Alex Benjamin
@opus110.bsky.social
Quand je serai grand, je veux être Gordon Parks.
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Alex Benjamin
@opus110.bsky.social
· Feb 11
Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California
November 1938
Rien de plus à dire, au fond.
Kern County, California
November 1938
Rien de plus à dire, au fond.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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PETAPIXEL: Photojournalist Arrested Covering ICE Protest as Authorities Impound His Camera Gear petapixel.com/2025/11/24/p... @petapixel.bsky.social #journalism #photography #photojournalism
Photojournalist Arrested Covering ICE Protest as Authorities Impound His Camera Gear
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help him with the costs.
petapixel.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
PETAPIXEL: Photojournalist Arrested Covering ICE Protest as Authorities Impound His Camera Gear petapixel.com/2025/11/24/p... @petapixel.bsky.social #journalism #photography #photojournalism
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Enfin des propositions à l’échelle de la crise de l’itinérance pour Montréal.
Entre temps, iI faut aussi des propositions très court terme, car la crise c’est maintenant.
Par ex.,prise en charge de baux de logements étudiants vacants, d’hotels… ou un bateau de croisière.
lp.ca/rMZIiF?shari...
Entre temps, iI faut aussi des propositions très court terme, car la crise c’est maintenant.
Par ex.,prise en charge de baux de logements étudiants vacants, d’hotels… ou un bateau de croisière.
lp.ca/rMZIiF?shari...
Dossier | 2500 logements à Montréal | Trois promoteurs proposent un mégaprojet pour les sans-abri (2 articles)
Trois grands promoteurs immobiliers s’unissent pour ébaucher un projet hors du commun afin de lutter contre la crise de l’itinérance dans la métropole. Ils proposent au gouvernement du Québec et à la ...
lp.ca
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Enfin des propositions à l’échelle de la crise de l’itinérance pour Montréal.
Entre temps, iI faut aussi des propositions très court terme, car la crise c’est maintenant.
Par ex.,prise en charge de baux de logements étudiants vacants, d’hotels… ou un bateau de croisière.
lp.ca/rMZIiF?shari...
Entre temps, iI faut aussi des propositions très court terme, car la crise c’est maintenant.
Par ex.,prise en charge de baux de logements étudiants vacants, d’hotels… ou un bateau de croisière.
lp.ca/rMZIiF?shari...
L'éducation sentimentale, tome 1
(épreuve de travail)
(épreuve de travail)
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
L'éducation sentimentale, tome 1
(épreuve de travail)
(épreuve de travail)
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RIP Jimmy Cliff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Uh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Uh...
Jimmy Cliff - Reggae Night (Official Video)
YouTube video by Reggae Love
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
RIP Jimmy Cliff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Uh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Uh...
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Vermont Hillside - 1936
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104290
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104290
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Vermont Hillside - 1936
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104290
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104290
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Stephane Mallarme, 1876 #manet #edouardmanet
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Stephane Mallarme, 1876 #manet #edouardmanet
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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In solidarity with of Fall Of Freedom, Monroe Gallery presents a Pop Up exhibit now Online and in the Gallery November 18 - 23 of photographs documenting people struggling for their freedom; their right to live without fear, their right to speak and the right to protest inequities.
monroegallery.com
monroegallery.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In solidarity with of Fall Of Freedom, Monroe Gallery presents a Pop Up exhibit now Online and in the Gallery November 18 - 23 of photographs documenting people struggling for their freedom; their right to live without fear, their right to speak and the right to protest inequities.
monroegallery.com
monroegallery.com
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Le Québec veut accueillir des centres de données et leur offrir de l’électricité propre.
Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balado...
Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balado...
Les centres de données qui dérangent : le cas du Mexique | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez gratuitement l’épisode du balado Ça s'explique : Les centres de données qui dérangent : le cas du Mexique
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Le Québec veut accueillir des centres de données et leur offrir de l’électricité propre.
Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balado...
Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balado...
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Des Autochtones conservent désormais un marais salé au Nouveau-Brunswick
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
25 hectares de marais salé désormais protégés
La Première Nation de Fort Folly (Amlamgog) se voit confier la conservation d’une terre marécageuse dans le sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick.
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Des Autochtones conservent désormais un marais salé au Nouveau-Brunswick
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
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Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
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Le rap américain est-il vraiment en déclin ?
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Le rap américain est-il vraiment en déclin ?
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains. Dans ...
www.radiofrance.fr
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Le rap américain est-il vraiment en déclin ?
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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“Political experts confirm that authoritarianism is rising globally and the number of liberal democracies is shrinking.”
cultmtl.com/2025/11/demo...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/demo...
Democracy, you in danger, girl
According to the Global State of Democracy 2025 report, 2024 was the 9th consecutive year in which more countries experienced democratic decline than improvement.
cultmtl.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“Political experts confirm that authoritarianism is rising globally and the number of liberal democracies is shrinking.”
cultmtl.com/2025/11/demo...
cultmtl.com/2025/11/demo...
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“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U
The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are we living for?
nyer.cm
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U
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Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.
Women riding the streets of Tehran on motorbikes is the latest sign of Iran's societal change
Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.
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Female politicians such as Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum face ‘backlash driven by discrimination’
Female politicians such as Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum face ‘backlash driven by discrimination’
Assault on Mexican president highlights abuse faced by women in politics and ‘reinforces patriarchal boundaries’
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Female politicians such as Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum face ‘backlash driven by discrimination’
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The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures
The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures
Disasters, riots, gangsters and construction … early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures
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Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...
Lawrence and Haruki Embodiment and reflection - Pakistan Observer
IN the vast landscape of world literature, a few writers have explored the depths of human experience as vividly as D.H. Lawrence and Haruki
pakobserver.net
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...
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Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/4nKv1G7
Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.
n.pr
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/4nKv1G7
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)