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West Coast hermit. 🇨🇦

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Miss Kimmi Kitty Mama @miss-kimmi.bsky.social · 3h
Berkley Johnson, wearing an extraordinary cloak of hair, the tiny braids creating a hooded necklace, designed especially for Harper's Bazaar by Alexandre, photo by Hiro, Harper's Bazaar, March 1969.
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TheAird @theaird.bsky.social · 5h
Went to visit the Van Cats in Türkiye.
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area woman @explodingpiano.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
someone made this with snoopy
snoopy showing the steps to making a martini
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Awuradwoa Afful @rajieeee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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RRose @dawphin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Untitled, #kerryjamesmarshall
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ooooh its leg day in the studio
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
😂 Brilliant I wish I had the guts to do that, one day - lol
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RRose @dawphin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mastery by #kerryjamesmarshall
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
📷 Studio Portrait of a Woman, Istanbul, 19th Century (Colorized Photo)
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ㅤ Thrive — Daniel Popper, sculpture ㅤ ㅤ
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Congratulations to Canadian Anne Carson, who has been Awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. 📚 Poet, essayist and translator Carson has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for her inventive writing and her engagement with the classical tradition. Further info in the alt text 👇
Her work brings together poetry, criticism, translation and narrative, expanding the forms through which contemporary literature can tell stories.

Born in Toronto in 1950, Carson trained as a classicist and has combined writing with university teaching and translation throughout her career. Her interest in the origins and meanings of words informs both her scholarship and her poetry. Ancient texts provide material for her explorations of desire, grief, identity and human relationships.

Her translations include If Not, Winter (2002), a rendering of Sappho’s surviving poetry that preserves the gaps between fragments. She has also translated plays by Sophocles and Euripides, bringing the language and conflicts of Greek tragedy into contemporary expression.

Carson’s writing gained increasing recognition during the 1990s. “The Glass Essay,” published in Glass, Irony, and God (1995), combines the experience of a relationship’s end with reflections on Emily Brontë, family life and solitude. Its movement between personal narrative and literary interpretation demonstrates her freedom in working across genres.

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) remains among her most celebrated works. Drawing on fragments by the ancient Greek poet Stesichoros, Carson reimagines the winged red monster Geryon as a young person discovering photography, desire and heartbreak. The book places his experiences at the centre of a story traditionally associated with the exploits of Herakles.

Her later publications continue this experimentation. Float (2016) consists of twenty-two chapbooks that readers can approach in any order. Wrong Norma (2024) brings together varied prose pieces, extending her interest in the possibilities of short, loosely connected forms.

Carson has also collaborated with visual artists, choreographers and theatre and opera directors. These projects carry her writing into performance and establish connections between literature and other arts.

The award recogni…
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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amorvobiscum @amorvobiscum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the chariot
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EliseZ @vancouver22.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Charlotte Gainsbourg ❤️
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Louise by George Hommel, 1927.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These 1920s costumes for dancing — more sculpture than clothing — by the avant-garde couple Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt, were born of an artistic philosophy of suffering: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t…
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ㅤ Sphinx necklace — French, 1910 ㅤ
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kitklein.bsky.social @kitklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hans Leinberger (attributed), German (active 1511-1530), Figure of Death (Memento Mori), 1520s, boxwood, 34 x 11 x 11 cm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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TheAird @theaird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Storage jar from Museum of Anatolian Civilization. (Ankara, Türkiye)
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gothic göre @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Aida Blue | © Zeng Wu
Model with black hair combed back, in unbuttoned pink shirt, and unzipped pink trousers, her shoulders and arms tied together with red rope, one hand is held in front of the face
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TheAird @theaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Three Beauties (Üç Güzeller) are a famous trio of hat-shaped fairy chimneys located in Cappadocia, Türkiye. Hard basalt rocks on top remain while wind and water slowly erode the softer stone below.
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TheAird @theaird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Amazing dome of the Karatay Madrasah in Konya, Turkey. 12th to 13tf century.
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EliseZ @vancouver22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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TheAird @theaird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The tomb of Rumi, founder of Sufism, in Konya, Turkey.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Miss Kimmi Kitty Mama @miss-kimmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The circus comes to town, 1920’s.
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Beck Poppins @beckpoppins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Recycled Halloween Day2 Lucy Westenra from ‘Bram Stoker's Dracula’ “Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you, my darling.” #dracula #bramstokersdracula #cosplay
A woman under glass on a ruffled white backdrop, she's heavily dressed in ornate white clothes and white make up. Her eyes are closed and arms crossed as if displayed in a coffin.
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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.
A drab pop art painting of a sinister man driving a car, watching a stoic blonde in leopard print fur. The proportions of the guy's face are offThe original image, from Girls' Romances 78 by Tony Abruzzo. The guy has a more sinister leer, while the woman has heavier mascara and feels both sadder and more determined. A caption reads "I vowed to myself I would NOT miss my appointment -- that I would NOT go riding with him--yet before I knew it..."
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Miss Kimmi Kitty Mama @miss-kimmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Vivienne Westwood with London Punks, 1977.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😂
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Sisters G!
The Sisters G (Karla & Eleanor Gutöhrlein) 1930
Two women with bombed hair modestly hiding behind a curtain or but showing off their legs and shoulders
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
The Sisters G
Two women with sharp black bobs
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 02/10/2026
Oatmeal socialist, fashion icon, weirdness influencer.
Photo of Jen outside on stairs with trees and buildings on 124 street in Edmonton behind her, wearing a long Svaha dress with colourful Histomap design and black sandals.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lucian Freud (German-British, 1922-2011) "Large Interior, Notting Hill," 1998 Oil on canvas 214 x 178 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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behind the l👀king glass @btlg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the loop, 2022
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Laura JG @laurajg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By Abu'l-Qasim, "A Court Musician Playing the Kemancheh, Qajar, Iran, early 19th-century, oil on canvas, 55½ x 31 5/8 inches (140.8 x 80.4cm.), photo: Christie's London, 26 Apr 2012. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #iranart
From the website: "a young musician wearing a red floral embroidered skirt and jewelled yellow jacket kneels on a floral carpet playing a kemanche, before her a white floral tray with two glasses, very small areas of repainting, unlined, in gilt-wood frame with identification inscription below.”
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Adela @adelapazos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Masks 📷 Daniele Cascone #monochrome #bnwphoto #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #blackandwhitephotography #bwlovers #noiretblanc #blancoynegro #monotone #bnw_captures #monochromephotography #conceptual #minimalphotography
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Miss Kimmi Kitty Mama @miss-kimmi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nina Payne, 1928
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RRose @dawphin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#galway
Memory of the mermaid.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Allegory of Advertising — Fernand le Quesne, 1897
Painting of a woman with a blue sheet wrapped around her holding up a bunch of balloons all tied together each of the balloons has each of the balloons has a each of the balloons has a word written on it each of the balloons has a word written on it so I can't actually make out most of the words there are old newspapers piled up in her feet she's standing on an overturned chair there's a drum and trumpet down on the ground there she's outside in a public place with a equestrian statue behind her and in the distance a large closing neoclassical Parisian building in the Square between her and the buildings would be people in the Square between her and the buildings would be people selling paintings
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ㅤ Antinea, a painted and patinated bronze and ivory — Demetre Chiparus, 1928 ㅤ
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ㅤ Delacroix's palette ㅤ
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TheAird @theaird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you’re ever in Paris you can visit Delacroix’s former apartment/studio. It’s quite an experience!
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Atelier Manasse, 1920s
B&W photo of a showgirl crouching and giving us a hard stare.
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Gunhed Candy 🎃 @gunhedcandy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lock n Load №10 #SpaceGirl #zapppp
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Gunhed Candy 🎃 @gunhedcandy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Blade Runner #scifi #movies
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