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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 3h

As a teenager my (public service) therapist gave me information to give to my parents to get us on Medicaid, which we would have qualified for. I remember his complete bewilderment when I updated him that my parents were too lazy to fill out the paperwork and refused to. #cptsd

Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 3h

Sharks are also older than the North Star

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14h

PRESS: "What do you think about Emperor Caligula naming his horse as a Senator?"

SPEAKER JOHNSON: "I didn't see that. i don't have time to follow every news story or social media post."

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 3h

The way my mom guilted me over aging out of the tax credit as if it was my fault. On a related note remember the time I needed dental care and instead she bought a ping pong table

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 12h

any tax benefits provided to parents are in fact morally wrong

those tax benefits should accrue to children, and children should be able to legally recover them from parents if they weren't spent in their interests

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 8h

"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" by Gustav Klimt (Austrian) – Oil, gold, and silver on canvas / 1907 – Neue Galerie New York #WomenInArt #GustavKlimt #Klimt #art #artText #artwork #AustrianArtist #PortraitofaWoman #NeueGalerieNewYork #NeueGalerie #gold #fin-de-siècle #ViennaSecession #ArtNouveau

Austrian artist Gustav Klimt began this portrait in 1903, after seeing the sixth-century mosaics of Ravenna, which he called of “unprecedented splendor.” Their shimmer helped catalyze his Golden Phase, in which paint, silver, and gold leaf fused icon and portrait. The sitter, Adele Bloch-Bauer was a Jewish Viennese patron and salonnière and was the only person Klimt painted twice in full-length portraits, signaling their artistic rapport and the family’s support of the Viennese avant-garde.

A luminous, mosaic-like field of gold envelops the pale, oval-faced Adele with cropped dark hair and crimson lips. Centered frontally, she gazes outward, her forearms lifted and hands clasped into an elegant, slightly tense knot at her chest. A flat, patterned sheath and diaphanous golden mantle merge with the background, studded with triangles containing “all-seeing” eye motifs and tiny raised monograms “AB.” A diamond choker hugs her neck; bracelets and rings glint at the wrists and fingers. Around her head, a halo of ornament presses forward; below, a band of black-and-white trim at the lower left hints at the artist’s studio furnishings. Space feels ambiguous as she seems at once seated and standing as spirals, rectangles, and circles ripple across the surface like Byzantine tesserae bits of stone and glass pulsing with light.

Commissioned by her husband, industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, the work originally hung in their Vienna, Austria home. In 1938, the Nazis seized the family’s Klimts; in Vienna the canvas was retitled “Woman in Gold” to obscure Adele’s identity. Decades later, her niece Maria Altmann pursued restitution; following the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision enabling the case and an Austrian arbitration, the painting was returned to the heirs.

In 2006, Ronald S. Lauder acquired it for the Neue Galerie in New York, where it has remained on permanent view and is often described as the museum’s “Mona Lisa.”

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 14h

We knew CNN was bought and paid for. Now they’re brazenly editing interviews, like stripping out the word ‘plenary’ said by little Stephen Miller.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Halloween! 🎃🧙‍♀️🦝🐾😂😂💙

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 4h

Still don’t know who that is lmao so I think she’s still winning in my book

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 4h

Hell sounds scary but also have you ever gone to a speaking event where your boss insists on sitting in the front and then also talking through the entire thing and you can see the speaker quietly dying

Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 4h

I think the people saying this must be so out of touch with what it’s like to be poor

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 4h

Tried watching “The Surfer” and turned it off after 40 minutes. Was very boring but also none of the things the main character does make any sense. At one point he goes into a public restroom and removes his shoes before going into a stall? Why? Who would ever do that?

Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 4h

Did they even write her a letter about it I mean come on

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t even know who that man is

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 4h

67% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. 1 in 4 have no emergency savings. They don’t work, they don’t eat. Their kids don’t eat. You’re asking people to do something impossible for them.

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 4h

This is unrealistic and I wish people would stop suggesting it, it’s not helpful. Would it work? Sure! So would a lot of things that will never happen

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 5h

Reconnected with an ex boyfriend who got me a job where I met my best friend of over 10 years now. The ex boyfriend? I remembered he sucked like 2 months after I got the job lol

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 5h

Gonna convince my bf to do a couples costume this year: Kristi Noem and the bush she has to poop in

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 8h

Nooo because that’s comedy you see. Man in dress is funny haha. What a ridiculous world in which that would happen

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 13h

I liked it a lot but I do wish Alex did more cool detective stuff. He just kind of stumbles into everything that happens

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comfort foods @primpker.bsky.social · 15h

on account of how fucked up everything is these days online, maybe Kim Kardashian did indeed break the internet when she released that photo of her big butt. We have to go back in time and kill her.

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CloudStrife @sstrife.bsky.social · 1d

Puppy killer Kristi Noem is complaining that no Chicago restaurants are willing to serve her ICE goons. 👏 Chicago, we love you for this!!!

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Sean Bon Jovi @seanbonjovi.bsky.social · 13h

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