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John Downes-Angus

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NYC teachers/parents—consider signing! Don’t think we need to use children as experiments for tech companies.

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Please enact a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in NYC Public Schools

The use of AI in the NYC schools is expanding, despite the lack of rigorous protections and the growing evidence that it can undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, creativity, critical thinking,...

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December 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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Jesse Locker

@jessemlocker.bsky.social

Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896, Watercolor and gouache on paper, 17.5 x 16 cm (Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki)

"The odd charm of The Garden of Death can most likely be attributed to the fact that Death is depicted as a gentle character, as is most often the case in Hugo Simberg's work. Why is Death, the very essence of destruction, tending to the potted plants and flowers that are metaphors for life and regeneration? Simberg believed the garden of death to be a place where souls go before entering heaven. He depicts human souls as plants, almost as if man is as undeveloped compared to his paradisical self as a child is compared to an adult. The painting does not reveal whether all the souls in the garden end up going to heaven, or why it is necessary to wait in the garden in the first place, but the atmosphere is nevertheless one of peace rather than anxiety." https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-garden-of-death-hugo-simberg/gQHpogSZmOytvQ?hl=en

December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM

e.k. buckley

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Street mural of St Lucia holding a plates with two wyes as a little kitty walks by

December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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Kathryn Tewson

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This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · Oct 3

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

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October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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Cat Cordeiro

@topmarx.bsky.social

Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen

August 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM

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Hunter Walker

@hunterw.bsky.social

Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn

A sign on a pole that says:

A RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN
Properly Dispose of Your Dog's Waste
Place It Into The Nearest Cybertruck
IF YOU SEE ELON MUSK. YOU MAY ALSO DEPOSIT IT DIRECTLY INTO HIS MOUTH
CITY CODE ELNZ-A-DKHD
DEPT. OF @FOLAFIA, CITY OF NEW YORK

May 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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Tal Lavin

@swordsjew.bsky.social

Look at this guy. It's a takin, which is an ungulate native to Tibet, and an absolute unit

a takin, with gold and black dappled fur, short black horns, a black snout and big muscles

March 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM

e.k. buckley

@ekbuckley.bsky.social

Queequeg dreams about the whale @mobydickatsea.bsky.social

Rectangular oil on canvas painting of abstracted human figure in a coffin shaped outline holding a harpoon-like spear bending across the composition over the tail of a white, skeletal sperm whale in a dark green background

February 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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Anna B Ehlers, a Tlingit of the Chilkat tribe, Alaska, skilled master weaver #womensart

Photo, outdoors, of two indigenous women wearing woven cloaks decorated with symbolic motifs and with a long fringe

February 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture

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Arshile Gorky, Diary of a Seducer, 1945

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135294

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden

February 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Guggenheim Collection

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Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America Since 1946 by Carlos Motta, 2005

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137307

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund, 2014

© Carlos Motta

February 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM

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Tal Lavin

@swordsjew.bsky.social

all i have to say is

udrēaaaaaaaaaa

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The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian

YouTube video by Peter Pringle

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February 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM

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Jeff Sharlet

@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

November 24, 2024 at 6:57 PM

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Ferris Jabr

@ferrisjabr.bsky.social

Music Teacher: How would we characterize D# minor?

Billy: I dunno, sad I guess?

Schubart: The soul's deepest distress, blackest depression. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, they would approximate this key.

From Christian Schubart's Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1806) translated by Rita Steblin in A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. UMI Research Press (1983).
C major Completely pure. Its character is: innocence, simplicity, naïvety, children's talk.
C minor Declaration of love and at the same time the lament of unhappy love. All languishing, longing, sighing of the love-sick soul lies in this key.
Db major A leering key, degenerating into grief and rapture. It cannot laugh, but it can smile; it cannot howl, but it can at least grimace its crying.--Consequently only unusual characters and feelings can be brought out in this key.
D major The key of triumph, of Hallejuahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.
D minor Melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood.
D# minor Feelings of the anxiety of the soul's deepest distress, of brooding despair, of blackest depresssion, of the most gloomy condition of the soul. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key.
Eb major The key of love, of devotion, of intimate conversation with God.
E major Noisy shouts of joy, laughing pleasure and not yet complete, full delight lies in E Major.
F major Complaisance & calm.
F minor Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave.
F# major Triumph over difficulty, free sigh of relief utered when hurdles are surmounted; echo of a soul which has fiercely struggled and finally conquered lies in all uses of this key.
F# minor A gloomy key: it tugs at passion as a dog biting a dress. Resentment and discontent are its language.
G major Everything rustic, idyllic and lyrical, every calm and satisfied passion, every tender gratitude for true friendship and faithful love,--in a word every gentle and peaceful e…

January 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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gamera obscura

@ohrobin.bsky.social

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.

“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”