Kate Armstrong
On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether. Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Niche sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. Purportedly Canadian. She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social with @tidbit.bsky.social.
- There’s been a death with an elder relative of our family so I’m going to be off here for a bit.
- There were a mourning dove couple outside our feeder this morning. More signs of spring!
- Magnolia for a cloudy morning
- The sun in daffodil form. Such lovely day today for a vote 🗳️ .
- I went on a podcast with Ryan to talk about ‘The Wedding Banquet’ and it was a lot of fun!
- Had a GREAT time finally meeting @brainchain.ca and bringing her on the #matineecast to talk The Wedding Banquet. Take a listen! #PodcastSky #FilmSky www.thematinee.ca/episode347/
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongHad a GREAT time finally meeting @brainchain.ca and bringing her on the #matineecast to talk The Wedding Banquet. Take a listen! #PodcastSky #FilmSky www.thematinee.ca/episode347/
- It’s so cloudy here today and I’m trying to manifest ranunculus blooms like these ones I saw on Wednesday.
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongHappy 40th Birthday to Carmen Sandiego! Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego was released on April 23, 1985 by Broderbund. The Almanac it shipped with was updated with each new print run, which gives you an easy way to identify which edition a copy is. But what if you come across a sealed copy?
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongFerdinand Zecca visualized pedal-powered personal airships as the future of air travel in CONQUERING THE SKIES (1901), one of the earliest science fiction films ever made.
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongThis completely new, diesel-powered daily transcontinental train featured Budd-built streamlined stainless steel cars and domes. These stainless steel cars were so well built that they are still used on VIA Rail trains, over seven decades after their construction. 3/3
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongJ'aime bien ses histoires à lui. On en apprend toujours un peu plus. 😊 youtu.be/coszaE4RAZI?...
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongI just got the BEST ever misdial voicemail about Jazz Fest and how I'm an amazing saxophone player. It wasn't a prank. More updates to follow.
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongIn #JapaneseFolklore kage onna appear as the shadows of women on windows and doors, even when there is no one around to cast them. You are most likely to see them late at night when the moon is bright. Other than being absolutely terrifying, this yokai is... #yokai #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday 1/2
- Reposted by Kate Armstrong#ThursJay As a rule the Bluejays just squawk from wooded areas and pay no attention to the feeders. Yesterday a few were having fun swooping from one tall tree to another. This one kept moving around in the small maple tree with feeders. Finally! Photos! 🪶
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongA quirky perspective of the Cattedrale di Parma taken on this date in 2023. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQs #Travel. #Photography #Churches #Architecture #Art #ThrowbackThursday
- Is it just me or does she have some epic side eye?
- Reposted by Kate Armstrongi love them
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongMisty pastel sunset and Willets on the beach. 🪶
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongWhy ben thei so numerous The songes about rainbowes And what doth lie on the othir syde? "Rainbowes are visiounes Yet onlye illusiounes, And rainbowes have no thynge to hyde."
- Since we are reposting ballet music 🩰.. here is an excerpt from legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp’s ‘Brief Fling’ youtu.be/xKSctOQDjpk
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongI'm in the mood for some classical music, so I'm gonna listen to this piece. Love love LOVE Aaron Copland... #CodingMusic #CopingMusic Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (Complete Ballet for Orchestra) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL6R...
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongIn Hangul, yadang/야당 refers to an informant or a snitch. Since opening in Korean theaters at the #1 spot, Yᴀᴅᴀɴɢ: Tʜᴇ Sɴɪᴛᴄʜ has remained in the top position. Ahead of the film’s 4/25 opening in the US & Canada, Kang Ha-neul and Park Hae-joon discuss their film with K-Cᴜʟᴛᴜʀᴇ Wɪᴛʜ Jᴀᴇ-Hᴀ Kɪᴍ.👇
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongThere were no great women novelists in English before Jane Austen. The only 18th c. authors worth talking about were a handful of dudes. That's what I was taught in college. But it's so not true. The 1730s were a hotbed of female literary brilliance. buttondown.com/charliejane/...
- Reposted by Kate Armstrong🌙 🌟 Over the next few hours the crescent Moon will appear close to the planet Venus (closest approach at 3h UT on April 25th). The event is best seen in the pre-dawn sky. But anyone can also see the pair during the day using just their eyes! First find the Moon. Brilliant Venus will be nearby. 🔭
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongZORG / PAWK / STOOPS
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongMorning light on Loch Indaal, Islay.
- Tilly found her stash of three balls that had overwintered in the corner of the plot. And is feeling pretty smug about it.
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongButtercup and Dandelion
- Into the centre of a daffodil
- Reposted by Kate Armstrong¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- #20GreatCanadianTunes (Day 2 - counting backwards) This is just pure indulgence… Measha Brueggergosman and Martin Short singing ‘Misty’ youtu.be/woRmdBU3X9k
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongIt's a travel MISSION of mine to find cool doors! #AdoorableThursday
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongI have one too #AdoorableThursday
- I forgot I had a door for #AdoorableThursday . Two serious faces on Wellington Street
- A lovely bit of yellow forsythia and daffodil greenery (yellowery?) at Wallace Emerson Park.
- In exciting garden news 🗞️ 🌱, my lemon balm has come back. I didn’t know it was a perennial.
- The amount of ass dragging I’m doing at the gym today is gargantuan.
- Reposted by Kate ArmstrongI don't think I've ever captured a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker from quite this angle--and, happily, this one had its best breeding plumage on display! ❤️❤️❤️ #Sapsucker #CentralPark #birding
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- Magnolia report! The smaller tree on Edwin is out! And the big tree on Ruskin is just about to burst.
- I sometimes get fascinated counting the different ages of brick on the Planet Storage Building
