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Matthew_DS9
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“It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there."
- William Carlos Williams
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matthew-ds9.bsky.social
It just seems so ... apathetic.

Plus, the Wife and I just watched "Oh. What. Fun." with Michelle Pfeiffer, and we were horrified by how the family treated her - I wanted her character to torch the entire house with them inside!

Guess 'tis the season to disparage the moms and grandmas!
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Oh my LORD! Look at this synopsis! These guys LEFT their mother behind ... and this thing says, THEIR holiday is at risk until she returns to give them the holiday THEY deserve. This movie just abuses Michelle Pfeiffer's character unrelentingly, until she is nothing left. Truly cringey
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
Went to go block that account, and lo and behold, I already had it blocked!

Go me!
December 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
What movie quote lives rent free in your head?
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
is zero redemption. The kids don't change, the husband doesn't change, the mom just continues to suck it up, with no real resolution of their issues.

But then again ... that might be an accurate portrayal of Americans: selfish, selfish, selfish to the end of every relationship
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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#artAdventCalendar
2025-1212

Took this around Thanksgiving and called it "Self-Portrait"
Photo of a man's silhouette against the glass window of a restaurant room, on the far wall, propped on a table, is a framed self-portrait by Frida Kahlo. Most of the rest of the top of the man's silhouette is the stark red of the far wall. The reflection of his midriff is cross-sectioned by the white linen tablecloth, and his legs are patterned by the ornate carpet. There is a building reflected in the glass over his right shoulder.
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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#artAdventCalendar
#ArbolesdeFuego
#ElSalvador

Took this in El Salvador, three separate photographs of the same night sky. I was trying to get a clear shot, but I simply cannot take good night photographs. But I added three photos together because it gives me a calming mood - don't know why
A combination of three separate photographs of a night sky, with the top of a tree toward the right side of the triptych. The sky is really blurry but I increased the brightness and the contrast of the tree, so that gives the leaves and branches a feel of being brightly lit, and that is contrasted by the murky sky behind it. I suppose I was going for the effect of Rene Magritte's "Empire of Light" which is one of my favorite paintings
December 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
You will be visited by three spirits
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
Watching #Landman S2 E4 with the Missus, and I commented, "That Ariana is really tough!"

My wife, "No. I'M tough. She's just a bitch!"

🤭
December 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
Oh my goodness!!

That reminds me of a children's book I used to read to my firstborn ....

Maira Kalman's "Chicken Soup, Boots"
Cover of children's book called "Chicken Soup, Boots" by Maira Kalman
December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
Her husband's back
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Don't look behind.
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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#artAdventCalendar
#ArbolesdeFuego
#ElSalvador

I've posted this before on here, but I'm actually kinda proud of this one and so I am entering it into the hashtag of the art Advent Calendar
A collage of one photograph, repeated about three times, of clouds reflected in an infinity pool and lush tropical trees. I saw the photos repeated on my phone in this manner, so I collated them together in this single image. I liked the contrast between the blue and the green, with splashes of white in the blue and splashes of yellow in the green.
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#artAdventCalendar
2025-1208
#Christmas

A little snowflake propped beside a column at a strip mall in #Houston
A plastic snowflake attached to what appears to be a string of Christmas lights, propped against the column of a sidewalk in some strip mall. I remember seeing this little decoration as I was walking and it just looked so sad, but trying to be so brave. So I bent and took a photo and said, "Don't be sad, little guy, you are very pretty!" and people walking by looked at me like I was an idiot. But that didn't matter, because this was between me and that little snowflake.
December 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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2025-1210
A little rock with a simple smile, seemingly wearing a Bermuda-style hat.
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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JOUST!!!

Joust was my game!
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
I'm a bit late, but this was supposed to have been posted on Saturday

#artAdventCalendar
2025-1206

Does it look post-apocalyptic?
That is the effect I was going for
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While it looks (or is supposed to look) like some sort of sun-bleached desert pit with rusty metal skeletons of buildings and dead planes, it is actually a metal drum filled with water and the sun beating down on it highlights the bright orange of the rust on the bottom
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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In case they block me ...
just wanted to throw it out there:

all I want to know is who?

Because the ONLY thing I see when checking the Crockett trending are accounts SAYING that white people now abandoned Crockett, but I do not see ANY wypipo accounts saying that.

So if you can't name one, I ...
December 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
Is it my feed?
Is it me?

Let me say this plainly: EVERY
FUCKING
TIME
something positive happens in which a Black candidate advances, I suddenly see a SHITFUCKTON of posts saying "White people turned on such-n-such person" but I
NEVER see that myself.

I only see people SAYING that others are ...
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
For some reason it reminds me of this album cover

... and also reminds me of my 2nd favorite Kinks album (1st being Lola vs Powermen and the Moneygoround Part 1) and the title track being one of my favorite Kinks songs

youtu.be/og5C-QkE9lM?...
December 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
Couldn't find a Christmas poem I wanted to share tonight so I just wrote one.

Can stand a bit of editing, but i like the imagery...
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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#artAdventCalendar
#Christmas
2025-1206
Close up of a decorated Christmas tree, with a beige bow featured in the upper left quadrant, a clear ball in the lower left, and a candy cane in the lower right. The filters uaed on the original photo were intended to bring the photo the feel of a watercolor painting.
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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#aartAdventCalendar
#Christmas
2025-1205

Trying to put up one for each date of advent. Sorry I missed yesterday, and I hope I am not boring everyone with photos of Christmas decorations: I think I am just searching for some joy this season
Fake plastic evergreen strung across a table with a focus on one red Christmas ball in the foreground and a few pinecones placed throughout.
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
matthew-ds9.bsky.social
This is lovely!

I just posted mine today to #artAdventCalendar and it's in the same vein (although admittedly far far inferior to yours) but I hope you appreciate the intent

This is in Houston, an area called the Third Ward
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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#artAdventCalendar
#December
2025-1204
#Houston

Taken in Third Ward in the vicinity of the University of Houston, either last winter or the winter before.

Such a contrast between the newly built townhomes and the decaying property is emblematic of gentrification across much of the Metro area.
A photograph of a decaying and decrepit abandoned house, replete with broken windows and a large missing section of the front wall - behind which rise the towers of three-story townhomes. Such a contrast of houses is indicative of gentrification happening all across the Houston Metro area.
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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#artAdventCalendar
#Houston

Taken at Da Vinci's Restaurant in Katy TX some years back.
It was a cold winter's night, around Christmas time, and the candle and figure seemed sweetly welcoming.

One of the best restaurants in the entire city btw
An alcove recessed in a brown mottled wall, inside which is a lit candle (most likely battery-powered) and a figurine vaguely resembling an angel with no wings and a tuft of brown hair, holding a flower that has a heart petal.
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM