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Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

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Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor
Galaxist, Tulpa at-large

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Nov 12

My recent kinetic poem 'As Above' is featured in Issue #8 of the Surrealist Journal, Peculiar Mormyrid #8.
The poem maps the correlation extreme phenomena has to the unreliability of perception as it plays to one's emotional state.

📷Bill Wolak

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Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

Goodnight🌠

November 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM

Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

A mid-to late 19th-century Kopa (or Kopar) Flute Mask, a ceremonial wooden sculpture from the Kopar people of the Lower Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.

November 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM

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Paul Welsh

@paulwelsh89.bsky.social

Rattle
Tlingit, ca. 1890

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 746

November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM

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Jason Linkins

@dceiver.bsky.social

Don’t know what’s funnier—calling Alan Dershowitz, a man at war with multiple farmers markets—“charismatic,” or throwing it back to Dana Loesch who no one has even thought about since 2018

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 14h

"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”

November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM

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The Last Mile with USAID

@thelastmileusaid.bsky.social

Goodbye, DOGE. May you rot in hell.

A vertical poster with a light gray background. At the top is a simple dark blue silhouette of the U.S. Capitol dome. Below it, centered text reads “Department of Government Efficiency.” Farther down, the bold header “Accomplishments” appears. Three bullet points follow: “Wasted billions of taxpayer dollars,” “Wiped out hundreds of thousands of positions and careers,” and “Responsible for six hundred thousand deaths and climbing.” The layout is minimalist with clean sans-serif fonts.

November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM

Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

John Cale ~ Paris s'éveille (Paris Awakens)
(from "Paris s'éveille" OST, 1991)
#NowPlaying #JohnCale #MusicSky

Cale's excellent, evocative orchestral writing for the film from 1991.

youtu.be/1tz0kx3mnqc via
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John Cale - Paris s'éveille (from "Paris s'éveille" OST)

YouTube video by Movie Music Club

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November 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM

Arthur David Spota

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1740 Broadway
#Photography

November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM

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@ginsbergpoem.bsky.social

@citylightsbooks.bsky.social - Surrealist poet David Gascoyne - allenginsberg.org/2023/11/s-n-...

David Gascoyne - The Allen Ginsberg Project

Today marks the anniversary of the death (in 2001) of the pre-eminent English Surrealist poet, David Gascoyne. In 1986 Gascoyne contributed to Bill Morgan‘s 60th Birthday festschrift for Allen, Best M...

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November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM

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NY Times Pitchbot

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

My three-year-old was reading MAGA Twitter when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why do the people in Pakistan love the nice orange man so much?" And when I told her "Because he's the only American president who never started any new wars," she started crying.

November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM

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Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

Peter Hujar’s iconic image of Candy Darling on her Deathbed, 1973.
#CandyDarling #BOTD

November 25, 2024 at 3:20 AM

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Violet Moon Tower

@violetmoontower.bsky.social

the ravages
of this

time &

place in
human history

each molecule
of joy

I expend
is my

(revolt)

November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM

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Greg Sargent

@gregsargent.bsky.social

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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ann

@annpersand.bsky.social

Roger Brown, Celebration of the Uncultivated—A Garden of the Wild (detail) (oil on canvas, 1980)

November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM

Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

801 (Brian Eno & Phil Manzanera) ~ T.N.K. (Tomorrow Never Knows)
(from 801 Live, 1976)
#NowPlaying #BrianEno #MusicSky

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801 • T.N.K. (Tomorrow Never Knows) (1976) UK

YouTube video by Doctor Destiny

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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM

Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

The Beatles ~ Tomorrow Never Knows
(Revolver, 1966)
#NowPlaying #TheBeatles #MusicSky

youtu.be/pHNbHn3i9S4 via @YouTube

Tomorrow Never Knows (Remastered 2009)

YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic

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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM

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DakiniSpirit

@dakinispirit.bsky.social

City of gold light. An #eastcoastkin seatown at night.
Have a great new week bluesky! Remember to take joy breaks: A moment to breathe, focus on something beautiful, a one-minute meditation.
"Moon Walk at the Chesapeake"
#mondaythoughts

A gold lit lamppost illuminates seaside sidewalk overlooking a bay at night. City lights at the horizon.

Crescent moon over buildings, boats and water in a pinkish sky at night

Gold park lights shimmer and reflect in water along a bay

Reflections of lights in night bay water

November 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM

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Paul Welsh

@paulwelsh89.bsky.social

Yunluo (雲鑼 )"Cloud Gong"
Chinese, 19th century

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 681

November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM

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Open Culture

@openculture.bsky.social

Tomorrow Never Knows: How The Beatles Invented the Future With Studio Magic, Tape Loops & LSD

Never Knows' couldn't be made today, and not just because the Beatles already made it in 1966. Marking perhaps the single biggest step in the group's artistic evolution, that song is in every sense a ...

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November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM

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Hourly Cosmos

@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

Conjunción Venus, Luna, Saturno y Régulo - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kc47T

Entre los árboles australianos. Los cables pertenecen a la calle "Epping Road" que pasa debajo...

November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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Thinkronicity ™

@thinkronicity.bsky.social

As you can see, #Elon is exposing #MAGA.
Interesting business model, doxx your supporters to their determinant. An a amazing trillionaire new econ bus model.

"Coordinated. Inauthentic Behaviour"
Mark #Zuckerberg

#Bots #Bot #Influence #Fake #Trolls #ForeignInfluence
youtu.be/Z-wRr-WapHo?...

Hundreds of Prominent Pro-Trump Twitter Accounts Exposed as Foreign Bots

YouTube video by The Humanist Report

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November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM

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Thinkronicity ™

@thinkronicity.bsky.social

<[ #Educational Thread ]>
#Bots/ #Trolls, #DeadInternet, #Influence, fake,
political, comments, accounts
Understanding so as to not live fake &
critically interact better socially as a digital citizen.
Use time to learn or waste time getting lost.
You are choosing your way.
Heavy #ALT PIC content

So we start here.

Do you see the cross over point? Almost exactly November 5th. American election day, the bringing in of the Trump Oligarchy. There are on coincidences when all can be done digitally. Choices are made, money is spent, algorithms are played with, players are made or deflated.
BY CHOICE.
We are starting at the key, Influence
There is a 'consortium of synergy', all it takes to be part is play along, for the money. They don't have to act by meeting every day. But yes organizations like Swiss pharma billionaire backed Chorus Group, lead by Brian Tyler Cohen, paying up to $8,000 per month for daily content and messaging influence, do exist, ESPECIALLY on BlueSky. That group has 40 MILLION followers.
THAT is an influence machine. They make the first wave, then reposts, comments, same text posts, BOTS, and like minded(Not paid) signal boost the message. Soon, it is a majority content
I am not being political. that is how it works. If you want to be emotionally triggered about it or want to argue, you aren't thinking critically. Life must be lead by knowing when and what to learn from, and what to have PERSONAL opinions on.

The first step is HARD line defining what you see.

Facts not questionable.
They are repeatable, do not change, and multi source & method verifiable, repeatable, indisputable. One can only agree.
IE Math 2+2=4

Opinions are questionable.
are combinations POSSIBLY of: facts, truths, beliefs, emotional/ego/view/political spectrum/cultural/social/familial/langage derivatives. One can agree, or dissagee.
IE Politics, is opinion based.

Statements are either True or false upon context.
to determine the statement one way or the other. Done by 5W1H (Why, What/Who, When, Where & How) must be considered ALWAYS.
IE
"Grass is green."
Why Y, When? ?, Where? ?, What? Y, How? Y

Faith and Beliefs are NOT fact or truth based. They are self deterministic, be it trust or self judged/chosen, or upon opinions, dogma.
IE God is real
One chooses that.

November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM

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God

@thegodpodcast.com

I’m still enjoying how MAGA Twitter will never live down that they’re all troll farms from Russia and Bangladesh. The whole MAGA ‘movement’ has been fake bullshit from top to bottom from the very beginning.