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Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
14.) Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
14.) Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
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One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...
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February 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
14.) Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
14.) Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
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Ras le bol des gens qui volent vos idées images et publications juste pour se faire des followers.. c'est pire ici que sur Twitter. Je préfère rester dans mon coin solitaire; vas-y tu as plus de 700 posts à copier et n'oublie pas de les mettre à ta sauce sinon quelqu'un finira par le remarquer ..
February 11, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Ras le bol des gens qui volent vos idées images et publications juste pour se faire des followers.. c'est pire ici que sur Twitter. Je préfère rester dans mon coin solitaire; vas-y tu as plus de 700 posts à copier et n'oublie pas de les mettre à ta sauce sinon quelqu'un finira par le remarquer ..
Souvent le seul moyen de sortir d'un labyrinthe est de ne pas y entrer ....
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Souvent le seul moyen de sortir d'un labyrinthe est de ne pas y entrer ....
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"Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
-- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
#BookSky
-- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
#BookSky
February 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
"Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
-- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
#BookSky
-- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
#BookSky
Why are people so fake?
February 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Why are people so fake?
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Walled garden and a beelzebub fart
February 11, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Walled garden and a beelzebub fart
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BRING me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
—Langston Hughes
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
—Langston Hughes
February 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM
BRING me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
—Langston Hughes
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
—Langston Hughes
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The Church - Under The Milky Way
#Music #MusicSky
The algorithm reminded me of this one.
youtu.be/aM3oBxve4Wg?...
#Music #MusicSky
The algorithm reminded me of this one.
youtu.be/aM3oBxve4Wg?...
Under the Milky Way
YouTube video by The Church - Topic
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February 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
The Church - Under The Milky Way
#Music #MusicSky
The algorithm reminded me of this one.
youtu.be/aM3oBxve4Wg?...
#Music #MusicSky
The algorithm reminded me of this one.
youtu.be/aM3oBxve4Wg?...
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Curved Steel
#StreetPhotography
#BlackAndWhite
#ClassicMono
#UrbanMoments
#CityRhythm
#QuietStreets
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#WhatsNext
#StreetPhotography
#BlackAndWhite
#ClassicMono
#UrbanMoments
#CityRhythm
#QuietStreets
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#WhatsNext
February 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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sisyphus on the moon
February 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
sisyphus on the moon
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Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming se...
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February 10, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
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Eyes on the table
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146
February 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Eyes on the table
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146
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Another for this great prompt from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social
#promptcombo #ecstasy
#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#promptcombo #ecstasy
#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Another for this great prompt from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social
#promptcombo #ecstasy
#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#promptcombo #ecstasy
#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
Un changement d'attitude est le meilleur antidote à ce qui empoisonne votre vie et vous confronte quotidiennement aux souvenirs d'un passé qui pendant si longtemps vous a meurtri et usé votre énergie vitale.
February 10, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Un changement d'attitude est le meilleur antidote à ce qui empoisonne votre vie et vous confronte quotidiennement aux souvenirs d'un passé qui pendant si longtemps vous a meurtri et usé votre énergie vitale.
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February 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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'Since when,' he asked,
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
February 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
'Since when,' he asked,
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
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Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, 2025)
Francois Truffaut BOTD
Francois Truffaut BOTD
February 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, 2025)
Francois Truffaut BOTD
Francois Truffaut BOTD
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“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
![I am all at a loose end since you left; I feel as if I haven't seen you for ten years. Every conversation that I have with my mother is about you. Everyone here loves you dearly.
Under what constellation were you born then, to be blessed with such qualities, so diverse and so rare?
I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone. We got on well together, didn't we? It was very agreeable.
It was so good that I do not want to share the pleasure with anyone else. If you happen to use Croisset in one of your books, do disguise it so that nobody recognizes it. I would appreciate it. The memory of your visit is just for the two of us, for me. That is how selfish I am.
I particularly missed you last night, at ten o'clock. There was a fire, over at my wood-merchant's. The sky was pink and the Seine was the colour of red-currant syrup. I worked at the pumps for three hours and I came home as weary as the Turk with the giraffe? [...]
One of the Rouen newspapers (Le Nouvelliste) reported your visit to Rouen, so that on Saturday after I had left you I met several bourgeois in a state of indignation over the fact that I had not put you on display. A former magistrate took the prize: 'If we had known that she was here... we would have... we would have ..? - five-minute pause, he's looking for the word - We would have... smiled at her.' That would have been rather meagre, don't you think?
[...]
To love you 'more' is difficult for me. But I do embrace you most tenderly.
Your letter this morning, so melancholy, stirred me. We parted company just at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words. All of the doors between the two of us are not yet open. You inspire a great respect in me and I do not have the courage to ask you questions, Farewell, I kiss your sweet and lovely countenance, and I am
Your
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February 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
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The night sky simmers and sparks. Any attempt to understand what we see in the cosmos relies on knowing how it changes, night after night. These variations are preserved beautifully on a hundred years of glass plate photographs.
How Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos | Quanta Magazine
Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.
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February 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The night sky simmers and sparks. Any attempt to understand what we see in the cosmos relies on knowing how it changes, night after night. These variations are preserved beautifully on a hundred years of glass plate photographs.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928
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PEOPLE/EINSTEIN.GIF
February 7, 2026 at 12:20 PM
PEOPLE/EINSTEIN.GIF