Shana
@shelyse.bsky.social
Cat lady, GenXer, wife. Flowers, cacti, plants, art, photography, Europe, jazz, travel, period dramas, hairy chests, occasional rage, and dark humor. Very dark.
Lololll #funnyshit #doggos
Dogs and their Love of Sticks ❤️ #FridayVibes #FridayFeeling
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Lololll #funnyshit #doggos
Cody and the straw flowers. Cody is my sweet cow cat. He enjoys eating my flowers. #cats #catsofbluesky #cowcat #strawflowers #photography
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Cody and the straw flowers. Cody is my sweet cow cat. He enjoys eating my flowers. #cats #catsofbluesky #cowcat #strawflowers #photography
If you’ve been staring at a costume for a tad too long, trying to figure out what it could be, then the chances are you’ve had a close encounter with Gay Halloween.
Who Won Gay Halloween This Year?
What’s more gay or queer than pushing that which is marginalized into the spotlight?
hyperallergic.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Don’t come to Chicago; we don’t want you here. Maybe the Deep South will take you. Adios, motherfuckers. #NYMayoral #Mamdani
Dedicated to all those who promised to leave the greatest city in America
R.E.M. - Leaving New York (Video)
YouTube video by remhq
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November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Don’t come to Chicago; we don’t want you here. Maybe the Deep South will take you. Adios, motherfuckers. #NYMayoral #Mamdani
Lololl.
they should give everyone one poke with a sharpened stick at dick cheney's corpse just to be sure
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Lololl.
So happy for him and NYC! #NYMayoral #Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
So happy for him and NYC! #NYMayoral #Mamdani
Nostalgic for the Halloweens of my childhood. Our Jack-O-Lantern blow mold always lit the front windows. I love this guy. (Photo is not mine). #halloween
#midcentury
#empireblowmolds
#pumpkinonahaystack
#midcentury
#empireblowmolds
#pumpkinonahaystack
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Nostalgic for the Halloweens of my childhood. Our Jack-O-Lantern blow mold always lit the front windows. I love this guy. (Photo is not mine). #halloween
#midcentury
#empireblowmolds
#pumpkinonahaystack
#midcentury
#empireblowmolds
#pumpkinonahaystack
I could just listen to him talk. 😍
Speaking words of wisdom. Take it away, David Tennant.
October 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I could just listen to him talk. 😍
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Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output
October 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output
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Tulips, roses, and and iris in a glass. With some cherries lying around. By Jacob van Es of Antwerp, whose day is today.
June 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Tulips, roses, and and iris in a glass. With some cherries lying around. By Jacob van Es of Antwerp, whose day is today.
Three splendid roses in a glass vase by Jacob Foppens van Es, whose day is today.
June 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Niccolò Tornioli, The Astronomers, 1642-45, 148 × 218.5 cm (Galleria Spada, Roma). Commissioned by Virgilio Spada, architectural theorist, amateur astronomer, and head of the Oratorian order #arthistory #historyofscience 🗃️
June 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Niccolò Tornioli, The Astronomers, 1642-45, 148 × 218.5 cm (Galleria Spada, Roma). Commissioned by Virgilio Spada, architectural theorist, amateur astronomer, and head of the Oratorian order #arthistory #historyofscience 🗃️
My violet hybrids are blooming. This Ma’s Pink Beetles, LeMacho (the dark purple), and Rob’s Chilly Willy (the miniature lavender). #africanviolets #plants #flowers
May 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
My violet hybrids are blooming. This Ma’s Pink Beetles, LeMacho (the dark purple), and Rob’s Chilly Willy (the miniature lavender). #africanviolets #plants #flowers
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Nobody's doing it like Raoul Peck these days - CANNOT WAIT
Orwell was right: ‘1984’ is already here #dystopia english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
Orwell was right: The dystopia of ‘1984’ is already here
In a new documentary presented at the Cannes Film Festival, director Raoul Peck uses the British writer’s thoughts to analyze a present marked by mass surveillance, the manipulation of language, and t...
english.elpais.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nobody's doing it like Raoul Peck these days - CANNOT WAIT
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Fantastic altarpiece by an unknown Netherlandish or French artist, about 1510, recently acquired by the National Gallery, London www.nationalgallery.org.uk/media/sdment...
May 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fantastic altarpiece by an unknown Netherlandish or French artist, about 1510, recently acquired by the National Gallery, London www.nationalgallery.org.uk/media/sdment...
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William Eggleston, Untitled (Grocery Store), c. 1965-74 whitney.org/collection/w...
May 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
William Eggleston, Untitled (Grocery Store), c. 1965-74 whitney.org/collection/w...
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Unknown Flemish artist, detail of a Satirical Diptych, ca. 1520-30, oil on wood (Musée Wittert, Université de Liège). I'll let you look up the other half.
May 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Unknown Flemish artist, detail of a Satirical Diptych, ca. 1520-30, oil on wood (Musée Wittert, Université de Liège). I'll let you look up the other half.
The jazz channel informs me today is the great Stevie Wonder's 75th birthday. Here are two of my favorites: the first, 'As,' performed by the man, himself. And the second, 'Golden Lady,' a pretty cover, performed by Kurt Elling.
As
YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic
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May 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The jazz channel informs me today is the great Stevie Wonder's 75th birthday. Here are two of my favorites: the first, 'As,' performed by the man, himself. And the second, 'Golden Lady,' a pretty cover, performed by Kurt Elling.
A glamour shot of my gasteria in bloom. And a full shot, where I haven't cropped off the damage my demon cats have done to the leaves by nibbling them! Anyway, this plant has obv. seen better days, but it's never given me a bloom before! #succulents #gasteria #plants #demoncats
May 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A glamour shot of my gasteria in bloom. And a full shot, where I haven't cropped off the damage my demon cats have done to the leaves by nibbling them! Anyway, this plant has obv. seen better days, but it's never given me a bloom before! #succulents #gasteria #plants #demoncats
Lovely.
Bohemia After Dark
YouTube video by Oscar Pettiford - Topic
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May 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Lovely.
Something pretty for International Jazz day. #jazz #wayneescoffery
Jimmy, Mimi, & Me (feat. Wayne Escoffery)
YouTube video by The Night Alive - Topic
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May 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Something pretty for International Jazz day. #jazz #wayneescoffery
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2/2 Baby J, a bit trepidatious, getting lesson about apples in the center of the Ascoli Piceno Altarpiece by Carlo Crivelli.
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
2/2 Baby J, a bit trepidatious, getting lesson about apples in the center of the Ascoli Piceno Altarpiece by Carlo Crivelli.
It was one of the most amazing cathedrals we’ve seen on our travels. Go on a tour if you get the chance! #art #arthistory #travel #uk #yorkminster #york
Thank you Sarah Brown for tour as part of AAH Conference
April 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It was one of the most amazing cathedrals we’ve seen on our travels. Go on a tour if you get the chance! #art #arthistory #travel #uk #yorkminster #york
Artist of the day: the marvelous Carlo Crivelli. Who does not love him & his zany use of fruits & veggies, as in this A+ Madonna of 1473? Lots of visual intensity here.
April 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Happy Artichoke Day to all who celebrate! Today in 1604, the painter Caravaggio threw a plate of artichokes at a waiter at Osteria del Moro in Rome and called him a “becco fottuto” (fucking cuckold). You can read about it in my essay in Gastronomica from a few years ago #earlymodern #foodhistory
April 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM