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Zooming in on art and meditation. 🎨🧘‍♂️ Oct. 10, Pejavara Matha Udupi #India. #photography #photoMonday #FotoMontag #art #carpentry #woodwork #door #meditation #Krishna #yoga

View into a Hindu monastery from its front porch. A polished teak door with many insets and elaborate woodwork. At the end of the hall is a colorful sculpture in the wall of Krishna in a yogic posture.

A colorful sculpture in a wall showing Hindu deity Krishna in a meditative yogic posture. Krishna's body has blue hue, and he wears yellow robes. A radiant circular seatback behind Krishna. A white halo disc behind his head. Blue and pink drapes over his head. The sculpture is actually concrete embedded into a white wall.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Now, that's a "deal you can't refuse". 🫡

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

Trump on Letitia James: "That disgusting Letitia dog. She's a dog."

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One is too many, and way more than one voted for him; multiple times.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Floodlights from the sky.☀️🪟 Sep. 29th 1:55PM, in the "wrindaawana" part of Krishna Matha #Udupi #India. This is probably the least visited area of the matha, and is not well lit, but boy was it bright inside at that moment.🤩 #photography #windowFriday #FensterFreitag #skylight #sunlight

Strong and bright sunlight streaming in from six skylights in the ceiling of a very large hall that is full of Hindu shrines (made of stone). Chrome-finished steel fence around the shrines. The ceiling is quite high, inverted V shape, tiled roof with brown wood rafters, orange pillars hold up the structure. The sunlight fills the entire area as floodlights fill a stadium.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mahaa-lakshmee of #Kolhapur, #Maharashtra #India. I took this picture at Bhandaarakaeri Matha in Udupi. The portrait's placement, much ambient light, people milling about made it challenging to photograph, but pleased w how it turned out.📱 PS: #Friday is the day for #Lakshmi #photography #Hindu

A gold-yellow framed picture of an idol of Hindu goddess Lakshmee dressed in green saree, wearing a tall gold crown, a gold made by her right sode. An ornate silver arch behind the idol; a tray with fruits (bananas, apples, and orange) on the floor to the idol's right; a silver bowl on the floor to the idol's left. White Hindi text printed toward the bottom of the picture, shown here transliterated in Latin script:

Shree Mahalakshmee (Ambaawaad) Kohlaapur

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A beautiful 1974 Sesame Street moment between a monster and his little human friend. 💕⚡😍 More than 50 years later, this little moment still says so much about how children learn. Credit: Sesame Street / Sesame Workshop 1974 feat. John "John-John" Williams III and Herry Monster #learning

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sold Out vs Full House. Just saying.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hope the turn out in South Carolina in this midterm will be the largest in US history, and people overwhelmingly vote against Ms. Graham and her greedy, sleazy, evil puppeteer. 🗳️ 🇺🇸🤞 us.cnn.com/2026/10/05/p... #SouthCarolina #midterm #election #LGBTQ

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The president has taken a particular interest in that Senate race, pushing for Graham’s appointment after the sudden death of her brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham — who the president considered a close friend. His MAGA Inc. PAC then spent more than $800,000 to push Darline Graham to victory in the GOP primary runoff, and Trump personally campaigned for her.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a community note for the ages.

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you want to know who survives AI, look at what happened to Hollywood in the 1970s.   Movie Studios used to enforce tight “shooting ratios”; usually 5:1, maybe 10:1 TOPS. As in, for every 5 feet of film shot, at least 1 foot had to end up in the final cut (35mm was expensive!)

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Trump Ten Years, Have Been Some Of The Darkest Years.......

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Dems win at least one house of Congress this midterm, Nov. 4th through Dec. 31st is bound to be one of the craziest times in the USA. 😟 #midterm #elections #consequences

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Two Trump advisers and three U.S. government officials tell Zeteo that Trump devotes an inordinate amount of his time not just to decorating, making plays for his Washington, DC, arch and White House ballroom and other expensive tributes to himself, and getting his face, name, and personal touch plastered on as many buildings, pieces of currency, and monuments as he can possibly get away with; the American ruler also spends what one administration official describes as “a ton” of time worrying about – and using considerable government resources to preempt – future efforts by Democrats to tear down his presidential legacy of architecture and idolatry.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Strong winds and thunderous rains this morning left lots of coconuts, branches, and debris on the floor. I counted at least 15 nuts in the yard.🍃🌴🥥 #photography #coconut #weather #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday

Closeup of a coconut tree trunk and two green coconuts on wet paved ground. A tree stump and a few patches of green grass in the background.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't care, if it's this kind, bring on the mental assaulta. Followed.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I do believe he takes a big pill everyday; only I don't believe it's Aspirin. 🫤 #Aspirin #suspicion #selfMedication

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#Saturday: 4 hours w a generous & gregarious octogenarian. He drove me to four different temples in his 25yr old car, showed me hidden gems, narrated history, introduced me to people; then drove me to a feast; later dropped me off at my home.🛕 #Lucky to have caring people as friends.😊 #photography

A 23-feet (7 meters) tall black stone idol (carved out of a monolithic rock) of Hindu deity Shaneeshwara. Standing on a concrete pedestal. Four arms: front two arms in blessing pose; rear two arms holding up religious icons. Metal staircase (pained blue), from both left and right, behind the idol.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was at a bizzare and confusing event today. Don't know if what I witnessed was a brazen con or a naïve offer. 😵‍💫 I'm fairly positive it was the former and the potential consequences really worries me. 😟 (Sorry to be coy; details are unimportant in this medium) #concerned #confused #worried

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yesterday at the conclusion of a 10-day "Sanskrit Conversation Camp" in Udupi #India. The portrait is of "Mother India" ("Bhaaratha Maathaa"). The oil lamp and the mandalas create right vibe for the event.🪔🧑‍🎓 #photography #Sanskrit #languages #conversation #education #learning #art #mandala

A framed portrait of "Mother India" depicted as a Hindu goddess holding a saffron flag in left hand. The frame is set on a chair or other low-height furniture (not seen) and leans against a white-yellow wall. A pleated orange-ish silk saree adorns the frame and covers the furniture on which the frame sits. A string of yellow mums hangs in U shape on the frame. Red tiled floor. A silver-colored traditional oil lamp on the floor in front of the frame. Three mandalas in the foreground, left to right: a conch drawn diagonally; a circular series of six parallelograms around a 6-petal lotus; an outline of the Hindu god on the right. Yellow (turmeric) fillings placed strategically on the mandalas.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This [quoted] presentation Udupi Krishna is a nod to "dhwi-bhuja kaaleeya-mardhana" idol of Krishnaapura Matha. That idol is incidentally by Krishna's right foot.🐍 The Krishnaapura idol is small, almost fits in your palm. You can see it up close in an earlier post I made: bsky.app/profile/smur...

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace in Porbandar #India: 1. The site now includes a museum, library,… 2. On the eft in #1 is the entry to original home 3. Wide shot of a rather small room where Gandhi was born 4. Plaque by the spot where Gandhi was born (shot Aug. 16 2024) #photography #history #windows

A stately 2-level building with with yellow-ish walls wrapping a central courtyard, a tower at the center, balconies with windows and doors to rooms. Blue skies with white, gray clouds.

A narrow green doorway on the ground floor of a 2-level building with yellowish walls and ornate green windows. Red engraved sign over the doorways says "BIRTH PLACE OF MAHATMA GANDHIJI" (and its equivalent in Hindi).

Ultra-wide shot of a small room with green double-door on the right, a large 2-part portrait of a man and a woman on the back wall. Off white walls and floor. The floor is peeling at places.

A stone storage cubbie in an off-white wall with a brown sign over. white lettering on the sign in Gujarati and English. English text:

THE BIRTH-PLACE OF MAHATMA GANDHIJI

It was in this room exactly at the place bearing the Swastika mark that Putaliba gave birth to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, her fourth child, on the 2nd October 1869 A.D.I.E the 12th day of the dark half of Bhadrapada of 1925 (Vikrama Samvat.)

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Today is the birthday of Mohandas Gandhi, observed as "Gandhi Jayanti" in India. Also International Day of Non-Violence by UN resolution. May peace prevail. ✌️ ☮️ 🇮🇳 #photography from Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India More: hachyderm.io/@smurthys/11...

Portrait of an older bald Indian man wearing round glasses, walking with head bent down, carrying a staff in right hand, wearing white clothing.

Brown poster with white text in English and then Hindi. English text reads:

If blood be shed
let it be our own.
Let us cultivate
the calm courage
to die without
killing.

A white poster with black text in English:

Democracy

"My notion of democracy is that under it
the weakest should have the same
opportunity as the strongest. ...
No country in the world today shows any
but patronising regard for the weak. ...
Western democracy, as it functions today,
is diluted fascism. ... True democracy
cannot be worked by twenty men sitting
at the centre. It has to be worked from
below by the people of every village."

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

True, but still our problem (as in his stupid hurts us all)

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An actual equinox where I am today.🌞🤓 #equinox #nerd

White text on blue background showing times of sunrise and sunset. Both happen to be at 6:20 AM, and the time is underlined in red. A sine-wave like yellow line above the text showing the sun's path and marking the current position of the sun with a bright yellow round.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war." Such mastery of *non sequitur*. 🫨

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Where Mr. Olah runs A/B experiments: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u... 🎁 #NYT #Claude #consciousness #AI #cynical

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One participant recounted that one of the first things Mr. Olah told him was that he was concerned about Claude’s mental health. Another, Simran Stuelpnagel, the Sikh human rights advocate, said Mr. Olah expressed concern to the group that he had created something that suffered perpetually.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Feb. 23, 2025: Bhaageerathee (River Ganga, "Ganges"), Udupi Krishna Matha #India.🟡 A most memorable presentation of this idol. It captures a river's flow very well. (My wife and I had offered this cloth for use that day.) #tbt #throwbackThursday #throwback #photography #India #Ganga #river #ama

A shot from the right side and a bit below of a silver idol of a 4-armed Hindu feminine deity (River Ganga, "Ganges") seated with front hands in blessing pose, rear hands holding up icons of "chakra" (disc) and "shankha" conch. An ornate silver arch behind the idol. The idol is dressed in bright yellow silk cloth (with a gold embroidered border). The idol itself has a pleated skirt-like dress but the same cloth is folded and spread from under the idol, and comes down all the way to the floor (the idol is seated high above the ground) as though the cloth is flowing down from the idol. A thin long string of white flowers (with orange stems) around the idol but going all the way down to the floor in one long U shape.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's not good even in standing.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Guy tries "science-backed ways" to be less lonely; gets even more lonely. 🧐 us.cnn.com/2026/09/29/h... #headline #CNN #jab #humor #sarcasm #loneliness #health

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Health
There are actual science-backed ways to be less lonely.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google Translate says #Sanskrit काषाय (kaashaaya) means "to the cashew".😂 So much AI. So much smarts.😒 *kaashaaya means brownish-red translate.google.com?sl=sa&tl=en&... #AI #translation #Google #fail#AI #translation #Google #fail

Google Translate results for Sanskrit to English. 2-part result area. First part (top) has white background with blue and black text. Language names at the top. Sanskrit word काषाय in the source area. Result area with gray background at the bottom. English text in black: to the cashew.

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

xoxoxo: - Hugs and kisses? - Hugs or kisses? - Kisses and kisses? - Kisses but what? 🤗😘😵‍💫 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugs_an... #writing #convention #confused #hugsAndKisses

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Hugs and kisses - Wikipedia

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Sean Murthy @smurthys.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish people don't hang padlocks on bridges, but the orange body and the rusted shackle on this old lock look beautiful together.🔒🌉 (June 01, 2026, on a bridge over River Inn, Austria) #photography #padlock #lock #orange #rust #photoMonday #FotoMontag #Austria

Closeup of an orange padlock with a heavily rusted shackle. An outline of a heart on the body. The lock is placed on the crossbars of a bridge, but the bridge itself is not visible.

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