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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 15h

★★★★ PARSIFAL #RoyalOpera - Unholy rituals, as usual, but a hero's life compels: #StanislasdeBarbeyrac's protagonist matches #JakubHrůša's conducting for intensity, while #EvgenyTitov's production intrigues @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/parsifal-roy...

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 17h

A nice corner in Tbilisi

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Georgian wines and azarpheshas - the ladles they use for special toasts—at the restaurant Azarphesha

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Country 100! Georgia 🇬🇪

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wordle 1,929 6/6* ⬜️⬜️🟨🟨⬜️ ⬜️🟩⬜️🟩🟩 ⬜️🟩⬜️🟩🟩 ⬜️🟩⬜️🟩🟩 ⬜️🟩⬜️🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Heh @geoffbrock.bsky.social @mwj1231.bsky.social @zoomarang.bsky.social

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mother Armenia 🇦🇲 - my 99th country

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Acropolis as seen from the Hephaaesteion and the Hephaesteion as seen from the Acropolis

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Erechtheion in situ, with replacement caryatids, and five of the original caryatids in the Acropolis Museum (#6 is held hostage by the British Museum)

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RTW 2016 now in progress 🌍🌏🌎

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I FORGOT that two burly firemen did not lift me up from the rubble.

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good morning from Glen Lake

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Throughout her career, her work also focused on liberating men from these fear-based emotional stigmas; the beliefs that are constantly trying to force boys and men into narrow, conformist, emotionally stifling boxes. Pls check it out; subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/gloria-ste...

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Gloria Steinem was a Hero to Men, Too.

She proved that feminism is good for Real Men; even if the word itself terrifies weak men.

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The VERY GREAT Dee Dee Bridgewater and Bill Charlap at the Chicago Jazz Festival ( @mwj1231.bsky.social I wish you were here!! )

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Good morning from Glen Lake

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 15/08/2026

“It would be hard to find a contemporary American poet who embodies the Wordsworthian ideal as fully as Jorie Graham.” —Anahid Nersessian

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Refusing to Look Away | Anahid Nersessian

In Killing Spree, the poet Jorie Graham pursues an essentially ethical impulse to find a true language for the evil in the world.

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde

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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“If we are to be the last humans, we must also be human to the last, using our species’ unique capacity for meaning-making to mourn what we might have avoided losing but have lost all the same.” - Anahid Nersessian on Jorie Graham in @nybooks.com #Booksky #poetry

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Good morning from Glen Lake

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I made a raspberry pie. Please don’t tell me it looks like measles or I’ll cry

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Monsieur watching the eclipse

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.

Zohran with a 69% approval to 24% approval, highest favorably for a New York Mayor since LaGuardia announced the free candy and handjobs for all program.

WSJ: Mamdani’s Honeymoon With New York is Over

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Same shot different photographer

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

a "snub" is when your coworkers tell everyone about the happy hour except you the Supreme Court uncharacteristically acknowledging the plain meaning of the constitution is not a "snub" better headline: "Trump is unconstitutionally racist again"

actual headline in the fuckin' Washington Post: "Trump tries new tack against birthright citizenship after Supreme Court snub"

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Farmers market this morning - First gazpacho of the season

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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The New York Times reported last month on one instance in which the Trump admin admitted in court that it withheld grant $$ from blue states, explicitly for political reasons. TPM's @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social & @joshkovensky.bsky.social have found many more:

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Trump Administration Has Repeatedly Confessed in Court to Withholding Money From Blue States

Late last year, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials agreed to make a...

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

First batch of peach 🍑 sherbet of the season

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Gian-Carlo Menotti was born on this day in 1911. So here is a 1960 American television production of The Consul, with the great Patricia Neway giving one of the most remarkable performances you will ever see as Magda, the role she created in 1950. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj7K...

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The Consul - Menotti 4K

YouTube video by David Sukonick

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So often a NYT Crossword answer, the 🐝 never allows “aroar.”

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“Cheerfully obeyed” is THE BEST!

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Christoph Willibald Gluck was born on this day in 1714. So here is Erich Kleiber's broadcast of Iphigénie en Tauride from the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1937, with Anny Konetzni, Martial Singher, Kolomon von Pataky and Jaro Prohaska www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Py...

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Gluck: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Kleiber; Konetzni, Singher, von Pataky) 1937

YouTube video by Maria Callas’ No. 1 fan

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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This year's Chicago's LGBTQ+ parade was an attended by almost a million people. This year’s theme, “Free to Be Proud,” theme served as a celebratory reflection of how far the movement has come and an urgent call to action regarding the work that remains. #StandTogether

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The piping plovers this morning at Montrose Beach

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Good morning from the Adler Planetarium in Chicago Heat wave is beginning - already 80° F / 27° C at 7:00 am

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Good morning from Chicago

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Jeff @jepaco.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I see a lot of Abdul signs in Michigan.

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My architecture column today. A non-profit steps in to save the ramshackle Frank Lloyd Wright-designed J.J. Walser House in the Austin neighborhood. "We’re really excited about the possibilities," Austin Coming Together Executive Director Darnell Shields said.

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Neglected Frank Lloyd Wright house on the West Side sold for $125,000

The nonprofit community group Austin Coming Together bought the vacant Wright-designed J.J. Walser Jr. House and seeks to restore the building.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I did a thread this morning on the real meaning of yesterday's progressive (and other) victories. I expanded it to a full column here. I hope you'll read it and if you agree, that you'll share it. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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Reinventing the Democratic Party

Old labels, old policies are useless, the failed compromises of the past must be rejected

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Bruno Fernandes needs punched in the throat @thombomb816.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Juneteenth marks the celebration of America's second independence day. Like the people in this photo—Texans celebrating Juneteenth in 1900—we know that progress hasn't made our union perfect. But we can recommit to reaching toward that more perfect union together. Happy Juneteenth.

A black and white photo of a group of elegantly dressed Black people in a grassy space outdoors

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