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Late-stage generalist, RPCV🌍, history/art/jazz/fiets-urb/pro-sci/anti-dictator, gentler in person.
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gwchilly.bsky.social @gwchilly.bsky.social · 6d
Boom! Monarch chrysalis attaches to a senescing lavender stalk in the sideyard, Nov. ‘25 📷 -gw
Monarch chrysalis attaches to a senescing lavender stalk in the sideyard, Berkeley, Cal., Nov. ‘25.
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Appalling. Martin Kulldorff, who was a lead author of the Great Barrington declaration which promoted mass infection with COVID and spread disinformation about vaccines, has been appointed HHS Chief science officer.
Chairman of vaccine committee leaves for new HHS job
The head of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee is leaving to take a leadership role within the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.statnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Cc: Chief Justice John Roberts, and the five other immunity granters, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.

Reverse Trump v. United States STAT.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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matthewdownhour.bsky.social
Look we’re all thinking it - Harrison Butker has cost Kansas City the Mandate of Heaven they gained when Mahomes said ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Kelce endorsed the vaccine
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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“Self Portrait” by Dod Procter (British) - Oil on canvas / c. 1920s - Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, England) #WomenInArt #DodProcter #Procter #PenleeHouse #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #BritishArtist #Penlee #1920s #BritishArt #arte #SelfPortrait #WomensArt
This introspective self-portrait catches Dod Procter at a moment when she was shaping her public image as a modern professional artist. Born Doris “Dod” Shaw in London in 1890, she trained as a teenager at Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes’s school in Newlyn, then studied in Paris at the progressive Atelier Colarossi, absorbing lessons from Cézanne and Renoir. In the 1920s, she became widely known for her paintings of young women, reducing detail and heightening form to create calm, monumental figures. Her painting “Morning” was famously bought for the national collection, briefly making her a household name. Here, she turns that same clear, unsentimental eye on herself. The painting shows a young Procter in three-quarter profile, turned to the right so we see the clear outline of her nose, lips, and chin against a deep, almost velvety black background. Her skin is pale with a gentle pink flush across her cheeks and nose, suggesting cool light falling from the left. She has dark brown hair cut in a neat, close bob with a straight fringe and softly rounded shape hugging her head. Her gaze is directed out of frame, thoughtful rather than posed, with her mouth closed and relaxed. Procter wears a light, grey-beige sweater with soft, brushed texture and sleeves that gather subtly at the wrists. Around her neck is a bright, patterned scarf, predominantly crimson with touches of grey, tied in a simple knot so the ends fall down her chest. The contrast between her glowing flesh tones, the muted jumper, and the vivid scarf is crisp, but peaceful. The bobbed hair, plain sweater, and bold scarf evoke the new independence of interwar women, yet her averted gaze hints at reserve and self-containment rather than showmanship. The work belongs to her mature Newlyn period and shows the poised, androgynous persona that helped her become one of the first women elected to full membership of the Royal Academy, while also anchoring Penlee House’s story of women artists in West Cornwall.
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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⚖️ DoD Law of War Manual, page 1075:

"For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."

ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/d...
18.3.2 Refuse to Comply With Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. Members of the armed forces must refuse to comply with clearly illegal orders to commit law of war violations. In addition, orders should not be construed to authorize implicitly violations of law of war. 18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Between 1905 and 1911, the sheet music covers of Gotham-Attucks Co. — a song-publisher managed by some of the most famous Black writers and performers of the day — revolutionised how Black popular music was shown to the public: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
December 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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art-institute.bsky.social
Untitled, by Mark Rothko
American, born Russia, 1903-1970
1967

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/66741
Mark Rothko American, born Russia, 1903-1970, Untitled, A rectangular painting featuring two teal-green blocks of slightly different shades sandwiching a thin strip of blue. The blocks are hazily painted against a green background.
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Boris Lovet-Lorski / Fonderie Andro,
“Venus,“ ca. 1931. Bronze. With Tamara de
Lempicka, “La belle Rafaëla,“ 1927. Oil on canvas. On view at the de Young Museum, SF, Cal., Oct. ‘24. 📷 -gw
(In the foreground) Boris Lovet-Lorski / Fonderie Andro, “Venus,“ ca. 1931. Bronze statue. With (in the background, mounted) Tamara deLempicka, “La belle Rafaëla,“ 1927. Oil on canvas. On view at the de Young Museum, SF, Cal., Oct. ‘24.
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Wassily Kandinsky :
Sharp-Quiet (Scharf-Ruhig), 1927

Oil on cardboard
16.5 × 14.6" | 42.0 × 37.0 cm

Further description in the alt text 👇
“Sharp-Quiet” is one of several works of Bauhaus period where a system “a triangle and a circle” is a central compositional motif. Kandinsky considered triangle and circle to be “the two primary and most strongly contrasting plane figures.” Among other things, he taught his students in Bauhaus to express emotions through interaction of abstract forms. For example, students had the task to express aggression by dominant triangle or calmness by a dominant square. “Sharp-Quiet” is a shining example of an ordered composition. Its beauty, dynamics and balance are determined by the stability of the internal space where triangles, circles, and crescents interact. This is a game of contrasts between the soft, warm, and harmonious colors and clear and uncompromising geometry.
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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René Magritte, Les perfections célestes / Celestial perfections - 1930 Nitess💤
Surrealist artwork by René Magritte, "Les perfections célestes" (1930), presented as four rectangular oil paintings on canvas, aligned on a white wall. Each panel, framed with thin wooden frames, captures a fragment of the sky: white and gray cumulus clouds floating against an intense blue background.
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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This thread is now a shareable web page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, (solvent transfer, fabric, and graphite on paper), 1983.
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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itshelgaagian.bsky.social
The patterns of light on the sea floor.

They are called caustics: they are created by light refracted and reflected from the air/water interface. Water acts as a dynamic magnifying glass.
November 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Free gift link 🎁!

Interview with Melissa Bruntlett, author of Women Changing Cities and co-author of Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

@modacitylife.com
She’s on a Mission to Make the World More Bike-Friendly
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Brush up (and maybe donate to Wikipedia on Black Friday!)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(...
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
gwchilly.bsky.social
“The model of the quarry revealed 426 moai in various stages of completion, 341 trenches cut to outline blocks for carving, and 133 voids in the rock where statues were successfully removed, plus five bollards that acted as anchor points for lowering moai down slopes.”
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 5d
Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that brought them into being. https://cnn.it/4okaqZC
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Christopher Knight will retire from the Los Angeles Times on Friday, November 28. As the paper’s staff art critic, he published exhibition reviews and commentary on the city’s arts institutions, writing for the publication for 36 years.
Art Critic Christopher Knight Retires From LA Times
The Pulitzer-winning journalist said he'll keep writing, but the "daily journalism thing is done.”
hyperallergic.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Zipora Fried
Ocean of Work, 2025
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Jonas Wood
Japanese Garden with Moon and Stars, 2020
oil and acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 177.8 cm
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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563A Spectacles in the Small Face https://www.wikiart.org/en/friedensreich-hundertwasser/spectacles-in-the-small-face
"563A Spectacles in the Small Face" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser features bold, intertwined lines and vibrant colors creating a hypnotic depiction of a face with abstract spectacles. This artwork reflects Hundertwasser's signature style, characterized by organic forms and spirals, emphasizing a connection with nature and a break from convention.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.

And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Cycling legend Major Taylor won the 1-mile sprint event at the 1899 world track championships to become the first African American to achieve the level of cycling world champion

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Major!
November 26 (1878-1932)
Photo of a man positioned on a racing bicycle at the start of a race. Another man is holding him and the bike in position.
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Mohammad Al-Fayoumi (Egypt, b.1963) :
Omda (The Mayor), n.d.

Bronze
28 x 41 x 27 cm
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate.

-The Editorial Board
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The fourteenth of July in Etretat | Felix Vallotton
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM