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Brooklyn to Brazil... Trinidad to Treme... Venice to Veracruz... CELEBRATING THE CELEBRATION!!!

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · Nov 30

"Today we are holding a carnival, to which everyone has to bring a partner wearing some form of disguise, so that one man will be dressed up as a bear, another as a savage, and so on and so forth."

from
#TheDecameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 10m

QUATROPUSSY

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 17m

Flies! in the Buttermilk

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 38m

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 42m

"Inter-American solidarity was further enhanced by BRAZIL, a setting with English lyrics by Bob Russell. His version replaces abstract patriotism with a personal account of tropical romance, imbued with 'saudade', that most Lusitanian of emotions"

WATERCOLOR

Perspectives On A Composition

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 47m

#Worldle #1358 (10.10.2025) 1/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 48 days
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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 48m

📷 #WhereTaken🌎 #957 (10.10.2025) 4/6
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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 7h

So so stupid.

The good thing is you can delete this nonsense whenever you want.

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 8h

I want to start selling Christ-in-The-Box:

Turn the handle, and he pops up three days later!

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 8h

"It's REAL French champagne..."

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 10h

But can the falcon hear the falconer?
🤔

Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 14h

"I can still hear the falcon's cry!"

(How could I resist this moment with what I believe is Gus, the resident Peregrine Falcon at AU’s Raptor Center, one of the great outreach arms here?)

OK, it’s Fall Break, so you’ve got me live again tonight.

#CriticalRoleSpoilers in 🧵 so mute or follow now.

Matthew Mercer and Brittany Walloch-Key meet Gus, a Peregrine Falcon at the Auburn University Raptor Center

Reposted by PlanetCarnival

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 10h

oh this RIPS. shakespeare was entertainment for the masses and that's why remakes and modernizations are such great teaching tools for all kinda of classic theatre - it strips all the fuss out and gets to the heart of the thing.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 10h

Convoy of vans take part in funeral procession for much-loved ice cream man 🍦🚚 | SWNS

YouTube video by SWNS

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 10h

Not as troubling as agreeing with MTG tho...

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 10h

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

i mean, do you find people wearing monocles literally anywhere a normal occurrence?

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 10h

I see your "antipope", and raise you a "sedevacantism".

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 11h

Dr. Gene Scott haunted a big stretch of my college years

Televangelist with bizarre sunglasses, seemingly about light his nose or a cigar on fire, while the 800 number required for tithing appears at the bottom of the screen.

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 14h

#Gumbo !

Dril Eulenspiegel @texaninnyc.bsky.social · 14h

Also "tikka masala doesn't count as British" and "gumbo doesn't count as American" are the exact same sentence as "only white people count as *real* Brits/Americans"

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 14h

Jellied eel tho..

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 15h

Claim a movie poster

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 15h

As despicable as he is in many ways, Rand Paul has been pretty consistent on matters like these. He has criticized the militarization of police forces going back, IIRC, to the unrest in Ferguson.

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 16h

In Manhattan, Fratelli d'Italia is a delicious, albeit expensive, sandwich

(Simply called Fratelli online, but the full name is listed in the physical shop. I had no idea it referred to a political party😲)

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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 16h

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 17h

THIS IS JUST TO SAY

You have eaten
the sausage
that was in
the icebox

and which
you were keeping
back
for tomorrow

We forgive you
it was delicious
so sweet
or so hot

(Probably)