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Brían Hanrahan

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
illuminated windsock
grey blue clouded dusk sky; looking up to a pole on a roof with a windsock, extended by the.breeze, glowing red from a light within, another small light on top of the pole
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
pursuit
looking over a below ground expressway with blue-grey walls, only traffic is two motorcyclists about 30m apart
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 5h
Monroe Street parking lot, Chicago (ca. 1973-1974) John H. White
Long line of 1970s US cars parked end to end, with a handful of people walking in the background.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 5h
"Quis ascendit in montem Domini aut quis stabit in loco sancto eius innocens manibus et mundo corde qui non accepit in vano animam suam" Psalm 23: 3-4 Gallican Psalter Württembergische Landesbibliothek, WLB Cod.bibl.fol.23 Stuttgart Psalter; 801-850; St. Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France; f.29r
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 14/10/2026
“…James’ Volume II feels crafted for entirely alien or even existential landscapes. It transports listeners to spaces that feel ritualistic, cosmic and almost spiritual, evoking the sound of the void or purgatory.” Aphex Twin’s ‘Selected Ambient Works Volume II’ turns 30:
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Rediscovering Aphex Twin’s cult classic: Selected Ambient Works Volume II turns 30
“It’s like standing in a power station on acid,” said Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin, of his landmark album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. Thirty years later, its beautiful yet unsettling dreamlike soundscapes remain as captivating as ever, and earlier this month the album returned with an expanded anniversary edition.
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
the sun returns, after a spell of cool overcast weather
freeway with sun bouncing off the cars
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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 11h
Pendant ce temps, là-bas. Alexeï Vassiliev
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Dominic McGrath @mcgrathdominic.bsky.social · 17h
Too on the nose capturing of “Ireland as Big Tech + data centre cheerleader but with added rustic dreamy literature”
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Admiral Funnest Frontier Prime 🏴‍☠️🖖 @deckslower.bsky.social · 23h
26 years later and the PS2 is still the best selling console of all time 🖖
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
our neolithic future
neolithic tomb with offerings
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The foreword from my new book with @blackheraldpress.bsky.social is now online: www.blackheraldpress.com/post/what-li... If you order it, two great things will happen: a wonderful publisher gets a boost and I get a reader. Merci 🙏 🖤
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What Lies Ahead: Foreword – by Caroline Clark
What Lies Ahead: Foreword – by Caroline Clark
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
An amazing piece by Natasha Marie Llorens on concrete and memory in Algiers…
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Roman National
<p><br>The French term <em>roman national</em> is not a noun but a monumental concept about political fictions and ideological violence. Simply define
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Inis Mor, Aran Islands, County Galway, July 1892, photo by Jane Shackleton, pioneering Irish photographer (1843-1909).
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
remembering old televisions, the static clinging to the screen; put your face against it & feel the crackle
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Don “Dr Mabuse” Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” - Charles #Bukowski
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
athletic pietà (Cosmè Tura, c. 1460) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3...
oil painting with and v red/blue Palette: pieta duo in foreground, Golgotha background with 2 thieves still in situ, JC on her lap is skinny, almost ripped, looking surprisingly healthy, sprightly even, for one so recently Xified, Mary young and with a white headband is holding his hand
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Elizabeth @tinymysteries.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Let us end this Indigenous People’s Day with a picture of an indigenous man in Chiapas knocking over a statue of Spanish conquistador Diego de Mazariegos on the 500th anniversary of Columbus arriving in the Americas.
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Arnaud Saint-Martin @arnaudsaint-martin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Alerte ! Le RN veut liquider la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et le Campus Condorcet ! Par voie d’amendement, ces obcurantistes ignares veulent en finir avec l’héritage des sciences humaines. Braudel, Lévi-Strauss, Bourdieu et tant d’autres au bûcher ? On ne laissera pas faire !
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
before becoming a Dadaist, Johannes "Oberdada" Baader was a funerary architect this is one of his tombs, for the cyclist Paul Albert, 1898 world sprint champion
freestanding tomb with decorative columns
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
apocryphal cigarettes i.e. counterfeit
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
with the right attitude, almost anyone can progress: move on up from task paralysis to permanent staycation
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Joe O’Brien @pnamblath.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Brendan Behan wasn’t very fond of Patrick Kavanagh, and the feeling was mutual theirishbookshop.com/blogs/the-un...
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Richard Avedon, Dorian Leigh on the Avenue Montaigne (1949)
b/w photo of a woman in a dark Dior coat with dark umbrella, striding off the kerb on a street in Paris
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Vertical format color photo of a solid octogonal concrete pillar, painted  some graffiti letters, around it and nearby red scaffolding struts and yellow tarpaulins, which also form a roof over the pillar
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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When in Holland, MI, you best step those freaking gables
Color photo of a gorgeous 3-story commercial building in 1920s Dutch Revival style, dichromatic red brick and sand-colored stone. Tiles on spandrels between second and third floor windows. Stepped gable but with curls on each step. Red tile roof peeking out on sides.Color photo of a 1980s Dutch Revival store building in red brick, on landscaped grounds. Two stories with second story under tall side gable roof. Pair of cross-gables are stepped. On ground floor shutters painted green and orange.Color photo of a Dutch Revival mansion in red brick. Most forward sections are bay on left, with stepped gable and entrance section, toward center, also with stepped gable.Color photo of the top of one bay of a more recent hotel. Above balconies are a round window and a stepped gable, red brick with sand-colored stucco? not sure what stuff under the steps. Top of gable rounded.
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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Hewlett-Packard 200LX Palmtop PC (1994)
A grey clamshell handtop. Up top, the 640x200 monochrome screen has applications: Appointments, Phonebook, Note Taker, Memo, Database, Pocket Quicken, Lotus 123, HP Calc, cc:Mail, Filer, Setup, DOS, World TIme, System Macros, Data Comm, and Laplink remote, plus a memory tracker (346K Free/448K Total) and legend for the function keys. Down below, a micro-QWERTY keyboard with numb pad appears, with a second row of function keys to switch tasks between the isntalled apps and cursor keys above the numbpad. Image © Tamie49.
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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wunderbares Radiofeature von René Aguigah über Foucault und die Literatur! www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...
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Heiße Zeichen, kalte Zeichen - Michel Foucault jenseits von Literatur und Strukturalismus
Michel Foucault hat mit seinen Studien über Macht- und Ausschlusssysteme nach neuen Spielregeln des Denkens gesucht. Vor 100 Jahren wurde der französische Philosoph und Psychologe geboren.
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Harper's Letter/U. of Austin vanguard loathes both protests & young people on principle—but the "67" slogan is the opposite of "dumb." It's a historically-minded joke that casts the current uprising as the heir to the May '68 student revolt while winking at Gen Alpha meme-speak. Crack a book?
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
híbrido alemáno-inglés
Sign for fancyish opticians called Smart Augen
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Miltos Sachtouris tr. Karen Emmerich #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
HYDRA

They hung my blood from the branches
they cast my blood into the sea
the wildflowers the painted teeth the bitter
kisses
the fish the ships in the sea
all built their nests in my blood
and dyed their sails with my blood
and with my blood they flapped their wings
all the terrible birds in the sea
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Rousseau gets tinnitus, age 26
"One morning, on which I was no more ill than usual, I was putting a little table upon its legs when I felt a sudden. almost inconceivable disturbance throughout my whole body. I cannot describe it better than as a kind of storm which started in my blood and instantly took control of all my limbs. My arteries began to throb so powerfully that not only did I feel their beating but I even heard it, especially that of the carotids. This was accompanied by a great noise in my ears of three or four different kinds: a dull, heavy buzzing, a sharper note as of running water, a very shrill whistling and the throbbing I have described, the pulsations of which I could easily count without feeling my pulse or touching my body with my hands. This internal noise so loud that it robbed me of the fie ear I had once possessed. was making me not completely deaf but hard of hearing, as I have been to this day."
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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Boredom can be regarded as a kind of fossil fuel, poured into inertia and ignited with fabulous results, but I am skeptical of this view, which reeks of unempirical optimism. —Gary Indiana, Do Everything in the Dark
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
hurricane emergency loudspeaker drone (Jalisco, Mx)
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Istanbul. Hier soir.
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
had been unaware of this defunct EN noun an INCLUSE (c14–c15): a recluse who is voluntarily immured (as in a cave, hut, or isolated cell)
Historical Usage
• Middle English (Late 14th to 15th Century): Incluse originally meant "confined, shut in, or imprisoned", often used to describe a religious recluse or anchorite (someone shut away from the world in a cell).
• Related Evolution: It shares the same Latin root as modern English words like include, inclusive, and inclusion, as well as being a doublet of ENCLOSE
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Kobayashi Issa (tr. Anthony Opal)
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
only two surviving users of this critically endangered word
peter
noun [C]
mainly US offensive
/'pi..tə/ Us /'pi..tə/
a rude word for a penis
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
These heavy sands are language, tide and wind have silted here. James Joyce, Ulysses
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This short film about J G Ballard’s views of techno-mediascapes and the fetish of the car is among the best 17 minutes of television the BBC has ever produced.
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JG Ballard - Crash (1971) 720p
YouTube video by halucinex
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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Unpublished notes, papers, recordings, and videos from Stuart Hall, the father of modern cultural studies, made internationally available as part of digitisation project. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/tr...
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Unpublished Professor Stuart Hall writings made accessible - University of Birmingham
Notes, papers, recordings, and videos from the father of modern cultural studies, who coined Thatcherism, made internationally available.
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
orange the boss, blue the sidekick
five shelved library copies of M Lowry, Bajo el volcán, the Spanish translation of under the volcano. At the sides of the row, 3 bound identical in dark red, in the centre an orange one, beside it a blue one
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
in this context, I'd say an í-accent is absolutely as legit as an i-dot (Í would say that though 😉)
Hand painted ad for tire shop, including English tagline "dríven to perfection" with an accent on the i
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Icarian Communism" sounds like a historical metaphor but it was an actual movement, in the 1840s & ff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarians
toC of Romantic Socialism by Sarane Alexandrian (1979 orig.)

Introducción
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Saint-Simon
frente a
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Cómo creó Fourier
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Los sansimonianos. caballeros dustrial
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icario Las sociedades secretas y el arte de las raciones El advenimiento del feminismo
El comunismo
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1. la edad de oro . el cielo y la tierra . . .
Los fourieristas. maestros de Armonía .
Pierre Leroux, el revelador
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9. Augusto Cornte y el fin del socialismo romántico .
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Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A new essay has just been published on The Black Herald Magazine #pauléluard #davidgascoyne
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The Asymmetrical Mouth: David Gascoyne’s Elegy for Paul Éluard – an essay by Daniel Barbiero
The Asymmetrical Mouth: David Gascoyne’s Elegy for Paul Éluard – an essay by Daniel Barbiero
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Wasp Box @waspbox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Withnail and I, Tonya
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
they took his head Tommy, jesus that's strange why they do that
newspaper showing trade unionists playing with the decapitated statue head of ex president Felipe CalderonMore photos of playing with the statue head
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the will of the Wahlvolk 🤔😶
Die CDU sollte bei der für Dezember angekündigten Wahl für Siegmund votieren sagte Räuscher, ..nicht. weil wir seine Fans wären, sondern. weil es das Wahlvolk will" Der CDU-Politiker fügte K zu: ,,Ich hee Bauchschmerzen. Siegmund im Landtag zu ählen, aber ich würde es tun. Da müsser vir ietzt durch. Ich will erleben. wie Herr Siegmund ein Wahlversprechen nach dem anderen abräumen muss, und seine Wähler enttäuschen wird.""
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
20,000
The last state-sanctioned public execution in the United States occurred more than 90 years ago in Owensboro, Kentucky. Some 20,000 people gathered to witness the August 1936 hanging of Rainey Bethea, a young Black man who had been convicted of raping an elderly white woman.
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