Fovea Hex
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February 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Roma musician,Toni Iordache, was unsurpassed as a cimbalom player, reportedly able to reach 25 notes per second and one of his (slightly) more meditative pieces opens the latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, now out as a podcast: bit.ly/4ttRjQr.
February 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Roma musician,Toni Iordache, was unsurpassed as a cimbalom player, reportedly able to reach 25 notes per second and one of his (slightly) more meditative pieces opens the latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, now out as a podcast: bit.ly/4ttRjQr.
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Its followed by @gintask.bsky.social's 'Rising', which also might reach 25 notes per second but we didn't count. Find it on his 'Nervus Vagus' album: gintask.bandcamp.com/album/nervus...
Nervus Vagus (gk rec. 2021), by gintas k
13 track album
gintask.bandcamp.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Its followed by @gintask.bsky.social's 'Rising', which also might reach 25 notes per second but we didn't count. Find it on his 'Nervus Vagus' album: gintask.bandcamp.com/album/nervus...
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A group of Buddhist monks reached Washington, D.C., Tuesday, walking single file across a bridge over the Potomac River to cap a 15-week trek from Texas that has captivated the country.
https://to.pbs.org/4rIxYJE
https://to.pbs.org/4rIxYJE
'Walk for Peace' concludes as Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 15-week trek
A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., after completing a 15-week trek from Texas that captivated the country.
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February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
A group of Buddhist monks reached Washington, D.C., Tuesday, walking single file across a bridge over the Potomac River to cap a 15-week trek from Texas that has captivated the country.
https://to.pbs.org/4rIxYJE
https://to.pbs.org/4rIxYJE
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February 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Details of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme for later this year announced.
It will be available to 2000 new applicants with the existing 2000 elligible artists able to apply also.
nialler9.com/details-of-t...
It will be available to 2000 new applicants with the existing 2000 elligible artists able to apply also.
nialler9.com/details-of-t...
Details of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme 2026 announced | Nialler9
“The introduction of Basic Income for the Arts underscores the premise that Government investment in the arts yields myriad positive benefits to
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February 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Details of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme for later this year announced.
It will be available to 2000 new applicants with the existing 2000 elligible artists able to apply also.
nialler9.com/details-of-t...
It will be available to 2000 new applicants with the existing 2000 elligible artists able to apply also.
nialler9.com/details-of-t...
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Cornell's Macaulay Library: A scientific archive of 150,000 bird calls and animal sounds www.macaulaylibrary.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Cornell's Macaulay Library: A scientific archive of 150,000 bird calls and animal sounds www.macaulaylibrary.org
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February 9, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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Anybody know a modern manufacturer?
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Anybody know a modern manufacturer?
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So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Bowl Depicting a Running Hare - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bowl with Eagle (63.178.1) and Bowl with Hare (64.261)The tenth and eleventh centuries under the Fatimid caliphate were times of prosperity in Egypt and the neighboring lands, when a burgeoning class ...
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February 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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'Since when,' he asked,
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
February 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
'Since when,' he asked,
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
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#apod 2026-02-08
Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
Image Credit:
Daniel Korona
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260208.html
Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
Image Credit:
Daniel Korona
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260208.html
February 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
#apod 2026-02-08
Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
Image Credit:
Daniel Korona
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260208.html
Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
Image Credit:
Daniel Korona
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260208.html
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"You will reach a flaming river
Blazing right across your road:
First there are the fiery falls,
Beneath the falls a blazing island,
On the isle a flaming hill,
On its peak a flaming eagle
Sharpening its beak at night"
Blazing right across your road:
First there are the fiery falls,
Beneath the falls a blazing island,
On the isle a flaming hill,
On its peak a flaming eagle
Sharpening its beak at night"
February 8, 2026 at 9:32 AM
"You will reach a flaming river
Blazing right across your road:
First there are the fiery falls,
Beneath the falls a blazing island,
On the isle a flaming hill,
On its peak a flaming eagle
Sharpening its beak at night"
Blazing right across your road:
First there are the fiery falls,
Beneath the falls a blazing island,
On the isle a flaming hill,
On its peak a flaming eagle
Sharpening its beak at night"
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For any other fans of Eiko & Jim. Here they are doing their thing in Milan last October.
www.ursss.com/2026/02/eiko...
www.ursss.com/2026/02/eiko...
EIKO ISHIBASHI & JIM O’ROURKE w/ YUKO MOHRI
EIKO ISHIBASHI & JIM O’ROURKE w/ YUKO MOHRI | Sound performance @ Pirelli HangarBicocca - 2 OCT 2025 MILAN - ITALY
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February 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Fascinating: "......the world is fuller than it looks, and some of its most interesting inhabitants are the ones we never see....."
My latest dispatch from Planet Ficus: A reader’s childhood memory led me to an unexpected link between folklore, Indigenous naming practices and a microscopic enigma.🧪🌏
planetficus.substack.com/p/mysterious...
planetficus.substack.com/p/mysterious...
Mysterious Little Beings Really Do Live In Hawaiian Fig Trees
The menehune of legend may not live in fig trees — but something just as elusive and enigmatic does.
planetficus.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Fascinating: "......the world is fuller than it looks, and some of its most interesting inhabitants are the ones we never see....."
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Dandelion (ca. 1755) by Barbara Regina Dietzsch.
Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f86b3c8b-724f-4143-87a5-dcc2104cb903
#stems #dandelions #flora #art #publicdomain
Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f86b3c8b-724f-4143-87a5-dcc2104cb903
#stems #dandelions #flora #art #publicdomain
February 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Dandelion (ca. 1755) by Barbara Regina Dietzsch.
Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f86b3c8b-724f-4143-87a5-dcc2104cb903
#stems #dandelions #flora #art #publicdomain
Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f86b3c8b-724f-4143-87a5-dcc2104cb903
#stems #dandelions #flora #art #publicdomain
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David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987)
David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987)
What living director has drawn the descriptor “surreal” more often than David Lynch?
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February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987)
Hup!! We need just 39 more signatures and then we've done it, Ireland will have passed her threshold.
PLEASE SIGN!!!
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#JusticeForPalestine #Ireland #FreePalestine #SpeirGhorm #SpeirGorm #IrishSky
PLEASE SIGN!!!
🇵🇸🙏✊🇮🇪
#JusticeForPalestine #Ireland #FreePalestine #SpeirGhorm #SpeirGorm #IrishSky
Legends!! Thanks all for signing. Just 203 more signatures to go from Irish citizens, and we'll have passed the Ireland threshold, and become 1 of 7 legendary countries to get this past the post
C'MON!!!! Let's get it done. 📝🇵🇸
#SpeirGhorm #SpeirGorm #IrishSky #Ireland
C'MON!!!! Let's get it done. 📝🇵🇸
#SpeirGhorm #SpeirGorm #IrishSky #Ireland
February 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Envy………
In 1981, when I was ten, I visited Christchurch, New Zealand with my parents. I loved birds, especially albatrosses, and learned that tantalizingly close—360 km to the south—was the royal albatross colony in Dunedin.
It was not meant to be that trip. But 44 years later, I finally made it happen.
It was not meant to be that trip. But 44 years later, I finally made it happen.
February 6, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Envy………
"The Real never ceases to be." (Bhagavad Gita Ch2, vs 16). Well that's good.
The aurora last night on a frozen lake near Fairbanks, Alaska
February 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
"The Real never ceases to be." (Bhagavad Gita Ch2, vs 16). Well that's good.
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tix links here: tix links in my link.tree tix.to/WilliamBasin...
February 4, 2026 at 11:37 PM
tix links here: tix links in my link.tree tix.to/WilliamBasin...
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Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.~ Mary Oliver
February 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.~ Mary Oliver
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