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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 15h

He makes fabric with a pencil as Canova did with a chisel.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 15h

Breathtaking skill in execution.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 15h

"The American fascist wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way... to poison the channels of public information, to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power." — U.S. VP Henry A. Wallace 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just add palms to the Ramble or the Meat Rack, and you're right on target.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Hope is the knowledge that the evil we carry within us is finite, and every turning towards the good destroys a little of it." — Simone Weil 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm going to use that. Thanks!

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism and love.... Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?" — Jane Goodall 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery." – Enrico Fermi 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In our world of big names, our true heroes tend to be anonymous, people who can be admired for something more substantial than their well-knownness: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at a lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized job." — Daniel J. Boorstin 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"We call ourselves 'intelligent,' yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy and a wetland can purify water — all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them." — Tangwa Abilu 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.” — George Santayana 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Training in form and gesture is a plus, too. But don't look too carefully after a particularly kinetic performance, with lots of catches and holds, or you'll see severe bruising. And never look at X-rays of their feet — many badly healed (or perpetually broken) bones. I've run with a few tours.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Curiosity is the opposite of ignorance." — Peter Sokolowski (I'd say it's the antidote, but that's just a quibble.) 🌱👍

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'If we listen from the mind of silence, every birdsong and every whispering of the pine branches in the wind will speak to us." — Thich Nhat Hanh 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile." — Julie Burchill 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing." — John Brunner 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It could be a matter of your selection, but all the images besides the extremely explicit diagrams (which are great) are penis-free. Certainly not my experience in saunas or swimming pools.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Truth is not violated only by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence." – Henri Frédéric Amiel 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plum crazy." — Ken Kesey 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's unfortunate that the name Childish Gambino has been taken by a rapper, because it would certainly fit this diapered crime lord.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning." ― Nelou Keramati 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. It helps remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world." — Dolly Parton (Happy 9/25!) 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith." – Percy Bysshe Shelley 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“It is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.’ ” — Sen. Ted Cruz 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This skill level is extraordinary, made even more so by his exquisite eye and sense of composition.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our exploratory glimpse of the place we finally bought in Tennessee was at the height of fall color. We flew into Nashville and drove across the Cumberland Plateau through valleys rioting with yellows, oranges and reds. We didn't stand a chance.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is the moment the center of the sun crosses the celestial equator (Earth's own equator projected into space), and orbital mechanics can calculate it to the millisecond.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading humanity, and studying all the various editions of it." — Lord Chesterfield 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...." — John Keats Autumn starts at 8:05 pm tomorrow. 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Blessings returned, in abundance.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The boys on the bank bring back a vivid mental photo. Boating down a river in the Belize jungle, we rounded a corner to see a group of naked Mennonite boys lounging and swimming, presided over by their stout, severe farm-wife mom. A great shot I didn't take; objectifying them would have been a sin.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. We have turned our backs on silence. Day after day we invent machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation." — Jean Arp 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor." —Samuel Johnson 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions we make are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of." — C. S. Lewis 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Nationalism trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest,' but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is." — Sydney J. Harris 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end." — Barack Obama 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." — Leo Tolstoy 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." — Jessica Mitford 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks for the earworm: "Takin' It to the Streets."

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Whenever A attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon B, A is most likely a scoundrel" —H.L. Mencken 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold." — John Leonard 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." — Winston Churchill 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction” — John Steinbeck 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Diplomacy without armaments is like music without instruments." — Frederick the Great 🌱📷

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