Reposted by AlhelíThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026From the early 1400s, a lavishly illustrated vellum scroll (almost 18 ft long!) of the works of English physician John of Arderne, one of the founding figures of modern surgery: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a… 111022
Reposted by AlhelíAlhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I made this for my intro to latinx studies class in 2022 and I have gotten to use it at least once a year since then. 0144
Reposted by Alhelígamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible. 4622011305
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The crushing shame of house sitting and noticing you… failed to keep a plant thriving 110
Reposted by AlhelíEmily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW 311070182
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“To be political is today the only way to avoid the trivial.” - Robin Wood, 1986 131
Reposted by Alhelíscott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This reminds me of the time a student in my 70s film course said she didn’t like watching many of the films because “everyone and everything looks so dirty!” 19334
Reposted by AlhelíAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/09/2026Industrial capital invested in the expansion of culture and literacy to create an educated working class (tho they couldn’t control how workers thought). Tech capital is investing in mass deliteracy while building no public cultural institutions. They haven’t abandoned culture, just privatized it. 12918
Reposted by AlhelíDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Fish on a pewter plate, with peppercorns & sliced lemon, arranged on a stone ledge. Oranges hanging above. Unexpected arrangement by Alejandro de Loarte, whose day was today. 06410
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m not holding back tears at the surprise of Sandy Denny playing in a coffeeshop, you are 011
Reposted by AlhelíMónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We fought hard to keep our majors, even in the face of our departments closing, b/c we know what it took to create them in the first place. Decades of work by elders to ensure this knowledge would have a place at the "best" public university in TX. www.kut.org/education/20...kut.orgUT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majorsThe decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol... 133
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026UT has manufactured the conditions to claim students don't enroll in gender and ethnic studies by revamping curriculum to have courses not count and now finally axing majors they had promised to keep after forcing consolidation thedailytexan.com/2026/09/16/o...thedailytexan.com 110
Reposted by Alhelígenna @genna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Cat Frazier's fingerprints are all over the web and will persist for all eternity, or until the servers go dark. I am so damn sick of writing RIP posts for cultural luminaries who weren't even 40 yet. 1229
Reposted by AlhelíNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Hammer, Sickle and Sombrero — Tina Modotti, 1927 16115
Reposted by AlhelíSleepaway Champ @sleepawaychamp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026the new mexican colonial mind cannot stomach even pretend insults to the aristocracy 022
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026 thank you Camp Miasma for the perfect text to point to as the kind of alternative imagined and suggested by Mulvey when she is more and more relevant and increasingly misread. 000
Reposted by AlhelíChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026obsessed with this poem by CAConrad. the empire will tax your soul! I prefer the forests making blankets from themselves!! 113027
Reposted by AlhelíCarolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Just want to remind you all that my Bluesky Starter Pack features only the weirdest, most visually driven accounts. Need random quotes from Moby Dick and photos of hyenas every hours? I got you. go.bsky.app/CUczzszgo.bsky.appThe Strange and the CuriousJoin the conversation 1143
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026yes racism and also— really strong impression that there’s a type of person that doesnt have it in them to care for anyone outside of their own tiny self and thus cannot fathom anyone else caring about *gestures broadly* others. 010
Reposted by AlhelíThe Believer @thebeliever.net · 09/09/2026“The story of how ‘Gothic Shade’ became ‘Jim Crow’ reflects the sticky and stubborn nature of racism in American society.” From Sarah K. Kramer’s essay on the 19th-century typeface “Jim Crow”: www.thebeliever.net/logger/writt...thebeliever.netJ for Jim Crow - Believer MagazineThree years ago, while on summer vacation, I was browsing the children’s book offerings in a used bookstore in Portland, ME. I had my toddler in tow, who at twenty months had approximately twenty… 031
Reposted by AlhelíAlhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026i would be willing to bet he knows next NOTHING about NM but learned about the AG supporting environmental groups working to halt project Jupiter and immediately felt personally threatened given his & his failfamily’s investments 122
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026 for ppl who are unaware- this little renaming game du jour the president is entertaining himself with is happening when we have Deb running for governor, NM successfully sued Meta, public push back against a data center now has state AG support, and state investigating his creep buddy’s property 130
Reposted by AlhelíMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Don't want to come off as some delicate flower but I'm just not sure I was designed to learn about so many different variations of human depravity all at once 721632
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026relatedly— i don’t think we give enough credit to the fact both Stepford Wives and Rosemary’s Baby, two texts that are really about the horrors that threaten women’s autonomy via marriage, family reproduction, and men, were written by Ira Levin. Clearly someone was noticing things! 110
Reposted by AlhelíRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If you are the kind of person that thinks the current gen of llm ai has in any sense, sentience, personhood, or consiousness, i hope you find the help and love you need to get out of your crisis 226041
Reposted by AlhelíEm, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026We really need to invest in the next generation of camp 121140237
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026one of my favorite things about Dolly and Tim Curry was the singularity of their voices. speaking or singing they remind of really specific times, places, and comforts. up there with the iconic voice of Vincent Price for me 010
Reposted by Alhelíjoyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026if you are a gay icon STAY INSIDE!!! it’s DANGEROUS OUT HERE!!!!! 2450281044
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Gonna just have to mourn by cultivating and celebrating more femme creativity in this dingy world that is a little less sparkling now 031
Reposted by Alhelíold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 24/08/2026dream catcher theater (a contemporary multiplex), angle 4, route 285, espanola, new mexico, 2003 622947
Reposted by AlhelíC. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Television used to MEAN something in this country. 🧐 4761721960
Reposted by AlhelíJadine (JD) Pluecker @jdpluecker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"The Mexico/Guatemala border cuts a volcano in half. Better put: the governments of Mexico and Guatemala say they can cut in half a volcano that reaches 13,320 feet in height, is still active, and whose name is Tacaná." - Linda Quiquivix placesjournal.org/article/cutt...placesjournal.orgCutting the Earth in HalfWhat can the border between Mexico and Guatemala tell us about the limits of North America? 031
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Next Friday!!! and yours truly will be doing a little q&a 🪨 020
Reposted by AlhelíJorge Téllez @jorgetellez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The Dept. of Cinema & Media Studies at Penn is hiring: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Global South media studies with expertise in Latin American, African, and/or African diasporic media cultures. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/191793apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 057
Reposted by Alhelíold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 19/08/2026grant county courthouse, center vertical, copper street, silver city, new mexico, 1991 1864
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026static.klipy.comGargoyles: Demona's Red EyesALT: Gargoyles: Demona's Red Eyes 000
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026come join us at @clals-upenn.bsky.social on the 28th for the Almuerzo de Bienvenida! the wonderful Dr. Sandra Rozental will share a talk about her book “The Absent Stone”— a truly fascinating account and examination of how ancient things are connected to the people and places they come from. 073
Reposted by Alhelí👻Notorischer User dieser Plattform🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Nearly six minutes of #PlatformRealism: a fantasy of world domination, in which the world consists entirely of vibes and clichés derived from aggregated stolen content. Here, everything seems possible, and yet nothing happens beyond the endless repetition of patterns of white male domination 1113929
Reposted by AlhelíKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Santa Fe Arts Colony, 1920s: New Yorkers looking for open air and the freedom to paint desert flowers in their, ahem, fullest bloom Santa Fe Arts Colony, 2020s: startup-minded hipsters who convinced GRRM to use his GoT largesse as seed money for Discovery Zone For 30somethings, now franchised. 4634
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026omg didnt expect this to frighten me. I’m never sleeping again I guess 😭 000
Reposted by AlhelíAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha... 6831411011
Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026In a strange coincidence: today at SITE, there were free FGT workbooks. my sister & I remembered seeing FGT‘s retrospective @ The Bund Art Museum in Shanghai when I lived there and we teared up looking at the lightbulbs hanging in the stairwell, coiling on the floor. more reminders to read 011