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Comte de Money

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Thou/thee. 😷 #FullIrish, Full Scottish, & #FullEnglish breakfasts; #Elevenses & #AfternoonTea; #DimSum; luxury #PassengerTrains; #EarlyMusic, Baroque, #ChamberMusic, #Opera, #BigBand, #Jazz, & the #GreatAmericanSongbook. 🤎🧡💛🤍🩶🖤

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Comte de Money @comtedemoney.bsky.social · Feb 15

The only video game I've ever played was Hong Kong Mahjong by Nine Dragons Software: the only computer version of the actual game I've ever seen, and played with Cantonese Old-Style rules. Not into horror at all because we actually live in an American Horror Story (Myrtle Snow still rules).

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution.

Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated

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Byzantine Mosaics @byzantinemosaics.bsky.social · 13h

Detalhe Do Mosaico Do Portão Imperial https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/detalhe-do-mosaico-do-portao-imperial-867

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Cat Bauer in Venice @catbauer.bsky.social · 1d

Today the sky was the color of a solar eclipse as thousands walked across the floating bridge in the Venice lagoon to the Island of San Michele to visit the ancestors on All Saints Day. From 2019 (Dante’s Barque is still sunk)-> venetiancat.blogspot.com/2019/11/hono...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

This isn’t just an improper blending of church and state.

It’s a twisted mockery of Christianity that ought to offend any actually devout Christian.

Showing armed soldiers moving into battle as you lip service “… as we forgive those who trespass against us” sorta misses the point.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16h

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

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Comte de Money @comtedemoney.bsky.social · 14h

#Miserere from #JanDismasZelenka 's #Requiem in C minor (ZWV57) as performed by #PaulDombrecht & Il Fondamento. youtu.be/4nAdVnAQ8n0?...

Zelenka-Miserere in C minor ZWV57-Paul Dombrecht

YouTube video by Franz von Biber

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19h

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

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Byzantine Mosaics @byzantinemosaics.bsky.social · 19h

Genealogy of Jesus Christ and the Christ Pantocrator https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/genealogy-of-jesus-christ-and-the-christ-pantocrator-1320

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xavierresists.bsky.social @xavierresists.bsky.social · 1d

It's no coincidence, they targeted SNAP months ago.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

House Speaker Mike Johnson signed bill cutting $186B from SNAP in July 2025

Users shared this true claim amid uncertainty regarding whether Americans would receive federal food benefits during the 2025 government shutdown.

www.snopes.com

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 17h

The first issue of Harper's Bazaar was published on November 2, 1867, in New York City.

A color illustration by Héloïse Leloir from the debut issue.

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Liz W Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Unless you’ve been on SNAP or had to be a cashier in a grocery store while someone discovers the insane restrictions placed on SNAP food choices, I simply think you should shut the hell up about food access.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 20h

89 years ago, on the 2nd of November 1936, BBC Television Service (the world's first regular 240 line broadcast) began. After a 15 minute opening segment, time and weather followed,then Movietone News and half an hour of 'variety'. Between 9 and 10 P.M. pre-recorded films were shown. #otd 🗃️

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 15h

"When I'm directing an opera, I dream about a film, when I'm working on a film, I dream about an opera, and when I'm doing a play, I'm dreaming about music. Working in another field is a change, a rest. You must always work with pleasure."

Luchino Visconti, born 2 November 1906.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

The Trump admin. has justified cuts on fiscal grounds: The federal budget deficit is massive; the Social Security retirement system could soon become insolvent.

But the disability program is paid for, via payroll taxes, by its own trust fund, separate from the one for the retirement program.

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules

Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...

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Byzantine Mosaics @byzantinemosaics.bsky.social · 15h

St. Basil the Great https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/st-basil-the-great-1030

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Rep. Massie gets it 👇🏽

#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

No, Mr. President.

You do not have the right to take away student debt forgiveness from teachers, nurses, veterans and other public servants if they do not show loyalty to your right-wing political agenda.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Rescind this illegal rule.

Trump moves to block public servants from loan forgiveness based on ideology

Those who work with undocumented immigrants, provide gender transition care for minors or publicly protest could be blocked from student loan forgiveness under a new rule.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Borioart @borioart.bsky.social · 1d

No Nut November is propaganda.

Promote proper prostate and testicular health his year!
Remember to check yourself occasionally in the shower and ask your doctor about getting screened.

You can donate to help support the fight for mens' health over at
us.movember.com

Movember - Changing the face of men's health.

Unite to take on mental health, suicide, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

us.movember.com

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 1d

The first issue of EBONY magazine was published in Chicago on November 1, 1945, by John H. Johnson.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Applications of technology that are friendly to the Administration are going unchallenged, in part because tech companies have become increasingly willing to support Trump's whims...

Only tools that exist independent of Big Tech seem like safe bets for dissent."

www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon

A new wave of digital tools has emerged to help citizens monitor Trump’s crackdown. But internet surveillance can also be used against you.

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 1d

Censer-ship is a thurible thing — Rev. Silouan Phillip Thompson

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

After whatever happened in Butler, PA, when Trump got to the hospital, the first thing he said to aides was, "How is it playing? How does it look on TV?"

Are those the words of a man who had just survived a real assassination attempt?

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

More Americans are turning to food banks to help fill the assistance gap, but administrators caution they aren't designed to act as a safety net for a government program. n.pr/3JyA9Pq

With the outlook for SNAP benefits uncertain, food banks are warning of a crisis

More Americans are turning to food banks to help fill the assistance gap, but administrators caution they aren't designed to act as a safety net for a government program.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

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