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James D'Emilio

@demiliopics2.bsky.social
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Bronx born Medievalist, Art Historian, Hispanist, Lover of Italy and Antiquity Web: www.jamesdemilio.com

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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 1h
🚨Republican Governor Mike Hayden endorses Adam: “Adam’s focus on finding common ground reflects the kind of approach I believe is needed in Washington.”
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For more on the photography and public art projects of MacArthur fellow and Flagstaff artist Chip Thomas, check out his website: jetsonorama.net
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JETSONORAMA · Chip Thomas
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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 6h
JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...
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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 8h
Votes for women
Historical marker about the women's suffrage movement
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Linette @linette90.bsky.social · 12h
#Stunday Porto Portugal 🚊 #Photography
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 8h
The chase is on! 🪶
a sanderling running away from another one as the second chases them off
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Eric Meeks Photography @ericmeeks.bsky.social · 12h
For #Stunday White House trail, Canyon De Chelly, AR #EastCoastKin #scape #ColorADay #photography #blueskyphotography #landscape #landscapephotography #PNW
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eyeconic.me @eyeconicme.bsky.social · 12h
Marktkirche St. Benedikti, Quedlinburg, Germany #Stunday #ArtYear #ArtShow #Photography #Nature #iPhonePhotography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #artchallenges #g+circle #landscape #PhotographersofBluesky #ECK #mobilephotography #Germany
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10h
“Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.“ Now he’s dead.
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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 10h
#Cawmunity #BirdSky
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JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 12h
#Alphabetchallenge #WeekMForMachinery An articulated machine sculpture at The Walker Gallery Liverpool
A photo looking into a white painted gallery space at the Walker Gallery Liverpool. 
In the centre is a tall articulated sculpture (Saints Alive)  by Michael Landy.
There is the very tall figure of a man with a floating head, machinery gubbins for his torso and papier mache (I think) legs.
There are all sorts of religious elements to it with a small depiction of Adam and Eve hanging from a small basket from the cogs and wheel in the centre. 
Above the man's head is a large metal knife that moves up and down hitting him when a button is pressed
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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 12h
Town Hall, Downham Market, Norfolk “The best of the lesser town halls of Norfolk” - Pevsner guidebook @yalepress.bsky.social 1887, by J. J. Johnson of London #LocalHistory
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 12h
The old Salford Town Hall, Bexley Square. 1825-7 by Richard Lane. Now apartments, judging by the people going in and out as I sit opposite outside the New Oxford pub.
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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
St Francis in glory, fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli (1452), choir vault, San Francesco, Montefalco The text in the book (Galatians 6:17) came to be linked to the stigmata, the marks of Jesus' wounds, "for I bear on my body the marks of the Lord Jesus". Oct. 3/4, 2026, 800th anniversary of Francis' death
Within a compartment of the decorated ribbed vault, Francis sits upon clouds within circles of light. He holds a cross and the open book. He is surrounded by angels in a red monochrome circle of light. Outside it, other angels hold crowns. Fragments of other Franciscan saints (Anthony of Padua, Clare of Assisi, Elizabeth of Hungary, and Louis of Toulouse) are in the other vault compartments.
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 12h
White evangelicals make up 13% of the U.S., about the same proportion as Black Americans. I expect most people in (and god knows out of) the country vastly overestimate the magnitude of each minority www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now
Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy
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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 12h
Check your trash and the garage more carefully. You might have a Clement XII. news.artnet.com/art-world/pi...
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Marble Sculpture by Baroque Master Found at U.K. Salvage Yard | Artnet News
The two-foot-tall marble by Pietro Bracci, the 18th-century Baroque sculptor, could net $13,000 at auction.
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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
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Homily of Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, at Celebrating a City of Welcome, where Catholic Solidarity and the Journey of Migration Meet - Statement - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal
If you walk through the streets of Chicago, you hear the story of the entire world. You sense it in the rhythm of the ‘L” train, in the scents drifting from neighborhood bakeries, and in the languages...
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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
St Francis in glory, fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli (1452), choir vault, San Francesco, Montefalco The text in the book (Galatians 6:17) came to be linked to the stigmata, the marks of Jesus' wounds, "for I bear on my body the marks of the Lord Jesus". Oct. 3/4, 2026, 800th anniversary of Francis' death
Within a compartment of the decorated ribbed vault, Francis sits upon clouds within circles of light. He holds a cross and the open book. He is surrounded by angels in a red monochrome circle of light. Outside it, other angels hold crowns. Fragments of other Franciscan saints (Anthony of Padua, Clare of Assisi, Elizabeth of Hungary, and Louis of Toulouse) are in the other vault compartments.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have seen an increase in people quote posting Tweets from X. Not only is it gross that these people are still on X, I am on Bluesky in large part because I do NOT want to see what’s happening on X.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow! This is a brave act for a country singer and a very significant stand. Moreover, this is not only a dare to Kraft and the NFL stadium owners but also a clear illustration of how deep the rift over Israel in U.S. society has grown.
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Dogofthedesert @dogofthedesert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An immature great blue heron (Ardea herodias) hunting along the edge of a pond. Photo taken in the Rio Grande Bosque in Albuquerque, on October 3, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #birds
A heron in profile, with its head to the left and its tail to the right. It's standing in pond water deep enough to almost reach its belly. The beak is long and sharp, dark above, tan below. The head has a gray cap that reaches down to a yellow eye. The cheek is white.  From this angle the head, body, and folded left wing look gray, though some black and white streaking is apparent at the front of th neck. The neck is held in a graceful backward S. The foreground and middle ground for the picture are provided by still pondwater with floating dead reeds. The reflection of the heron extends down and off the image. The background is provided by green cattail plants.
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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Expand the playing field. Fight everywhere and at all at once. Mississippi matters!
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fact that a few friends and family members of the president just kinda wander the world soliciting billion-dollar bribes ostensibly to "end wars" is a real "it would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening" sorts of deals
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How is this legal under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea if ships were not U.S. flagged, flagged nations had not given permission to seize them,had not committed a crime in U.S. Territorial Waters,or were not carrying illegal drugs or human trafficking victims www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
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Coast Guard Says It Stopped Ships Carrying Fuel to Cuba (Gift Article)
The Coast Guard has intercepted two small boats it says were carrying illegal fuel to Cuba as the United States enforces a fuel blockade aimed at Cuba’s Communist government.
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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🎯the heart of the matter...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo “said the idea for the citizenship-for-investment program emerged during Milei's July 2024 visit to Sun Valley, Idaho, when ***tech executives*** expressed interest in obtaining Argentine citizenship.” 10/3/25 … 1/ share.google/N7XP8wxC0vzz...
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Argentina offers citizenship to wealthy foreigners | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina on Friday announced plans to offer citizenship to wealthy foreigners in exchange for cash contributions or investments in government bonds, as libertarian Presiden...
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Roman bridge at Pont-Saint-Martin in the Aosta Valley, northwest Italy. Dating to the 1st century BC, the bridge is one of many impressive Roman monuments in the area. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #AostaValley
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Any discussion about declining "public trust" in higher ed needs to start with acknowledging that the default stance in media coverage of higher ed looks like this: bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.
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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Peppino Mazzullo, wonderful voice and personality of Topo Gigio, passed away in Sicily at age 100. Ed Sullivan's routines with the mouse, maybe his favorite act, left more of an impression on me than I should admit. Charming, tender, utterly absurd in the best way. www.rainews.it/articoli/202...
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Addio a Peppino Mazzullo, per 45 anni la voce di Topo Gigio
È morto a 100 anni Peppino Mazzullo, attore e doppiatore messinese che dal 1961 al 2006 diede voce a Topo Gigio. Un sodalizio lungo 45 anni, dagli studi Rai allo Zecchino d’Oro fino al successo intern...
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s
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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It would be a very good thing, if more Americans knew more about the rogues' gallery of characters Trump has pardoned.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
32 days! Please make sure you’ve checked your voter registration —twice. #LetsGetVoteReady ‼️
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hard to top the 1460 edition by Gutenberg himself: dpul.princeton.edu/gutenberg/ca...
Detail from Johann Gutenberg's 1460 incunable edition of the Catholicon , by 13th c. lexicographer Giovanni de' Balbi. A large, hand-decorated capital letter M with red, blue, and white vinework starts the M section of the dictionary. Next to it, he writes in Latin about the letter M. My rough translation: M, a dark letter when pronounced at the end of a word, as in 'templum'. Open at the start of a word, as in 'magnus'. Mediocre in the middle, as in 'umbra'. Likewise when it follows a semivowel or s, as in 'mutarum' or 'smaragdus'.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shorter Trump administration: Data centers good. Homes bad.
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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me
Fragment of a fresco depicting part of a human face, mostly the eyes. Thin lines form a grid pattern, simulating the edges of tesserae.Fresco fragment showing a naked torso of a woman, her legs and pubic area covered in a red himation (cloak). Her right hand carries a basket laden with fruit, which look like giant globes of grapes. Grapevine leaves appear in the background. A Dionysian scene. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of the body.Fresco fragment depicting some sort of half-human creature with wild hair and bare torso, gesturing upwards with his right hand and holding a branched stick with his left. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of his garment and body.Fresco fragment with the torso of perhaps a god with golden skin, a red himation flowing outwards and partially covering his or her legs. Perhaps Dionysos?
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October date idea Calcedonio Reina, Amore e Morte, or Two Lovers before the Desiccated Corpses of Monks in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, 1881. Oil on canvas, 119 x 149 cm, signed on bottom left- Cal(cedo)nio Reina (Catania, Museo Civico Castello Ursino) 💀❤️
A painting of two lovers, all dressed up, kissing in the catacombs of Palermo, surrounded by the desiccated corpses of Capuchin monks
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
18 years since the 2008 financial crisis. The “maxed out credit card” line is almost old enough to legally buy a pint in a pub.
BBC Newsnight •
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"The credit card is maxed out... my fear come
28 October is that they look to the endless piggy bank of business."
Lord Walker, executive chairman of Iceland, looks ahead to the Autumn Budget.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 02/10/2026
Barnes & Noble has named "The Nerd Reich" a Best Business Book of 2026. Funny, I never thought of it as a business book. But it makes sense. It exposes a cult of apocalyptic billionaires who believe it is their destiny to destroy democracy. Buy it today! www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes...
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The Best Business Books of 2026
Enlightening memoirs, hard-hitting journalism and economic histories make up this years best business books. These are essential reads for the seasoned entrepreneur or the curious citizen who wants to...
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. It must have been a treasured possession! From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circular Saxon brooch made of copper, the front of which is ornately embellished with gold and garnets. There are five raised, circular, gold bosses which are outlined with inlaid garnet slabs, and each set with a central, round garnet. Four of the gold bosses are arranged around a fifth, larger, gold boss in the centre of the brooch. The central boss sits within a star-like, four-pointed geometric shape composed of a mosaic of inlaid garnet slabs. The outer edge of the brooch is decorated with two rows of tiny inlaid polished garnets. The eight gold sections at either side of the four smaller bosses are decorated with raised gold filigree which looks like looped, braided cord. Parts of the brooch are worn, with some chipped edges, and missing garnet stones. The brooch measures approximately 7 cm in diameter. It is displayed on a clear glass surface. It was excavated from a woman's grave by AOC Archaeology in 2000 ahead of development construction works. This type of brooch was a fashionable status piece amongst wealthy aristocratic Anglo-Saxon women in the AD 600s. The woman's grave also contained glass beads and silver rings.
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Crossing Sognefjorden, the largest fjord-system in mainland Norway, at sunset.
View of a sunset through a grimy ferry-window. The sun is sinking behind a low ridge in the middle-section of the photo, casting a golden shaft across the billowing waters. The top section of the photo is covered by dark clouds against a dark pale blue sky.
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Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 02/10/2026
A great resource as always! One more state leg race I'd add in Washington state: LD 48, with Jessica Forsythe challenging the incumbent Amy Walen. Both are Democrats, but Walen is much more conservative and has been a major roadblock on some key legislation. www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/...
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48th District D-on-D House race between Amy Walen and Jessica Forsythe is drawing big independent expenditures - NPI's Cascadia Advocate
Business-aligned and progressive political committees are spending huge sums trying to shape voters’ first impressions of two Democratic rivals for the Washington State House of Representatives ahead ...
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FREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Six hundred and fifty races, to win. Lots of opportunities here!
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Jonestown is going to teach us anything, let it be how human needs can be weaponized, and how power destroys the possibility of refusal. Remember the victims as people instead of cheap synonyms for being an idiot.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are serious things to say about authoritarianism, manipulation, and cults of personality, but “lol, drink the Kool-Aid” does none of that work. It makes the victims’ supposed gullibility the memorable part and lets the machinery of their captivity and agonizing death disappear.
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