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Arthur David Spota
@adaspota.bsky.social
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Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor Galaxist, Tulpa at-large
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Jan 27
My Poem / Text "Condensed Virtualities (An Invocation)"
from Peculiar Mormyrid #5. The Issue is an exploration of Revolt. The Poem appears in the section The Domain of the Invocation.

Artwork by Toby Penney

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 11h
Goodnight🌕

Michelle Sunna ~ Night owls
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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 15h
Related story from way back on the Grail:

www.dailygrail.com/2009/10/witc...
Witches' Brews: The Use of Psychedelics in Medieval Witchcraft
The following is an excerpt from Paul Devereux’s The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK), reprinted with permission. The Long Trip is… …probably the most co...
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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 15h
The chemistry of witchcraft.

www.chemistryworld.com/features/fro...
From flying ointments to healing herbs: the forgotten chemistry behind historical witchcraft practices
The unusual concoctions of village witches have historically been dismissed as nonsense hocus pocus - but is this the whole story? Victoria Atkinson investigates the chemistry behind the myth and whet...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d
Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files
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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 15h
Gino Severini
Festival in Montmartre
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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 15h
Gino Severini, 1912, Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin,
oil on canvas with sequins, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 12h
FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime
(Greg Olear)

"They was terrified. Kids were crying, people were screaming, because they was bringing the kids down too, had them zip tied to each other. One of them literally laughed. He said, f*** them kids”

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FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime
From ICE Gestapo raids to vaccines, from economic policy to Epstein files, the Administration's priorities are summed up perfectly in those three words. #FTK.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 12h
Miles Davis ~ Madness
(from Nefertiti, 1967)
#NowPlaying #MilesDavis #JazzSky

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Madness
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h
The condescension of two-bit Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi today underscores that the only thing this administration excels at is a complete lack of self-awareness.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 15h
Joseph Cornell, American artist and film maker, and one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.

Untitled (Tamara Toumanova), ca. 1940
(collage with tempera on paperboard)

#JosephCornell #Surrealism #Collage
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 18h
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), “Untitled (Tamara Toumanova)” (c. 1940), collage with tempera on paperboard.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 15h
Adrian Belew ~ All Her Love is Mine
(from Op Zop Too Wah, 1997)
#NowPlaying #AdrianBelew #MusicSky

Beautiful melody, otherworldly ambiance, otherworldly guitar. Belew at the top of his art.

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Adrian Belew - All her love is mine
YouTube video by Free Prog Rock
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 15h
Horst P. Horst ~ Muriel Maxwell
(for Vogue, August 1st, 1940)
#HorstPHorst #Photography #Vogue
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 15h
American Fashion Model Judy Dent, photographed by Frank Horvat for Élegance, Paris 1961.

#Photography
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
Bert Stern
Twiggy in a Le Corbusier chair
Vogue, November 1967
Twiggy lounges on a modern chair
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958)
Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958)
Overpopulation, manipulative politics, imbalances of societal power, addictive drugs, even more addictive technologies: these and other developments have pushed not just democracy but civilization its...
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 15h
Good Evening✨
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Jul 15
Jean-Michel Basquiat ~ Melting Point of Ice, 1984
(acrylic, oilstick and silkscreen on canvas)

#JeanMichelBasquiat #ContemporaryArt #Primitivism
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Jun 4
Jamila Woods ~ BASQUIAT (2019)
#JamilaWoods #MusicSky

Chicago poet and singer-songwriter Jamila Woods' LEGACY! LEGACY! is a celebration of past, present and future by way of looking at influential artists, writers and thinkers like Sun Ra and Jean-Michel Basquiat

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BASQUIAT
YouTube video by Jamila Woods - Topic
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Sep 15
Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time. - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Horn Players (1983)
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h
This strikes me as pretty bad
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 18h
Filles de Kilimanjaro III (Miles Davis) by Kazuya Sakai (1976)
This acrylic on canvas is part of Sakai's Ondulaciones (Undulations) series. The title is a homage to the 1968 Miles Davis album of the same name. Multicolored swirls on a green background.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.
I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d
This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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