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Jonathan Schultz

@jonathanschultz.bsky.social
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I am an avid reader with particular interest in modern and post-modern novels. Practicing Jodo Shinshu Buddhist who loves nature, art, and exploring the world.

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Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A dahlia from this year’s Dahlia Show at Sky Nursery, Shoreline, Washington #Flowers #Dahlias #Bloomscrolling #Anthophile #Photography #Macro #Scape
A close-up of a round white dahlia with pink petals in the middle of the flower, and a yellow center. The edge of another white dahlia is visible in the upper right hand corner
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Daily birds 82 - Striped Owl
A tall thin owl with brown spotted feathers and a white face
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From David Graeber's piece, 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!' davidgraeber.org/articles/are...
"We have not even begun to think about 
what our lives could be like if technology 
were really marshaled to fit human needs.

How many hours would we really need to 
work in order to maintain a functional 
society — that is, if we got rid of all the 
useless or destructive occupations like 
telemarketers, financial analysts, prison 
guards, bureaucrats & politicians while 
turning our best scientific minds away 
from working on space weaponry or 
stock market systems to mechanizing 
away dangerous or annoying tasks 
like resource mining or cleaning 
the bathroom.”
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  - David Graeber
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🍂Autumn Leaves by Franklin Booth
Illustration, 1911. Three female figures dancing like leaves in an autumnal wind. They are dressed in long flowing orange-brown dresses with tattered hems. Below them, individual leaves are falling. Treetops are visible at the bottom of the scene.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Focusing on Right Effort with the help of the Sabbāsava Sutta.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Maintenance day at the temple.
Half of a carved wood wheel of Dharma on the door of a Buddhist temple.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am enjoying the first movements in the transition to Fall.
A small branch from a pine tree with a cone attached at one end lies next to a moss filled gap in a section of sidewalk.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he. — Karl Kraus
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The only thing people hate more than honesty is silence.
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Francisco Goya @franciscogoya.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Autumn, or The Grape Harvest www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/a…
Autumn, or The Grape Harvest
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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind. - Cervantes, Don Quixote #BookWormSat
🎨 Don Quixote by Gustave Doré
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The reader, the thinker, the loiterer, the flâneur, are types of Illuminati just as much as the opium eater, the dreamer, the ecstatic. And more profane. Not to mention that most terrible drug—ourselves—which we take in solitude. — Walter Benjamin, Surrealism
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Some cultures have constructed pyramids, others built cathedrals, Rome's coliseum, Greece's Parthenon. Our culture made billionaires. Monumental societal achievements demonstrate what that society considers important.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Figure at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/figure…
Figure at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails
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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 27/08/2026
What the Water Gave Me, 1938 #kahlo #surrealism
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@Rickagain @richardrichards47.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France Picturesque monastery sitting atop a small island off the coast of Normandy (c.1900)
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why Americans Stopped Reading Books
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Why Americans Stopped Reading Books
The kids can't read. Such has been the implication, even the declaration, made by a wave of articles in recent years.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Our tidal bodies wax and wane beneath a changing moon, rotate through seasons, and are bound for a measure of eternity.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell. — Thich Nhat Hanh
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Freedom from the Other switches into narcissistic self-relation, which occasions many of the psychic disturbances afflicting today's achievement-subject. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 11/08/2026
"Seduction only comes through empty, illegible, insoluble, arbitrary, fortuitous signs, which gide by lightly, modifying the index of the refraction of space." - The Ecstasy of Communication
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
One ghostly cat's eye peers down from a pale blue sky August morning moon #Haiku
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My arm for a pillow, I really like myself under the hazy moon. — Yosa Buson
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Emily by Joanna Newsom stuck in my head for the last few days. And the meteorite's just what causes the light And the meteor's how it's perceived And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee.
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
After his wife Alice died in 1911, Monet returned to the water lilies with a new vision. He scaled up to monumental canvases, using bold strokes of color. These late works pushed toward abstraction inspiring Cézanne, Matisse, and Expressionism.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The temple bell stops — but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers — Bashō
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I drown for a living. I am submerged in worries and suffocate slowly nine hours a day for a bi-weekly paycheck. My co-workers sing a cheerful team song while stacking stones upon my head.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Butterfly gliding among upturned Cedar boughs hot ponderous day #haiku
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A whole world on one small panel, meant to transform your vision and understanding of reality: the Rolin Madonna, 1435, by Jan van Eyck. Masterpiece.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Is a long life such a good thing if it is lived in daily dread of death or in constant search for satisfaction in a tomorrow which never comes? Is technological progress a disease, symptomatic of being unable to be centered in and to enjoy the present? — Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On the cusp of a significant change in my life and I'm doing laundry, listening to The Monkees, and drinking a Narragansett lager, as one does.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Oh, Germany. Out so soon. At least we made it through the group stage this time.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Once gain, my expressive face betrays my actual feelings, and some people don't like it at all.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
After I dust, sweep, and vacuum I like to light an incense stick, turn on the air filter, and welcome the balance developing.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The current of grace was strong in the morning, and having a body that lived was enough. — Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am looking at the upcoming three day weekend like it's cool, clean water and I have been lost in the desert for weeks.
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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Buddha botfrens.com/collections/44/content…
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from the Collection of Edouard Sandoz
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hot Sun finds purchase upon the roof of the day Summer's leading edge #Haiku
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
And what else could I do with endless money but undo all the damage that money has done? replant the trees, clean the rivers & the seas, save the bees & all the species on the brink of annihilation, give it away to the sick & the hungry ... & on & on til the money's all gone. #mpprompt
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Phrases that I am trying to find a use for, or that are working their way into a more complete being: Cognitive surrender Crepuscular civilizational margin Adapted self destruct sequence Promotional dysphoria End times sponsorship Curated dirge vibes
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
To illustrate so vulgarly that wealth can be completely divorced from value was really unnecessary.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very impressive. It would be a treat to be in Barcelona to see the completed Basilica in person.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thanks for the American dream, To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through. — William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Power Automate: There is a problem with your function. Me: What is the problem? Power Automate: I am keeping it secret, but there is a problem with your function. Check with CoPilot for more details. CoPilot: The average rainfall in the Amazon rainforest is 3 inches. Me: That can't be right...
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Out watering plants in the garden this morning before the predicted heat is upon us. A pleasant way to start the day.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it; everything was a lie. — G. Flaubert, Madam Bovary
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...
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‘AI simply can’t replicate it’: Japan embraces zine trend
Independent artist and writers have been turning ever more to self-published or handmade small print publications, reflecting a love of paper in the digital era.
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Jonathan Schultz @jonathanschultz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
And the geometric constellations of Gottfried and Katje rise spectral before the intoxicated scrim of Friday night laundry dumb suffering brain wanderings...surely it means something. Why else the visceral excitation of significance?
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