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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 3m

#Jams

Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party | Live at The Ritz (1987)

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 17m

#Jams

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Official Video)

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 1h

Café. So caffeinated I’m hovering one millimeter off my chair.

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 25m

#TheCOLOR

Clockwise from top-left:

Hvaleyri Beach, Iceland

Dragon’s Blood trees of Socotra Island, Yemen

Rainbow Eucalyptus Forest, Australia

Tasyaran Valley in Usuk, Turkey

Petrified National Forest

Cuevas de Mármal, on the edge of General Carrera Lake in Patagonia, Chile

#PlacesOfInterest

swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 36m

Um, bruh, that’s not how percentages be working.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 37m

You know, when you’re drunk on power, sometimes your words get away from you…

😏🍸🤮

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 1h

Antifa Fighters Assemble🐰🦖🐓
Fight🐸
#wizardfrog
#resist
#antifa
#fuckfascism

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Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 1h

Start your weekend off right by watching a hillbilly make a swirly cake

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 40m

#RecommendedReading: “Witchcraft” a compendium by Jessica Hundley and Pam Grossman from The Library of Esoterica. Another fabulous Taschen imprint.

swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 44m

#RecommendedReading: “The Q# Pocket Guide” and “Quantum Programming in Depth” by Ukrainian Mariia Mykhailova, the Principal Quantum Software Developer at PsiQuantum, working on software for fault-tolerant quantum computation. She also gave an interesting talk at the ACM a few weeks ago.

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 49m

#Jams

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (Live in Berlin)

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 49m

#Jams

[HD] Björk - Bachelorette (Jools Holland 1997)

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 50m

#Jams

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 58m

Tonight’s scary movie: “Suspiria” (1977), directed by Dario Argento

Official Trailer: Suspiria (1977)

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 8h

“The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.”

Patti Smith on love, loss, time, and transformation www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/19/p...

Patti Smith on Time, Transformation, and How the Radiance of Love Redeems the Rupture of Loss

“The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

Obama should just a post a photo today with his Nobel medal casually propped on a credenza behind him.

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

Please make Foxy’s Restaurant in Glendale be their cover operation, where they lure MAGA in with promises of bacon burgers.

(We can add an extra “x” into Foxy’s in post.)

Foxy’s noble A-Frame diner space and great grub

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 7h

TV show idea: Foxxy. In the near future, MAGA leaders have fled the country to escape justice. To bring them to trial, The Pentagon launches a covert squad of former Miss Universe contestants turned elite mercenaries — led by former black ops veteran, Jerrica Foxxy.

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

And I never noticed it until that monochrome image on the front cover, but boy howdy, does Putin look like a half-assed Julius Caesar.

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

#ObjectsOfTheDay: I super want a set of all-brass drawing tools like this. Love it.

A set of exquisite brass triangle, rulers, half curves, angle measures….

swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

The light coming into my living room just now was so exquisitely beautiful, and I tried to capture it quickly with my phone before it changed, and boy, did it FAIL.

ANNOYING.

#FilmIsAlwaysBetter

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

Something I totally HATE is when a digital camera tries to “help” you by brightening an image, rather than just flat-out recording what you’re looking at accurately.

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 8h

#RecommendedReading: “Rubicon – The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic“ by Tom Holland

Another magnificent imprint from the @foliosociety.bsky.social

#Booksky 📚

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 8h

#ObjectsOfTheDay: Gretsch Bigsby glory with mother of pearl inlaid fretboards.

#Woodworking
#Craftsmanship

Guitars with a beautiful patina, one in a muted navy blue, and another in an elegant sky blue.

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