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banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 23m

the poster for the soundtrack "Le Pacha"

banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 1h

My essay "Treasure: A Voodoo Lullaby" appears in the print version of In Parentheses Literary Journal Volume 10 Issue 1, which you can order online: inparentheses.art

in parentheses

new modernism

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 5h

“Exiled among the living, I have made myself a soul to fit my dwelling.”

― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

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banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 6h

I believe it was St. Agnes whose breasts were cut off.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 12h

while we’re asleep on this shore

Barbara Guest

~ Lights of My Eyes

Lights of my eyes
my only
they’re turning it off
while we’re asleep on this shore
and the thick daffodils
are crying
Lights of my eyes
don’t be afraid of me
what we saw
rivers and roads
ruins
the cast of the sculpture in winter
they will return your voice
and I’ll go on singing ‘adieu’

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 17h

It’s the feast day of Saint Teresa of Ávila today, often shown in art in a state of ecstasy.

Learn how to spot female saints in art 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

🧑‍🎨 John Armstrong (1893–1973) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. 📸 Bridgeman Images

Three nuns dressed in brown with black habits hold up St Teresa, dressed in all white with a habit, who apparently unconscious and in a state of ecstasy

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🄵🄶 @frankgarrett.online · 8h

This is the only closet I’m ever going into. #hornyforfilm

poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 9h

Who wants to go into the Criterion closet with me

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banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 7h

looking at posters for one of my fav films "Nights of Cabiria" and the East German one is the strangest but very appealing.

banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 7h

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Steve Hill 🏴‍☠️📚 @stevehillwriter.com · 12h

I’m reading a book about palindromes that don’t make sense but tub esnes ekam t’nod taht semordnilap tuoba koob a gnidaer m’I.

Pete Hannah @member389.bsky.social · 22h

I’m reading a book about vampires but I’m can't quite sink my teeth into it.

Bogey @oneyebogey.bsky.social · 1d

I’m reading a book about drywall but I’m too plastered to focus.

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banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 10h

The Muses and The Fates and their diabolical collaboration! Yet the song they force me to sing is so desolate and sweet. My heart laid bare, O Baudelaire. October morning, without a care.

banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 10h

the dry taste of pills on my tongue. I woke up tense, in my back and shoulders and a foggy head. I just don't care today. Je me sens horrible. Still, I have the strong suspicion beauty is hovering around me. The muse knows I'm weak and is ready to strike. All I can do is submit.

banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 22h

But we probably won't do anything. We should follow the example of that country we malign, Cuba. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba lost its source of farm machines and so forth, but overnight they rallied the ppl to grown organic food and are now the world leader in organic farming.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 23h

for those of us who are all alone open.spotify.com/track/25PKLY...

Spotify – Web Player

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banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 1d

ppl are jailed for heroin possession not opinions on x-men

banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 1d

Unapologetic! I'm just waiting for my punishment now.

banrion6.bsky.social @banrion6.bsky.social · 1d

difference between people who rule by cruelty
and those who offer tough but fair criticism
is that people who rule by their cruelty have to gain respect
by reducing a person to desperation.
And they don't mind that the respect they get will never be genuine.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Victo Ngai, award winning illustrator and artist from Hong Kong #womensart #Autumn #Fall

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 1d

A day like an afterthought lost in the blue smoke of a repetitive gesture. A prophetic utterance that nevertheless does not come into being. A day of notetaking and indulging in despair. A day framed by silence and the stillness beneath every movement. And perhaps that is enough.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28d

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

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Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Magpies getting the crows all riled up today.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 2d

"Can we step out of ourselves as the mystics did in the late Middle Ages, to experience truth in a kind of ecstasy? Ekstasis, in Greek, is a stepping out of yourselves, a leaving the bounds of the individual, your place in existence. Is there ecstatic truth in art?" —Werner Herzog

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders images of sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #WomensArt

Photo of a white pillow with the head and shoulders of a sleeping woman sewn into the fabric

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