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geoffsilver.bsky.social
I’m an estimator for a high-end residential GC in NYC. The detailing—metalwork, plaster, exotic millwork like rosewood—is next level. Trump just picked some mid-range statuary slabs and used off-the-shelf plaster pieces painted with gold leaf.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
mrswh.bsky.social
Even the “statuary marble” bathroom looks cheap.
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
shahbanu.kawaii.social
but do you have statuary ✨ tension ✨
Divinity of Light - a gold statue of a nude woman crowned with lightning and holding a bundle of the same in each hand Vulcan with anvil and hammer, holding aloft a freshly-made spear point. Oh also his cheeks are out
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
baldpatronus91.bsky.social
He’s so full of it. The marble in the floor is not “statuary marble.” Does the David or the Pieta have veins of color running through it? And isn’t what he called “bookended” just lattice?
craigbrittain.com Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 6h
Trump: As a little boy I'd be sitting there playing with blocks, I guess. I build better than anybody else, nobody can build like me, you can ask Steve Witkoff. My dad would build a floor out of tile, they used to call it Linoleum at the time.
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
altcdc.altgov.info
Oooh we like this one for how much it would upset Trump. Maybe paint the walls with famous Black Americans? Statuary from Kehinde Wiley throughout.
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
bambooshooti.bsky.social
Bates was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in November 1999, shortly after her death. In 2002, her home in Little Rock was designated a National Historic Landmark. In 2024, a statue of her was placed in the National Statuary Hall Collection, one of two statues representing Arkansas. /end
The statue of Daisy Bates in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Photo credit: 5newsonline.com.
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
oldukprintads.bsky.social
Nov 1893: Soap ad from Brooke's

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November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
ladyviolalloyd1.bsky.social
So was Westminster Abbey, and there’s so much stuff packed in there between all the people buried there plus all of the ornate statuary etc. Awesome place!
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
nbbelsky.bsky.social
Lake and Gardens with Statuary Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolay-bogdanov-belsky/lake-and-gardens-with-statuary-landscape
Lake and Gardens with Statuary Landscape
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
fenrisgames.com
where d'you want this statue of Set?

Set it down there, son.

Is it just the one?

No there's a set of them.

Okay, that's that settled.

More new statuary coming soon! Enough to set you up for life!
model of a blackened stone statue of Set, a jackal-headed god of deserts, disorder and violence from Egyptian mythology. He's standing on a cubic stone plinth in a hallway of arches.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ordofibonacci.bsky.social
Nicholas Penny: Lively Statuary in Florence before and after Andrea del Sarto
The Frick Collection
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Nicholas Penny: Lively Statuary in Florence before and after Andrea del Sarto
YouTube video by The Frick Collection
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November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
jondresner.bsky.social
Mamdani is going to impose Selkie Law. Transformation rights for sea mammals on all piers and docks, eldritch lovers on all platforms, all public statuary to have mer-folk revisions, including NYPL Merlions.
lalalachesis.bsky.social Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d
mamdani is going to impose Sherry Law. sips before supper, subsidies for casks of amontillado, & rich fascists bricked up in high-rise basements.
alana-m-vincent.net V is for תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ @alana-m-vincent.net · 2d
Mamdani is going to impose Salvia law. Parsley, rosemary, and thyme will be hunted to extinction.
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
shabbydude.bsky.social
As a single issue statuary marble polish level voter, I find this to be the best administration of my life
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, and I assure you absolutely no ritual sacrifices going on inside, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886

#photography
A large Masonic temple at night, with Ionic columns, ornate features, flanked by human lions statuary.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
brianwilcox.bsky.social
Perhaps a bathroom could be named after Trump. A bathroom done in statuary marble and gold fixtures.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
lianeterese.bsky.social
"Anytime the court requires the government to meet a statuary duty, the executive may claim "irreparable harm" merely because it prefers not to act. This is not separation of powers."

James Sample, Nov 8th
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
thatnoahgrey.bsky.social
Passersby (For K.)
#photography #photosky #statuary #crucifix #b&w
#carmelmission #california #stfrancis #jesus #oc
"Passersby (For K.)" by Noah Grey. A B&W photograph of a weathered statue of St. Francis entwined in ivy, taken at Carmel Mission in California. The saint's face is gentle and contemplative, his downturned eyes resting on the large crucifix, which seems nearly as tall as he is, that he holds tenderly in both hands. Time and the elements have softened the marble, streaking it with subtle textures that echo the folds of his robe. Lush ivy climbs around him, threading through his shoulders and beard. The contrast between the rough stone and the dark, velvety leaves is intended to give the image a quiet, reverent mood, as though nature itself is embracing the saint and the literal cross that he bears. The title is taken from "Be passersby", a saying of Jesus recorded in the Gospel of Thomas, and is dedicated to someone very dear to me about whom I... hope.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
twittermarv.bsky.social
I live in one of the poorest cities in the tri-state region and I can visibly see an increase in people asking for help, clearly unhoused etc in the last month

And all I could think of when I saw a bunch of these human beings struggling today was “highly polished statuary marble”
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
twittermarv.bsky.social
HIGHLY POLISHED STATUARY MARBLE
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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And IIRC it turned out that wasn't the last day, because of Senate votes. But I'm glad I treated it as if it would be.

Late the night before I took a good camera through the Capitol Building when it was virtually empty, in case I'd no longer have my pass.

(Got another job there in Jan. though!)
An ornate, warmly lit part of the Cox Corridors inside the House Wing ofg the U.S. Capitol. It features a high, vaulted ceiling decorated with colorful painted panels depicting scenes and patterns, each framed by cream and gold moldings. A large bronze chandelier with glowing glass lamps hangs from the center of the ceiling, leading the viewer’s eye down the polished marble floor that reflects the light. Along the hallway are wooden doors and carved trim, with a sign for the women’s restroom visible on the left. Interior of National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, the Old Hall of the House, looking east. The chamber features a semicircular colonnade of marble Corinthian columns, red and gold draperies, and a coffered dome ceiling with gilded rosettes. A large chandelier hangs over the checkered floor, and numerous statues line the walls, representing figures from American history. Wide view inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda taken from the Senate side, facing toward the House chamber. The polished patterned stone floor is partially cordoned with brass stanchions and red ropes guiding visitors through the space. Tall columns and niches circle the room, with large framed historical paintings and standing statues evenly spaced along the curved walls beneath the soaring dome. View looking upward from a spiral staircase rising from near the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol. A circular ceiling with pale blue panels and gold trim, and large brass chandelier with many bulbs can be seen at the center, framed by a curved railing and pale yellow walls warmed by the light.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
naschystoupee.bsky.social
Mr. Arkadin aka Confidential Report (1955)
Mr. Arkadin's secretary (Terenece Longdon) and his cronies summon Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden) by phone to see his boss immediately. The secretary is in a room surrounded by statuary. Guy is sitting on a bed with Mily (Patricia Medina)in a hotel room.
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
jefeweiss.bsky.social
Hiding some poems
from the past and
about the past
in a room with a window
A picture of a window that I can't look out anymore. The view through the window is washed out by bright light. There is a blind in front that is open and white light shines through slats. The window is pale yellow and the window frame is light green. There is an air conditioner in the window at the bottom. I have been writing a lot about mental health, for reasons. Di-gnosis and St. Istical Mythology Diastolic Systemic Mythology Diabolic Status Tickle Manual Dungeon Snacktistical Manual Diagnosis Significantly Magical Dissociative Surreal Mythology Distinctive Statuary Metaphorical Before names there was a single great disorder But now we have A compendium of quiet catastrophes With names we can share With friends and other prosocials I feel clinically insignificant the egregore gives me side eye gods hide in metaphors Sufficiently advanced mental illness is indistinguishable from magic. Presenting with one of more of the following: Descent and bubbling the poles Quietly negotiating with yourself to release the self you are holding hostage. Going to the underworld Wanders into metaphors without supervision What if I just go batshit crazy, what then? The spiral curriculum visit the same state with different eyes see it all again seems like loops with different eyes you are not the same sometimes a fall sometimes a climb Therapy why? Men will literally go to therapy to avoid going to therapy It makes no sense I told my therapist I never talked about it because I thought maybe it was contagious. I didn’t want anyone else to have to be like me. Entrained madness all a bored It's kind of neat when I go crazy I can lock me in the basement so I can go to work. If you read this far, thanks for reading this far. I may repost these some other time and in some other form. I don't think they are done, but I have trouble letting go, this I know.
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
john.muccigrosso.org
TBH, recent attempts at monumental political statuary have not been great, even on the left.

(Gotta fix a couple of the image links.)
MLK, jr., Colossus
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November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
lessbarb.bsky.social
In Egypt when there was a dynastic shift, only the faces on the statuary were scraped off. To my mind it would make a bigger statement if we just drew a big orange circle with a diagonal slash through all things bearing the name, 'Trump'.
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
mojorising911.bsky.social
Weren't the Articles of Confederation displayed in the East wing?
Where the hell are they, and where is all the priceless historical statuary and art?
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM