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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 3h

Another newly installed window by Christopher Myers at the Brooklyn Central Library. 📷 🪟 🌕 🚴‍♂️ #photography

Photo of a stained glass window depicting a figure on a bicycle with arms wide seemingly embracing the moon as they cycle over the Brooklyn Bridge at night.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New installation at the Brooklyn Central Library, by Christopher Myers. 📷 🪟 🎨 #photography

Photo of a stained glass window depicting several people walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brooklyn Museum tonight, as it opened a portal to the netherworld. 📷 🏛️ 🌪️ 😈 #photography

Photo of the Brooklyn Museum at dusk, lit from below against a dark ominous partly cloudy sky

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Using apostrophes to replace TH wi’ impunity

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Late to the party, but here’s tonight’s sunset pic from Manhattan. 📷 🌆 #photography

Photo of a true silhouetted against a purple and orange sunset between buildings on Manhattanz

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Overused: Autumnal Underused: Fallen

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Alex Eala, pre-backhand, at the US Open. 📷 🎾 ✋ 🔙 #photography

Photo of Alexandra Eala on Arthur Armstrong court at the US Open, in a low stance staring intently at an approaching tennis ball with her racket back in preparation. In the background 3 grounds crew watch.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Montrealer Leylah Fernandez, serving at the US Open, on the way to her 2nd round victory last month. 📷 🎾 🇨🇦 #photography

Photo of Leylah Fernandez in her “Flamingo”-colored outfit serving at the US Open on Stadium 17. She’s bending deeply at the knees with her right arm pointing straight up after tossing the ball up out of view, her left arm is holding her tennis racket straight up ready to jump into her serving action.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sheep Meadow view of ‘Billionaire row’. This shot is, unintentionally, a bit like an updated “Christina’s World” by Wyeth. 📷 🏙️ 🖼️ #photography

Photo of the 59th street high rises knowns as Billionaire’s row as seen from Sheep Meadow in Central Park showing a jagged row of insanely tall and narrow skyscrapers (many of which were only built in the past few years) against a partially cloudy sky. A woman can be seen sitting on the grassy lawn in the foreground in a composition vaguely reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth’s famous “Christina’s World” painting.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Colin Kaepernick with Nikole Hannah-Jones after tonight’s excellent talk at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social 📷 🏈 ⛓️‍💥 📚 #photography

Photo of Colin Kaepernick and Nikole Hannah-Jones standing on a stage in front of a group of attendees. Several smartphones can be seen taking photos.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’ll always be the Bank of Ontario to me.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Zinnia flower, from a rain garden in Prospect Heights. 📷 🔎 🌺 #photography

Macro photo of a zinnia flower showing orange stamen and red petals against a soft turquoise bokeh background.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Flag capes, by the West Indian Day Parade. 📷 🇯🇲 🇹🇹 🦸 #photography

Photo of two men walking down a street, both wearing flags as capes, one is the Jamaican flag, the other is the flag of Trinidad and Tobago. An outdoor smoker can be seen on the right.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When you’re at dinner and remember that you have your macro lens. 📷 🔎 🍣 #photography

Macro photo of a white plate with 4 pieces of nigiri sushi.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of the less prominent clocks in Grand Central Terminal that — like all the others — is said to be calibrated to the atomic clock in the U.S. Naval Observatory. 📷 🕰️ ⚛️ 🚉 #photography

Photo of an old timey clock with golden numbers a white face, and black metal hands, mounted on a green wall framed in a rectangle by large industrial rivets.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Couldn’t even find Pac-Man at this arcade. 📷 🏛️ 👾 #photography

Photo of a semi-circular arched walkway, or “arcade”, in a neoclassical style of the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in D.C., featuring repeating patterns of rectangular openings and large hanging lamps.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Washington Monument, as seen from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. 📷 🪟 🏛️ #photography

Photo of the Washington Monument through a narrow angled window.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Always surprises me how the brutalism of the D.C. (and Montreal) Metro stations feels warmer and more welcoming than the NYC subway. 📷 🚇 🤗 #photography

Black and white photo of a DC Metro station showing its brutalist vaulted concrete ceiling lit from below.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Harriet Tubman’s Lace Shawl, a gift from Queen Victoria. 📷 ⛓️‍💥 🧣 #photography

Photo of an intricate lace shawl draped over a form in a display case. The didactic label reads:

“Harriet Tubman's fight for freedom for all had global resonance.
As part of her Diamond Jubilee celebration in 1897, Queen Victoria recognized a select group of people she deemed heroic, including Harriet Tubman who the queen gifted with this delicate, fine, silk and lace shawl.”

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio” (Panels 9 and 10) at the @metmuseum.org. 📷 🪵 🪈 #photography

Photo of an elaborately inlaid wooden wall depicting cabinets filled with objects like a lute, a dagger, books, a drum, etc.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“Pod IV”, by Rose B. Simpson, at the National Museum of the American Indian. 📷 🙍 ⚱️ #photography

Photo of a pottery, reed, cotton twine, and pigments artwork showing a white figure seated with head resting on their fist in front of a large urn-shaped pot made of reed and twine. The background is black.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Fish, working its angles, at the NY Aquarium. 📷 🐟 #photography

Photo of a long tubular fish with blue spots, looking at the camera from inside a huge tank.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Cownose ray in the dark at the NY Aquarium. 📷 🐮 🐽 ☀️ #photography

Photo of a huge dark aquarium tank filled with boulders, and vegetation. A cownose ray can be seen swimming above near the surface, silhouetted against a shaft of light. Above ripples can be seen.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Moon jellyfish, doing an impression of a human brain, at the NY Aquarium. 📷 🪼 🧠 #photography

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Moon jellyfish at the NY Aquarium, posing for an ‘80s album cover. 📷 🪼 👩🏽‍🎤 🎹 🎶 #photography

Photo of a moon jellyfish against a dark background. The jellyfish is lit in purple light and some soft focus colorful shapes can be seen reflected in the background giving the photo an atmospheric look reminiscent of an album cover.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Highlight of the NY Aquarium trip today: Adult: Look! It’s Nemo! It’s Nemo! 5 y/o: It’s a clown fish. 📷 🤡 🐟 🎬 #photography

Photo of a clown fish amidst anemones in a huge tank.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Bronze helmet of the Illyrian type”, Greek, circa late 6th century B.C. at the @metmuseum.org. 📷 🪖 🏛️ #photography

Photo of a bronze helmet “said to be from the Argolid, Greece” in a display case.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

(After all the engagement from yesterday’s helmet-themed photo, I’ve got a couple more on the way.) Bronze helmet, Cretan, 7th century B.C. at the @met-museum.org 📷 🪖 🐍 #photography

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Pod III”, by Rose B. Simpson, at the National Museum of the American Indian. 📷 👤 🛖 🪢 #photography

Photo of an objet d’art made of pottery, reed, cotton twine, and pigment depicting a human figure seated looking despondent, inside a spherical pod with a round opening, against a black background. The didactic label reads:

“Born into a family of artists, Rose Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) grew up with clay. In her ongoing evolution as an artist-in clay, music dance, writing, and customized low-rider cars-she strives to remain totally honest with herself. For Simpson, art and life are one: ‘Art is a tool to build our sensitivity to the world. In the Indigenous perspective, art is truly a part of everyday life. Your bowl, your chair, the way you walk-it's not what you do but how you do it.’

“Simpson created Pod Ill and Pod I while working toward a master's degree at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the spirit of remaining true to the moment, she built each of fast-drying material in a single studio session. Like all human beings, each figure is an imperfect, fragile patchwork of disparate components and influences.”

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Marble portrait of a man”, Roman, 1st century B.C., at the @metmuseum.org 📷 🗿 #photography

Photo of a marble bust of a man’s head. The didactic label reads:

“This head with its broad forehead, narrow chin, and long scrawny neck is so similar to portraits of Julius Caesar as he appears on coins and in sculpture that, in the past, it was identified as that famous general and politician.

“Perhaps the man who is the actual subject of the portrait wished to accentuate this resemblance because he sympathized with the dictatorship of Caesar or with the cause of his party, the populares.”

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Three terracotta aryballoi (perfume vases) in the form of helmeted heads”, East Greek, 6th century B.C. at the @metmuseum.org 📷 🏛️ 👷‍♂️ 🏺 #photography