@andypatton52.bsky.social
I am interested in art (historical and contemporary), archeology, literature and Rome.
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#OtD 18 Jan 1977 workers and poor people across Egypt rose up against the ending of state subsidies for basic goods. Despite the govt killing hundreds of people, strikes, demonstrations and riots forced them to back down in just two days. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e59-...
January 18, 2026 at 1:10 PM
#OtD 18 Jan 1977 workers and poor people across Egypt rose up against the ending of state subsidies for basic goods. Despite the govt killing hundreds of people, strikes, demonstrations and riots forced them to back down in just two days. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e59-...
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Russia is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and residential buildings. People are sitting in -20°C without electricity, water, or heating.
Pipes are bursting. Homes are freezing.
Trump: “UKRAINE AND ZELENSKY DON’T WANT PEACE.”
What the actual f*ck.
Pipes are bursting. Homes are freezing.
Trump: “UKRAINE AND ZELENSKY DON’T WANT PEACE.”
What the actual f*ck.
January 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Russia is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and residential buildings. People are sitting in -20°C without electricity, water, or heating.
Pipes are bursting. Homes are freezing.
Trump: “UKRAINE AND ZELENSKY DON’T WANT PEACE.”
What the actual f*ck.
Pipes are bursting. Homes are freezing.
Trump: “UKRAINE AND ZELENSKY DON’T WANT PEACE.”
What the actual f*ck.
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Deeply cautionary, and actually useful, to realize that most people are essentially unaware of events of great stress and importance, locally, or sometimes globally.
Means, in part, that messaging needs to be better done, as many such people *would* be disturbed if they learned.
Means, in part, that messaging needs to be better done, as many such people *would* be disturbed if they learned.
It's such a bizarre jolt when talking to people elsewhere in the country when they say haven't heard anything about what's happening in MN. It makes me feel insane about what we are experiencing here.
January 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Deeply cautionary, and actually useful, to realize that most people are essentially unaware of events of great stress and importance, locally, or sometimes globally.
Means, in part, that messaging needs to be better done, as many such people *would* be disturbed if they learned.
Means, in part, that messaging needs to be better done, as many such people *would* be disturbed if they learned.
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The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
This is Laura Millard's work, "Crossing." She drove a snowmobile to make the "drawing." Then she used a drone to photograph it. Then she painstakingly filled in the poor quality photo with white paint and retouched the curves in the snow. Seen live, it's so strangely insistent.
January 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
This is Laura Millard's work, "Crossing." She drove a snowmobile to make the "drawing." Then she used a drone to photograph it. Then she painstakingly filled in the poor quality photo with white paint and retouched the curves in the snow. Seen live, it's so strangely insistent.
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#OtD 14 Jan 1914 Selahattin Ülkümen, Muslim Turkish official who helped Jews escape the holocaust was born. While consul general of Rhodes he saved the lives of 42 Jewish families. Later the Nazis bombed his home, killing his wife stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8567...
January 14, 2026 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 14 Jan 1914 Selahattin Ülkümen, Muslim Turkish official who helped Jews escape the holocaust was born. While consul general of Rhodes he saved the lives of 42 Jewish families. Later the Nazis bombed his home, killing his wife stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8567...
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this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
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... I cannot adequately explain how moving I found the first couple pages. I knew immediately you were an author I needed to read. I have, and your nuance is so special. Thank you for your words. Thank you for helping a boy not feel so alone during an unexplainably difficult time. Thank you, sir.
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
... I cannot adequately explain how moving I found the first couple pages. I knew immediately you were an author I needed to read. I have, and your nuance is so special. Thank you for your words. Thank you for helping a boy not feel so alone during an unexplainably difficult time. Thank you, sir.
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...I had just cleared out the room I knew that she would go on to pass in, so we could fit a hospital bed. Fittingly, a room we called the library room, because it had all our bookshelves. I had this feeling of my childhood slipping away...
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
...I had just cleared out the room I knew that she would go on to pass in, so we could fit a hospital bed. Fittingly, a room we called the library room, because it had all our bookshelves. I had this feeling of my childhood slipping away...
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@guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Mr. Kay -
In 2023, without context, I stumbled across a sample for All the Seas of the World one night as I was serving as my mother's sole, full-time caregiver during her decline with a harrowing struggle with cancer....
Mr. Kay -
In 2023, without context, I stumbled across a sample for All the Seas of the World one night as I was serving as my mother's sole, full-time caregiver during her decline with a harrowing struggle with cancer....
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
@guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Mr. Kay -
In 2023, without context, I stumbled across a sample for All the Seas of the World one night as I was serving as my mother's sole, full-time caregiver during her decline with a harrowing struggle with cancer....
Mr. Kay -
In 2023, without context, I stumbled across a sample for All the Seas of the World one night as I was serving as my mother's sole, full-time caregiver during her decline with a harrowing struggle with cancer....
This is one of Ken Lum's "Necrology" works, in which he narrates the story of someone's life, using the fonts and design from more than century ago. The narrative is cobbled together from several lives: a fiction.
January 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
This is one of Ken Lum's "Necrology" works, in which he narrates the story of someone's life, using the fonts and design from more than century ago. The narrative is cobbled together from several lives: a fiction.
"From inside Iran: "This is probably my last message. The regime is going door to door, confiscating satelite dishes and Starlink. Just like in the early 2000s. Be our voice."
I can't verify this, until it until it's shown to be false, This likely is Renee Good multiplied by thousands.
I can't verify this, until it until it's shown to be false, This likely is Renee Good multiplied by thousands.
January 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
"From inside Iran: "This is probably my last message. The regime is going door to door, confiscating satelite dishes and Starlink. Just like in the early 2000s. Be our voice."
I can't verify this, until it until it's shown to be false, This likely is Renee Good multiplied by thousands.
I can't verify this, until it until it's shown to be false, This likely is Renee Good multiplied by thousands.
Interesting new find from archeologists.
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
theonion.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Interesting new find from archeologists.
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Cooper Hawk fans its feathers
#bird #photography #birdoftheday #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #canonphotography #nature #wildlife
#bird #photography #birdoftheday #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #canonphotography #nature #wildlife
January 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Cooper Hawk fans its feathers
#bird #photography #birdoftheday #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #canonphotography #nature #wildlife
#bird #photography #birdoftheday #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #canonphotography #nature #wildlife
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He was willing to utilize prayer OR force. It’s the Chicago way 😂
January 11, 2026 at 1:18 PM
He was willing to utilize prayer OR force. It’s the Chicago way 😂
Janice (artist and my wife) had taken Julian (scholar of Duchamp) to see the Uccello frescoes at Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 2016. They had been moved and restored.
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Janice (artist and my wife) had taken Julian (scholar of Duchamp) to see the Uccello frescoes at Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 2016. They had been moved and restored.
Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams
and stood at Gibraltar,
but you possess nothing.
-Arthur Sze, from the poem, "First Snow."
and stood at Gibraltar,
but you possess nothing.
-Arthur Sze, from the poem, "First Snow."
January 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams
and stood at Gibraltar,
but you possess nothing.
-Arthur Sze, from the poem, "First Snow."
and stood at Gibraltar,
but you possess nothing.
-Arthur Sze, from the poem, "First Snow."
The view from the apartment in Napoli we rented in 2013.
January 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
The view from the apartment in Napoli we rented in 2013.
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Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription
www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...
www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...
CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed
Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the ...
www.inria.fr
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription
www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...
www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...
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Orin Kerr recalls a 2011 article in which people were asked to view a protest video and say whether the protesters were behaving lawfully. It was an experiment: their reading of lawfulness turned out to depend greatly on whether the protesters were said to be on their or the other side.
The Minnesota ICE Videos and "They Saw A Protest"
One explanation for the different reactions.
reason.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Orin Kerr recalls a 2011 article in which people were asked to view a protest video and say whether the protesters were behaving lawfully. It was an experiment: their reading of lawfulness turned out to depend greatly on whether the protesters were said to be on their or the other side.
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Worthwhile poem? ✅️
January 8, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Worthwhile poem? ✅️
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An estimated 100,00 Iranians taking over Mashad tonight in Iran. The birthplace of Ayatollah Khamenei.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:54 PM
An estimated 100,00 Iranians taking over Mashad tonight in Iran. The birthplace of Ayatollah Khamenei.
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In Gorgan, the military administration building is reportedly on fire, new footage shows a significant blaze. With Iran under a total internet and mobile blackout, only scattered clips are making it out. At this point, we can only guess what’s really unfolding on the ground.
January 8, 2026 at 9:06 PM
In Gorgan, the military administration building is reportedly on fire, new footage shows a significant blaze. With Iran under a total internet and mobile blackout, only scattered clips are making it out. At this point, we can only guess what’s really unfolding on the ground.
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The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States.
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
pen.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States.
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔