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living in a Time of Lies. Twin Cities senior, after years on the East Coast.

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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 9h
NEWS from the Vatican:
message from Pope Leo XIV stating that doctors have found a small localized nodule in his lung. He says he will have surgery and "entrusts himself to our prayers."
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
but... moonrise! and jupiter
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
she's... everything
smidge of waning moon floats above the coming dawn, looking east in St Paul
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fire Lake 😝 ! looking east from St. Paul
red and grey low clouds line up in ripples like the water that they are...  a lake of fire in the sky.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the Cat is Back at Work this AM
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the Cat Came Back! 🎶 ( he wouldnt stay away)
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my spirits, as lunch at Sweeney's progresses
a crimson plate displaying the delicious quesadilla of Sweeney's Tavern in St. Paul.   always a winner.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
oh yeah. got to change it up. i switched to crochet and got stuck on a massive baby blanket for a few years... no regrets! crochet has a wider range of movement. now i'm trying to figure out what i can do without hurting. portugese is fun for knit stitch, never could get it for purl.
crochet baby blanket in cucurbit colors with pink and purple flower pops slrinkled across the top. lying on top of yellow stretch satin that will be sewn on for a lining and stabilizer. close up of baby blanket showing flower blossoms strewn across the surface and little blossom shaped buttons that tie the blanket to its backing.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
red sky in morning, sailors, drivers, walkers take warning! St Paul sunrise.
red orange streaky clouds on the Eastern horizon minutes before sunrise over St. Paul, MN.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we saw an albino squirrel at the Highbridge dog park! #sqrlpix
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OMG so went to oakapple designs uk and looked at what else they have from Lincoln, the animals are fabuloys too! ... i give up on correcting "fabulous"🤷🏼‍♀️ they are all scratching themselves 🥰
wooden carving of a seated frog scratching his plump tummy with a front foot, while looking up in the air. his tongue is blepping out as he enjoys his scritch. wooden caring of a seated bear scratching at the area above his left eye. must feel good because his tongue is blepping out. a wooden carving of a seated lion scratching the area just under his right eye with his right rear paw.  he is grsping his tail in his mouth, sparing us the view of his genitals.  very considerate!
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
can use a box cutter blade to cut out holes for handles 🌟 had to move so often in the last years i swear the sound of the tape tearing off is a trigger now! rrrrrrriPP
promotion photo of U-Haul packing boxes, "small box" size arranged in a pyramid with a roll of tape on top.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i'm somewhat disabled and lugging boxes of books and paoers is beyond me now. this type of fold-up dolly has enabled me to do a lot. another tip: use smaller boxes! not recommending HomeDepot 🤬🤬🤬 just the type of tool.
color photo of a fold up steel hand truck, nade by Milwaukee Tools with the signature red paint on the frame.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
cat never gets a day off
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
rereading @sanho.bsky.social 's excellent thread on cyclospora i realised i'd missed this detail:
Cyclispora might be further spread by the industrial washing process where lits of produce is rinsed in the same water.  

grrrrrrr.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/08/02/n... I missed this the first time around:
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
unceasing
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
again...
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Paul Cadmus, YMCA Locker Room, 1933
Paul Cadmus' well known black and white print "YMCA Locker Room" depicts a crowded locker room full of men of various ages in states of (mostly) partial nudity.  1933.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Blue skinned like Krșna but assuming attributes of Kali with her necklaces of skulls and living hearts, showing her teeeth and red tongue, the deity wears a curly blonde wig and Marilyn's iconice white pleated dress.  the skirt billows up, transforming into a dark mushroom cloud over the villages and cities of Ukraine.  her long long legs descend almost to the ground, where she's poised on stiletto heeled black boots, sharp. very sharp. 

artist name in lower right: Maksym Palenko? 29/04/2023
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
again....
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
hate to give him airtime but he/we/all of us... over every line
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
so... this here now right wing anger/rage left wing anger/rage
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
welp, 🤦🏼‍♀️ Donald thinks he's be a star in Hell. maybe a new TV show? call it "the Inner Circle" I looked at this so you dont have too. ALT text has more detail but "i can't even.." with whatever the fuck is next to the right hand.
an AI portrait of Trump enthroned, of course, in a high backed BLACK throne. The seal of the US is above his head, in gold lines on black, and the top of the throne/chair has an eagle sculpture, wings wide, very similar to the Roman Legion eagles except there are curlicues.  The throne is flanked by two colossal shiny black detailed robots/tranformers and four subservient robot/transformers reminiscent of attack dogs are crouched in front of him.  All of this crap anchored by a dark background where on the bottom levels dark, of course, figures in helmets charge forward from a blazing cityscape.  Below Don there is a caption in blocky san-serif caps. the type face is scuffy and degraded.  Top Line in dirty white: GIVE THEM
Bottom Line in red: NIGHTMARES

Dude is auditioning for a managerial position in Hell, got it.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
i like the early Ottolenghi where one splits the fruit lengthways, slashes a diamond grid on the faces, pour/ massage an indecent amount of olive oil on it and spices, bake until squishy. was featured with a spectacular sauce but the eggplant aloone.... 💋
photo from Ottolenghi's cookbook PLENTY, featuring baked eggplant with a white buttermilk sauce, bejeweled with pomegranate seeds.  photo credit: Jonathan Lovekin
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i brought in a kitten and my elder ex-feral made his life hell...
exferal boss cat, a tigger with a frownex-feral bosscat is sqashing new kitten who cannot. get. out.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
thought of you the other day as i'm seeing Asters in many many places but no blooms as yet... too hot, too dry. that may change in a few days, if the weather guessers are correct. this is a tall aster entwined with a willow type, only buds so far...
a tall aster using a willow as a support has buds but no flowers yet!
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
gilgamesh - all the stars in the Akkadian star maps
Babylonian catalog of stars - an unbroken clay tablet covered with neat lines of cuneiform script in columns /  just like the forms later known as lists, inventories, spreadsheets.  From Wikipedia article on 
"Babylonian star catalogues".  

they clay is a rosy color reminiscent of the 21st century color known as "rose gold."
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
vide Wolford at 60$ a pair. the aesthetic has only shifted a bit... we are an unsubtle age.
photograph of the lower half of a nude body, seen from the side with the front leg extended just enough to conceal the genital area. very attenuated and slender legs, probably a mannequin, with the implication of a young woman's body.  Clad in transparent dark smoke toned stocking tights nude up past the crotch with a stomach control band and very high waist. It's Wolford brand luxury tights, sold at $60 a pair.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dîde - you are very kind and your thread is interesting too. you've been sweet abt my harsh selfportraits. here is something recent. i am old, and my face cant lie. but every line is a story-line 💋
selfie of a woman's face lying on a pillow.  silver grey hair streams up in back  -  her forehead is very high!  lines on her face show worries, tension, and laughter, hopefully kindness.  for Dîde!
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
and good hats remain expensive...
a shot of the website of JJHats, one of the last great hat stores in NYC.  Some of  brands they carry are pictured with their logos:  Borsalino, Stetson, Lierys, Hammaburg, Barascon, and of course their own house brand.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
mendacious mother.fuckers.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
green cat says, lying!
showing meals purported to be from the USS Lincoln.  a shoe leather,   brown dog-foodish slop...    one flour tortilla, a ladle full of brown shreddy glop.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
well, you were inspired by art, by desire, by a talent. i was inspired by spite. My mother used it against me, and i learned to do it right back!
old lady, high forehead, raised eyebrow, lotsa wrinkles! every line is a story line.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
hadnt seen these! are they edible like the purple ones? we are having a big harvest of those here... 🌱
a cluster of dark purple elderberries, hanging down with the weight of ripe juicy berries.  more berries visible through the green leaves in the background.
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
original. and entirely effective!!!!!!!
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
calling Vivian Westwood
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
went to bed early last night after spending an active day. looking at yr timeline today i see you were visited by loads of digital blk kittens. my appetite is appeased.... for a while. meanwhile Gigantor is napping in the other room. in his stoner phase:
black cat with a snaggle tooth lolls on his left shoulder,  his yellow green eyes somewhat unfocused. the sheet underneath him is fleckled with ground up catnip, as are 
his chest and tummy. the sheet shows evidence of claw marks😍
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
different POV and angle, 3 seconds later. would like to credit the photographer...
In Minneapolis defending Democracy the weekend, Spidey leaps off the back of a truck, pushing down a big white(of course) cross on top of assembled fascists. Photo is shot from abovw and behind. Spidey is displaying to advantage!
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CUI BONO? @berkeleyeve.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Spidey LEAPS!
Spider-Man on assignment in Minneapolis this weekend has leapt from a truck, knocking down the faux Cross and slamming it forward and down  onto the assembled fascists and bystanders. the photo catches him in mid-air, seen from above and behind.
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