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Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
#MDANT
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I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
#MDANT
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Sometimes I wonder if I’ll tire of saying "@briandavidstevens.bsky.social has excelled himself” but ye gods our next two BMTatR are LITERALLY ICONIC.
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
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Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)
![A letter from Philip Glass, with his name at the top. "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. [signed] Philip Glass](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sva5ad6pbtkgrdrqyej2fe2f/bafkreiakf6dkikkcb3djpbedhjttbsh7fmvfm5inximofh5rviegccmkdy@jpeg)
January 27, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)
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This year as well, I donated the same amount as last year to the Department of Urology at the medical university affiliated with a hospital in Tokyo, using the profits from my 2025 Bandcamp sales. Thanks to the support of each of you, I was able to contribute again. I’m sincerely grateful.
I donated all profits from my 2024 Bandcamp sales, minus fees, equally between a national center, which identified my ureterocele, and the Department of Urology at the medical university affiliated with the hospital where I am currently under follow-up, to support their research activities. (1/7)
January 27, 2026 at 1:19 AM
This year as well, I donated the same amount as last year to the Department of Urology at the medical university affiliated with a hospital in Tokyo, using the profits from my 2025 Bandcamp sales. Thanks to the support of each of you, I was able to contribute again. I’m sincerely grateful.
happy place (only with big speakers though)
Orange - Higher Intelligence Agency
YouTube video by BoogieFinger
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January 27, 2026 at 5:10 PM
happy place (only with big speakers though)
oh my giddy aunt
This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Bone Marrow Rice with Fermented Daikon from BAO by Erchen Chang, Shing Tat Chung and Wai Ting Chung!
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 PM
oh my giddy aunt
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I often find myself explaining something that is easy to take for granted, but should be evident: There is no reason why the program of Figuring Out Nature should proceed in time steps that are less than or comparable to the duration of one scientist’s career. (1/n)
Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 27, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I often find myself explaining something that is easy to take for granted, but should be evident: There is no reason why the program of Figuring Out Nature should proceed in time steps that are less than or comparable to the duration of one scientist’s career. (1/n)
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Sometimes I wonder if I’ll tire of saying "@briandavidstevens.bsky.social has excelled himself” but ye gods our next two BMTatR are LITERALLY ICONIC.
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
January 27, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll tire of saying "@briandavidstevens.bsky.social has excelled himself” but ye gods our next two BMTatR are LITERALLY ICONIC.
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
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Sly Dunbar's left the planet. I once spoke to him briefly on the phone and he was as much of a DUDE as I could have hoped: enthusiastic about work old and new, inquisitive, charming, all that. A true master craftsman who was rightly proud of his greatest work but never let it overwhelm the rest.
I've Seen That Face Before: looking back on Grace Jones' iconic Nightclubbing with the people who made it happen - Page 2 of 4 - Fact Magazine
SLY DUNBAR Are you happy to hear that Nightclubbing is getting its due again? SD: Yeah yeah yeah, I really…
www.factmag.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Sly Dunbar's left the planet. I once spoke to him briefly on the phone and he was as much of a DUDE as I could have hoped: enthusiastic about work old and new, inquisitive, charming, all that. A true master craftsman who was rightly proud of his greatest work but never let it overwhelm the rest.
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so LISTEN UP... had a bit of new year reflection, looked back at our increasingly impressive archive and had a little think about how these conversations have fed into the stuff I'm doing with current projects (particularly the "LITTLE ROOMS" manifesto and exciting things that are coming from that)
Little Rooms and the Rest
A free-to-read look back and forward, and a manifesto of sorts
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January 17, 2026 at 2:41 PM
so LISTEN UP... had a bit of new year reflection, looked back at our increasingly impressive archive and had a little think about how these conversations have fed into the stuff I'm doing with current projects (particularly the "LITTLE ROOMS" manifesto and exciting things that are coming from that)
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Be a real shame if one of the many journalists who follows me wrote this up and it went super viral and people followed him around throwing National Geographics at his head
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Be a real shame if one of the many journalists who follows me wrote this up and it went super viral and people followed him around throwing National Geographics at his head
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They're retreating. It's time to advance. Resignations, prosecutions. Motherfucking tribunals.
Sean Hannity: says ICE should stop “going into Home Depots and arresting people”
Sean Hannity says ICE should stop "going into Home Depots and arresting people"
www.mediamatters.org
January 27, 2026 at 9:58 AM
They're retreating. It's time to advance. Resignations, prosecutions. Motherfucking tribunals.
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The nurses and doctors at Pretti's hospital taking a moment of silence for him.
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 PM
The nurses and doctors at Pretti's hospital taking a moment of silence for him.
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this is bleakly funny, but also - people at the NYT, BBC News etc DO think it's an exciting time for politics, that's really one of the fundamental causes for this, they think it's a fucking parlour game
Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
January 26, 2026 at 3:07 PM
this is bleakly funny, but also - people at the NYT, BBC News etc DO think it's an exciting time for politics, that's really one of the fundamental causes for this, they think it's a fucking parlour game
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll tire of saying "@briandavidstevens.bsky.social has excelled himself” but ye gods our next two BMTatR are LITERALLY ICONIC.
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
January 27, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll tire of saying "@briandavidstevens.bsky.social has excelled himself” but ye gods our next two BMTatR are LITERALLY ICONIC.
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
Coming first GWENNO then in short order Cyndi of HANDSON FAM - both radiating galactic quantities of style and poise.
Srsly how good are these pics?
clown ass country
Democratic Presidential Polling:
Newsom: 27%
Harris: 21%
AOC: 9%
Buttigieg: 8%
Kelly: 4%
Whitmer: 3%
Pritzker: 3%
Booker: 3%
Shapiro: 3%
Warnock: 2%
Beshear: 2%
Echelon Insights / Jan 26, 2026
Newsom: 27%
Harris: 21%
AOC: 9%
Buttigieg: 8%
Kelly: 4%
Whitmer: 3%
Pritzker: 3%
Booker: 3%
Shapiro: 3%
Warnock: 2%
Beshear: 2%
Echelon Insights / Jan 26, 2026
January 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
clown ass country
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"treating the works as sacred texts with religious teachings to convey"
Skill issue.
Skill issue.
January 26, 2026 at 11:28 PM
"treating the works as sacred texts with religious teachings to convey"
Skill issue.
Skill issue.
a week's mental health
January 26, 2026 at 11:29 PM
a week's mental health
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remember when the U.S. colluded in an internal coup in Venezuela and abducted the president while killing a few dozen people in airstrikes? I think it was a couple of years ago now.
January 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
remember when the U.S. colluded in an internal coup in Venezuela and abducted the president while killing a few dozen people in airstrikes? I think it was a couple of years ago now.
It's funny, you can actually see them WORKSHOPPING this theory on r/conservatives within hours of the killing...
On Facebook the "gun experts" are pushing that the agent who disarmed him accidentally discharged the confiscated weapon and that lead to the shooting.
All of this is definitely the victim's fault though.
The fact that none of this aligns with the video evidence isn't an issue somehow.
All of this is definitely the victim's fault though.
The fact that none of this aligns with the video evidence isn't an issue somehow.
And then one of them panicked and fired a shot. Or maybe he wanted to shoot someone that day. That part isn’t discernible from video. Either way this man who did nothing wrong was executed.
January 26, 2026 at 9:54 PM
It's funny, you can actually see them WORKSHOPPING this theory on r/conservatives within hours of the killing...
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Trump Alleges That Democrats Secretly Paid Alex Pretti To Be Model Citizen https://theonion.com/trump-alleges-that-democrats-secretly-paid-alex-pretti-to-be-model-citizen/
January 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Trump Alleges That Democrats Secretly Paid Alex Pretti To Be Model Citizen https://theonion.com/trump-alleges-that-democrats-secretly-paid-alex-pretti-to-be-model-citizen/
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The same people who cannot control a city of 400,000 are manifestly incapable of cancelling a midterm or ending the peaceful transition of power. Keep reminding yourself that you are a lot stronger than they are.
![01/26/2026 15:27:26[TWT]
Priscilla Alvarez
@priscialva
BREAKING: Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his
agents are expected to leave Minneapolis and return to their respective
sectors, sources tell me, @KristenhCNN + @kaitlancollins.
Sent via Twitter Web App. View original tweet.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreiglia3lsgoularsdrttknes76e3otad6xpnyp2eia2nmg5ckrc7cq@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The same people who cannot control a city of 400,000 are manifestly incapable of cancelling a midterm or ending the peaceful transition of power. Keep reminding yourself that you are a lot stronger than they are.
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"Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday and return to their respective sectors, according to three sources familiar the discussions, sidelining a key player in the...immigration crackdown."
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/p...
Controversial Border Patrol chief and some agents expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday, sources say | CNN Politics
Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday and return to their respective sectors, according to three sources familiar the discussion...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday and return to their respective sectors, according to three sources familiar the discussions, sidelining a key player in the...immigration crackdown."
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/p...
Sly Dunbar's left the planet. I once spoke to him briefly on the phone and he was as much of a DUDE as I could have hoped: enthusiastic about work old and new, inquisitive, charming, all that. A true master craftsman who was rightly proud of his greatest work but never let it overwhelm the rest.
I've Seen That Face Before: looking back on Grace Jones' iconic Nightclubbing with the people who made it happen - Page 2 of 4 - Fact Magazine
SLY DUNBAR Are you happy to hear that Nightclubbing is getting its due again? SD: Yeah yeah yeah, I really…
www.factmag.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Sly Dunbar's left the planet. I once spoke to him briefly on the phone and he was as much of a DUDE as I could have hoped: enthusiastic about work old and new, inquisitive, charming, all that. A true master craftsman who was rightly proud of his greatest work but never let it overwhelm the rest.
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Border Czar Greg Bovino is doing an all hat no cowboy walk around Minneapolis like he's playing Hitler in a school play.
Wait for the guy at the end, he will give you life.
Wait for the guy at the end, he will give you life.
January 26, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Border Czar Greg Bovino is doing an all hat no cowboy walk around Minneapolis like he's playing Hitler in a school play.
Wait for the guy at the end, he will give you life.
Wait for the guy at the end, he will give you life.