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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · Jan 19

And that’s that, last sunset as a fully free, functioning, democratic republic. Do not succumb to the new normal, dark times ahead, but solidarity is paramount to overcome them.

Didn’t expect this level of grief. 💔 🇺🇸

Sunset: Sirius rising in deepening blue sky with orange on the horizon and pink clouds.

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Bodega Cats

@bodegacats.bsky.social

November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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Cody Taylor

@codytaylornba.bsky.social

The remaining scenarios for NBA Cup games on Friday:

November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev.bsky.social

Beautiful series of images by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche from an 1888 book on the strange skies produced the world-over after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.⠀⠀

More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/studies-on-twilight-phenomena-after-krakatoa

November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Beatgrrrl

@beatgrrrl.bsky.social

Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison | CNN

Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

www.cnn.com

November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social

Shocking Pink (1980's) feminist zine by a collective of young women in London, predating riot grrrl era #womensart

Two cover pages of a zine in pink with text, one with a monochrome photo of a white nun playing football, the other with two young Black women laughing

November 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM

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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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Cian McCarthy

@arealmofwonder.bsky.social

A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏

November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Jon Amadeus Markley

@xjamarkleyx.bsky.social

November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM

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the artist formerly known as 'that guy'

@oh-that-guy.bsky.social

Kiku | Andy Warhol

November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles

@esotouric.bsky.social

Just announced: the 2025 LA County Burial of the Unclaimed Dead ceremony is 12/11 at 10am. Once again it's free with a ticket--and we very much hope they do not cap attendance. (See our post from last year esotouric.substack.com/unclaimed2024)

Sign up on 12/1.
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The Burial of the Unclaimed Dead is for all Angelenos who care

Gentle reader,

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November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Brendan Nyhan

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

Nothing to worry about, just a US official advising our nuclear-armed adversary how to manipulate the President of the United States, a notoriously weak-minded mark

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

This is really wild stuff tbh

During his call with Ushakov, Witkoff told his Russian counterpart that he had deep respect for Putin and that he had told Trump that it was his belief that Russia has always wanted a peace deal. The US envoy mentioned Zelenskiy’s upcoming visit and suggested that Putin could speak to Trump ahead of that meeting.
“Zelenskiy is coming to the White House on Friday,” Witkoff said. “I will go to that because they want me there, but I think if possible we have the call with your boss before that Friday meeting.”
Ushakov asked Witkoff whether it would be “useful” for Putin to call Trump. Witkoff said it would.
He also recommended that Putin congratulate Trump for the Gaza peace deal, say that Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace. “From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said.
Steve Witkoff
“Here’s what I think would be amazing,” Witkoff then added. “Maybe he says to President Trump: you know, Steve and Yuri discussed a very similar 20-point plan to peace and that could be something that we think might move the needle a little bit, we’re open to those sorts of things.”
Ushakov appeared to take some of the advice on board. Putin “will congratulate” and will say “Mr Trump is a real peace man,” he said.

November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM

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The Guardian

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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

www.theguardian.com

November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM

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Noah Shachtman

@noahshachtman.bsky.social

The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...

Jimmy Cliff - Guns of Brixton

YouTube video by ReggaeNeration

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November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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ivy

@askylitocean.bsky.social

Rest in peace, Udo Kier.

November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture

@moma.bsky.social

Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1968
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135118

November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM

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RedditCFB

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The Big Game stare down is one of the funniest things in college sports.

November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM

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Wendy O'Rourke

@wendyo.bsky.social

The Sculpture House (1962) by Jacques Couëlle
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A fresco titled “Le Route de la Castellaras” in the livingroom

November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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Rural Indexing Project

@ruralindexing.bsky.social

Welcome sign
Felch, MI

November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM

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Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

French photographer Franck Bohbot
Fat Black Pussycat, 3rd Street NYC

#FranckBohbot #Photography #NewYorkCity

November 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM

Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

@alyssa667.bsky.social

Favorite new band, Die Spitz from Austin. (Third Man Records)

The kids are alright.

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Die Spitz - Throw Yourself To The Sword (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM

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Eric Deggans

@edeggans.bsky.social

When I was a young player learning ways of The Funk, Jellybean Johnson of The Time was a player we all looked up to, straining to cop the grooves behind The Bird and Jungle Love. RIP to a master musician who always grooved harder than anyone else onstage. https://loom.ly/FFrhEzY

Jellybean Johnson, the Time Musician and a Pioneer of the Minneapolis Sound, Dead at 69

Jellybean Johnson — one of the pioneers of the Minneapolis Sound, the Time drummer, and multi-instrumentalist/producer — died on Nov. 21 at age 69.

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November 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM

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Tom Nichols

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The President Is Losing Control of Himself

Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.

www.theatlantic.com

November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM

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Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

Syd Barrett with Pink Floyd at the UFO Club, Tottenham Court Road London, December 1966. Photographed by Adam Ritchie.

#SydBarrett #PinkFloyd #Photography #MusicSky