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Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 1995
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1122073
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1122073
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 1995
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1122073
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1122073
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December 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.”
(Northanger Abbey)
Happy 250th, dear Jane Austen!
🎨 after R.W. Buss (1833)
(Northanger Abbey)
Happy 250th, dear Jane Austen!
🎨 after R.W. Buss (1833)
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.”
(Northanger Abbey)
Happy 250th, dear Jane Austen!
🎨 after R.W. Buss (1833)
(Northanger Abbey)
Happy 250th, dear Jane Austen!
🎨 after R.W. Buss (1833)
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Party in the Country
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Party in the Country
My favorite jazz pianist. Among other things, he’s absolutely on fire on “A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle”
McCoy Tyner, Jazz Pianist, Composer, #BornOnThisDay in 1938, in Philadelphia
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My favorite jazz pianist. Among other things, he’s absolutely on fire on “A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle”
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December 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Only Angels Have Wings
December 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Only Angels Have Wings
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"talking about music is like dancing about architecture" was not said by Thelonious Monk, but also, it's really dumb - you can definitely talk about music and you could actually totally dance about architecture, dancing is a lot about form and shapes and stuff
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"talking about music is like dancing about architecture" was not said by Thelonious Monk, but also, it's really dumb - you can definitely talk about music and you could actually totally dance about architecture, dancing is a lot about form and shapes and stuff
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Road at Louveciennes, Melting Snow, Sunset - 1869
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7301
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7301
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Road at Louveciennes, Melting Snow, Sunset - 1869
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7301
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7301
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Hotel By A Railroad - 1952
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40399
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40399
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hotel By A Railroad - 1952
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40399
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40399
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Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun) - 1891
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/105356
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/105356
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun) - 1891
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/105356
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/105356
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The Entrance to Giverny in winter - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110096
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110096
October 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Entrance to Giverny in winter - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110096
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110096
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
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Fishing Vessels - 1886 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110130
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110130
July 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fishing Vessels - 1886 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110130
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110130
This is the thing! The Journal's op-ed section is hot garbage, but their actual reporting has always been second to none.
the sudden shocked discovery that the wsj has good reporters suggests media literacy classes would be useful
July 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is the thing! The Journal's op-ed section is hot garbage, but their actual reporting has always been second to none.
When I took AP Lit my junior year (2005-06), we read 17 novels and ~25 short stories! That class was how I became a good writer and critical thinker!
In my AP summer institute training I took before teaching AP Lit, one of the major things they recommended with course planning was reducing the number of full texts because it's not representative of the test.
I'm so glad I ignored that advice.
I'm so glad I ignored that advice.
"His daughter complains that her teachers rarely assign full books."
When did high schools move away from assigning full books?
Whose brilliant idea was this?
Full books were all we read in high school. We'd all get a frayed, dog-eared copy and read it.
When did high schools move away from assigning full books?
Whose brilliant idea was this?
Full books were all we read in high school. We'd all get a frayed, dog-eared copy and read it.
July 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When I took AP Lit my junior year (2005-06), we read 17 novels and ~25 short stories! That class was how I became a good writer and critical thinker!
@lairdbarron.bsky.social last night I read “Strappado” and said to myself, “Holy shit that’s the scariest thing I’ve ever read!”
Tonight I read “The Broadsword” and, well, now *that’s* the scariest thing I’ve ever read.
Good job freaking me out on two consecutive short stories!
Tonight I read “The Broadsword” and, well, now *that’s* the scariest thing I’ve ever read.
Good job freaking me out on two consecutive short stories!
June 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
@lairdbarron.bsky.social last night I read “Strappado” and said to myself, “Holy shit that’s the scariest thing I’ve ever read!”
Tonight I read “The Broadsword” and, well, now *that’s* the scariest thing I’ve ever read.
Good job freaking me out on two consecutive short stories!
Tonight I read “The Broadsword” and, well, now *that’s* the scariest thing I’ve ever read.
Good job freaking me out on two consecutive short stories!
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Anthony Caro, Frognal, 1965 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136887
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136887
May 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Anthony Caro, Frognal, 1965 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136887
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136887