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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Day 2399 #ArtKicksCovid19 "The Painter's Palette and a Vase of Wildflowers" (1882) Berta Wegmann Hirschsprung Collection. Wegmann transforms the tools and surroundings of the artist’s studio into an intimate still life. The palette, marked with daubs of pigment, functions almost as a portrait

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Abbie Sweetwine preparing a plasma infusion at the site of the crash. She is a black woman, surrounded by white men.

A photo of the Harrow and Wealdstone crash, showing three passenger trains that had run into each other. There is debris two storeys high, and people searching the wreckage.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck

RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.

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Jose @josendhelp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have you seen Werner Herzog watching and discussing skate clips? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLI...

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Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog

YouTube video by jenkemmag

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Lego Dolemite 🏴🚩 @psychoalpastor.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

One must always repost Cinnamon Roll Cat 🐱

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A carved "pillar-biter" from the church of St. Bavo in Haarlem, from 1509-1517. With roots in Medieval iconography, pillar-biters represented hypocrisy and false piety. More here: www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/dev...

A polychrome wooden carving of a man in pilgrim's garb with a priminent rosary grotesquely gnawing on a church column

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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Day 2376 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Purple Petunias" (1925) Georgia O'Keeffe. The Newark Museum of Art. The artist's seminal shift toward monumental floral abstraction started during her summers at Lake George in New York. Here, O’Keeffe rejects traditional still life constraints

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Often, she does have bad dreams. She has a dream that the house is on fire and that she is the only survivor, survivor and perpetrator somehow, as though she started the fire by being afraid of fire. " The Knife — Kate Wagner minorliteratures.com/2026/09/15/t...

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The Knife — Kate Wagner

Emma is four, just old enough to stand on her tippy toes, brace herself against the door and turn the little nipple of the lock to the right, thankful that it doesn’t make a sound. Slowly she slide…

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Alycia the Artist 🪶 @alyciaart.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

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Starship Celtica ☀️ @starshipceltica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

NASA’s Chandra Spots Galactic Gem www.nasa.gov/image-articl... Two galaxies merge at a furious rate in this Aug. 25, 2026, image of the II Zw 096 system.

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Kansas City Post July 26,1915

P1- MR. TRUE IS AT THE POLICE STATION, STANDING BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE
MAGISTRATE :YOU ARE FINED $50. FOR ASSAULTING AN OFFICER.

WE CAN SEE THE OFFICER STANDING TO THE LEFT IN THE PANEL, HE HAS A BLACK EYE

P2- MR. TRUE IS LEAVING THE POLICE STATION
MR. TRUE: IT WAS WORTH THE MONEY!
ANY OFFICER THAT GETS ABUSIVE TO NEWSBOYS AND PEDDLERS AIN'T FIT FOR THE FORCE.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A male white-winged fairywren on the farm late yesterday.

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elgoose @elgoose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is this bad? This seems bad.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026

nobody in history has ever gotten a bigger "affirmative action" boost than JD Vance. these Yale mfs brought him in, literally taught him how to use a knife and fork, handed him to Amy Chua to learn ruthless sociopathy, and then a tech billionaire bought him a Senate seat over the counter

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elgoose @elgoose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Post something random or you'll have an awful September.

The late Queen Negra of the Chimpanzee Sanctary Northwest dozing under a blue blanket.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 30/08/2026

In case you missed it: Iif you’re giving your money to Starbucks right now, you’re officially crossing a picket line. The union has called for a boycott, and we respect the union’s wishes.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I really love these photos! They still make me laugh

A black-and-white cat in a cardboard box

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Kevin T. Houle @kevinthoule.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The absolute, hands-down, no contest, without a doubt, best thing at the Minnesota State Fair. #startrek #batman #cropart

Crop art (made with colored seeds) depicting Spock from Star Trek slapping Robin from Batman and the words:

Robin: "Holy Crop Batm –"
Spock "No Robin! I'm a Vulcan not a superhero!"
"Bean me up!"
"60 Years of...Star Trek and Batman TV"

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elgoose @elgoose.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I take this to mean that he is still eating the memos.

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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think everyone should see this incredible picture of Dolly Parton: it’s by Stacie Williams (asterosperma on Instagram) and it’s called The Queen of Appalachia

A stunning screenprint image in a style which is part folk art, part religious icon. Dolly Parton sits on a throne-like wooden chair, surrounded by garlands of flowers and leaves. Orange butterflies (I think they are monarchs?) hover around her head. Her hair is huge and golden, and she is wearing a long, sweeping orange gown, which is turned up over her knee to show off her brown knee length high heeled boots. Two black bear cubs play around her, one on the floor and one in her lap. Dolly stares calmly at the viewer. Her right hand is raised in benediction, and in her left she holds a ripe strawberry which she is feeding to one of the bear cubs.

The original post is here https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rvBpTlRxZ/?igsi=Z2x5aTB5aHp5NXFp

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elgoose @elgoose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Watergate hearings, because my mom was transfixed by them. I also have a hazy memory of my dad getting a whiff of teargas during the 1968 riots in Washington DC, near where he worked.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026

it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/08/2026

Here are 3 minutes of unedited sanderling joy from right before sunset tonight 🥹 🪶

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elgoose @elgoose.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

one of my favorites of all time

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elgoose @elgoose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)

Tribalistas album cover 2002. Arnaldo Antunes, Marisa Monte and CarlinhoscBrown, rendered in chocolate syrup by Vik Muniz.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 14/08/2026

91 years ago today, FDR signed the Social Security Act into law. It marked a shift in how Americans saw economic security. For the first time in US history, the federal government created comprehensive social insurance so that aging or losing a breadwinner wouldn’t mean fending for yourself. �

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eleanor @eleanoir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I said in 2014 that the very use of the word "take" instead of "perspective" or "idea" was a fascism indicator and a crisis of meaning that emphasized immediacy over legitimacy or permanency

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 13/08/2026

Heartbreaking to know that I didn't think of Senator Useless first.

A picture of Ohio junior Senator Jon Husted, who has a single gram of protein powder where his brain is supposed to be, looking glassy-eyed into the distance.

Underneath, a presumably AI-generated close caption reads: "Call Senator Useless."

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Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just found out there's a creature called a puffleg hummingbird, that wears a tiny pair of fluffy white trousers.

A green, shiny bird wearing fluffy white trousers.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the “dobby’s grave” landmark is just a small dead guy who died on the beach a few days ago. he’s not even buried, someone just saw him and said “that’s dobby” and everyone started piling harry potter merch on him. a sad end for lindsey graham

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Tend! @tendehka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i cannot get over how funny the moderation tag on this is

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Very early in the pandemic, I spent 2 terrible weeks in isolation, unable to breathe or walk across the room. Waiting my temp. to spike. Worrying about my kids. Fighting against dying. In the middle of this covid revisionist, anti-vax bullshit, it was worth saying what that felt like: