empoli, trans. Willard Wood

#WednesdayBookQuote #books #reading #bookstodon

Julé Cunningham 15h ago

Peter Goulborn 22h ago

In the spotlight.

#Photography #Insect #Helios

Julé Cunningham 15h ago

inquiline 1d ago

"GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use"
https://www.animal-photo-references.com/

(shared from bsky, seems like they should have a presence here but I don't seem them)

Animal Photo Reference Repository

Julé Cunningham 15h ago

Nathan Lowell (he/him)16h ago

tiny stony beach
tucked in between two headlands
not lonely alone

#DailyHaikuPrompt

Julé Cunningham 15h ago

Carolannie 1d ago

When I was a child, my sisters and I would cut the hollyhock flowers in our Mimi's garden and make dolls, with flowery skirts, green bud heads and toothpick arms.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #MapleLeafNeighborhood

Julé Cunningham 15h ago

#art to start 🎨
...winding wool

'The Blue Dress'
Artist: Henri Martin
#painting #oil #OilPainting

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Julé Cunningham 1d ago

@NearerAndFarther Not to mention dangerous, I've ended with at least twelve more books on my TBR list!

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Lisa 1d ago

Tuesday isn’t Monday. 🩷
#photography #bloomscrolling

Julé Cunningham 1d ago

Those marvelous librarians at the Seattle Public Library have put together another wonderful book list, twenty-seven books by women writers in translation that have been published this year and are available now. Just in time for August's Women in Translation month.
#books #reading #libraries #WomenInTranslation #PNW #Seattle @bookstodon

https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/72450558/2814755497

Women in Translation — a staff-created list from The Seattle Public Library

August is Women in Translation Month, which aims to bring awareness to the lack of women writers whose works are translated as well as celebrate the works of individual women authors. Learn more at https://www.womenintranslation.org/. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. Created July 2025.

The Seattle Public Library

Julé Cunningham 1d ago