Dean Barker
@deanbarker.bsky.social
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"Weird composer; weird way of thinking...It is rare to find someone who is mad about Schumann, but I love him very much." - Mitsuko Uchida
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Tonight’s animated drawing: mandala, time-lapsed.
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leahlitman.bsky.social
Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”
Kavanaugh concurrence
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presumptive.bsky.social
Watching the Devo documentary on Netflix. When you realize they were at the Kent State shooting, and knew some of the students who were shot by the National Guard, it really contextualizes their esoteric, detached weirdness.
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annecw.bsky.social
The government is not pro-life or pro-family. They are terrorizing people.
thetnholler.bsky.social
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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skeetsofgrass.bsky.social
Or while I swim in the bath .... or drink from the pump at the corner .... or the curtain is down at the opera .... or I glimpse at a woman’s face in the railroad car;
deanbarker.bsky.social
Q: What's an antonym for "the scientific method"?

A: ⬇️
atrupar.com
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
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jayrosen.bsky.social
I still haven't seen any answer that makes sense to me. Why is an opinion journalist running CBS News as editor in chief? How did that happen, and what is the logic of that appointment? It still isn't clear to me.
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soumya-goblue.medsky.social
“what happens when a society turns away from reality, when people convince themselves that #politics is someone else’s problem. #Fascism does not arrive with a crash, it creeps in slowly, gaining ground while individuals look away, distracted by…the hope that things will resolve themselves”

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sudeshna.bsky.social
The dusk was setting in .As I walked through the woods it was beautiful,the crickets were chirping and everything else was quiet .
deanbarker.bsky.social
Absurdity and autocracy go hand in hand.
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jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."
jonseidel.bsky.social
#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.
jonseidel.bsky.social
Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."
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jackdaubitz.bsky.social
THIS! People don’t understand that AI CANNOT be creative. And if you need it you aren’t BEING creative, you are receiving the average of all the stolen content hacked up and given back to you.
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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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whatashrinkthinks.com
Oh yeah, that concept of a plan that is always coming in two weeks
atrupar.com
Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."
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jenniferlcroft.bsky.social
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
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Odilon Redon, Mystical Conversation #redon
Painting Mystical Conversation by Odilon Redon showing two women standing side by side beneath ancient columns against a blue sky filled with pink clouds. One wears a yellow veil and gently touches the arm of the other, who is dressed in shades of green and red and holds a branch of flowers. The ground is covered with petals and small colorful objects, creating a celestial atmosphere.
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ccooijmans.bsky.social
Very happy to finally see this in the flesh today: the remains of an early tenth-century calendar from Landévennec, Brittany, whose entry for the year 913 contains an annotation that the local coastal monastery of Winwaloe was attacked by vikings during that year.

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A medieval manuscript page from the tenth century, on vellum. Text in black ink and red rubrication using Carolingian miniscule. A marginal annotation on a manuscript, containing the (abbreviated) Latin sentence: 'Eodem anno destructum est monasterium sancti winualoei a normannis' (translation: 'In the same year, the monastery of saint Winwaloe was destroyed by Northmen').
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3fecta.bsky.social
New SCOTUS theory. They are going to punt as long as they can on allowing Trump to violate the constitution as long as they can to let the damages accumulate before then saying unconstitutional to not allow a democrat to use these new powers. Yeah Trump got to do it a year but now we have said no.
deanbarker.bsky.social
When I was Young and naive I was awash in Romanticism and eventually cast all that off as a Grown-Up.

Now that I'm an Old and experienced I am realizing Romanticism is the lens and guide I need to survive this dystopian era.
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A Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally internal and led to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Brixworth #Northamptonshire