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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16h

brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it

But supposing that the world has become "filled up," so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier gen-eration, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and pros-perity, and against democracy.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 18h

Andy Goldsworthy 1. sycamore leaves edging the roots of a sycamore tree 2. rowan leaves laid around hole 3. tree painted with black mud collected from nearby bog 4. hazel tree smeared with black earth, rubbed with chalk, both found next to the tree

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 21h

I am tired of hearing Republicans brutally misrepresented by unflattering & biased slogans like "Mass Deportation Now" & "Lock Her Up". If you actually talk to them you can learn useful new things like "germs aren't real" & "black people would do the same things to us if they could"

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20h

This is really sad, obviously, but also extremely well done. Unreal how much stupid, useless suffering this regime has created.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 20h

Hate it when you see what you think is a cool bird and you look it up later and it’s called like the Common Dumb Asshole. “Birders throughout history have hated its guts. It can’t even fly right.” I thought I saw an interesting guy.

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

collaged my leftover scraps onto the weakest impression from my monoprinting session and it's kiiiiinda interesting? def better than it was before, with a nice connection to my habitual tendency to recycle and reuse materials in the studio

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Met a woman in Park Slope today selling dozens of portraits of her friends she painted during a challenge with another artist where each painted one portrait a day for 300 days

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quite the tidbit from this Elliott Smith bio: During a NYC screening of Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant invited Elliott and his girlfriend to dinner at Elaine’s with Ben Stiller, Liv Tyler & Joaquin Phoenix, who tried to set Elliott up with Angelina Jolie while his girlfriend was in the bathroom. 😑

The cover of NOBODY BROKE YOUR HEART: An intimate biography of Elliott smith by Jamie Fisher, featuring a photo of Elliott with his eyes closed and laughing.

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Ukraine is doing the meme. And it's working.

Meme of a crying man going "noooo you can't just vaporize my entire armored division, we had such a manly recruitment ad" and a woman with classes going "omg integrated fire support?? go off queen sksksk, JDAMs are such a gemini thing."

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#PPOD: A large new scar has appeared on the Moon. McGetchin crater formed sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, when an asteroid or comet roughly the size of a multi-story building slammed into the lunar surface. 🧪 🔭 🌕️

Fresh impact crater centered on a dark, heavily cratered lunar surface, with a bright radial ejecta blanket and streaks extending outward from the rim, indicating a relatively recent collision and surrounded by many smaller, older craters.

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.” -Munch

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In 1969 sculptor Forrest Myers placed the first artwork on the moon by 6 artists (Rauschenberg, Novros, Chamberlain, Oldenburg, Warhol, Myers) printed on a ceramic wafer which was secretly attached to the lunar module of NASA’s Apollo 12 The Moon Museum remains on the lunar surface to this day 🌔

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

lol

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Horizon, Zenith and Atmosphere by Paul Klee, 1925 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wayne Thiebaud, Santa Fe Cloud, 1991 oil on canvas 15 5/8 × 16 5/8 inches

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

out on the street, the traffic starts jumpin'

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

a bagged salad rotting in my produce drawer while i tend to my refrigerator bonsai

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 28/09/2026

an LLM cannot have understanding because that is a capability reserved exclusively to me, as I unwittingly parrot the premise of a paper I didn’t read based on some overconfident tweets I saw one time in 2023

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

had such a blast at the center for contemporary printmaking for their annual 🚨monothon🚨 they paired me up with masterprinter brian garner, consummate collaborater and all-around chill dude he pushed me to experiment with a new process and we pulled off a handful of really nice oil-based monotypes🎨

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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 28/09/2026

Imagine having your life saved by Indiana Jones and then growing up to be a guy that regularly steals from his grandmother to buy scam juice from the girl catfishing him online.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

remember when doja cat told elon he looks like he was "drawn from memory" 😭

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 27/09/2026

He is 28 in this photo

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JAV Titles @jav.scd.lol · 22/09/2026

I Thought My Colleague Was Simply A Plain Jane, But ... I Casually Pulled Some Shit On Her, And That Was All She Wrote. From There On, She Used Her Meaty Body, And Her Endless Lust, To Suck My Balls Dry All Night, And That's How It Went For Me. Ruka Inaba

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was such a treat to find these gorgeous little green cup mushrooms in the forest this morning. Usually all I can ever find is the bright turquoise mycelia in the rotting wood. Finding the thumbnail size fruiting bodies is pretty rare for me. Their colour is unreal. 🍄🌿