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Elizabeth Harper
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Relic fan, lighting designer by night.
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you guys wanna see a dead body?
The shrine of St. Catherine of Bologna. She is a dark brown mummified body dressed in a nun’s habit seated on a large gold throne. On either side, cherubs pull back blue that are backed in red and gold brocade and two golden angels are on either side of the throne. There are also some potted plants off to the side and my traddest opinion is that potted plants do not belong in church. That’s Vatican II nonsense.
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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calling my reps and starting with “I cannot believe I have to say this but”
January 3, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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waiting for the miracle of the thinning blood like
Pope Francis holding the round silver reliquary holding the blood of St. Januarius close to his face. If the blood liquifies on 3 particular days, we’re all good. If the blood stays dry, bad things are about to happen.
January 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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posting feet (1,700 year old)
the feet of St. Lucy which are brown and mummified in a glass casket. (her feet are attached to the rest of her but she’s wearing a red dress and has a silver mask and only has a little bit of hand left so this is the big draw)
January 1, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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got this super interesting book just in time to show up at St. Mark's and learn St. Hilarion, Mr. 6 - 7 here, might be the earliest case of relic theft
A mosaic of S. Hilarion on an arch at St. Mark's basilica in Venice. He's nude with a very long gray beard and plant covering his junk and is shrugging.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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has not seen a lion
A mosaic of a lion with wings in a dome in St. Mark's cathedral in Venice. The background is all gold tiles and he has a halo but oh buddy, this guy looks like he would rather be anywhere else. Grimacing, bug-eyed, disheveled mane. Our dude's not well.
December 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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it’s not statistically less likely to Happen on a holiday
December 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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two kinds of renaissance art:
1. has seen a lion
2. has not seen a lion
a detail of a painting I saw today (Tintoretto? probably.) It’s an animal the size of a house cat with the features of a lion. it is mad. not roaring, just cursing its maker for making it ridiculous.
December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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get the fuck out shut the fuck up
Venice. Actual fucking Venice and it looks just like Venice. It’s night and there’s a green canal with a narrow bridge and there are old brick buildings sinking into the water on either side of the canal with striped poles near the doors.
December 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Casa Mollino, Turin
The interior of Casa Mollino in Turin, the secret apartment Carlo Mollino designed for himself and never spent a day in. Even his closest friends had no idea it existed until his death. To the right is a foyer with blue and white tile floors and Japanese-inspired doors. It opens on to a long light green sitting room with a spiracle chandelier of glass flowers, two lounge chairs, one in black bent wood with cain and the other midcentury black leather. there is a large, real zebra rug on the floor over brown carpet. The opposite wall opens to a terrace outside. There are two round glass sconces, two windows and a door with long velvet curtains . Attached to the wall are also two massive real clams shells--the kind used for holy water stoups. The room opens onto a dining room with a large wicker chandelier and a table with midcentury tulip chairs. A black and white photo of a detail on a plaster ceiling beam that appears to be a column capital but one side is a hand around a woman's breast. A black and white photo of me taking a photo in a small round mirror that's hung on the bedroom door about head height. My face is obscured by a dried butterfly mounted in the mirror and by my camera. Behind me is a drape, leopard print wallpaper and another mirror. Because of the ways multiple mirrors are placed around the room, you can also see the back of my head with my hair in a ponytail.
December 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
cadaverformosus.bsky.social
Casa Mollino, Turin
The interior of Casa Mollino in Turin, the secret apartment Carlo Mollino designed for himself and never spent a day in. Even his closest friends had no idea it existed until his death. To the right is a foyer with blue and white tile floors and Japanese-inspired doors. It opens on to a long light green sitting room with a spiracle chandelier of glass flowers, two lounge chairs, one in black bent wood with cain and the other midcentury black leather. there is a large, real zebra rug on the floor over brown carpet. The opposite wall opens to a terrace outside. There are two round glass sconces, two windows and a door with long velvet curtains . Attached to the wall are also two massive real clams shells--the kind used for holy water stoups. The room opens onto a dining room with a large wicker chandelier and a table with midcentury tulip chairs. A black and white photo of a detail on a plaster ceiling beam that appears to be a column capital but one side is a hand around a woman's breast. A black and white photo of me taking a photo in a small round mirror that's hung on the bedroom door about head height. My face is obscured by a dried butterfly mounted in the mirror and by my camera. Behind me is a drape, leopard print wallpaper and another mirror. Because of the ways multiple mirrors are placed around the room, you can also see the back of my head with my hair in a ponytail.
December 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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open for a surprise. rest in piss.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 6d
Legendary screen siren and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91. The alluring former model starred in numerous movies, often playing the highly sexualized love interest. n.pr/3N3Tnhg
Brigitte Bardot, sex goddess of cinema, has died
Legendary screen siren and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91. The alluring former model starred in numerous movies, often playing the highly sexualized love interest.
n.pr
December 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
cadaverformosus.bsky.social
Turin, two days after christmas
A black and white photo of a corner of a baroque church in Turin. In between large marble columns, on either side of the corner is a niche with a white statue of a male saint. An unlit crystal chandelier is on either side of the corner. Below is a statue of the Virgin Mary who has a hallo of small lights. The photo is blown out to obscure her face and light the male saints from below.
December 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Hello from the world’s most soothing place, the wax fruit museum in Turin.
A case with different kinds of wax apricots on black wooden stands with labels. A case of different varieties of wax cherries on little green plates with labels
December 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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scrooge was right to kick that bunny
December 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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scrooge was right to kick that bunny
December 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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merry christmas
a sign from the window of “California Bakery” in milan. very “graphic design is my passion” with a bunch of random italics and different font sizes. The background is a red bagel (?) that looks like a greased mochi donut. It says: Christmas Bagel € 1,65/pezzo Entra e provali nel nuovo Bagel Pulled Pork con Sweet American Fries CALIFORNIA BAKERY Il forno d'America californiabakery.it
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Milan, Christmas Eve
a white church with a baroquish side altar. in front of a painting of the last supper between red and green marble columns with gold capitals, there is a crèche with garish cold white sprays of LED christmas lights. there are more on 2 askew christmas trees on either side of the manger. Behind it is a blue fabric sky drop with more careless strands of blue LED lights that are half on. A woman with an orange backpack stands to the side taking a photo on her phone
December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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took some ambien for my jet lag and went on a sick one
cadaverformosus.bsky.social Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 10d
the is no back of the phones parchment. fuck you not there’s a nun’s grille. Latticework. HOW WE TALK Phones grilles words in air. Dropping phone is cemetery gates and i took a picture with my eye op
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Colin is a sleep. I’m letting the ambien thoughts go. this phone is mbkut ad😠 so fxx so it’s clea, like 👍🏻 the words jump out af float there in pace they cannot go swayed forward like a hologram. like when the get sway they stuck like a daisy in a toilet
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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in addition to being a bigoted piece of shit, I want any grown person who uses this word to know they sound as try hard as a 34 year old at a college party
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12d
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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the aristocrats
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 13d
Everyone loves a callback
Part 8: Bamboo RYAN LIZZA DEC 21, 2025
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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if you email after eod today you're a cop.
December 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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helluva way to find out you’re on the naughty list
a hand opening a package wrapped in brown paper, inside is the corner of a white book. all you can see is “zzi” at the bottom
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I just yelled “YOU BUM” at a car that almost hit me instead of “what the fuck!” and let me tell you, he did not see that coming.
December 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM