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Linnea Sterte

@decassette.bsky.social

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art; yet again. SORRY ABOUT THE EMAILS it's a lot & I'm v tired buy things/other socials: https://linktr.ee/turndecassette

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · Sep 2

takes me 3 seconds to make a post on here, 20 min to read a chapter of one piece, 4 weeks to write an email

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 3h

his art is so American it's impossible for me to judge. like looking at a fertility goddess statuette from 6000 years ago & knowing I could never fully grasp the spiritual or aesthetic significance it held for the people who created it; how a person in that culture would have reacted to seeing it

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 9h

this is for that mystical future time when I live somewhere there's people

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 9h

not so much that I'm struggling economically, more so I'm in an awkward place of not actually knowing where I want to live. for now I can sort of pay for stuff

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 10h

polachek zone but for a medium that's in itself also cool-but-unpopular

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 11h

knowing my luck they'll just keep adding weeks to the global talent visa endorsement wait time; the final letter will never come; I will be old & decrepit & london will sink into the sea

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 11h

could also just live in airbnbs indefinitely

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 12h

or slept with my body at just the right angle. it's a mystery

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 16h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 14h

back update: my back is inexplicably better. can't think of any particular thing I've done to make it so but am thankful obv

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

aaaaaaaa left there like 10 days ago. am going to itatiaia & sao paulo next

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

which part of brazil are you in this place is very large

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

kinda good imo but I'm v much the target audience

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

probably the nicest & most well-adjusted out of the bunch, maybe due to having minimal screen time w harrison ford's character

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

from blade runner. lives in this little sealed dome where she makes vr art. is special due to being the child of a replicant

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

answer the question

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

am in petropolis rn, these are garden trees but they seem to be thriving up here

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

I am, somehow

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

also saw an araucaria w bromeliads growing on it which has to be the most powerful type of brazilian tree

Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

house of some brazilian tobacco magnate. v pretty building

old white mansion or large villa in a tropical garden

dining room in said building. lots of dark, shiny wood, in an 'english style' according to the guide

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

ha ha ha yes

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Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social · 1d

PEOW2 (@peow.bsky.social) ARE COMING TO LONDON! We finally get to meet our friends from Sweden and we're absolutely elated to host a party with them on Thursday 13th November 2025, 7pm, where Linnea Sterte (@decassette.bsky.social) will be launching A Garden of Spheres.

More info: buff.ly/uLtNQrl

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

och sluta älta

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

håller som sagt på och samlar dokument till att ansöka om ett 'global talent visa' till storbritannien, tar evigheter, kommer förmodligen inte att funka. är val också att så mycket av min legitimitet som människa hänger på jobbet så svårt att prioritera annat. okej förlåt ska ut och promenera

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

tror jag skadats lite av att plugga i amerika och hur lätt det var att träffa folk där?

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 1d

brukade leva under vanföreställningen att jag kunde flytta till typ london el LA men känns liksom avlägset. känner mig på nagot sätt mindre autistisk i utlandet, alltid haft svårt att umgås m svenskar (no offense)

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