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An alarm bell with accompanying red light bulbs and sign saying AUTOMATIC BATALARM FOR DETECTING PHONE DETECTING EQUIPMENT

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US: I say lever, you say lever  UK: I say leisure, you say leisure  US: Lever  UK: Lever!  UK: Leisure  US: Leisure!  BOTH: WTF did the Old French even say?

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Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Dakar (1950)  Photo: National Archives (US)

A photo of a man and woman with teletype news printout in French

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I saved this guy's card decades ago because I thought it was cool

A business card with Professor P. Havard-Williams printed in cursive script. Below the name are the letters MA PhD FLA FRSA FBIM FIInfSc. Near the bottom in script is printed University of Botswana. Gaborone.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 16h

From a train (2018)

Blurry image of a sunrise over a body of water with a sign (in shadow) in the foreground.

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So heavy that I think it's obsolete now "Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists"

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Fiona @fionasmall.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Guitarist Little Pat Rushing on Maxwell Street, Chicago (1983) Photo: James Newberry / Chicago Historical Society

View taken from ground level looking up at a guitar player standing outdoors with a bass player sitting. There are several standing onlookers, including one man in foreground who may be dancing.

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Incredible that this wholesome poem by an Irish monk about him and his cat, Pangur Bán, is from the 9th century

Pangur Bán and I at work, Adepts, equals, cat and clerk:
His whole instinct is to hunt, Mine to free the meaning pent.
More than loud acclaim, I love Books, silence, thought, my alcove.
Happy for me, Pangur Bán
Child-plays round some mouse's den.
Truth to tell, just being here, Housed alone, housed together, Adds up to its own reward:
Concentration, stealthy art.
Next thing an unwary mouse
Bares his flank: Pangur pounces.
Next thing lines that held and held
Meaning back begin to yield.

All the while, his round bright eye Fixes on the wall, while I Focus my less piercing gaze On the challenge of the page.
With his unsheathed, perfect nails Pangur springs, exults and kills.
When the longed-for, difficult Answers come, I too exult.
So it goes. To each his own.
No vying. No vexation.
Taking pleasure, taking pains,
Kindred spirits, veterans.
Day and night, soft purr, soft pad, Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.

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Elvis Presley performs at the Chicago Stadium (1972)  Photo: Jack Lenahan, Chicago Sun-Times collection

View of a man from behind who is wearing a white form fitting (but flared at the lower legs) body suit decorated with rhinestones or similar. He appears to be dancing or posing under a spotlight on stage.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 21h

A still from a 1962 TV series about existentialism called Self Encounter, Episode 5; "Hell is Others" Image: KRMA-TV (Denver) / American Archive of Public Broadcasting

A woman in cat eye glasses and severe hair style sits in a chair talking with eyes closed. A modern art painting is behind her.

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Sold him some CDs in London. Soft spoken guy. Used a credit card, so the album must have been out for a while.

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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Portola Redwoods State Park, Calif. (2018)

View from the ground looking up at very tall leafy trees, with the sun shining through a gap and clear sky seen in another.

The trunk of a redwood tree, with a hollow opening.

Looking at tall leafy trees from below, with certain areas bright from sunlight.

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Mac Arnold with his gas can guitar. Helena, Ark. 2006 Photo by Terry Buckalew

Black man in white hat plays gas can guitar

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Mick Jones of The Clash (1979)  Photo: Pennie Smith / Armadigeon Times No. 2

View of a large mostly empty room with a man sitting and eating at a table near a curtain with an Exit sign above it.

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Piccadilly Circus (1915)  Image: Muirhead Bone / Boston Public Library

Print of an etching of a city scene at night.
From source: A view of Piccadilly Circus as seen by night from the Quadrant, with the County Fire office on the left, the Pavilion near the middle, and the Criterion to the right, beyond Mr. Alfred Gilbert's fountain. The Circus is full of traffic, among the most conspicuous objects being a motor car stationed near the kerb on the left, and a mounted soldier advancing towards Regent Street on the right. The sky is very dark, but is crossed by the rays of searchlights while a strong light is thrown downwards from the electric street lamps, which have their tops obscured in accordance with the special war regulations which prevailed during the winter of 1914-15. The composition is complete and the work is approximately finished, but the general effect is much lighter than in the published states, and the rays from the searchlights cross the whole width of the sky instead of only partially penetrating its gloom.

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"Boy playing oil can guitar in the burned out ruins of his home during racial riot, Maseru, Lesotho" (1961) Ian Berry, Magnum Photos

Boy playing oil can guitar in the burned out ruins of his home, standing in front of the open door

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I was a similar age. My cousins visited, and they heard I liked the Jackson 5 and got me the Maybe Tomorrow album as a gift. I was disappointed because it only had one songs I knew, so I bought the hits album myself.

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Definitely not my top 9 albums (I prefer singles anyway), but: three earliest ones I listened to, from my parents' collection three early ones from my brother's collection (I guess Decade wasn't that early) three of the first LPs I bought myself

"Poster" featuring a grid of MY9ALBUMS - the covers of Pete Seeger's greatest hits, The Who - Tommy, Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends, Led Zeppelin II, The Who Live at Leeds, Neil Young Decade, Jackson 5 greatest hits, ZZ Top Fandango, and Rolling Stones Get Your Ya Yas's Out

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Johnny Mars or UB49? 🤔 Slade with support from Discharge!

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I dunno. As a heathen I’ve had occasion to attend a few masses in recent years and to me it seems they’re just going through the motions for the sake of ritual. Or maybe my agnostic mind just can’t comprehend their thought process.

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Dinah Shore (ca. 1940s) Photo: Capitol Records / University of Missouri--Kansas City

Dinah Shore standing in the open cockpit of an airplane. Shore is wearing work overalls and looking down while smiling.

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Artie Shaw (ca. 1939) Photo: Anton Bruehl / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

A man poses with a clarinet against a background of a drum kit in front of a red wall or screen.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They were looking for staff from 1964 to 1972 Maybe it was '72 when they were forced to stop advertising jobs with a 72 hour work week!

Scans of newspaper classified ads for job listings at Germ Proof Cleaners

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Veronica Lake in traffic court, Los Angeles (1944) Herald Examiner Collection, LAPL

Woman in suit, hat and gloves sitting in court, smiling.

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Historical Data On April 5, Lake was tagged driving 45 mph in a 25-mile zone. She was given the option to pay the $50 fine or serve 10 days in jail, in addition to having her license suspended for 20 days. Lake was among 300 people caught during a police campaign to catch traffic offenders.
Description Photograph caption dated April 18, 1944 reads, "Veronica Lake pays $50 fine for speeding."

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Really frustrated I can't find a proper colour pic of the sign, but you can sort of see the purplish/blue hue on the back of this record by the artist Wazmo Nariz

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Two statues of Robert Emmet Stephen’s Green, Dublin (2021) Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco (2018)

A statue of a man on a pedestal in a park. A pigeon is sitting on his head and the statue is covered in pigeon droppings.

A statue of a man on a pedestal next to a road or driveway with a glass fronted building and palm trees behind it, beneath deep blue sky.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This place closed down in the early 1980s but stood defiantly with its distinctive blue sign and space age name until some time after 2006, when it was finally torn down. Photo: Debora Drower / Flickr

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Bill Graham Presents... (1966) Robert Wesley Wilson

Psychedelic poster design - Bill Graham Presents: Pop-Op Rock, Andy Warhol, and his Plastic Inevitable, Velvet Underground, Nico, Mothers, Fillmore

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Orchestra at square dance," McIntosh County, Oklahoma (ca. 1939 or 1940) Russell Lee, Library of Congress

A man playing fiddle and a woman playing a guitar, sitting in wooden chairs, with partial view of a person standing, or possibly dancing, and a dressing table in the background

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Fitzpatrick's second hand shop, Cork (2000) Photo: Peter Scaife / RIBA Collections

A yellow painted building with green shop front and ground level with red sign for Fitzpatrick's second hand shop. The wall above is covered in wheels, bicycles, old antique implements, etc. such as pots and pans.

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JT @jaatee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Germ Proof Cleaners, Rogers Park, Chicago (1987) Photo: Robert W. Krueger / Chicago Public Library

View of a commercial building with the sign Germ Proof Cleaners, 5 Hour Service, with cars parked on the sidewalk and street in front of it.

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Rainy, foggy day on Lake Shore Drive #BlueSkyArtShow #weather #UrbanGaze #Chicago

Several skyscrapers, one disappearing in the fog, are behind a leafless tree. Rain covers the window. B&W

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The one in Dublin is a copy cast in 1968 from the original from 1916 (seen here, located in Washington, DC), created by Irish sculptor Jerome Connor. Pretty sure the one in SF is also a copy of this one.

A statue of a man on a pedestal in a park.

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