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True, we've always had "bubbles." But I think the walls around them are taller than ever now. I also wonder about the role of modern algorithms. Under the current Billboard chart math, can passionate fanbases keep a single track at #1 for months by streaming it on repeat?

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For better or worse, we no longer have a "shared audio space." Today, streaming algorithms tailor music feeds to hyper-specific tastes, allowing millions of people to live in entirely different musical universes.

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1. "Choosin' Texas" is a good song. Ask any songwriter. 2. The disconnect between a song shattering all-time chart records and some people feeling like they’ve never heard it is caused by our highly fragmented streaming era 3. IOW, high concentration vs broad reach; comfort zone streaming loop

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I think this is what happened: The extra point try is omitted unless the point would affect the outcome of the game. "Affecting the outcome" applies strictly to whether the scoring team needs the point to win or tie. Since Iowa was leading 20-19, they did not need the point to secure the win.

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 26/09/2026

The artist was a former pupil of Frans Hals, who was best known for his portraits. Yet, Van Ostrade earned his reputation not through portraiture, but by elevating everyday scenes of people and expertly weathered textures.

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 26/09/2026

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 🎨 #DutchArt Saturday vibes... An artist at work in his studio. The atmosphere is one of hushed creativity, where time slows down and the only thing that matters is the canvas. Adriaen van Ostade, "The Painter in His Workshop" (1633)

Adriaen van Ostade, "The Painter in His Workshop" (1633) • A 17th-century oil painting depicting an artist at work inside a dimly lit, rustic workshop. The painter is seated in a worn chair with his back partially to the viewer, focused intently on a small landscape painting balanced on a wooden easel. The high-ceilinged room is cluttered with artistic tools, bottles, and scattered papers. In the shadowed background, an apprentice stands near a bench, quietly preparing materials in the soft light filtering through a leaded window.

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 22/09/2026

Dropping this for anyone unfamiliar with the painting and its particularly creepy dragon. According to legend, the dragon swallowed Saint Margaret whole but his stomach burst open and she escaped unharmed. That's Margaret, kneeling on the dragon's belly.

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Who Created This Peculiar Painting of a Drooling Dragon? Nobody Knows—but a Museum Just Bought It for $20 Million

Painted around 1510, the mysterious altarpiece by an unknown artist features unusual details, including a slobbering dragon and an angel playing the mouth harp

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 22/09/2026

"Stand right next to Trump and by comparison you will look instantly presidential" is a deeply underrated campaign strategy

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 21/09/2026

I've seen his robotaxis in the wild. No uglier car on earth, except maybe the cybertruck.

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 21/09/2026

What caught my attention was watching elementary schoolers after class—heads down, completely buried in books. The common denominator? So many of them were reading a graphic novel about dragons. 📚🐲

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 20/09/2026

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 🎨 #dragons Happy Sunday, Bluesky Discover how three master painters turned the legend of Saint George and the Dragon into a masterclass in human psychology—and a study in how cultural norms take root New from me: theshymuseumgoer.com/2026/09/16/saint-george-and-dragon-paintings/

Raphael's 1503 oil painting of Saint George in full armor riding a white horse. He raises a sword above his head to strike a winged, scaly dragon caught beneath the horse's hooves. In the background, a princess in a long red dress flees. • Three years later, Raphael will paint this subject again—after running into Leonardo da Vinci in Florence.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If anyone's a freelance journalist (I assume there are some on Bluesky) and wants to contribute to election coverage please reach out to me, akleinman at heartlandsignal

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 19/09/2026

Sometimes a reporter just needs a minute to edit their video...

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 16/09/2026

Crucially, Congress allocated $257 million to the Kennedy Center for repairs, security, administrative expenses, and more. If it's on the brink of bankruptcy, where exactly did that money go?

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 15/09/2026

📌 The judge says, "How can you be minutes away from insolvency? Don't you have $257,000,000 from Congress?"

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Right? It transforms the mundane into something beautiful.

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Me, too. What do you think it is? A comforting sense of order?

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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 🎨 Saturday vibes... A tribute to everyday chores. A woman and a child hold hands, having just collected something for dinner in a bowl and the child's pinafore. A broom leans on freshly swept cobblestones. 🧹✨ Pieter de Hooch, "Courtyard of a House in Delft" (1658)

Pieter de Hooch "Courtyard of a House in Delft" (1658) • An oil painting of a 17th-century Dutch brick courtyard bathed in soft afternoon light. On the right, a woman in a blue skirt holds the hand of a young girl. They stand on stone steps near an open door, carrying food gathered for dinner in a bowl and the child's pinafore. A broom leans against the cleanly swept cobblestones nearby. On the left, an open brick archway features an inscribed stone above it, leading the eye down a shadowed corridor where a woman stands looking out toward a sunlit street in the distance. • Fun fact: The stone plaque above the archway was real. De Hooch copied it from a local Delft monastery. The text says you must practice "patience and meekness" through humble tasks—a perfect nod to the chores happening right below it.

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This revolving bookshelf is a cool concept, but I have no idea where I'd put it

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If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 10/09/2026

There's even a lifeguard ❤️

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 10/09/2026

Better design, worse user experience

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 10/09/2026

☝️ This is a massive insight. It goes beyond simple commentary and cuts right to the core of electoral dynamics.

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hello, clever music historians Can I legitimately call this a guitar, or is there a more proper name for this 18th-century instrument? Portrait is French, d. 1785 (I know nothing about guitars)

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 09/09/2026

All I'm saying is if you zoom into the wood shavings, several of them clearly spell Marey 🎞️ 🧐

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 09/09/2026

But mystery drives curiosity and closer looking, n'est-ce pas?

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 09/09/2026

Wasn't his younger brother, Martial Caillebotte, an avid and accomplished photographer?

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 08/09/2026

Great. Should I add #History each time, or are you way ahead of me?

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Hi Jillianne, I write about art history. Is #History right for me?

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I think Caillebotte tended to avoid melodrama in his work, preferring cool observation.

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Me, too. Its scale, framing, and composition make it feel like a frozen film sequence. I wonder if Caillebotte relied on photography-inspired techniques that would later become staples of movie direction.

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David Andersen @poetriesbound.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🗃️ 🐡 For Labor Day, a mystery... Is this a portrait of three workers or one man moving in sequence? A cinematic perspective would have been radical in 1875. Was the artist influenced by early motion photography? I spy only one wine glass. Is it a clue? G. Caillebotte, "The Floor Scrapers" (1875)

Gustave Caillebotte "The Floor Scrapers" (1875) • An Impressionist painting from a high, plunging perspective showing three shirtless men working on their knees to sand a wood floor. Sunlight streams through a large window in the background, illuminating the curls of wood and the linear perspective of the room. A bottle of wine and one glass appear on the far right. • Although the subject matter was deemed vulgar, critics praised The Floor Scrapers for its palpable immediacy and the convincing play of light across bare wood and human flesh.

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Some people destroy books and some noble hearted restore and preserve them, like this woman. Protest #AI companies destruction of our literature. Fight it. #book_binding #books

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 06/09/2026

"I Regret Almost Everything" by Keith McNally

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 05/09/2026

Leonardo da Vinci was never actually paid for his portrait of Lisa del Giocondo—the masterpiece we all know today as the Mona Lisa 🎨 He just... kept it.

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 04/09/2026

🎯 I've been on Bluesky since it was just 150,000 people. Now it's 40M+ and I get fewer likes than I did back then. Based on the posts the devs send out, I sometimes wonder if this is really an engineering experiment disguised as a social media app.

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 04/09/2026

"According to polling by Demos, a think-tank, 58% of older people are keen to move. But they have few options. Most one-bedroom and two-bedroom homes are built for first-time buyers, with little of the storage space and practical adaptations that older people need."

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 04/09/2026

🎯 Feels like everyone is sleeping on this except for The Economist. Are any other major outlets writing about it yet?

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 03/09/2026

Some years ago, I saw Cassandra Wilson live at the Blue Note in NYC—a perfect evening. If you haven't experienced her magic, here she is performing live at Austin City Limits:

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Austin City Limits | Cassandra Wilson "You Go To My Head" | Season 41 | Episode 1

Cassandra Wilson performs "You Go To My Head" in a celebration of Billie Holiday

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A charming little #AncientGreek pottery vessel in the shape of a seashell, made about 2400 years ago #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 01/09/2026

Fun fact from my production days: I once recorded narration with James Earl Jones. If you ever feel self-conscious about speaking, remember that even he struggled with a slight stutter.

Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 31/08/2026

It's the perspective, or the photo has been altered. The car is actually smaller than it looks in that photo. "Cheap" is the word the comes to mind. Also "death trap."