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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

George Saunders' short story My Flamboyant Grandson predicts this www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

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My Flamboyant Grandson

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

From back in 2020: After Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1611-12, AKA home on Easter with two bored kids and a box of Peeps

Marshmallow bunny Judith and her marshmallow bunny maidservant Abra mercilessly decapitate the marshmallow bunny Assyrian general Holofernes.

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zeet (irrigation engineer) @zeet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Best painting title ever: Men fighting and women ignoring them Mughal, 18th C

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 23/02/2026

a portrait

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Scare Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

[Wesley Willis voice]

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

‘Spring Ritual’ Embroidery by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici #womensart

Pictorial embroidery with cat and goat creatures standing upright either side of a small tree with objects such as an apple, flower, tooth suspended above

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896, Watercolor and gouache on paper, 17.5 x 16 cm (Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki)

"The odd charm of The Garden of Death can most likely be attributed to the fact that Death is depicted as a gentle character, as is most often the case in Hugo Simberg's work. Why is Death, the very essence of destruction, tending to the potted plants and flowers that are metaphors for life and regeneration? Simberg believed the garden of death to be a place where souls go before entering heaven. He depicts human souls as plants, almost as if man is as undeveloped compared to his paradisical self as a child is compared to an adult. The painting does not reveal whether all the souls in the garden end up going to heaven, or why it is necessary to wait in the garden in the first place, but the atmosphere is nevertheless one of peace rather than anxiety." https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-garden-of-death-hugo-simberg/gQHpogSZmOytvQ?hl=en

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

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Catacombs Gourdeiro🎃 @topmarx.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

You’re bigoted statements make it clear you cannot represent all New Yorkers, and you’re crypto shill. You need to resign.

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I propose an alternative show where Americans vie for any citizenship in a country with healthcare

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I learned recently that the Irish people ended up pawning fishing gear, so even though you could see shoals of mackerel churning up the water, they had no means to fish.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn

A sign on a pole that says:

A RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN
Properly Dispose of Your Dog's Waste
Place It Into The Nearest Cybertruck
IF YOU SEE ELON MUSK. YOU MAY ALSO DEPOSIT IT DIRECTLY INTO HIS MOUTH
CITY CODE ELNZ-A-DKHD
DEPT. OF @FOLAFIA, CITY OF NEW YORK

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I think of a William Burroughs quote I heard in a lecture that’s recorded- “And what does the money machine eat to shit it out? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.”

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Look at this guy. It's a takin, which is an ungulate native to Tibet, and an absolute unit

a takin, with gold and black dappled fur, short black horns, a black snout and big muscles

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Doge will shut down more government function than a 'government shutdown' from your NO on the spending bill. There is no reasonable choice but to: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Anna B Ehlers, a Tlingit of the Chilkat tribe, Alaska, skilled master weaver #womensart

Photo, outdoors, of two indigenous women wearing woven cloaks decorated with symbolic motifs and with a long fringe

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America Since 1946 by Carlos Motta, 2005 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund, 2014

© Carlos Motta

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

all i have to say is udrēaaaaaaaaaa youtu.be/QUcTsFe1PVs?...

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The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian

YouTube video by Peter Pringle

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Haha I almost used that exact photo

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Senator, it’s not tomatoes i worry about- it’s entrenched affluent politicians mincing about tomatoes while the treasury is being taken over by Nazi edgelords

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

X Files! no idea which episode

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Music Teacher: How would we characterize D# minor? Billy: I dunno, sad I guess? Schubart: The soul's deepest distress, blackest depression. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, they would approximate this key.

From Christian Schubart's Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1806) translated by Rita Steblin in A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. UMI Research Press (1983).
C major Completely pure. Its character is: innocence, simplicity, naïvety, children's talk.
C minor Declaration of love and at the same time the lament of unhappy love. All languishing, longing, sighing of the love-sick soul lies in this key.
Db major A leering key, degenerating into grief and rapture. It cannot laugh, but it can smile; it cannot howl, but it can at least grimace its crying.--Consequently only unusual characters and feelings can be brought out in this key.
D major The key of triumph, of Hallejuahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.
D minor Melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood.
D# minor Feelings of the anxiety of the soul's deepest distress, of brooding despair, of blackest depresssion, of the most gloomy condition of the soul. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key.
Eb major The key of love, of devotion, of intimate conversation with God.
E major Noisy shouts of joy, laughing pleasure and not yet complete, full delight lies in E Major.
F major Complaisance & calm.
F minor Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave.
F# major Triumph over difficulty, free sigh of relief utered when hurdles are surmounted; echo of a soul which has fiercely struggled and finally conquered lies in all uses of this key.
F# minor A gloomy key: it tugs at passion as a dog biting a dress. Resentment and discontent are its language.
G major Everything rustic, idyllic and lyrical, every calm and satisfied passion, every tender gratitude for true friendship and faithful love,--in a word every gentle and peaceful e…

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

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Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy

The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I work in a wine shop, this is true

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hand with Bowl and a Cat, 1885

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e.k. buckley @ekbuckley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's worse- the shooter called himself in on a pay phone, the NYPD didn't believe the call was real and did nothing. Later, a guy working at a bodega recognized the suspect, flagged down a cop on the street and pointed the shooter out to the cop. www.curbed.com/2022/04/fran...

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‘That’s the Guy’

Talking to Saifee Hardware manager Francisco Puebla about helping to bring in alleged subway shooter Frank R. James.

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