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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊

@ceruleanlib.bsky.social

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Positives: Clean Air, Potable Water, Music, Reading/Libraries, Vizslas, Cooking, Gardening, Film & Theater, History & Politics. Lived: US Midwest, East Coast, Middle East & Asia Worked in classrooms, libraries, Agile scrums & a series of Interweb tubes

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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · Jan 10

A favorite photo from Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts. This photo was taken on a gorgeous summer afternoon in August 2023.
#PhotoSky #photography #sunshine #trees

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John M Keating @jmkaudition.com · 3h

They should be able to call in pitchers from the teams they’ve vanquished

John M Keating @jmkaudition.com · 3h

Who’s left to pitch?! Maybe it’ll be YOU!

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 2h

Remembering legendary and gifted Grammy-winning singer-songwriter & guitarist John Prine on what should have been his 79th birthday.

#BOTD on 10/10/1946

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 3h

Remembering the legendary Helen Hayes, "The First Lady of American Theatre" on her 125th birthday.

The influential Emmy/Grammy/Oscar/Tony-winning actress was #BOTD on 10/10/1900.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 5h

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 6h

American artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, closely associated with the art movement that developed in NYC's Lower East Side during the 80s.

Peter Hujar Dreaming - Yukio Mishima-St. Sebastian, 1982 (acrylic and spray paint on masonite)

#DavidWojnarowicz #ContemporaryArt

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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 6h

a man wearing a wig and sunglasses with the words good good above him

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the human rights abuses fuelling the fury now being directed at the likes of Louis CK and Dave Chappelle. How have they reacted?

www.theguardian.com

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AlanShares @alanshares.bsky.social · 1d

Consider donating to a comrade who has fought against fascism and is paying the price for it.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 6h

David Simon is right, accurate, and correct.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 7h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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speck0dust.bsky.social @speck0dust.bsky.social · 6h

So if Trump only supports slavishly loyal MAGA and punishes Democrats then he is NOT the president of America. Why should blue states remain in such a disunion?

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Perhaps the likes of Chappelle, Ansari and CK felt there was less at stake because, by their own estimation, they have already suffered cancellation. Except that their exile from public life appears to include fresh Netflix specials and Grammy awards. Louis CK should count himself lucky; if he’d been caught with his dick in his hand in Najd, rather than Colorado, he may well have retained neither of those appendages (punitive limb amputation is an actual thing).

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Kelly Himsl Arthur @kellyarthur.bsky.social · 15h

@schumer.senate.gov will you shake your fist at this? Write an angry letter? You ok with this??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h

Kansas needs to get rid of this embarrassing fool.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

If you’re getting whipped cream and caramel syrup on top of your coffee order, just go to a Baskin Robbins already

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Kelly Himsl Arthur @kellyarthur.bsky.social · 15h

It's almost funny. It's definitely pathetic.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15h

Trump thanks Putin for saying he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is INSANE

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The Little Fritzes @fritzandtheoscars.bsky.social · 14h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 14h

The article may be a year old, but the Book of Kells is a tad older and well worth exploring.

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14h

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...

www.openculture.com

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 14h

This is quite the self-own.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 15h

Looking forward!

a woman in a black and white polka dot shirt says " we are all "

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Does this generation of politicians not know they’re allowed to retire?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

(AP) — Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year, according to two people familiar ..

@apnews.com #MEgov
apnews.com/article/main...

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