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Shlepcar @shlepcar.bsky.social · Aug 17

Nob Hill, San Francisco
John Gutmann
1938, printed ca. 1974
SFMOMA

#photosky

Smoking Pen @smokingpen.bsky.social · Jul 18

I would go to the library and get a recent anthology of writings on those subjects. Get a taste for whose writing you like and go from there... enjoy!

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · Jun 22

Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 23

Edita with the duster, 1977 from the series 'Servitude' by Panamanian photographer Sandra Eleta, known for her work reflecting the largely invisible lives of women and girls employed in areas such as domestic workers #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting woman in an interior, wearing a white overall and holding a feather duster with proud expression

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vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · Jun 18

"We are all one.
Only egos, beliefs, and fears
separate us."

- Nikola Tesla

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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · Jun 15

A timely message for people who would deprive trans girls and women of the joy of competing in sports, out of ignorance and obsession with losing to them ...

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vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · May 30

Helen Levitt
New York
1938

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Jun 8

Two men with a baby, Circa 1940.
Photo by Helen Levitt.
Beautiful.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 16

Helen Levitt (913-2009), US photographer noted for her street photography around New York City from the late 1930's to the 1990's #womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring children climbing and playing on the grand doorway,with two pillars, of an old brick building

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · Jun 13

#Photography, J.E. Williamson, ‘20 years under the sea,’ 1914 #art

J.E. Williamson was one of the first to make a film about undersea life. He invented the photosphere, a mechanism that allows a camera to be taken underwater, & used in the 1916 film, Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

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Smoking Pen @smokingpen.bsky.social · Jun 9

Mission Bay is my old hood. Love all the replanting of succulents. They will outlast Databricks AI, I promise you. Choosing to see the beauty.

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Smoking Pen @smokingpen.bsky.social · Jun 9

Pix of SF native flora and streets and buildings always welcome. Even with weird wraparounds.

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L.E. Harrison @leharrison.bsky.social · May 23

#Booksky #Readersky #Books

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · May 18

Louise Bourgeois used lithographs as part of her fabric illustrated book, 'Ode à l'Oubli' 2004 #WomensArt

A variety of images from a cloth book including soft white material pages with red text or particular patterns and shapes

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Smoking Pen @smokingpen.bsky.social · May 20

Of course, why just stop with destroying the human species? I’m taking heart that we are fighting back and will roll back damage. More rather than less, I hope.

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Smoking Pen @smokingpen.bsky.social · May 20

I did not know this. The hyper capitalist rot is being exposed.

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Smoking Pen @smokingpen.bsky.social · May 17

Speak up. Speak out. Your tongue is a powerful weapon. It builds and burns down worlds.
#resistance #freespeech #feminism #art

Black and white drawing of a woman with a tongue that transforms into a looping serpent who argues with her. Text reads: speak up your tongue is dangerous

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Zaftig Parcheesi @realcoolsolid.bsky.social · May 15

Spotted in the wild!! Thanks @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 14

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · May 13

A’ho!

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Paul Callahan (he/him) @paulcallahanmv.bsky.social · May 15

"“It’s not something that a district court can entertain,” he said. “We think the proper venue for that question is Louisiana, where she is detained and where her custodian is.”

“But she is only detained there because you moved her,” said the judge."

U.S. Charges Russian Scientist With Smuggling

www.nytimes.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · May 14

HAPPENING NOW: Hearing in the case of Kaseniia Petrova, the Harvard scientist from Russia who was detained by ICE after she failed to declare scientific samples when she returned to the US from France.

The hearing is before a federal judge in Vermont.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · May 13

We didn’t forget about journalist Jamal Khashoggi, did we?

Murdered inside a Saudi consulate. Dismembered. Then a full-on coverup, sanctioned at the highest levels.

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John Henry @priveteye.bsky.social · May 11

Israel does not have the right

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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · May 14

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Take a listen to this important message from Timothy Snyder, author and historian who wrote the book ‘On Tyranny’ which I would highly recommend EVERY AMERICAN should read. @TimothyDSnyder 🎥 TikTok -...

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