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Chert
@chert.bsky.social
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Burdensome friend, lives by the river
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this is the famous elephant
In 1973, Lucy the Elephant in Margate, New Jersey, was almost torn down. Only a Saturday morning court injunction stopped the wrecking ball, according to Richard Helfant, Lucy’s executive director for the past 22 years. As he tries to raise the final $800,000 for the landmark’s present-day renovation, Helfant wants shore locals to remember that history. So, in a summer fundraising mailer, he sent a picture of Lucy from that year alongside the phrase, “Never forget, never again.” The mailer helped raise $70,000, but it also angered summer Margate residents Susan and Matthew Klyman for its obvious connection to Holocaust remembrance language. The Jewish couple asked for a public apology from Helfant, who is also Jewish, and received one in recent days. To the Klymans, the phrase is not exclusive to the Holocaust, but it should be reserved for Holocaust-type events.
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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my family’s interpretation of thanksgiving is so disagreeable to me that it doesn’t even feel like a day off
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Zurich is the most evocative and mysterious place name in the Pepperidge Farm milieu, and that's why they save it for the humble sugar cookie.
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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pulled off the road to look for tugboats
photo of Hudson River and Iona Island from just below Bear Mtn Bridge
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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terrible candy selection at the hardware store. leaving money on the table
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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part of my commute runs btw a bleaching plant and a waste incinerator and when they’re both operating at full tilt, it’s like I’m riding past the omnisource in Indianapolis again
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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chopsticks make me feel like a heron
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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7 coffee mugs seems like a lot for a single guy but each one has a special theme, or tone, such as friendship, destiny, labor, etc. that i’m meant to reflect on as i sip
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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once had to sign hundreds of appeal letters as RFK Jr bc he insisted they be printed blank so he could hand sign, and then he never showed up again from like halloween to christmas
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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just watched a guy cut the entire end of a package off with a long knife, like it was a loaf of bread
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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i hate when stupid shit happens inside the bag i’m wearing, unbeknownst to me
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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boss is leaving the warehouse early. time to get in the forklift and roll the dice on that “buried in crates for 48 hrs” obituary
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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candy flipping coffee and chamomile tea
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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bittersweet from a couple days ago
photo of a couple twigs bearing yellow and red bittersweet berries photo of bittersweet berry clusters up in the otherwise bare trees, against a blue sky. berries are mostly red with a few yellow ones
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Only ab ex guy who maintained Good Politics through the 40s and 50s. I think he was the sole surviving AAA member to show up at 63 March on Washington
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Virginia probably has one of the best shapes of any state. great profile, lays flat
November 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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it’s way too warm indoors when coming in from a bike ride this time of year, so i have to sit next to the screen door or go shirtless for twenty minutes, and I feel like a boat in a canal lock in these moments
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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sunset with no clouds, what’s the point
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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sometimes i walk by the seagulls with a chocolate croissant and they _don’t_ bully me about and it makes me a tiny bit sad
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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there are so many different ways to chill out and calm down
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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if i was a french conceptual artist i would have trailed a beautiful 20 mile long silk rope from the back of my van while driving through the queens midtown tunnel into manhattan and then up and over the 59th street bridge and tied the east river in a knot
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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got screamed and honked at by one guy who passed/was passed by me multiple times over like a full mile bc he wanted me to ride my bicycle on the sidewalk? not very international men’s day of him
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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the mar-a-lago face looks like when English people try to make muppets
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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vindication for @possumacquainter.bsky.social, whose ancient traditions not only stretch back to the dawn of human civilization, they also guaranteed our survival as a species
archaeologymag.bsky.social Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 5d
It had been previously suggested that although eating carrion requires less effort than hunting, it carries the risks of consuming pathogens. But new research suggests that early humans relied on scavenging for meat.

archaeology.org/news/2025/11/07/did-early-humans-rely-on-consuming-carrion/
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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lmao
Photo of a Red Grooms oil painting titled “De Kooning Breaks Through Revisited, ” wrapped in clear plastic. Painting depicts a shirtless Willem De Kooning riding a bicycle “through” the canvas with his famous Woman from Woman and Bicycle sitting on the handlebars
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM