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Albert Bierstadt - A Storm in the Rocky Mountains (1886)
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Albert Bierstadt - A Storm in the Rocky Mountains (1886)
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"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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My pre-adoptive identity IS my identity. To conceal it is to violate the right to know who I am.
People who dismiss our demands for the truth with “love is stronger than DNA” are engaged in deliberate and desperate obfuscation.
And concealing the truth is the opposite of love. 🥚
People who dismiss our demands for the truth with “love is stronger than DNA” are engaged in deliberate and desperate obfuscation.
And concealing the truth is the opposite of love. 🥚
‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity
Some people can get all the way through adulthood without knowing they are adopted. Should the government tell them?
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
My pre-adoptive identity IS my identity. To conceal it is to violate the right to know who I am.
People who dismiss our demands for the truth with “love is stronger than DNA” are engaged in deliberate and desperate obfuscation.
And concealing the truth is the opposite of love. 🥚
People who dismiss our demands for the truth with “love is stronger than DNA” are engaged in deliberate and desperate obfuscation.
And concealing the truth is the opposite of love. 🥚
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I'm constantly amazed by adoptive parents who are also writers who talk about honoring people's stories but also continue to speak for and over adoptees.
Do you not grasp that we adoptees experience life through a lense you can't possibly understand?
Please stop writing and speaking for us.
Do you not grasp that we adoptees experience life through a lense you can't possibly understand?
Please stop writing and speaking for us.
July 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm constantly amazed by adoptive parents who are also writers who talk about honoring people's stories but also continue to speak for and over adoptees.
Do you not grasp that we adoptees experience life through a lense you can't possibly understand?
Please stop writing and speaking for us.
Do you not grasp that we adoptees experience life through a lense you can't possibly understand?
Please stop writing and speaking for us.
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Rockwell Kent, Moonlight in the Adirondacks, 1960. Oil on Panel
June 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Rockwell Kent, Moonlight in the Adirondacks, 1960. Oil on Panel
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Goodnight.
🖼️ La Maison, René Magritte, c.1947.
🖼️ La Maison, René Magritte, c.1947.
June 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ La Maison, René Magritte, c.1947.
🖼️ La Maison, René Magritte, c.1947.
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"It's a bright June morning now and I have the windows open to let the quiet out"
From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World: bit.ly/saeedalive
#poetry #books #writing
From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World: bit.ly/saeedalive
#poetry #books #writing
June 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"It's a bright June morning now and I have the windows open to let the quiet out"
From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World: bit.ly/saeedalive
#poetry #books #writing
From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World: bit.ly/saeedalive
#poetry #books #writing
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Things that feel better than doomscrolling:
-cleaning your home
-taking a walk
-playing with a pet
-calling a friend
-donating to charity
-reading a book
-taking a hot shower
-eating a meal
-building a puzzle
-stretching
-working on a craft
-planning how to spite your enemies
-going to sleep early
-cleaning your home
-taking a walk
-playing with a pet
-calling a friend
-donating to charity
-reading a book
-taking a hot shower
-eating a meal
-building a puzzle
-stretching
-working on a craft
-planning how to spite your enemies
-going to sleep early
May 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Things that feel better than doomscrolling:
-cleaning your home
-taking a walk
-playing with a pet
-calling a friend
-donating to charity
-reading a book
-taking a hot shower
-eating a meal
-building a puzzle
-stretching
-working on a craft
-planning how to spite your enemies
-going to sleep early
-cleaning your home
-taking a walk
-playing with a pet
-calling a friend
-donating to charity
-reading a book
-taking a hot shower
-eating a meal
-building a puzzle
-stretching
-working on a craft
-planning how to spite your enemies
-going to sleep early
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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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characters at this year’s met gala: thread
May 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
characters at this year’s met gala: thread
Have any #adoptees read A Haunted Girl by Ethan and Naomi Sacks? I am reading and am curious if others had read or heard of the graphic novel. 🥚
May 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Have any #adoptees read A Haunted Girl by Ethan and Naomi Sacks? I am reading and am curious if others had read or heard of the graphic novel. 🥚
My 16 yo son and I just saw Sinners and wow, what a film.
April 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My 16 yo son and I just saw Sinners and wow, what a film.
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Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs
April 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs
Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
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Crows nest made of coat hangers
elzo-meridianos.blogspot.com/2014/05/nido...
elzo-meridianos.blogspot.com/2014/05/nido...
April 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Crows nest made of coat hangers
elzo-meridianos.blogspot.com/2014/05/nido...
elzo-meridianos.blogspot.com/2014/05/nido...
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my adoptive father did more to defog me than he will ever understand when, in a phone call, i referred to my (birth) mother as “my mother” & he reacted as if i had stabbed him in the heart.
how can we pretend #adoption centers my interests if it forces me to pretend that my family never existed?
how can we pretend #adoption centers my interests if it forces me to pretend that my family never existed?
April 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
my adoptive father did more to defog me than he will ever understand when, in a phone call, i referred to my (birth) mother as “my mother” & he reacted as if i had stabbed him in the heart.
how can we pretend #adoption centers my interests if it forces me to pretend that my family never existed?
how can we pretend #adoption centers my interests if it forces me to pretend that my family never existed?
😍💥
Birds at Sunset
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
1987
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
1987
April 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
😍💥
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I did not know you could ask for a refund from a politician. theintercept.com/2025/04/05/j...
Small-Dollar Donors Are Asking John Fetterman for Their Money Back
Amid a wellspring of discontent over Fetterman’s coziness with Israel and Republicans, people are demanding campaign donation refunds.
theintercept.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I did not know you could ask for a refund from a politician. theintercept.com/2025/04/05/j...
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History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
March 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS
Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.
www.wordsandmoney.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
Absolutely beautiful.
FOLK MUSIC FRIDAYS!!
“BEAUTIFUL WORLD” by Devo was one of my suggestions for the RATM Renegades album. Thought that a folk rendition of one of their classics would further up the ante on their theory of human de-evolution which is currently being proved true before our eyes.
“BEAUTIFUL WORLD” by Devo was one of my suggestions for the RATM Renegades album. Thought that a folk rendition of one of their classics would further up the ante on their theory of human de-evolution which is currently being proved true before our eyes.
April 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Absolutely beautiful.
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How do we know if what we read is true?
Fact-checking has been around since the 19th century, fighting misinformation long before the internet. Read more ➡️ w.wiki/DCzG
Fact-checking has been around since the 19th century, fighting misinformation long before the internet. Read more ➡️ w.wiki/DCzG
April 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
How do we know if what we read is true?
Fact-checking has been around since the 19th century, fighting misinformation long before the internet. Read more ➡️ w.wiki/DCzG
Fact-checking has been around since the 19th century, fighting misinformation long before the internet. Read more ➡️ w.wiki/DCzG
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The full clip of Hayao Miyazaki reading AI engineers for fucking filth so hard their ancestors felt the burning shame back in 2016
March 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The full clip of Hayao Miyazaki reading AI engineers for fucking filth so hard their ancestors felt the burning shame back in 2016
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being an adult is understanding that fictional dramas are mostly fantasy and fictional satires are mostly reality
March 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
being an adult is understanding that fictional dramas are mostly fantasy and fictional satires are mostly reality