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David M Rubin

@six18sfoundry.bsky.social

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Stories, poems, essays, photos. Posts & pics on my peeps: Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Ozu, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, H.D., Jameses. Love the friendly connecting with everyone. www.six18sfoundry.com Grab your copy of Junk Birds!

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · Dec 21

My collection of previously published stories, Junk Birds and other stories has become!

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3 birds (myna pigeon sparrow) in silhouette on border between olive brown & cream color fields. Junk Birds and other stories by David M. Rubin

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 17h

Loki yawning

White Malti poo (rescue from Missouri) in blue striped sweater on grey blanket in full yawn

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 17h

Worm holes

2 Morning glories defying the cold and rising on vines up stone wall next to wires

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 13h

It’s demanding to defeat those evil machines

The Flaming lips Yoshimi battles the pink robots album covered.

Little woman in skirt and clenched fists going to wallop a giant pink robot iron man thing

David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 17h

Loki yawning

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Worm holes

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

#6 rereading the Metamorphosis and some other Kafka stories (plus one Bernhard) as part of an independent study was definitely a highlight of my reading year! #Kafka #DieVerwandlung #booksky #litsky

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 18h

Interestingly Emperor’s Tomb (the sequel) is much less in every way & still great

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 2d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

John Keats hair metal phase
#poetrysunday +3

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out "hold, enough!" You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

John Keats hair metal phase
#poetrysunday +3

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

Huge lol

David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

Yes especially as the tea and oranges are tariffed

David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

Favorite Nomura:

1. Castle of Sand
2. Stakeout
3. Demon
4. Shadow Within
5. Zero Focus (though does have Kuga & Arima; he chose to star Kuga after working w her in the idiot)

I tend to watch chronologically. & these 5 a thematic set. But you can watch in any order.

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 3d

rolling in the brain like pebbles

Life at War (first ~3 stanzas)
Denise Levertov
w nestled Rilke
(highly recommended finding the rest of the poem)
#poetrysunday +2

The disasters numb within us caught in the chest, rolling
in the brain like pebbles. The feeling resembles lumps of raw dough
weighing down a child's stomach on baking day.
Or Rilke said it, 'My heart. ..
Could I say of it, it overflows with bitterness . . . but no, as though its contents were simply balled into formless lumps, thus do I carry it about.'

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 3d

Those 2 & Stakeout maybe his best ones. All 3 totally stand alone.

Zero Focus important but the story way more convoluted.

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 5d

Come listen to us explain why the Eagles are good actually.

The List of Lists Podcast @thelistoflists.bsky.social · 5d

This week we had Marvel Zombies, Spinal Tap 2 The End Continues, and One Battle After Another on our lists before counting the five nominees for Grammy Record of the Year for 1978.

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#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky

Movie posters for Spinal Tap 2, One Battle After Another, and Marvel Zombies.

Record covers for You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone, Blue Bayou by Linda Rondstadt, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by Crystal Gayle, Hotel California by the Eagles, and a evergreen by Barbra Streisand.

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 3d

The whole poem

www.longpauses.com/life-at-war/

Life at War – Long Pauses

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 3d

rolling in the brain like pebbles

Life at War (first ~3 stanzas)
Denise Levertov
w nestled Rilke
(highly recommended finding the rest of the poem)
#poetrysunday +2