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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 1d

New Fashion History Video! 🎉

"Button Up, Button Down, Buttons All Around: Men's Coats in the Playful Eighteenth Century"

🗃️🪡

#FashionHistory

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 6h

Rita Moreno is magnificent!

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Still relevant.

Still spectacular

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West Side Story (4/10) Movie CLIP - America (1961) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Richard Garfinkle @rgarfinklesff.bsky.social · 3d

There's a writing trick I often teach about how do do info dumps. The trick is that information imparted by having two characters argue is more likely to be read than the same information presented by one character. /1

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 2d

Banned Books - Gator Days

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Richard Garfinkle @rgarfinklesff.bsky.social · 1d

The Body is like the Org Chart.The Mind is like the Mission Statement. Wipe away the blame.
No Org Chart. No Mission Statement. Where can the blame settle?
From the Deplatform sutra.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..."

Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?"

Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!"

Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !"

Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!"

Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!"

Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!"

Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

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Overly Sarcastic Productions @overlysarcastic.bsky.social · 5d

happy october! -R

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Over the Garden Wall (And Straight Into Dante's Hell) - DETAIL DIATRIBE

YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 11h

Not a peep, not a whistle. Downtown looked perfectly normal. Kids playing in the park, shoppers lugging bags, tourists walking around looking up taking pictures, taco trucks lined up for office workers, dog walkers and joggers, bike messengers, taxis, buses...

Just normal everyday life.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 19h

Heading out to the gym on another peaceful, quiet beautiful autumn day in Chicago. Crickets chirping in the back garden, someone riding a bike past playing music, people walking dogs, early risers waiting for the bus to work.

Chicago is tooling along as always.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 1d

So I was just in peaceful, bustling, safe downtown Chicago with my family.

Saw a taco truck on Wabash but we were meeting elsewhere for lunch, so just passed it amiably.

The parks were nice in the cool after the rain. A large, diversity of people out on the streets enjoying a nice autumn day.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

New favorite t-shirt.

Selfie of Kelly with a Trekkies Against Fascism t-shirt on.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 17h

I generally consider myself opposed to the Christian God, but if Dolly Parton needs me to pray to the Christian God, I'll pray to the Christian God

K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 18h

"Could you pray for my celebrity sister..."

Oh, um, sorry but no, that's not really something I'd--

"--Dolly Parton?"

*knees hit floor*

‘I was up all night praying’: Dolly Parton’s sister asks fans to ‘pray with me’

Hours after the first post, Freida Parton clarified saying her sister has "been a little under the weather."

www.wsoctv.com

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dathiestferret.bsky.social @dathiestferret.bsky.social · 14h

A recent report on a pilot scheme by the Irish government who gave monthly stipends to qualifying artists and craft persons have found that it returned €1.49 in GDP for every €1 granted and it is now to be implemented on a permanent basis. That’s an impressive investment return by any standard.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 17h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 19h

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 15h

I initially gave it six months but I guess I should have given it six days www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

But the thing about slop on those platforms is that it exists alongside real humans, and coming across a truly weird piece of AI content while scrolling hits the right horror-disgust-pleasure point on our lizard brains to make it engaging. When it’s all slop all the time, is that going to eventually become extremely bland? I’m thinking yes, and Sora will be an experiment in platforms that OpenAI abandons within the year. I think it’ll go the way of Zuck’s nu-metaverse and not be fun anymore soon enough. It’s like smoking a whole pack of cigarettes in one sitting: not that enjoyable if you’re allowed, and not that salacious or fun once it’s all you get.

I think reader Tony S has it right in their comment on Jason's Sora blog:

"There's no way that anyone is using this as a 'social media' app in a week or two. The scammers will surely just add it to their growing list of tools that let them rip off advertisers by flooding Facebook and YouTube and where ever else they think they can make $5 on ads with cheap, fast garbage. I truly wonder at what point do the advertisers stop spending money on all these online ads, knowing that this is what they're advertising alongside. The ecosystem has to hit a point of being so polluted that they and the audiences move on, right?"

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 19h

Heading out to the gym on another peaceful, quiet beautiful autumn day in Chicago. Crickets chirping in the back garden, someone riding a bike past playing music, people walking dogs, early risers waiting for the bus to work.

Chicago is tooling along as always.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 1d

New Fashion History Video! 🎉

"Button Up, Button Down, Buttons All Around: Men's Coats in the Playful Eighteenth Century"

🗃️🪡

#FashionHistory

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8J6...

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 1d

So I was just in peaceful, bustling, safe downtown Chicago with my family.

Saw a taco truck on Wabash but we were meeting elsewhere for lunch, so just passed it amiably.

The parks were nice in the cool after the rain. A large, diversity of people out on the streets enjoying a nice autumn day.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 2d

Always and this is real!!

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

Link was on my team about fighting ableist language & trying to get people to see its direct relationship to eugenics, it's hard for disabled people to try to speak on that without having support because we always get antagonism.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 3d

Who started this idea that men are broken? It seems they’re just angry about the people they used to be able to boss around not letting them do that anymore.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

I was with some publishing folks recently. They said almost every pitch now is basically, “this book is just like those other books but written, bravely, BY A MAN.”

The one who could retire, did. The rest of us just got drunk

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Just out here fixing civilization. By reading fiction. As a man.

You’re welcome, ladies.

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