The débo
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Straddling US / France* / West Africa
[Image: Mural/Stencil Art — Banksy / Timbuktu, Mali, W. Africa]
[Image: Mural/Stencil Art — Banksy / Timbuktu, Mali, W. Africa]
Pinned
![The initiated: the sacred dancers of the "Nwantantay", a Bwa plank mask of rural Boni, Burkina Faso, West Africa. [Jean-Claude Moschetti, series: Magic on Earth"]
Carved from a single piece of wood, the Nwantantay's vertical superstructure with its bold geometric designs represents Bwa ideals of social and moral behavior: zigzag lines denote ancestral paths, x-shaped markings echo Bwa scarification marks, checkered patterns, duality or opposites, concentric circles, the cosmos ... a white crescent moon at the apex.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:huvfxpt56vnr523tdmjas5bq/bafkreifnmpkmqmguiptt4xbwkr3f7pf4oq43fsiz33dwdzudyzzxvryqbm@jpeg)
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Ever feel like you've been lied to your whole life? *glares angrily at the so-called Equatorial Guinea*
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ever feel like you've been lied to your whole life? *glares angrily at the so-called Equatorial Guinea*
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December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Coming soon: The Camembert Caper.
We are in peak French heist season.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Coming soon: The Camembert Caper.
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Coming soon: The Camembert Caper.
We are in peak French heist season.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Coming soon: The Camembert Caper.
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This image from the Perseverance Mars rover came down yesterday.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This image from the Perseverance Mars rover came down yesterday.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
Holding out for crêpes.
If someone hits him with sugar next they’ll have cookies by the end of the week
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Holding out for crêpes.
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![In parallel: An aesthetic nod to West African women and, parenthetically, to the ethnic Serer equine-culture. [Franco-British street artist YZ Yseult's open-air female warrior portrait framed simultaneously by a horse and cart, ubiquitous in Senegal]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:huvfxpt56vnr523tdmjas5bq/bafkreihesfelfs2bb4lwywoqehotidohjhrx3e3gh6wzfkrjoa7u7axawi@jpeg)
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The password to the cold room was escargot.
We are in peak French heist season.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The password to the cold room was escargot.
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
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11-23 is Fibonacci Day & I always fall into a spiral
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
11-23 is Fibonacci Day & I always fall into a spiral
When Africa is in on the equation ...
![Fibonacci on a macro scale: the continent of Africa overlayed with the Fibonacci spiral. [11/23 Fibonacci Day]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:huvfxpt56vnr523tdmjas5bq/bafkreib45ot6gko7hzbsprwxvtgdd2jeokdpkn5pdkectb7wuo5ehygf6q@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
When Africa is in on the equation ...
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struck down by falling leaves
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
struck down by falling leaves
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Talk about hitching your wagon to the wrong star.
NASA confirms Earth has a new 'mini moon' that will accompany us for the next 50 years
Astronomers detect the new quasi-satellite 2025 PN7, a small asteroid that will accompany Earth until 2083.
www.earth.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Talk about hitching your wagon to the wrong star.
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Me, inconspicuously hanging my own painting in the Louvre.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Me, inconspicuously hanging my own painting in the Louvre.
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On the lookout at the Louvre.
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On the lookout at the Louvre.
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COWORKER: do anything fun with the family this weekend?
ME: yeah, went to an art museum.
COWORKER: did you take any pictures?
ME: no, we left them on the walls.
ME: yeah, went to an art museum.
COWORKER: did you take any pictures?
ME: no, we left them on the walls.
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
COWORKER: do anything fun with the family this weekend?
ME: yeah, went to an art museum.
COWORKER: did you take any pictures?
ME: no, we left them on the walls.
ME: yeah, went to an art museum.
COWORKER: did you take any pictures?
ME: no, we left them on the walls.
Me, inconspicuously hanging my own painting in the Louvre.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Me, inconspicuously hanging my own painting in the Louvre.
Reverse-heist?!
cybernews.com/news/louvre-...
cybernews.com/news/louvre-...
Pranksters bypass Louvre’s security and sneak painting in
Influencers have outsmarted the Louvre’s security and snuck their own artwork into the museum by building the frame from LEGO bricks
cybernews.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reverse-heist?!
cybernews.com/news/louvre-...
cybernews.com/news/louvre-...
On the lookout at the Louvre.
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On the lookout at the Louvre.
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And so it shall be
And so it was.
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And so it shall be
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🎶 Looking Back / Over my shoulder ...
![A raffia-clad, traditionally-masked Bwa ceremonial dancer emerges over the shoulder of a master tama-player, whose very drumbeats give rhythm and cadence to his steps. Dédougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa. [Anthony Pappone, Series: "The Spirit of the Masks"]
*Reference to "Over My Shoulder" lyrics by Mike + The Mechanics](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:huvfxpt56vnr523tdmjas5bq/bafkreiaz5rqeh7kshmaonepumqbsvx65dopj26wci7bibewu5tpjuqn7pa@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🎶 Looking Back / Over my shoulder ...