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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 5h

As at th' Olympian games or
Pythian fields;
Part curb their fiery steeds,
or shun the goal
With rapid wheels, or fronted
brigades form:
As when, to warn proud cities,
war appears
Waged in the troubled sky, and
armies rush

II, 530-534

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Dave O’Hara @davoh.bsky.social · 5h

Badlands fauna for Felix: https://davoh.org/2025/10/12/badlands-fauna-for-felix.html

A bird is perched atop while a bison grazes below on a plain background.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21h

George Mackley’s wood engraving The Deserted Farm, 1952

a road crossing a narrow stone bridge, a broken tree, still with leaves, and a larger house by the road side

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 5h

Hearing it now - thanks!

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 5h

Have you heard this banger? youtu.be/H3D48fTsGNc

Pretty Baby

YouTube video by Sister Sledge - Topic

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Erin Ryan Hey ♿️ @erinryanhey.bsky.social · 1d

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the precursor to the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). It’s important to separate the two in this context. It was passed a full 15 years before the ADA, + remains the bedrock of equal right to Education for children with disabilities. 1/

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 1d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 6h

We are family.

youtu.be/uyGY2NfYpeE?...

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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 3d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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Raymond Larabie @rlarabie.bsky.social · 6h

The shutters droop, the awning sulks, but someone still waters the cactus. 📷🚗

シャッターはくたびれ、テントはふてくされ気味。それでもサボテンには水がやられている。🌵🏠

#streetphotography #griiix #ricoh_gr #ricohgr #ricohgr3 #nagoya #japan

A color photo of an old storefront with a faded turquoise awning and partially closed metal shutters. The sign above reads “荒川カメラ” (Arakawa Camera). The left side of the shop is dark and empty, while on the right a pale pink car is parked halfway inside the garage. A small cactus and potted plant sit neatly on the ground out front, adding a touch of life to the otherwise still, sunlit scene.

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · Jul 5

Here is my painting of the good life.
#art

My painting of a blue sweatered frog sitting on a stack of books whilst enjoying a coffee and the daily newspaper.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 6h

Friends are always telling me,
you're a user.

I don't care what you do to them.
Just be good to me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foyw...

The S.O.S. Band | Just Be Good To Me (1983) | Extended HQ version

YouTube video by Valentijn Vos

www.youtube.com

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 6h

Junior out there as a senior rocking his hits.

The man's voice is still 🔥, much love.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN5t...

Junior Giscombe - Too late

YouTube video by Fitzroy Coward

www.youtube.com

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 7h

LOVE ME
RIGHT.

WHAT'S THE MATTER
WITH YOU?

HOLD ME
TIGHT.

WHY
MUST I TELL YOU
WHAT TO DO?

youtube.com/shorts/P4G3Q...

You Got the Love – Rufus & Chaka Khan 🔥 1974

YouTube video by Uylee's Boutique ® and Hair, plus music!🎶

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · Nov 12

Lithograph on Arches Velin by Alexander Calder (1971)

Image: XXe Siècle n°37

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 7h

One of the biggest Prince influenced hits that didn't actually come from his Minneapolis orbit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL2...

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 8h

It's that time of the year...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkFh...

Apple Picking Ad - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 8h

buddy's pizza sunday is the only reason i survive detroit lions evening games

the Detroiter

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 8h

Made apple pie with the last of the McIntosh apples from my garden to bring to my neighbor's Canadian Thanksgiving 🇨🇦

A basket full of McIntosh apples from the garden (one tree orchard?)

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 8h

Maria.

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 18h

Halloween Parade

#art by American author & illustrator Phoebe Wahl

A colorful illustration showing a parade of costumed and masked figures going through a nighttime forest. There is a little skeleton and a little devil, a butterfly, a woman with her baby dressed up as witches, a person costumed as a yellow flower, an animal carrying a pumpkin lantern (I’m not sure what it is, maybe a fox? It’s very cute) and a girl with a pink crown carrying a golden star.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 11h

Remains of a medieval building on the banks of Minster Pool, Lichfield.

Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 10h

it’s such a privilege to be able to teach from the heart

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 11h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Travertin📷🍀 @travertin.bsky.social · 4d

Facade with blue and white
📷Jan van der Wolf
#minimalism #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2rxJaW3

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