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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 23h

🧵 What if hope could be drawn, one line at a time? Five hours. One pen. Thousands of lines. Hopeful Youth is a portrait, drawn entirely by hand in ink. He looks East, towards where the sun rises and shadows disappear. Signed, original. One-of-a-kind. A3 | 29.7X42cm/11.7X16.5” [1] More:

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Hopeful Youth | Original Pen & Ink Portrait | Male Figure Art | Irish Artist | Contemporary Art - Etsy

This Pen & Ink Drawings & Illustrations item is sold by RobertBohan. Ships from Ireland. Listed on Sep 25, 2026

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Using an antique Washington hand press: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see that the first item on @janelleshane.com's Botober 2026 list is "Happy Fly." I'm not going to draw it, but I will present a piano piece based on Moholy-Nagy's "Diary of a Fly," commissioned by a clown in Beijing. "Horsefly Rag" : dalelyles.com/musicmp3s/ho..., dalelyles.com/musicmp3s/ho...

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Amber Grey “Make Me Believe 💎” OUT NOW! @ambergreymusic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looking for a dance track with a chill atmosphere? Try my brand new track Make Me Believe 💎 on Bandcamp, released TODAY! If you like Kylie Minogue or Paul Oakenfold, you might like this track! #music #musicSky #newRelease #dance #EDM #techno #indie ambergrey.bandcamp.com/track/make-me-believe

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Make Me Believe, by Amber Grey

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tired of text messages/emails/ads/videos from whichever political party is hitting you over the head? Looks like it's time for me to redux the redux of my Modest (campaign reform) Proposal: www.dalelyles.com/2024/10/26/a...

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A Modest Proposal redux – Dale Says

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THE NINE PRECEPTS OF LICHTENBERGIANISM 1. TASK AVOIDANCE 2. WASTE BOOKS 3. ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS 4. GESTALT 5. SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION 6. RITUAL 7. STEAL FROM THE BEST 8. AUDIENCE 9. ABANDONMENT lichtenbergianism.com

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Lichtenbergianism

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dear @nytimes.com, specifically Will Shortz: Dude, "ASAP" does not mean "*Now!* — that's "STAT." You're thinking of "Soon, please." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pay attention to what you're looking for, not just what you find. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

A dark blue background. In the lower left is a golden circle; within it is a vintage drawing of a fish’s tail. White lettering tells us, “We pull our nets through the life-filled waters, finding the fish though seeking the sea.”

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Philip Glass is not writing music for those who like a thumping bass — I am not creating cocktails for those who like sweet, fruity drinks — Michael Bay is not making movies for those who appreciate plot and nuanced characters. (p. 101) #Audience

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Plan if you must, but be aware that art has ideas of its own. (p. 42) #AbortiveAttempts

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So are we calling him Sen. "Hawkeye" Schmitt now?

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t wait until you can get it right before you start. (p. 35) #AbortiveAttempts

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have hundreds of excuses not to make the that thing you want to make. Do not use them. #AbortiveAttempts #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #postcardquotes

Art paper that looks like an old catalog listing with white lettering: “You have hundreds of excuses not to make that thing you want to make. Do not use them.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western:

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congress can fund and staff the Federal Accountability and Fairness Oversight Commission

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The past is there for the taking — disassemble your idols and use the parts to #MakeTheThingThatIsNot. #StealFromTheBest. #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

A collage with an 18th-century man holding a carriage above his head. Johann Sebastian Bach is in the carriage, and a slogan says “Steal like a boss.”

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Know what you’re putting off and why. (Use kanban…) (p. 22) #TaskAvoidance

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Make it possible to update/upgrade the project. (p. 71) #SuccessiveApproximation

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yo, Meta, Apple, everybody: If you think I *need* AI on my laptop, prove it by giving me the option to turn it off completely and wait to see if I come crawling back asking for it to be turned back on. #NoAI

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To write with sensibility requires more than tears and moonlight. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.23 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes you have to go down a few space-time portals (aka 'rabbit holes') to get there. #SuccessiveApproximation #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

A honeycombed background. A vintage photo of a boy reaches into one of the honeycombs; his arm appears through another honeycomb, reaching for a golden hexagon.

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Be wary of passing the judgment: *obscure*. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook E.36b #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Shostakovich's Birthday to ask who celebrate! #Shostakovich

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

See all the pieces? All you have to do is pick them up and put them together. (See any patterns? Even better — use them!) #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

An abstract sketch with red, white, and blue ink on a black background: squiggles and dotted lines.

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You may very well ask how I compose if I’ve never been trained as a composer. That’s my point: no one gave me this knowledge — I stole it. I stole it from textbooks and album covers and choral directors and Mozart. It’s there for the taking. (p. 92) #StealFromTheBest 1/2

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is some weird (humor) poll that just popped up on my feed. New contest: Present your design for the Rube Goldberg machine that crushes this mythical [[[President]]] under an Acme boulder.

a recent tongue-in-cheek poll asks respondents how they feel about various outlandish scenarios that rid a country of their [[[President]]], one of which involves crushing said official under a boulder.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The story is about how the Terrible Things, which usually happen to the people who deserve Terrible Things, somehow happened to one of the people who do not deserve Terrible Things, according to one of the sorts of people who get to decide which people deserve what." www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/

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This is Us

Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

mf trying to obi-wan kenobi his way through this like "this is not the fascisim you're looking for"

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you finish the book, the song, the painting — you’re done. What else is there to do but to #Abandon it to an #Audience? (p. 115)

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The chaos is always out there for us to strike out into whenever we can get up the nerve. (p. 49) #Gestalt

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/09/2026

he is (For so I know he is, they know he is) A most arch-heretic, a pestilence That does infect the land

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My beautiful arch will now be surrounded by sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads

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Dale (aka Lichtenbergian) @thatdale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trying things is the answer to your talent. — Howard Finster #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts

A self-portrait by Howard Finster with this message painted on it: “I began painting pictures in Jan 1976 without any training. This is my painting. A person don’t know what he can do unless he tries. Trying things is the answer to your talent.”

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"At a Funeral", one of the many enigmatic images to be found in Thought-Forms (1901), a work co-authored by the theosophist Annie Besant, who died #onthisday in 1933. More on these “synesthetic” abstractions in our essay by @ResObscura here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/v... #otd

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20/09/2026

Next: the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts & Lethality Missile Silo

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