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Babbling Brooklyn
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Word nerd, progressive, chasing the next chortle.

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Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · Sep 22
The undisputed lightweight champion defends a prized acorn.
📷 📸 🍃 🐿️ 🗽 #sqrlpix
Photo of an eastern gray squirrel standing tall on their hind legs, facing the camera, with their arms curled into fists as if ready to box. An acorn lies at their feet. Photo taken in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
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“Evening” by Frederick Wellington Ruckstull, on display at @metmuseum.org.

📷 📸 🎨 🏛️ 🗿 #photography
Close-up photo of a marble statue described on the didactic label as follows: “Ruckstull intended Evening to portray an ideal, rather than a specific being. It illustrates his observation that "everything in nature folds at evening." The voluptuous figure in a contrapposto stance tucks her face under her raised, bent right arm, and her drowsy, distant expression suggests the approach of sleep.”
February 4, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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“Standing Parvati”, c. 10th century India, on display at @metmuseum.org.

📷 📸 🎨 🗿 🇮🇳 #photography
Photo of a copper alloy statuette of Parvati on a pedestal, in a dimly lit room at the Met. Two other statues are visible in the background.
February 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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The mesmerizing view of The Great Hall’s arches, from the balcony cafe at @metmuseum.org

📷 📸 🎨 🏛️ #photography
Photo of several interconnected large stone arches that form the ceiling above The Great Hall at the Met.
February 2, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Temple of Dendur, at the @metmuseum.org. Come for the art, stay for the physical spaces. So many expansive sanctuaries for people living in nyc apartments.

📷 📸 🎨 #photography
Photo of the Temple of Dendur… an ancient temple surrounded by a watery moat inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A giant wall of floor to ceiling windows shows a view of trees in Central Park, and is reflected in the still water.
February 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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“Woman with Earrings”, circa 100–105 C.E. (Artist unknown) from Egypt’s Roman Period, on display at @brooklynmuseum.org

📷 📸 🎨 🇪🇬 #photography
Photo of an Encaustic (melted wax) on wood. The didactic label reads: “Traditional Egyptian burials included face masks, coffins, or mummy boards with an idealized image of the deceased. Later, in the Roman Period, a much more lifelike portrait represented the individualized features of the embalmed person. These were placed within mummy wrappings directly over the head of the mummy. Images such as this one are often referred to as "Fayum portraits" because a great number of them were discovered in the Fayum oasis in Egypt. However, the exact origin of Woman with Earrings and similar portraits displayed in this gallery is not known”.
February 1, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Close-up of “White Light” by Jackson Pollock, on display at MoMA. So much rich detail when you zoom in.

📷 📸 🎨 🔎 #photography
Close-up photo of a colorful abstract painting showing a mix of textures and colors in a chaotic swirl. Much more detail is visible when zoomed in than I expected.
January 31, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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“Aureate Vertical” by George Morrison, on display at the Met.

📷 📸 🎨 🟧 🟨 🟥 #photography
Photo of an abstract painting containing predominantly vertical patterns of orange, red, and yellow hues. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
January 30, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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The little cygnets, born last May, are almost all grown up now! This one was strutting their stuff on the frozen Lullwater earlier this week.
📷 📸 🪶 🦢 #photography
Photo of an 8-month old mute swan, strutting on a snow-covered frozen lake with a bridge in the background. The swan still has some of their immature plumage.
January 30, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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“Equal” by Richard Serra, on display at MoMA.

📷 📸 🎨 #photography
Photo of an art installation featuring 8 large forged weatherproof steel blocks. The blocks are stacked 2 tall and arranged in a large other empty room. From this angle only 3 of the 4 stacks are visible. The steel blocks show signs of rust.
January 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Mallard, demonstrating water’s versatility, on Prospect Park Lake.
📷 📸 🪶 #photography
Photo of a female mallard standing at the edge of a frozen ice sheet on Prospect Park Lake, drinking from the water in the section that’s thawed. Many other mallards can be seen in the water.
January 28, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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I ticked off my to-do list. It won’t even talk to me.
January 28, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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“Number 107” by Ad Reinhardt, on display at MoMA.

This is going to look great when it’s finished.

📷 📸 🎨 ⬜️ 🖼️ #photography
Photo of an abstract oil on canvas painting by Ad Reinhardt. It shows numerous horizontal brushstrokes of white paint in a black frame.
January 26, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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Do you pronounce it zee like zebra, or zed like zebra?
January 26, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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“Number 1A, 1948” by Jackson Pollock, on display at MoMA.

📷 📸 🎨 🖼️ #photography
Photo of an abstract oil and enamel painting on canvas by Jackson Pollock called “Number 1A, 1948”.
January 25, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Untitled, by Ruth Asawa, on display at MoMA.

📷 📸 🎨 #photography
Photo of artwork by Ruth Asawa. An intricately interwoven figure that looks like tree limbs form a circular shape as it hangs on a white wall at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
January 25, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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Who called it a 1,024-page novel and not 1 Megabook?
January 24, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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Who called it knitting inventor and not mother of purl?
January 23, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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who called it an austrian baking misunderstanding and not a misconstrudel
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who called it deleting my account and not jerry nullification
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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[News anchor voice] Americans brace for devastating, unprecedented, life-threatening ice storm.

And now turning to the weather…
January 22, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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“The Demidoff Table” by Lorenzo Bartolini

Depicting Cupid collapsed after his discovery of Hinge

📷 📸 🗿 🎨 📲 #photography
Photo of a marble statue in The Met called The Demidoff Table showing three figures (one not visible in the photo). The didactic label describes it as follows: “This work was commissioned by Count Anatoly Nicolayevich Demidoff (1812-1870). The subject is a complex, cosmological allegory best described in the sculptor's own words: "Stretched out upon the plan of the world is Cupid, God of generation, sustaining and watching over the symbolic genius of dissolute wealth without virtue, who snores in his sleep,.. dreaming of past diversions in pleasure. Left to himself, the Genius of ambitious rectitude in work sleeps the agitated sleep of misfortune and glory, ... his head extending beyond the periphery of the world."”
January 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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“Perseus with the Head of Medusa” by Antonio Canova

Ironically, Perseus has been turned to stone.

📷 📸 🗿 🎨 🐍 #photography
Photo of a marble statue called “Perseus with the Head of Medusa”. Perseus is depicted from the waist up, holding Medusa’s decapitated head in his left hand, raised to eye level.
January 22, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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“Head of Peasant”
by Aimé-Jules Dalou

(Full description in alt-text)
📷 📸 🗿 🫩 #photography
Photo of a plaster bust of figure in the Metropolitan museum of art. The work is titled “Head of Peasant”, by Aimé-Jules Dalou. Dim lighting adds to the somber realism. The didactic label (not pictured) reads as follows: “Dalou produced this naturalistic portrait while modeling the figures for his Monument to Working People, an ambitious, ultimately unrealized tribute to the French working class. The unfunded project was the artist's fervent, personal response to the lack of recognition given to the laboring people represented on his highly praised monument, Triumph of the Republic (1889). In the deep folds of the peasant's wizened face, Dalou captures the dignity of the man and the toll of his labor.”
January 21, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Good morning to the author of my favorite didactic panel at The Met, probably a tired employee.
📷 📸 🗿 🎨
Photo of a didactic panel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The title reads: Marble head of a god, probably Zeus. The description reads: The back of the head was completed with another material, probably stucco.
January 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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More like Verizoff
📷 📸 #photography
Photo taken last night of a Verizon sign at night but only the letters O and N are lit up followed by the red checkmark logo. A large dumpster blocks the view of the store.
January 15, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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I found it! The historical roots of Jerry no
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Screenshot from Merriam-Webster’s etymology of the term Jerry-rigged. A highlighted section reads: “what was the meaning of the Jerry style of architecture. “Any thing that is badly built,” was the reply. “Have you any houses in Toxteth-park?” was the next question. “Yes,” said the witness. “Are any of them built in the Jerry style of architecture?” “No.”
January 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM