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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 29/09/2026

Current* conditions near L'Anse, MI:

NW view overlooking L'Anse Harbor as it meets L'Anse Bay on Lake Superior. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-28 23:18:13 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@villageoflanse1750 // Current Temp in L'Anse: 53 F | 11 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: S at 7 mph | 12 kph // Humidity: 88%

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Paul Cézanne, Curtains, 1885, watercolor

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

What a beautiful painting.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 24/01/2026

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/12/2025

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The Buchanan Arts Center fall fundraiser and ornament sale is TONIGHT 5-7pm 1409 Buchanan Street! Over 50 artists contributed handmade ornaments. I made some paper smallmouth bass :)

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The Buchanan Arts Center fall fundraiser and ornament sale is TONIGHT 5-7pm 1409 Buchanan Street! Over 50 artists contributed handmade ornaments. I made some paper smallmouth bass :)

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Illustrations by the French court engraver François-Nicolas Martinet from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780), the first monograph on goldfish published in Europe: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in our latest post on the site — publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Nashville gardeners buy your tomatoes and other garden starts from me, all proceeds support Buchanan Arts. Get in touch for details!

200 plant starts on trays in my back yard

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

ChatGPT ass presidency

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/02/2025

Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari also suggested some words that each of us should say to every scared child we know during these terrible times: "If *I* have anything to do with it, you're gonna be okay." That's great, imo. We should all practice saying it - and living up to it.

Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari from the Alliance for Quality Education speaks while NYC councilperson Shahana Hanif listens.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The lowest hanging fruit and also essential. Flood their lines. I just spoke to a woman in Rose's office who has been fielding calls like this all morning.

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Even if they're all maga like mine it's still worth calling your reps - got through to Sen. Blackburn and Rep. Rose on 1st try, expressed urgent alarm about Musk's role US govt. Short and polite is most effective. Blackburn 202-224-3344 Hagerty 202-224-4944 Rose 202-225-4231

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Gallery sitting my crit group’s show HOT STOVE LEAGUE at gallery 56 in the Arcade til 3pm today, drop by if you’re in downtown Nashville!

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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

14 amino acids (left- and right-handed)! Ammonia! Formaldehyde! We are but stardust: mundane and transcendent. My gosh, what a time to be alive! www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life — but with a twist.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Banned Book Family Day and seed swap at Buchanan Arts today 11-2pm 1409 Buchanan St Here’s a few of pages from my collaboration with Kseniia Bolshakova ‘Catching A Reindeer’ - one of dozens of giant books in the UNBANNABLE Library at Elephant Gallery thru 2/1 #nationalseedswapday

A 3 foot tall book open to the first page showing two reindeer

A 3 foot tall book with a painted image of Dolgan (Siberia) reindeer herders catching a reindeer

A 3 foot tall painted book that shows a sled being pulled by two reindeer

People looking at giant books during opening night of The Unbannable Library at Elephant Gallery in Nashville, TN

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I've seen a couple people say that Buy Nothing is one of their main reasons for staying on FB--here's another option

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Quit fb and ig 😮‍💨

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

AI papier-mâché coke cans for the Buchanan Arts ornament fundraiser this Saturday 11/17 5-7 pm 109 Buchanan St.

Six handmade papier-mâché coke can Christmas tree ornaments with crudely painted logos hanging on a dowel.

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Happy about bringing home a paw paw and an elderberry from the APSU native plant sale

A young elderberry and a paw paw sapling in one gallon pots from the Austin Peay State University native plant sale.

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Tom Rooney @tomrooney.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Faculty knows what this means but most people don't. It means 70% of all US faculty are being paid close to minimum wage.

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Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Mystery on my commute: for miles on I24 west near Adams TN, thick smoke covers the highways on Monday mornings. Smells like wood but too much to be a stove.

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