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Bookstr @bookstr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In our most recent roundup, we're highlighting 10 weird girl horror books and the bold, unsettling narratives that define the genre. Read the article here: buff.ly/md62CDY #BookRecs #HorrorBooks #WeirdGirlHorror #FeminineRage #BookSky

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“After a month of looking at these Renoirs,” said one suspected burglar, “we just couldn’t take it anymore.”

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why is Claude Monet's "Luncheon on the Grass" cut up into two panels at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris? The story really amuses me, but the painting feels poignant, as a sort of last farewell to his wife's innocence and youthful joy. #ArtHistory #PublicArt #ClaudeMonet #EdouardManet

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's an argument to be made for Rodney Mullen, a skateboard visionary, and skating videos as important and influential works of art themselves. Watch the video to see if you agree! #SkateCulture #RodneyMullen #CulturalHistory #VisualCulture

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Authoritarians generally prefer public art that either glorifies or commemorates, and the only subject worth glorifying and commemorating in 2026 is Donald J. Trump. Put his name on it and spray gold everywhere in the Oval Office. Now that's art. Or something. #ArtHistory #Design #ArtEveryday

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can look at one of Claude Monet’s paintings of haystacks and say, "That doesn’t look beyond me." But what you're seeing is the culmination of a hundred different kinds of talent and dozens of years of study that can’t really be taught. #ClaudeMonet #Caricatures #ArtHistory #Art

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Impressionists were radical and revolutionary, painting subjects that were truer to their experience of life. They left behind the evidence of their creation and made art that looked less 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 but more 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦. #Impressionism #Art #ArtHistory

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my favorite ways to learn about art is to watch documentaries, so here are three of my favorites about three incredible artists. #ArtHistory #AgnesMartin #GerhardRichter #JeanMichelBasquiat #Documentaries

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hilma af Klint invented abstraction years before Wassily Kandinsky, but until recently, she was largely left out of art history. But even so, her work still exists and she was a pioneer of abstraction who deserves her place in the public history of art. #Art #Abstraction #HilmaafKlint

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An excerpt from THE MONET AFFAIR, coming in May 2027! Blanche Hoschedé Monet, Claude’s daughter-in-law and a painter in her own right, occupies the emotional center of this novel, and by the end of it, she has more than earned a moment of peace. #BookSky #Excerpt #Art #ClaudeMonet #ForthcomingBook

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The depressed coal community to exploited fracking community to future data center host pipeline should receive more attention right now in data center coverage. Once a community is identified as a sacrifice zone, it's pretty hard to shake that perception.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have a brand new, shiny website at "duncanmurrell.org". My site contains all of my "Great Stuff" posts about art and writing and anything else I care to call to your attention. Sounds fun to me. Visit it here: duncanmurrell.org #AuthorWebsite #WebsiteLaunch #AuthorSky #BookSky

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Homepage - Duncan Murrell

Author | Editor | Enthusiast | Duncan Murrell is a novelist, journalist, and editor whose work explores the stories history leaves out of the frame. His debut novel, The Last Lilies of Giverny, forthc...

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Claude Monet's pond at Giverny is a great tourist attraction but also the subject of his last and final masterpieces. Clemenceau urged Monet to make those paintings, but there's an intensity there, embodying the memories of an old man looking back on a long, flawed life. #Art #ClaudeMonet

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A museum can be a formidable place where many become frustrated that they can't see what the big deal is. I’m here to tell you that there doesn’t have to be. Art becomes alive when it connects to us and makes us feel something, and most artists make work to be seen or experienced by you! #Museum

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

After I had called a friend to complain that I was a fool to think I could write, he sent me a copy of A GIACOMETTI PORTRAIT by James Lord. My friend didn’t really explain, but I understood that there was something in the book to take heart from. And yes, there was. #Inspiration #AuthorSky #Creator

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am publishing a novel next year based on the life of the painter Claude Monet and his family. At this point, you may be wondering, why? Or, more to the point, why Claude Monet? Over the coming months, you’ll read many answers to that question here, but I'll start with two. #BookSky #ClaudeMonet

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And funny, he doesn’t look like the most superior man in earth.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hooboy, people are going to fetishize paper books to death. I have a copy of The Varieties of Religious Experience that I inherited on the death of a friend and mentor I loved, and she is all over the margins taking the old man to task. I flip through it and she’s in the room.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Here’s Jesse Watters, without a clue about, or experience in, the military, gleefully saying that service members are low discipline and low-character people who can’t control themselves. No clue about testosterone, which won’t make you a rapist, and implies commanders will give it out like candy.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I'd give anything to hear Eartha Kitt -- who famously stood in the White House and made Lady Bird Johnson cry about the Vietnam War -- weigh in on all this Odysseus nonsense. Be prepared to have your face burnt off.

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

“…Jenni Parido, whose most recent work experience before securing the coveted role as US Venice Biennale Commissioner was running a pet food store in Florida, told Hyperallergic in an email that the organization did not receive ‘corporate or foundation funding’ for the pavilion.”

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

When you realize that, of the many hundreds of multi-million dollar sales on the international market (a new Van Gogh last week, for instance), very little goes to the artist or their estate, you realize what Gerhard Richter meant when he called it unfair. Capitalism and investing ruins culture.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 28/04/2026

Apple is shuttering a retail store in Maryland that was the company's first to unionize, and preventing workers there from transferring to other locations in retaliation, a union ‌alleged in a complaint filed reut.rs/422S1Yv

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Your tough social media posts are not impressing me, elected officials. If you have to tell me that you're opposed to a madman threatening to exterminate a whole civilization, we are truly lost. Don't mimic what your constituents are already telling you; you're supposed to know more than we do.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Concnered that the fear of a nuclear strike will make us so relieved when it doesn't happen that we won't recognize the extent of the horror conventional weapons of mass destruction can wreak when controlled by a command structure without care for innocent life. He is not above ordering a Dresden.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"A whole civilization will die tonight" is classic Stephen Miller, the evil and mentally ill psychopath emboldened by hiding behind another evil and mentally ill psychopath. These aren't the words of Donald Trump, but they express his desire.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 02/04/2026

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.

NPR: Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 02/04/2026

This is officially the single WORST administration for Veterans in American history.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Don't you dare, ever, accept anyone who says this administration cares about the people in its military. Those of us who served are just fodder, toy soldiers to be flung around, pew-pew, and eventually lost in the backyard.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

* just finished covering my Harry Potter tattoo with the Sora logo * what

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I would like to hear more talk of how Maggie O'Farrell does more in twenty pages of HAMNET than so many writers do in 200. #hamnet #writers #books

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16/03/2026

The "nobody's talking about" style post is really grating right now because like my brother in christ, we're all triaging horrors right now.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This makes me so happy. This film, anchored by Michael B. Jordan’s performance, is so deeply meaningful to so many of us. Lovely to see this upright, talented young man recognized for his superb portrayal. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I want to know who wrote the banter and the bits so I can condemn them forcefully for putting Pedro Pascal through that.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Went down the Is-It-AI-or-Human quiz rabbit hole today, took a lot of little tests. Did pretty well, but that wasn't as interesting as the fact that nearly ALL (other than that NYT quiz, which is *easy*) focus on technical writing and writing with very little length -- headlines, captions.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There must be ways to avoid having your book digitized and broadcast on the internet and eventually being hoovered up by AI for training and/or author impersonation features (see Grammarly.) I realize that the answer is a really tough choice -- for instance, prohibiting electronic publication.

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Veterans For Responsible Leadership @vetsforrl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The most anti-veteran administration in US History. They think we’re fraudsters. They are doing everything they can to reduce benefits and disability compensation. But somehow there is endless money for reckless foreign wars. Absolutely shameful.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I can think Timothée Chalamet is a callow, insufferable clown, and that his slagging of opera and ballet is really stupid and out of touch -- while ALSO protesting the war in Iran and Gaza, ICE, and the oligarchy. Y'all are getting out of hand with the angry false-choice posts.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know? But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

It should not escape our attention that the only Team USA people who have felt free to comment on the men’s hockey team’s hearty laughter at the women’s team have been the Hughes family, all of whom have wondered what the big deal is. Is Team USA managing the problem by keeping the women silent?

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Repost so that a decent sample of these letters are spread far and wide. The evil can't stop finding new ways to express itself.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I'm a vet who has gone round and round with the VA health system over the years (lost). This news makes extremely angry on behalf of my fellow vets. Trump & Co. want to cut vet benefits, and this method will prompt many vets to quit taking their medications to maintain their disability rating.

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SoloSojourner @solosojourner.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

JD Vance and his motorcade very likely cost Alysa Liu the Gold Medal in the Short Program at the 2026 Winter Olympics. JD’s entourage consists of more than a dozen aircraft (one for food), 100 vehicles, 200 staff and guests. When you are one of the most hated people on the planet security is…

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SHE 💙🇺🇸🇮🇪🌈 🇺🇦⚾️ @marie-14.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

American star Alysa Liu couldn’t get to the Milano Skating Arena. She and her coach and choreographer were stuck on an official Olympic bus, blocked from the arena parking lot by the motorcade of Vice President JD Vance, who attended the team event. 100 Suburbans in the tiny streets in Milan.🤦‍♀️

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