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Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy.
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in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
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Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
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The Marl Pit in four parts
digital painting
digital painting
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Marl Pit in four parts
digital painting
digital painting
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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salt marsh
A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
salt marsh
A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
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Woodcut print by Eline Brontsema, Blue Swimming Hall , Fincknsteinallee 2024. Size 67.8 x 51 cm.
October 29, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Woodcut print by Eline Brontsema, Blue Swimming Hall , Fincknsteinallee 2024. Size 67.8 x 51 cm.
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Just keep this in mind and every day is easier.
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just keep this in mind and every day is easier.
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God keep me from ever completing anything.
October 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
God keep me from ever completing anything.
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Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick!
October 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick!
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‘There is no getting around the weirdness. We don’t really know what it is or what it was for.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript
Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
‘There is no getting around the weirdness. We don’t really know what it is or what it was for.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
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Press conference announces that the shooter's bullets said:
Fired bullet:
"Notices bulges owo whats this?"
Other unfired cases:
"hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three downarrow"
"O bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao"
"If you read this you are gay lmao"
Fired bullet:
"Notices bulges owo whats this?"
Other unfired cases:
"hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three downarrow"
"O bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao"
"If you read this you are gay lmao"
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Press conference announces that the shooter's bullets said:
Fired bullet:
"Notices bulges owo whats this?"
Other unfired cases:
"hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three downarrow"
"O bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao"
"If you read this you are gay lmao"
Fired bullet:
"Notices bulges owo whats this?"
Other unfired cases:
"hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three downarrow"
"O bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao"
"If you read this you are gay lmao"
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Born on this day in 1857, in Rotterdam, Dutch impressionist George Hendrik Breitner. Here, his self portrait w/ cat picture in the background. Nice touch.
September 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Born on this day in 1857, in Rotterdam, Dutch impressionist George Hendrik Breitner. Here, his self portrait w/ cat picture in the background. Nice touch.
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need to get that job where you're like on an old timey tiny rail cart and you pump a handle up and down to move it along
August 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
need to get that job where you're like on an old timey tiny rail cart and you pump a handle up and down to move it along
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Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
August 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
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I need more help getting all these wet priests rung out and dried. All these damp priests keep falling in! Foolish dock priests can hardly stay upright, they love to fall in the bay, they want to be damp.
August 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I need more help getting all these wet priests rung out and dried. All these damp priests keep falling in! Foolish dock priests can hardly stay upright, they love to fall in the bay, they want to be damp.
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named estuary magazine's mudboy of the month
June 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
named estuary magazine's mudboy of the month
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Boating party, 1893. Of course baby is along and nobody has a life jacket. Living dangerously with Mary Cassatt, born OTD in 1844.
May 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Boating party, 1893. Of course baby is along and nobody has a life jacket. Living dangerously with Mary Cassatt, born OTD in 1844.
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2/2 Feeding the ducks, 1894. Baby about to leap from boat to join cute quackers and of course no life jacket! Sure mum in gorgeous pink dress would leap in after her. By Mary Cassatt in a Japonisme moment.
May 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
2/2 Feeding the ducks, 1894. Baby about to leap from boat to join cute quackers and of course no life jacket! Sure mum in gorgeous pink dress would leap in after her. By Mary Cassatt in a Japonisme moment.