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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3h

This whole series is amazing, but this one hits particularly hard in this moment.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 8h

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

After 16 years, our users trust me when I say "look, we have a lot of factors here that I can't talk about publicly but we didn't make this decision based on [thing you're worried about] and here are the reasons I can talk about" and don't assume nefarious motives for everything and I am SO LUCKY

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 4h

It's a nice way to spend an autumn weekend morning.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 4h

Also a book of documentary history of testimony from Indigenous peoples of North America which I think I will have to be in the right frame of mind to read, and a copy of the "Pueblo Indian Cookbook."

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 4h

I found a book on Viking archeology from that sweet spot in time, as my husband put it, "Between the Nazis and the Neo-Nazis", recent enough to be reasonably accurate, but not so recent as to be sus.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 4h

Also a bunch of music CDs, classical and modern jazz & blues. The elderly Black gentlemen also looking through the boxes were very kind. It's an amiable crowd of book and music lovers.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 4h

I found what I was looking for, a couple of compact paperbacks on the French Revolution.

(I love old academic paperbacks from when they were using quality paper)

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 4h

It's the weekend of our annual neighborhood club charity booksale, and I just spent a lovely hour or so rubbing elbows with the professional booksellers with their ISBN readers who always show up first thing opening day.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 8h

Pretty dishes, but also *chef's kiss* ALT text

Description, details, history, and they're not all identical!

Thanks to all who add ALT text, making this site friendlier to all!

Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 1d

A set of five Japanese porcelain dishes molded with lobed rims and painted with an asymmetrical polychrome flower design of chrysanthemums and butterflies above two banded hedges in blue. Hizen (Arita) ware, 18th-19th century.
A fine set, nicely-decorated. (see ALT)

MARKS
A stylized version of the fuku (happiness) mark in blue under each dish.

MEASUREMENTS
7 1/4” (18.5 cm) in diameter.

PROVENANCE
George E. McCague, purchased in Japan in April 1903.
Bonham’s, New York, Sale 28441, Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art, 22 March 2023, lot 934.

George Emmet McCaque (1857-1926), Pittsburgh resident and veteran railroad traffic manager and partner in the Carnegie Steel Company, immediately after his brief retirement in 1903 took his family on a vacation to Japan where he purchased these dishes as part of a small collection of fine Japanese decorative art.

The blue of the stylized hedges contrast beautifully with the red in the flowers above.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 23h

Yes. The frog costume is playful and mocking -- but the human inside it is in genuine peril from the paramilitary they are facing down.

This is courage. And it works!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 11h

Is it cake? Or is it an actual dress? The mid #1770s bringing confection to fashion with candy pinks, powder blues and minty greens. It even has little net bells tinkling around the hem, LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the stomacher of a pale pastel shaded 18th century gown embellished with silk floss

A detail of the hem of the striped pastel 1770s dress that shows net and ribbon trimmed bells applied to the skirt

A full length view of the 1770s dress raised à la polonaise in pinks blues and greens

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 7h

A masterpiece of the dressmaker's art. I'm just imagining all the artisans, weavers and fabricators who made all the exquisite parts of this ensemble.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 22h

Please. Reclaiming.

Kermit the Frog as Captain Smollett in "Muppet Treasure Island", standing full length on a rock in front of tropical foliage, in breeches and a white linen shirt open in a deep "V" holding a sword, one hand on his hip insouciantly.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23h

White nationalists are probably really angry that the left is co-opting frogs

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 3d

Do fraggles count?

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Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 5d

A circa 1730-35 du Paquier tureen and stand decorated with Chinese-inspired scenes within fan-shape cartouches, now in the Frick Museum. You have to love those fish handles. (see ALT)

Tureen and Stand

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory (Austrian, 1718−1744)
DATE ca. 1730–35
MEDIUM Hard-paste porcelain
DIMENSIONS Tureen: 7 × 12 1/2 in. (17.8 × 31.8 cm) Stand: 16 5/8 × 10 3/8 in. (42.2 × 26.4 cm)
CREDIT LINE Gift from the Melinda and Paul Sullivan Collection, 2016
ACCESSION NUMBER 2016.9.07

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 8h

Pretty dishes, but also *chef's kiss* ALT text

Description, details, history, and they're not all identical!

Thanks to all who add ALT text, making this site friendlier to all!

Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 1d

A set of five Japanese porcelain dishes molded with lobed rims and painted with an asymmetrical polychrome flower design of chrysanthemums and butterflies above two banded hedges in blue. Hizen (Arita) ware, 18th-19th century.
A fine set, nicely-decorated. (see ALT)

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Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 1d

A set of five Japanese porcelain dishes molded with lobed rims and painted with an asymmetrical polychrome flower design of chrysanthemums and butterflies above two banded hedges in blue. Hizen (Arita) ware, 18th-19th century.
A fine set, nicely-decorated. (see ALT)

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 23h

Looks like the ol' neighborhood has it covered. Hell yeah, Chicago

A Facebook post and comments:

Hey folks! I'm a part of an ICE bike patrol group for Lincoln Sq/Ravsswood and Albany Park. ICE has been all over the north side today and there are a few schools that have reached out to see if our folks are available to help monitor during dismissal.
I know some schools/parents have organized specific groups within their community to do this sort of dismissal ICE watch. If you know of one of these groups at our neighborhood schools and would like support from this bike patrol group please reach out to me. Happy to be a conduit for information sharing.
Also. You're welcome to disagree with any of this, but please know I will delete comments at my discretion

Comment 1:
Sent you a message-please PM me if I can help
Comment 2:
Thank you & everyone in your bike patrol group! Grateful to have neighbors looking out for each other

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

And every chance an average person gets to exercise their resisting authoritarianism and community self-defense muscles is one more person who can go out there and inspire and teach other people how to do it too.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, the underlying reason for the need for this is horrifying, stipulated, but watching so many people stand up and defend their neighbors and their community is a heartening reminder that the people who suck are not the majority even if they are the power

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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