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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 19h
& @alexkudera.bsky.social "Whether or not it is truly the age of information, or in fact, the age of terror, as his televised leaders claim, he is certainly a guardsman of the noble, hegemonic power of the time, a sentry at the door of the baccalaureate degree." blog.wdclarke.org/fight-for-yo...
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Fight For Your Long Day, by Alex Kudera (review)
Duffy has noticed that sometimes the poorest writers seem to enjoy this artistic part of the writing process. Where to begin? How do you take a dying paragraph and breathe life into it, turn it int…
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks!
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
😂 Thank you. Enjoying your notes.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hi. What book is this?
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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Untitled, from the series Chewing Gum and Chocolate, 1959 by Shōmei Tōmatsu
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sewers are one of the most transformational interventions to human health in history, yet they are rarely understood or recognised for their impact. So we are holding an event about them next Tuesday. In person in London or watch online! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/searc...
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The secret life of sewers
From the Big Stink to the fatberg, London's history has always flowed through what (and how) we flush away. Sewers are one of the most transformational, yet least recognised interventions in the histo...
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My short essay on Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops for @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/best-book-of...
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Best Book of 1934: Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe)
David Hayden on why Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe) is the best book of 1934.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All great shots, Brian, but the second is my favorite and may now be my phone screen saver...! Happy library days!
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's a wonderfully thoughtful review. Looking forward to your book, and, likely Age of Emergency too.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow
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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the 1860s, chess player Howard Staunton produced a photo-facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. It was one of the earliest attempts to use new technology to reproduce an old book. @folger.edu has Staunton’s proof sheets. I looked at them last week. If you like media/books/history, they're fun.
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“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”
On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Rose of Sharon is so ubiquitous it ought be the official flower of Philadelphia.
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spent yesterday packing up a beloved and vitally important cultural organizations' library and archive and the precarity of knowledge and knowledge collectors in this world where a mime machine supposedly knows all knowledge is insane.
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A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.
The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For the culture: youtu.be/qTLsfZk-FpE?...
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I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
YouTube video by Jonathan Richman - Topic
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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 21/09/2026
In Philadelphia you can request, receive and return a ballot every day of the week at City Hall, Room 140, and at any one of 10 satellite offices. They will be open through October 27 for this purpose.
• Satellite Election Office - 1st Council District: 1835 S Broad St, PA 19148

• Satellite Election Office - 2nd Council District: 6100 Woodland Ave, 19142

• Satellite Election Office - 3rd Council District: 4029 Market St, 19104

• Satellite Election Office - 4th Council District: 5610 Lancaster Ave, Unit 400, PA 19131

• Satellite Election Office - 5th Council District: 2301 N Broad St, 19132

• Satellite Election Office - 6th Council District: 6420 Frankford Ave, 19135

• Satellite Election Office - 7th Council District: 2739 N 5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19133

• Satellite Election Office - 8th Council District: 5301 Chew Ave, PA 19138

• Satellite Election Office - 9th Council District: 6233 N Broad St,PA 19141

• Satellite Election Office - 10th Council District: 1619-1681 Grant Ave, Ste. 15-16, PA 19115
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum
Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background
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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A wee little Pansy (Viola x wittrockiana) shot today in Queen Village. #Bloomscrolling
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
cc @coldbean.bsky.social
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My Grandmother (RIP) had a lovely sunburst amaranth she did not plant pop up next to her lavender. She thanked the birds!
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wonderfully done!
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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks to a passing reference in Diderot I have been lured into the world of the serinette, a miniature barrel organ with flageolet pipes used to train canaries to sing popular songs in the 18th/19th centuries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEA...
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Serinette Mougenot - bird organ
YouTube video by Cylindres, Manivelles & CO
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This piqued the cats!
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nan Goldin (Electric Gaja, Paris, 2010) - BOTD #Caturday
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This just in via @philipcball.bsky.social aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m obsessed with embroidery. Can I interest anyone in blackwork?
Blackwork crow is judging you. You know what you did.
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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A Tree of Hell (Ailanthus altissima) growing out of the latch well of a trailer, shot yesterday north of Gray's Ferry Avenue, in the area between Forgotten Bottom & Devil's Pocket.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It seems per the newsletter that attending events is the gateway in lieu of a member sponsorship and they're iso increasing.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
28 bucks a jar!
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Dean Sabatino @deansabatino.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Learned of the death of Andy Bresnan last evening. He was a musical genius, bandmate and wonderful friend. Love your friends and stick together, people!
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
cover desgin by ol' Marcel Duchamp
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 05/09/2026
heritage wine cellars barrel sign, route 20, north east, pennsylvania, 1988
heritage wine cellars barrel sign, route 20, north east, pennsylvania, 1988
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Another "try before you buy" opportunity, with the publication online of this excerpt of my book on Hobsbawm and total history writing by @myhnn.bsky.social. www.hnn.us/article/the-...
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The Art of Writing History
How Eric Hobsbawm brought revolution to a broad audience.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Haven't seen that Burgess. Nice haul!
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@henrysnow.bsky.social
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gorgeous! Thank you! Saving up for a coxcomb hoodie!
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Holy moly!
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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#Cockscomb shot in Grays Ferry last Tuesday. #Pavementplants
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Somewhere on this planet my book Beer Ghosts is being printed and bound as we speak, officially publishing on Oct. 20. If you are interested in beer, women, work, the 19th century, and hand-crafted research and writing, it might be of interest! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Beer Ghosts
The little-known story of the young women who played a vital role in the rise of America’s great breweries.Water, malt, yeast, and hops: these are essential ingredients of beer. Hops, specifically, pl...
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wayne Thiebaud, "Clown Spirit," c. 2019
Painting of a clown laying down. The clown might be dead - well, probably is...? A spirit-like figure with wings ascends from the clown's body into the space above
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 26/08/2026
it's #weirdpoemwednesday apparently
my translation of a Wang Fanzhi 王梵志/"Brahmacarin Wang" poem:

i have a couple acres of land 
plantings on the south mountain slope 
four or five pine trees of my own 
and two or three hills of beans as well. 
when it's hot i just go for a dip in the pond
or take the cool breeze singing on the bank 
i come and go as i please and i've got enough 
so i'd like to see somebody try me now. 

--attributed to "Brahmacarin Wang," fl. 7th/8th c.

吾有十畝田,種在南山坡。
青松四五樹,綠豆兩三窠。
熱即池中浴,涼便岸上歌。
遨遊自取足,誰能奈我何。
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
😂 Your second snap the album cover, though.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nice review! I too was irritated at times, then won over.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thought that was some busted up magical cabbage!
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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Microcosm botfrens.com/collections/69/content…
"Microcosm" by Remedios Varo portrays a surreal scene where celestial figures navigate the skies in fantastical ships tethered to an intricately designed structure below, surrounded by mystical forests. Varo's work often explores themes of mysticism, transformation, and the interconnectedness of all beings, vividly demonstrated through rich detail and imaginative landscapes.
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy new home to you! Bird-eyed guess:22nd and Bainbridge!
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C.P. Horn @cphorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Great press. I've read The Taiga Syndrome and Revenge of the Scapegoat.
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Max Ernst, Lunar Asparagus, 1935 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Purchase
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Julio Cortázar (with scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blowup", based on Cortázar's short story "Las babas del diablo") - BOTD
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I was today years old when I learned Dolly Parton recorded Woody Guthrie's song "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)" in 1980. It's a heartbreaking song about immigration and specifically deportation plane that crashed in 1948 killing dozens of Mexican "bracero" workers. Her version is beautiful💔
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Dolly Parton - 04 - Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
YouTube video by littlesparrow185
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