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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Claude on #YayoiKusama: A wild, deliberately absurd guess: somewhere in the billions — say, roughly 3 to 5 billion dots over her career.

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Claude tells me that William Vollmann has written 18,000–20,000 pages.

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s.

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Ibeyi (left) is a French musical duo consisting of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz. Isaya (right) is a French musical duo consisting of twin sisters Caroline and Jessica. Got it?

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

There are several different audiobook versions of #MobyDick on @hoopladigital.bsky.social, including one read by #BurtReynolds.

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"Inviting compassion into the bloodstream of an institution's agenda or a scholar's purpose is more than productive, more than civilizing, more than ethical, more than humane; it's humanizing." -- #ToniMorrison, "The Price of Wealth, The Cost of Care," 2013

Author Toni Morrison with a red bandanna in her hair and a big smile on her face

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

What Is Care? caringaboutcare.substack.com/p/what-is-care

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The #TrumpTaxCut of 2017 was heavily skewed to households with high incomes. It was also expensive, costing $1.9 trillion over 10 years. @centeronbudget.bsky.social

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

To men of my generation, he was the coolest, but it seems to have worn off

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Join me Saturday 12-3:30pm at the Washington Monument

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Another great album with a terrible cover. #RichardThompson does a wonderful version of Dion's "My Girl the Month of May." #SandyDenny gorgeously sings #BuddyHolly's "Learning the Game"

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Great albums with terrible covers? I'll start.

The album cover of The The's Hanky Panky. Matt Johnson is staring menacingly at the camera. He's wearing a cowboy hat and has black streaks under his eyes.

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"Now it's our turn to flood the political zone with protests, marches and demonstrations, lawsuits and injunctions, and creative legislative action, both offensive and defensive." @raskin.house.gov

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Follow @timecapsulehouses.bsky.social and support the Patreon linktr.ee/timecapsuleh...

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It's 2025. Why are so many websites so messed up?

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"My memory stammers: but my soul is a witness." --#JamesBaldwin, preface to Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985) 📸 Julio Donoso/Sygma via Getty Images

Black-and-white photo of the writer James Baldwin

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