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This was already a month ago. We keep getting clouds and spectacular sunset almost nightly.

Sunset clouds in B&W, mountains silhouetted in distance.

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Amours. Fleeting or eternally renewed, tender or cruel, a single sip or an endless bacchanal, they were the true life and business of a place where money was never enough and power always drained away. - Alan Furst, Night Soldiers #SundaySentence

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From another article in New Yorker this week: Of all the ways you can change your behavior, willpower is the absolute worst. & : In the years since grit's heyday, much of American culture has succumbed to a state of emotional & spiritual defeat. - Meghan O'Gieblyn, Nudge Thyself, New Yorker 9/21

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The free-market economy of the U.S. has, when you look closely, a remarkable number of restrictive practices, many of them concentrated in industries where Main Street Millionaires got rich. - John Lanchester, Easy Street, New Yorker magazine, Sep 21, 2026 #SundaySentence

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Sturgeon Carl Ray ~ Anishinaabe 1975

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Another song prompt for me, one I think of often: Sitting on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. That's my ambition, sit and watch the tide. Awe. It's like watching a miracle. Of course some science minded person will ruin it by explaining about gravity & the moon and blah blah blah.

iolanthe @iolantherosa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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It comes to my attention that today is #InternationalRabbitDay! Have a bunny. I think I snapped this on at Rodeo Lagoon #GGNRA #MarinHeadlands #California

A small gray bunny rabbit on a dirt path lined by summer-browned grasses.

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The way songs from our younger days prompt memory. Radio just played Margaritaville & "wasting away in Margaritaville" reminded me of a job I forgot I had, a lunch waiter in a small town. restaurant. The customer, after talking, asked: "What are you doing here wasting away in Margaritaville".

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

D just made a cream sauce and she's not happy with it even tho it tastes great! Sometimes the peanut gallery is very happy with the "bloopers" of the great ones.

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A decades long mainstay Zeppole stand on the corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets, photographed by Evelyn Hofer in the San Gennaro Festival NYC, circa 1970s. #SanGennaroFeast

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Alfred Gescheid ~ The Feast of San Gennaro, Little Italy NYC, 1952 #SanGennaroFeast #Photography

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Judgment Dave of the Dead @davesdogmaggie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Joy to the fishes” is grammatically correct. Good to know.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

TLC: Singing rescued elephants shows music reaches hearts across species. 🎶❤️ #MusicSky #Singing #Elephants @plumes officie!

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Singing for Animals compilation 🥹❤️‍🩹

Animals know something most of us don't: all life is vibration. They respond with calm curiosity to the music of this man called Plumes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HvK...

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YouTube video by Plumes

dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Life according to Dog...

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"My hope is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here." Jim Henson (1936-1990) was born on this date.

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Sam @sammyzorba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After this is "scraped" by A/I some student will "write" an essay about Thomas Paine having lunch at Chipotle while he wrote Common Sense.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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Americans, you could have this.

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Natscute @bluesky2020.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Washington Square, New York, 1959. 📸 André Kertész #AndréKertész

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Robert Doisneau - Le baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville 1950

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When I die and get reborn as a cat, you won't know it's me but there will be signs.

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She was here to remind us that, if you really look hard, nothing is boring, nothing is normal — not mothers, fathers, bicycles, cities, beetles, weasels or rocks. - Sam Anderson, in today's NYT, "One of our Greatest Writers Has Died. . ." #SundaySenence

Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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ㅤ I'm tired of this chokehold that has taken over social media obviously... I mean. I've been known to say a thing or two about it before 😂 there just comes a time where we have to shrug it off and become free and spirited human beings again. have our sense of humour again ㅤ

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MonOeil @monoeil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Erich Einhorn - Charles Bridge, Prague (1950's) #photo #foto #photography #ericheinhorn

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Lance @lanceboer.com · 20/09/2026

The running feud between those determined to protect civil rights at all costs, and those determined to curtail them in the name of greater national security, was approaching critical mass. - John Le Carre, A Most Wanted Man #SundaySentence

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Bluesky is the only place I get book recs from (and TV show and movie recs), and I tend to go in pretty blind now, just based on past success. If I see someone recommend a book, show, or movie here, and it seems at all interesting, I add it to my list immediately.

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If you're looking for something funny and frivolous to read, something with little or no hint of problems either global or personal, might I suggest a book I read years ago:

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It has come to my attention that a lot of people on here use all kinds of abbreviations for terms in every imaginable topic and I suspect there are many of us who have not a tiny clue what your damn abbreviations stand for.

Sunday pondering: Does time really march on? Or do we simply exist in and ever-present now in an expanding space/time continuum?

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Illusions shattered: I always thought the song Dancing Matilda must be about some happy dancing female person waltzing around Australia. But I just googled what it's about and there's no mention of Matilda, just a wandering homeless person, suicide and a ghost.

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Just stumbled across these terrific Jim Richardson photos of the annual spring prairie burning in Kansas's Flint Hills. Remarkable to think how native peoples set these enormous fires in the grasslands every year for centuries upon centuries. www.jimrichardsonphotography.com/index/G00002...

In an aerial fire, flames make serpentine patterns at dusk over the rolling terrain of Kansas's Flint Hills.

Two burned trees are silhouetted against a sinuous arc of fire that twists toward the horizon at sunset.

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