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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." Virginia Woolf

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"I like to play all the time. I guess, maybe I'm funny." Elvin Jones youtu.be/DSskn81FAj8?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Claudette Colvin was arrested at 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the similar incident involving Rosa Parks. Her efforts weren't publicized because she was too young to be taken seriously... apparently.

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"It may not be music, but it's something quite like it." Max Eastley Installation at no)toon) Festival Haarlem, Netherlands March 2007

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Max Eastley | Installation at no-)toon) festival

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton Hello I'm Dolly 1967 The first track on her first album was called "Dumb Blonde." It was a warning about underestimating her. Some tried anyway. Bless their hearts. youtu.be/lN_VQ8GWEos?... 🎈

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gillian Wearing Self Portrait 2000

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom." Patti Smith youtu.be/pPR-HyGj2d0?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Everything in life is a test of empathy" Phillip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"You’re very poetic." "No, just sad.” José Saramago Blindness

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Red Rocks Morrison, Colorado "To someone who had lived with anxiety, those rocks were speaking to me quietly that a sense of security does not come from the absence of anxiety, but from the strength to hold anxiety and still not fall." A North Korean Defector's Reaction

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🇰🇵 These Are My Thoughts After Visiting Red Rocks

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

When Pat Martino suffered a near-fatal seizure, he was left with severe memory loss. He had no memory of guitar... he even forgot the identity of his parents. He relearned guitar, note by note, from his own recordings. His teacher was a stranger... himself. youtu.be/QGti6Fox6WE?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

N. K. Jemisin The Fifth Season "You are she. She is you. You are Essun. Remember! The woman whose son is dead. You're an orogene... Only three people here know what you are, and two of them you gave birth to. Well. One left who knows, now." #HowBooksBegin

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Our dreams make us large." Jack Kirby

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Let's decide that posting here is not art. Then let's talk together about art. L.H.O.O.Q., 1919 L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved, 1965 Marcel Duchamp

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Kurt Vonnegut's advice to high schoolers: “Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction... no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience BECOMING, to find out what’s inside you, to MAKE YOUR SOUL GROW.”

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

National SO-111N Portable Phonograph & Keyboard (1960s) "Sometimes I think all I'm ever doing is trying to convince myself I'm alive" insheepsclothinghifi.com/japanese-por... youtu.be/ecIPJaxkZ7w?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

No Kings Protest Arvada, Colorado 6/14/26 For Democracy. For the future. For our children. For Good.

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"As a child I never imagined that all of the real monsters in the world would be human." Mobeen Hakeem mobeenhakeem.tumblr.com/my-writing Painting Misty Lindsey

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"I found out today, we're going wrong" youtu.be/eE-TTVNbdGE?... My cousin was killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." I wonder if he ever heard this song and what he might have thought about it. #MemorialDay

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"The day the mountains move has come..." Yosano Akiko 1878-1942 Author Poet Feminist Pacifist Social Reformer (The anime/manga character from Bungo Stray Dogs is named for her.)

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

"Your silence will not protect you." Audre Lorde 1934-1992 Professor Philosopher Poet Civil Rights Activist Intersectional Feminist

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ande91.bsky.social @ande91.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

When your heart is breaking and all you can do it cry. Alexis Winter

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"... like they're waiting for permission to live a little softer again." If you can, find someone to rescue... or let them find you. youtu.be/Eztcg8aDkIg?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Don't you have anything better to do? I wish that someone could hug you Must be lonely Being angry Feeling over-looked You sit alone at home in the darkness With all the pent-up rage that you harness I'm real sorry 'Bout whatever happened to you youtu.be/iQVvSdymxmQ?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"If there's something that you wanna hear You can sing it yourself" youtu.be/a_n3E8vnAfE?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I play guitar. This is my sheet music: 🎨Cy Twombly "Untitled" 1967

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Some want to destroy entire civilizations. Some want to repair what's been destroyed. After a Russian drone bombed Vlad's building in Hievakha, Ukraine, he managed to get out alive and even save his dog. Later, his charred guitar was found. Here is Tanya Shpachuk's restoration, part 1 of 10: 💙💛

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Restoring a Burned Gibson Les Paul – Bringing It Back to Life. Part 1

YouTube video by Tanya Shpachuk

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) “Surrealism is meant for me, because I am a pretty realistic person, but don’t like all I see. So I dream that it is changed."

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) The Church 1936

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

We The People (2-legged, 4-legged, and bare-assed) No Kings 3 28 March 2026 Broomfield, Colorado

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

We The People No Kings 3 28 March 2026 Broomfield, Colorado

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"Look at these three words written bigger than the rest, with special pride never written before, or since, tall words proudly saying, 'We the People' ... was not written for chiefs, or kings, or the warriors, or the rich or powerful, but for ALL the people!" - James T. Kirk #NoKings March 28

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The Omega Glory: Kirk's Greatest Speech

YouTube video by Bob Turner

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

That will be 3 slaps. youtu.be/RuOEEu--j2Y?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Jean Tinguely by Dennis Hopper 1963

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Barbara Kruger Untitled (Questions) 1990 "Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose? Who does the time? Who follows orders? Who salutes the longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?"

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically... We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." #HowBooksBegin

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The most pathetic person in the world is someone with sight but refuses to see. Inspired by Helen Keller and her famous quote on vision.

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Bettie 🦋 📎 @maria0065.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

@robklippel.bsky.social Thought you might like this. Be safe. 💙

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

When William Ernest Henley was 16 his left leg was amputated due to tuberculosis... even as he fought successfully to save his right leg. Several years later, in 1875, he wrote Invictus (Latin for unconquered). "Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed." - Invictus

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Bloodied but unbowed. In 2020 Minneapolis protested the murder of George Floyd and were met with rubber bullets and tear gas. Now protesters are simply executed. We stand with Minneapolis... still and forever unbowed. Invictus. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Young Native Julien Jaca "When a fox walks lame the old rabbit jumps"

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It Was Just an Accident is a film inspired by Jafar Panahi’s time in prison for speaking out against the Iranian government. “I sensed that I had to do something about the people who were still inside.” Should Panaji return to Iran he will face another year in prison. #JafarPanahi

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm done hidin', now I'm shinin' Like I'm born to be We dreamin' hard, we came so far Now I believe We're goin' up, up, up It's our moment You know together we're glowin' youtu.be/Be07t0pinjw?...

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

“I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels to be Colored Me 1928

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