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Tom Cat 23
@tomcat23.bsky.social
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Poet. Artist. Music and other noise maker. Modular synth builder. Child of fortune and student of life. Graduated hammer college. Dad of 2 wonderful kids.
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scottpooleartist.bsky.social
New Painting
“Paper Boat Dream”
20” x 16”
Oil on Canvas

#art #oilpainting #fineart #ocean #paperboat
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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chef-bruce.bsky.social
Reminder to schedule a colonoscopy
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Good morning from Glasgow
The sun rises though mist over the trees and rooftops of south east Glasgow. The sun's golden light spreads through the mist giving everything a golden glow. Above the mist the sky is clear and blue with only a few scattered clouds
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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nataliehall.bsky.social
New boot goof
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants you to believe she’s suddenly serious and respectable. But we didn’t imagine the last five years we have receipts. Including… whatever this was. New script, same actress.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
My favorite iteration of the thing is whenever he looks like a muppet so Steve ditko nailed it in this drawing
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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sarahbc.bsky.social
a little anti-ChatGPT* poem by Elinor Wylie (1921)

*my interpretation
THE FALCON Why should my sleepy heart be taught To whistle mocking-bird replies? This is another bird you've caught, Soft feathered, with a falcon's eyes. The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are coloured like the sun, Her breast is coloured like the moon. Weave her a chain of silver twist, And a little hood of scarlet wool, And let her perch upon your wrist, And tell her she is beautiful.
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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shadow27.bsky.social
I will depict hatred, but only to show that there is something more valuable.
I will depict a curse to show the joy of liberation from it.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I will depict hatred, but only to show that there is something more valuable. I will depict a curse to show the joy of liberation from it. I will depict the boy’s understanding of the girl and the process by which the girl opens her heart to the boy. In the end the girl will likely say to the boy: “I love you, Ashitaka, but I cannot forgive humanity.” Smiling the boy will probably say: “That’s all right. Let’s live together in peace.” This is the kind of film I want to make. — Hayao Miyazaki (Speaking about Princess Mononoke もののけ姫 ) Excerpted from "Starting Point: 1979-1996"
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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mikeisaac.bsky.social
if i posted photos of someone like this my partner would be texting me with a link to the tweet accompanied solely with “?”
😍😍😍
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This is lunacy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is, at best, an environmental lawyer. He has no experience or degree in medicine or science.

This is tantamount to me, an English major, giving NASA a Post-It outlining how they should revise their entire approach to the astrophysics of dark energy.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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longpainter.bsky.social
This past summer in Newport. 6”x6” oil
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Tina Weymouth - Oliverio Toscani, 1985
b&w photo of the bassist - caught in movement, her head surrounded by a storm of blonde hair
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽‍♀️
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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cooperlund.online
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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evandorkin.bsky.social
If AI was so great they wouldn't have to force it on everyone.
#FuckYouGoogle
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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evelmiina.bsky.social
Normal fairy
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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lolennui.bsky.social
watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump
Rama duwaji looking angelic with her chin resting on her palm
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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matpringle.bsky.social
O is for Owl Service from my linocut #folkhorroralphabet inspired by the 1967 novel by Alan Garner which he adapted from Welsh folklore. There’s a television series from 1969 which holds up surprisingly well.

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An illustrated linocut block and print of a young woman with long hair in chunky knitwear holding her open hands up to her face. The palms have owl eye patterns on them.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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andrewmale.bsky.social
Hendrix was a huge SF nerd - I know this because I once commissioned a feature called Jimi Hendrix’s Five Favourite Science Fiction novels - so I’m in no doubt as to who is the biggest fan here.
ronrandall.bsky.social Ron Randall @ronrandall.bsky.social · 1d
If this doesn’t brighten up your feed just a bit then I don’t know what.
Photograph from March 1968 of Leonard Nimoy and Jimi Hendrix.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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molly.wiki
Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide quote: "Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience members died of internal haemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, in the destruction of the planet Earth." "Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings" has been superimposed with "Robert F Kennedy Jr"
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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jefstec.bsky.social
Chicago sunset tonight
Photo of a mottled red and grey sky over trees
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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scifiart.bsky.social
Robert McCall ‘Of Time And Space’ (20” x 25 ½”, acrylic on board, 1990)
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This vile man, who has sexually assaulted over 20 women and an unknown (so far) number of girls, *never* had control over himself.
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM