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It's not unprecedented, this collective shame of depraved indifference and sickening cruelty toward other human beings, but it still has the capacity to shock and galvanize those who are horrified

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 20h

Scenes from a Memory 11

Mix of near and far bank reflected in a lazy canal . Autumn colors emerging

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h

We need a stronger term than AI psychosis for this

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 2h

Dynamic Disks by František Kupka, 1931 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Bequest, Richard S. Zeisler, 2007

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 2h

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns. •Homer

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 2h

"Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth doesn't know how to win the war of choice President Trump started. Consequently we all suffer sky-high prices for everything, and now, forced moral degradation.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 4h

Heavy portalage.

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 3h

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you. Orestes: It’s rotten work. Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.” ~ Anne Carson, Euripides

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 5h

Ladybird endpapers ‘Bedtime Rhymes’ (1977) Artist: James Hodgson

Striking illustration of brightly coloured exotic birds perched on trees set against a deep black background

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 3h

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 6h

It’s easy to lose yourself in these landscapes by 20th century Scottish artist James McIntosh Patrick ~ Glamis Village / Tay Bridge / City Garden / Stobo Kirk

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

La Maison Du Porte Plume A poster for fountain pens and inks by the artist Jean D'Ylen.

jester-like figure in yellow and orange attire standing amidst giant fountain pens and massive inkwells.
"À Côté Continental, 6, Bd. Ad. Max. - Bruxelles" and "La Maison du Porte-Plume".

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 11h

Support for the death penalty continues to wane, but even in 2001, a supermajority of Americans opposed televising the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber. (24 yes, 73 no)

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 14h

Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 297 (1972) (Brennan, J., concurring) “No longer does our society countenance the spectacle of public executions, once thought desirable as a deterrent to criminal behavior by others. Today we reject public executions as debasing and brutalizing to us all.“

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 11h

The not quite happening may be more meaningful

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 15h

As someone has a degree in classics, I'd say that the person who wrote this speech does not. Or if they do, they weren't paying attention to little things like Sparta's system of government, or the Melian Dialogue, or the Sicilian expedition. And they clearly haven't heard of hubris & nemesis.

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Paul @thentherespaul.bsky.social · 11h

There’s Something About Mary Poppjns

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe my favorite TV series, ever.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 12h

My grandparents were kids in the Bronx the same time the kids in this footage were. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED13...

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A Morning in New York City, 1931 | Restored in Color & Sound

YouTube video by History by Anna

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 13h

Those last three lines, so mysterious!

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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 13h

Oh you have GOT my number. That number being 5, then 1000, then 100, then...but now I'm all confused. Anyhow, I exclaimed out loud about that verb and then said it to myself a few times, just to test it out.

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Random Tuesday: Perfect Chef's Kiss Reaction

Alt: An exclamation and a Chef's Kiss.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 13h

Basia right there in the verb! It's so perfect!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 13h

Sunflower House (2014) by Melanie Morris

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 13h

Depraved *and* stupid. Impeach Pete Hegseth.

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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 14h

Stairwell Light (2026) by Anette Björk

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 14h

Country forcibly dragged into ethical sewage because Pete Hegseth and the like have unresolved insecurity issues.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 14h

Papa Haydn and his trios have been our supper guests all this week. A remarkable set, this.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 14h

The President is punching down on vulnerable people to distract voters from his own failures (again).

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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 16h

always happiest in the in between

A wooded trail carpeted by fallen leaves, with archways of yellow overhead.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 16h

Q: How do you define tomato personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to hide pianos with alligators, and you want Volvos to walk down escalators.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 16h

If only you knew how bad it truly was

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sunnesching.bsky.social @sunnesching.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'Ente (2CV)' #FotoVorschlag 🇫🇷 Atlantikküste

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 20h

The president of the United States took time out of his day yesterday to call the man responsible for this atrocity so that he could wish him a happy birthday

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

a sure sign that something is "highly accepted" is if you have to threaten to impose the power of the state against those who don't accept it

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19h

“Nature’s Revenge: Eerie Stories of Revolt Against the Human Race” by Seon Manley. Jacqui Morgan, 1978

a giant fly outside an open window over a green field with a red sun in the background.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 17h

da mi basia mille, deinde centum, dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum, dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, aut ne quis malus invidere possit, cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.

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daily dose of Emily Dickinson @hcguguembot.bsky.social · 19h

My friend must be a Bird My friend must be a Bird — Because it flies! Mortal, my friend must be, Because it dies! Barbs has it, like a Bee! Ah, curious friend! Thou puzzlest me!

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 18h

Goodnight “There Appeared A Great Alligator With Three Heads’, “Serbian Fairy Tales” Sidney Stanley, 1918 archive.org/details/serb...

A man waves his sword at a three-headed monster rising from the sea. He stands on a dark beach beneath a crescent moon, facing the creature as waves crash around them.

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