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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 11h

Indigenous art and culture are not only surviving, they’re thriving. But sustaining that future requires support. Acknowledging Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Indigenous survivance is a start, but there’s a critical need to turn recognition into tangible action.

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Let’s Support Native Art

Acknowledging Indigenous survivance is a start, but there's a critical need to turn recognition into tangible action.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 19h

On the set of ‘The Night of the Hunter’ (1955)

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 13h

Husbands just told me he's been brushing his teeth in the shower for past few months as new routine. When a toothbrush appeared on the shower shelf a few months ago I thought it was to encourage us to clean the grout on a more regular basis.

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@DesignOneThing @designonething.bsky.social · 13h

Happy birthday José Mendoza y Almeida. The unsung illustrator, graphic and type designer, noteworthy for numerous type designs, and his significant influence on French typography, was born today in 1926.

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@DesignOneThing @designonething.bsky.social · 13h

Happy birthday Dorothy Liebes. The acclaimed textile designer, educator & entrepreneur, famous for her innovative use of color and materials, a long list of notable commissions, and advocacy of therapeutic craft programs, was born today in 1897. #textiledesign

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 17h

Autumn Durald Arkapaw, cinematographer for Sinners, The Last Showgirl, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Loki & more, photographed by Romer Pedron for Vogue Philippines.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 17h

This type of brightly glazed ceramic was made for only about fifty years, during the reign of emperor Minghuang – who ruled from 712 to 756 – when the Tang dynasty was at its height. At the time, the capital city Chang'an (modern Xian) was one of the most populous and cosmopolitan in the world.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 17h

Whale/Shoe bottle — Netherlands, c. 1685
Leather

A thing that looks like a shoe except over the heel there's an open mouth with some big teeth but then above that there's no opening to put a foot in and then if you go down to the tail (because it's a whale as well as a shoe) you can see that the tail unscrews and the whole thing is functionally a bottle. the Rijksmuseum thinks this was probably done as a show off piece by someone in the cobbler's Guild to show how good their leather working was

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 19h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 19h

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 20h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 17h

Coffee wakes you up and reading The Atlantic sends you to 💤

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20h

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 20h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · Feb 5

“There were no disagreements in Stalin’s universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes.” — Tony Judt, “Postwar”

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 17h

Neude Library, Utrecht; formerly the main post office. Built 1917-1924 to a design of the Amsterdam School by Joseph Crouwel. Statuary by Hendrik van den Eijnde.

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 18h

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18h

A little disturbing to find an empty gun safe lying open at the side of the road.

Gun safe or gun case? Hard plastic lockable case with foam cutout for a pistol.
Contents nowhere in sight

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h

Has anyone ever been told their "cardiac age" after their routine six month annual physical before? Is that a thing that actually happens somewhere other than in the Walter Reed platinum suite?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, color me shocked.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

Police who stopped Tommy Robinson ‘had reasonable suspicion’ of far-right links

Activist refused to give police his phone pin when stopped at Channel tunnel in July 2024 Police officers who stopped Tommy Robinson as he tried to leave the UK last year had reasonable suspicions that his phone contained information relevant to acts of terrorism, prosecutors have told his trial. The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel tunnel on 28 July 2024. Continue reading...

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 18h

Yes!

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 21h

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir

Noir Necktie Tuesday

Gangsters, politicians, and murder

Alan Ladd & Brian Donlevy
The Glass Key, 1942

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 21h

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir

Noir Necktie Tuesday

Edward G. Robinson behind the scenes
Key Largo, 1948

Edward G Robinson blowing circles of smoke from his cigar behind the scenes of Key Largo

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 19h

Such brilliant casting of this movie

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 19h

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 21h

#filmsky #moviesky #thriller #filmnoir

Lillian Gish #BOTD in 1893
in one of the scariest noirs —
Night of the Hunter, 1955

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

Absence of a plan for the people of Gaza is very worrying. So many - including thousands released from harsh prison conditions - returning to find their homes and neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. No-one yet offering any hope, and from what I hear Trump refusing to discuss.

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