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Brendon

@beholdbybrendon.bsky.social
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photographer & storyteller from the Midwest beholdbybrendon.substack.com instagram.com/beholdbybrendon

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Vlackneon @vl4ckne0n.bsky.social · 7h
I was into something. Back here taking my place. Self-portrait. 2026.
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 7h
Good morning gays
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fotomaniac.bsky.social @fotomaniac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Violeta Orlauskaite Photography
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is the oldest sample of Hebrew text with European musical notation. It's an autograph manuscript of Obadiah the Proselyte, a Norman-Italian priest who converted to Judaism in 1102. He traveled to Egypt and Syria, using his knowledge of Gregorian Chant to record Hebrew poetry. @theul.bsky.social
Torn brown paper manuscript with about 20 red-ruled lines with sporadic musical notes and Hebrew text. The background is a blue and a yellow label reads T-S K5.41 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00005-00041/2).Torn brown paper manuscript with 6 lines of Hebrew text and musical notation. The background is blue and a yellow label reads T-S K5.41 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00005-00041/1)
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What do you mean I have to go back to work tomorrow? It’s autumn!
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fall is the best season. It’s sunny but breezy and I have a slight cider buzz
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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I find it strange how often the history of Jews in Europe more broadly is treated as a niche or specialist topic, rather than being part of the main stream of European history. It’s a *choice* to leave Jewish history out of the story.
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The body is a canvas for light and shadow 📸 #photography #boudoir
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"... photo from the festivities, featuring herself, Habba, her new billionaire husband Turhan Mildon, and Ali Abdelaziz, a former UFC manager and NYPD and FBI informant suspected of being a double agent...This is at least the 2nd time Patel and Abdelaziz have been pictured together"
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tgif am i right
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
steak too juicy, lobster too buttery, etc etc
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limp wristed tall person @peterpiper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
gm october
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least I got to do that boudoir shoot
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a weird day
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think it’s time I just fully commit to my undying need to study Chinese 😮‍💨
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so is perseus.tufts just dead now? what a library gone
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 30/09/2026
Fantastic bookshop find: a Latin textbook in Welsh, complete with glossary and a guide to spotting Latin borrowings in the modern language.
Cover of Llyfr Dysgu Lladin — Latin TextbookExplanations of Latin grammar in Welsh. Examples include Insula Mōna - Ynys Môn and Urbs Dēva - Dinas CaerA classic Latin glossary with principal parts and everything, but the translations are into WelshTable showing the outcomes of various Latin consonants in Modern Welsh, with examples
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sometimes i feel like i'm trapped in chicago
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fotomaniac.bsky.social @fotomaniac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@erizach.bsky.social Taylor
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I love seeing my Garden of Eden inspired piece in its new home 😍
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Redd Fox @lil-redd-fox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
omg @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social I forgot to show you the temporary home I made for your amazing photo 🥰 we keep arguing about where to hang it so it hangs out in the kitchen with me for now 🖤
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
3rd and final 20 miler in the books! Now I can enjoy the taper before race day 😮‍💨
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A thing about me is I don’t take bullshit
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Out by the creeks 📸
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I need more of a photography community here in Chicago
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kimchi fried rice gotta be one of the most goated dishes
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Neeeeed to make out with someone rn tbh
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vanity complex @vanitycomplex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really I only exist to make out with people
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
L O L
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chicago boyfriends should invite me over to their place so I can use both my hands tbh 🙂‍↕️
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cover reveal + preorder link for my very gaysian book of craft essays!! IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RABBIT GOD out December 1st 💫 🐇
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fotomaniac.bsky.social @fotomaniac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nick Nemets Photography
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gonna try to spend so much time this fall outside with my camera!!
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Importance of Hanging Out with Gay People
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Noah ( ˘ ³˘)♥ @noahsryan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
tried making a collage poem for fun :)
a collage featuring a naked horseback rider over a background of a dinning room. grapes drape the ceiling and there is colorful flowers added to the b&w grass. the poem made from cut out words reads: 

“have this wisdom: 
make queer art 
go outside
be kind
and believe in the 
permeability of his soul. 

hang out 
have obsessions 
Pursue hard ridin’
create blindly
explore, between error and creation
dick around 

be patient 
most ideas trickle in 
like witchcraft 
give wet head 
believe in the process 
they won’t 

exist in beautiful 
possibilities”
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My soul awakes with the autumn equinox 📸 #photography
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The start of fall has been really popping off 📸 #photography
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Джем @jematoi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thinking of pivoting to a career in coffee sales.
A black and white picture of me standing nude behind a prop burlap coffee bag. I am facing the camera. One hand is on my hip.A black and white picture of me standing nude next to a prop burlap coffee bag. My back faces the camera. One hand is on my hip and the other is on top of the burlap bag.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20/09/2026
Tonight, Jewish New Yorkers mark the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It is the peak of the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, and an opportunity for profound reflection.
 
For those fasting — tzom kal, may your fast be easy and meaningful. 
 
And to all who observe, G'mar chatimah tovah. May you be sealed in the Book of Life for a good year to come.
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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*Roman historian voice* And while he was embroiled in wars abroad and tumult at home, the emperor declared a ceasefire with Neptune.
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"AI is the technofascist replacement for life, stripped of the qualities that make it worth living: love, imagination, curiosity, the natural world."
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Went to a Polish restaurant last night and now I am obsessed with sour rye soup. Just in time for soup season
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really wanna open my books to clients in 2027 lol haha even
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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 16/09/2026
Good job, BU!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So so so pathetic
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fotomaniac.bsky.social @fotomaniac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Veronika Kaluzakova Photography Tomas
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Queer Privilege @queerprivilege.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ben // 07.11.2026 // Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, WA // #120mm // Lomography 800
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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m soooo anti-my-phone rn that if someone gave me an old school razr right this second I would die happy
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