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Extinct Thing

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Dodo (she/her). Artist, dinner guest, spherical Earth advocate. extinct-flightless.blogspot.com

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 6d

Currently i have one small piece, Moon Box, in the “Women of the DMV” show, at McLean (Virginia) Project for the Arts. mpaart.org
Until Nov. 1.

Wooden box assemblage with pieces of rusty metal, bone, melted glass, etc.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 1d

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 2h

When you get back to work, you all have plastic bouquets on your desks.

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 2h

We still get the Sunday, so let me know if you want any gift links.

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 2h

Can it be a clove?

Tilda Swinton, Anton Yelchin, Tom Hiddleston & Mia W. looking vampirish and cool in Only Lovers Left Alive.

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 2h

I would buy giraffes. They would need a very tall and elegant greenhouse in which to frolic among yummy trees.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 14h

Whatever was going on, there was nothing I could do about it now, and that just made me more furious. So I watched five minutes of episode 174 of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. Did that work? No, no, it didn’t.

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A.M. Tuomala @amtuomala.bsky.social · 22h

(2/2) ... Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important."

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A.M. Tuomala @amtuomala.bsky.social · 22h

From James Baldwin: "You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. ... (1/2)

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 22h

Books are empathy-generating machines.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

I might even argue that it is better to be spoilt, if one may only be reading/watching the thing one time through. The reread is a richer experience than the initial ride.

thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

That a well-crafted story does not become less compelling when you know some of the plot points ahead of time is the opinion which fire cannot melt out of me; I will die in it at the stake.

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Sex scenes are almost never "gratuitous" or "unnecessary." You learn things about characters and relationships during sex that you can't really learn any other way, such as whether they're into fisting.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 1d

power to be quoted and amplified in the media any time they feel like speaking

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

And the danger of that wealth is amplified by the power we've allllowed it to buy.

Power to influence elections.
Power to mold institutions.
Power to move markets.
Power to manipulate media.
Power to punish anyone who tries to challenge or question their power.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

Is it interesting apart from the tension, though? (I haven’t seen it.) I like things where the tense parts yield fresh rewards upon rereading/rewatching, when you can appreciate the arc.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

I worry that that doll is going to just start appearing in different pictures…

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

I never kept up with the various Star Treks, so when I read a mention of Cardassians, I picture them as Kardashians. They are very nearly human, so it fits.

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

My brain went with William S. Burroughs. 👍

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

I can't stop reading this in this voice of Hunter S. Thompson and dying.

Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 5d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

Wow!

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

This is a wholesome, most excellent thread.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 1d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

I always try not to say Hendrix’ Watchtower, but then I end up thinking about Hendrix’ Watchtower.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 1d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Callies Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things @calliedot.bsky.social · 2d

Conservatives: I’m going to the grocery store, better put on my chest plate and carry my pistol.

Leftists: I’m going to confront heavily armed and violent government goons, better get my Spirit Halloween costume.

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

#qotd “Prioritize putting yourself in a position where you can breathe the deepest.” — Charlie Follows #yoga #boundaries #advice #rustysign #foundinbrookland

A very rusty sign, attached to a tree & covered with leafless grey vines. It says PRIVATE PROPERTY / NO TRESPASSING in brown on brown.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · May 28

A digital homage/ripoff of Magritte’s painting ‘The Treachery of Images’. An image of a brown and black tobacco pipe with a curved stem sits isolated on a plain tan field. Below the pipe in black cursive handwriting is the phrase ‘Peut-être que cela arrivera aujourd'hui’ which I sincerely hope is an adequate French translation of ‘Maybe it will happen today’

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