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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 1h

Water Lilies - 1908 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 1h

The idea that "of course AI could do Romance novels they're just paint by numbers" is so incredibly wrong and so incredibly, baselessly snobby, that I'm just sitting here blinking, trying to process what kind of ignorance produced it. (Yes I know what kind.)

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vaccination clinic at my Catholic parish this weekend. Got my flu and COVID shots! Go, herd immunity!

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heard on the radio this morning: SportsGuy 1: “And Donald Trump will be at Texas-Tennessee, if you care about that …” SportsGuy 2: “Why?” SG 1 (dismissively): “He likes to be seen. It’s what he does. Anyway …”

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gilmore Girls but not The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? And where is Person of Interest, given how prescient it was about tech-bro AI worship?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 08/10/2025

A Charlie Baron Sukkot This comic is based on a friend's COVID sukkah building experience. He had very little to work with, and when he posted a photo, people said it looked like "Charlie Brown's sukkah." A kind rabbi reassured him, and I used his comment in the speech near the end.

A Charlie Baron Sukkot by Emily K.

A very simple entry to a sukkah is shown - two sticks on either side, and branches make a flat roof at the top. Fruits hang off of it. A lulav and etrog are below.

The whole comic is done in the style of Schulz/Melendez's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Kids are playing in the fallen leaves. Two little boys, one with reddish hair and kippah, and another with a shock of blond hair, sit at a brick wall. The redhead holds a tallis as a security blanket as he sucks his thumb.

"Yom Kippur is over now, and Sukkot is arriving. I should feel happy, but I feel run-down. I know I should be celebrating, but I just don't feel excited."

The redheaded boy replies, "Only you could take a wonderful thing like sukkot and turn it into a problem. Maybe Libby's right. Of all the Charlie Baron's in the world, you're the Charlie Baron-est." He walks away. Charlie walks towards a red make-shift booth that says "Therapeutic Help 25 cents, The therapist is Very In." A girl with curly black hair sits at it. Charlie says, "My trouble is Sukkot. Instead of feeling happy, I feel anxious. What if I mess something up? What if, in feeling anxious, I don't fulfill the mitzvah of celebrating?" She responds, "How 'bout getting a sukkah kit for us to build? That would be a mitzvah." "Me? Are you sure?" "Sure, Charlie Baron. We need a Sukkah. You need a Mitzvah." He then walks away, but sees something that stuns him.

Charlie walks towards his dog's doghouse, and sees his dog decorating a very lush sukkah against it. The dog is a tri-colored beagle with brown fur, white paws, a white snout and belly, and black spots. "Good Grief." Then a friend shouts. "Over here, Charlie Baron!" It's Libby. She says, "I think we should have a Sukkahspiel tomorrow night." Charlie is taken aback. "A 'Sukkahspeil?!'" "Yes, a glamorous play in our glamorous sukkah!" "But that's for Purim!" Libby says, "and I can play the Shabbat Queen." Charlie: "It won't even be Shabbat." "Charlie Baron, you just need to get in a festive mood. Why don't you go get our sukkah?" He walks with the redheaded kid in the kippah, who says "Let's try over there." They find themselves in a big lot with allsorts of fancy lushly decorated sukkahs. "I dunno, Levi. None of these Sukkahs feel right."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Workinge IX to V, nys no waye to make a livinge, Scarsli gettinge by, all the takinge but no givinge, Thei but selle thy mynde and ne nevir issue credit -- Ynogh to make thee wax woode yf thou let it!

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have no idea how the Eagles pulled that off and I was watching the entire time.

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Philly Sports Reports @phlysprtsreprts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An absolute dime for the lead.

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, I am judging you from the distant past …

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This little chap screams #OWL but according to the text is in fact a night heron or ‘nycticorax’ (nuktos “night” and korax, “raven”). From the ‘Dialogus Creaturarum’, a 14thC compilation of fables. This copy was printed at Antwerp by Gerard Leeu in 1491. @cambridgeuniversitylibrary Inc.5.F.6.2[3391]

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Da Pope @deepdishpapa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

God has different ways and fresh ideas even for those who consider themselves to be first and believe they have earned what they have, that they deserved the results they have achieved. 1/2

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Angelus, 20 September 2026

POPE LEO XIV ANGELUS St Peter's Square Sunday, 20 September 2026 [ Multimedia ] ___________________________________

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it’s important you see tolkien’s drawing of gandalf’s hat

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight, for those who worship evil's might, beware my power, Green Lantern's light!"

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/09/2026

less corruption, more spoonbill. 🪶

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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026

This year's single-elimination tournament will see 16 competitors face off, compared to 12 in past years. Officials report more cubs in Katmai National Park than they've seen in recent memory. n.pr/4Aq90UI

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Alaska's salmon-feasting bears face off in biggest Fat Bear Week ever

This year's single-elimination tournament will see 16 competitors face off, compared to 12 in past years. Officials report more cubs in Katmai National Park than they've seen in recent memory.

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Gaudium et Spes @gaudiumetspesbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is inhuman for public authority to fall back on dictatorial systems or totalitarian methods which violate the rights of the person or social groups. —Gaudium et Spes §75

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Am I allowed to squee because my blog post on Urs Graf’s FMS woodcuts was cited in a Quaritch catalog? #bookhistory

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They’re helping

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So my latest hobby is building a 1:12 scale library of my favorite books: LOTR, The Phantom Tollbooth, Pride and Prejudice, etc. Then I ran across this guy:

1:12 scale leather-bound codex with 2 leather and metal fore-edge clasps and a chain.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

nice “My Milkshake Brings All the Baudrillard”

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Aurelio Lomi, Portrait of the Dog Roldano, 1597-1604, oil on canvas (Villa del Principe, Genoa). Roldano was a present from Philip II to Genoese Prince Giovanni Andrea Doria. (And the painter, Aurelio Lomi, was Artemisia Gentileschi's uncle)

A handsome white hound on an elegant balcony being groomed by a page

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Apple. 1570. By Jacques le Moyne des Morgues, during his time in England doing natural history studies. Today is his day.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Commanders two point play. Never had a chance vs those Eagles DTs.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 13/09/2026

Saoirse is in an afterschool program, and today she excitedly told me all about the SMART test for evaluating the credibility of information (source, motivation, author, review, two-sources). I can think of a lot of adults who would benefit from this class designed for 4th and 5th graders.

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There’s a novel in progress! WHEN DO I PREORDER? #wheeeeeeeee

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19/08/2026

Handed in SHIELDBORN last month!

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To borrow from The Code of the Woosters:

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Or, my better idea: let's all go to the desert and lives of prayer and poverty alone in (nearby) caves like it's the end of the world. I see your "what about more babies," and I raise you the holy virginity of the eschaton.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Jesus was a refugee, who fled to Egypt to escape King Herod. He praised the Good Samaritan - someone who helped an outsider. He said "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." You can't be a Christian and anti-migrant.

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Gustave Caillebotte @caillebotte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Garden at Petit Gennevilliers in Winter www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-caillebo…

"The Garden at Petit Gennevilliers in Winter" by Gustave Caillebotte captures a serene, frosty landscape with bare trees casting intricate shadows on the ground. The painting showcases Caillebotte's Impressionist style, highlighting his keen observation of light and nature during the winter season.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the union makes us strong.

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I built my second Lumibricks kit! (Still waiting on the missing brick to finish the first one, but it’s on the way.) It’s the Book Cafe Box. The counter lady and the cat are having a staring contest while she’s on break. So far, the cat is winning.

Lumibricks Book Cafe Box, completed! The cat is sitting on a table staring at the counter lady in the green armchair taking a break.

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Accurate.

This color graphic reads “What a tough time for anyone who studied government or history or ethics or social studies or art or medicine or law or political science or regular science.” The letters are white, the background is blue, and there is a red border around the text.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ther ys no perfecte worlde but ther ys a bettir one

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don't think that treating the Church Fathers with uncritical wonder actually loves the Church Fathers as they deserve. They were serious men asking serious questions. We can demand things of them. We can ask what doesn't work. It is a form of respect to do so.

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