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@gwchilly.bsky.social
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Late-stage generalist, RPCV🌍, history/art/jazz/fiets-urb/pro-sci/anti-dictator, gentler in person.
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gwchilly.bsky.social
František Kupka, “Family Portrait,” 1910. National Gallery Prague.
František Kupka, “Family Portrait,” 1910. National Gallery Prague.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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moreorloess.bsky.social
Everything I will say and more is in this blog post. Great use of early generation satellite images and reanalysis data, showing how and why wind direction, fetch, and speed changed as the ship crossed the lake, with the worst near the end. cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Oleksandra Ekster (Ukraine 1882–1949) :
Woman with Fish, 1934

Oil on canvas | 93 x 74 cm

Avant-garde artist and set designer

Moscow Museum of Modern Art
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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gr8flbluejay.bsky.social
Kawase Hasui, Japanese (1883-1957), Dusk at Aso (Ibaraki Province), 1936, woodcut, ink and color on paper, 36.2 x 23.8 cm, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC, USA
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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fhundertwasser.bsky.social
421 The Tower of Babel Pierces the Sun https://www.wikiart.org/en/friedensreich-hundertwasser/the-tower-of-babel-pierces-the-sun-a-spiraloid
"The Tower of Babel Pierces the Sun" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser is a vibrant, spiraling composition constructed with rich layers of color and form. Known for his unique approach to organic forms and bold colors, Hundertwasser often challenged traditional architectural perspectives, blending themes of nature and humanity in his work.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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thefifthdeclension.bsky.social
8 months ago
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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designgeekatl.bsky.social
Max ERNST (1891-1976) - Janus
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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cabaretdarques.bsky.social
Eileen Agar - Angel Of Anarchy (1940)
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
The Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition, sponsored by the Nazis, Germany, 1936
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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peterjelinek.bsky.social
"Das Problem war doch nicht etwa, was unsere Feinde taten, sondern was unsere Freunde taten."
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
gwchilly.bsky.social
“Power Conceds Nothing Without a Demand” in “Zohran for Mayor” design style
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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annekeb.bsky.social
Protest in Utrecht tegen de oorlog in Sudan - nos.nl/l/2589825
Protest in Utrecht tegen de oorlog in Sudan
Enkele honderden mensen, gevluchte Sudanezen en Nederlanders, hebben in Utrecht bij de Dom gedemonstreerd tegen de oorlog in Sudan. Velen hopen dat internationale druk, zoals vanuit Europa, het geweld...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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eric-reinhart.com
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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bartgazzola381.bsky.social
Actual Size, 1962, Ed Ruscha
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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science.org
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
A child's drawing of a female scientist, with the text: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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beatgrrrl.bsky.social
Father and Son, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1963

📷 Steve Schapiro
Father wearing playing guitar while his son is in a hanging cradle above a bed.
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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artinsociety.bsky.social
Van Gogh’s ‘Field with Poppies’ was painted from an elevated viewpoint during his stay in Saint-Paul Asylum. Its acquisition in 1911 by a German gallery was criticised as being part of a perceived “foreign infiltration of German art” by French paintings (Kunsthalle Bremen, 1889)
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
It may surprise folks that Justice Jackson, who has been one of the most vocal critics of the Court's behavior on emergency applications from the Trump administration, acquiesced in even a temporary pause of the district court's ruling in this case. But as I read the order, which says a lot more than a typical "administrative stay" from the Court, Jackson was stuck between a rock and a hard place-given the incredibly compressed timing that was created by the circumstances of the case. In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn't, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court's (forthcoming) review-and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it's a compromise-one with which not everyone will agree, but which strikes me as eminently defensible under these unique (and, let's be clear, maddening and entirely f-ing avoidable) circumstances.
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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ande91.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Flight restrictions, day one, evening update:

We *did* make it to DCA, National Airport in DC, starting from Sioux Falls. Quite late, but we're fortunate.

Here was the arrival board:

—Red is cancelled flights.
—Yellow lettering, delayed flights.
—I count only three saying "on time."
Arrival board at National Airport in DC. Nearly half of the flights have a red strike-through, showing that they have been cancelled. Almost all of the rest say "delayed."
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Johannes Itten (Swiss, 1888-1967) :
Composition in Blue. 1918

Oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts, Bern
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Mark Rothko, “Untitled (Blue, Yellow, Green on Red),” 1954. Oil on canvas. 77 3/4 × 65 1/2in. (197.5 × 166.4 cm) Not on view, at the Whitney Museum.

whitney.org/collection/w...
Mark Rothko, “Untitled (Blue, Yellow, Green on Red),” 1954. Oil on canvas. 77 3/4 × 65 1/2in. (197.5 × 166.4 cm)
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Dancing on the George Washington Bridge'
quilted artwork
by Faith Ringgold,
US artist #WomensArt
Sqyare quilt with images of Black women dancing on the air above a large netal suspension bridge within the quilt's patterned border
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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springsteen81.bsky.social
Hostias, se me parte el corazón en mil pedazos. La viva imagen del terror y la ansiedad
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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ahmacdougall.bsky.social
"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. "

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM