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Charles Doria

@bbbyyrr.bsky.social
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Visual Poet and Artist

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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 15h
Good news and bad. Is Nazism immune with regard to its defects, corruption, and crimes? Read this: ‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 15h
New Phryne. Enjoy!
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 15h
Here is the revised description and instructions for Google AI to create my Visual Poem, Phryne (pronounced "FRY=knee"). Fewer figures with more detail help it focus and produce a better image. Above is the new and improved Phryne VP, with Julie Delpy's face
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, you can make this up. Convicted sex offender leads prayer breakfast campaign event for repug puff-of-fart candidate for NC Senate seat. Whew! Yes, they can. MAGA Senate pick's own flyer busts his story about ties to convicted predator: report www.rawstory.com/michael-what...
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MAGA Senate pick's own flyer busts his story about ties to convicted predator: report
Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley's denial of organizing a North Carolina campaign event fell apart this week after leaked audio and campaign documents showed he not only helped arrange it, ...
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is alarming. Now it's up to the colonels, commanders, and majors. Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’
Pentagon head hails military with ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in anti-DEI rant
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/09/2026
Exclusive: John Fetterman has been working with GOP fundraising consultants—and paying a hefty commission, @michaelscherer.bsky.social and @mviser.bsky.social report.
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John Fetterman’s Right-Wing Fundraising Deals
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Coming out of cloud cuckoo Utopia. Phryne is a real person. This trial really happened; I changed many of the details to protect the bored and the guilty.
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I paid $5 one night at an Austin party and received a one-foot-square lot in Luckenbach. I never went to claim it. It was a ghost town of three people. So how did Luckenbach rival Nashville as the heartland of country music? www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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It was a ghost town of three people. So how did Luckenbach rival Nashville as the heartland of country music?
In 1971, self-appointed mayor Hondo Crouch turned the Texan town into a rural respite for country stars. Soon it was immortalised in chart-topping songs – and became a symbol of a simpler American lif...
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My heart bleeds. Aw, sad bully, what's next for poor little you?
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The impossible dream? Let's make it real!
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Acropolis Memorial Day
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Words that shall never die:
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I asked AI to illustrate the following poem that I wrote when I was 13.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stand firm, drink Grellow. The ‘elixir of long life’: how the elusive Chartreuse quietly became the trendiest drink around www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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The ‘elixir of long life’: how the elusive Chartreuse quietly became the trendiest drink around
With its garish ‘grellow’ colour, mythological origins, secret recipe and limited supplies, the herbal liqueur made by French monks is now the coolest thing to order at the bar
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since every day in my world is John Lennon Day, here are two Visual Poems I made today, with help from Google AI, to honor him.
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mockery erupts over Trump's 'confused ramblings' on rejecting war-ending deal www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2...
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Mockery erupts over Trump's 'confused ramblings' on rejecting war-ending deal
Critics mocked President Donald Trump's defense of rejecting Iran's ceasefire proposal, which he said would reopen a strait he claims to already control.Trump made the remarks Saturday while speaking ...
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Athens, as I always hoped it would be - free of smog, smoke, and International Brutalist style. Wouldn't you just die to be there now?
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Consolation for all brave New Yorkers who are canceling their bar-be-ques, their feasts, etc., ahead of the dread, browbeating Nor'easter.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Soon the US Senate could vote on a resolution, introduced by @vanhollen.senate.gov, to invoke Section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act, forcing the US government to review rampant Israeli human rights abuses in the West Bank, including its abuse of Palestinian children and killings of US citizens.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That must change. Tell your Senators to vote to investigate Israel at imeupolicy.org/exposeisrael
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Message Your Senators: Expose Israel's Violence and Human Rights Abuses — IMEU Policy Project
We need to pressure our U.S. Senators to take real action. Tell them to report on human rights violations in the West Bank and hold Israel accountable.
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Live the good life; commission gorgeous art to make us forget the hell that is today's world. Well, Ai-weiwei has an answer: Ai Weiwei unveils his epic new Australian work: ‘90% of art is just garbage. Real art questions the existing order’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Ai Weiwei unveils his epic new Australian work: ‘90% of art is just garbage. Real art questions the existing order’
From his farm in Portugal, the acclaimed artist speaks about war, peace, the state of the world – and his 40 metre sculpture Mushrooms, on Sydney Harbour
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The only saints worth considering are Mary Magdalene, Joan of Arc, and Francis of Assisi. The rest are neurotic, like Teresa of Ávila, or fictitious a/o frauds, like Padre Pio. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher album review – faultless recording of an eclectic masterpiece
Honegger’s multifaceted 1935 composition about the French saint is brought to life in spine-tingling detail by Lukáš Vasilek, actors and musicians
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What is hated worldwide? The brutalist international style that insists might makes right. Case in point. Only the final leftwing option rings true: tear down, replace with garden. Tall, dark and hated: plan to renovate ‘Paris’s ugliest building’ put on hold www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Tall, dark and hated: plan to renovate ‘Paris’s ugliest building’ put on hold
Tour Montparnasse modernisation project at a standstill after clashes over pricing and other issues
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Have the parents finally stood up and decided to spank their unruly street-thug kiddos? Wait and see? Israel and the US have battered the international legal order. The impunity must stop | Varsha Gandikota www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel and the US have battered the international legal order. The impunity must stop | Varsha Gandikota
A group of nations will gather on Friday to address the crisis. The only response to unilateral bullying is collective action
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't poison yourself by eating the rich. Instead, tax them until they reach social and financial equality with the rest of us. Lotsa good pix here. Visual poems, in fact www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Eat the rich, save the planet’: climate protesters call out big tech’s disconnect from reality
Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So did Hitler, Mussolini, etc. The Swiss are still here. Trump is a fart bag. Where will he be next year?
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good/Bad News. "Get out of town by sundown or what?" 'Sundowning' Trump prepping to 'punish the nation': Nobel Prize winner www.rawstory.com/trump-sundow...
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'Sundowning' Trump prepping to 'punish the nation': Nobel Prize winner
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says there's no more room for doubt: President Donald Trump's United Nations address confirms he's deep into what Krugman calls his "sundowning" period.The f...
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Google AI continues to amaze.
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Gab Madrid 🔥 @gabmadrid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
GIRL DINNER. Metroid Ravenous fanart
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another chapter in the Amerikkkakar Tao of Death. ‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: Gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeover www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...
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‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeover
As more PE firms invest in food establishments, people are bemoaning the ‘same-ification’ of NYC’s restaurant scene
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another Amerikkakar gun hero bites the handcuffs. US hunter charged after fatally shooting woman he mistook for a deer, police say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US hunter charged after fatally shooting woman he mistook for a deer, police say
Walter Moorhead, 74, jailed on suspicion of manslaughter after allegedly shooting a woman while hunting in Delaware
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Where tyrants disguised as health insurance decide who lives or dies happens only in Amerikkkaka. John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: ‘Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies’ www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: ‘Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies’
Ahead of Luigi Mangione’s sentencing, the Last Week Tonight host looked into the corporate healthcare behemoth that is UnitedHealth Group
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mangeons du jésuite www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thomas Keymer · Mangeons du jésuite: Voltaire in England
‘Almost everything is imitation,’ Voltaire wrote in one of the French editions of Lettres philosophiques. Books were...
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
News from the home front - the most important front. This is how we do it: ‘As a Catholic monk, I was celibate. But sex with Orla feels so natural’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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This is how we do it: ‘As a Catholic monk, I was celibate. But sex with Orla feels so natural’
Rory left the monastery after feeling lonely; with Orla, herself a Catholic, he’s been making up for lost time
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
About time!
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Michelle Tolo @michelletoloart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
✨Meyer Link & Charlotte✨ I rewatched Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust recently, and was inspired to paint a portrait of this loving couple. The whole movie is beautiful, but these two really are the heart of it ❤️ #vampirehunterd #fanart #gothicromance #noai
Digital painting of the characters Meyer Link and Charlotte from the movie Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Fan art painted in Photoshop.
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Note to Fatheadman: What goes around comes around and bites you in the ballot box. ‘I don’t trust him any more’: Pennsylvanians come to grips with John Fetterman’s rightwing turn www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘I don’t trust him any more’: Pennsylvanians come to grips with John Fetterman’s rightwing turn
The maverick senator has isolated himself from supporters as he has become a strident supporter of Israel
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Byron, my beloved tuxedo friend, who was my constant companion in my bleak Lower Park Slope in the 90s.
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 19/09/2026
Dimba Dya Ngola – Mona O Mussassa [Portugal/Angola, African, Merengue] (197?) Totally out there and slightly psychedelic Angolian Merengue rarity. redd.it/vej9vg youtu.be/yohSx4hO4mo
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Dimba Dya Ngola – Mona O Mussassa [Portugal/Angola, African, Merengue] (197?) Totally out there and slightly psychedelic Angolian Merengue rarity.
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sometimes I see such beautiful things online that I just have to share them. Case in point: Amisfield Walled Garden, Haddington, Scotland. It's two football fêlds big.
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another large Visual Poem - this time Amazons! Hit to see how big.
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WIRED @wired.com · 19/09/2026
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful. www.wired.com/story/mathem...
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Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dr. Fauci the Hero
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The hands that tap the official keyboard rule the nation. The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini
In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini
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Charles Doria @bbbyyrr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At least so far, I'm producing better images, with high-res colors and decent 18th-century couplets, than I did with ChatGPT or Claude. And it's big. Hit it, you'll see!
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