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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 2h

Wow, he really blew it. Poor guy!

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 4h

Right? It's a magnificent tree.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 5h

One of today's Photos memories. A newspaper clipping I held onto because everyone in the office where I worked was convinced this was a photo of me. (It wasn't.) Text in ALT, though some of it has been cut off....

A black and white photo of a woman dressed in black, face obscured by a black umbrella.

Article text:

Harsh lights and velvety darks chronicle lives of outcasts

By Regina Hackett

P. Art Critic

St. Theresa of Avila once dreamed of souls floating downward into hell, like leaves shaken off the limb of a massive tree in a fall wind.

Gerard Albanese photographs men and women who have lost their comfortable place in society or never had it, and who drift ever downward into deepening poverty. Cliches spring to mind nd when one thinks of the subject of the impoverished for a photographic essay, but there are no cliches in Albanese's work, now on view at the Traver/Sutton Gallery.

The poor, the old and the eccentric move through the blinding lights and velvety darks of his painterly compositions with a full human measure.

Albanese, now in his mid-40s, was a landscape architect working out of Lawrence Halprin's New York office, bored with his job, when he saw Diane Arbus' photo of two small twin girls, "really saw it," he said, "broke the code of the photograph" and realized it had the substantive weight of a great painting.

He took a workshop with Arbus early in 1971, half a year prior to her death, and later ter studied with Arbus' teacher, Lisette Model. Working for nearly a decade in Seattle, he has now emerged as a strong personal voice within their tradition, finding what Arbus called the universal theme in the specific thing photographed. Like her, Albanese has his own sense of what a fact is, and like her he loves what you can't see in a photograph, the actual darkness.

Albanese never manipulates his work, doesn't burn or dodge the print to obscure a detail or lighten a dark. Using an old Leica camera with a 35 mm lens, he photographs only on sunny days, as Seattle grays are too soft for his purposes. His exposure times are in effect his brush stroke, his

To photographer Gerard Albanese, what you cannot see in a photograph - the darkness is just as importan…

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 5h

I'm so sorry. ❤️❤️❤️

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 6h

*I have been on amlopidine for months. Good grief.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 6h

Me, going through meds, freaking out: I don't even have Jardiance! I've got amlopidine*! I shouldn't even be in this study! Holy shit! Checks after-visit summary from cardiologist appt: No, it says he prescribed Jardiance. Checks cupboard, finds bottle of Jardiance. I am such an idiot.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, man! I am so sorry. That's got to sting.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 6h

I am going to have to read up on this show, because the only thing I know about it is that he was on it.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 21h

Soooooooooooo many years ago, three of my short stories appeared in Asimov's, and I was absolutely over the moon. What's happening now makes me so sad and so angry. Having a story accepted by these magazines should be an unalloyed joy.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 22h

This is just my opinion, but I think this is objectively funnier than if it had been churned out by AI.

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beef @beeftheobeast.bsky.social · 23h

do it Now

A fat white rabbit with gray ears, red eyes, and a gray nose holding a water bottle with the caption “beef would like to remind you to drink water and stay hydrated”

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I dreamed last night that we were lower on milk than I'd thought. That's it. That's the dream.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yet who would have thought the old woman to have had so much blood in her?

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Back from giving more blood samples for the clinical trial. Honestly, a week without multiple medical appointments would be pretty spiffy.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Throwback Thursday: from October 2020. Miss Puss investigates G.'s new bass case. I think she must have been part cat.

A small brown and white mini rex bunny sits in a velvet-lined bass case, checking it out and investigating bubble wrap.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolutely out of the blue, and despite it being years since I last saw him in a show or movie, I have developed a devastating crush on Richard E. Grant.

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House Rabbit Society @houserabbit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Love cats and rabbits but aren't sure how they can get along? Our new Cats and Rabbits: A CoHOPitation Zoom class is here to help! This live $15 Zoom class on Friday, October 9th explores body language, training techniques, and tips for safely sharing a home. Register now at houserabbit.org/classes.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

hmmm, where could the @beetlemoses.bsky.social book possibly be at... oh well might do some work while I wait ah yes knowledge

ma doing the overlapping books meme, in front is a book on Evolutionary Genetics with a powdery white black spotted moth and a corvid flying in a blue sky, behind it is a hot pink fresh off the porch beetle moses comic book, you can see the review of "BANGER AFTER BANGER, NOT A DUD IN SIGHT" and it has the full name HARRIS FISHMAN

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nature is terribly rah-rah about AI.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jesus, she couldn't afford to get better work than *that*? I know a woman, 10 years older than me, who got work done and she looks like a perfect little gamine. (Of course, she was lovely before she got work done, too.) Anyway, I guess there's a "look as evil as you are" school of plastic surgery.

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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

History is full of firsts. Think of the first cars. The first airplanes. The first telephones. The first elevators. What did these things have in common? They all sucked. This is why it is far more important to be awesome. Remember the first pyramids? The fuck you do

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Chrissie Hynde @chrissiehynde.com · 08/10/2026

📸 Portrait of Chrissie taken by Finn Costello in 1979. -CHHQ

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She discovers that the house has been contaminated by ghost hunters. But in addition, there is a record of a bloody child, who recites genealogies and who blows out candles in dark hallways.

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder what she would make of my two lazy susans - plus another entire kitchen shelf - filled with spices and herbs.

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Flames flowing upwards. Relentlessness. A figure standing very still. And a girl sighing, just in time.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But it was a good astonishment, always

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sometimes I'd look at Puss and say "There's a*bunny*! In our *house*!" And often enough, the astonishment was genuine.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I found the commercial. That is so great.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One summer, my dad bought one of those outdoor bug-zappers. It was entertaining in a macabre kind of way.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have finally done the thing! I have finally unsubscribed from Nextdoor. I already feel cleaner and fluffier.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

His comics are so funny and have such heart.

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, but the prestige and the glory Another human intervestoid The Pretenders, "Tattooed Love Boys"

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Holly Weird Monster @weemallard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I got to this one in the book and I have not laughed this hard in eons. I am going to exercise self control and not go through the entire book in one sitting.

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