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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs ("hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up?

1970's "Building a Rainbow." A bright colored rainbow is under construction, surrounded by workers, scaffolding, cranes, and in the outer frame of the artwork workers are also flying and lowering bits of colors towards the partially constructed rainbow.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

more 💐 (The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in springtime is exceptionally floral)

Nasturtiums season in the Gardner Museum Courtyard, Boston.

Indoor garden courtyard with sculptures, mosaics, greenery and lots of colorful spring flowers, mostly hothouse forced bulbs. As well as the special hanging vines of orange nasturtiums, all around the interior balconies.

Gardner Museum Courtyard. Boston. From below, a closeup view of orange
nasturtiums vines hanging from a 3rd floor (US floors) balcony.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Going to add the text, bc really good point.

Photo quote of Lincoln:

The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them. Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them.

These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Overlay of the original outline of Shawmut peninsula on current city map from Leventhal Map Collection BPL.org

Map & color key for Boston infill

“Boston Over Time
Filling in the Land 1630 -Present

Red = Boston in 1630
Green = Land added 1630-1880
Blue = Land added after 1880”

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Oh wow. Been a looong time since I read this. I’m adding the Alt Text bc this really should be shared.

Selected text:

<bold>Historical Underdosing:</bold>
To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.

<bold>Historical Overdosing:</bold>
To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.

GENERATION X

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Alt text for this photo quote recommending the resources available at girightshotline.org

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the [non-profit] Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Alt text added to photo quote from “There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID,” by David Ignatius in WaPo, 21 Feb 2025

Here's the wreckage as of Feb. 14, as compiled by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.
At least 11,500 Americans and 54,575 foreigners have lost their jobs.
Nearly $1 billion in payments for work already done has been frozen.
Nearly $500 million in food is sitting in ports, ships and warehouses. In Syria, a country struggling to recover from chaos, food and other support for nearly 900,000 people has been suspended. In West Africa, 3.4 million people in 11 countries have lost drug treatment for deadly tropical diseases. At least 328,000 HIV-positive people in 25 countries aren't getting lifesaving drugs.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Alt Text added to photo quote from “There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID,” by David Ignatius in WaPo, 21 Feb 2025

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The front garden maple tree is really losing its leaves right now. They’re so pretty I brought some inside to look at until they dry out.

Maple leaves arranged in a diamond pattern that looks like a star. Various colors of reds and orange.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

Janelle Monae at Boston Calling,
29 May 2016. I’m sorry, I’m not sure which song it was in her set. Perhaps her final cover of Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy. It would fit, she’s being picked up by two men wearing white coats & carried offstage after singing her heart out & miming fainting—

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

I got these nice basic 5” serrated & 8” bread knives recently I’m really liking using them. And this is an ice cream scoop I inherited, which absolutely never fails to scoop something no matter how frozen the ice cream.

Left to right on top of an epicurean cutting board: A 5” serrated knife with a blue handle, an 8” knife with a black handle, and a silver colored metal ice cream scoop where the handle and scoop are in one piece.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

No. Nope. NOT! I don’t give a good go**amn re her sexual or not behavior. She was in an UNDISCLOSED, very close relationship w RFK Jr., while he was a Presidential CANDIDATE, when writing a Joe Biden profile! Anyone who does this, shouldn’t be a gossip columnist, let alone a journalist. NOT EVER!

Liz Dye making excuses for Nuzzi—
“I agree. But I also think sexually shaming her is gross. She's a good journalist and she's going to pay a huge price already.”

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

New Hampshire's Medicare recipients are paying less for life-saving insulin, thanks to Democratic leadership!

An illustrated message poster with a stethoscope & a couple syringes & a calendar, like you’d find in a doctor’s office that treats diabetes patients, on a light blue background.

“New Hampshire's
Medicare beneficiaries
now pay just $35 monthly
for insulin thanks to the
Democrats' Inflation
Reduction Act.”
(This message is in black text. The state, monthly price, insulin, & the law that enabled that price are all bolded for emphasis).

“Zero Republicans voted for it!”
(White text in a red banner at the bottom of the poster).

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

I’ve been working my way through the debate from last night. This was the best moment so far—

On right, photos MVP Harris in her navy suit and blouse, laughing happily when she accepted the Dem nomination. In the left meme text in red & white
“DONALD TRUMP
GOT FIRED BY 81
MILLION PEOPLE
AND HE’S HAVING A
HARD TIME
PROCESSING THAT”

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Repost with a favorite book from your childhood: Hard to pick, but my parents said they swore by this one—

Book cover “The GILLYGOOFANG, by GEORGE MENDOZA, illustrated by MERCER MAYER”

The illustration shows a green crested fantasy creature with droopy big eyes and a slightly smiling mouth, hidden in rocks and weeds in an island in the middle of a river/pond surrounded by deciduous trees.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Here’s a photo of the beach, walking towards Little Neck where the woods of Castle Hill come down to the water.

A photo of Crane Beach, with a view of Little Neck in the far distance. Foreground is woods & sand with a couple recent buggy tracks looping together like a strand of DNA. Middle ground the woods almost reach the water’s edge. You can see a few people walking along the shoreline, or sitting looking out at the bay. A beach umbrella is visible, along with a couple of boats in the water.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Repost with your First Crush (if you had one): First, first? I don’t know. But he was/they were both one of them. ——

A movie poster of Robert Redford and Paul Newman for the movie The Sting. Redford is smiling, side eyeing, and has his arm around Newman’s neck while holding 3 Aces. Newman is looking at Redford, smiling with a cigarillo (?) clenched in his teeth while lighting it with a flaming greenback.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Okay time for fun. Go into your photo roll or whatever, and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud. Here's mine. Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim, retrospective exhibition, January 2014

Christopher Wool, black letter stenciled painting on white ground.

The letters are spaced across the width of the painting with extra spaces so they’re not separated by individual words. You have to work to read what is said. Because this is the intention of the artist, I’m going to try to copy the effect first, then I’ll paste the words below, if there’s room.

IWENTTOSE
EAPSYCHIA
TRIST HES
AIDTELLME
EVERYTHIN
G IDIDAND
NOWHES DO
ING MYACT

I went to see a psychiatrist
He said tell me everything
I did and now he’s doing my act

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Oops, I forgot to type the question 🤦🏻‍♀️ What’s your sign?

A photo of the street and frontage of Woodman’s. A seafood joint in Essex, MA, north of Boston.

The frame includes, a drainpipe, the front’s slanted overhang and posts, two flags, bunting, a sign on the sidewalk that looks like an ice cream cone, & the restaurant’s sign in the roof’s edge.

WOODMAN’S

SINCE 1914

FAMOUS FRIED CLAMS

LOBSTER STEAMERS
ROLLS LOBSTERS

EAT IN THE (the rest isn’t visible ;)

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Friend of mine’s fluffy black cat which she shared with me.

A close up of most of a fluffy black cat on bed, a sleeping blep with bonus bald chin and fluffy paws and black toe beans

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

If you see this, post something yellow

Close up of a very yellow forsythia bush blooming

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

The world you grew up in is dead

A screen shot of the Pan Am branded space plane from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968).

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

What poster was on my wall as a teenager? (My whole bedroom was rainbow themed lol)

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Kahhori & Captain Carter square up to save the multiverse in the What If…? season 2 finale.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

An end of 2023 3-panel comic, where a black kitty looks out at the viewer next to 2023, looks down at 2023, then pushes 2023 off the table.

A small white bowl with a navy blue banded rim, cracked almost in half.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

If you see this, post a bridge. (Or don’t.)

A view of the whole arch of the Bourne Bridge on a sunny, mostly cloudless summer day. Photo taken from the south path along the Cape Cod Canal, on the “side” closer to the outlet of the canal towards to Buzzard’s Bay.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

WALKING DOWN MADISON I SWEAR I NEVER HAD A GUN NO I NEVER SHOT NO ONE I WAS ONLY HAVING FUN WALKING DOWN MADISON SWEAR I NEVER HAD A GUN I WAS PHILOSOPHIZING SOME CHECKING OUT THE BUMS—

George Santos going through some things —
Santos saying something surrounded by reporters with microphones and cameras

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Courtyard last night, set up for a holiday concert performance, decorated with red & white flowers, & greenery.

Looking across the Gardner’s courtyard towards the stairs over the fountain. Red poinsettias, red & white flowers, and green plantings. Spotlights highlight the statues and other marble objects surrounding the central Roman mosaic.

Closeup of the edge of the Roman mosaic & the Egyptian Horus Hawk sculpture in the grass backed up by red poinsettias. Chairs placed ready for the concert.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

@universalhub.com Friday’s sunset to the west & reflections on distant buildings of #Boston to the east

Moon setting, cloudy sky, reflected in still water below. Tiny Prudential and Hancock towers in the distance.

Sunset with gold & white clods, silhouettes of tree line, wind rippling across the water

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Have a flower— Was out yesterday evening, & roses are still blooming on Newbury Street in Boston.

A single yellow rose emerges from darkness, almost a match of the yellow glowing color of the blurred streetlight in the distance.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Books Last book I read —The Bruising of Qilwa by Nadeem Jamnia Next book I’m reading —The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Cover of The Bruising of Qilwa by Nadeem Jamnia

A few drops drip from a bleeding hand & fall over and onto the letters “BR” of the title while the Q has a knife with tiny ribbon of blood on it. A walled town next to a red sea with red roofs cream walls with a couple small sailing ships. Red branches and vines around the edges of the cover. Author’s name in a red and gold box at the bottom.

Cover of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
A contemplative woman (almost just a bust/upper torso) with the straight black bob, jewelry, evening dress,gloves, & cigarette holder of the 1920’s, looks down & to the left. She’s partially obscured by the title in black capital letters, with the author in white position Ed precisely over the black dress and gloves.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

I was going to say, I could send you my Dad’s old wool sweaters, but I’m in the Boston area, & it’d take a bit. It sounds like someone already has some nearer you? Anyway LMK, & here’s photos

3 wool “Dad” sweaters. One gray button down with navy & maroon trim & sleeve details, one v-neck red plaid, one plain gray button down

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Best wishes, hope you feel better soon. I have no pets to share, but here’s some flowers from the Gardner Museum’s courtyard.

A fall colored arrangement of blooming chrysanthemums from above. 3 giant mums anchored by smaller plants.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Sunday was cold and rainy, a day for Gortex and fleeces. Still, on my way back to my car after going to a chamber concert, I stopped by one of my favorite local outdoor gardens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Japanese Garden, Tenshin-en at the MFA Boston. Near the entryway a Japanese Maple tree’s leaves have turned to red. It’s surrounded by green bushes and trees and mossy rocks.

Japanese Garden, Tenshin-en at the MFA Boston. Near the entryway a Japanese maple tree’s wet branches overhang a small hexagonal pagoda on a column.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Boston weather in the fall is usually changeable, but this weekend was something else. Saturday was a warm and sunny day, perfect for bathing suits and shorts, and lingering for sunset at the beach. And…

Crane Beach, foreground dunes mostly covered with grass, then the sand, then the ocean & the mostly sunny sky. People in shorts & shirtsleeves are walking towards the ocean along a narrow path in the grasses.

Crane Beach. In the foreground a boardwalk recedes over the dunes covered with grasses towards the parking lot. One person in shorts and shirtsleeves strides along this path, looking right towards the sunset, a couple other blurry people pause to look into it. In the sunset sky, a cloud along the horizon looks like s flying dragon.

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

👊 Got my flu & COVID shots today, woohoo! It’s mums-time at #isgm #museum #GardnerMuseum #chrysanthemum

Close up of a large round blooming chrysanthemum, with brick red outer and inner gold colored petals (possibly a “football mum”)

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Was at the Gardner Museum today. Here’s some photos from outside of the site-specific work by Carla Fernández, Tradition Is Not Static. Also, have a bit of fall 🍁🍂 ;) FYI this is only on view OCT 3, 2023-FEB 6, 2024 #ISGM #museum

A large fabric mural hanging outside the Gardner. It’s of a woman wearing red pointed dress shoes in a butter yellow short sleeve top and pants, holds a designer hand bag, that looks like a mask, in front of her face. In bright red block print on the front of her shirt is printed
TRADITION
IS NOT
STATIC

Taken during a a fashion shoot in the Little Salon at the Museum.

The large installation on the façade of the Gardner is on Evans Way. It’s dedicated to commissioning and rotating new site-specific works from the Artist-in-Residence program since 2012. The fabric scrim serves as an outdoor canvas that extends the gallery space beyond the Museum's interior walls and serves as public art in the city of Boston.

Excerpt from the label —
“In this image, taken during a fashion shoot in the Little Salon at the [Gardner] Museum, a mask that became a bag plays at being a mask again. The iconic Tecuán or Jaguar mask, held by the model, originates in the town of San Francisco Ozomatlán in the southwestern state of Guerrero, and the artisans Santos and Claudio Najera have used the same centuries-old, hand-painted mask-making technique to create a handbag line with Fernández.”

A small city park with benches and grass, paths and mostly green trees in the sunshine. Focus on the one tree alone showing its autumnal colors—

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Tenar Arha, 🌻 @datenar.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Sitting out in the chilly evening air admiring my first Halloween/Fall manicure

Left hand with recent manicure in alternating forest and neon green. Wearing fingerless gloves in multiple fall colors, with added Fall emojis: fall leaf, green leaves, & jack o’lantern

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