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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today's fashion challenge is a bridal shower immediately followed by a visit to a corn maze.

JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New York Times reports that Anthropic tried to convince teligious leaders that Clause AI has a soul and moral standing. Tequested revision of Humanitas Magnificas. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLe8nVQW/

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This piece is not in my solo show opening October 11 at the Harold Washington Library. I will have over 30 other works on display through the end of December. Check it out when you are in the neighborhood!

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paintings by American artist Ilana Zweschi, 2020s, who draws from her studies in math to create precise brush stroke and color arrangements through logic.

Abstract painting composed of flat, even strokes both curving and straight, in a pink and orange palette with bursts of mint and green.

Abstract painting composed of flat, even strokes in curving arches and squiggle shapes jumbled together, in a purple, orange, and green palette.

Abstract painting composed of flat, even strokes both curving and straight jumbled together at the top, with a large winding path along the bottom, all in a deep green palette with bursts of blue and yellow-grey.

Abstract painting composed of flat, even strokes both curving and straight, in a blue palette with some orange and green details.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

James Burke with one of the greatest pieces if timing in Television history as he turns, points, and Voyager 2 takes off from Cape Canaveral in August 1977.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was out when Air Force flew over my house. Good.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wish me luck. I'm heading underneath the toilet to remove the seat nuts. Taking my phone in case I have to call 911.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sitting in a theater for FOUR HOURS to watch the new Elon Musk documentary is one of the circles of hell. I *might* stream it at 2x in fits and starts, though while I work on something, though. It will still be unsufferable.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm kinda excited about the screenings for Ken Russell's The Devils. His work was so bizarre, I have a soft spot for it.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: The Claude Delusion; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s... #Pluralistic

$Two cross-sectioned anatomical drawings of men's heads revealing their brains, which have been filled with marching robots from old pulp magazines. Their stare at one another with raw, exposed anatomical drawing eyeballs, which radiate a halo of spiky lines. The background is a psychedelic, fractal-shot colored cloudscape.$

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Get in, Loser. We’re going thrifting.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Halloween costume idea. Be a sexy Scot! Wear a football jersey, a kilt, and a traffic cone on your head. (you can get collapsible cones now)

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Count Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What the actual hell are you talking about?!

A WSJ headline reading “George Lucas’s museum confuses illustration with art”

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Edvard Munch, The Sun, 1916

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amused that the Library took the colon out of the exhibit title I requested. Just heard today that titles with colons are a signifier of AI text. This is wiping out in one fell swoop an academic and cultural standard format for events. I gave them permission to edit my copy in any way they saw fit.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Packing up…and ready to go! Will it all fit in the van for my solo show at the Harold Washington Library opening on October 11?

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Women and minorities in the US are scrambling to retain the rights we've fought for over the last 125 years and these knuckleheads want to give AIs human rights. I can only assume their AIs in their minds are white men.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Crimson Hexagon is still in progress but you can see a few other artworks from the Library of Babel series starting October 11 on the 8th floor of the Harold Washington Public Library.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't understand why cis women are so afraid of trans women. Both groups should support each other as we both are way more likely to suffer violence at the hands of straight males. Trans women *might* steal your makeup, clothes, and maybe even your man. Like a college roommate.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm also donating two small items to Elmhurst Art Museum for their fall fundraiser.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've been packing my show for the Harold Washington Library and trying to finish the Crimson Hexagon. I'm waiting for news on some other things I applied for. I also have two people who want this or want a version of this:

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm no gamer but it would be luxe to have a Kallax companion voiced by Matt Berry follow me around for emotional support and handy storage.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Anti-vax/anti-trust; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/09/w... #Pluralistic

A leaky drop ceiling with a large, dirty water stain.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For anyone who has ever struggled with putting IKEA furniture together, this is for you. These two pictures (apparently real IKEA ads at some point) are currently on display at Someset House, as part of an actual Esher art exhibition.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Come to the reception for Karla Wong's solo show, Journeys of Being, at Intuit on September 17 at 5pm. Be there at 5 to hear a singer from Oaxaca perform a few songs to open the reception! art.org/exhibitions/...

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Karla Wong | Exhibition

Karla Wong’s work is a love letter to her Mexican culture, drawing on her life experiences, her identity as a trans woman and the landscape of her dreams.

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Mr. Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy 170th birthday, Louis Sullivan.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The hot Halloween costume this year is Flock camera sabotage patriot. We are Spartacus.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/08/2026

"The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has partnered with art publisher Taschen to release a major new book project tracing the history of visual storytelling, timed to coincide with the museum’s grand opening next month in Los Angeles."

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and TASCHEN Present an Epic Journey Through Visual Storytelling

Photo : Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, photo by TASCHEN.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Can someone do a welfare check on Debbie Harry please?

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Peggy Guggenheim - BOTD

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Celebrate=Ugly crying all afternoon

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There is a call for art for two original pieces for a college's auditorium. The obvious choice, per her subject matter, is Michiko Itatani, whose work I love. The budget is too low for two of her pieces, though, so I might have a chance.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today I took apart an old laptop to skin it for parts. Not like a proper autistic to see how it ticks, but for art materials. I saved the coppery bits for recycling. My fan was filthy from laptopping in bed.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Scroll of Babel", from the Library of Babel series, stained glass, glass paint, on a cylinder vase. 32"x 7" x 7". I will show this piece at Julie Mars: Visions in Glass at the Harold Washington Library starting this October.

32" tall cylinder vase featuring a groutless mosaic of stained glass hexagons. The hexagon tiles are vellum colored at the bottom with characters from world alphabets inscribed on them. As the design spirals upward the vellum-colored tiles transform into hexagonal circuit board tiles.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Winter Garden Diptych, 2026, stained glass, woven and loose bead mosaic on preowned frames. These will be on display at Harold Washington Library in Chicago starting in October 2026. I just entered them into the Tiffany glass show at EAC, as well.

Set of two floral stained glass mosaic panels with champagne-colored beaux arts acanthus frames. The diptych is installed on a beige wall above cream wainscoting. The mosaic also has woven copper bead hexagon flower accents contrasting with the verdigris, cream, & brown glass color palette. The work is an homage to the Harold Washington Library's Winter Garden and the Beaux Arts imagery on the verdigris roof.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"This Circular Book is God", 2026, stained glass, circuit board, hexagonal beadweavings on a used mirror. From the Library of Babel series. This piece will be on display at the Harold Washington Library in the show Julie Mars: Visions in Glass starting Oct. 11.

40" round mirror with a layered mosaic of stained glass, hexagonal beadweaving tiles, and circuit board in the rich colors of an antique library. The Library of Babel is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges wherein the denizens of an absurd and possibly infinite library attempt to create meaning in their lives with scholarly lore, religiosity & rumor.

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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Super interesting! "A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World" by Robin Wigglesworth. "With clarity and wit, Wigglesworth takes readers from medieval Venice to modern Wall Street..." amzn.to/3TBsNiL

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Is it a sculpture, or have Mary and Baby J appeared miraculously in this church? Fantastic painting by Jan Provoost of Bruges and Antwerp, whose day is today.

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gregorg @greg.org · 14/08/2026

yeah nobody's really helped me figure out if the smaller dimensions of these out-of-focus Richter photos were related to the focal length of the blur, but it's fine; turns out Richter took the blurred photo in 1990, when he made the painting, and he was taking lots of out-of-focus photos back then

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Doctorow coins the phrase, "Bonfire of the Stupidities" in this essay, a callback to the day the people got fed up and Savonarola was burned at the stake.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.

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gregorg @greg.org · 12/08/2026

contemplating Chagall's Large Glass now

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