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luxalptraum.com
I would never say that the internet “isn’t real,” but it is good to remind myself that my self worth should not be governed by the opinions of people for whom I am a collection of pixels on their pocket screen
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
trahias.bsky.social
Self-portrait painting on a garden path
by Peder Mørk Mønsted, not dated
Oil on canvas
35 cm x 26 cm
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
inuyasha1953.bsky.social
Donald Trump assembled this team to suit his twisted visions of vengeance, destruction, and self-aggrandizement. Never has a collection of people so unbalanced, unqualified, and unfit controlled the levers of federal government power. -- John Harwood
December 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
fernyfern.bsky.social
Whenever I'm stressed, I buy pyjamas to self-soothe. Getting a pretty solid collection together tbh.
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
yasushi-kitazawa.bsky.social
Souvenir pennant in Japan, my collection.
"The 11th Artillery Regiment", Hokkaido Prefecture.
This is a pennant of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's 11th Artillery Regiment, which was stationed at the Camp Makomanai in Sapporo.
Lengh 68cm (26.7in). Circa 1970s or 1980s. #vintage
1. The 11th Artillery Regiment pennant. It features an illustration printed on white fabric. The left side of the flag is trimmed with black fabric, and green fringe adorns the top and bottom edges. The 11th Artillery Regiment was organized from 1962 to 2008. It has since been reorganized into the 11th Artillery Unit. 2. The illustration depicts three artillery pieces. 3. Close-up of the illustration. Three artillery pieces are depicted. The top piece features a long, slender barrel, possibly an anti-aircraft gun. All three pieces have wheels but are not self-propelled. 4. The title is in Japanese: "11th Artillery Regiment" (yellow, black).
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
jessemlocker.bsky.social
Ready for the week ahead.

[William Orpen, Self-Portrait, ca. 1910, Oil on canvas, 40 1/8 x 33 1/8 in. (101.9 x 84.1 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art]
"This self-portrait, also known as Leading the Life in the West, refers to Orpen's life as a young artist in the West End of London. Orpen stands reflected full-length in a mirror in his studio, wearing a bowler hat and holding gloves and a riding crop. A shelf below the mirror holds paintbrushes and rags, the tools of the artist's trade, as well as several bottles of liquor. Various pieces of correspondence, including an I.O.U. signed by Orpen, are tucked behind the frame of the mirror, further testifying to the pleasures and distractions of the painter's early career. The space of the picture is shallow but complex, with Orpen using his skills as a draftsman to resolve the challenges of surface, lighting, and reflection that he has set for himself." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/480597
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
mlkinstitute.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1964: "I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up."
King's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize is celebrated at a January 1965 dinner in Atlanta. Photograph courtesy of Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, LBSCB12-120d, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
December 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
stacescases2.bsky.social
Legendary photographer #AnnieLeibovitz joins #DesiLydic to discuss her new collection of career-spanning work titled "Women." They talk about breaking stereotypes of pregnant women with #DemiMoore’s VanityFair cover, capturing #MichelleObama as she found her laid back self
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Annie Leibovitz - Capturing Beauty, Strength, and Identity in “Women” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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December 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
soniasulaiman.bsky.social
Funny thing about this piece is thati couldn’t find a publisher. I ended up including it in my self published collection. It struck a chord with readers. Sadly, its relevance as a tale about Handala, the immortal Palestinian child refugee, keeps growing.
December 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
yasushi-kitazawa.bsky.social
Souvenir pennant in Japan, my collection.
"The 23rd Sapporo Snow Festival", Hokkaido Prefecture.
This is a pennant from the 1972 Snow Festival. This pennant depicts a snow sculpture of Kiyomizu-dera Temple.
Lengt 71cm (27.9in). This pennant was produced in 1972, made of cardboard. #vintage
1. Sapporo Snow Festival, Kiyomizu-dera Temple pennant. It features a photograph printed on cardboard. 2. The photograph depicts a large snow sculpture of Kyoto's Kiyomizu-dera Temple. 3. Enlarged photograph. Under a clear blue sky, the main hall of Kiyomizu-dera Temple, crafted from snow. The building is reproduced in magnificent detail. The caption reads: "Kiyomizu-dera Temple, 18th Infantry Regiment" (black). This snow sculpture was created by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. 4. The title is in Japanese: "The 23rd Sapporo Snow Festival" (blue, red). The subtitle is in both Japanese and English. In English: "SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL" (blue), in Japanese: "’72 Sapporo Olympics" (red).
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
sagegnosis.bsky.social
Don't forget the Kickstarter for "from Christ to Love and everything in between" launches in just 7 days🌟

I'm very excited to be self publishing my first collection 💖

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sag...
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
millie29.bsky.social
I’m a criminal 😂.

I mean most women rack up more than 6 over a lifetime, I don’t even have a huge collection or anything but it more than 6.

What an epic self own tho. Like everyone who sees it knows he can’t give a woman an O
December 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
potrzebiesystem.bsky.social


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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to amend its regulations governing biometrics use and collection. DHS proposes to require submission of biometrics by any individual, regardless of age, filing or associated with an immigration benefit request, other request, or collection of information, unless exempted; expand biometrics collection authority upon alien arrest; define ‘‘biometrics;’’ codify reuse requirements; codify and expand DNA testing, use and storage; establish an ‘‘extraordinary circumstances’’ standard to excuse a failure to appear at a biometric services appointment; modify how VAWA self-petitioners and T nonimmigrant status applicants demonstrate good moral character; and clarify biometrics collection purposes.
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
yasushi-kitazawa.bsky.social
Souvenir pennant in Japan, my collection.
"The 23rd Sapporo Snow Festival", Hokkaido Prefecture.
This is a pennant from the 1972 Snow Festival. Depicted on this pennant is a snow sculpture of the Suzuran Maru.
Lengt 69cm (27.1in). This pennant was produced in 1972, made of cardboard. #vintage
1. A pennant from the 23rd Sapporo Snow Festival. It features a photograph printed on paper. 2. The photograph depicts the large snow sculpture Suzuran Maru. 3. An enlarged view of the photograph. The large ferry Suzuran Maru, known for its high speed, is realistically depicted navigating through waves. Ropes are strung on the masts and other parts, just like the real thing. Caption: "Suzuran Maru", "Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 11th Artillery Regiment 6th Unit" (white). 4. Title in Japanese: "The 23rd Sapporo Snow Festival" (yellow, white). Subtitle in both Japanese and English. English text: "SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL" (yellow), "’72 Sapporo Olympics" (yellow).
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
lwadewrites1066.bsky.social
...then they went out of print one by one. And magazines don't want reprints. So I decided to self publish a collection of them.
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
harrysaddler.bsky.social
In art, and in storytelling, my abiding fondness is for work which - to quote Seamus Heaney’s line about John Clare - “resolves extreme experience into something gentle”. For book club tonight we read Luke Paterson’s “A Savage Turn”, an astonishing, powerful, tough and enormously tender collection:
This and the next two photos depict one page each of Luke Patterson’s poem “To What Earth We’re Heir”. In its entirety the poem reads: I see you bub covered in bruises and cuts wrestling with angels who are demons protectors who are keepers I know self-loathing sails in from time to time as you try to catch echoes try to catch air and the strange estrangement bloodletting a trail of birth certificates a trail of death certificates no trace of birth or death but a mention on mission registers unspeakable skeletons defleshed in the closets of godfearing forefathers spreading the good word across this burnt continent it is what it is to live another day with the blak slapped out of us with white whispers telling you to host dirty little secrets we were bred to fester in our heart shoot us for dead then absorption convince us to forget who we are bear the wound hard clear-headed full of fire my love unlearn the master's mantra learn what happened here to whom bleed for scar trees expose your vulnerability your mask uncoming done I'll hold you because true-god our truth hurts it burns to the last embers of your life but it's worth it if you're willing to let the lucky country die and in that death you'll find wattle flood the street we engender our own bodies take care of the weak without worrying about survival our birthright yes bub the day will come when we claim what earth we're heir and holiday on country on the ruins of parliament house and our ancestors sleep sound home in skycamp
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
folkpolice.com
Still playing Fen Creatures to death. This made me wonder what other bands lurk in my collection who are in a similar vein to @fuzzylightsband.bsky.social? First up, this self-titled behemoth from Meg Baird’s Heron Oblivion.
heronoblivion.bandcamp.com/album/heron-...
Heron Oblivion, by Heron Oblivion
7 track album
heronoblivion.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
nytimes.com
An accessible alternative to the Pap smear has been endorsed by the American Cancer Society. On Thursday, it released new guidelines saying that self-collection is an acceptable way to test for the virus that causes cervical cancer.
New Guidelines Endorse Self-Swab Alternative to Pap Smear for Cervical Cancer Testing
The recommendation comes after the first at-home test, a self-swab, received federal approval earlier this year.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
mmcarthur.bsky.social
(Paul) Jackson Pollock (1912-56) :
Circumcision, January 1946

Oil on canvas
56-1/16 x 66-1/8 in
142.3 x 168 cm

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation,
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976

Further description in the alt text 👇
In this transitional work of 1946 the subtle persistence of the Cubist grid system is felt in the panels that organize the composition and orient major pictorial details in vertical or horizontal positions. However, Pollock’s dependence on Pablo Picasso has virtually dissolved, giving way to a more automatic, fluidly expressive style. Line loses its descriptive function and begins to assume a self-sufficient role, the rhythm, duration, and direction of each brushstroke responding to the artist’s instinctual gesture. The compositional focus is multiplied and decentralized, and areas of intense activity fill the entire surface. Fragmented figural elements are increasingly integrated into the shallow pictorial space, as background, foreground, and object merge and the texture of the paint gains in importance. By 1945 the vigor and originality of Pollock’s work had prompted the critic Clement Greenberg, one of his earliest champions, to write in The Nation of April 7: “Jackson Pollock’s second one-man show at Art of This Century . . . establishes him, in my opinion, as the strongest painter of his generation and perhaps the greatest one to appear since Miró.” Primitive art forms are alluded to in the crudely drawn arrows, cult and stick figures, and ornamental markings discernable in Circumcision. Totemic figures (the rotund being standing at the left and the owl-like creature at upper center) are posed stiffly, observing what seems to be a scene of violence in the center of the canvas. The enactment of a rite of passage is suggested, but the visual evidence does not encourage a specific reading. Pollock’s concern with archetypal imagery and pancultural rituals and mythologies is evoked with varying degrees of specificity in his work. Lee Krasner suggested the title to Pollock after the painting was completed. ~ Lucy Flint
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
hpippin.bsky.social
Self-Portrait II https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/482605
Bequest of Jane Kendall Gingrich, 1982
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
What someone you love needs for Christmas is obviously my ‘strong, masculine collection filled with brooding Spanish vistas and culture.’ Asi de claro.

Ugh. Self-promo.

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
paulwritespoems.bsky.social Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 11d
Well, here we are. The very first edition of The Book Bag Christmas List. Created in part by your recommendations. This week there's the list, opportunities, news and some festive fun and goodies. Grab yourself a drink and settle in this might take a while. Feel free to share with ...
The Book Bag Christmas Gift Guide 2025
Welcome one and all to The Book Bag Christmas Gift List 2025. How has your week been? Are you feeling festive yet? I’ve compiled this list based on reader suggestions and some personal favourites of mine to give some gift inspiration for the festive season. Another reason was to share and support your favourite poets and presses by buying books. So, to tenuously misquote one of my favourite Christmas songs, let’s step into this extensive Christmas Gift list. I’ll also drop in a festive playlist and some more festive goodies. I ho ho hope you enjoy…
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
audra-stang.bsky.social
if you want a good place to start with my comics try the collection: the first six issues self published by me in full color, and i will draw inside of it!!! if you've been reading the valley and idella comics, these overlap in a fun (but not necessary) way www.audrastang.com/product/the-...
The Collected Audra Show Volume 1
A collection of the first six issues of The Audra Show now in one convenient book. 6x9"/168 pages/full color Second Self-Published Edition of 300
www.audrastang.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
bachynski.bsky.social
“An accessible alternative to the Pap smear has been endorsed by the American Cancer Society. On Thursday, it released new guidelines saying that self-collection is an acceptable way to test for the virus that causes cervical cancer.
The guidelines reflect years of data &recent regulatory approvals”
American Cancer Society Endorses Pap Smear Alternative
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
soniasulaiman.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking about the manuscript for my collection. I’ve seen some folks traditionally publish collections that include a mix of new and previously published stories.

How does one land that kind of deal? Muneera and the Moon has done very well for a self published project.
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
yasushi-kitazawa.bsky.social
Souvenir pennant in Japan, my collection.
"The 23rd Sapporo Snow Festival", Hokkaido Prefecture.
This pennant depicts the night view of "Gulliver, Welcome to Sapporo," a snow sculpture showing Gulliver bringing the Olympic torch to Sapporo.
Lengt 71cm (27.9in). 1972, made of cardboard. #vintage
1. Pennant for the 23rd Sapporo Snow Festival, "Gulliver, Welcome to Sapporo". This is a pennant from the 1972 Snow Festival, held during the Sapporo Olympics. The photo is printed on cardboard. This snow sculpture was created by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. 2. The photo shows the large snow sculpture, "Gulliver, Welcome to Sapporo" at night. 3. Enlarged photo. Night view of the large snow sculpture "Gulliver, Welcome to Sapporo". The snow sculpture of Gulliver holding the Olympic torch is beautifully lit up. In the background, the Olympic venues, Tsukisamu Green Dome, Mt. Teine, and a Western-style castle are created, creating a fairy tale-like scene. The flame of the Olympic torch and the windows of the castle are colorfully illuminated. The caption reads "Welcome Gulliver, Northern Army Signal Group" (black, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force). 4. The title is in Japanese, "The 23rd Sapporo Snow Festival" (black, white). The subtitle is in both Japanese and English. In English, it reads "SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL" (black) and " '72 Sapporo Olympics" (white).
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM