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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · Jan 19

And that’s that, last sunset as a fully free, functioning, democratic republic. Do not succumb to the new normal, dark times ahead, but solidarity is paramount to overcome them.

Didn’t expect this level of grief. 💔 🇺🇸

Sunset: Sirius rising in deepening blue sky with orange on the horizon and pink clouds.

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Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 11h

Got to it a bit late, but here is #inktober Day 10: "Sweep."

Never really used the brush pen. I kinda like it! 🤣🖋

#inktober2025 #ink #sketch #shark #marinelife #animal #cartoon #sweep #ArtYear #bskyart #blueskyartists #artonbluesky #fish #fishart #animalart

Cartoon of a hammerhead shark as a push broom

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 10h

Unfortunately 😢

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 11h

Sources: representatives from the schools are considering a name change from “Red River Shootout” over concerns that the name might be offensive to fans expecting to see competent offenses.

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Joe Bonomo @joebonomo.bsky.social · 1d

In my latest at NO SUCH THING AS WAS, Michael Pollan, Walter Benjamin, and Pete Townshend go places,

joebonomo.substack.com/p/right-thro...

Right through the haze

Michael Pollan, Walter Benjamin, and Pete Townshend went places

joebonomo.substack.com

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 1d

It has now been written into the legal record that Drake lost his beef with Kendrick Lamar

Drake's "Not Like Us" Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed

Drake has now legally been declared the loser in history’s most famous rap beef. A federal judge dismissed Drake’s lawsuit against his own record label, Universal Music Group, in which he characterize...

www.stereogum.com

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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 1d

L'esprit du voyageur / The mind of the traveller - 1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112295

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 1d

Yes x4

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

"It Can't Happen Here" is a 1935 dystopian novel by Sinclair Lewis that explores the rise of a fascist leader, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, in a fictionalized version of the United States. The story serves as a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and the potential for authoritarianism to take hold in America.

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Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · 1d

I will miss Sister Jean, a March Madness icon. nicoleauerbach.substack.com/p/i-will-mis...

I will miss Sister Jean, a March Madness icon

Plus, some college football thoughts, too!

nicoleauerbach.substack.com

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 2d

I have a tattered copy of that in a box somewhere in a closet.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 2d

John Lennon by Richard Avedon, Look magazine, January 1968

Avedon used color manipulation and Day-Glo (yellow, red and fuchsia) colors to create a hallucinatory effect, reflecting the psychedelic culture of the era. Black over white curvy Op Art lines cover his eyeglasses.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 2d

John Lennon 1967, photographed by Richard Avedon
#JohnLennon #BOTD

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 2d

Bacchanal, by Nicolas Poussin, 1624
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figure it worked because of the composition but also the ‘scapegoat’ being dragged off

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 4d

Filles de Kilimanjaro III (Miles Davis) by Kazuya Sakai (1976)

This acrylic on canvas is part of Sakai's Ondulaciones (Undulations) series.
The title is a homage to the 1968 Miles Davis album of the same name. Multicolored swirls on a green background.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 3d

#WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
A #cat dressed as a woman tapping the head of an #octopus, color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798-1861), c. 1847.
36.4 cm (14.3 in) x 25.3 cm (9.9 in) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
#CatsInArt #CephalopodAwarenessDays #JapaneseArt

anthropomorphic cat dressed in a flowery kimono, with one paw on the head of an adjacent orange octopus, with Japanese text and seals (Japanese color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi)

closeup of the octopus, orange with blue eyes

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 3d

Double Bass: 10 For Danny Thompson

aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/08/d...

Although you could spend the rest of your days plumbing the depths of the great English double bassist's best moments, here are 10 highlights from across the decades.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 3d

Cat beating a drum: one of a motley crew of anthropomorphic animals to be found adorning the lower margins of a finely illuminated "book of hours" produced in late 13th-century England. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 3d

Not really. It was one of her sisters who put that out, she has kidney stones, nbd.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 4d

@tracesoftexas.bsky.social
RIP Speedy Sparks, bass player for the Texas Tornados and many others. And a real gentleman.

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 5d

The Pretty Things Jamming In Germany late '68'/early '69'
youtu.be/A9G9fKq6i90
"The Pretty Things 'Blowing' In Germany to the Byrds classic song "Why" - Dick Taylor left the band in May 1969 - this line-up existed only for a very short time....

The Pretty Things Jamming In Germany late '68'/early '69'

YouTube video by JESIXTIESBOY

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 5d

Kali Maa energy! 🖤💥

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 5d

Happened to look up at dusk & wow. Full Harvest Super moon in Aries.

A potent time for initiating action, claiming personal power & confronting relationship dynamics. Fiery, assertive energy encourages independence and authenticity-time to take decisive steps toward goals.
#fullmoon #supermoon

In the fading light of sunset the full moon, huge and tinted orange, rises in the sky

Full Harvest super moon (vivid orange) rises in the dark blue dusk

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 6d

The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time youtu.be/pXP1MSFwMnc?...

Rolling Stones tour program from the autumn of 1966 promoting the Aftermath LP. A multiple exposure portrait of the band.

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 6d

“Metro loner” (ok two words)coined by @ginsol gets my vote.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out