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September 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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merryrobin.bsky.social
A thread of Inuit art that you didn't know you needed, starting with one of my favourites
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merryrobin.bsky.social Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Jan 5
Sheouak Petaulassie was an Inuk artist.
Her art can be found at the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Glenbow Museum, the Hood Museum of Art, the UBC Museum of Anthropology, the U. of Michigan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, & the Art Gallery of Windsor.
"Sheouak Petaulassie drawing beside her child in a tent, Cape Dorset, Nunavut", photo by Rosemary Gilliat. She is seated at a table, wearing a traditional Inuit outfit trimmed with fur. She is holding a pencil, looking at the camera mid-drawing, as if just interrupted. Her child is playing next to the table, but we can only see a little bit of them. There is a sewing machine behind her, it looks like a creative environment. An elegant stencil print titled "Three Walrus" by Sheouak Petaulassie, 1960. It features three abstracted walruses set against a plain white background. They are depicted in a minimalistic way that captures a lively social moment between them. Half of their bodies is submerged in water.
September 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
we gave people a magic device in their pockets with access to all the knowledge in the world and they used it to cook their brains with racist memes.
jonathanstea.bsky.social Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Sep 5
It’s wild living in the Information Age and the Dark Age at the same time.
September 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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bradheath.bsky.social
At least three of President Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
September 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
This is not heroic; it’s criminal. Make no mistake: denying people due process who are not enemies of the United States through extra-judicial executions is repugnant to everything this country is supposed to stand for like the rule of law.
September 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
everyone got SUPER mad at rachel zegler when she said this exact same thing
August 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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andytobo.bsky.social
When I think about the fact that universities are ALSO supposed to be repositories of knowledge and expertise you can't get elsewhere (and not just job training or even educational enterprises) I immediately go to ancient languages. I don't think ppl realize you can just lose them
nposegay.bsky.social Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Aug 27
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
annetteyreed.bsky.social Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Aug 27
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
August 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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martinrayner.bsky.social
Love this narrowly-focused radio station.

Makes everything seem so much more lovely and poignant than would otherwise be the case when going about one’s annoyingly tedious daily errands.

Website: handelandhaydn.org/radio/

Radio Garden: tinyurl.com/y2n5nk7f

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXct...
Joseph Haydn / Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor "Farewell" (Mackerras)
YouTube video by scrymgeour34
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
There's a traditional snack (called koba) made in Madagascar that's exactly the same as one made in Borneo—which helps prove that ancient seafarers from the latter traveled west, across 5,000 miles of ocean, and settled in Madagascar

A story more than 1,200 years old, through a snack
mrose.ink Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Aug 19
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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returnstosender.bsky.social
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
August 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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andrewhickey.500songs.com
And while looking for something else I found some footage of the show I was talking about earlier. Here's the Beach Boys, Jimmy Page, Joan Jett, the Oakridge Boys, and Christopher Cross with "Barbara Ann", with John Stamos and Mr T on drums and Brian Wilson on keytar.
Jimmy Page with The Beach Boys - Philadelphia & Washington DC 1985
YouTube video by Mark Zep
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August 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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0506oli.bsky.social
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself
Laurence Sterne

#Photography #Art #BlackAndWhite #Solitude #Nature #QuietMoments #Monochrome
July 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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July 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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kortduce.bsky.social
A great-horned owl perches on a fence post in Longmont, Colorado.

#ClassicMono #Monochrome
#BW #Blackandwhite #EastCoastKin
#bird #birds #owl #owls #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #great-horned_owl #great-horned_owls
July 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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jaywaters.bsky.social
Posting one image a day from my recent trip to the #cotswolds

Gate and Rock Fence, Cotswolds, UK
#classicmono #blackandwhitephotography #BWphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome
Black and white image of a weathered wooden gate set into a dry stone wall, with rough-cut stones stacked irregularly and tufts of grass pushing through the crevices. The scene is framed tightly, emphasizing texture and age. The gate is slightly ajar, hinting at passage or neglect.
July 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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jaywaters.bsky.social
Continuing with a post a day from my recent #UK trip

The Cloisters, Gloucester Cathedral, UK
#church #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #photographersunited #bnw #BWphotos #monochrome #classicmono
A long stone corridor with a vaulted Gothic ceiling, viewed in sharp perspective. Intricate tracery arches line the left side, casting shadows across the patterned floor. The corridor narrows toward a dark, closed doorway in the distance. The image is in black and white, emphasizing the depth, symmetry, and aged texture of the stone.
July 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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ygrene.bsky.social
just imagine you are a dog and then all of a sudden a vacuum cleaner becomes the president
November 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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scottbath.bsky.social
Morning estuary
#Scape
#FridayScape
#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#Estuary
#Misty
#Mood
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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petergleick.bsky.social
It's sad to know US scientists invented the most sophisticated weather forecasting models in the world, the satellites and instruments to measure atmospheric conditions, and an advanced alert system to warn the public of coming disasters, and the Trump administration is destroying it all.
May 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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pauleric70.bsky.social
Imagine the level of impunity you operate with to say this stuff out loud.😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱
May 7, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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thathagengrrl.bsky.social
In case you need to send this to some dingus the next time they bring up how using AI is fine + good, actually.
May 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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thismaxpro.bsky.social
Just seen it that way!

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#Nature #landscape #blackandwhite #bnw
December 26, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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badenddoll.bsky.social
love reading a 12 year old girl in 1911 write a mech pilot tweet in her diary abt the experience of driving an automobile
plaque at a local museum. "No girl, unless she knows how to run an auto, knows how it makes you feel, to push one thing, pull another and start a machine to moving that weighs so many more times the amount she does. Sort of a thrill, an uplifted feeling as though you were doing something wonderful. You are, too! Fancy moving something that weighs TONS by a few twists and turns. I held my breath for fear something would happen." -Isabelle Young, age 12 (Diary excerpt 1910-1911)
April 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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April 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM