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Ammnontet! @bleakvision.info · 1h

BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!

norman "my name is not norman but still i" rockwell's painting "freedom of speech" except i made the guy fucked up, and he's doing a Beam Blast. and also everyone around him looks more worried than usual

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 18d

#MarsupialMonday :
Dahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917 - 2017)
#Opossum Family 2, 1968
Cotton, wire, buttons, 10 x 15 x 6 in.
shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/d...
#WomenArtists

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 4h

from a friend

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 6h

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

the irony is that even though trump secured a plurality of the popular vote, the immediate capitulation came from the elites; the public had a much keener sense of what time it was right from the beginning

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah I do think the various attempts to will elite capitulation into being were briefly a successful bit of self-fulfilling prophesying but for various reasons are failing now - huge protests, university's rejecting the compact, the press refusing to go along with Hegseth's new pentagon policy, etc.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 9h

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 7h

after yoon suk-yeol’s failed coup attempt in south korea, there were continuous mass protests, smaller on the weekdays and larger on the weekends, until Yoon was arrested. it worked!

Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 7h

glad to see the antifascist popular front is finally reclaiming the noble yet maligned frog

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 8h

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 10h

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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荒木健太郎 @arakencloud.bsky.social · 12h

夜更けの地球。

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 11h

INLAND EMPIRE - The encroaching doom is golden red. It is inside you, but also outside, on the horizon, by the water's edge. Innermost but yet to happen -- things make sense from that angle...

INLAND EMPIRE - You're *Tequila Sunset*. You have been Tequila Sunset for a long time now.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 13h

Ivan Kožarić, The Shape of Space (Refrigerator), 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137855

Gift of Neda Young, and James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 18

#WorldOkapiDay :
Hans Christian Scherfig (Danish, 1905-1979)
2. #Okapi, 1976
Lithograph in colors, 46×62 cm
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Okap...
2. Jungle Scene with an Okapi, 1956
Tempera on board, 31 x 36 cm
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Jung...

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 17

For #InternationalSawfishDay:
Peche Espade (Sawfish) from Histoire Naturelle des Indes (Drake Manuscript), c.1586
Morgan Library MA 3900 f39r
themorgan.org/collection/H...

Peche Espade (Sawfish)
“This marine animal is very difficult to catch; being caught, it tears the nets with its snout to get away, thus making a passage for other fishes caught with it.”
“In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in the sixteenth century. Spaniards had already begun to exert influence over the indigenous people of the area when explorers from England and France arrived, among them Sir Francis Drake. The volume, known as the Drake Manuscript and titled Histoire Naturelle des Indes when it was bound in the eighteenth century, gives us a wonderful picture of daily life at the time of Drake's many visits to the region. Although Drake's connection to the manuscript is uncertain, he is mentioned on more than one occasion by the authors. Drake himself is known to have painted, but none of his work survives.”

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 1d

Given No Kings Day tomorrow and our new favorite protagonists in Portland, I realized it was the perfect time for a thread of Bay Area ceramic Funk artist David Gilhooly's adorable frogs—some but not all of which are food-related. First up, Untitled (Frog Food Sculpture), 1973

A smiling frog with vegetables (inexplicably) growing out of its head, including a carrot, potato, and ear of corn. He looks so happy!

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 1d

Current* conditions near St Joseph, MI:

View looking south over Silver Lake Beach as it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-17 22:37:41 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in St Joseph: 68.09 F | 20.05 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: S at 1.006 mph | 1.62 kph // Humidity: 57%

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 1d

trump admin confirms that bluesky is the true home of america’s thought leaders, debunks myth that “you have to be on x to influence people”

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

PTA kinda has no shortage of cool characters but man, Sensei made such an impact so quickly. Just like an immediate all-timer guy

ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 1d

we're entering what historians call The Weekend Zone

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 1d

doesn’t matter how much parkour it can do there’s no way a humanoid robot is a more capable killing machine than a quadcopter with a grenade. does a robot army really need to be a group of warfighters? do they need have truck nuts too?

compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 1d

leonardo dicaprio’s character in one battle after another with speech bubble below

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 2d

worth considering is that it was all filmed in 2024, well before the election. the imagery of protest, state violence etc throughout the movie is the imagery of 2014-2021, and it actually totally fails to anticipate 2025. i think that’s why it lands so weirdly

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compost @0alexander.bsky.social · 9d

lol

And then there are those super-rich with their own apocalypse insurance plans.
"Saying you're 'buying a house in New Zealand' is kind of a wink, wink, say no more," Reid Hoffman previously said. The same presumably goes for bunkers.
But there's a distinctly human flaw.
I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 11d

Vija Celmins, Drypoint—Ocean Surface (Between First & Second State), 1985 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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jaeun @jaeun.bsky.social · 11d

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