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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 3h

“More carbon has been emitted since the first ‘World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,’ published in 1992 and signed by more than 1700 scientists, than in all of human history before.” –@dwallacewells (via @greatdismal)

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 4h

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Sheryl Crow & Emmylou Harris (Live) : Pale Blue Eyes

YouTube video by TheChoughs

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 4h

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A History of Taste: Taste and Morality

A long cry from the shallow debates on trends of our age, in the 18th century, Taste was seen as an expression of morality and goodness.

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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 9h

Frame #5071 from E92 2 Bee or Knot 2 Bee

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 7h

#rumramruf, #richard_wilbur

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 8h

"Night Time" - my oil painting 12"x16"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

madoccassia @madoccassia.bsky.social · 1d

Is there, like, an interregnum during which a book should be gracefully retired, until such time as it becomes "a classic, an artifact of its times"?

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 8h

since they discovered new factors in 1961

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 10h

the cliff continues to hang

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 11h

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Your Electric Vehicle, Powered By Dead Chinese Migrant Workers

A commercial street frequented by Chinese and Indonesian workers near the entrance of the industrial compound in Weda Bay, North Maluku, Indonesia. (Wufei Yu/Grist)

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 11h

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A theme for maniacs

The theme in question. When did the first few bars of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 become a signifier of an unhinged personality, and thereby a horror cliché? The question was …

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 11h

do you mean c/2025 a6 (lemmon)? i can't seem to corroborate your info

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Scott "Apeshot" Gilbert @apeshot.bsky.social · 16h

"Towards Enemy", 2021, acrylic on paper, 14 x 11 inches, by Scott Gilbert. #art #abstraction #Painting

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 12h

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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 6d

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1962

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 15h

@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @nowarwarren.bsky.social @thekismetmag.bsky.social thank u for this amazing book, & for this searing account of an indispensable collection of voices & witnessings which cannot now be erased, revised or wiped from the historical record.

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