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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fell down a Ron Francis rabbit hole after seeing this post earlier. Sublime

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Russell Williams’ Tree’

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Room With a View’

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"The Veil"

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026

Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 1: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 2: But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who
"prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces.
The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams.
Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Metafilter post from Dee Xtrovert: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Posted on Jan. 28th 2009. 1696 favorites

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mismedleym (COMMS OPEN) @mismedleym.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

toward the sun, from the sun #art

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"One Last Call From Harrowden"

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Haon @haonfest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

the long watch

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Azam Raharjo @azamraharjo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Again and again to me

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koyorin @koyorin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

idk. hasturne miku // #VOCALOID

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Dani Draws @danidrawsss.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

QRP with something watery

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

These are Republican appointees under very different political circumstances and that is why this. It is a political body that does not enact present but past hegemonic priorities.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

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echerry @echerryart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is how pixel games are meant to look

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This succinct recap of a wild Kansas politics story has a lot to say about why the people turning up the Epstein emails were so comfortable that the veil would never be lifted. kansasreflector.com/2025/11/17/f...

Brandon Whipple considered himself a seasoned politician before running for Wichita mayor, but years of legislative wrangling didn’t prepare him for an attack so bizarre and a coverup so flawed it consumed the political career of three conspirators.

Whipple, a Democrat who served four terms in the Kansas House, was elected mayor of the state’s largest city in 2019. He prevailed despite a misinformation campaign designed to destroy Whipple’s credibility and boost the candidacy of his rival, Republican incumbent Jeff Longwell. The strategy was to weaken Whipple by posting a salacious video to social media that featured women alleging sexual harassment among state legislators. The video viewed at least 400,000 times contained the statement: “Stop Brandon Whipple.”

GOP donor’s tip
For the podcast, Whipple spoke publicly for the first time about a Republican donor who tipped him off to the GOP’s covert operation. The donor confided that he’d been asked to help fund the clandestine video.

The donor’s objection wasn’t tied to general loathing of ugly personal attacks, Whipple said. Instead, he said, the donor was upset someone had the audacity to violate an unwritten code among men forbidding the sharing of knowledge about illicit liaisons.

“He basically said that he wasn’t so much concerned with any type of extramarital type activities that men do. He was concerned that some men would actually tell on other men,” Whipple said.

Whipple said a lawsuit produced texts shared among the perpetrators in which they reveled at the chance to damage Whipple’s marriage and career. Their viciousness was alarming, he said.

“They really hated me. It’s nuts,” he said. “We’re attacking people and their character and their families. We’re not just saying, ‘Well, you voted this way.’ That was really eye-opening to me.”

In 2020, Capps lost his House reelection bid. O’Donnell and Clendenin both resigned from office.

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New awareness campaign

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Phil Dore @philjdore.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

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worm adderall (feral) @wormmo.de · 01/11/2025

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

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partly smart, partly art, partly not @arianagarand.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🪱 🪱 🪱 happy halloween from me and approximately 5,999,999 other demons 🪱 🪱 🪱 to my friends who asked what i’m dressed as, here’s your excuse to go read Kill 6 Billion Demons so we can twirl our hair and kick our feet while gabbing about a great comic together

me, Ariana, dressed as Gog Agog from K6BD for halloween (specifically an alt outfit where she is dressed as a sort of talk show host in an argyle sweater and a green suit). i’m emulating a funny panel from WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-77 in which Gog shoots another iteration of herself dead just outside the panel border. in jest, of course!!

still me, Ariana, still dressed as Gog Agog for halloween. this time i’m offering you a worm! this worm is your friend, i promise. i would know, i made it myself! this is emulating a panel from K6BD WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-79.

a screenshot of the aforementioned funny panel from K6BD WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-77.

the aforementioned worm panel from K6BD WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-79.

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Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Creep it real tonight y’all 🫡

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tofuneers @tofuneers.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

after school cult session, u know da vibes

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Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Jack rabbit slim

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 14/10/2025

james sunderland seeing a horrifying mannequin monster: ahhhhhh a monster aaaaahhh I deserve this for killing my wife aaaaah I'm in hell aaaahhhh hinako seeing a horrifying mannequin monster:

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

pov you can choose to lay on a comfy sweater or a notebook

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FeedMePasta @mercuri0ff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Stuck inside my own personal hell.

Sailor Neptune wandering the liminal spaces known as the pool rooms. Pictured, a long hallway extending to pitch darkness, crystal blue pool water over knee level. Neptune striding slowly, leaning toward the tile covered walls in desperation, head slumped against it and her shoulders hung in utter misery.

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

all software/app comparisons boil down to: 1- costs $7/year, easy to use, run by literal nazis 2- costs $7/year, virtually impossible to use, run by venture capitalists 3- costs $10,000/year, easy to use, owned by the sweetest people in the world

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sagittarius, your confidence will obscure your best laid plans🏹

Illustration of woman with short hair kneeling back on the ground and pulling the string of a bow tight. She is holding a white arrow and prepared to let go. Around her is the Sagittarius constellation that is made of orange and pale yellow stars. The background is a pale peach, the woman is made up of oranges and reds.

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Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

In September, we... make pumpkin cream soup with garlic baguette 🥖

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Arkhip Kuindzhi's paintings astound the eye. As a young man he was apprenticed to Ivan Aivazovsky, the renowned russian painter whose works have ended up in concept art and film lookbooks in recent decades. Arkhip's own are more bold and graphic than his masters, yet nonetheless magnificent.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
K

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

we're never beating the infighting allegations

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ink @inkpixels.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

7 colors, pixelart

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Tenderheart #art Prints: artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1508...

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Inga Manskopf @imanskopf.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

“Thank you for writing to my office and sharing your thoughts on the Comprehensive Plan, as related to XXX.” This is the reply I received yesterday in response to my early June email to CM Rivera (who represents my district) about increasing the capacity to build more housing in my neighborhood.

Text of email message: Thank you for writing to my office and sharing your thoughts on the Comprehensive Plan, as related to XXX.

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Marty Tina G. ⚢ @geezmarty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

(from 2019) forgotten god

illustration of a woman with charred wings sitting atop a greek column. the column is half submerged in water and various weapons are surrounding it.

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

generally i feel like most people are on the same page re: the warming planet, but sometimes people will surprise me by saying "it should get warmer faster!! hotter! hotter! hotter!"

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John 🍂 @jrgdrawing.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Haunted house.

Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up

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Luffymose @tamoscanoparsa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Folks, it's time to move on from Harry Potter and all J.K. Rowling related

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BERNERI ✧ @berneri.horse · 10/05/2025

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies #art ✧ #watershipdown ✧ #transrights ✧ #rabbit

Digital art of a grey rabbit in the middle of a jump with dark purple background. There is a text ”Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.” from the novel Watership Down. The picture has trans flag colors (white, light blue, pink) in the details.

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