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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊
@ceruleanlib.bsky.social
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Positives: Clean Air, Potable Water, Music, Reading/Libraries, Vizslas, Cooking, Gardening, Film & Theater, History & Politics. Lived: US Midwest, East Coast, Middle East & Asia Worked in classrooms, libraries, Agile scrums & a series of Interweb tubes
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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · Jan 10
A favorite photo from Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts. This photo was taken on a gorgeous summer afternoon in August 2023.
#PhotoSky #photography #sunshine #trees
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pecker head @pecker-head.bsky.social · 1h
ruby-crowned kinglet #birds
ruby-crowned kinglet
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1h
Poem of the Week: Tell Them I Came, And No One Answered
by Dermot Bolger
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Poem of the Week: Tell Them I Came, And No One Answered
A new work by Dermot Bolger
www.irishtimes.com
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1h
Wolf Suschitzky
Man outside Foyles, 1936

"This celebrated photograph of Foyles’ bookshop appears staged but, in fact, is a classic street photograph. Wolf waited patiently across the road for his subject to appear."
- Mark Richards

#BookShopDay
A man in an overcoat & hat reads a book outside the shop
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1h
Arthur Rubinstein browses in Hatchard’s Bookshop, Piccadilly
📷 Erich Auerbach, October 1963
The pianist reads a book in the shop
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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 2h
An old cabin tucked in the trees. #canoeing #kootenaylake #canada #October
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1h
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h
Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1h
Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23h
SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23h
Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 2h
Mean-ish but definitely funny!
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 2d
Okay, my best attempt: CROSS-naw-hor-kaw-ee
But the first four vowels are all the same. So keep the “o” sound from “cross” and repeat it three more times. (Somewhere between “aw” and “ah”)
“Hor” gets the second most emphasis.
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 2d
Anyone who needs me, I’ll be here all day teaching people how to pronounce Krasznahorkai 🇭🇺
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d
Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.
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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 2h
On-point seasonal graffiti. Seen on this morning’s walk with the athletic Vizsla. #SkyPhotos #photos #photography #graffiti #Halloween #spooky 📸
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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 2h
Wonderful photograph! Kim Novak had such a stunning look to accompany her acting chops!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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Victor Roa @crithon.bsky.social · 10h
BINGO!
I still consider this a Disney film, in the same way as Fantasia or Nightmare Before Christmas, they are big and bold experiments that show the dedication to the CRAFT! It's impossible to ignore the work put into this film!
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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 1d
Speaking of secret sauce that wasn't anywhere to be found in the sequels, so much of the idiosyncrasies of the original film that make it timeless come from visionary artist Jean Giraud AKA Moebius.
TRON concept art by moebius TRON (1982) character sketches by Moebius TRON (1982) character sketches by Moebius In-Movie design based on Moebius concept art
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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 2d
I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.
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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 4h
In this economy, wooden stakes sound like a sound investment opportunity.

Always appreciate Your Grace’s positive suggestions!
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 4h
Creative expression is the essence of the human experience. Try making a new dish, or stabbing an ai slopper with a wooden stake.
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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 4h
Thanks to Atlas the Vizsla, my current daily cardio/walking distance is over 6 miles per day this past year. Thank goodness I love to walk!
Atlas the Vizsla enjoys walking along the Charles River Atlas the Vizsla in last year’s more vibrant foliage Pics or it didn’t happen? Confirmation of our daily walking distance for the past 12 months = 6.3 miles daily
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Marc with a Dark & Stormy Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social · 5h
My local library peeps see me walk in and immediately turn around to see what I have on the hold shelf. Recently, 2 staffers asked if I was a chef or a cookbook writer—as I borrow so many cookbooks. #libraries #librariesrock
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h
[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Deanna (I Am Alchevibe Designs) @alchevibedesigns.bsky.social · 11h
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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 10h
I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...
AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought
An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.
futurism.com
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