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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Your Jacobean boyfriend says hi

Isaac Oliver (English, 1558-1617). Edward Herbert, First Baron Of Cherbury, early 17th c. Watercolour on vellum. Welshpool: Powis Castle.

"Lady Ayres, a lady-in-waiting to the queen...secretly commissioned from Oliver a miniature copy of a picture...So enraged was this lady’s husband on finding this item (which hung ‘about her neck soe lowe that she yet hid it under her brestes’) that he ambushed his supposed rival with a dagger near Whitehall Palace in London and pierced his side!"

"High on a tranquil wooded hilltop, he reclines beside a clear stream as it bursts out of the ground. A spring was a symbol of poetical inspiration and is perhaps prominently featured here as an allusion to Sir Edward’s reputation at the time for lyric verses and lute songs. [6] With his head propped up thoughtfully on his hand, he adopts the classic pose of a melancholiac."

https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/article/magic-and-mystery-the-secrete-conceit-of-a-jacobean-cabinet-miniature

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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

By request: this is the TV test pattern stained-glass window that’s providing the colours (I made it at a workshop I took at Corning last summer to learn how to build using lead channel).

A stained glass panel sitting in a window. It’s made of rectangular panels of coloured glass, mimicking an old-school television test pattern.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 09/06/2026

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!

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Mateo @bozodeluxe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy Labor Day

A still from the film "Alien". One the left, Harry Dean Stanton plays Brett. On the right, Yaphet Kotto plays Parker. Brett is wearing a sort of green Hawaiian shirt with a white long-sleeved T shirt underneath and a baseball cap (which, hey, in 2122, at least Hawaiian shirts and baseball caps are still a thing). Parker wears a similar green'd t-shirt with a white short-sleeved button up vest or jacket and a blue head band. They are on the crew of a mining vessel which has picked up a distress signal. At a crew meeting about what to do, Parker and Brett's main concern, at this point in the story, is how they'll be compensated due to the change in plans. Which, after a lifetime of being screwed over by The Corporation, the labor which produces the capital, prior to being subsumed by the xenomorph, has got to flex its solidarity in order to get paid.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 01/09/2025

mysterious sign in loring park about dorian the cat’s first annual birthday. no date or location given, but there are lots of activities planned and you should bring 3 gifts. “for more information, please read again.”

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 04/06/2025

Per below, whenever I finish the first draft of a book, the last few hours of work, I put on Purple Rain & Daydream Nation to get me through it. And now…Side One of Purple Rain. See you on the other side!

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The reason for the season:

A picture of a package of Marshmallow Peeps, but Photoshopped to say "Pepys." The peeps visible through the packaging are wearing curly old-style wigs. The package explains that it contains "10 diarists."

Here's the deal: I only know two things about Samuel Pepys:
1. His name is pronounced like "peeps"
2. He was a famous diarist.

That's the only motivation I needed to make this stupid thing as an Easter joke, and I will post it every year on Easter until long after the joke has worn off.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

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thecedar.bsky.social @thecedar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🔊 TONIGHT at The Cedar: DRONE NOT DRONES - The 10th 28-Hour Drone Doors: 6:00 PM / Show: 7:00 PM $40 Day of Show - price for full 28 hours 🎟️ Get tickets: bit.ly/4hZdaJK

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

On St Knut’s Day, January 13th, Finns take to the streets dressed as “nuuttipukit” (draped in goat skins and horns) to procure beer and leftovers after Christmas. Photographs from 1928 of the folk tradition here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #onthisday

What looks to be a human figure crouched draped in a furry animal skin with large horns protruding from the head area

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VorthosMike @vorthosmike.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

There’s a small bookshop “adult scholastic book fair” at a local brewery They vastly misunderstood the demand

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Woodcut by M. C. Escher, 1919 (163 × 251 mm) #cats

Woodcut image in black and white of a white cat sitting on a wooden beam or table, against a black background. The cat is facing left and looks relaxed and content, its feet tucked in, its head lowered, its tail drawn in along its body.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Photograph shot from above, aka a bird's eye view, of an urban street with tram tracks, and three figures: a delivery man (perhaps for bread?0 on a bicycle, and a male and female couple walking arm in arm. The long shadows suggest it is early in the morning

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

One thing I'm not sure everyone realizes is how much more *fun* it is to live in a walkable neighborhood. I know it's not realistic for everyone (all the more reason to make it so for more people), but to be in a spot that's dense enough to support bakeries, groceries, yarn shops, etc.--it rules.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

This is all incredible but I had zero idea that the creator of Maus, which is how I learned about Auschwitz as an American kid, also created the Garbage Pail Kids???

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A cozy scene of cats taking in the warmth of a fireplace by French painter Thomas Couture, who was born on this day in 1815 & was teacher of major modern artists including Édouard Manet compiegne-peintures.fr/notice/notic...

A painting of four cats sitting by the warmth of a fireplace in a cozy interior, an armchair close by

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Streets.mn @streets.mn · 20/12/2024

Among Giants: A Brief Hydrological History of the Upper Midwest: streets.mn/2024/12/20/among-giants-…

Sometimes trivia is just that: trivial.

Some other times, though, it cracks the world open a bit, into something a little less disenchanted.

Such is this trinket about my local stretch of the Mississippi River as it bends its way through St. Paul, and the giant from which it emerged.

As you might notice upon visiting the Twin Cities, the Mississippi’s valley can be rather narrow or strangely wide, depending on the part of town.
(An informal survey of friends and colleagues revealed this is, in fact, quite often not noticed.)

To understand why, you might first look north and West, to the Red River Valley along the North Dakota border.

The Red River flows north into Canada and, eventually, Hudson Bay, but “valley” is a real misnomer; locals
believably claim this to be the flattest place on earth.

You also need to look to the past.

Driving through the Red River Valley feels akin to being at sea, the earth and sky stretching to their fullest in all directions.*

This is not entirely a coincidence; the land here is flat because it was once the bottom of a vast, shallow, ancient lake, Lake Agassiz, formed by melting glaciers.

(*Or it feels depressingly dull. Mileage may vary)

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Before he went all in on harassing trans ppl, he was bizarrely obsessed with YA authors. It was so upsetting to him that ppl wanted to get rid of racism in kids books. He brought armies of Nazi trolls down on random authors, just “asking questions” about “free speech”. He’s ALWAYS BEEN like this.

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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

i love how many garage murals there are in south and i'm very happy people are out here photographing, documenting, and even mapping them!!! racketmn.com/wheres-all-t...

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Where's All the Good Garage Art in South Minneapolis? These Guys Know. - Racket

Let's explore Minneapolis's art-filled alleys.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/11/2024

One annoying thing about historical research is looking up how long it took to get from A to B in the US by train in 1880 and then looking it up now and realizing it was faster in 1880.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A reminder for my journalism colleagues: Access to power is not a good, in and of itself. If you cannot tell the truth and retain access, choose truth. If you cannot be critical and retain access, choose critique. If you have to run bullshit gossip stories to retain access, choose 🖕🏻🖕🏻

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Today's mood: Steam Boiler with Bat, a 1928 painting by Carl Grossberg, German painter associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement

A painting that shows a large room with a long, unbroken window at right; elements in the space include a large cylindrical machine - identified as a steam boiler - and a bat that is shown flying (or hanging in the air)

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I found this today and it speaks deeply to me (as Ursula Le Guin usually does).

The death way or the life way? The high road of the warrior, or the river road?
I know what I want. I want to live with courage, with compassion, in patience, in peace.
The way of the warrior fully admits only the first of these, and wholly denies the last.
The way of the water admits them all.
The flow of a river is a model for me of courage that can keep me going — carry me through the bad places, the bad times. A courage that is compliant by choice and uses force only when compelled, always seeking the best way, the easiest way, but if not finding any easy way still, always, going on.

— Ursula K Le Guin, from blog post 119 (on the 2016 election)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/119-the-election-lao-tzu-a-cup-of-water

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Since we’re all desperate for a positive distraction today, I guess I’ll share some exciting news I’ve been sitting on for a few months… I made an accidental discovery in art history & after four years of researching and reworking, it’s finally getting published! direct.mit.edu/leon/article...

Screenshot of a title and abstract, reading: "Action at a Distance: Did physicist Thomas Young’s 1807 Lectures inspire some of the earliest examples of abstract art?" by Britt Lundgren;
Abstract:
Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is known to have been influenced by scientific developments at the turn of the 20th century. However, many of her paintings from 1914 to 1916 exhibit similarities to diagrams published much earlier in the English polymath Thomas Young’s 1807 Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts. Key elements and themes in af Klint’s The Dove, The Swan, Parsifal, and Altarpieces series suggest Young’s Lectures may have been a major source for her work. The author explores this idea and other parallels between the lives and legacies of the visionary scientist and abstract art pioneer.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Hot Bsky Tip: Vett more before you click "follow all" on a starter pack. 😂 I read one funny post, saw a "funny people" pack that person made, and mass followed. Now I am unfollowing one-by-one a hundred people who all tell exactly the same kind of joke and RT each other compulsively.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

An absolute banger every single time

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 11/10/2024

I wish more journalists wld follow Ed Yong's approach here. I think he hits on a big problem in communicating the complexity of public health challenges: recycling of the same experts. So many bright ppl across a range of areas that the public needs to hear from. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddy5...

Ed Yong quote from the linked YouTube video: “In every single piece I had a rule for myself that half the ppl I talked to had to be someone who I'd never talked to bf. There was a consistent problem throughout a lot of pandemic reporting where people would keep on going back to the same sources again and again and again and again which not only narrows the number of perspectives that you get but also makes you incredibly vulnerable if any one of those people happens to be full of shit."

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

@edyong209.bsky.social's talk at XOXO is easily one of the best ones I have ever seen. Incredibly thoughtful, insightful, and well-worth your time: youtu.be/ddy5uMdzZB8?...

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Ed Yong, Journalist/Author - XOXO Festival (2024)

YouTube video by XOXO Festival

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

“I don't really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 07/10/2024

I worry sometimes about not writing enough, that I waste too much time. Then I think about the lines “The limits of art cannot be delivered. There is no artist whose talent is fulfilled.” Which sentiment was written by a gent named Ptahhotep. In 2600 BC.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Broke into the toy cabinet. #NoRegrets #Freedom

A tabby cat sits inside a cabinet amidst dozens of cat toys

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/10/2024

So I love this law. Basically, California spends billions replacing gas lines on a regular basis to make sure they aren’t leaking. The bill identifies neighborhoods up for replacement; if the neighborhood prefers, they will shut off the gas line and buy everyone free electric appliances instead.

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

🧵An open question: Describe a memorable moment when you had a knock-out reaction to an art work? Like that whole body & mind swoon, a personal game changer. Mine was in 1988. I was in Manhattan on an art school trip, gallery hopping. I was in The Whitney, exhausted after a day of visiting galleries.

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Nothing in language is permanent except the conviction that standards are somehow always falling.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

It’s October, which is an excuse to spend the month posting the spookiest, scariest, and strangest images I can find in the history of art. Here’s a good one to start with: Lombard School, Cats Singing, Directed by an Owl, c. 1700 (formerly Sotheby's) 🎃🐈‍⬛

A cat orchestra directed by an owl, with sheet music made of little drawings of mice, as well as some other nonsense

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Twin Cities parents: Because of the ongoing measles outbreak, the MN Dept of Health has revised its guidelines & this is NOT well publicized - Any kid who hasn't had an MMR should get one now - If they've had 1 but not 2 (they're prob 1-4 yrs old), maybe get 2nd one now #TwinCities #Minneapolis

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gregorg @greg.org · 29/09/2024

TIL Edward Wadsworth made his 3m tall masterpiece Dazzleships in Dry Dock at Liverpool for a WWI memorial competition in which modernist and cubist painting was banned. So he made a naturalistic painting of an abstract painting project. greg.org/archive/2024...

the prow of a giant warship crisscrossed with black white and grey angled bands fills the center of edward wadsworth's 3 meter tall painting, dazzleships in dry dock at liverpool. four little guys in grey paint the red hull at bottom, while pipes and beams of the dock echo the ship's adapted dazzle pattern. the background is a geometric jumble of other dazzle painted ships poking in from the sides and gas tanks and warehouses at the back. via the national gallery of canada

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jules @jayemgy.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

One of my favourite things. I think about this a lot.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Hey y'all, The USPS is shipping out free Covid tests again. We are in the midst of a Covid surge, so get yours today! special.usps.com/testkits

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COVID Home Tests | USPS

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

People who complain about being blocked are the kind of people you should just block. If someone blocks me I’m happy for them!

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

This is a great profile of an amazing journalist. I also appreciate the section about the Atlantic's terrible Gaza coverage. nymag.com/intelligence...

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The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates

A decade after “The Case for Reparations,” he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.

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flanthippe @flanthippe.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Barry Lyndon × 21 Savage "a lot"

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

It’s #bannedbooksweek and I’m grateful that ALA has some new graphics to annoy all of my FB friends with. Also, a reminder that Project 2025 calls for jailing authors and librarians.

47%
of titles targeted for censorship In 2023 represent the voices and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals
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Intellectual Freedom
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/09/2024

Having autoplay as the default for videos is a REALLY bad move. You can disable autoplay for videos — it’s in the “Accessibility Settings.” (While you’re there you can also enable “require alt text before posting” if you haven’t yet)

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I love this Radiohead song

A sign with a picture of a snapped tree falling onto a car which reads: CAUTION
-Dead trees are rotting
- Wings make trees unstable
-Trees are falling
-Look up; look around
- Watch where you park
-Watch where you walk

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Dusk at the Minnesota State Fair.

Ferris wheel lit up with many lights. An orange sky is in the distance.

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Brian Minsker @bminsker.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

And if you're still unclear on what to write, this graphic helps.

An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

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