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sugarcopperblue.bsky.social
Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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bozodeluxe.bsky.social
Happy Labor Day
A still from the film "Alien". One the left, Harry Dean Stanton plays Brett. On the right, Yaphet Kotto plays Parker. Brett is wearing a sort of green Hawaiian shirt with a white long-sleeved T shirt underneath and a baseball cap (which, hey, in 2122, at least Hawaiian shirts and baseball caps are still a thing). Parker wears a similar green'd t-shirt with a white short-sleeved button up vest or jacket and a blue head band. They are on the crew of a mining vessel which has picked up a distress signal. At a crew meeting about what to do, Parker and Brett's main concern, at this point in the story, is how they'll be compensated due to the change in plans. Which, after a lifetime of being screwed over by The Corporation, the labor which produces the capital, prior to being subsumed by the xenomorph, has got to flex its solidarity in order to get paid.
September 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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taylordahlin.com
mysterious sign in loring park about dorian the cat’s first annual birthday. no date or location given, but there are lots of activities planned and you should bring 3 gifts. “for more information, please read again.”
September 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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colsonwhitehead.com
Per below, whenever I finish the first draft of a book, the last few hours of work, I put on Purple Rain & Daydream Nation to get me through it. And now…Side One of Purple Rain. See you on the other side!
ninaberries.bsky.social ninaberries @ninaberries.bsky.social · Jun 1
finally reading The Underground Railroad by @colsonwhitehead.com and these two lines in the acknowledgements really stuck out to me
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to Nicole Aragi, Bill Thomas, Rose Courteau, Michael Gold-smith, Duvall Osteen, and Alison Rich (still) for getting this book into your hands. At Hanser over the years: Anna Leube, Christina Knecht, and Piero Salabe. Also: Franklin D. Roosevelt for funding the Federal Writers' Project, which collected the life stories of former slaves in the 1930s. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, obviously. The work of Nathan Huggins, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward E. Baptist, Eric Foner, Fergus Bordewich, and James H. Jones was very helpful. Josiah Nott's theories of "amalgamation." The Diary of a Resurrectionist. Runaway slave advertisements come from the digital collections of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The first one hundred pages were fueled by early Misfits ("Where Eagles Dare [fast version]," "Hor-ror Business," "Hybrid Moments") and Blanck Mass ("Dead Format"). David Bowie is in every book, and I always put on Purple Rain and Daydream Nation when I write the final pages; so thanks to him and Prince and Sonic Youth. And finally, Julie, Maddie, and Beckett for all the love and support. These two sentences point to both why the book has such incredible and disturbingly accurate details and how the author might have been able to summon the will to write it (The Misfits, etc).
June 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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wardqnormal.bsky.social
The reason for the season:
A picture of a package of Marshmallow Peeps, but Photoshopped to say "Pepys." The peeps visible through the packaging are wearing curly old-style wigs. The package explains that it contains "10 diarists." Here's the deal: I only know two things about Samuel Pepys: 1. His name is pronounced like "peeps" 2. He was a famous diarist. That's the only motivation I needed to make this stupid thing as an Easter joke, and I will post it every year on Easter until long after the joke has worn off.
April 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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thecedar.bsky.social
🔊 TONIGHT at The Cedar:
DRONE NOT DRONES - The 10th 28-Hour Drone
Doors: 6:00 PM / Show: 7:00 PM
$40 Day of Show - price for full 28 hours

🎟️ Get tickets: bit.ly/4hZdaJK
January 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
On St Knut’s Day, January 13th, Finns take to the streets dressed as “nuuttipukit” (draped in goat skins and horns) to procure beer and leftovers after Christmas. Photographs from 1928 of the folk tradition here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #onthisday
What looks to be a human figure crouched draped in a furry animal skin with large horns protruding from the head area
January 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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vorthosmike.bsky.social
There’s a small bookshop “adult scholastic book fair” at a local brewery

They vastly misunderstood the demand
January 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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stancarey.bsky.social
Woodcut by M. C. Escher, 1919 (163 × 251 mm) #cats
Woodcut image in black and white of a white cat sitting on a wooden beam or table, against a black background. The cat is facing left and looks relaxed and content, its feet tucked in, its head lowered, its tail drawn in along its body.
January 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Photograph shot from above, aka a bird's eye view, of an urban street with tram tracks, and three figures: a delivery man (perhaps for bread?0 on a bicycle, and a male and female couple walking arm in arm. The long shadows suggest it is early in the morning
January 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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billchilds.bsky.social
One thing I'm not sure everyone realizes is how much more *fun* it is to live in a walkable neighborhood. I know it's not realistic for everyone (all the more reason to make it so for more people), but to be in a spot that's dense enough to support bakeries, groceries, yarn shops, etc.--it rules.
December 31, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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badideas.bsky.social
This is all incredible but I had zero idea that the creator of Maus, which is how I learned about Auschwitz as an American kid, also created the Garbage Pail Kids???
ohrobin.bsky.social gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · Dec 28
Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.

“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
hyperallergic.com
December 28, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
A cozy scene of cats taking in the warmth of a fireplace by French painter Thomas Couture, who was born on this day in 1815 & was teacher of major modern artists including Édouard Manet compiegne-peintures.fr/notice/notic...
A painting of four cats sitting by the warmth of a fireplace in a cozy interior, an armchair close by
December 22, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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streets.mn
Among Giants: A Brief Hydrological History of the Upper Midwest: https://streets.mn/2024/12/20/among-giants-a-brief-hydrological-history-of-the-upper-midwest/
Sometimes trivia is just that: trivial. Some other times, though, it cracks the world open a bit, into something a little less disenchanted. Such is this trinket about my local stretch of the Mississippi River as it bends its way through St. Paul, and the giant from which it emerged. As you might notice upon visiting the Twin Cities, the Mississippi’s valley can be rather narrow or strangely wide, depending on the part of town. (An informal survey of friends and colleagues revealed this is, in fact, quite often not noticed.) To understand why, you might first look north and West, to the Red River Valley along the North Dakota border. The Red River flows north into Canada and, eventually, Hudson Bay, but “valley” is a real misnomer; locals believably claim this to be the flattest place on earth. You also need to look to the past. Driving through the Red River Valley feels akin to being at sea, the earth and sky stretching to their fullest in all directions.* This is not entirely a coincidence; the land here is flat because it was once the bottom of a vast, shallow, ancient lake, Lake Agassiz, formed by melting glaciers. (*Or it feels depressingly dull. Mileage may vary)
December 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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tolcser.bsky.social
Before he went all in on harassing trans ppl, he was bizarrely obsessed with YA authors. It was so upsetting to him that ppl wanted to get rid of racism in kids books. He brought armies of Nazi trolls down on random authors, just “asking questions” about “free speech”.

He’s ALWAYS BEEN like this.
bowsnonk.bsky.social ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · Dec 7
kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform
December 8, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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lauropea.bsky.social
Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic

You: Tell me more 😏

Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
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hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
October 22, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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biketrouble.bsky.social
i love how many garage murals there are in south and i'm very happy people are out here photographing, documenting, and even mapping them!!! racketmn.com/wheres-all-t...
Where's All the Good Garage Art in South Minneapolis? These Guys Know. - Racket
Let's explore Minneapolis's art-filled alleys.
racketmn.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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courtneymilan.com
One annoying thing about historical research is looking up how long it took to get from A to B in the US by train in 1880 and then looking it up now and realizing it was faster in 1880.
November 12, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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maggiek.bsky.social
A reminder for my journalism colleagues: Access to power is not a good, in and of itself. If you cannot tell the truth and retain access, choose truth. If you cannot be critical and retain access, choose critique. If you have to run bullshit gossip stories to retain access, choose 🖕🏻🖕🏻
November 11, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
Today's mood: Steam Boiler with Bat, a 1928 painting by Carl Grossberg, German painter associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement
A painting that shows a large room with a long, unbroken window at right; elements in the space include a large cylindrical machine - identified as a steam boiler - and a bat that is shown flying (or hanging in the air)
September 4, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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whetstone.bsky.social
I found this today and it speaks deeply to me (as Ursula Le Guin usually does).
The death way or the life way? The high road of the warrior, or the river road? I know what I want. I want to live with courage, with compassion, in patience, in peace. The way of the warrior fully admits only the first of these, and wholly denies the last. The way of the water admits them all. The flow of a river is a model for me of courage that can keep me going — carry me through the bad places, the bad times. A courage that is compliant by choice and uses force only when compelled, always seeking the best way, the easiest way, but if not finding any easy way still, always, going on. — Ursula K Le Guin, from blog post 119 (on the 2016 election) https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/119-the-election-lao-tzu-a-cup-of-water
November 7, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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brittlundgren.bsky.social
Since we’re all desperate for a positive distraction today, I guess I’ll share some exciting news I’ve been sitting on for a few months… I made an accidental discovery in art history & after four years of researching and reworking, it’s finally getting published!
direct.mit.edu/leon/article...
Screenshot of a title and abstract, reading: "Action at a Distance: Did physicist Thomas Young’s 1807 Lectures inspire some of the earliest examples of abstract art?" by Britt Lundgren; Abstract: Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is known to have been influenced by scientific developments at the turn of the 20th century. However, many of her paintings from 1914 to 1916 exhibit similarities to diagrams published much earlier in the English polymath Thomas Young’s 1807 Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts. Key elements and themes in af Klint’s The Dove, The Swan, Parsifal, and Altarpieces series suggest Young’s Lectures may have been a major source for her work. The author explores this idea and other parallels between the lives and legacies of the visionary scientist and abstract art pioneer.
November 4, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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maggiek.bsky.social
Hot Bsky Tip:
Vett more before you click "follow all" on a starter pack. 😂 I read one funny post, saw a "funny people" pack that person made, and mass followed. Now I am unfollowing one-by-one a hundred people who all tell exactly the same kind of joke and RT each other compulsively.
October 22, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
An absolute banger every single time
October 16, 2024 at 3:01 AM