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"here in this desert it's just the same thing,
over and over again." — Black Mesa, Biosphere
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Watch a Perfect Stealth Attack Unfold
YouTube video by TheManWithTheHat
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February 17, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs. U.S. policies under RFK Jr. that are hostile to vaccines have “sent a chill through the entire industry,” one scientist said, by Rebecca Robbins www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h... via @nytimes.com
Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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tstld.bsky.social
Little Sparrow

Ink and markers
Available

#art #birds #nature #sciart
Drawing of a Sparrow made with ink and marker on paper.
February 16, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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karenleekitto.bsky.social
#photography #BlueSkyMonday #Abstractia #space #cityscape #abstract #shotonfilm #doubleexposure #PotD
February 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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atlasboscrispa.bsky.social
Mary (b.1924)
Ferndale, Oakland County Michigan.

📸 Holga 135FC
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax

#photography #filmphotography #lomography #film #35mm #trees #architecture #craftsman #oldbuildings #houses #winter #lightroom #suburban #ferndale #oakland #michigan
A craftsman style house on a snowy, overcast day
February 16, 2026 at 8:55 PM
ottawaensis.bsky.social
9½ yrs old w/
hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/bla...
February 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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The Houses of Newnham
February 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
ottawaensis.bsky.social
willow plumes were elongated ostrich feather decorations popular during the Edwardian era and early 1920s.
Skilled workers (often children) would hand-tie extra "flues" (individual feather strands) to the ends of the original ostrich feather.
February 16, 2026 at 9:42 PM
ottawaensis.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
“a doggy, a puppy and a ninja-bread man”🤭
‘I love you twenty-sixty times’: how lyrics written by a three-year-old became tear-inducing viral hits
When Stephen Spencer began setting his daughter’s surreal stories to music, he had 36 followers. Now his banging pop miniatures have been streamed nearly 30m times – and are making parents cry
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/life_monochr...
Vero: vero.co/lifemonochro...

#photography #streetphotography #monochrome #bnw
February 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
ottawaensis.bsky.social
omg that sky.
i mean omg everyting, but THAT SKY 🫠
February 16, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Immortalized. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of an older light skinned gentleman in a knit cardigan sitting for a photo portrait. In his lap is a shorthaired white and tabby cat. They both gaze calmly at the camera.
February 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Soul and Cigarette (b.1935)
Livonia, Wayne County Michigan.

📸 Minolta Maxxum 7000i
🎞️ Kodak 400 TX

#photography #filmphotography #lomography #film #35mm #architecture #oldbuildings #houses #blackandwhite #bnw #mono #monochrome #winter #trees #livonia #wayne #michigan
A gabled ell style house made of brick along 7 Mile Road west of Merriman.
February 16, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Such a 1970s painting. John Geoffrey Caruthers Little (Canadian, 1928 - 2024). Les sacs à ordures, Rue Bagot, Quebec (1975, oil on canvas).
February 16, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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corwijt48.bsky.social
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tea time

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February 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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atlasboscrispa.bsky.social
Blow To The Head (b.1917)
Farmington, Oakland County Michigan.

📸 Holga 135FC
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax

#photography #filmphotography #doubleexposure #lomography #film #35mm #trees #oldbuildings #houses #winter #lightroom #suburban #village #farmington #oakland #michigan
A craftsman style house cannibalizes a smaller craftsman as you turn to face it. With shingles and glass dripping from its maw, the beast huffs one last breath before trapping you inside. Sit... Make yourself at home.
February 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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#MolluscMonday Uncoiled ammonites known as heteromorphs (‘other shapes’) are mostly Cretaceous in age. However, this example of Spiroceras is from the Middle Jurassic of Dorset.
February 16, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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'Colony Room I (The Colony Room)' (1962) by Michael Andrews

(Pallant House Gallery)
February 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Gay Repast/Colorful Meal | Paul Klee
1928, oil and watercolor on cardboard
February 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Hamat'sa Raven (ca 2012)
Beau Dick
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Hamat'sa Raven (ca 2012) Beau Dick Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
February 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM
ottawaensis.bsky.social
no directory listing 1901
first newspaper mention, stove for sale, 1903

March 21 1904, Ottawa Citizen —
"No. 478 O'CONNOR AND STRATHCONA — A first-class brick dwelling, up-to-date. Come and see this house."

clipping Nov 1904
what would we do without hats ... and the social notes?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Just leaves for #Cyclamen #JacobinDay
February 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Home Is Where I Want To Be
oil on canvas
12 x 16
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Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round
I feel numb, born with a weak heart
I guess I must be having fun - The Talking Heads

Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p834/h...

#art #landscapeart #trees #forest

Story-ALTtext⬇️
An abstracted landscapenof trees and water. The lyrics continue: “The less we say about it the better Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground, head in the sky It's okay, I know nothing's wrong, nothing Hi yo, I got plenty of time Hi yo, you got light in your eyes And you're standing here beside me I love the passing of time” ​So the other night we were rounding up dinner (late, because that's how we roll - dinner around 9 pm) and we hear a knock on the door. It is a houseless. man, carrying a backpack, politely telling us how much he loves our yard signs (FIGHT POVERTY, NOT THE POOR and other expressions of our activism in the world) and he asks if we have any food he could have? And of course we said yes and put together a sack dinner for him and stuffed some cash in the bag. As my husband handed the man the bag and explained what was inside (a sandwich, some fruit, a beverage, dessert and some money) the man reached into the bag, pulled out the cash and handed it back, saying "thank you but I can't eat that, you keep it." Picture And I was floored. Because I had made an assumption - that what he really wanted was money (and who could blame him for that?) But all he wanted was what he asked for, and our yard signs let him know we were safe to approach. Whoa. Now, you might be thinking, Lola, what does that have to do with art? I am fixin' to tell ya! That moment of realization - where I saw something I did not expect to see, made a connection I didn't know I would make, felt things I was suprised to feel - that changed me. And that, that is what we hope to do as creatives. To make a moment like that when someone interacts with our art, our words, our writing (dancing, singing, sculpting, sewing, knitting - creating!) - that's everything. The man taught me something profound. And I am deely grateful. (100% of the proceeds from the sale of this painting will go to the Portland Food Project)
February 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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★★★★ Sublime obsession: Sarah Kent reviews Seurat and the Sea, Courtauld Gallery, the first exhibition dedicated to the subject that dominated the artist's output www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...
February 16, 2026 at 10:05 AM
ottawaensis.bsky.social
37 Linden Terrace, stuccoed Tudor, b. late 1920s,
#theGlebe #Ottawa
first home to Mr & Mrs Bernard Kraus —
we find a charity tea announced in Nov 1929.
together they operated "Berma," a name i'm guessing to have been coined from both their names
clippings from March 1932
#architecture #fashion
February 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM