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Kristin M. Jones

@kristinmjones.bsky.social
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Freelance arts writer with bylines in WSJ, Film Comment, Frieze, other pubs. Editor, singer, artist. New Yorker and Bostonian. Views my own.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
By Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1465. Everything about this picture is stunning but I really love the angel smiling at us!
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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October 2: a beautiful hand carved soapstone grave marker that someone made for a cat they loved very much
a rectangular block of light grey stone mounted on a dark grey wall. it has a very poofy cat carved into it. the cat is seated facing toward the viewer on what looks like a stool
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Kristin M. Jones @kristinmjones.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence (Gift Article)
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Kristin M. Jones @kristinmjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy Birthday Michael Powell, here seen performing a magic trick with a single sheet of paper. I only planned to post that one shot of the paper drifting down, but then I was reminded of the miraculous sound of it all! The unearthly choir! The footsteps! The echoes! And half the set is a painting!
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Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Croman, an infamous NYC landlord, is harassing his immigrant tenants in immigrant East Harlem. Riding the Trump wave, he has used immigration status as a harassment tactic documentedny.com/2026/09/21/c...
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'He Can Bury You Alive': Immigrant Tenants Allege Abuse, Fearmongering from East Harlem Landlord
Since Trump took office again, tenants claim that asked about their immigration status, which they interpreted as another intimidation tactic by their landlord, Steven Croman.
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Kristin M. Jones @kristinmjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
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For a Photographer, the Towers Were an Ever-Present Focal Point (Gift Article)
Keith Meyers spent years photographing the waterfronts in and around New York City. The twin towers became a constant backdrop.
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Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations @breakingmews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This Paddington was not found at a London train station, but in a hoarding situation. We don’t know how he feels about marmalade, but he could use a home.
White terrier mix with big brown eyes , boopable nose and red collar. 

Paddington had always suspected that the world was a very large place, full of curious sights, unfamiliar sounds, and people who moved much faster than seemed entirely necessary.

When he first arrived at Santa Barbara Humane after being rescued from a hoarding situation, everything felt rather overwhelming. Fortunately, one of our employees welcomed him into a foster home, where Paddington discovered that the world also contained gentle walks, kind dogs, soft blankets, and the remarkable comfort of taking things one small step at a time.

These days, Paddington approaches life the way any sensible little gentleman would. He prefers a proper introduction before declaring someone a friend. He seems to enjoy the company of other dogs, appreciates a nice stroll, and believes cuddles are a splendid idea once everyone has had an opportunity to get acquainted. It is a philosophy that has served him quite well. He has also asked us to clarify one important point: despite sharing a name with a certain famous bear, he has absolutely no opinion whatsoever about marmalade. Cheese, on the other hand, remains under investigation.

Paddington is a one-year-old Terrier mix available for adoption. He is currently in a foster home, so if you are interested, please reach out to adopt@sbhumane.org to schedule a meeting with him.  We think he would be happiest in a home with adults or older teenagers who understand that trust, much like the finest marmalade, cannot be hurried. Fortunately, unlike the marmalade, Paddington is quite worth the wait.

We are open for adoptions from 12 to 4:30 PM every day except Wednesdays.

#Paddington #DogAdoption #AdoptableDog #Terrier #ShyDog #ShelterDog #WorthTheWait #DogAdoption #SweetDog #SantaMaria #SantaBarbaraHumane
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28/08/2026
what does a unicorn see in a mirror?
A fabulous medieval tapestry with a woman showing a unicorn a mirror A closer crop of the same imageAn even closer crop of the mirror showing the unicorn's reflection, and it looks almost like a goat, brcause its long horn had been cut out of the frameA shot of the previous tapestry, with a massive narwhale horn in the foreground, the kind of artifact that likely inspired the entire concept of unicorns in antiquity. Credit the National Museum of Medeival History at Cluny in Paris for making this shot possible
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Kristin M. Jones @kristinmjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
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Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ (Gift Article)
The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Look how cool! A person I'm acquainted with on Instagram does photography with antique equipment and he did a portrait of his cat using a camera made in 1926. www.instagram.com/glass_negati...
beautiful black and white photo of a black and white cat sitting up on an elegant couch end table. It is posed for a studio photo with a black background.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.
Two orange cats in a cage with food and water.Two orange cats in a cage with food and water.Two orange cats laying on the floor. Two orange cats in a spare bathroom with food and water and a litter box.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Both a dog and a cat have spotted you from inside Samuel van Hoogstraten's amazing View Down a Corridor, 1662. Not to mention the parrot in its cage! But the people are oblivious.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
More quantum news - it’s one thing on top of another. Oxford University physicists have demonstrated a new range of quantum superpositions that could enable advances in quantum computing and sensing. www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...
ALT: Two pictures of our favourite cat, Ozymandius, of Magdalen College in two quantum states.

One in a low energy level, snoozing.

One tunneling through what looks like a carpeted cat tunnel, with his tail hanging out the back like a particle trail.
Energy levels and quantum tunneling refer to phenomena in quantum physics.

Photos of Ozymandias  - credit Magdalen Principal Dinah Rose.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thrilled to announce The Strange Architect series over at Variety. There were several possibilities, but thankful to FSG for stepping up and creating a home for it. variety.com/2026/biz/new...
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‘The Strange Architect,’ New Series by ‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer, Sells to Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Seven-Figure Deal (EXCLUSIVE)
'The Strange Architect,' a four-part series by 'Annihilation' author Jeff VanderMeer, has sold Farrar, Straus and Giroux in a seven-figure deal.
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
With its magnificent monoliths, foggy forests, shapeshifting sand dunes, and teeming tide pools, the Oregon coast is one of my favorite places on Earth. Over the weekend, during low tide, some friends showed us their favorite spot to observe the soggy and spectacular cosmos of seashore life.
A collage of photos of the Oregon coast, featuring towering isolated rock formations, sinuous sand dunes, and an array of marine life, including sea anemones, barnacles, and sea stars.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Good news this week: Two Austin paddleboarders saved a drowning raccoon from a lake during a storm; volunteers watched over a young orca stranded on a small island until high tide allowed the healthy animal to escape; the Pipsqueakery rescued some elderly, very gentle pet rats from certain death 1/?
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Kristin M. Jones @kristinmjones.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
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Colombian Immigrant Killed by ICE in Maine Had Legal Status, Father Says (Gift Article)
The father of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the man fatally shot by a federal immigration agent on Monday, said his son had been working two jobs to support his wife and daughter.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/07/2026
nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...
FREE MASKS
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To protect the health of New Yorkers, especially those at greatest risk, free KN95 masks are available at public library branches across the five boroughs. These include Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library locations, as well as the following New York Public Library branches: St. George Library Center in Staten Island, the Bronx Library Center in the Bronx, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (the main branch) in Manhattan. Emergency Management is working to expand availability at additional distribution sites and will announce further locations if air quality worsens.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/07/2026
Breaking News: The Trump administration moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining and other development. Environmentalists characterized it as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
A headline reads: "Trump Administration Sharply Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species." A piping plover stands on a wet beach with scattered shells. Photo by Dave Sanders for The New York Times.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Good news this week: Salish Sea whale Pop Tart was successfully freed from fishing gear. A Tallahassee mourning dove baby kidnapped by a do-gooder was returned to her mother without harm. A redtailed hawk from NE Portland named Chocolate was rescued after windowstrike and will make a full recovery.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Can you believe it's just oil paint on flat panels? Almost miraculous. Annunciation as trompe l'oeil sculpture by Jan van Eyck, d. OTD 1441.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 07/07/2026
Happy George Cukor's birthday!
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Worth celebrating: Eva Marie Saint turns 102 today. Many happy returns to her! Shown here with a contented feline co-star in ON THE WATERFRONT (1954). #Caturday
Eva Marie Saint is in bed giving pets to a contented tabby.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
welp
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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ebottcher.bsky.social @ebottcher.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF AN 18-YEAR-OLD FOLLOWING A CENTRAL PARK HORSE CARRIAGE INCIDENT
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Goth Wyatt Earp @eighthsamurai.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Area X travel piece by Jeff VanderMeer, very very good www.travelandleisure.com/florida-st-m...
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This Wildlife Refuge Is One of Florida's Best-kept Secrets—And It's A Birdwatching Paradise
With hundreds of bird species and beautiful marshlands, this wildlife refuge is one of Florida's best-kept secrets.
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Kristina Newhouse @askingwhynow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I love that the Obamas are champions of contemporary painting.
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Last night I saw Edgar G. Ulmer's THE NAKED DAWN (1955) at MoMA in an almost pristine Technicolor print; unbelievably gorgeous. You'll never see it looking better and you have one more chance, Sunday June 28 at 4 pm. www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Goodnight from the cutest Donkeys! George and Charlie wish everyone a goodnight from MMFS.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/06/2026
Starting Thursday, there is — for the first time — an official YouTube channel dedicated to the work of Fred Rogers, the beloved children’s TV host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations.
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Mister Rogers: Now on YouTube
On Thursday, Fred Rogers Productions started a channel dedicated to the beloved children’s host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations.
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mgregorywriter.bsky.social @mgregorywriter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#caturday
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
For #caturday, a thread of Chinese cat night-lights, porcelain figures made since the Ming period, often for the export market. A candle was placed inside with the light shining through the cat's eyes, reportedly intended for children afraid of the dark & perhaps also to scare off rats
Blue and white porcelain cat with eyes cut out (for light to shine through)
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
His face. His hand. His pillow. Albrecht Dürer, in 1493. Today was his day.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
5/17/50: Nicholas Ray landmark In a Lonely Place w/Bogie, Gloria Grahame More: Imogen Sara Smith: www.criterion.com/current/post... @kristinmjones.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/articles/noi... @carrierickey.bsky.social / @libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
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In a Lonely Place: Film noir as an opera of male fury - Library of America
By Carrie Rickey Reimagining the serial killer of Dorothy B. Hughes’s novel as a screenwriter with anger management issues, director Nicholas Ray created something equally unnerving—and gave Humphrey ...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
RIP Tony Stella Social media has many faults but I loved that I could regularly see work by brilliant artists like Tony regularly light up my feed. Here’s my favourite poster of his & it’s one of my favourite movies.
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Opens today ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Feeling bombarded by too much bad news, so I'm soothing myself with pictures by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, one of the standout animal painters of the 19th century. I'm loving the loose, gestural brushstrokes she used in both of these paintings of kittens
Painting of two kittens playingPainting of a kitten, looking sheepish or pensive. Cute!
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Kristin M. Jones @kristinmjones.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Maybe you just learned about woodcocks, but they've been a big deal for centuries. I wrote about the long history of loving the American Woodcock birdhistory.substack.com/p/more-than-...
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mgregorywriter.bsky.social @mgregorywriter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
To celebrate #worldartday I'm posting a #womanartist I like a lot, Gertrude Fiske and her charming dogs.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Drowsy dog, 1650, by Gerrit Dou. Today was his day.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues. He had just asked to call his wife. They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw. Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
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Victim in ICE Shooting Suffered at Least Six Wounds, His Lawyer Says
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This absolutely irresistible portrait of a poodle who is so cute and fluffy it breaks my heart
Oval portrait of a white poodle
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I have nothing useful to add on the general state of things right now, but I can offer a thread of canine portraits by 18th-century French painter Jean-Jacques Bachelier, who was also director of the famed Sèvres porcelain factory. First up: Mimi, the favorite dog of Madame de Pompadour, 1762
Painting of an adorable tiny black dog, in a landscape, its front paws raised off the ground
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
your moment of calm: bun contemplates eternity
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