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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In related news, I'll be starting the Medlock sportsbook. Every line is even money, no vig, max bet $580, both sides mandatory, one visit per six months. It's time to gamble our way to Medicaid for All.

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calderyates.bsky.social @calderyates.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I want to make a bet with someone that this will be FL this Nov.

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calderyates.bsky.social @calderyates.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Every day, scientists are allowed to publish sentences like, 'Many assume there is a close connection between human history and culture (Donaldson 2019),' and yet English departments are the problem?" lmaoooooooooooooooo

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

2/2 The saved get a very warm introduction to heaven on left wing of Lucas van Leyden's Last Judgment triptych.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i think the dark chapter from american history that scooby doo is best suited to mention by name has got to be ruby ridge

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Neolithic amber bear, dated between 1700 B.C.E. and 650 B.C.E. Found in 1887 in a peat bog near Slupsk, Poland And I already know it looks like a gummy bear

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If being alive in this world doesn’t break you a bit and change your gait, then look around. What god are you serving? And why you are keeping that monster alive with your libations? 🙃

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Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Embrace Galbraith thought @jdcmedlock.bsky.social

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Sean Trende’s piece on his son’s last day of school is full of joy and sadness and love and is well worth your time. www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/202...

Judson's Last Ride
COMMENTARY
By Sean Trende
RCP Staff

Today is a day I've dreaded for over a decade. At around 6:20 a.m., we'll get my oldest son Judson up,give him a bath, put his safety harness on (don't worry, we'll dress him first, and then watch him amble down our driveway to the school bus, as we have almost every school day since fourth grade. He'll go through whatever class activities he has, come to the end of the day, and get ready to ride the bus home, as he has almost every school day since fourth grade. His teachers and aides will wipe their eyes, put him on the bus, and off he'll go, just the same as he's done almost every school day since fourth grade.

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A view of the progress of the Water Castle Julia www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Donna Ferrato (b. 1949), Death of the Class Gerbil, United Nations School, 1988. Silver gelatin print, printed 1995, 33 x 48.5cm, sheet size 40 x 50cm

A black-and-white photograph showing children's hands forming a circle around a dead gerbil placed in the lid of a cigar box along with some flowers

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

And I can make it more complicated. - Yanyi’s Catallus 85

Yanyi
Catullus 85
And I can make it more complicated.
I can make it more about how I loved you, you hated that I loved you, I loved you so I hated that I loved you with you, I never hated that you hated that I loved you, but I hated that I loved you because you hated
it, until I hated it, until I hated
how I made it-that I loved you with what you hated, until I hated why I loved it, not you, but all of it.

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Tom Pain @tompain.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I read a history of early 20th century socialism and it's crazy how much of it is just clubs doing art or reading books and trying to get miners and factory workers to do art and read books.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

There's actually a fun story behind this: the guy who was NYC superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1923 was an architect who believed in holistic learning, and wanted to inspire kids to rise out of poverty by giving them a sense of the possibility of granduer through construction.

en.wikipedia.org

C. B. J. Snyder - Wikipedia

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. I resist the bad ones, but when a "Congo" or an
"Anaconda" comes along, my heart leaps up and I cave in. "The Mummy" is a movie like that. There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.

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cryptic 🦇 pollinator @magicscience.info · 06/03/2026

cropped, this chart becomes amazing

Cropped chart just showing Bad thing and Good thing over the years

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

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calderyates.bsky.social @calderyates.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Who doesn't love watching the two luge doubles guys wiggle and snuggle into place at the beginning of their run... "oop, lemme just, there we go, okay I'm ready."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 04/02/2026

WHAT'S up me hearties it be thy boy Ahab, with the biggest ounce of gold giveaway ever hath ye seen on the channel. Swerve not thy fixed purpose to attend this one, guys! But first I must tell ye the tale of SQUARESPACE, who be thy sponsor today

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The article accepts the idea that New College was a liberal enclave, and what is happening now is a rebalancing. I think this view is fundamentally wrong, embracing the assumptions of those who see their job as to save campuses from liberalism by any means necessary.

Whatever the culture and political leaning of the campus, it reflected the organic evolution of the the people on that campus, rather than a government-mandated imposition of values. The emphasis on ideological balance as a goal of higher education elides the forced nature of the New College project, the reliance on a series of coercive strategies to turn a campus against its traditions and culture. A gender studies program that students found value in is not equivalent to political appointees imposing a Charlie Kirk statute on campus.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing: www.vulture.com/article/movi...

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It's your birthday, Duane.

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..."

There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel

Duane Puryear died in 1991.

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Chicken DeKalb, IL

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Jake McIntyre @jakemcintyre.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Weird to think that culture was once influenced by Gap ads

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calderyates.bsky.social @calderyates.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Howardena Pindell. Video Drawing: Baseball. August 1975

This is an artwork by Howardena Pindell titled "Video Drawing: Baseball" from August 1975. It's a chromogenic print of a blurry tv still of a baseball game, viewed from behind the umpire as the pitcher is in the middle of a pitch, that is covered in diagram-like arrows and inscrutable notations.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Stay woke friends

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

They recorded “untitled” in about two hours and were only together in the studio because Rafael Sadiq was looking for a joint and knew D’Angelo would have one

Rafael Saadiq explaining why the song just ends

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

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calderyates.bsky.social @calderyates.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It's dated "Oct 16, 2018" in the upper right. Is this the condition report prior to the fires?

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gregorg @greg.org · 30/09/2025

Thanks to John Vincler's IG post, I went through Ron Perelman's failed fire insurance lawsuit and pulled out some buck wild condition reports for the five invisibly damaged paintings he wanted $410 million for. Here's the Twombly, for example greg.org/archive/2025...

one page of a court filing of a condition report for a 1971 cy twombly painting, the kind that would normally get called a blackboard painting, full of rows of loops, but this one is on a white ground, and yet ron perelman, its owner, never refers to it as a whiteboard painting. he says it's a masterpiece, in which case, cy twombly, who i admire greatly, had to have made hundreds of masterpieces, because this one seems fine. except it's inundated here with notations of various anomalies and damage sites and condition problems, tho none of them ended up being attributable enough to the fire at ron perelman's house, at least not enough for the judge.

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