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j. lee
@unrealcities.bsky.social
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specialist in failure. maelstrom-mouthed fish-trap. falling like lightning over my own feet mostly. arsenal til i die. 🇵🇭
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zeets.bsky.social
Son has been fundraising for Gaza but no one has openly called out the silence of the institutions like this though.
therealbozz.bsky.social ms @therealbozz.bsky.social · Aug 9
That's incredibly direct from such a big player. Don't remember the last time someone of his stature did something like this.
August 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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zeets.bsky.social
Mo Salah is asking the right questions
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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paulduane.bsky.social
What Moore says next in the interview is more important, to me. Nobody is coming to save us, we have to do it ourselves, in community with each other.
And, more important than condemning the forces driving this multi-faceted disaster, let us take responsibility for ourselves and our communities. Let us for God’s sake stop relying on these leaders and their self-serving social structures that lead us nowhere save into the abyss. If we want things to exist – things like proper education, health and welfare services – then let us give our energies, our time, our money, our art, to the numerous community projects that are springing up of necessity and attempting to counteract these privations of the state or the toxic world it has created. Support environmental movements and protests, stand up for the rights of minorities and women at a moment when those rights are being clawed away from them by the horror story/laughing stock currently in the White House, form Arts Labs or start fanzines in recognition of the fact that we should probably think about providing our own art and entertainment too, and do something, some little or big thing to make the world around you more like the world you want to live in. Good luck.
May 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?
April 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
My gaming friends are devastated (they can't be consoled)
Nintendo Halts Switch 2 Pre-Orders Over Trump's Tariffs
New tariffs threaten massive price hikes on gaming hardware and other consumer goods
kotaku.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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littlestpersimmon.bsky.social
Dorian Gray
art depicting the characters from Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Basil lifts the curtains of a portrait of a woman he painted long ago in her youth, as his friend Dorian holds him by his face tenderly. perhaps, Basil is unable to see which is the true Dorian, and which is twisted and gnarled.
January 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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snarlsdickens.bsky.social
Percy knew how it felt
Screenshot of Percy Shelley’s poem “England in 1819,” moving from an assessment of the parasitic terrors of oligarchy to a fragile hope that this might be the moment when things change.
February 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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sweatermuppet.bsky.social
redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇
December 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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hjm.bsky.social
Winter Cardinal (On a Japanese Calendar), a new collage by Tony Fitzpatrick. His work is wonderful.
Collage of a white-feathered Northern Cardinal sitting on a branch against a grey background littered with motifs (cut out cartoon legs, card suits, gloves, flowers, berried twigs etc)
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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solfi.bsky.social
Moral of the story is: I chose a half measure when I should have gone all the way. I’ll never make that mistake again.

#art #FE3H
Claude von Riegan, Three Hopes version, killing Shahid with an arrow against a black background with flowers and paisley ornamentation
January 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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micchiato.bsky.social
Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.
Los Angeles Times + @Latimes Follow Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts say
January 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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romatowski.bsky.social
Goddamn.
Three tweets from Clean Air Club an hour ago Is now a good time to mention that last month over 25 Los Angeles schools rejected our offers of completely free air purifiers for every single classroom on their campuses? There's a widespread hostility to anyone offering solutions at the intersection of climate change, pandemics, and resource depletion. It was wild to get replies along the lines of "don't contact us ever again" when we were literally offering tens of thousands in free gear When you try to solve a problem that most people are in denial about, you're going to encounter hostility and gaslighting instead of enthusiasm and solidarity
January 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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palaeosinensis.com
Never walk into a cage willingly. If you're already in one: break out.

Digital faux linocut. Another plan for the future. #art #tiger #quotes #fauxlinocut #printmaking #linocut
December 29, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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shakespeare.lol
O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!
January 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
The left has made space for anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists for too long. Anti-vax is fundamentally a stance against solidarity and collectivism.

It is one of the most individualistic, nihilistic positions you can take. It’s not anti-pharma. It’s anti-human.
January 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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jehadabusalim.bsky.social
Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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colsonwhitehead.com
Too Dr. Manhattan?
davidleheny.bsky.social David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · Jan 3
There are 12 other answers but, as you'll see by reading the first two responses, @colsonwhitehead.com pretty much sums it up

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
Roland Busch, the chief executive of Siemens, the industrial company based in Munich: 2025 will be the year of industrial A.I. It will be a powerful tool to address skilled labor shortages and boost productivity, creating substantial growth opportunities. Siva Sivaram, the chief executive of QuantumScape, a developer of solid state lithium-metal batteries based in San Jose, Calif.: In 2025, the race for global battery supremacy will intensify amid growing demand across sectors like transportation and A.I. The battle for lithium-ion batteries is lost to China, but the future depends on next-generation technologies that outperform them. I hope the United States leads in this new era of energy storage. Colson Whitehead, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author: I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue.
January 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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bclev.bsky.social
A little kid in a dark hoodie with a Spider-Man toy and I guess this is like a photoshoot of some kind, like maybe for pre-school or something, and there are three different frames and in each one this kid is making the maddest and grumpiest faces! There is also text in each frame: CONGRATS HAPPY FOR YOU NICE
December 31, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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radlein.bsky.social
Rolling into 2025 like
Famous diagram of bullet holes on bombers that made it back to base safely
January 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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tobyfox.undertale.com
January 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY.
December 25, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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starshine.bsky.social
i often forget that this tweet was about guitar center changing its logo
frog "Philip K. Dickgirl" kosaric @yurirando Follow when they burned the library of Alexandria the crowd cheered in horrible joy. They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes
September 1, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
A publicly-funded study of the venomous saliva of the Gila monster is exactly the kind of silly sounding basic science John McCain and Tom Coburn used to rail about in the Senate, but it changed the course of medicine pretty substantially in the last 20y. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
December 21, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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rays666hell.bsky.social
A symbol of perseverance, or a sign of treachery.
(Good Luck)
#art
December 21, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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ianmcque.bsky.social
often wonder what my obsession with partially obstructed abandoned steps to shadowy doorways might mean. Anyway another haunted ruin
Ink drawing of an abandoned, overgrown ruin.
December 21, 2024 at 7:29 AM