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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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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 6h

I have a tattered copy of that in a box somewhere in a closet.

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 10h

John Lennon by Richard Avedon, Look magazine, January 1968

Avedon used color manipulation and Day-Glo (yellow, red and fuchsia) colors to create a hallucinatory effect, reflecting the psychedelic culture of the era. Black over white curvy Op Art lines cover his eyeglasses.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 7h

John Lennon 1967, photographed by Richard Avedon
#JohnLennon #BOTD

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8h

Bacchanal, by Nicolas Poussin, 1624
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figure it worked because of the composition but also the ‘scapegoat’ being dragged off

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 2d

Filles de Kilimanjaro III (Miles Davis) by Kazuya Sakai (1976)

This acrylic on canvas is part of Sakai's Ondulaciones (Undulations) series.
The title is a homage to the 1968 Miles Davis album of the same name. Multicolored swirls on a green background.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1d

#WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
A #cat dressed as a woman tapping the head of an #octopus, color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798-1861), c. 1847.
36.4 cm (14.3 in) x 25.3 cm (9.9 in) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
#CatsInArt #CephalopodAwarenessDays #JapaneseArt

anthropomorphic cat dressed in a flowery kimono, with one paw on the head of an adjacent orange octopus, with Japanese text and seals (Japanese color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi)

closeup of the octopus, orange with blue eyes

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 1d

Double Bass: 10 For Danny Thompson

aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/08/d...

Although you could spend the rest of your days plumbing the depths of the great English double bassist's best moments, here are 10 highlights from across the decades.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

Cat beating a drum: one of a motley crew of anthropomorphic animals to be found adorning the lower margins of a finely illuminated "book of hours" produced in late 13th-century England. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 1d

Not really. It was one of her sisters who put that out, she has kidney stones, nbd.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 2d

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RIP Speedy Sparks, bass player for the Texas Tornados and many others. And a real gentleman.

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 3d

The Pretty Things Jamming In Germany late '68'/early '69'
youtu.be/A9G9fKq6i90
"The Pretty Things 'Blowing' In Germany to the Byrds classic song "Why" - Dick Taylor left the band in May 1969 - this line-up existed only for a very short time....

The Pretty Things Jamming In Germany late '68'/early '69'

YouTube video by JESIXTIESBOY

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 3d

Kali Maa energy! 🖤💥

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 3d

Happened to look up at dusk & wow. Full Harvest Super moon in Aries.

A potent time for initiating action, claiming personal power & confronting relationship dynamics. Fiery, assertive energy encourages independence and authenticity-time to take decisive steps toward goals.
#fullmoon #supermoon

In the fading light of sunset the full moon, huge and tinted orange, rises in the sky

Full Harvest super moon (vivid orange) rises in the dark blue dusk

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 4d

The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time youtu.be/pXP1MSFwMnc?...

Rolling Stones tour program from the autumn of 1966 promoting the Aftermath LP. A multiple exposure portrait of the band.

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Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 4d

“Metro loner” (ok two words)coined by @ginsol gets my vote.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Alyssa Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @alyssa667.bsky.social · 4d

This is the one

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 4d

Plate IX Animal Moss (Flustra cormata)
from Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s Le monde de la mer (The World of the Sea), 1866 (English ed. 1869)
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47911#p...
[Yes, they’re animals! Phylum Bryozoa]

book plate in portrait orientation, illustration of a colony of Bryozoans with grey vase-shaped bodies and yellow tentacle crowns against black background, with caption: “ANIMAL MOSS (Flustra cormata)”

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

Once upon a time, if a president head lied this brazenly, it would be considered a disgrace by both political parties

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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No Context College Football @nocontextcfb.bsky.social · 5d

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 6d

Friday

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 6d

From Deep Ellum Community Center's current "Behind the Music" exhibit: It was great to see prominently displayed, the NERVEBREAKERS/TOYS black razorblade flyer, for the December 2nd & 3rd, 1977 show at Manhattan Clearing House, 3420 Main Street....