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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 18h
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing. ~ Warsan Shire . 📷 Rhonda Lashley Lopez
pictorialist photograph by Rhonda Lashley Lopez featuring two white birds flying over dark water under dramatic sunbeams. The artwork is an archival pigment print on Japanese gampi paper layered with gold leaf to create a warm, ethereal glow.
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.” ― Ian McEwan, Atonement #BookSky
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Music✨️✨️ Soko - We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow youtu.be/Xwi6OO0AFXg?...
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We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow
YouTube video by Soko - Topic
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can hear a wolfing sound in the distance. It is the wind. It is the world. It is the cold. 📷 Ann Mitchell
"Like the Moon Burning" a platinum/palladium print by Ann Mitchell,showing a dirt road bordered by wind-swept trees under a dramatic, cloudy sky. A thick plume of white smoke billows from a low brush fire or pile on the side of the road.
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Silence is a flower, it opens up, dilates, extends its texture, can grow, mutate, return on its steps. I can watch other flowers grow and become what they are. ~ Etel Adnan
A detail of Explosion Florale (1968/2018), aN artwork by Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist Etel Adnan.
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop" ~ Rûmî
This documentary image of the installation was captured by YCAM to showcase the work of the two renowned Japanese artists who conceptualized the piece: Ryuichi Sakamoto & Shiro Takatani
At the core of the installation is a large, mirror-like black water basin onto which water droplets fall with meticulous control.
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pamela steiner @nadieseconoce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Es war mehr als Einsamkeit es war die verdammte Niemandszugehörigkeit… paul nizon * 19. 12. 1929
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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History of the Night Jorge Luis Borges tr. Charles Tomlinson Down through the generations men built the night. In the beginning it was blindness and sleep.
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. Anne Carson
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#photography 📷 David McCain "Icebound Memories"
A cyanolumen - experimental photographic process that blends cyanotype chemistry with black-and-white photographic paper, developed under natural sunlight. The piece features the botanical silhouettes of Alstroemeria flowers layered over organic, ice-like textures and vibrant, safety-yellow chemical reactions.
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Karenlee Kitto @karenleekitto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#photography #Scape #cityscape #ColorADay #BWFri #analog #shotonfilm #doubleexposure #PotD
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't be serious, be sincere. — Chetan Bhagat
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Clara_Pirx @clarapirx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#painting #drawing #sketch #art #MastoArt #kleinekunstklasse #abstract #Depression #depressed #comic
Abstrakte Aquarellzeichnung mit überlappenden roten, blauen und braunen Farbflächen und schwarzen Linien
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
« Love has a triumph and death has one, the time and the time thereafter. We have none. Only the sinking of stars about us. Reflected splendour and silence Yet the song above the dust one day will rise above us. » ~ Ingeborg Bachmann (tr. Mike Lyons & Patrick Drysdale) #poetry
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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maria João Pires & Julien Libeer play Schubert Fantasy in F minor, op. 103 (live) youtu.be/UruWMxY2OF4?si=LueMjvR_JzH1uRW_
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Maria João Pires & Julien Libeer play Schubert Fantasy in F minor, op. 103 (live)
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Daily Mayröcker @dailymayroecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(𝘰𝘩, 𝘩𝘦𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦 . .) (2.10. | brütt, 1995-97, S. 54)
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❀ Marie-Laure ❀ @weekendpoetry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
❝Où en sera l’enfant, si vous ne lui apprenez que le renard ne dit sans mentir que parce qu’il ment ?❞ — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile ou De l’éducation
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 02/10/2026
Gerd Mingram Norderelbe Bridges, Hamburg, Germany, 1950
surreal shot of a steel beamed bridge, the beams are curved an the shadows make mirrored shapes on the road
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Latesky @latesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Non possiamo conoscere nulla d’esterno a noi scavalcando noi stessi, - egli pensa ora, - l’universo è lo specchio in cui possiamo contemplare solo ciò che abbiamo imparato a conoscere in noi.” Italo Calvino, L’universo come specchio • da Palomar (1994, I Meridiani, Romanzi e Racconti Vol.2 p.974)
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
France based artist and illustrator Lou Benesch Channel, 2026 (mixed media on antique chalkboard) #LouBenesch #ContemporaryArt
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Translated, from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Bishop
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Music The Chainsmokers ft. Winona Oak "Hope" youtu.be/WBuJ8nE2nas?...
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The Chainsmokers - Hope ft. Winona Oak (Acoustic)
YouTube video by The Chainsmokers
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⚷ @birdheartedgirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the kind of hug that swallows you whole mind, body, and soul
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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Friday .
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me. We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break. ~ Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself #poetry . 📷 Alan Frost
Black-and-white architectural scene with heavy intentional motion blur, creating a ghostly, abstract atmosphere.
The image depicts Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex, England. The visible structures are the historic gates and stone archways leading into the cathedral grounds.
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
word(s) of the day: remember who you (really) are because that will save you in the false galaxies of the vainglorious who seek always to oppress and you deserve instead the lightness of a fluttering angel wing 💫
[Untitled by Edna Taçon (1941)]
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#poetry ✨️✨️ A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding The gap left by things which have already happened Leaving nothing in their place, may have nothing to do But that. Dreams are like ghosts achieving ghosts’ perennial goal Of revoking the sensation of repose. ~ Lyn Hejinian
Black-and-white landscape photograph captured by Philip Perkis. A vast, dark grassy field dominates the lower half of the frame. In the center sits a large, still puddle. The surface of the water clearly reflects the sky above and the intricate, bare branches of the nearby trees.
 A dense tree line stretches across the horizon under a moody, cloud-filled sky. A layer of low-hanging fog or mist settles right at the base of the woods, separating the field from the forest and adding to the eerie, still atmosphere of the scene.
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Mo🦋 @monikamazick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
wieviel Godot trägt jeder/e mit sich umher
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Ornikkar @ornikkar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - Un vendredi 13 à 5h (40 ans de chansons sur scène à l'AccorHotels Arena 2018) youtu.be/lYHg5zux3QM?... 🖤
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Un vendredi 13 à 5h (40 ans de chansons sur scène à l'AccorHotels Arena 2018)
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Pol Niuman @pol-niuman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fernand Léger El sifón (1924)
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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Drink from the well of yourself and begin again. ~ Charles Bukowski
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.” Daniel J. Boorstin, born on this day in 1914
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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
La colère des dieux / The anger of gods - 1960 #artbots #magritte
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Ornikkar @ornikkar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Le traitement médiatique des manifs.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
☀️ is up. ☕️ is ready And the 🦭are fed. Good Morning, America! Were just talking about Shaft. #RadioFreeAmerica 🎧🎧🎧 youtu.be/BpEfqdlLbBA?...
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Isaac Hayes Theme from "Shaft" (2019 Extended Revisit) ***
YouTube video by themotownboy1
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nina theda black @ninathedablack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
12x12 paper collage on wood
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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Grasses cover the slope of Mount Sentinel in Missoula, Montana ... a real place.
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Robert Rauschenberg @rrauschenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Accident www.moma.org/collection/works/67799
Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


Brian Bilston
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Music Tony Iommi - Stormwatcher youtu.be/_0fr6OHGgPs?... 🎧 🔥
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Tony Iommi – Stormwatcher (Official Video)
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. ~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1944 #womensart
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Greg 🤍 MidwestUSA @midwestusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Something to wake up to this Thursday morning …. youtu.be/CmlnO1EwCT4?...
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Fiona Apple - Across the Universe (Official HD Video)
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Nico @brushesandnotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ça fait mal d’apprendre à quitter ceux qui nous quittent,d’apprendre à les aimer en silence, le dos tourné, les yeux baissés. De devoir apprendre à son coeur la force de se vider tout en demeurant habité. Apprendre à pleurer en souriant, à s’en aller en aimant ~ Philippe Besson
Artistic photograph titled "Hands and Leaves" by the artist Jessica Lindgren Wu.
Scattered dry autumn leaves adhere to the surface of the glass.
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield’s Journal Entry October, 1922 Photo: Atlas Mountains 2019.
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“ … the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.” Anne Sexton
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hobothumb @hobothumb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
highway landscape goauche, acrylic, pastels, pencil and ink on paper, 17x14"
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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947) dir. Henry Koster
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LeaLyster @lealyster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"But once in a while the odd thing happens, Once in a while the dream comes true, And the whole pattern of life is altered, Once in a while the moon turns blue." - W.H. Auden Yrjö Edelmann “Concentration of Blue Substance” Oil on canvas
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