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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 5h

"If you don't save me from my own self-inflicted mistakes, I will punish you further."

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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 9h

Believe it or not, the Supreme Court was presented as far back as 1947 with the question whether attempting to execute someone a second time, after a botched first go round (then, in a portable electric chair known as “Rusty”), was cruel and unusual.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 5h

The *future* of warfare? Hegseth is losing a war *right now*.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 7h

‘How Long Will The Fuel Hold Out’ George Carlson, 1914 archive.org/details/cari...

A massive, imposing head wearing a helm 'War God' representing the insatiable and destructive nature of militarism.
The Figure of "Europe": A woman labeled "Europe" who shovels human skulls and bones from a vast pile into the fiery furnace of the war god's mouth.

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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 6h

🍂Hello October!🍂 #PinchPunch

A young girl in a knitted bonnet is posed snuggly inside a large hollowed out tree stump, surrounded by branches from the tree.
Black & white early to mid-20th century photo from lowa Women's Archive collection.

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Я @gertiewentworth.bsky.social · 5h

Hello October.

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Marco Rosenkranz @marcorosenkranz.de · 21h

Autumn Garden - the great giver

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16h

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 17h

Finally, a member of this adminsitration that tells the truth.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 14h

#TIL this is Salman Rushdie's niece.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 14h

Marilyn McCoo had a pretty good gig in the early '80s, singing other people's hits to millions of viewers, didn't she? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BWU...

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Marilyn McCoo "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" with Rex Smith on Solid Gold

YouTube video by MOR Music Clips

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, that kind of Christianity

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy Birthday, Marilyn McCoo🎂🎉🎈 #The5thDimension

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy 64th Birthday to legendary producer, Marley Marl 🎂🎉🥳

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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 16h

Dog eating out of his raised stainless steel bowl sounds like a chainsaw going though gravel. It’s really quite impressive.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 18h

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 16h

Surviving a NH winter: before Trump's war of choice ➡️ now --------------------------------------- Home heating oil: $3.30/gal ➡️ >$5/gal Propane: $3.50/gal ➡️ >$4/gal Natural gas: 14% to 50% hike from last winter Wood pellets: $350/ton ➡️ $400/ton www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

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There’s no escaping higher prices for heating, whatever fuel you use

Heating oil is used by more than one-third of New Hampshire’s homes. Northern New England leads the country in terms of how many Granite Staters burn fuel oil No. 2 in their furnaces.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 16h

The sheer volume and variety of the lawlessness coming out of the executive branch on the daily, I can't keep it all straight.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 18h

Just long enough to hail Caesar

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 18h

How long could the Secretary of War last in a Latin I class before giving up, do you think?

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Reading literature enables you to enter the depths of another human being." Han Kang recd. the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024 for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." 1st Asian woman to win this prestigious literary award. #books

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20h

Goodnight. Watership Down (1978) dir. Martin Rosen, John Hubley

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Linda @lindabythesea.bsky.social · 20h

September Blues by CajsaStina Åkerström. Oil pastels and colored pencils.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 18h

can the vice president go one day without saying something repulsive

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just as they do with temps, humidity, etc., weather stations should put out a Harpsichord Intensity number to help ppl sort out their day, ranging from "can barely tell the difference from piano hammer felt" to "sound of metal ripping apart." app.idagio.com/albums/domen...

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Domenico Scarlatti: 14 Sonatas

Listen to Domenico Scarlatti: 14 Sonatas by Aapo Häkkinen, Domenico Scarlatti. Stream now on IDAGIO

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 30/09/2026

If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This means: Oh, spring! To think of all the missives Sent by dreaming lovers to pensive beauties, Of hearts confided to paper, of that heap Of letters written with "un feutre" upon the fine paper... The word "feutre" means: "felt-tipped pen". But this can't be right ... 2/

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Recognise her? This, at L, is Freda Kahlo’s first known work ~ a self-portrait painted when she was about 15. It features her characteristic direct gaze, but her emphasis on Mexican culture, clothing and nature would only start to develop in her more mature works

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Nora Germain 🎻 @noragermain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was requested that we post more blues so here you are ❤️ Musicians are myself, Casey Abrams and Balam Garcia 🎻

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 30/09/2026

On Sept. 1, Dems had a 6-point lead on the generic congressional ballot, per @fiftyplusone.news' aggregate. Today, it's D+8. fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who told him this was a good idea????????? (And how has 0:08-0:11 not gone viral (in a bad way) yet?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdVI...

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Bleep

YouTube video by John Sununu

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/09/2026

Hanif Abdurraqib talks about it in his KCRW podcast, and other places. Rumors as of now! www.kcrw.com/shows/lost-n...

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I should be glad if something occurred to me as a main idea that occurs to Dvorak simply in passing.” – Johannes Brahms Anyway, here are four Stevie Wonder songs that didn’t make it onto Songs In The Key of Life.

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Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life – The EP

Listen to content by Stevie Wonder.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Goes without saying I've been jamming to this as well as the original release of Songs in the Key of Life all day today. There are artists at the zenith of their art and then there's Stevie at his, yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Girl with Fan (1920) by Henri Lebasque

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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

La creación del hombre (1956-58) by Marc Chagall

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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Click With Blue Wing (1949) by Marc Chagall

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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

La vendemmia (1931) by Gino Pancheri

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Senate Republicans thinking it would actually be good for them in these elections to bring Jack Smith in shows how deeply hermetically sealed their information environment is. Midterm voters don't support Trump's January 6th insurrection that attempted to overturn our democracy.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Men messing with women's (or gorgon's) heads du jour: Medusa's shrieking head on shield of Perseus, 1597, by Caravaggio. It's his birthday.

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