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Dave Coulter
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Urban horticulture and forestry in/beyond Chicago region. American hedgerow aficionado. Probably classified as Radical Left Scum these days. Readers are Leaders.
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Someday I won't need to keep reposting this, but until then....
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Moonlight in the Adirondacks, Rockwell Kent
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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Illustration from An Essay on Symbolic Colours by Frederic Portal, 1845
February 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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The Starry Dome of the Church of San Gioacchino in Rome.
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Love is beautiful. ❤️
February 6, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
February 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
One more time ICYMI ✊🏼
February 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Still Life with Boots, Water Bottle and PPE
February 5, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Whittlesford Churchyard, January
February 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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#Thursgate Duxford
February 4, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Flor de María Garduño, contemporary Mexican photographerr #WomensArt
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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First US female photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, preparing to take a photograph, Austrian Pavilion, 1904 St. Louis World's Fair #WomensArt
February 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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"If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down"
- Toni Morrison.

Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart
January 31, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World - Toronto, April 11, Registration deadline March 27.
stmikes.utoronto.ca/program/smce...
SMCE4009 W26 Mediaeval Symposium: Mappa Mundi - University of St. Michael's College
Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World Explore Mediaeval Mapping Mappa mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World will explore that mediaeval Europe from two perspectives: how mediaeval people configured th...
stmikes.utoronto.ca
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Yesterday and today marks Tu BiShvat also known as Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot, translated as "New Year to the Trees" 🌳

In this blog, Dawn Waterman of @boardofdeputies.bsky.social writes about her own memories of the festival and imagining being a fruit: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/if-you-...
If you were a fruit… - hiddentreasurenew
Read Dawn Waterman on Tu BiShvat
celebratingjewisharchives.org
February 2, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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ELECT HUMAN BEINGS ONLY NOT MONSTERS
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
The guy is horrible, but we knew that.
February 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM
FYI referenced from the scene below......

myshakespeare.com/hamlet/the-s...
"The Strangers' Case" Speech from Sir Thomas More
Love to learn it.
myshakespeare.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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muddy in the park today but looking up it was more like a gothic cathedral
February 5, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Falstaff: Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Prince Henry: I do, I will.
(Act 2 Scene 4) (posting as I find those lines chilling 🥶) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds
Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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You should never let your TBR pile fully deplete before buying more books.

That’s like waiting until your kitchen is empty to go to the supermarket. - Michael
February 5, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Damn! How did I live all these years and not know of this song?
Thx WDVX!
youtu.be/-nEOjMI4p78?...
Silver Dagger
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Give this congressman a reporter’s notepad, a laptop and a deadline, because he’s a better-prepared interviewer than most of the journalists who crowd the Oval Office during those press gaggles.
Absolutely blistering grilling of Scott Bessent by Rep. Casten on Trump’s massively illegal scheme to steal Venezuela’s oil.
'Do You Recognize That Quote?': Sean Casten Grills Scott Bessent On Previous Comments On Tariffs
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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February 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM