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"Clothespin Closeup." #photography #photo #photograph #art #abstract #artsky I love clothespins. Wooden ones are the best.

Color, 4:3 photo shows closeup of white, wooden clothespin hanging from vinyl line.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 8h

“Strange Bubbles.” #photography #photograph #photo #nature #art #artsky This is a flower that fell into a birdbath. Don’t drink the water. 🥴

Color, square format photo shows pink bougainvillea flower sitting in the shallow water of a birdbath with strange bubbles.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Palm Tree Detail.” #photography #photograph #photo #nature #art #artsky #abstract The more I examine nature, the more beautiful it is.

color, square format photo shows detail of palm tree, showing intricate nooks and crannies of its bark.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Irregular Ferris Wheel." #photography #photograph #photo #art #artsky #nature #flower The red in this photo is intoxicating. 😁

Color, 4:3 photograph shows red Vinka flower amid round green leaves. The flower is irregular.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Prom Photo.” #art #artsky #photography #photo #nature #flower This one is a little silly. ☺️

Color, 4:3 photograph showing closeup of two yellow trumpet flower in budding stage, one in focus and one not.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Super Structure.” #photograph #photography #art #nature #abstract The thing about our world is, the closer you look, the more there is to see. ☺️

Color, 4:3 photograph shows the complex, labyrinthine interior of a peach bougainvillea plant. Parts of it come in and out of focus.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Magenta Overload.” #photography #photo #art #nature #flower I want to take more abstract, soft focus photos where it’s more like an abstract painting, but I’m still figuring it out.

Color, 4:3 photograph shows closeup of pink bougianvillea, very saturated.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Sharp Baby.” #photograph #photos #photography #art #nature This was too beautiful not to photograph. ☺️

Color, 4:3 photograph shows close up on spiky bud on cactus plant.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Dream Sequence.” #photography #photograph #photo #nature #art #artsky My favorite photographs are disorienting.

Color, 4:3 photograph shows a single thin pine branch surrounded by out of focus pine needles.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Personal Bubble.” #photographs #photography #photo #photograph #art #flower Took photographs today. It was beautiful outside. First time I took photos since the Spring. ☺️

Color, 4:3 photograph shows single violet periwinkle flower sitting on a green stem. The green background is out of focus.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a rainy day in Arizona and I’m charging my camera battery. ☺️ #photography #art

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

”The Magic Mountain” by Thomas Mann. I’ve been in a reading rut for about a month, but I started this a few days ago and I’m about 100 pages in. I really like it. I already ordered another Mann book. 😂 #books #booksky #literature #reading #thomasmann #magicmountain #writing

Oxford World’s Classics paperback copy of Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain.” Cover shows picaresque mountain landscape. Translated by Simon Pare.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Monotheism has always been a fascist enterprise. The idea that there is only one God is preposterous. 🫠

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the cover of the new novella I’m publishing in September. This story was inspired by a Dolph Lundgren B-movie I watched stoned one night back in 2007. I’ve tinkered with this for over a decade, but it’s time to let it go. #books #writers #writing #literature #booksky #reading

Book cover for Matt Snee’s “Xanadar: An Action-Packed Parable” showing an Asian woman in a purple dress and veil looking into the eyes of a fair-haired soldier.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'll be optimistic and say: here are some art pictures that I made, please share and support them

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My sister sent me this. It’s sort of magical realism during WW1. It’s written in a single, long sentence, but it’s separated into chapters and paragraphs at the same time. I just started it. It flows very well. #books #booksky #literature #reading

Paperback copy of Daniel Kraus’s “Angel Down,” a National Bestseller, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The New Yew Times Ten Best of 2025. Cover shows grey clouds along a red background.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The young painter who has set about learning to paint “realistically” is often surprised that the eye must do the learning; the hand more or less takes care of itself. — Samuel R. Delany, ABOUT WRITING. #booksky #books #writing #literature #art #artsky #painting

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In my 20s, I briefly worked at Temple University in Philadelphia, and I fantasized about going to school there and studying writing under Delany, who I think still teaches there. It was a nice dream. #books #booksky #writing #literature #writers

Paperback copy of Samuel R. Delany’s “About Writing: 7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews.” Cover is blue with a tiny picture of the heavily bearded Delany.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“The Transit of Venus,” by Shirley Hazzard. #books #booksky #literature #writing #reading Born in 1931, Hazzard was an Australian writer. I’ve been meaning to read this for a while. It’s about two sisters in the post-WW2 world.

Penguin Classics paperback of Shirley Hazzard’s novel, “The Transit of Venus.” Cover shows the shadow of a nude woman behind a curtain.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

When Rome is dust the Minotaur will moan Once more in the endless dark of its rank palace. —Jorge Luis Borges #books #literature #booksky #reading #writing #poetry #borges

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Odyssey was written by a woman, according to this 1897 work by Samuel Butler. ☺️ I have not read this book. #books #booksky #literature #writing

Book cover of “The Authoress of the Odyssey,” by Samuel Butler, with an introduction by Tim Whitmarsh. Cover is green with a grey image of a Grecian woman.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is the cover of an ebook I am publishing in a few weeks about the life and death of Alice Sheldon, better known as the science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr. I'm hoping to publish ebooks for all these writer stories I did. #books #booksky #literature #writing #indiewriter #indiebooks

Cover for ebook, "The Plan is Death: The Many Lives of Alice Sheldon," a novella by Matt Snee. Text is purple and blue, and author name is in orange. The image is a red woman clutching herself in sorrow.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In my old age, I’m really learning to appreciate the act of rereading books I’ve read at some point before. And I’ve been thinking of more books I’d like to do this for. I really think it’s an insightful experience. #books #booksky #literature #reading #writing

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Here's a really nice review for my book. It's nice to know all the agony of writing a book isn't unappreciated. 😂 If you're interested, there's a free preview of the book at this link... #books #booksky #literature #reading #writing

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Love in the Time of America by Matthew Snee - Reviewed by James Kinsley

Review: Astonishing and moving selection of stories, as varied as they are well-crafted.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, DUNE, 1965. #books #booksky #reading #scifi #literature

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wetpaint drying @wetpaint99.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#art Wally Funk part of the Mercury 13 group of women finally went to space in 2021 at age 82. first female FAA and NTSB inspector. her first flying lesson was at age 9

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Right By My Side," by David Haynes. #books #booksky #literature #reading #writing #davidhaynes Haynes is an American writer. This book is about a Black teen growing up in suburban St. Louis.

Photo shows paperback copy of Penguin Classic "Right By My Side," by David Haynes. Cover has a a black and white illustration of a young black man with a yellow scarf.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is a study I did of a section of Picasso's "Guernica," in the Fall. I have never stopped being impressed by that painting. #art #artsky #painting #painter #picasso

Acrylic painting showing a green horse with orange eyes being impaled by a pole. A detail from Picasso's "Guernica."

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I read this in my twenties and really liked it, but I don’t remember much. Someone pointed out to me recently this book’s queer overtones, so I had to check it out for myself. #books #booksky #reading #literature

Photo shows cover of Ernest Hemingway’s “Sun Also Rises,” showing illustrated people in a crowd at a bullfight.

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Mitchell Squid @mitchellsquid.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Night sky Mitchell P #art

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“Minor Detail,” by Adania Shibli. #books #booksky #literature #reading This novel is by a Palestinian writer.

Photo shows paperback copy of Adania Shibli’s novel, “Minor Detail.” Cover shows a grainy photo of a woman’s face and a landscape in Palestine.

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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Work in progress today. Messy mishaps that I’m trying to just go with.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I released this exclusive to Amazon as an experiment. It's about a hypothetical espionage adventure W. Somerset Maugham has in Geneva in 1915. I have painfully realized I cannot avoid Amazon and Meta in my self-publishing (for now). #books #booksky www.amazon.com/Lost-Rainbow...

Cover of Matt Snee's novella, "Lost Rainbow," showing a rainbow colored abstract painting that is highly saturated.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

On the one hand, it's really fucked up that there is a paywall in GTA6 for salons and tattoos and stuff. On the other hand, millions of American men are going to be picking which heels and braids to wear to the robbery. 😊

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I haven't tried to make any sculptures since I almost burned the house down when I was baking one in the oven last year. 🤣 I sort of miss the ache in my shoulders from kneading the clay. 😄 I'm a cartoonishly amateur sculptor, but I would like to be good at it. #art #artsky #sculpture #sculpting

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“Selected Poems,” by Jorge Luis Borges. I read this about ten years ago, but I wanted to read it again. It’s got all my highlights and dog-ears in it, so I’m excited to explore them. #books #poetry #literature #borges #reading #booksky #poems #jorgeluisborges

Photo shows paperback copy of Jorge Luis Borges’s “Selected Poems,” edit by Alexander Coleman. Cover is divided into a red and gray halves.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

”Our deepest feelings are like virtuous women: they dread being seen, and they go through life with lowered eyes.” —Gustave Flaubert, SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION. #books #booksky #literature #reading #writing #flaubert

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“Braiding Sweetgrass,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. #books #booksky #writing #literature #nonfiction I’ve been meaning to read this for a while. It’s a book of indigenous wisdom mixed with science and storytelling. Very impressed with it so far.

Paperback copy of “Braiding Sweetgrass,” a nonfiction book by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Cover is cream-colored with braid of sweetgrass.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“Girl, Woman, Other,” by Bernardine Evaristo. This book tells the story of multiple women in London. It won the Booker Prize in 2019. That‘s when I bought it. 😂 I really like it so far. #books #literature #bookerprize #reading #booksky

Photo shows paperback copy of Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other,” a novel. The cover is blue., yellow, green, and pink, and shows a medley of patterns and photos of Black women.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’m watching the World Cup and reading this, just like Zeus intended. #books #literature #reading

Paperback copy of “Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World,” by Eric Metaxas. Cover shows painting of bust of Martin Luther.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

As an artist/writer, I really feel that self-expression is less important than expressing what others can't express for themselves. I think artists start out expressing their own experiences, but I think they should try to understand and express the feelings of others. #writing #literature #art

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