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Fig. 106, Гладкий ромбь [from the Russian or Ukrainian: "smooth rhombus/diamond"]
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coffee cakes, kutsher's, thompson, new york, 1977
coffee cakes, kutsher's, thompson, new york, 1977
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I’d deploy an update for you too if I could pal but I don’t have permissions like that
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The baseball teams are self-consciously mirroring each other. Onto sort of a commedia dell’arte thing out there. Silently they are mouthing, “runs are not the objective”
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Inning 15 is eephus pitches only. 78-year-old Bill “Spaceman” Lee will be taking the mound for both teams
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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“La Mexicaine de Perforation (The Mexican Consolidated Drilling Authority)” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX?...
tylerhuckabee.bsky.social Huck! The Herald Angels Sing! @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · Oct 12
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
October 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Going to work on a rotisserie chicken
danglinghemmie.bsky.social skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · Oct 10
it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this
October 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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My best friend owns a pug, which means my Instagram feed is littered with pug accounts.

The best of them is this French guy who is chronically unable to control his pug, Albert. I do not understand French, which makes the whole thing ever better. www.instagram.com/cyrilschr?ig...
September 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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There’s your problem, you may not wreck a train. Says so right there at subsection (a)(1) www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
“Moreno has been charged with one count of train wrecking, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.”
September 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Putting a pin in this for reasonably far down the priority list of any truth and reconciliation process
An example “main logo” image from the freshly rebranded Department of War’s brand guide. Familiar image of the Pentagon plus name of the thing. Header of the Department of War website with a white text on black variant of the logo and name. Zoomed in on the main logo image on text “ent of War” Zoomed in on the site header “ent of War” but there is conspicuously more space between “of” and “war,” also the “of” appears to be slightly larger in this variant relative to the other characters
September 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The Dulles people movers: humble and vaguely amusing design held over from another time, roaming over the tarmac like pack animals, pretty fast and convenient. How can you not be romantic about the people movers.
View out a window at two people mover vehicles in their bays at the terminal. They’re like big train compartments set on four wheels. One is sitting empty, the second is rolling down the ramp on its way. From out on the tarmac among other vehicles and planes, two other people movers lined up at another terminal, these are examples of an older design that have these things like two fins sticking out the top.
August 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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building dedicated to shelving shelved
brutalismbot.com Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · Aug 8
Bratislava National Archives, Slovakia r/brutalism
August 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Library
Glen Ullin, ND
July 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Three covers
Danish Foreign Office Journal
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Denmark
1959-1960

Images: Danish Journal Collection, University of Illinois Chicago via @archive.org; archive.org/details/pub_...
November 1960, Issue 35 A cover showing mostly night sky. Toward the bottom half, a brightly lit city scene with traffic, signage, streetlights and lit windows. Editor’s description: “The busy Copenhagen street Vesterbros Passage, as seen from the City Hall Square, is the subject of the cover. Our artist, Alex Secher, got rather wet while drawing the entrance to the Tivoli pleasure gardens (left) and the 20- storey SAS Royal Hotel, the latest landmark of the Danish capital. While painting, Mr. Secher put up his easel where the wall of old Copenhagen stood.” September 1960, Issue 34 A cover showing mostly sky. Toward the bottom, a scene of rolling farmland with some farm buildings and some hills on the distance. Editor’s description: “The cover by Alex Secher shows a Danish summerlandscape and illustrates ‘Farm of the Future’ on page 16.” January 1959, Issue 29 A cover showing mostly sky. Toward the bottom half, a large tree and a couple walking toward a low, horizontally oriented building. The cover reads 1958 but the issue came out in 1959. Editor’s description: “The cover, drawn by Alex Secher, shows an autumn atmosphere over the Louisiana Museum at Humlebæk.”
July 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Of interest - new Woody Guthrie, via David Browne www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
+ more via ‪@jonpareles.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/a...
Woody Guthrie's 'Deportee,' an Ode to Deported Workers, Has Never Been More Relevant
Woody Guthrie's 'Deportee,' about the death of Mexican migrant workers, has never been more relevant; hear a recently unearthed recording.
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July 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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If you want to watch it, it’s very funny

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Finally Somebody is asking Garth the REAL questions | Live Nation UK
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June 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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the ring of onion is going down last in one piece. that's when i feel most alive.
roadside.xor.blue old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · Jun 25
anchovies, kutsher's, thompson, new york, 1977
anchovies, kutsher's, thompson, new york, 1977
June 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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this 48-second video of a protest in ontario, california is top-tier storytelling 🤌🏽🤌🏽
June 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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May 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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been watching this guy on Bloomberg who is experiencing clinical depression
April 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The Nixonian reaction
Screenshot from Houthi PC small group chat showing a single response: New Messages JD Vance: What? Heading for part 4 of Gravity's Rainbow with title "The Counterforce" and an epigraph: "What?", attributed to Richard M. Nixon
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
DOGE Descends on the Institute for Museum and Library Services
DOGE employees and a new acting director showed up at the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on Thursday for an intended 'raid'
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March 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Wolf of Wall Street left out the subplot where Belfort’s outfit was one of the catalysts for Section 230 by suing over a forum poster accurately describing them as criminals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratto...
Wikipedia article text: Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 23 Media L. Rep. 1794 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1995),l"' is a decision of the New York Supreme Court Inb 11 holding that online service providers can be liable for the speech of their users. The ruling caused controversy among early supporters of the Internet, including some lawmakers, leading to the passage of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in 1996. Facts Prodigy, an early online content hosting site, hosted a bulletin board called Money Talk on which anonymous persons could post messages about finance and investing. In October 1994, an unidentified user on Money Talk submitted a post claiming that Stratton Oakmont, a securities investment banking firm based in Long Island, New York, and its president Danny Porush, had committed criminal and fraudulent acts in connection with a stock IPO. Stratton Oakmont sued Prodigy as well as the unidentified poster for defamation.
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM