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Lars @lpeds.com · Apr 6

I’ve been keeping a list of Trump II admin actions on a blog and decided to give it its own home: Civicslog.com. The list goes back to the election and I’ll port those items over several at a time while trying to keep up with the daily flood.

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Lars @lpeds.com · 1d

That watch sounds awesome.

Lars @lpeds.com · 1d

Thomas Hart Benton after one pill too many.

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Lars @lpeds.com · 1d

It occurs to me now, upon reflection, upon typing this up on a Sunday morning, that that collection of gifts, the hat, the unicycle, the juggling tools, was a message from my mother encouraging me to join the circus. 3/3

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Lars @lpeds.com · 1d

I adored that unicycle and pedaled it wherever I could. The year prior she gifted me a how to book on juggling, plus some bean bags to practice with. Another year she gave me a sailor’s cap. I wore it, at a rakish tilt everyday until it was threadbare and filthy, beyond redemption. 2/3

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Lars @lpeds.com · 1d

My mother is a brilliant gift-giver. She finds just the right *whatever* that upon receipt makes you realize you are a different sort of person than you thought you were (better, kinder, more interesting, the kind of person who appreciates *that*). One year at Xmas she gifted me a unicycle. 1/2

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Lars @lpeds.com · 2d

Made me what I am.

Lars @lpeds.com · 2d

Turns out they don’t know why they did this.

Lars @lpeds.com · 2d

Been trying to find an explanation beyond “vandalism” and not finding it.

Lars @lpeds.com · 2d

I don’t understand why they would do this.

Lars @lpeds.com · 3d

I have accepted John Ruskin’s coinage of ‘illth’ into my priors to hold this idea place:

A smartphone screenshot displaying a passage from John Ruskin’s Unto This Last, Essay IV, p. 182 (1860). The text begins: “Wealth, therefore, is ‘The possession of the valuable by the valiant’; and in considering it as a power existing in a nation, the two elements, the value of the thing, and the valour of its possessor, must be estimated together.” The passage continues with Ruskin arguing that many considered wealthy are not truly so—they are like “pools of dead water” or “dams in a river,” inert or obstructive rather than productive. He coins the term “illth” for such destructive or stagnant accumulations, contrasting it with true wealth that benefits society.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 4d

Too cool for plaques

But can they sing? "Trio of Trout," three small sculptures of trout made out of felt by artist Lauren Loren, share the kitsch quality of wall-mounted singing trout, but leave the Maryland paneled basement-Stranger Things vibe behind. The fuzziness gives them a luminous quality in the low October afternoon light near a window at the Towson Arts Collective.

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Lars @lpeds.com · 5d

Long Beach, Ca: Ximeno Ave.

(Known to locals as “Ex-zem-in-oh”)

Lars @lpeds.com · 5d

So sensible.

Lars @lpeds.com · 5d

Officially branded as “Nomad,” I’d have accepted “Boomerang.”

Or “Comb.”

BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · Mar 12

« [T]he 115 pound (52kg) twin prop-rotor prototype has demonstrated operational stability and maneuverability across all flight regimes, and the potential to scale … to larger sizes requiring hybrid-electric propulsion. » Continue reading their press release with link. | 🛩️ 📡 ⚡️ ⚔️ 🚁 📰 📹 🥇

Sikorsky Successfully Flies Rotor Blown Wing UAS in Helicopter and Airplane Modes

Tail sitter drone can be scaled to larger sizes with hybrid-electric propulsion.

blufly.media

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Lars @lpeds.com · 5d

Lithgow’s Awefome Advenchures Abroad.

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5d

See Rome discover’d, Italy made playne,
The Roman Library, a golden gaine:
Hunns old Parthenope, with Venice met,
And strong Brundusium, in Ottranto set…

—from the RARE ADVENTURES & PAINEFULL PEREGRINATIONS of William Lithgow, AKA “Lugless Will” (c.1582–c.1645)
#WyrdWednesday
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TITLE PAGE:

The Totall Discourse,
Of the Rare Aduentures, and painefull
Peregrinations of long nineteene Yeares Trauayles,
from scotland, to the most Famous
Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and
AFFRICA.

Perfited by three deare bought Voyages,
in surueighing of Forty eight Kingdomes ancient
and Moderne; twenty one Rei-publickes, ten
absolute Principalities, with two
hundred Ilands.

The particular Names whereof, are Described
in each Argument of the ten Diuisions of this
History: And it also diuided in
Three Bookes; two whereof, neuer
heretofore Published.

Wherein is Contayned, an exact Relation, of the
Lawes, Religion, Policies, and Gouernment of all
their Princes, Potentates, and People.

Together with the grieuous Tortures he suffered, by the
Inquisition of Malaga in spaine, his
miraculous Discouery and Deliuery
thence: And of his last and late
Returne from the Northerne Iles

Cælum non Animum.

BY William Lithgovv.

Imprinted at London by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by
Nicholas Fussell and Humphery Mosley at their shops in
Pauls Church yard, at the Ball, and the white
Lyon. 1632.

Lars @lpeds.com · 5d

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A paragraph from a news article discussing a new rule affecting H-2A farmworkers. It reads: “In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. ‘It’s a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages,’ said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.”

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 6d

Known for his unforgiving and often critical depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic, this self-portrait by Otto Dix (1912) pays homage to the work of the Italian Old Masters - the carnation was a popular motif in northern Italian Renaissance painting.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 6d

#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #OTD #EdgarAllanPoe