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Natalia Cecire
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Ok, so re: real estate, hear me out...
Photo of a bus shelter advert for Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie. Advert included a cheerful girl wearing a bright cardigan and a cat ear headband in the foreground, a bright blue and pink shingled house with cartoon cats at the windows, and a shady-looking adult woman looking over her shoulder in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Photo of book page. Text: Poet's Work Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoff from this condensery
October 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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obligatory
Comic strip "Nancy" by Ernie Bushmiller. Frame 1: Nancy faces a boy in a hat. They are at the waterfront; behind them is a sailboat and a building with the word "BAIT" in the window. Nancy says, "I hear you're working at the fishing supplies shack." The boy says "Yep." Frame 2: Nancy alone, still in profile, cheerful. "Do they pay you well?" Frame 3: The boy replies, "They pay me in WOIMS"; he thrusts a can of worms toward a surprised Nancy.
October 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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3. You have to love your work, my hologram tells me. But you don’t know, I say, how much work it is to love.
October 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Boyle's air pump
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Still from the Simpsons episode "A Star Is Burns" (1995). A decrepit Mr. Burns, having just screened his self-aggrandizing original film, sits in the theatre seat turned slightly toward his dorky younger assistant and yes-man, Smithers, who is gesturing nervously with his hands. The caption reads: Smithers, are they booing me? No, they're saying Boo-urns
October 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Precarious Life, published in 2004
First page of "The Charge of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and the Risks of Public Critique," chapter 4 of Precarious Life
September 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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🤔
Two bright lime green leaves. The one on the left has tiny pink spots
September 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Me at every faculty meeting
Small bronze figurine of a head with an angry face and a decorated helmet coming up in a point, atop which sits what looks like maybe the head of a duck? Duck of Minerva? Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche, label info: Bronze votive. Head of Minerva, c. second quarter of 4th century C.E.
August 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Ulysses S. Grant in Ueno Park, 1879. Kanda Shrine Museum, Tokyo. #C19
Japanese print depicting Ueno Park. At left, men and red-faced demons appear to be in some kind of mock military melee. At center right, two men in American military dress look at the scene. The man in the foreground, presumably Grant, is markedly tall. At the far right, three women in Gilded Age American clothing relax in seeming conversation. Above the whole scene, a cherry tree in full bloom hangs its branches.
June 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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1. Sexually harassed 13 different women who worked for New York State, according to Department of Justice findings. 2. Has so far used at least $19 million of taxpayer funds in his legal battle against his accusers, including, in one case, subpoenaing their gynecologist records. 3. Created a fake party dedicated to women’s equality merely to have a ballot line that looked like the Working Families Party, then cast it aside when it was no longer useful. 4. During the height of the pandemic, issued an order that experts say almost certainly led to a significant spike in nursing home deaths; proceeded to cover up said nursing home deaths. 5. Kept a COVID vaccination site from opening at Citi Field over a grudge he held against former Mayor Bill de Blasio.
June 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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This finally came TODAY @miayou.bsky.social
A copy of Festival by Mia You. A white-bordered paperback book with a flat field of bright red in the middle. The title, author name, and a decoration are centred near the top in black ink
May 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I am still haunted by this kitsch painting from the first T admin, Midjourney before there was Midjourney. There is much more to the trajectory of C21 fascist kitsch than AI.
Screen shot of Andy Thomas website featuring a kitsch painting of DJT at a table with other Republican presidents. A reproduction is priced at $55.
May 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Can't believe it's DB 😳
Headshot of a partially bald middle aged white man, the photo that accompanies the "Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point" comedy headline.
April 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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When violas attack
Tube station advert for what appears to be a gangster film starring Robert De Niro called The Alto Knights
March 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Photo of crashed American Airlines flight, smoke billowing around it, with passengers huddled on the wing. Under the word "American" on the side of the plane, the word "studies" has been superimposed onto the photograph.
March 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Excuse me? 😳
Screenshot of ProPublica article with text highlighted: "Eventually he was assigned to what he called the “Black squad,” according to court records, tasked with investigating violent crimes where the suspect was African American. (A Las Vegas police spokesperson told me they stopped “dividing squads by a suspect’s race” a year before Kinch retired.)"
January 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Lots of familiar but delightful gems at NYPL's little exhibit at 42nd St, Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village, 1912-1923
SPECTRA and two issues of OTHERS in a museum vitrine, with text labels.
January 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I was very chill and restrained this time
Photo of Open Admissions by Danica Savonick, Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism by Samantha Noël, The Promise of Beauty by Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Crip Colony by Sony Coráñez Bolton
December 13, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Seen in a local Ikea
2012 viral image of a monkey in a shearling jacket, known as the "IKEA monkey" after the location in which the little guy was photographed
December 8, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Hotdog suit dot jpg
Screenshot of Guardian article linked in the quoted tweet, with text highlighted: "Universities are in a shocking state, and the new government has barely begun the herculean task of stabilising the sector."
December 5, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Saw the Wicked movie and when this train turned up my companion leaned over and whispered "Southern Rail" 💀
Still from Wicked (2024 film). A green aerodynamically shaped train covered in brass steampunk-style gears is in the foreground. Background left is a train platform with people standing on it; the extreme perspective of the shot makes the people appear small. At right the background is a field of wheat with a very tiny Theresa May running through it.
November 24, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Kate Marshall's book
Photo of Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century. Paperback cover shows a purple night sky above stylized colorful mountains.
November 19, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Iconic engraving of a photo of Walt Whitman. He is dressed casually, head tilted, wearing a hat, hands in pockets
November 16, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Reminder from my local Black bookshop
Photo of an outdoor signboard perched on a brick ledge between a building and a sidewalk. The signboard says "Afrori Books of Black Origin" with a logo of two abstractly drawn humans holding hands. In chalk, the sign reads "RESIST CAPITALISM. READ when you should be working." In the center is a stylized purple drawing of a raised fist.
November 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM