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Kishkafka
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I'll rise.
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Let’s do this, New Yorkers.
The dedication page of my copy of Mahmood Mamdani’s book Neither Settler Nor Native reads: For Zohran, You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail! “It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being.” —Lu Hsun, “Hometown”
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Ava Gardner and her Siamese cats.
Just Ava Gardner, hanging out in shorts on the diving board poolside at her Hollywood home with her Siamese cats.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Ummmm, ooookay, but I went to the Muntpunt here to give my new library card a workout, and look at the goodies I found...
Copies of four books--We are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins, The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols, and Feminist Theory by bell hooks--are arranged in a square on a bed covered by a multicolor striped Peruvian blanket.
September 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Same.
Nils, a coal black cat fast asleep on a bed covered with a multicolor striped Peruvian blanket. Gia, a coal black cat with yellow eyes, lying on an earth tone coloured floral mosaic tile floor.
September 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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My key chain fob, weathered and ancient. It is a rectangular piece of clear plastic in which are displayed these words on a red background: "I was gifted but the psychiatrist took my powers away. "
August 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The Mortal Storm and The Shop Around the Corner.
Martin and Freya look warily around them in the café where all the people they thought they once knew well are singing "The Horst Wessel Song" and throwing the sieg Heil in a pivotal early scene of the 1940 movie The Mortal Storm. A pivotal early scene from The Shop Around The Corner, where Klara enters the shop looking for a job and is drawn into some drama between Alfred and store owner Mr Matuschek.
July 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Just Wemby the overgrown glossy black kitten, living her best life on a ridiculously soft beat to shit vintage Vellux blanket.
Just Wemby the overgrown glossy black kitten, living her best life on a ridiculously soft beat to shit vintage Vellux blanket.
July 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Oh no! My old school transistor will fall silent without NOAA Weather Radio.
Navy blue Realistic mini weather radio, handheld transistor edition, circa 1978.
July 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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I have three black cats here. All safe in the house. No firecrackers so far.
Gia, voluptuous black cat, lounging on the bed under a hardworking ceiling fan.
July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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No bag, but a favorite blanket.
Just a big black cat on a blanket, safe and warm.
June 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Same, Duo, same.
A screensave from a Duo Spanish exercise that says "El presidente me cae mal." --I don't like the President.
June 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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He thinks he looks like a pope.
I think he looks like the picture of Dorian Gray.
The portrait of Dorian Gray painted for the 1945 film by Ivan le Lorraine Albright, now a permanent collections piece at the Art Institute of Chicago.
May 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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This always makes me smile. I like to believe they all lived happily ever after.
An old social media post detailing how a man lost his cat, and found him and brought him home a few weeks later. Then the next week his lost cat returns home, so now he has two identical cats. We see them in his kitchen sitting side by side, two stout tuxedo cats.
May 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Steven Mnuchin and Louise Linton in their infamous photo from their Fort Knox visit. Louise is wearing these long black leather gloves and they both look way too comfortable holding a sheet of dollar bills.
February 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Kittens are a blessing.
A small black kitten lies in a woman's lap on her blue jeans.
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Seen at the local Walmart today.
An Amish rig is parked at the local Walmart. The horse is tied up to a light pole. In the foreground is a shopping cart and in the background is a semi trailer truck.
December 21, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Imagine putting apples in a fridge.
Who does that
A photo of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in the White House Oval Office with a man in uniform, two women and three children, two of which are in the foreground with Michelle examining the apples in the bowl on the coffee table between the couches.
December 13, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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#Caturday here at least in the evening is pretty low key
Two black cats are asleep on a bed; the larger one is blocking access to a newspaper
November 17, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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Holy Moses what a disaster. I forgot to oil one of the waffle irons one damn time...
What remains of a Belgian waffle after I forgot to oil the waffle maker
November 14, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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This absolute stinkpot, Wemby.
A black cat is sitting in someone's lap
November 14, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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Seriously low key, apparently ;)
November 10, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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Take 2, they're small
2 black cats, 1 lying on its side yawning and a kitten sitting up and regarding the camera, relaxing on a spa cover in a large green sunny backyard on a lazy fall day in the country.
November 6, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Here, Larry, is the nation's retirement problem-- Ronald Reagan passed tax cuts for the rich, so trillions of dollars were redistributed from the middle class to the 1%. And Larry wants people to work longer.
July 5, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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Our economy is strong because of immigrants. They really do get the job done.
July 4, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Big Gia, mid-snore
Gia, a large black cat, curled up and deep in slumber.
November 30, 2023 at 12:11 AM