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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can I ask, how do you take your pix? I effectively cannot make outdoor photos with my phone in full daylight, b/c the screen just looks black. Do I need a ?

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PullIng down the statue of King George III at Bowling Green, NY., July 7, 1776 (as imagined by painter William Walcutt in 1857).

Golden statue of a King astride a prancing horse, being dislodged by ropes and levers from a pediment; on the point of falling. Surrounded by enthusiastic people of all ages and conditions, including a brawny man in shirtsleeves, waving a hammer; a well-dressed woman with two children; a Black and a white man running excitedly; and an older man shouting from his perch on an upended box. On the far side of the pediment a bigger part of crowd can be partly seen, behind some railings. Sky bright and a little bit misty.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

VOTED TODAY! Have YOU banked your vote yet?

Whimsical ceramic piggy bank painted with red roses, green leaves, yellow and purple striped legs, purple ears, purple snout, and purple tail. Credit: Joyous!, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"No one's even asked to interview us about what we've been through."

Three costumed "furries" pose cutely outdoors in front of an exhibition hall. The one in the front looks canine; blue, gray and white, it shows open paws and a friendly head tilt. Peeking out from behind it are a feline type, blue, black and white; and what looks like a red fox. They all have wide, cartoon- like eyes. Attribution: Hopesa via Wikimedia Commons.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Both of my brains knew that already. ;)

Pen-and-ink Illustration of an antelope with a head at each end of its body, from Doctor Doolittle Meets the Pushmi-Pullyu, by High Lofting. The antelope is jumping over a stream. One head has a duck in its mouth, held by the neck. The other is looking back at this over its shoulder.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I didn't read the book but saw reviews, way back in 2004. :)

Cover of book, "The Men Who Stare At Goats" by Jon Ronson, "New York Times bestselling author of 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed'"

Cover description: "This story is about what happened when a small group of men--highly placed within the United States military, the government, and the intelligence services--began believing in very strange things.

Blurb: "'A hilarious and unsettling book....Ronson comes off as an unusual cross between Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and _The NewYorker_'s Seymour Hersh.' --The Boston Globe"

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My home "altar" (in part) ;)

Table backed by an oil painting of a lotus, holding a clear glass psperweight full of small bubbles; a framed print of Leonardo's (imputed) "Light of the World"; ditto Piero di Cosimo's very effiminate John the Evangelist, with a snake emerging from a goblet; an open dollhouse door; a finely sculptured reclining Buddha; a cruder ceramic of Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree; a small image of Our Lady of Guadaloupe; a blown-glass egg; three silver pendants; a twinned pyrite crystal; some small carnelian beads; a small sculptured lizard; and a box with a black-and-white patterned lid.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Recent and recommended also (w/ big bibliography including When Prophecy Fails). Lead author was raised in the Children of God cult, later worked in military intelligence, and finally earned in degree in cult studies. On YouTube as Knitting Cult Lady. ;)

Book cover: The Culting of America by Daniella Mestyanek Young snd Amy Reed

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So ChatGPT is another fraud ???!!!!

Illustration of how the historical chessplaying mechanical Turk as a fraud, operated by a person concealed in its cabinet. The specifics in the illustration were incorrect, but it was still right in principle.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Studied ambiguity, failure to push back on the quesion.... I can't help thinking AGAIN of Bill Clinton's "Sister Souljah moment." Which consultants probably think was a winner for him. Instead, it's a new round of "trans controversy" & "Dems in disarray." Obvious, I guess; still processing. :/

Lucy pulls away the football just as Charlie Brown kicks it. He is upside down in the air yelling "AAUGH!"

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's New York Times "Connections" puzzle, completed @greenleejw.bsky.social

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Having hoovered up a million specialist businesses, loaded them with debt, then destroyed them in the name of "efficiency," private equity's now like

Wiley Coyote notices he's just powered straight off a cliff. Frozen in running pose, staring eyes.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Post something random or you'll have an awful September [like this]

Medieval "hellmouth" (from a manuscript). Several unhappy-looking mostly naked people sit in a flame-surrounded cauldron, within the mouth of a giant wolflike head. Two of them wear bishops' mitres. A horned, bird-footed demon rolls up with several more peoole in a wheelbarrow, while a second demon carries another naked person over his shoulder. More demons fly around.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Reference: Falstaff in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor :) Below, the Fat Knight is bundled into a laundry basket by the two merry wives. He thinks they're helping him escape the wrath of an outraged husband. In fact, they're totally pranking him.

Engraving of the scene as it appeared onstage, 1700s. Via Wikimedia Commons.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sir John Falstaff, would-be adulterer about to get caught, to escape the scene allows himself to be buried in a basket of filthy laundry. (Shakespeare's _Merry Wives of Windsor_).

In shirt sleeves with hat askew, Falstaff sits in a massive laundry basket. One woman pushes his leg in over the edge while the other covers his head with a sheet. In actuality they are pranking him. Engraving of the staged scene by Louis Truchy, 1700s, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Not much experience in or around legislatures, have had you? Leadup to voting is very expensive in time & energy; and the validity of such an action under Rule 9 could end up before the Supreme Court. That said, I wish some of our reps would be more outspoken about the constant offenses.

Yoda. Photo credit, JD, via Flickr, via, Wikimedia Commons

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Some interpretation of Narasimha might work. There are various styles of depiction. This one is especially spiky. ;)

A form of Vishnu, "Narasimha is...a fierce protector who destroys evil and safeguards his devotees. He is most widely known for protecting his devotee Prahlada and for slaying the tyrannical demon king Hiranyakashipu." --Wikipedia

Here he has a toothy, monkey-like face, a grinz and a tall crown,l in shape between a bell and a wedding-cake. Of his 16 arms, 12 hold weapons and other objects. He has the demon trapped across his knee, while the loyal devotee looks up at him from the side.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's personal now. Maine can be slow to anger but accepts no b.s. Maine motto "DIRIGO": I lead

Maine state flag with motto. The design includes figures representing a historic farmer and sailor, plus the North Star and a moose resting under a pine tree.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

From this time forward she shall be known as St. E. Jean, a patron of sexual assault victims and persons denied justice via lawfare. Her victory shall be celebrated on Bastille Day, July 14. MOTTO: "She persisted."

St. Joan of Arc depicted in golden armor on a white horse.A tall feather on her helmet, a scarlet banner over her shoulder. In the background, elaborate castellated buildings. Miniature by Jean Pichot, 1504. Wikimedia Commons.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

DIRIGO = I lead. May it be so.

Maine state flag. On a blue field, a gold-bordered heraldic shield depicts a moose resting under a pine tree. The shield is flanked by figures of a farmer and a sailor. Overhead, the north star appears in gold, surrounded by rays composing a pentagon, together with the motto: DIRIGO ("I lead"). Beneath, on a blue scroll or ribbon, MAINE.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

And how did researchers reach this aether-shaking conclusion? Using AI.

Painted drawing of Ouroboros dragon biting its own tail. Very scaly. Four tiny legs, unhappy expression. Detail from Fol. 279 of Codex Parisinus graecus 2327, a copy (made by Theodoros Pelecanos (Pelekanos) of Corfu in Khandak, Iraklio, Crete in 1478) of a lost manuscript of an early medieval tract which was attributed to Synosius (Synesius) of Cyrene (d. 412). Via Wikimedia Commons.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Don't believe me? Fra Angelico annunciation in the Prado, via Wikipedia 2/

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Below is earlier in the same convo. All it shows for absolute certain is that they had the same attorney representing them in two different cases in the same period, a potential scheduling issue, but it does suggest Epstein may have been interested in the actual outcome of Cafaro's case.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

He also seemingly gets a mention in the Epstein files

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Epstein expressed satisfaction that the case was dismissed. Whether that was because Epstein needed the attorney back in NY to deal with a case of his own, or whether there was any further connection isn't clear.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Series of emails in the Epstein files indicates Epstein took some at least tangential personal interest in a 2011 Ohio legal case titled State v Cafaro.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Less happy, I'm sorry to report:

Tweet from X by Robert Downen, photo of three grim-looking men in suits centering former U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino. Text: "Over the weekend the former head of Trump's Border Patrol attended a summit with fascists from around the world who are calling for 'Weimar solutions' and it for some reason has received alnost no press coverage." Photo credit: theredoubt.net

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day to the mother of us all. (And who deserves to be treated better.)

Earth from space. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous, and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Fortunate perhaps for others with similar thoughts that _this_ guy was raised in an evangelical splinter church & may never even have heard of Thomas Becket. :-/

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sean M. Curran, Secret Service chief since 1/22/2025 As a member of Trump's protection detail, Curran rushed to cover him during the attempted assassination in Butler, Pa. Trump cited that action In elevating Curran to head the entire agency. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_M....

Approximayely 50-year-old white man with a tall, square-topped forehead, greasy-looking short light-brown hair, blank blue-gray eyes, lengthy upper lip that is pointed in the center, wide downturned line of a mouth, and short lower jaw with prominent chin. Dark suit coat with subtle check, bright white shirt, tie matches the eyes. Posed in front of portion of an American flag and light blue-graybackground.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Characters in charge of the U.S. government

Tenniel pen-and-ink illustration of the Mad Tea Party: Alice, the March Hare, the Dormouse, the Mad Hatter

Tenniel pen-and-ink illustration of the Duchess's kitchen in Alice in Wonderland: the Cook, the Cheshire Cat, the Duchess, her squalling baby, Alice

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We learned percents in 6th grade. The way that percentages can be (mis)used to deceive, I learned from this little book, a year or two later. RFK Jr. seems to have taken it as an instructuon manual.

Book cover, How To Lie With Statistics By Darrell Huff. Features a cartoon of a man with a broom, sweeping some numbers under a rug.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Post a picture of yourself as a doctor

Historical (1616) cover image of published playscript, "The Tragicall History of the Life and and Death of Doctor Faustus," by Christopher Marlowe. The robed magiciwn stands inside a circle marked with mystical symbols, while a horned demon rises through the floor.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

God, if you're listening ;-)

Tarot card, major arcana XVI: The Tower. Two figures, one crowned, fall from a tower that is struck by lightning and bursting into flames. The crown-top of the tower, also is falling.

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Red-legged frog, per Wikipedia (foto by Walter Siegmund). I've searched, and found different degrees of red in photos of these frogs, but nothing like all-tomato-colored

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Northern Red-legged frog as photographed by Walter Siegmund (via Wikipedia)

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