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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Having spent some time atop this very alpine valley, this video is especially thrilling to watch.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Gone too soon. His Beth Orton collaborations are among his best work.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I love this song so much. Can't decide if it's the vocals, the synths, the perfection of its song structure, the final slow-fade, or the coagulation of it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PksA... "Too Soon" by The Diogenes Club

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YouTube video by The Diogenes Club - Topic

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Of all the days I bought something on eBay for the first time in years.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Driving along the highway today I glanced at the damaged sections of the seemingly brittle barriers and wondered if there was a better solution and then magically this arrival appeared in the latest New Yorker.

Photo of the title of a New Yorker article entitled “Driven” along with the image of a man beside a highway barrier.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A childless warmonger who sent other people’s children off to die. A closeted gay man who squashed the freedoms of his own kind. A privileged elite who devoted his career depriving others of any advantage in life. Good riddance.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Of course he was nice to fellow senators & representatives—manipulation & persuasion is essential to the job. Ignore all these professional blowhards and their congenial statements. When the dust settles, the dead are remembered for their actions, not their niceness.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Childless people shouldn't have decision-making power over future generations. Good ridance to that vile dead-end senator.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Midmorning training session

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Today is the 134th anniversary of the beginning of the CTA Elevated Trains. On this day in 1892, the first "L" train ran from Pershing & State to Congress & Wabash. Chicago is the only city with elevated trains in its downtown area.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

You can’t spell nice day without cyanide.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Still the internet’s best source of old VHS packaging. vaultofvhs.tumblr.com

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Put them on the defensive. Instead of asking the bad person why it's bad to be a bad person and accept their public denial, FORCE them to defend or disavow the bad thing. Stop taking them at their word.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Amazing. For nearly fifty years, this Biggs scene has only existed as a page in my old Star Wars storybook.

Page from the Star Wars storybook featuring the deleted scene with Biggs and Luke.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 03/02/2026

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Today proved that the loudest 2A defenders are—and always have been—full of 💩.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If Apple were actually smart, their auto-correct wouldn't immediately default to a random proper noun. "I see you typed 'shelves' but I think you meant 'Schegel'."

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I'm a home-bound news-junkie, disheartened by far-away travesties, but the thing that keeps me energized are localized acts of kindness and empathy—from me, to me. And I see it in their eyes. We all need this. And it will get us through.

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Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I love that the literal translation of escalator into Irish is “living stairs”

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The feed creates its own visual narrative.

Two images of fiery infernos. They are not related but appear to be. One is from a Marvel trailer, the other from the war in Ukraine.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My one-year affair with UHC has come to an end after they botched my company's benefits plan. More than actual healthcare, I believe my money was mostly spent on the three, thick, double-sided pages of repetitive mumbo jumbo that came with every EOB mailing.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I once saw Isiah Whitlock Jr. on stage at the Public and he was DYNAMIC.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Are family curses transferrable?

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Eventually today's boring payroll record become tomorrow's fascinating database.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Spoiler alert: he doesn't complete the circle.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

AI is for people who wish they had synesthesia.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

One magical thing about living in NYC is occasionally hearing and feeling the collective roar.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Can’t go to hell if you don’t have a soul.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

If your pale white skin is so supreme, then why do you cover it with gruesome ink and bright orange paste?

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Robert Saxton @robertsaxton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This cracks me up

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I remember coming through here at age seven. It was impressive. If he can knock down the peoples' house, the people can knock down all of his eyesore towers—starting with the hideous one on Fifth Avenue.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The baseline for a normal, functional adult is the ability to clean up their own messes.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 16/10/2025

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Thursday Picture. Girls in the Windows, 1960, by Ormond Gigli. Hearing the brownstones opposite his East 58th Street studio were to be demolished, he swung into action to secure permissions, models and even the Rolls Royce. The photograph was taken during a lunch break the day before demolition.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“Living the dream” is pretty accurate considering that dreams are dumb and make no sense

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Many many years ago, Andy was once my intern-extraordinaire and now he's cut this amazing movie.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

As someone with absolutely no military experience, I do not think it's the wisest idea to assemble all of your military leaders in the same place at the same time.

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Why aren’t we calling them ICE-holes?

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DrLes 🇨🇦🇺🇦💙 @ozoniferous.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A great summation of your president America. You voted him in. You live with it

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J. E. Vidal @jevidal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

TV needs to say MORE mean things about the big baby. Make that baby cry!

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