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Late-stage generalist, RPCV🌍, history/art/jazz/fiets-urb/pro-sci/anti-dictator, gentler in person.
This supports my hypothesis that a butterfly effect in the generation of conspiracy theories can play out over several generations ../
depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2mo agoit's the anniversary of the moon landing which means it's also the anniversary of this baseball game with extremely sparse attendance
India’s Cockroach protests: Rahul Gandhi detained after calling for PM Modi to resign
India’s Cockroach protests: Rahul Gandhi detained after calling for PM Modi to resign
Main opposition leader is bundled into a bus by police during Delhi CJP protests after accusing Narendra Modi of ‘destroying the future of India’s youth’ Indian police have detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi during spiralling youth-led protests in Delhi, after he called for prime minister Narendra Modi’s resignation. Gandhi, the leader of India’s Congress party, said on Tuesday that Modi must resign “for destroying the future of India’s youth”, before staging a sit-in outside the prime minister’s residence. Continue reading...
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AI companies are destroying our collective shared history to put it into their slop buckets, because the slop they push out would destroy their models if they tried to re-input it
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2mo agocompanies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
The New York Times's obituary for Denise Velez-Oliver, a leftwing activist who fought fight for justice her entire adult life. (This is a gift article): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Denise Oliver-Velez, a Powerful Voice of the Left, Dies at 78 (Gift Article)
She became the highest-ranking female member of the Young Lords in New York, where she pressed for women’s rights, and later joined the Black Panthers.
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Red Grooms UNTITLED (HAMBURGER), 2000 acrylic on cast plastic Sculpture 50 x 40 x 9 in / 127 x 101.6 x 22.9 cm Poster for exhibition at Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, 2000. 📷 -gw
* Followers: Do - not - accept an invite for a “Bluesky badge event” from me, as I did from someone I follow. I did not send it (and very rarely message people). I’ve notified Bluesky support, as it looks like a hack in progress. Anyone with further info or vetted advise, feel free to share.
omg .. Average July low in Salta (their dead of winter) is * 2.9 C * (37 degrees F) [from Wiki]
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 2mo agoI've never seen anything like it. Salta, Argentina, has just recorded its hottest night on record during the climatologically coldest time of the year. The minimum overnight temperature did not fall below 26°C (78.8°F), pulverizing the previous monthly record by 7°C.
This is why gender affirming care and abortion are part of the same fight for bodily autonomy. You ignore what's happening to trans people at your peril.
Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 2mo agoTrump's DOJ has accused gender-affirming care providers of colluding with drug manufacturers to violate federal law. In March, I warned this argument could easily be used against abortion providers. Today, Josh Hawley did exactly this in a letter urging DOJ to investigate abortion info site Plan C.
Obscene. Malpractice. The least transparent administration in US history. The lies and deceptions about this war are a scandal deserving of a major inquiry.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoStrikes carried out by Iran last week injured dozens of U.S. service members and damaged several helicopters, according to U.S. officials. But the Pentagon did not disclose these strikes, nor the casualties and damage they inflicted.
🎶In 1929, I sold short🎶 [A lot of that still going around] Monday #justbecause: Anita again, in 1956, with a great Vernon Duke & Ira Gershwin song from 1936, arranged & produced by Buddy Bregman. 🎙️💿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPD...
I Can't Get Started
YouTube video by Anita O'Day - Topic
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Audrey Hepburn with her dog Mr. Famous on the Paramount lot, Hollywood, 1957
Waichi Hayashi, "Rose," woodblock print, 1981. #art #arte #roses #japaneseart #japaneseprint #printmaking #woodblockprint #japanesewoodblockprint #flowers #flowerart #botanicalart #botanicalprint #museum #artgallery
Calling the National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine “a trial lawyer operation” is the talking point that fossil-fuel interests are currently repeating in lockstep to try to reduce the credibility of climate-change attribution science. The WSJ Editorial Board got its marching orders!
Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 2mo agoWSJ op-ed page doesn’t like the answers science found, so it attacks National Academies, and also looks like incorrectly wrote C02 not CO2 in their subheadline. The National Academies are a national treasure and the staff are brilliant professionals. Leave them alone.
Eureka Valley, June 1900 A view north from 21st and Castro, Corona Heights in the background left. A recent scan from a glass negative by DH Wulzen coming soon to SFMemory.org #sfmemory #sfhistory
Longer this remains tied, the more the scale tips to Messi, if this tourney is any guide ..
If you’re in line to perform in the World Cup final halftime show, stay in line!
A sample of US public television 55 years ago, from WNET New York. (Young folk, please take back public TV and radio and express your vision for a new day.) SOUL! - Dec. 29, 1971 Guests: Singer Bill Withers Poet Mae Jackson McCoy Tyner Quartet Host: Ellis Haizlip m.youtube.com/watch?v=96e2...
Bill Withers & McCoy Tyner - SOUL! (full episode, live 1971)
YouTube video by Piza 73
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Sorry to hear Jennifer Finch, bassist for Los Angeles alternative rock group L7, has died at 59. L7 performing live on British show The Word in 1992. #RIPJenniferFinch m.youtube.com/watch?v=tMyk...
L7 - Pretend We're Dead ( The Word 1992 )
YouTube video by Darren Wilshaw
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#Art: Trees on the Point (2019) #Artist: #CarolEvans (b. 1957; #🇨🇦) #ArtMovement/Style: #Realism #Seascape Medium: Watercolor 50.8 × 73.6 cm (20 x 28.9 in) #DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy #ArtPost #FineArt #ArtHerstory #WomensArt 274
Literally the next town over from East Rutherford, home of MetLife Stadium. Tomorrow‘s World Cup Final will be held down the road from a surging Gestapo operation that is violently abducting & removing people to concentration camps. The architect of the policy, Donald Trump, will award the trophy.
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2mo ago“People are not going to the hospital, canceling medical appointments, or they reach out and ask if someone can go with them,” said @cosecha.bsky.social’s Haydi Torres. “We’ve been delivering groceries for families — they don’t want to go out to the supermarket.” www.northjersey.com/story/news/i...
'50 years after Labelle’s ‘Chameleon’ album closed one of music’s most daring transformations, Patti Labelle and Nona Hendryx revisit the album’s creation and initial reception.' -- Sope Soetan www.essence.com/music/labell...
50 Years Later, Labelle's 'Chameleon' Remains One Of Music's Boldest Reinventions
Patti LaBelle and Nona Hendryx reflect on Labelle's groundbreaking Chameleon 50 years later and its lasting impact on Black women, rock and music.
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“They deserve pushback,” Gonzalez said of ICE personnel. “We want to make sure that they know that they are not welcome in our neighborhoods, that they are pieces of shit, and that what they’re doing is modern-day Nazi behavior.” www.huffpost.com/entry/arturo...
A 23-Year-Old Is Using Unorthodox Tactics To Expose Federal Agents. He Has No Plans To Stop.
ICE considers Arturo Gonzalez an “agitator,” and his tactics make even some allies uncomfortable — but many followers call him a hero.
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Fashion photography is notoriously artificial — but in a new exhibition at The Met, this idea is contended through a survey of the late photographer Lillian Bassman’s fashion media practice from the 1940s to the 2000s.
Contending With Fashion Photography's Artifice
Lillian Bassman spent decades crafting commercial images. After leaving the industry, she was finally free to experiment in the darkroom.
hyperallergic.com
“ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown. Arrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution” He’s be allowed to stay if only he had been a white Afrikaner.
ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown
Arrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution
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