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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 1h

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Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 14h

The stereotype that married men demand porn star edgy kinky sex from their exhausted wives just isn’t true. Women generally are the ones with the elaborate kinks.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 10h

The late -19th century into the early 20th really was a golden age of illustration (Rackham, Dore, Beardsley, Dulac).

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 10h

I honestly think dysmorphia and mortality neurosis are at the root of fascistoid mindsets.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

Claims that organs are failing all over the place, that it causes brain damage in 100% of cases, that people are walking around with an undetectable virus eating them from the inside out because they won’t mask 100% of the time in public.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

Turbo cancer is 100% an antivax thing, so to see it in the other side of the spectrum is like confirmation of COVID horseshoe theory in a live specimen.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

Every once in a while I run into a COVID zero type dead ender, and the more time goes by, the more their claims get unhinged and frankly crossbred with antivax conspiracy theories. Just saw one in Jamelle’s replies saying vaccines are good but COVID itself causes “turbo cancer.”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Not merely rejecting Enlightenment secular liberal ideals that arguably have Christian roots. Just, like, straight up stuff about theology proper that would have been understood as heretical by the very earliest of Christians, directly contrary to the explicit biblical sayings of Christ himself.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 11h

Christianity was always woke. It introduced the idea that everyone is a child of God independent of caste, creed or gender (a universalism later secularised into humanism).

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty convinced by Tom Holland's thesis that a lot of things we take as secular ideals about morality are in fact contingent outgrowths of Christianity. But it's striking how they manage to reject not just all that, but foundational Christian dogmas going all the way back to the apostolic age.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"'If he wasn’t heaven-bound, if he wasn’t meant for this purpose, he wouldn’t have beaten Hillary,' said Eric Trump, taking the opportunity to plug his book and bash DEI and Colin Kaepernick." Well *that* settles it! www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-w...

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 11h

‘twink Siegfried’ 😅. But yes, his draughtsmanship was out of this world.

I love this image of Alice — the way he captures a moment of chaotic motion.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 11h

One has to risk manage oneself with schedules and perpetual self-audits, as it were.

The problem is, there are some things that cannot be done with total intentionality. Falling in love is an obvious example.

Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 11h

I’m struck that for many even leisure becomes work: an intentional practice of self-improvement. This hyper-intentionality at worst suggests a heightened vigilance: a fear that if one’s life does not conform to a strict regimen of self-management one will do something stupid, or sinful…

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 11h

There’s something to this interesting article. Not that living intentionally is bad as such of course; but this new neo-protestant ‘life admin’ cult whereby one micro-optimises one’s every activity risks neurotic rigidity and leaves no room for spontaneity…

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘A highly scheduled life doesn’t serve us’: has living ‘intentionally’ gone too far?

Carefully planning your routine can feel good in a chaotic world – but experts say we should ‘choose when to choose’

www.theguardian.com

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the vardaman ensemble @vardamanens.bsky.social · 1d

One I haven't used before: D.I. Go Pop by Disco Inferno. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Mz...

Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (1994) [Full Album]

YouTube video by Santiago Bernhardt

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 21h

At some point in Melinda Cooper's 5-hour @thedigradio.bsky.social marathon she explains Greenspanism as a macro-framework that is actively tolerant of asset bubbles, and when one pops the priority is to defend the monetary conditions for the next one to arise

Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 21h

Bubbles are good, actually…

on.ft.com/476jUkn ‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy

“Of course there’s a bubble,” said Hemant Taneja, chief executive of venture capital firm General Catalyst, which raised an $8bn fund last year and has backed Anthropic and Mistral. “Bubbles are good. Bubbles align capital and talent in a new trend, and that creates some carnage but it also creates enduring, new businesses that change the world.”

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 16h

A strong statement on refusing to resign to AI resignation www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Birthday Bob Mould!

#Daily80s

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Hüsker Dü – Sorry Somehow

YouTube video by koxykoxykoxy

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 12h

Latest BBC Front Row tonight! Guillermo Del Toro on getting Oscar Isaac to channel some Oliver Reed into Victor Frankenstein. While I lurk in the shadows. Such a wonderful conversation. Such a gorgeous film. R4 715 or link www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Rock Music Association @rockmusicassoc.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday to Bob Mould, founder, guitarist and songwriter for first wave 80s hardcore band Hüsker Dü; went solo then later helmed 90s altrockers Sugar. While rousing as a solo artists, Mould spent years writing wrestling matches for WCW and just announced a Sugar reunion. Born 10/16/1960.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 3d

Good Morning, would you have any treats on you?

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 15h

He illustrated Wagner’s Ring Cycle @palomar-qfwfq.bsky.social

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 15h

Typical 😅

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1d

In Herbert Badham's 'The Night Bus,' (1943) the interior lights highlight the different figures and their gestures, all still, fixed in the moment. A woman reads a magazine, a man smokes, the conductor chats to a passenger.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 20h

How does an artist see beyond the distractions of faces and clothes to hint at the hidden world of thoughts and emotions? In Harold Knight's painting of his wife Laura (1924) he achieves this by depicting her reading a letter, allowing us to see into her private world.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18h

“The A.I. of Kirk, clearly and obviously not Charlie Kirk himself, is presented not as speaking for Kirk but as Kirk speaking himself. The intent might be spiritual revelation but the effect is something like necromancy mixed with a carnival act.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...

The Last Enemy is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future

How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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