Dave Coulter
@osage2024.bsky.social
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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God, it's hard just trying to communicate on the web. I've been seeing articles by folks about leaving Twitter/X and thinking "Really? Only now?" And I don't want to be that person re. Substack, about which bad rumours seem to be circulating. So I've migrated...
homunculusmusic.wordpress.com
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Homunculus
Marginalia from the worlds of science
homunculusmusic.wordpress.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
God, it's hard just trying to communicate on the web. I've been seeing articles by folks about leaving Twitter/X and thinking "Really? Only now?" And I don't want to be that person re. Substack, about which bad rumours seem to be circulating. So I've migrated...
homunculusmusic.wordpress.com
homunculusmusic.wordpress.com
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You know how I keep saying that every damn skill and capacity is needed in this moment???
What do you know how to do that can serve in this critical time??
What do you know how to do that can serve in this critical time??
One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport.
One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions.
Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people.
www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...
One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions.
Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people.
www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...
Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...
www.npr.org
February 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
You know how I keep saying that every damn skill and capacity is needed in this moment???
What do you know how to do that can serve in this critical time??
What do you know how to do that can serve in this critical time??
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Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
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Moonlight in the Adirondacks, Rockwell Kent
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Moonlight in the Adirondacks, Rockwell Kent
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Illustration from An Essay on Symbolic Colours by Frederic Portal, 1845
February 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Illustration from An Essay on Symbolic Colours by Frederic Portal, 1845
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The Starry Dome of the Church of San Gioacchino in Rome.
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 PM
The Starry Dome of the Church of San Gioacchino in Rome.
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Love is beautiful. ❤️
February 6, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Love is beautiful. ❤️
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Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
February 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
One more time ICYMI ✊🏼
February 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
One more time ICYMI ✊🏼
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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
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Still Life with Boots, Water Bottle and PPE
February 5, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Still Life with Boots, Water Bottle and PPE
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Whittlesford Churchyard, January
February 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Whittlesford Churchyard, January
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Flor de María Garduño, contemporary Mexican photographerr #WomensArt
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Flor de María Garduño, contemporary Mexican photographerr #WomensArt
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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
First US female photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, preparing to take a photograph, Austrian Pavilion, 1904 St. Louis World's Fair #WomensArt
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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
- Toni Morrison.
Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart
January 31, 2026 at 6:56 AM
"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
- Toni Morrison.
Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart
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Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World - Toronto, April 11, Registration deadline March 27.
stmikes.utoronto.ca/program/smce...
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
Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World - Toronto, April 11, Registration deadline March 27.
stmikes.utoronto.ca/program/smce...
stmikes.utoronto.ca/program/smce...
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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-...
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
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-...
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-...
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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.
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
ELECT HUMAN BEINGS ONLY NOT MONSTERS
The guy is horrible, but we knew that.
February 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM
The guy is horrible, but we knew that.
"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
muddy in the park today but looking up it was more like a gothic cathedral
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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/...
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
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/...
Prince Henry: I do, I will.
(Act 2 Scene 4) (posting as I find those lines chilling 🥶) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...