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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 40m

So Diane Keaton, an excellent actress who regaled the cinema world with many laughs and lovely moments (among other things), has passed. And some ppl think this is the right moment to mention that she didn’t choose her directors wisely and PRESCIENTLY enough. Ffs.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2h

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

5/20 Gabriele Münter, Sunset Over Staffelsee, 1908

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

Sunset in bright red and bright yellow with green fringes in a green & indigo sky, over a lake in pink, blue, and green with a small black island in the middle. A small portion of the dark green shore in the foreground.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2h

Nooooooooooooooo 😔😢😔

AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 8h

Strong agree. Also watched it more or less by chance, and was rather impressed

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 10h

‘At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.’

📚Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of L. D.
🖼️ Tirtzah Bassel, La Menarquia (after D. Velázquez)

#BookWormSat #ShortStories

In the centre: a girl in a striking shiny bright red dress with an enormous hood of the same colour is sitting, holding a sextant in her hand. She’s surrounded by four female figures in stylised historical Spanish costumes, one of them with a palette in her hand. In the background: a man is standing in an open door.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 11h

‘She stands over the fish, thinking about certain irrevocable mistakes she has made today.’

📚Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
(The Fish, complete text, below)
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, The Last Fish (detail)

#BookWormSat #ShortStories

She turns over the fish, thinking about certain irrevocable mistakes she has made today. Now the fish has been cooked, and she is alone with it. The fish is for her - there is no one else in the house. But she has had a troubling day. How can she eat this fish, cooling on a slab of marble? And yet the fish, too, motionless as it is, and dismantled from its bones, and fleeced of its silver skin, has never been so completely alone as it is now: violated in a final manner and regarded with a weary eye by this woman who has made the latest mistake of her day and done this to it.

A big white red-eyed fish on a round black surface. Greyish-dark greenish background.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 11h

‘I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.’

📚Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of L.D.
🖼️ Boris Grigoriev

#BookWormSat #ShortStories

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova. She’s wearing a dark coat, red gloves, and glasses. She’s looking defiantly at the viewer.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

4/20 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Self Portrait as Bacchus, or Young Sick Bacchus, 1593

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

A young man in Bacchus pose (vines in his dark hair, holding light grapes in his right hand, more dark grapes and two peaches on the table in front of him). He’s looking sick, his expression is hard to place: maybe insecure , maybe apologetic.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

“but we had to limit the lives..” , with that little I’m-sorry-but -they -asked -for -it smirk 😂 She’s so good

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 1d

Once knew a guy who perfectly identified the problem (“..they always ask me lots of questions but I never do - it simply doesn’t cross my mind”), and thought it was an endearing personality trait of his 🤣

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

And I’m going to read him. Will start with Melancholy of Resistance.
But a 7h film seems a bit …erm …long? This is coming from long-winded, long-winded tolerant, and cinema loving me.
Short version: that’s a no from me :D

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

The sort of cartoon you'd expect to see from me

www.worldofmoose.com/products/con...

Cartoon showing a man reading from a dictionary to another. He says "So, it turns out confirmation bias means exactly what I expected it to mean|"

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@filosophy.bsky.social @filosophy.bsky.social · 2d

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

And that’s called a motorboat? Didn’t know that. I still have much to learn lol. As to her: trying to forget her, and the soup she probably really is in, and the much bigger misery of what women do to themselves, and…*exits sobbing* :D

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Why?

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Case in point for the frequency illusion aka the Baader-Meinhof bias :D

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

But in this case that would be good news as it would lead to mass reduction. So if she complains about a strange dragging pain, I can tranquillise her and mention that it’s only some mild Hawking Radiation.
So glad we talked about it :)))

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

But of course! Most probable development. You just saved a life or 300 👍🙏

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

A very generously bosomed young lady is following me now, and asks to be my girl.
The gravitational pull of her most striking feature must be enormous: is this a cry for help?What shall I do??😳

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

3/20 Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man, 1470

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

A young man in a black headdress and a red high-necked garment

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

Very difficult to choose, but maybe the Self Portrait as Bacchus. It always moved me and still does

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 2d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 2d

I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! (no I didn’t)
#NobelLiterature #Krasznahorkai

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 2d

Can Xue or László Krasznahorkai
#Nobel #Literature #amreading

Caption: Nobel prize in literature faqs
Panel 1. Stick man at desk, speech bubble is sad face.

NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE FAQS
I DIDN'T WIN. What do I do now?

> THERE'S ALWRYS NEXT YEAR! WHY NOT VISIT OUR "TEN TOP TIPS AND TRICKS FOR WINNING A NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE" SECTION?

Panel 2. Two people, one wearing a crown.
I GOT A NOBEL FROM THE KING OF BELGIUM. WHY DOESN'T IT WORK?

> OUR PRIZE IS GIVEN BY THE KING OF SWEDEN. WE HAVE REPEATEDLY ASKED
KING PHILIPPE TO REFRAIN FROM HIS LITTLE JOKE, BUT TO NO AVAIL

Panel 3. Stick man walking, with thought bubble of a stick of dynamite.
ISN'T IT DANGEROUS TO PUT DYNAMITE
IN THE MEDALS?

> THE MEDALS ARE MADE OF GOLD. THE INCLUSION OF DYNAMITE IS A LIE, SPREAD BY THE NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

Panel 4. Stick man sitting as a puff of dust rolls his way.
A GANG OF SCIENCE LAUREATES TOOK MY MEDAL AND RAN OFF
WHAT CAN I DO?

> SADLY, THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON, PLEASE SPEAK TO A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE WHO WILL ADMONISH THE PERPETRATORS.

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