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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 10h

Proud to have the Newman’s Own Cookbook, and am a fan of their products.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You think psychopathy has nothing to do with the capitalist system? You're wrong. Capitalism farts cruelty like gas from a Iawnmower. — Anne Carson, Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey, here's a random thought: maybe all of us who are Democrats and progressives should pause attacks on each other for the next three weeks and focus on beating Republicans. I promise our arguments will be so much more interesting in January after a blue tsunami.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 07/10/2026

There’s a term for Trump’s bullying, often racist sneers and attacks, accompanied by indirect (always indirect) calls to violence: stochastic terrorism, defined as hostile rhetoric that raises the statistical risk of ideological violence. Here’s how it works:

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Don’t Dismiss Trump’s Los Angeles-San Diego Comment as a ‘Joke’

No normal American would say those words. A president shouldn’t even think them.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good news from the Badlands! Today, October 6, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit based on the Pine Ridge Reservation, plans to return 50 bison to nearly 40,000 acres in the Stronghold area of Badlands National Park.

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Lakota nonprofit returning bison to 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park to restore native prairie

Thunder Valley CDC will release 50 bison across 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park on Oct. 6, restoring native prairie ecology and Lakota stewardship.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On the other hand, while Steinbeck is not my most favorite author, his prose is more than just of its time. His writing is luminous, even poetic at times, and one of the reasons his novels of social justice and criticism remain relevant and popular is that they’re not just journalism, they’re art.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can we reverse the power shift that began four decades ago? This is the biggest question lurking behind the midterm campaigns. Some thoughts. ⬇️ robertreich.substack.com/p/the-cent…

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thys year banned bookes weeke ys also destroyed-to-scan-for-A.I. bookes weeke

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Earlier this year I watched the entire run of “The Closer,” which I had not done before. Excellent show, great writing, ensemble acting that really makes you care about the characters. Now I am re-watching the entire run of “Major Crimes,” with most of the same characters and even better writing.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I like to make the cover art of any given book into a thematic piece. This book is on the theme of cosmic humanity, with a queer-mystical bent. I made this to be donated, but may repeat the idea again later.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This book is five signatures of high-quality speckled paper, kettle stitched, with casebound covers featuring, as I said, my own artwork. I am making a lot of books like this, lately, it’s become a project that I find both satisfying and surprisingly meditative and soothing.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I made this handmade blank book as a donation. The covers are my own original Photoshop artwork made from my own digital photography. I do a lot of photography intended to be both pure photography and also used as art elements in other digital artwork. 🧵

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ACCURATE AF. Don't even get me started on their weird obsession with drinking people's tears, and delight in the suffering of others.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a type designer and book artist and designer, I probably laughed too loud at this.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Every act of art is an act of resistance” -Tom Morello

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do I write with AI? No. I write with the spite I inherited from my disapproving ancestors who keep trying to convince me the profit would be so much easier if I just started a cult already FFS

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/10/2026

John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era.

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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I discovered Zenna Henderson thru a made for TV movie in the 1970s. I tracked down her stories about The People, alien refugees with psychic abilities who hide amongst us living quiet, low tech lives not unlike the Amish. Her writing is poetic, rich in detail, deeply affecting.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wish you a deepening intimacy with darkness that has nothing to do with despair: fertile darkness, restful darkness, mysterious darkness, the darkness of seeds underground and dreams before they become words.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A related factor is the Sun’s output range. There’s a reason why plants are green.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I got fed up with pro sports decades ago when the baseball players went on strike. They were millionaires striking to become double millionaires. I’ll watch town softball and college sports if I watch anything, but I’m tired of sports culture as a whole. I give it no attention. It’s a toxic circus.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Two pieces of mine (lower left frame box) are in a gallery show this month for the annual Wisconsin Regional Art Project. The opening reception this evening was great. I had two conversations with fellow artists, which I appreciate. My piece “Shadow,” people related to as a portrait of depression.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So far for this new artist book, Sauvage, which began as a test of watercolor on paper, I have looked at “Sauvage” from the perspective of colonialism, Rimbaud’s poetry, and amour fou (queer love). Now I find myself writing a long poem on being a feral summer boy in English, French, and Indonesian.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OMG! OMG! OMG! * shivers into turbulence and de-rezzes *

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen 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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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And we love you back. Speaking as a gay/bi musician, artist, and author, thank you!!!

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s Bandcamp Friday! All revenue for anything bought today goes 100% to the artists—like me! Support indie music! Support your local artists! Here’s some favorite world-music-inspired free jazz from Barbaric Yawps: arthurdurkee.bandcamp.com/album/barbar...

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Barbaric Yawps at Isthmus Jazz Festival 1995, by Barbaric Yawps

5 track album

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why do people set reading goals for the month/year? I mean, I understand that they want to read more, and announcing it to the world might be about asking for accountability. But I’ve never understood setting a goal. I just read all the time, daily, because I want to. I never stop. It’s continuous.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When climate scientists say things are going to be horrendous, people find out many years later that we’re right. With this El Niño, the “find out” part will come in months.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As an Ann Arbor native, I agree!

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As an Ann Arbor native, I very much agree. These are some great finds.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.

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