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gwchilly.bsky.social
@gwchilly.bsky.social
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Late-stage generalist, RPCV🌍, history/art/jazz/fiets-urb/pro-sci/anti-dictator, gentler in person.
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gwchilly.bsky.social @gwchilly.bsky.social · 8d
Boom! Monarch chrysalis attaches to a senescing lavender stalk in the sideyard, Nov. ‘25 📷 -gw
Monarch chrysalis attaches to a senescing lavender stalk in the sideyard, Berkeley, Cal., Nov. ‘25.
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Darleane C. Hoffman obituary: chemist who expanded the periodic table | Nature
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Darleane C. Hoffman obituary: chemist who expanded the periodic table
Her experiments on the heaviest elements deepened our understanding of radioactivity.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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clancyny.bsky.social
Offered seasonally with book selections by guest curators, this new collection highlights renowned and modern artists practicing within ... themes of poetry, visual art, critical thought, design and ... more. Works can be borrowed by readers for 45-days, free of costs to our U.S. based community.
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Talking Heads, “Warning Sign,” Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, Sept. 18, ‘78.

Class of ‘26, your move.
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Proper moonbow framing our waxing gibbous moon tonight in the East Bay.. 📷 -gw
A moonbow envelops a waxing gibbous moon as viewed from the East Bay of San Francisco Bay in early December 2025.
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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paulaflucas.bsky.social
Just another bus stop.

Seaburn.
📷 #photography
Looking across a road at a bus stop in front of a low wall by the sea. A low rosy light as the winter sun fades cast on clouds over the sea.
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Entryway to Treasure Island Terminal and Administration Building, viewed through an interior door port hole window. Built to accommodate passenger service for Pan-Am’s “China Clipper” (the 1st transoceanic commercial plane route), it was given over to the Navy after the outbreak of WWII. 📷 -gw
Entryway to Treasure Island Terminal and Administration Building, viewed through an interior door port hole window. Built to accommodate passenger service for Pan-Am’s “China Clipper” (the 1st transoceanic commercial plane route), it was given over to the Navy after the outbreak of WWII. 📷 -gw
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
November 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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wscranmore.bsky.social
This painting was recreated from a dream of being invited to the studio of Richard Diebenkorn to watch him work. I did my best to recreate the painting he was working on as accurately as possible.

In A Dream About Diebenkorn
24x18in | acrylic on paper | 2021
Message or email to inquire
December 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
“Reminding our officers of their duty to intervene..”

This is the taxpayer-funded, municipal police policy line I have been waiting to hear at the podium.

Municipal police are the last line of organized armed defense citizens have against irregular federal interlopers.

“Duty to intervene.”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
I had no idea Kermit was essentially fully formed in 1959, a full ten years before Sesame Street launched.
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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popovaprof.bsky.social
Whatever comes out of them, today's talks in Moscow are a diplomatic all-time low for the US. Incompetent, mercurial envoys trying to reset relations w one of the worst regimes in the world at the expense of the victim of unprovoked aggression and the security of America's best allies in Europe.
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Barral, Julio Cortázar and Josep Maria Castellet. Barcelona, 1972
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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jinglejangle.bsky.social
#art
Configuration no. 16.
Collage frottage. 1974.
🎨 Max Ernst.
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Appalling. Martin Kulldorff, who was a lead author of the Great Barrington declaration which promoted mass infection with COVID and spread disinformation about vaccines, has been appointed HHS Chief science officer.
Chairman of vaccine committee leaves for new HHS job
The head of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee is leaving to take a leadership role within the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.statnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Cc: Chief Justice John Roberts, and the five other immunity granters, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.

Reverse Trump v. United States STAT.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d
Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Look we’re all thinking it - Harrison Butker has cost Kansas City the Mandate of Heaven they gained when Mahomes said ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Kelce endorsed the vaccine
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
“Self Portrait” by Dod Procter (British) - Oil on canvas / c. 1920s - Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, England) #WomenInArt #DodProcter #Procter #PenleeHouse #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #BritishArtist #Penlee #1920s #BritishArt #arte #SelfPortrait #WomensArt
This introspective self-portrait catches Dod Procter at a moment when she was shaping her public image as a modern professional artist. Born Doris “Dod” Shaw in London in 1890, she trained as a teenager at Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes’s school in Newlyn, then studied in Paris at the progressive Atelier Colarossi, absorbing lessons from Cézanne and Renoir. In the 1920s, she became widely known for her paintings of young women, reducing detail and heightening form to create calm, monumental figures. Her painting “Morning” was famously bought for the national collection, briefly making her a household name. Here, she turns that same clear, unsentimental eye on herself. The painting shows a young Procter in three-quarter profile, turned to the right so we see the clear outline of her nose, lips, and chin against a deep, almost velvety black background. Her skin is pale with a gentle pink flush across her cheeks and nose, suggesting cool light falling from the left. She has dark brown hair cut in a neat, close bob with a straight fringe and softly rounded shape hugging her head. Her gaze is directed out of frame, thoughtful rather than posed, with her mouth closed and relaxed. Procter wears a light, grey-beige sweater with soft, brushed texture and sleeves that gather subtly at the wrists. Around her neck is a bright, patterned scarf, predominantly crimson with touches of grey, tied in a simple knot so the ends fall down her chest. The contrast between her glowing flesh tones, the muted jumper, and the vivid scarf is crisp, but peaceful. The bobbed hair, plain sweater, and bold scarf evoke the new independence of interwar women, yet her averted gaze hints at reserve and self-containment rather than showmanship. The work belongs to her mature Newlyn period and shows the poised, androgynous persona that helped her become one of the first women elected to full membership of the Royal Academy, while also anchoring Penlee House’s story of women artists in West Cornwall.
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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⚖️ DoD Law of War Manual, page 1075:

"For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."

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18.3.2 Refuse to Comply With Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. Members of the armed forces must refuse to comply with clearly illegal orders to commit law of war violations. In addition, orders should not be construed to authorize implicitly violations of law of war. 18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Between 1905 and 1911, the sheet music covers of Gotham-Attucks Co. — a song-publisher managed by some of the most famous Black writers and performers of the day — revolutionised how Black popular music was shown to the public: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
December 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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art-institute.bsky.social
Untitled, by Mark Rothko
American, born Russia, 1903-1970
1967

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/66741
Mark Rothko American, born Russia, 1903-1970, Untitled, A rectangular painting featuring two teal-green blocks of slightly different shades sandwiching a thin strip of blue. The blocks are hazily painted against a green background.
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
gwchilly.bsky.social
Boris Lovet-Lorski / Fonderie Andro,
“Venus,“ ca. 1931. Bronze. With Tamara de
Lempicka, “La belle Rafaëla,“ 1927. Oil on canvas. On view at the de Young Museum, SF, Cal., Oct. ‘24. 📷 -gw
(In the foreground) Boris Lovet-Lorski / Fonderie Andro, “Venus,“ ca. 1931. Bronze statue. With (in the background, mounted) Tamara deLempicka, “La belle Rafaëla,“ 1927. Oil on canvas. On view at the de Young Museum, SF, Cal., Oct. ‘24.
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Wassily Kandinsky :
Sharp-Quiet (Scharf-Ruhig), 1927

Oil on cardboard
16.5 × 14.6" | 42.0 × 37.0 cm

Further description in the alt text 👇
“Sharp-Quiet” is one of several works of Bauhaus period where a system “a triangle and a circle” is a central compositional motif. Kandinsky considered triangle and circle to be “the two primary and most strongly contrasting plane figures.” Among other things, he taught his students in Bauhaus to express emotions through interaction of abstract forms. For example, students had the task to express aggression by dominant triangle or calmness by a dominant square. “Sharp-Quiet” is a shining example of an ordered composition. Its beauty, dynamics and balance are determined by the stability of the internal space where triangles, circles, and crescents interact. This is a game of contrasts between the soft, warm, and harmonious colors and clear and uncompromising geometry.
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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René Magritte, Les perfections célestes / Celestial perfections - 1930 Nitess💤
Surrealist artwork by René Magritte, "Les perfections célestes" (1930), presented as four rectangular oil paintings on canvas, aligned on a white wall. Each panel, framed with thin wooden frames, captures a fragment of the sky: white and gray cumulus clouds floating against an intense blue background.
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
This thread is now a shareable web page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, (solvent transfer, fabric, and graphite on paper), 1983.
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM