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ada ciganlija
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england’s greatest one-armed poet

out for a walk.


(avi is a magnolia blossom, banner is a grey cat, seated on a yellow chair, behind a bowl of satsumas)
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time to see this again i love it
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
every day i celebrate roe deer in my heart
Today is Quintidi the 15th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate roe deer.#JacobinDay

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December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Today is Quintidi the 15th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate roe deer.#JacobinDay

More information on roe deer
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
such a beautiful way to sing about getting older

youtu.be/aygY5OqMuKE?...
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (Official Video)
YouTube video by LCD Soundsystem
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old

192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
disco depressy with extra sequins

youtu.be/SqIQzNNK9d0?...
Comfortably Numb
YouTube video by Scissor Sisters - Topic
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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(Many waters cannot quench love)
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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There is zero pedagogical relevance or value in distinguishing between between a student who gets the right answer or composes a thoughtful response in 5-10 minutes and one who does it in 15-20. There is a lot of bullshit about answering fast coding as "smart." Haven't seen it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
i lost track

who is expendable today?
December 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
snow falling and compounding silences
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
strong floor, no shirt no shoes no service
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
winter come and swallow me
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
on the little table with photos of her throughout her life there was one of her in the garden, and wearing a bikini

‘she used to work in the yard in that bikini’ one of her friends said and that was before my time but, you know, it tracks
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
song of the day du jour

youtu.be/IgdCIAEupNI?...
David Bowie- 02 Breaking Glass
YouTube video by BrokenGrin
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
i don’t feel like i have any grace for anyone today, including myself, god please let me slow down and be a bit better amen
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
my auntie‘s obit is very clear on the point that she was wearing 4 inch cha cha heels well into her 80s

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
not satisfied with destroying whole economies with evil neoliberal policies the university of chicago is branching out into wrecking the entire planet

please no

thebulletin.org/2024/06/the-...
The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative: brave research program or potentially dangerous foray into solar geoengineering?
The University of Chicago is attempting to position itself as the place for serious scientific consideration of the logistics and implications of Earth system interventions aimed at reversing or count...
thebulletin.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
as a child i was in a school xmas play as a reporter named Joe Know and i had to pace the stage scribbling in a little steno pad and muttering ‘a new angle on xmas i need a new angle on xmas’
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Fun history fact! If you were born in the 12th century, by now you'd be dead.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
vjećnaja pamjat my auntie-not-an-auntie, my grandmother’s niece, who was an architect in one life and a cleaner at henry ford in a later one, who was never married &incredibly glamorous &drove a pontiac firebird in her glory days which if you begged she would permit you to start (not reverse). /1
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
interesting mashup, i don’t normally love a breathy chanteuse but it fits the delicacy of this interpretation which makes the song less about being an arse (original lennon version) and more a confession of vulnerability

CW: poignant

youtu.be/Esi7GO6VXU4?...
Claudine Longet - Jealous Guy/Don't Let Me Down
YouTube video by meatfugger
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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And engaging in this kind of pedagogy is simply the entry-level version of when scholars do this, which I wrote about here. www.artforum.com/features/gen...
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM