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0alexander.bsky.social
there’s a lot of competition, but one of the most noxious american cultural exports has got to be christmas music
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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entzuendung.bsky.social
My take on that one R. Crumb panel from sometime last year.
December 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
0alexander.bsky.social
grotesque
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
people got so fixated on "fuckin magnets how do they work?" but by far the funniest Miracles in that song are I Got Scared By A Pelican In San Francisco and, number one with a bullet, Dirt
July 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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trahias.bsky.social
Jess Allen, British, 1966

The Passing of Time, 2023

Oil on canvas

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
Are Scam Compounds the Real Cause of Thailand-Cambodia Fighting?
Intense strikes targeted “pig butchering” syndicates on the border.
foreignpolicy.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
0alexander.bsky.social
it’s too bad that you’re being puppeteered by vast and impersonal structural forces. have you tried being endowed with a pure and uncorrupted will?
December 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
the whale’s vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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renemagritte.bsky.social
Le secret des nuages / The secret of the clouds - 1927
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112332
cat: 174
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
0alexander.bsky.social
here in toronto, we know that people have a variety of different transportation needs. that’s why we take a “worst of all possible worlds” approach - so that no matter how you choose to get to your destination, you feel like you’re being punished for it
auguststreet.ca august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 3d
this one minute video sums up today's opening of toronto's newest light rail, line 6.

this is so, so infuriating.

~50 min to go 10 km; ~30 min to go 5km.

in this case, the cross street is a minor road, yet the train is still held up for a minute for left turns
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Bull's head rhyton, Minoan, 1600-1500 BC
The head of a bull done in I think clay in black and white and I spotted a bowl here a right honey is a drinking vessel designed so that you can't put it down once you fill it with liquor fill it with wine you have to keep drinking till it's empty
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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paulhammond51.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Checking out some interesting rocks with Perseverance's MastCam-Z camera during the morning of mission Sol 1703 (December 4, 2025). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

#perseverance #marsrover #m2020 #nasa #science #space #exploration #solarocks #mars #mastcam-z #rocks #jpl
Panoramic view of a Mars landscape, dominated by a reddish-brown, rocky terrain. Large, dark-colored boulders are scattered across the foreground, amidst smaller rocks and fine-grained regolith. The background features a flatter, more distant landscape of similar color, suggesting a wide expanse of the Martian surface outside Jezero Crater.
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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pmondrian.bsky.social
Still Life with Gingerpot 2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/still-life-with-gingerpot-2-1912
Still Life with Gingerpot 2
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
0alexander.bsky.social
there is something so powerful about an earthen mound raised in commemoration of the dead
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
I see life as a shared gift, received from others and passed on to others, living and dying as one process, in which lies both our suffering and our reward. Without mortality to purchase it, how can we have the consciousness of eternity? I think the price is worth paying.
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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dscovr-epic.bsky.social
8:48:15 PM on Sunday, November 30, 2025, over the South Pacific Ocean.
Earth from space, centered on the South Pacific Ocean, captured on Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 8:48:15 PM by NASA's DSCOVR EPIC camera.
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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andrewjonesspace.bsky.social
This is a spectacular view of the fiery descent and failed landing attempt of the Zhuque-3 first stage. m.weibo.cn/detail/52397...
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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trahias.bsky.social
Northern Lights. Study from North Norway (date unlisted) by Swedish artist, Anna Boberg (1864-1935),
Oil on canvas

97 x 75 cm, 38 x 30 in approx

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🏔 Wild flowers of the North American mountains /
New York: R.M. McBride, 1915.

[Source]
Historical botanical illustration titled "Wild flowers of the North American mountains," Plate XLVI, showing Red Wintergreen (Pyrola asarifolia var. incarnata) and Green-flowered Wintergreen (Pyrola chlorantha). The image features several slender flower stalks with small, bell-shaped blooms and round, veined leaves at their base. The flowers and leaves are arranged vertically against a plain background, highlighting their delicate structure. This early 20th-century depiction showcases mountain wildflowers known for their distinct floral clusters and leaf shapes, useful for botanical study and identification in mountainous regions.
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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lake-superior.live
Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:
Views of Lake Superior, Caribou Island at left, Middle Islands at center, and the entrance to Moskey Basin, home of Rock Harbor Lighthouse, at right. // Image captured at: 2025-12-03 06:05:49 UTC (about 13 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: 24.59 F | -4.12 C // Precip: snow // Wind: WNW at 15.412 mph | 24.80 kph // Humidity: 90%
December 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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garfieldscreens.bsky.social
episode 087
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
0alexander.bsky.social
ngl “prioritize sentence structure over meaning” is a cutely sciencey way to describe poetry
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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basquiat.bsky.social
Per Capita, 1981
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5024
Per Capita
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
0alexander.bsky.social
is that good
adrianluckman.bsky.social Adrian Luckman @adrianluckman.bsky.social · 8d
Huge fractures opening at the Thwaites Glacier Eastern Ice Shelf grounding line
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM