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Alan A
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Ancient and Late Antique history | Stone circles | Model kits | Learning the violin | Tomb Raider and Red Dead | Railways and locomotives | Soviet aircraft | Horror stories | Nile valley | Bob Dylan

But, you know, next week might be different
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inpoetsshoes.bsky.social
Happy evening beautiful people ❤️
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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erikaleesears.bsky.social
Ummm yello.. 🧐 🍋 …. #art #oilpainting
January 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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annihowls.bsky.social
The more classic films I watch the more references I can see in other films and by the time I am old I will be very knowledgeable and also completely insufferable
January 9, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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tsgmultimedia.bsky.social
UP 3030, a 3,000 horsepower SD40, is sitting behind the Brigham City depot. This locomotive and the bay window caboose have been assigned to the local. Brigham City, Utah. April, 1985. Photo by Warren Johnson.
January 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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johnnyborgan.bsky.social
50 years ago today: Bob Dylan released Desire www.hotpress.com/music/50-yea... via @hotpress
50 years ago today: Bob Dylan released <i>Desire</i> | Hotpress
On this day in 1976, Bob Dylan released his 17th studio album, Desire, via Columbia Records. Largely co-written by Jacques Levy, the LP found Dylan joining f...
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January 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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choob.bsky.social
From Russia With Love is such a funny movie. The Training School for Evil Henchmen is something that bond parodies wished they could do, but they can't, because they already did it as part of a real bond film
15 or so henchmen training in a 20ft area where there is a shooting range, mats for karate sparring, and a guy with a flamethrower
January 3, 2026 at 1:16 PM
alanake.bsky.social
I love stone circle outliers
theghostmonk.bsky.social The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 10d
The outlier of the Nine Stones in the #PeakDistrict. It stands between the main circle, on their shallow mound, and Robin Hood's Stride, an oddly shaped outcrop that may have inspired the building of the circle. (Scanned from a photo I took in 2002.)
#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircles #Derbyshire
January 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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jpk-art.bsky.social
Framed 3.

#nature #forest #photography #wander #Teutoburgerwald
A forest scene with tall tree trunks standing close together, viewed through a soft, dark foreground formed by out-of-focus moss or vegetation. Diffused light filters through light fog or haze, creating a bright background behind the trees. A small cluster of remaining autumn leaves is visible between the trunks. The forest floor is covered with fallen leaves, and muted tones of green, brown, and pale white dominate the scene, emphasizing depth, vertical lines, and a quiet, atmospheric woodland setting.
January 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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crusaderproject.bsky.social
Never ceases to amaze me how big the Stuka was.

This is captioned as El Aden, I suspect 1941.
Picture of a large group of Allied soldiers on a wrecked German Stuka dive bomber at an airfield in North Africa.
January 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
alanake.bsky.social
Shades of #fitzcarraldo. Ethiopia has transported a 188-seat passenger ferry, the Tananesh, from Djibouti all the way to Lake Tana in the Ethiopian mountains. According to @theeconomistnews.bsky.social the ferry’s road journey took over a year. Some pikkies here
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Habesha diaspora on Instagram: "🚨 Why is Tananesh II Traveling by Land from Djibouti to Bahir Dar? 🇪🇹🚗🚤 The Tananesh II, Ethiopia’s largest and most modern boat, is currently crossing the Abay desert...
778 likes, 46 comments - habesha__diaspora_ on July 16, 2025: "🚨 Why is Tananesh II Traveling by Land from Djibouti to Bahir Dar? 🇪🇹🚗🚤 The Tananesh II, Ethiopia’s largest and most modern boat, is cur...
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January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
a wave has such a great long start before it leaps, all round the world it runs, and then comes the spring!
January 3, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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salisbot.bsky.social
Pretty sure this is the plan
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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dreadships.bsky.social
If he carries on like this it's going to make the FIFA Peace Prize look ridiculous
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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artologica.net
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
alanake.bsky.social
The awesome word ‘tupolevism’ gets a shout-out on #TupolevTuesdays
December 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
alanake.bsky.social
Trump on Ukraine: “really certainly the most deadly war since World War Two, probably the biggest war since World War Two.”

Wrong. Russia-Ukraine war since 2022: less than half a million dead (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualt...). 2nd Congo war: 5.4 million dead
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian war - Wikipedia
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December 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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“Self-Portrait” by Anne Harris (American) - Acrylic on canvas / 1998 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia) #WomenInArt #AnneHarris #artText #arte #PAFA #selfportrait #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #BlueskyArt #AmericanArtist #art #PennsylvaniaAcademyoftheFineArts #ArtByWomen
A softly lit face floats at the center of a nearly colorless field, emerging from a veil of pale creams, blush pinks, and muted browns. The figure’s light, warm-toned skin and bare shoulders dissolve into a misty atmosphere so that body, neck, and background almost merge. Curly, reddish-brown hair radiates outward like a halo of loose coils, edges blurred as if seen through fog. Golden, glassy eyes meet ours directly, their small points of brightness the sharpest notes in the painting. The eyelids and mouth are gently modeled but never fully crisp. Her lips part to reveal teeth, yet contours soften into haze. Cracks and fine lines at the chest suggest delicate vulnerability, while the square canvas holds this solitary, frontal figure suspended in an ambiguous, quiet space. In this self-portrait, American artist Anne Harris uses near-monochrome color and atmospheric brushwork to explore how a self can feel both exposed and unknowable. Known for portraits of women that deliberately unsettle ideals of beauty, she paints herself as neither flattering nor fixed, hovering between realism and abstraction. The dissolving edges and eerie luminosity convey anxiety and introspection, as if the artist is simultaneously coming into focus and fading away. Created in the late 1990s, when Harris was gaining recognition, fellowships, and teaching appointments, the work reflects her sustained inquiry into perception, self-scrutiny, and the psychological pressures placed on women’s faces and bodies. Collected in PAFA’s Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, the painting stands as a quiet yet intense challenge to conventional portraiture, insisting that identity is fragile, shifting, and deeply felt rather than neatly defined.
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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metabluesky.bsky.social
This war's been going on since February 2023 and the entire time it's been a Janjaweed vengeance spree against the Black people of Sudan for surviving the first round of this genocide. Nobody's given a real damn and evidently nobody ever will except the dead and those about to die.
sbagen.bsky.social Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 20d
"The massacres in El Fasher are among the most predicted slaughters in the history of atrocities. Yet no one, from world leaders to the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has made it a sufficient focus."

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Opinion | This Is What the Murder of a Whole City Looks Like
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December 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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heartinamber.bsky.social
The DRC is probably a bit busy with the whole 'Rwanda trying to break off the east of the country using proxy militias' thing tbf
December 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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tsgmultimedia.bsky.social
A Drew Lewis Special is crossing The Weber River and the remnants of old Highway 30 at Gateway. Gateway, Utah. November, 1986. Photo by Warren Johnson.
December 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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osullyville.bsky.social
The end of Zone of Interest
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12140
Bequest of Edith Minturn Phelps Stokes (Mrs. I. N.), 1938
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
“Olympia of Hawaii (with Apologies to Manet)” by Madge Tennent (British American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1927 - Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #MadgeTennent #Tennent #HonoluluMuseumofArt #art #artText #BlueskyArt #arte #HawaiianArt #WomenPaintingWomen
Tennent stages a pointed conversation with Édouard Manet’s Olympia … not by copying it exactly, but by aligning ts charged geometry in Hawaiʻi and changing what power looks like. Here, a reclining figure is clothed and self-possessed. The emphasis shifts from spectacle to presence. A young woman with medium-brown skin reclines across pale bedding, her body angled diagonally so her shoulder and hip form a long, quiet line. She wears a simple sleeveless white slip that catches soft green and lavender shadows with the paint laid in broad, chalky strokes that leave the weave of the surface faintly present. Her dark hair is gathered up, and she turns her face toward us with a steady, assessing gaze that is calm, unflinching, and slightly weary, as if she has been interrupted mid-thought. At the right edge, a second figure is cropped at the torso showing a warm, earth-toned shoulder and arm, and hands lifting a bright blue-and-white floral bundle hovering near the reclining woman’s body. The cropped attendant at the margin recalls Manet’s scene of display while also inviting Hawaiʻi-specific symbolism for hospitality, gifting, adornment, and the complicated economies that shaped how island bodies were looked at and marketed. Painted in the late 1920s, when Tennent was re-committing herself to figure painting after years of portrait commissions, the work shows her testing how European modernism could be reworked to center an island subject. Her thick hatch-like marks and palette-knife passages don’t prettify skin; instead, they build weight, heat, and motion, insisting that this woman is not a decorative “type” but a person with interiority. As critic John Charlot put it, Tennent pursued a beauty made of “imposing mass with grace … power with finesse, of form with flow.” In “Olympia of Hawaii,” that ideal becomes an ethics of looking as the gaze is returned, the body is dignified, and the old template is turned … still recognizable, but no longer under control.
December 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM