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mlex @mlex.bsky.social · Oct 17

welcome to bsky! you can block all the trolls and relax.

woman leaning back with a cigaret, while a guy rolls a smoke beside her. another woman is peeking out of the window behind a curtain. painting by Howell Dodd for the March 1953 cover of CRIME magazine.

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mlex @mlex.bsky.social · 9h

you can't make this shit up

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Gregory @dreamwieber.bsky.social · 1d

Holy cow the light

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mlex @mlex.bsky.social · 10h

run hard and fast in every direction. represent! keep on trucking!

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 11h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

yes!!!! ha ha ha yes!!!!

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 12h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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mlex @mlex.bsky.social · 13h

#SaturdayNight #PeaceEveryone

Hard to be a Human - Betty LaVette

you find yourself a lifeboat
and to try to ride it out
don't expect nobody
to help you figure it out...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y09L...

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 23h

I seem to have entered my 'helplessly taking pictures of trees' period of the year.

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 1d

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

#Hellzone
San Francisco, CA

Photo of many peaceful people, sitting around in groups, enjoying the sun in a deep green Dolores Park. The skyscrapers of downtown San Francisco, including Salesforce Tower, are visible in the distance. There are a few fluffy white clouds below a bright blue sky.

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago undated

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Bobby @probablybobby.bsky.social · 18h

The whistle seemed helpful here

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 14d

9/28/43: Henri-Georges Clouzot masterpiece Le Corbeau
Made under occupation for Continental Films (ruh-roh)
Astonishing film - condemned by the Church, the Vichy Gov, & the Resistance (!!); painfully too relevant today
From us via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 1d

Please stop asking if you can see the Secret Chimp. You don't see the Secret Chimp. The Secret Chimp sees you.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 20h

Corporations trying to keep a straight face for 2 seconds when it's brought up that people face mounting financial hardships so what can the corp do to help

Scene of Ray Liotta laughing wildly from the movie GOODFELLAS

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 1d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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mlex @mlex.bsky.social · 20h

I've still got an X account and it is an absolute sewer of right wing horror all day long. Musk has his algorithm dialed up to "civil war now" to the point that X is nothing but a digital vomitorium.