Toscha
@poemless.bsky.social
Lover of lovely things, problematic takes, and my rescue dog. Hater of Illinois Nazis.
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I'm a year-round fan of turkey. But more importantly, I think it is super gauche to complain about the inferiority of the food served on a holiday specifically centered on gratitude, on giving thanks for what you have, when so many will not be feasting in a warm home alongside friends or family.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'm a year-round fan of turkey. But more importantly, I think it is super gauche to complain about the inferiority of the food served on a holiday specifically centered on gratitude, on giving thanks for what you have, when so many will not be feasting in a warm home alongside friends or family.
Mesmerizing... Like one of those "What's wrong with this picture?" puzzles in children's magazines.
From America, Dec 1952: Miller High Life Beer ad from Miller Brewing Co.
«Miller High Life The Champagne of Bottle Beer»
«Miller High Life The Champagne of Bottle Beer»
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Mesmerizing... Like one of those "What's wrong with this picture?" puzzles in children's magazines.
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Artist and designer Romain de Tirtoff, known by the pseudonym Erté, was born #OnThisDay in 1892. He designed this blue silk velvet cloak, decorated with marabou feathers and metallic thread embroidery, for Ganna Walska in a production of Manon. LACMA collection. #fashionhistory
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Artist and designer Romain de Tirtoff, known by the pseudonym Erté, was born #OnThisDay in 1892. He designed this blue silk velvet cloak, decorated with marabou feathers and metallic thread embroidery, for Ganna Walska in a production of Manon. LACMA collection. #fashionhistory
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The Ghost Story for Christmas Eve this year is M R James's "An Episode of Cathedral History".
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The Ghost Story for Christmas Eve this year is M R James's "An Episode of Cathedral History".
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
Never a truer post written.
Reading about the bolsheviks and if podcasts had existed back then all these guys would've done that instead
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Never a truer post written.
So the people incessantly yelling that the Dem establishment is the root of all our problems are not willing to endorse a challenger to Jeffries but they are willing to do a photo op with LITERALLY the worst human being currently alive. What is in the water in that state?
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
So the people incessantly yelling that the Dem establishment is the root of all our problems are not willing to endorse a challenger to Jeffries but they are willing to do a photo op with LITERALLY the worst human being currently alive. What is in the water in that state?
I was brought up on a side street
Learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin' I just can't stop
I'm a soul man
I'm a soul man...
Learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin' I just can't stop
I'm a soul man
I'm a soul man...
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I was brought up on a side street
Learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin' I just can't stop
I'm a soul man
I'm a soul man...
Learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin' I just can't stop
I'm a soul man
I'm a soul man...
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Paul Poiret was so successful in part because he was a master at marketing. Part of his strategy was to hire artists to illustrate his designs. One such artist was George Lepape. He created one of the most iconic images of Poiret's house- this image of Denise Poiret in one of the
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Paul Poiret was so successful in part because he was a master at marketing. Part of his strategy was to hire artists to illustrate his designs. One such artist was George Lepape. He created one of the most iconic images of Poiret's house- this image of Denise Poiret in one of the
I got separate compliments on both my "silver hair" and "90s makeup" today, and while I understand that these were sincere and part of some weird Gen Z thing, I now feel like a fucking museum exhibit.
November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I got separate compliments on both my "silver hair" and "90s makeup" today, and while I understand that these were sincere and part of some weird Gen Z thing, I now feel like a fucking museum exhibit.
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As the US enters the week of Thanksgiving, this lake would like to give thanks to all the humans that help protect and sustain the Great Lakes watershed 🌊🌊
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
As the US enters the week of Thanksgiving, this lake would like to give thanks to all the humans that help protect and sustain the Great Lakes watershed 🌊🌊
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just when I thought no pinky sunset, BAM pinky sunset
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
just when I thought no pinky sunset, BAM pinky sunset
That may have been the most spectacular sunset of the year, and we've had many.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
That may have been the most spectacular sunset of the year, and we've had many.
Chicago organizers getting a shout out from Timothy Snyder.
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Chicago organizers getting a shout out from Timothy Snyder.
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Gretchen Whitmer did the same thing and everyone shredded her for it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Gretchen Whitmer did the same thing and everyone shredded her for it.
I have the names of both of those men muted and somehow my entire feed is pics of those men hanging out together. I literally never want to see a pic of either of them again but everyone thinks it is funny not to use alt text.
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I have the names of both of those men muted and somehow my entire feed is pics of those men hanging out together. I literally never want to see a pic of either of them again but everyone thinks it is funny not to use alt text.
I used to live in an apartment across the street from a church. One winter day I looked out the window, and a snowy owl was on its roof at eye level with me. Looked right at me. It was up there for a while and then flew off down the street, its wingspan as wide as the cars below it. Majestic.
Snowy owls are considered “irruptive” in the Midwest, meaning some years they show up in winter and some years they don’t. This unpredictability is one of the reasons a snowy owl sighting carries such a “once in a lifetime” sense of excitement.
https://to.wttw.com/3X81VWn
https://to.wttw.com/3X81VWn
Snowy Owls Delighting Birders on Chicago’s Lakefront
The arctic visitors have drawn bird watchers from surrounding states.
to.wttw.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I used to live in an apartment across the street from a church. One winter day I looked out the window, and a snowy owl was on its roof at eye level with me. Looked right at me. It was up there for a while and then flew off down the street, its wingspan as wide as the cars below it. Majestic.
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He really is from Chicago
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
He really is from Chicago
This is driving me nuts.
ICE and their helpers are still in Chicago.
They forcibly entered a home Franklin Park and detained grandparents yesterday. They took someone off the street in Edgewater today.
ICE, CBP, and assisting helicopters are still around.
They are still hiring for Chicago.
ICE and their helpers are still in Chicago.
They forcibly entered a home Franklin Park and detained grandparents yesterday. They took someone off the street in Edgewater today.
ICE, CBP, and assisting helicopters are still around.
They are still hiring for Chicago.
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is driving me nuts.
ICE and their helpers are still in Chicago.
They forcibly entered a home Franklin Park and detained grandparents yesterday. They took someone off the street in Edgewater today.
ICE, CBP, and assisting helicopters are still around.
They are still hiring for Chicago.
ICE and their helpers are still in Chicago.
They forcibly entered a home Franklin Park and detained grandparents yesterday. They took someone off the street in Edgewater today.
ICE, CBP, and assisting helicopters are still around.
They are still hiring for Chicago.
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I wrote an overview of "Operation Midway Blitz" and the main venues and types of activity that made it up: widespread street enforcement, detention and protest suppression at Broadview, the South Shore raid, and legal battles in the courts.
lauriemerrell.com/posts/what-h...
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What Happened in Chicago
An overview of federal activity in Chicagoland during the crackdown.
lauriemerrell.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I wrote an overview of "Operation Midway Blitz" and the main venues and types of activity that made it up: widespread street enforcement, detention and protest suppression at Broadview, the South Shore raid, and legal battles in the courts.
lauriemerrell.com/posts/what-h...
lauriemerrell.com/posts/what-h...
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Current* conditions near Evanston, IL:
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Current* conditions near Evanston, IL:
More nice coats & wraps...
Here is the rest of the last case in Les Arts Decoratif's Paul Poiret: Feast of Fashion exhibit, which highlighted examples of his outerwear- a 1914 silk ottoman and embroidered cotton net coat, a 1928 satin evening cape, and a 1925 jersey and velvet coat, named Mistigri (French for
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
More nice coats & wraps...
Lanvin, 1929
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Lanvin, 1929
Seems like both I and Peter Coyote are getting a bit tired in hours 9.
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Seems like both I and Peter Coyote are getting a bit tired in hours 9.
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A couple in Franklin Park was taken by federal agents today when they knocked down the door of this family’s home.
DHS strategy in Chicago is changing & is definitely not over post-Bovino and CBP.
DHS strategy in Chicago is changing & is definitely not over post-Bovino and CBP.
Federal agents detain couple in Franklin Park family says; Border Patrol chief no longer in area
It's been about a week since Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and his team left the Chicago area, but immigration operations still continue as two people were detained by federal agents in the w...
abc7chicago.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A couple in Franklin Park was taken by federal agents today when they knocked down the door of this family’s home.
DHS strategy in Chicago is changing & is definitely not over post-Bovino and CBP.
DHS strategy in Chicago is changing & is definitely not over post-Bovino and CBP.
Was walking the dog and admiring how postcard charming the area is this time of year with warm light emanating from big old homes and the beautiful fallen leaves from big old trees when I realized I was standing where ICE had been and I looked up and there was an American flag flying upside down.
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Was walking the dog and admiring how postcard charming the area is this time of year with warm light emanating from big old homes and the beautiful fallen leaves from big old trees when I realized I was standing where ICE had been and I looked up and there was an American flag flying upside down.