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Santiago Sánchez-Cordero
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Clear skies are the dullest 🌅 #photography
September 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A black and white sticker of an octopus replacing the Apple logo on my laptop.
July 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The Pacific Northwest is so beautiful.

#sunset #photography
Sunset with dappled clouds scattered across the sky, as well as cargo ships lining the horizons. Location is the Pacific Northwest.
July 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Ursula Le Guin is everywhere. #booksky
June 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Drop your horror crush 🖤
#filmsky
June 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Falling upwards.

From China Miéville’s Zibaldone.
www.chinamieville.net/zibaldone

#booksky #bluesky #writingcommunity
May 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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These Irish monastic lyrics written between the VI and IX centuries brought me great joy and serenity. I hope they do the same for you.

#poetry #booksky #bluesky #writing
April 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I can’t breathe after seeing the images of the latest massacre. Starved families sheltering in ruins were bombed and burned to death. 400 killed.

And they still speak of civilization vs barbarism…
March 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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From the plane window overflying Washington state.

#photography
#nature
#mountains
#bluesky
Snow-capped mountains seen from a plane window.
January 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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🔗 www.thistleblog.com/saturns/

(Photo by NASA)
#philosophy #politics #astronomy #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #humanrights #palestine
An observatory on a mountain summit above a sea of clouds. Photo by Nasa.
January 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Sunny wintry days are the best. ❤️❄️
A snow-covered tree backlit by the sun Ducks on a frozen pond caught in fiery sunset light Tiny human shadows at the edge of the ocean on a wintry beach
January 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Me voy enterando que en 1981 mi papá vio a Borges, Paz, Aridjis, Grass y Ginsberg leer su poesía en vivo en la Sala Ollin Yolitztli 🤯

Encontré el programa de esa noche imperial en la CDMX:
December 24, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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📽️ “He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

📬 On the visionary #cinema of Jean-Luc Godard:

https://www.thistleblog.com/jean-luc-godard/
Anna Karina in the film LE PETIT SOLDAT holds a perforated page over her face, letting you only see her eyes.
December 16, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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📽️ FIVE EASY PIECES is such an underrated and beautiful film, easily my favourite Jack Nicholson movie.
Poster for the movie FIVE EASY PIECES showing Jack Nicholson playing the piano on the back of a pickup truck
December 11, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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📬 Last week I wrote about ORLANDO FURIOSO on my blog. Here are a few more incredible illustrations Gustave Doré drew for the sixteenth century epic. 🐉 ⚔️

Read my post here:
https://www.thistleblog.com/atalantes-castle/

#art #literature #BookSky #philosophy #fantasy
A winged horse takes flight to a castle in the mountains as two knights watch in awe A knight makes his way through a crowd A knight atop a griffin surveys a forest full of flowers A knight and a griffin surveys an army gathered
December 9, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 8, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 7, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 5, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 4, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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📬 This week's newsletter is an essay on #art and interpretation.

#philosophy #literature #BookSky 💙📚
December 2, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 2, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
December 1, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
November 30, 2024 at 7:57 PM