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A Skull On Fire @a-skull-on-fire.bsky.social · Apr 9

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A Skull On Fire

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If you see this, quote your green #art 🦚

A skeleton stands facing the viewer. The image is bisected: its left side is wearing green plate armour and holding a sword, while its right side is wearing a billowing green dress and flower crown, and holding a rose. The artist’s signature is a skull on fire.

July 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.

June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM

A Skull On Fire

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Apparently this is #PortfolioDay ?

Guess I’d better post a few things. 🖤💀

A skeleton with a flaming skull, wearing casual clothing, sits in a tomb ignoring a typewriter. Caption reads “Deadlines are only useful if they affect someone who’s got more motivation than you.”

D&D’s Count Strahd von Zarovitch performs Estelle on the pipe organ while the tied-up adventuring party writhe in dismay.

Two children summon the ghost of a dead housekeeper/nanny, using her mummified burned head.

April 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM

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steph

@starrysteph.bsky.social

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky

please join me in the fight to save our libraries.

EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.