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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 55m

My brother, a Medicare recipient, just heard that he will be receiving $90.

The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 56m

If this is an actual plan and not simply a theatrical announcement designed to “bait the libs,” I am deeply appalled and ashamed of my government. As a Catholic I oppose the death penalty; as a human I find public executions utterly despicable.

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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”

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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My new Substack post discusses the lives and careers of Elen and Margaret More, two Black ladies-in-waiting to Lady Margaret and Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland. You can read it here: sophiebacchuswaterman.substack.com/p/elen-and-m...

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Elen and Margaret More, two Black ladies-in-waiting

The incredible response to my Instagram post about Elen More, Queen Margaret Tudor’s Black lady-in-waiting has prompted me to want to write about her in more detail.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

facies pikachus mirati, "the face of a surprised Pikachu" I'm taking Pikachu's name as a 4th declension neuter (Pikachu, Pikachus) because that's where you get a -u in the nominative.

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m cataloging an English New Testament and for reasons I don’t really understand, almost every bibliographic entry about it mentions that in one woodcut, the Devil has a wooden leg.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Dictionary ROCKS

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mary Scullion, Rosemary Radford Reuther, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Miriam Therese Winter …

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Helen Prejean, Joan Chittister, Phyllis Zagano, Simone Campbell, Rose Kuhn …

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 04/10/2026

Landscape with a White Horse in a Meadow, L'Hermitage #camillepissarro #pissarro

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Everybodye yn thys café sholde be singing "La Marseillaise" more loudlye.

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Library Lagomorph @bunnyjadwiga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In libraries 📚 the purpose of the technology and the facilities and the administration and the money people and the politics and the fundraising... Is so we can DO LIBRARY STUFF. Books. Programs. Outreach. Literacy. Human connection. Third Spaces. LIBRARY STUFF.

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

god grant me the dexterity to dodge the attacks I cannot guard; the timing to perfect parry the attacks I can; and the wisdom to know the difference

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, cartoon and comics folks, can anyone help me track down a multipanel (6? 8?), possibly by Nathan Pyle, where God sends a human out to live, the human comes back all excited about their life and tells God about it, and it ends with God declaring everyone is coming to dinner? adTHANKSvance.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cherries and cheese by a beautiful blue pitcher in 1760 by Luis Egidio Melendez. It's his day.

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just admiring Juan van der Hamen y León’s skill in using reflections to create a convincing depiction of clear glassware, in this detail from his Still Life with Sweetmeats and Glass Vessels (1622, Prado)

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 03/10/2026

Boulevard des Сapucines #edouardcortes #postimpressionism

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

View of Argenteuil in the Snow - 1875 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I bravely dressed for autumn and I’m being punished for it

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

POPE LEO: “There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.”

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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

abolish the death penalty

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Ryan AKA Ben Graven @bengraven.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We know Professor Tolkien loved a good party, but now we know he had contingency plans. That’s me in the wheelbarrow.

An imitation from JR R token and his wife for a coming of age party for their sons, Christopher. The small printer states that carriages will be there at midnight, ambulances at 2 AM, wheelbarrows at 5 AM and hearses at daybreak.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Since we all really FELT that ancient pooch who wouldn’t drop the ball, I figured I may as well tell you a bit about dogs in ancient Mesopotamia. They leave traces everywhere, from bricks to burials to proverbs. Here’s a 4,000-year-old paw print of a pooch on a brick from ancient Ur

Mud brick with a cuneiform inscription near the middle and two paw prints on the left side.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 30/09/2026

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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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I laminated my own copy when I realized how difficult it was to get. Still have it!

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The Magdalen Writing @nebroadwe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh my gosh, Credo, yes! I hunted down three separate copies of that for various members of my Catholic grad student friend group back in the ‘90s. We had SO MUCH FUN playing.

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

Person of Interest should be on this list.

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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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