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Museum Haunter

@museum-wanderer.bsky.social

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Cats, film photography, cyanotype, digital collage, nonsense. Gen X. She/her. https://linktr.ee/opulent.tarnish

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · Aug 11

#DCStatehoodNow

The flag of Washington DC under a silhouette of the city with a “51” on it, to promote DC as the 51st state.

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 12h

Wait, how should it be pronounced?

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t know that the DC area has a lot of these. Bowie, MD. What else?

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 16h

Washington DC, our nation’s capital, now has ZERO daily newspapers worthy of the name. It’s embarrassing.

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t believe how little ink @washingtonpost.com is giving to the shutdown. I feel like it was full of updates last time.

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 18h

I have the same model, inherited from my grandmother, and I don’t have space to actually use it. It’s yours if you want it.

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 19h

Same. I have placed like one or two orders since, for little things I literally could not find elsewhere.

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 20h

I didn’t really care about Prime Day even when I had Prime. The deals are not that great, and they were never for anything I actually needed.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 20h

Is that good or bad? 😬

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh, that’s fantastic. Non-representational art usually doesn’t move me but I felt this one.

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 20h

Gorgeous. And that necklace! 💖

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 20h

Does it have illustration plates? May try to track one down for collage purposes.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21h

After trillions of Euro in investment and years of grueling (and some say dangerous) experimentation, the Large Pasta Collider has yielded another critical breakthrough in the fundamental physics of pasta dishes.

Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce

``Pasta alla Cacio e pepe'' is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect texture and creaminess of the sauce ca...

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 21h

Yep! Nice score!

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J 🩵🐚🏳️‍⚧️ @theoraclej.com · 21h

get you some pretties, trans loves! Nora's got this great and wonderful event ze's running! ONE HOUR

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

nora.jewelry

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 1d

32 years ago today, Homer showed his new chainsaw and hockey mask to Bart. "Cape Feare," first aired October 7, 1993.

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 21h

Black.

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 21h

Don’t pick up the phone please, I’m trying to transmit a signal

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 22h

Some of my octopus prints for World Octopus Day this October 8! 🧪🐡🐙

First up my lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The fins reminded scientists of ears of the elephant in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo.

My 9.25” x 12.5” Lino block print of a Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The octopus is mostly bluish with red at the top and on its ear-like fins. Its tentacles are brown and all spiralling up close to its body. The dark water around it is blue-black.

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 23h

Whatever this is.

A black cat sitting next to a floor-length mirror so it looks like an octopus.

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 23h

I hope you feel better soon.

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 23h

OMG that would have driven me insane!

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Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 1d

First pumpkin beer of the season. Even though it was 80 degrees and humid today…

A black and orange beer can:

TROEGS
INDEPENDENT
BREWING
MASTER
- OF -
PUMPKINS

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 1d

(Note: not actually explicit.)

Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 1d

Sweeter Than Truth - oil on canvas - 46x50 inches - October 2000
Wow, 25 years ago, I finished this one. More info in alt text.
#oilpainting #art #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism

Back 2000, I didn’t know any other painters who lived near me. It was the only year since I graduated art school that I didn’t exhibit my work somewhere. But every day when I came home from my soul-sucking office job, I went into the studio and gave it all I had. A year later, I’d find a gallery in DC interested in showing my stuff. This one ended up in my first solo show, there. I’ve learned a lot more since then, but I still like this weird thing I made, when I was still figuring out some of the basics of how to do this thing I do.

An oil painting of a human torso on a stylized couch in an otherwise empty interior space. It has no head, just an opening in the neck. It has its arm around a box-like piece of machinery, whose cord trails off the couch and across the floor. A large hose comes out of the top of the box, curling around and depositing a greenish liquid into the torso’s neck orifice. The box has a slot for currency. The torso’s other hand holds som, ready to pay for more.

Museum Haunter @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 1d

Nipple? I’d be really concerned about someone who found that sexy, TBH. 😂

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