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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · Feb 10

Crowds and fireworks at Broad and Spruce, Philadelphia

#GoBirds🦅

Aerial shot of post-Super Bowl crowds in Center City, Philadelphia, near the intersection of Broad and Spruce Streets

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 14h

Woke too early this morning and listened to Lyric Through The Night for a while. I was mesmerised by a modern piece which I guessed might be by Kaija Saariaho but was in fact, Daar kom die Alibama, a symphony by Kevin Volans.
Very impressive. I'll have to listen again when I'm fully awake.

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Lina Pavlova 🪆 @linapavlova.bsky.social · Jul 6

🎞️Sean Fitzgerald

#photography #photosky #artsky #seanfitzgerald

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 4d

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 1d

Won’t some dice decide most now?

#palindrome

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 1d

Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth enjoying an evening at the Stork Club in 1945.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Again, textbook stuff:

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 1d

If any single song encapsulates the surreal madness of Anyone Can Whistle, "Simple" might suffice, with a hyperactive crowd trying to determine which citizens of a fictional town are sane.

Sondheim's restless rhythms and textures create a universe that foreshadows the current political scene

Simple

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow this version of Anyone Can Whistle — recorded in 1997, released in 2021 — escaped me at the time. With a great cast headed by Maria Friedman, Julia McKenzie, and John Barrowman, the National Symphony Orchestra plays the hell out of Sondheim's endearing score, conducted by John Owen Edwards

Prelude Act One

YouTube video by National Symphony Orchestra - Topic

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Egon Schiele @artistschiele.bsky.social · 1d

Sawmill, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25416

Egon Schiele's "Sawmill" depicts a rustic, timber structure nestled against a background of verdant hills and rugged mountains. The piece exemplifies Schiele's expressionist style, characterized by bold lines and a muted color palette, conveying a sense of isolation and introspection.

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 2d

"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
#BookSky

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ricfrophoto.bsky.social @ricfrophoto.bsky.social · 4d

#abstract #abstractart #geometricart #abstractartwork #composition #geometricartwork #colurs #structure #geometric #mixedmedia

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 2d

Shakespeare is at is best when you mostly ignore the metre in favor of just doing the thing.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 2

the full production is available to view on archive.org

archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 3d

You know the voice in the back of your head that says no one wants to read your book?

Drown it.
Burn it with fire.
Get a bat and start swinging.

Don't let it exist and lie to you. Destroy it and keep writing.

Keep. Writing.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 2d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Not Invented @notinvented.bsky.social · 2d

We need to stop the riots in Portland spreading to nearby cities, such as Starboardland, Aftland and Bowland.

I am therefore banning not just Antifa, but Antidoh, Antirey and Antimi. And any other terrorist organisations created by Julie Andrews.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 3d

New York (1942)

Photo: Helen Levitt

A young woman sits on the lap of an older woman, possibly her mother, and has her arm around her. They are outside of a building with lots of scrap and rubbish around them. The older woman is leaning on the rim of an open barrel.

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 2d

Le bœuf sous le toit

Roy De Carava

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 7d

Just wild sown 200 hundred acorns

Picked up in local paths where there was no chance of a future, & placed in areas where they have every chance

Within every acorn there is a potential forest

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 2d

Ida Lupino on Movie Stars Parade Magazine in October 1941

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 2d

Gag cartoon by W. Heath Robinson published in The New Yorker, March 21, 1925, p. 8. Caption: “The New Tonic for Those Who Are Losing Weight.”

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 10d

The Canadian Architect magazine, October 1966

Cover by László Buday

Geometric abstract design featuring interlocking cubes in primary colors against a shaded white background.

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