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Liam Quigley

@elkue.bsky.social

Watching the city I grew up in being reborn in real time

November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM

nodename.bsky.social

@nodename.bsky.social

Fuck yeah

Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · Nov 4

Closing with a history lesson, and leaning in rather than backing away. Just terrific.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Nov 4

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

November 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Oct 12

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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Amalas

@amalasrosa.bsky.social

Friendly neighbours

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as kids dresses up for Halloween. It’s a New York neighborhood with small old houses, a bit worn down and askew, it’s early evening and the sun is setting painting the sky in orange. Aran is dressed as Batman, in a diy costume, and Tao as a ninja turtle (diy costume). Tao is about to ring the doorbell of an old house, while Aran stopped at the side way and is letting a black cat. The house they stopped on is old and a bit worn down, with two carved out pumpkins glowing in the front yard and on the steps.
From the house window a ghost woman, glowing in green, is looking at Tao as he rings the bell. And a ghost cat glowing in green, is sitting on the ac in front of the window and looks down at Aran petting the living cat.
The street is otherwise empty and it’s a bit of a nostalgic and melancholic scene but also warm.

October 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM

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"fart"

@jonhendren.com

ai video shit websites can instantly make it look like orson welles himself is sucking my cock but i still have to complete the hardest captcha of my life to book a bowling lane

October 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM

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Vanishing and Endangered Cultures

@nowaykgn.bsky.social

The Waura, also known as the Wauja, are an indigenous Arawak-speaking people residing in the Upper Xingu region of the Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Feathers are integral to the Waura body adornment. Elaborate feather crowns or headbands are worn by men during dances and rituals.

For the Wauja, the feathers of birds are their ‘clothing.’ After being killed, the birds are ‘undressed’ (plucked). Their plumes, having become ‘leftovers,’ will go to make up one or more adornments, mixing feathers from different birds, in compliance with the patterns of visual composition. In the case of human beings, the concept of feather adornments is conceptually similar to clothing. Featherwork is a vital element in many rituals.

The Waura tribe has characteristic headdresses, often made of feathers of parrots or other colourful birds such as macaws. In this particular case, they make use of the colours yellow and orange in a skillful way that only true artists could achieve.

Waura artisans collect feathers from vibrant Amazonian birds such as macaws, toucans, parrots, and hummingbirds. These are meticulously cleaned, dyed with natural pigments (e.g., from genipap fruit for black or urucu seeds for red), and woven or attached using cotton threads or plant fibers.

Feathers are integral to Waura body adornment, serving not just as decorative elements but as embodiments of aesthetic ideals, social status, and ritual efficacy. Adornment is a daily and ceremonial practice for the Waura, transforming the body into a canvas of joy, identity, and cosmic connection.

September 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM

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Brendan O’Kane

@bokane.org

Literary Chinese for a foggy morning, courtesy of Xin Qiji 辛棄疾 (1140-1207):

何人半夜推山去？
四面浮雲猜是汝。

Someone came in the night and stole our mountain away.
Drifting clouds surround me. (Was it you?)

September 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses

The defining experience of fascism.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

September 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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Mark Reznicek

@realmarkrez.bsky.social

The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons on Tubi look fantastic! Beautifully restored and presented in roughly chronological order. And they’re free to watch! I started with the first one, which starts in 1931. Can’t believe these are almost 100 years old now! And looking better than ever.

a looney tunes logo with a cartoon pig on a red background

Alt: a looney tunes logo with a cartoon pig on a red background

media.tenor.com

August 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Will Quinn

@willquinnart.bsky.social

A selection of old-time bunnies. These are all from about seven years ago!

(bunnies number 407, 413, 430 and 433)

August 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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Mark Reznicek

@realmarkrez.bsky.social

Here’s this week’s installment of Flash Burn Funnies by The Mad Peck. And here’s a Spotify playlist recreating the tape recipe: open.spotify.com/playlist/3sS...
Perfect listening for the pool or beach this weekend.

Underground comix strip plus 1963 tape recipe

July 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM

nodename.bsky.social

@nodename.bsky.social

@harryshearer.bsky.social Who is that singing American Tune on this week's show?

July 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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Michelangelo Signorile

@msignorile.bsky.social

Newsom met the moment. Likely didn't think it would come to this --or hoped not--but it did, and he did it. Explained stakes, didn't pull back, called Trump the dangerous authoritarian he is, not just on immigration but on everything.

Doesn't mean Newsom is right on all, or future of party. But...

June 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM

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Journey to the West Research

@jttwresearch.bsky.social

I've updated the images on my "Qitian Dasheng Monkey King Temples in Taiwan" article.

The links originally stopped working when my old uni gmail account was deleted in 2024.

journeytothewestresearch.com/2021/02/15/q...

Pic: Monkey spirit-generals from Shengfo Tang (聖佛堂) in Beigang, Yunlin.

May 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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musicrepublic.bsky.social

@musicrepublic.bsky.social

These superb Tuareg and Hausa musics recorded in Niger, in 1957, which offer a glimpse into the region’s authentic traditional cultures, are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2019/12/nige...

NIGER Musique Touareg et Haoussa de la région d'Agadez – BAM LD 353

NIGER Musique Touareg et Haoussa de la région d'Agadez – BAM LD 353 , recorded by J. Biltgen and G. Royer, 1957 (7 in, 33 RPM) ...

music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com

May 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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musicrepublic.bsky.social

@musicrepublic.bsky.social

This gorgeous album, recorded by Jacques Brunet in Central Java in 1971, which presents music performed for a Javanese Wayang Kulit shadow puppet theatre play, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/01/indo...

#Indonesia #Java #gamelan

April 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM

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Amalas

@amalasrosa.bsky.social

Summer Dreamin

Digital art of a guy jumping on a skateboard in front of a California backdrop. It’s late evening and the sun is slowly setting behind the sea and palm trees

December 31, 2024 at 12:45 PM

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Kuuranen🌨️

@kuuranen.bsky.social

Running to the night #art #ocsky

March 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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Kuuranen🌨️

@kuuranen.bsky.social

Damn I really made this banger in 2021 and then never made anything similar ever again

March 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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Amalas

@amalasrosa.bsky.social

Artwork so detailed I can make it a new pic

Zoomed in into one of my Aran and Tao illustration, now not showing the boys but a scene playing in the background. Two guys playing basketball at a local court. An override subway track behind them, as well as some trees, cars, and town houses.

Zoomed in into one of my Aran and Tao illustration, now not showing the boys but a scene playing in the background. A nyc neighborhood street at night. A small shop with fluorescent light and a man standing in front selling hot coffee. A woman from behind passing the street. A small Christmas’s tree sale in front of a garage.

Zoomed in into one of my Aran and Tao illustration, now not showing the boys but showing more of their room. An old tv with a console. The screen flickers and shows „game over“. A fan next to an unhinged door.

Zoomed in into one of my Aran and Tao illustration, now not showing the boys but showing more of the room, a bodega, they’re in. An old cash register in the middle of some store clutter. The empty box of some take out noodles, some overhead shelves with clutter, next to an blasting air conditioner.

March 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM

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Peech

@peeech.bsky.social

it is a good day to buy amalas' prints

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · Feb 19

Added a bunch of my new work to my print shop

inprnt.com/gallery/amalasrosa

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao out at night in their New York City neighborhood, kissing.
Tao sits on a bicycle while Aran stands next to him bending down a bit to kiss them.

Original characters Aran and Tao at a bodega late at night.
Tao sits at the counter, drink in one hand, pointing at a crossword puzzle in front of Aran. Aran sits behind the counter, pen in one hand the other around Aran.
The view is a top view showing the too like from an angle of a security camera

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao in a subway. It’s afternoon and the warm sun shines into the cart on both of them. Aran is sitting on a subway bench while Tao stands next to him about to take the earphone Aran is offering him

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao down in a subway station kissing. Behind them on the other track passes a subway train. A sign above them tells us that they are in New York and waiting on a train that takes them uptown & Bronx

February 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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🦆 Eliza Herndon! 🦆

@ducktwacy.bsky.social

Howdy! 👋 I’m Eliza, a storyboard artist currently working on The Patrick Star Show! 🌟🦑 If I'm not drawing cartoons, I'm watching, writing or talking about them! I love weird things, old things, and crazy things.

All of my art for the year will be linked in replies!

Thanks fer stopping by! 🦆🐖🧽🌟