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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · Apr 8

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John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow

YouTube video by JohnMellencampVEVO

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23h

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, son of Nathaniel Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in England, once rode a zebra-drawn carriage to Buckingham Palace, to prove that zebras could be domesticated and should be legally permitted as transportation in London.

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 17h

Diane Keaton and Al Pacino in a scene from Francis Ford Coppolo’s 🇺🇸American crime film “THE GODFATHER” (1972)

🎬Paramount Pictures

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

Currently in Chicago...

This looks peaceful to me...

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 2h

APNewsAlert: ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — An attempted coup is underway in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, the country's president says.

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 2h

CDC Scrambling to Restaff After Accidentally Firing Top Scientists

Fired on Friday. Scrambling on Saturday. 🙆🏽‍♀️

CDC Scrambling to Restaff After Accidentally Firing Top Scientists

More than 4,000 government employees were laid off on Friday in what has been dubbed a “massacre.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 52m

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 · 1h

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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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1h

Piccadilly Circus, London, by Charles Pears, 1932.

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Out of the Past @filmclassics.bsky.social · 9h

Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
DoP: Benjamin H. Kline

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1h

12 October 1906 | Czech Jewish woman, Helena Hoenigová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. Registered in the camp. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/

Vintage black and white portrait of a woman, featuring a smiling individual in a light-colored shirt and a polka dot tie.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 4h

Today I learned there’s a penguin called Jane Goodall and she’s travelled 5000km since April.

A map of the east coast of South America, with several tracking lines, each representing a penguin. Jane Goodall’s line is highlighted in pale pink. There is also an inset with her facts and figures: body weight 4600g, tagged 25th April 2025, distance travelled 4769.3 km, average speed 2 kmh.

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Wisconsin Resist @wisconsinresist.bsky.social · 1d

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 10h

Theatine church of St Cajetan and St Adelaide, Munich (façade, 1765-68; interior largely completed by 1688; badly damaged in WWII and restored) #c18th #c18 #18thc

Façade in yellow ochre with twin towers, completed in 1768. Central pediment with arms of Elector Maximilian II and his wife Theresa Kunegonda, daughter of King John III Sobieski of Poland (aunt of Maria Clementina, wife of the Old Pretender)

Frothy white plaster interior with dark wooden baroque pulpit

Detail of a barley-sugar twisted columns in a side chapel with jaunty putti riding on vines encircling the columns (completed 1768)

Quite modest lead sarcophagi of the Wittelsbach dynasty in the crypt. Here, Maximilian II and Theresa Kunegonda in the middle, hers decorated with tacky bouquets of red and white carnations from the Polish consulate

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 22h

Greetings from the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and from what I think is one of the most moving pictures ever painted: likely Rembrandt's last self-portrait, dating to the year he died. The aged artist fixes us with a look of utter world-weariness www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-colle...

Painted self-portrait showing an aged Rembrandt in turban, looking straight out at us

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Gale Of Wind, by John Hoppner, 1795.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 7h

"London reported the lowest number of homicides of under-25s for more than two decades. Overall, murders are at a five-year low, and the rate is much lower than in other international cities such as New York, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Madrid" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘London has turned into something crazy’: is the city in the grip of a crime wave?

Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling

www.theguardian.com

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 3h

Rows and rows of patterns and creatures and beakheads from below.
Looking up at the underside of the absolutely glorious 12thC chancel arch at St Peter's, Tickencote.
The uneven nature and wonkiness is just wonderful.
#SundayStonework

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Nate '𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖆𝖙𝖊' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 15h

Warren Zevon is finally getting recognized at the RRHoF! They'll be honoring him this year with a Musical Influence award. This is excellent news!

Lawyers, Guns and Money

YouTube video by Warren Zevon - Topic

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BERNERI ✧ @berneri.horse · 20h

Beast of Gévaudan
#art ✧ #beastofgevaudan ✧ #folklore ✧ #french

Medieval art stylized digital art piece of Beast of Gévaudan which is man-eating animal or animals from French mythology/history. It's a four-legged animal with a brown colored coat, darker and longer fur on the neck, long nails and a long tail with a tassel. It's standing on a field, holding one of the back legs up, mouth open and drooling. There is blood and bones on the ground. The background has dark blue sky full of stars and a red full moon. The picture has dark frames with lighter dots in it.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Oberursheena @twitterrefugerin.bsky.social · 19h

October at Bad Gastein
#GreenSat joint with #SundayYellow #colorAday #landscape #stunday

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 2h

Money if their bets fail

But it's a fine line which I think is crossed by Mike Baum

Anyhow it's a good film, nobody's clean, and they all make money off the misery of others

The bankers get away clean as usual

Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 2h

It's the core of the Marine Insurance Act 1906

'An "interested person" has an insurable interest in something when loss of or damage to that thing would cause the person to suffer a financial or other kind of loss.'

It maybe that me layperson is stretching it too far here, that they will lose

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 2h

Betting - the core of CDOs and CDS - on things is only problematic when you expect things to fail and then you go out of your way to make them fail

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 2h

The explanation mechanisms adopted by the film are a little too didactic but they're still worth a look

The film doesn't explain shorting, which is where people open up shares to be lent, and people borrow them

I still have problems getting my head around that

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