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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · Aug 25

It’s sagra season! Sagras celebrate whatever agricultural product an Italian town or village harvests in late summer. Join me as I unfairly rank Piemontese sagras, festas and fieras. carpetblogger.substack.com/p/official-c...

Official Carpetblog Ranking of Piemonte Sagras, Festas and Fieras

Carpetblogger goes rural

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jun 23

I actually did vote for everything to get more expensive, dangerous, and stupid, and I feel extremely represented right now

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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 1d

No one:

Me: But what I’m really trying to capture is an Under the Tuscan Sun vibe.

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Ask Carpetblogger: What's It Like to Go to the Dump?

Can you believe this content is free?

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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 2d

“For a second the world stops being “out there,” you stop being “in here,” and the border checkpoint falls asleep. Two citizens of nowhere look at each other and each becomes borderless. This is illegal in most jurisdictions.“ On making friends. open.substack.com/pub/theshado...

An Existential Guide to: Making Friends

Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 2d

Farshid Mesghali and Morteza Momayez were influential figures in Iranian graphic design during the 1960s–70s. Their work combines modernist simplicity with cultural motifs, creating visuals that still resonate today.

Morteza Momayez | 'Volume and Environment 2', 1976.

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 2d

Polish film poster for The Police Woman (La femme flic, 1980) • Designed by Mieczysław Wasilewski, 1979.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 3d

Chapter Ukraine is a new interactive platform by Chytomo showcasing Ukrainian books in translation and connecting readers, libraries, and bookstores worldwide.

🧵 1/4 ⬇️

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 5d

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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 5d

I see what you did there

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I hope this isn’t ai

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soup_ @estroclysm.neocities.org · 6d

"separate art from the artist" never seems to be used to describe the other way, where someone i really like makes the worst art ive ever seen

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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 7d

competition for insect of the year in Australia has to be pretty stiff

Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 7d

Despite its name, the Bird-Dropping Beetle definitely does not drop any birds ~ instead, it looks just like a bird’s dropping (Excastra albopilosa). The disguise is so effective that no-one noticed it till 2024. Now it’s a finalist for Australian Insect of the Year
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9d

Catholicism is weird, densely referential, functionally pagan in a lot of ways that you're not supposed to talk about, and extremely invested in pageantry. If you can't handle it, go back to the megachurch next to the strip mall.

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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 9d

Hard to imagine I've never been to this museum. Will have to rectify.

Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 9d

In the 1990s, 85-year-old Maria Zarembska was one of a dozen embroidery artists who called Kyiv home. Now, she says, she’s the only Ukrainian folk artist remaining in her neighborhood.

The Ukrainian Artist Who Embroiders to Survive

"We won't be destroyed by anyone," said 85-year-old artist Maria Zarembska. "My people are present now and my people will be present forever."

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 11d

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 10d

Bluesky is being uncharacteristically funny this afternoon

muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 11d

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 11d

Today, transhumance

Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 11d

Yesterday was for grape trellises and boar hunts. open.substack.com/pub/carpetbl...

Ask Carpetblogger: Why Don't you Go Back to Nice?

Isn't it getting cold?

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 12d

Because everything is terrible right now, here's one of my favorite homages to Gustave Courbet's infamous 1866 painting L'origine du monde (The Origin of the World)

Photo of Sesame Street's Bert seen from behind, in which his tuft of hair is covering Gustave Courbet's infamous painting The Origin of the World (while at the same time mimicking pubic hair)

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 12d

Scans from Lora Lamm. Grafica a Milano 1953-1963.
In the written history of mid-century Italian and Swiss Graphic Design, Lora Lamm’s name is often overlooked. Lamm was a major contributor to the Milanese design style of Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. designreviewed.com/artefacts/lo...

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 14d

Now this is Content

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 13d

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 15d

Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings

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