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Sophia @sophiaelson.bsky.social · Dec 19
Updated my art website so it's not so barren! Come check it out: sophiacarrie.com

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Mixed media drawing of a fallow field at dawn
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Nail clipper, nail clipper yeah, my nails grew soooooo long... 🎶

(sorry)
the beatles are posing for a black and white photo together .
Alt: the beatles are posing for a black and white photo together .
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January 24, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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The happy place…work in progress.
Blue, green and brown watercolor with a black and white drawing beneath it.
January 4, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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For strong memorable passwords, I recommend inventing a language in third grade.
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Been taking a Sunday drawing class. Not bad for 4 hours. 🩷
Charcoal drawing of cloth folds Photo of cloth folds
January 12, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Today was epidural day. I am curious whether my vibecoding on valium was successful or a calamity.
January 10, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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TIL Archive.org has Berkeley High yearbooks dating back to at least 1895!

archive.org/search?query...

Some really cool historical artifacts there, like this letter from 1933.
Bridges A bridge is a structure usually built over a depression of some sort. I wonder if one of the reasons for choosing this year's motif for the Olla Podrida was that we are going "over a depression of some sort." The world has been out of joint ever since the Great War, and depressions have become quite common everywhere. The nations feel them; states and cities feel them; and we individuals feel our own depression every day of our lives. Perhaps this is why we are building so many bridges. An enormous bridge will soon span the depression between San Francisco and the east side of the Bay, which is now filled with water rather difficult to cross. San Francisco and the northern part of the state plan to be connected by a bridge across the Golden Gate. These activities are carried on in order to overcome the depressions existing between different parts of the land. Whenever a depression occurs in the life of a nation, or in the life of an individual, bridges must be built in a similar way to get over the difficulties which these depressions present. We can not stand still on one side hoping for someone to carry us across to the other by some kind of a miracle. We must provide our own bridge. So far as my observation and experience have extended, I feel certain that the only way to build a real bridge of any kind is by hard work. Low marks can not be raised to high marks; poor health to good health; weak bodies to strong bodies; poverty to comfort — unless we put our personal effort into the job of building. All physical, mental, and spiritual growth must be accomplished by laboring to build bridges strong enough to carry us from our present place to one more to our liking. Are you satisfied, or are you building bridges? C. L. Brudenbach
January 8, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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Whelp, this one bums me out on a deep personal level. Hopefully we aren't at war with Denmark when I wake up.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19d
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
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January 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Made a new playlist
January 4, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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Out with the old, in with the new!
January 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Anthropologist / linguist / mediator / bard on an alien planet. Which feels like a missed calling.
"you are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is your job?"
December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Concept: an Illuminati-themed wedding where you can learn your commonalities with other guests from a big crazy wall
December 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I mostly go to novels for world-building (vs. movies for cinematography, TV for characters). The pearly skies, spicy air, and treacherous storms in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite were A+.
December 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Garden friend has cool patterning
Photo of a slug at night
December 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Stumbled across this Anderson Cooper I drew in dry-erase marker circa '08 for housemates who had a crush on him.

The grays are just black markers that were starting to run out. Features aren't quite right, but it's a tough medium.

#artsky #portraiture #portrait #art #artist #drawing #sketch
Anderson Cooper drawn in dry erase marker
December 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Updated my art website so it's not so barren! Come check it out: sophiacarrie.com

#artsky #artistsonbluesky #art #painting #drawing
Mixed media drawing of a fallow field at dawn
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Sucks that horror movies and karaoke are so divisive. Need more buddies to sing and scream with me. 💜
December 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Can’t find a way to write this that doesn’t sound like a twee bromide but genuinely, if your end of year review is that you survived painful things happening in your life & the world, stayed empathetic in an inhospitable environment & treated yourself & others decently then that’s achievement enough
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Nerve pain is psychedelic in the worst way. The way flexing your right foot can cause an electric jolt in your left thigh. I'm trying to be curious about it and pretend I enjoy the discoveries.
December 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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I successfully ate ravioli today. 💪

Hear me out, motivational merch for oral surgery patients and their families with the slogan "You Can Chew It!"
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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On Board an S-Class Submarine. Up the Conning Tower (1944) by Stephen Bone
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Been thinking a lot about slowness and ambiguity as rebellion. Quote is fire.
markharris.bsky.social Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Nov 15
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Keep spazzing which to put on: Anna von Hausswolff, Rosalía, or Juana Molina. Ridic musical bounty these past two weeks have delivered.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Every day after sunset during summer + fall hundreds of thousands of bats leave the their roost near Sacramento, CA to feed

A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.

Due to the light they're hard to photograph.

Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶
September 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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TIL "Baba O'Riley" was partly named after the composer Terry Riley, which super makes sense (the intro sounds like his work).

youtu.be/hy3W-3HPMWg?...
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air - Full CD (HQ)
YouTube video by kademan13
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August 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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An axolotl eating tater-tots, drawn for a friend who seemed like she needed it.

#artsky #art #drawing #coloredpencil #gouache #watercolor #axolotl #weirdart
Drawing of an axolotl in a leather jacket eating tater-tots on the patio of Eli's Mile High Club
August 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM