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Iykyk
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Fan of democracy, arts, sciences, history, exploring, musical instruments, and a habitable planet Earth.

I used to write for silver, now I write for life.

UID a paleoanthropology reference, not ancestral homeland. I eat starter packs for lunch.
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The hands remind me of the Last Judgement tympanum at Autun.
Closeup of section of the Last Judgment tympanum at Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d’Autun, with creepy hands grabbing a condemned person by the neck.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Translating from Russian isn’t easy (link below).
Text from The Guardian’s Luke Harding outlining phrases in the Trump “proposal” that appear to have been translated from the original Russian.
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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From the second article of impeachment against Nixon, which passed the House Judiciary Committee with 7 GOP votes. Different time.
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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From the second article of impeachment against Nixon, which passed the Judiciary Committee with 7 Republican votes. Different times...
Text from article: "Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposes of these agencies."
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Anyone else remember this?
Boris Johnson in front of the infamous Brexit bus, with writing on its exterior claiming a yes vote would save the NHS £350m a week.
October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Seems like a message here:

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...
Nobel Peace Prize official announcement includes a paragraph about standing up against authoritarians.
October 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Just posted this, from OregonLive:
October 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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On OregonLive, the website of Oregon’s leading newspaper, The Oregonian, the editorial board is blunt:
The editorial’s lede, emphasizing that there’s no cause for sending federal troops, that protests have been limited and relatively placid, and that Portland Police have said that among the few scuffles, some were provoked by federal officers themselves.
September 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Bernini’s Ludovica Albertoni in… religous… ecstacy. His St. Teresa is pretty good, too.
Bernini’s funerary sculpture of Ludovica Albertoni, supposedly in religious ecstacy, that seems to be… something else.
September 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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September 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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This sums it up, first the expert, then Trump:

www.reuters.com/world/us/acc...
Quote from Reuters article: Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that, in some respects, "the ideological beliefs of the shooter don't matter. What matters is how they're taken by society. And if our society chooses to keep pointing fingers, whether the person turns out to be right, left or just unstable, then the violence will grow from the pointing of fingers, regardless of the act itself.” Kleinfeld said most perpetrators of political violence were not clearly on one ideological side or another, but typically driven by "a hodgepodge of conspiracy beliefs and mental illness.” Speaking to NBC News on Saturday, Trump did not hold back from blaming his political opponents. “I’d like to see it (the nation) heal,” NBC quoted Trump as saying in a brief telephone interview. “But we’re dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don’t play fair and they never did."
September 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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This seems normal for the… Southwest.
September 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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San Marino.
September 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Still from the movie Airplane!, where Striker’s endless monologues are boring people into committing suicide, this time by hanging.
April 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Keith Carradine, Wallace Shawn in the film The Moderns.
April 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Sounds like an amazing trip. Chinon is beautiful and has so much history. England’s Henry II died there, and Jeanne d’Arc recognized the disguised Dauphin there. But that photo is Chenonceau. This is Chinon.
Chinon.
April 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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How I arrived on BlueSky.
Snoopy dancing.
April 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Cover of the book Almost A Miracle by John Ferling.
April 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Claire’s Clam.

letterboxd.com/film/claires...
April 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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post a gif of who you wanted to be as a little kid

I wanted to drive one of these.

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Semi truck.
April 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Hitchcock’s elevator story.
April 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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His stupidity is all-encompassing.
Screen grab from Wikipedia about the Long Depression, which depending on the metric, lasted from 1873 to 1879 or 1899.
April 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The old system wasn’t working...
Cover of The Economist magazine from 10/19/24, calling the U.S. economy “The Envy of the World."
April 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Just want to share the opening of the totally normal email from the American Association for the Advancement of Science:
Screen shot of email from AAAS that says: This week has been another tough one for the science and engineering community. Whatever the impacts have been on you, know that we at AAAS stand with you, and that we are redoubling our efforts at every turn to speak up for our members, our community, and the best possible outcomes for science and the world. In fact, your input can strengthen our voice. You can help us underscore the impacts of federal actions at the local level by
April 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Not quite six months ago.

www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/imag...
Cover of the October 19, 2024 issue of The Economist, with the cover story: The Envy of the World America’s Economy: A Special Report
April 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM