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Arthur David Spota
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Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor
Galaxist, Tulpa at-large
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Nov 12
My recent kinetic poem 'As Above' is featured in Issue #8 of the Surrealist Journal, Peculiar Mormyrid #8.
The poem maps the correlation extreme phenomena has to the unreliability of perception as it plays to one's emotional state.

📷Bill Wolak

peculiarmormyrid.com/arthur-spota...
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Goodnight

Alma Nungarrayi Granites ~ Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa:ThePleiades (Seven Sisters Dreaming)
February 12, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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Siouxsie & The Banshees ~ Into The Light
(from Juju, 1981)
#NowPlaying #SiouxsieSioux #MusicSky

youtu.be/pictArFbX_A
via @YouTube
Into The Light
YouTube video by Siouxsie & The Banshees - Topic
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February 12, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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Some criminally short, sublime eye candy from American underground filmmaker Stan Brakhage, one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.

Night Music (1986)
#Experimentalfilm

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Night Music (1986) by Stan Brakhage
YouTube video by vahnsuhn
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November 14, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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American underground filmmaker Stan Brakhage
Still from The Art of Vision 1961-65

#StanBrakhage #ExperimentalFilm #Cinema
April 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Notes from Underground: Coltrane, Brakhage and the American Avant-Garde
(Brett Kashmere - Offscreen)

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Notes from Underground: Coltrane, Brakhage and the American Avant-Garde
Stemming from his ongoing graduate work, first-time Offscreen writer Brett Kashmere delves headlong into the fascinating intersection of Brakhage and the cultural expression of the Post-World War II A...
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April 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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The Monkees ~ Daily Nightly (official Promotional video)
(from Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., 1967)
#NowPlaying #TheMonkees #MusicSky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCWR...
The Monkees - Daily Nightly
YouTube video by stereohysteria
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February 12, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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The Monkees - Words (1967) youtu.be/AHf7X7Mt66M?...

Japanese release cover art by Keiichi Tanaami
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. RCA Japan
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
February 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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In a moment that calls for courage, we get this:
newsguy.bsky.social Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 11h
Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump's second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.
February 12, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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New: Antifa unmasked a new generation of fascists in the Trump era. Now it's exposing ICE.

"Predators don’t get anonymity."

My latest for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Antifa used to unmask neo-Nazis, now it’s exposing ICE: ‘Predators don’t get anonymity’
Following in a long American tradition of identifying fascists, a network of leftists has set out to name and shame Trump’s immigration agents
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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American painter, scholar and teacher Norman Lewis

Among the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, his work was overlooked by both the White and African-American art establishment. He used representational strategies to focus on black urban life struggles.

Untitled, 1947
#AbstractArt
February 11, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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Siouxsie & the Banshees ~ Belladonna
(from Hyena, 1984)
#NowPlaying #SiouxsieSioux #MusicSky

Happy Wednesday night🌠

youtu.be/QlxUb5Me8wk via @YouTube
Belladonna
YouTube video by Siouxsie & The Banshees - Topic
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June 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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American artist Holly Suzanne Rader

Siouxsie Sioux
(Mixed Media and acrylic on Panel)
#Painting #Collage
April 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Siouxsie and her fabulous Blue guitar
#SiouxsieSioux #Blue
April 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The United States of America ~ The Garden of Earthly Delights
(from The United States of America, 1968)
#NowPlaying #MusicSky #Psychedelic

C'mon now Siouxsie Sioux!

youtu.be/C0cuX0WSdhg via @YouTube
the United States of America-the garden of earthly delights
YouTube video by Jeffo
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February 11, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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British artist Stanley William Hayter, legendary for his innovations in printmaking, an associate of the Paris Surrealists and the founder of Paris' legendary Atelier 17 studio.
#StanleyWilliamHayter

Danse du Soleil (B&M 197)
(engraving / etching, 1951)

#Surrealism #Engraving #Printmaking
May 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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British artist Stanley William Hayter, legendary for his innovations in printmaking, an associate of the Paris Surrealists and the founder of Paris' legendary Atelier 17 studio.
#StanleyWilliamHayter

Jeux d'eau
(Color engraving etching, 1953)

#Surrealism #Engraving #Printmaking #ModernArt
May 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Siouxsie and the Banshees ~ Hong Kong Garden
(Polydor 45, 1978)
#NowPlaying #SiouxsieSioux #MusicSky

Could a band's introduction to the world be any better. The first Banshees single from 1978. The thrashing guitar of the last 50 seconds is almost transcendent.

youtu.be/w0wTIwfRJtI
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
YouTube video by BABIE MUSE
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February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Melvin Sokolsky for Harper's Bazaar, December 1964

#MelvinSokolsky #Photography
#HarpersBazaar #VintageFashion
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Innovative American photographer Melvin Sokolsky
Harper's Bazaar, March 1963

#MelvinSokolsky #Photography #HarpersBazaar
June 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Erwin Blumenfeld ~ The Breughel girl, variant, from Picture Post, January 1947

#ErwinBlumenfeld #Photography #VintageFashion
August 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Casino Knokke Pop Art exhibition poster designed by Pierre Gillion featuring a work by Martial Raysse (1970)
"Pop Art - Nouveau Réalisme/Nieuwe Figuratie" at Belgium's Casino Knokke. Organized by curator Emile Langui, the June-September show drew over 50 artists, including Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and Evelyne Axell. Pierre Gillion's poster design reinterprets Martial Raysse's 1960s "American Beauty" series.
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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We no longer have a functioning government. Everything is based on screaming, cover-ups, diversions, and who was mean to me, even if those people are imaginary. It’s The Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago.
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Pam Bondi has been a complete and total failure at her job. The Epstein survivors showed more courage just by being in that room than she did under oath. She refused to answer questions and chose complicity.

America deserves better.
February 11, 2026 at 9:14 PM