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Arha, Priestess of the Nameless Ones 🌑
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Hello__wait, what do we call the denizens here? New account, same @DaTenar. Moving is a process.
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Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs ("hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
June 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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What’s a poster you had in your room growing up?
1970's "Building a Rainbow." A bright colored rainbow is under construction, surrounded by workers, scaffolding, cranes, and in the outer frame of the artwork workers are also flying and lowering bits of colors towards the partially constructed rainbow.
June 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Ooh, thanks.
This one—
https://design-milk.com/desktop-wallpaper-june-2024-with-jackie-tahara/
Graphic illustration of a giant squid menacing in a turquoise ocean, the sun setting in a dim beige sky as a red orb in the upper left of the scene.
June 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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(The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in springtime is exceptionally floral)
Nasturtiums season in the Gardner Museum Courtyard, Boston. Indoor garden courtyard with sculptures, mosaics, greenery and lots of colorful spring flowers, mostly hothouse forced bulbs. As well as the special hanging vines of orange nasturtiums, all around the interior balconies. Gardner Museum Courtyard. Boston. From below, a closeup view of orange nasturtiums vines hanging from a 3rd floor (US floors) balcony.
April 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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At a conference last week in Austin, Texas, exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Rubin told the audience how, in hindsight, there was not enough resistance when press rights began going away in his home country. "We did not resist for the small things," Rubin said. After his panel at the International Symposium on Online Journalism, an annual meeting of global journalists, academics and funders, Rubin expanded for me how the Russian government was adept at taking "small steps and normalizing not normal things." Years ago, he said, independent journalists like him could follow the president around as a reporter in the Kremlin press pool. Then the Kremlin began to choose who could be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and who got to travel with him. At some point, Rubin said, he was relegated to watching Putin's speeches from the press center, via a broadcast conducted by Putin's personal cameraman. "The point was to keep independent journalists away from him so we wouldn't ask questions or look around." This, Rubin knew, was not the reporting he wanted to do.
March 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Going to add the text, bc really good point.
Photo quote of Lincoln: The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them. Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them. These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them.
March 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Overlay of the original outline of Shawmut peninsula on current city map from Leventhal Map Collection BPL.org
Map & color key for Boston infill “Boston Over Time Filling in the Land 1630 -Present Red = Boston in 1630 Green = Land added 1630-1880 Blue = Land added after 1880”
March 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Oh wow. Been a looong time since I read this.

I’m adding the Alt Text bc this really should be shared.
Selected text: <bold>Historical Underdosing:</bold> To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts. <bold>Historical Overdosing:</bold> To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts. GENERATION X
March 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Alt text for this photo quote recommending the resources available at girightshotline.org
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the [non-profit] Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487
February 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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White text on a black background “Nazi salutes and purging black and female military members is means there's no quiet part anymore, it's just racism and sexism all the way down.”
February 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Alt text added to photo quote from “There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID,” by David Ignatius in WaPo, 21 Feb 2025
Here's the wreckage as of Feb. 14, as compiled by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. At least 11,500 Americans and 54,575 foreigners have lost their jobs. Nearly $1 billion in payments for work already done has been frozen. Nearly $500 million in food is sitting in ports, ships and warehouses. In Syria, a country struggling to recover from chaos, food and other support for nearly 900,000 people has been suspended. In West Africa, 3.4 million people in 11 countries have lost drug treatment for deadly tropical diseases. At least 328,000 HIV-positive people in 25 countries aren't getting lifesaving drugs.
February 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Alt Text added to photo quote from “There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID,” by David Ignatius in WaPo, 21 Feb 2025
Here's the wreckage as of Feb. 14, as compiled by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. At least 11,500 Americans and 54,575 foreigners have lost their jobs. Nearly $1 billion in payments for work already done has been frozen. Nearly $500 million in food is sitting in ports, ships and warehouses. In Syria, a country struggling to recover from chaos, food and other support for nearly 900,000 people has been suspended. In West Africa, 3.4 million people in 11 countries have lost drug treatment for deadly tropical diseases. At least 328,000 HIV-positive people in 25 countries aren't getting lifesaving drugs.
February 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Headline: Pet Feline Eats Potato Chips and Watermelon Text: Boston.-An unusual eat is Marma-duke Shillyshanks, a Dorchester feline who eats watermelon and potato chips and drinks from the goldfish bowl without disturbing the goldfish. Marma-duke, the property of Joseph Gannon, was born in a baby carriage and slept in it until he was old enough to leap to the top of the radio cabinet. There he naps daily, undisturbed by crooners or jazz bands, occasionally rising to take a little water from the nearby goldfish bowl.
February 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Calvin talking & looking up to his left at Hobbes, while they’re walking thru the snow. His text bubble above their heads says: DEI INITIATIVES WERE NOT PUT IN PLACE TO ENSURE LOWER-QUALIFIED MINORITIES COULD GET HIRED INSTEAD OF MORE HIGHLY-QUALIFIED WHITE PEOPLE, IT WAS PUT IN PLACE TO ENSURE LOWER-QUALIFIED WHITE PEOPLE WERE NOT HIRED INSTEAD OF MORE HIGHLY-QUALIFIED MINORITIES.
February 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
Godzilla Loves you meme A 3/4 profile of original Godzilla, not roaring, just a toothy kinda grin. Text above the tweet photo says: “Saying ‘my life stinks’when things go wrong is self deprecating, defeatist, and fills you with sadness. Saying ‘this isn't the life Godzilla wants for me’ is motivating, makes you think about Godzilla, and reminds you that Godzilla cares about you.”
December 28, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Alt Text, just in case
Linked in post full text: Aaron Foyer • 2nd Energy Transition Research • Orennia • MBA 23h I'm a big fan of Billy Bob Thornton, so I hate to dunk on him for his viral clip from Landman. But he claims, "in its 20-year lifespan, la wind turbine] won't offset the carbon footprint of making it." Link to the video: https://Inkd.in/g_FG8_GN Jeremy Burleton and I dug into his claim: 1. Wind turbines are made from oil, but not too much. A standard 1.5 MW turbine uses ~30 barrels of oil for resin to make carbon fiber and other plastics that emit 15-20 tonnes of CO2. 2. The most carbon intensive component is the steel and concrete. Another ~230 tonnes are emitted from making the bones of the structure with steelmaking and concrete production. 3. In total, that comes to ~250 tonnes of CO2 emitted. What's avoided? A 1.5-MW turbine operating 30% of the time for 20 years that displaces natural gas will avoid ~40,000 tonnes of CO2. That's ~160x more than what's emitted from building and operating it. Said another way, wind turbines have a carbon payback period of ~2 months. Sorry BBT. Friday Night Lights is still the bomb. photo of BBT from the TV program tagged with ORENNIA
November 29, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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The front garden maple tree is really losing its leaves right now. They’re so pretty I brought some inside to look at until they dry out.
Maple leaves arranged in a diamond pattern that looks like a star. Various colors of reds and orange.
November 12, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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If you see this, post a concert photo you took
Janelle Monae at Boston Calling, 29 May 2016. I’m sorry, I’m not sure which song it was in her set. Perhaps her final cover of Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy. It would fit, she’s being picked up by two men wearing white coats & carried offstage after singing her heart out & miming fainting—
November 12, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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[text screenshot, unsure what social media] Matt Mazzuckelli 17h • Things I can personally confirm: 1. Within 12 hours of my FEMA application I was approved for hotels. 2. Within 48 hours I had a $750 emergency expenses payment in my checking account. 3. Last night I did my first interview with a FEMA rep. 4. They've had a ground presence for days. 5. I personally have not seen any looting etc. There is a lot of bad info going around. And if you don't take the time to fill out the form, you won't get anything. And if you can read Facebook you can take 7 minutes to do the form on your phone.
October 14, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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I got these nice basic 5” serrated & 8” bread knives recently I’m really liking using them. And this is an ice cream scoop I inherited, which absolutely never fails to scoop something no matter how frozen the ice cream.
Left to right on top of an epicurean cutting board: A 5” serrated knife with a blue handle, an 8” knife with a black handle, and a silver colored metal ice cream scoop where the handle and scoop are in one piece.
September 23, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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No. Nope. NOT!

I don’t give a good go**amn re her sexual or not behavior.

She was in an UNDISCLOSED, very close relationship w RFK Jr., while he was a Presidential CANDIDATE, when writing a Joe Biden profile! Anyone who does this, shouldn’t be a gossip columnist, let alone a journalist. NOT EVER!
Liz Dye making excuses for Nuzzi— “I agree. But I also think sexually shaming her is gross. She's a good journalist and she's going to pay a huge price already.”
September 20, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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New Hampshire's Medicare recipients are paying less for life-saving insulin, thanks to Democratic leadership!
An illustrated message poster with a stethoscope & a couple syringes & a calendar, like you’d find in a doctor’s office that treats diabetes patients, on a light blue background. “New Hampshire's Medicare beneficiaries now pay just $35 monthly for insulin thanks to the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act.” (This message is in black text. The state, monthly price, insulin, & the law that enabled that price are all bolded for emphasis). “Zero Republicans voted for it!” (White text in a red banner at the bottom of the poster).
September 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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I’ve been working my way through the debate from last night. This was the best moment so far—
On right, photos MVP Harris in her navy suit and blouse, laughing happily when she accepted the Dem nomination. In the left meme text in red & white “DONALD TRUMP GOT FIRED BY 81 MILLION PEOPLE AND HE’S HAVING A HARD TIME PROCESSING THAT”
September 12, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Crane Beach, Ipswich, MA Sunset on the beach, walking towards Little Neck. Pale blue sky with low clouds along the horizon, the setting orange-yellow sun casting minimal light on the receding waves on the right. A backlit headland is on the left, the almost entirely empty beach is ahead.
September 7, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Repost with a favorite book from your childhood:

Hard to pick, but my parents said they swore by this one—
Book cover “The GILLYGOOFANG, by GEORGE MENDOZA, illustrated by MERCER MAYER” The illustration shows a green crested fantasy creature with droopy big eyes and a slightly smiling mouth, hidden in rocks and weeds in an island in the middle of a river/pond surrounded by deciduous trees.
September 1, 2024 at 10:10 PM