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Chicago nobody.
Wikipedia junkie.
Soccer dad.
I hate fascists.
I repost birds.
Please image search Gaza October 2024.
My salary is paid by IDC.
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Heard a bird. Merlin said it was a Kestrel. Couldn't find it, but I found an overhead mini-rainbow.
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi is mentioned and described in the novel The Wings of the Dove by Henry James and has a central role in The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine.
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The Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi by Agnolo di Cosimo is "so natural that [it] seem[s] truly living". The Wing of the Dove by Henry James. Old and blue. the House of Stairs by Barbara Vine. Who designed this? Pick a lane.
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I don't know what they're doing to that pinball machine, but it is making me uncomfortable.
Illustration of 5 very happy Harlem Globetrotters around a pinball machine.
December 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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White Collar Home Office Soundtrack (11/21/2025 - 12/04/2025): "Are You Serious" to "YoYoYoYoYo"
Album art for "Are You Serious" by Andrew Bird. An old looking color photo of a Blue Parrot sitting on the hands of two people at the same time. Album art for "YoYoYoYoYo" by Spank Rock. An almost uncountable Yo's in gold on black. Big ant the top and very tiny at the bottom. Two artist in profile looking opposite directions. Some other gold stuff: A modest chain, Ben Franklin, legs. Album art for "Constant Crisis" by Trash Sound Collective. Oil painting of someone about to get hit in the back of the head with a pie. Probably not a real oil painting, but maybe it is.
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Macena Barton has been claimed as the first American woman artist to paint a nude self-portrait.
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Macena Barton with two of her paintings. Nudes, 1 frontal and 1 backal.
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Karl "Tertiary Mayer" Mayer-Eymar was born Karl Mayer but added the anagram Eymar around 1865 to distinguish his name from others.
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A major collector of fossils and who described many molluscs.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Port tongs are intended for use when a cork cannot be removed with a normal corkscrew, such as old corks that would break apart and crumble into the wine.
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A pair of port tongs resting on a wine bottle that has been opened below the cork.
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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White Collar Home Office Soundtrack (11/14/2025 - 11/20/2025): "Arson Anthem" to "Wicked"
Album art for Arson Anthem by Arson Anthem. Black and white photo collage shows a story of someone burning something down in a criminal way. Album art for Wicked by Sinitta. Skinny sexy lady with a crazy animal print outfit holding a jacket in crazy way. Album art for the Mood Is Modal by les Hommes. Close-up of a thick-weave fabric of fall colors.
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Kingman holds the record for the slowest winning time ever recorded at a Kentucky Derby, at 2:521⁄4., and won few races of importance thereafter.
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Kingman, winner of the 1891 Kentucky Derby
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Walked into an empty room with tv paused on this. Any guesses (hint: a movie)?
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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White Collar Home Office Soundtrack (11/07/2025 - 11/13/2025): "Big Calm" to "Wildflowers"
Album Art for Big Calm by Morcheeba. A lady with orange hair lounges in a very orange comfy room. There is a buddha on the hi-fi. Album Art for Wildflowers by Judy Collins. Yellow daisies. Judy Collins is in the background. Album Art for the Girls in the Garage compilation album. Four ladies looking bad-ass, hanging on the veranda with their rock-and-roll instruments.
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Three of the four tracks on Spotlight on The Shadows were written by Norrie Paramor.
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Norrie Paramor. Rock and Roll legend. Album art for Spotlight on the Shadows by the Shadows. Literaaly a spotlight on shadows of the Shadows.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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We’re snailposting, post your snails

#becurious.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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The first documented trick on the ledge at Hubba Hideout was Wade Speyer's crooked grind.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubba_H...
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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White Collar Home Office Soundtrack (10/31/2025 - 11/06/2025): "the Adventures of Panama Red" to "We're Gonna Get Together"
Album art for the Adventures of Panama Red by New Riders of the Purple Sage. A caricature of a cowboy with a huge cowboy hat smoking marijuana. Album art for We're Gonna Get Together by Buck Owens & Susan Raye. Boring photo of the two singers looking at the camera. Album art for Chappaquiddick Skyline by Chappaquiddick Skyline. An indigo black-and-white photo of looking out the living room window.
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Sideways is a remake of Sideways.
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Movie poster for sideways. Two couples dining at a picnic table. Movie poster for sideways. A drawing of a tipped-over wine bottle with two assholes trapped inside.
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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White Collar Home Office Soundtrack (10/24/2025 - 10/30/2025): "les Années Chansons" to "Wednesday Morning, 3AM"
Album art for les Années Chansons by Alice Dona. Alice Dona islooking back over her shoulder wearing a Charlie Chaplin hat. Album art for Wednesday Morning, 3AM by Simon & Garfunkel. The boys are hanging out in the subway in suits. Paul has his guitar. Album art for the Two Sides of Mary Wells by Mary Wells. The sexy side is wearing a black lacey number and looking back over her shoulder and the fun side is wearing a green sweater and enjoying a beautiful day on the block.
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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The Little Grey Woodpecker is a very small woodpecker.
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Illustration of a Little Grey Woodpecker. It does not look particularly small in this drawing. Photo of a Little Grey Woodpecker. It looks particularly tiny.
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The Rock of Souls was the first movie to star María Félix, one of the legendary female stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
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Movie Poster art for El Peñón de las Ánimas or the Rock of Souls. in the background, a cowboy-type is on a horse which rearing up on cliff's edge. In the foreground the same cowboy-type is about to sneeze. María Félix. She looks like she is denying that it was she who farted.
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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White Collar Home Office Soundtrack (10/17/2025 - 10/24/2025): "Apex Profane" to "Zorba the Greek"
Album art for Apex Profane by Miasmatic Necrosis. Two men in medical garb are poking around at pile of bloody guts and a bloody skull. Where'd the rest of the bones go? Album art for Zorba the Greek by Mikis Theodorakis. An illustration of a silhouette of a man holding his arms out to the side. It is in shades of orange and has a red tie. Inspired. Album art for Electrick Brick Wall by Black Banana. A funky graffiti font that says Electric Brick Wall on a brick wall. Inspired.
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Seafoam salad is a cafeteria and buffet staple popularized by F. W. Woolworth's lunch counters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafoam...
Seafoam Salad. Yum. The World's Longest lunch counter.
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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#nokings #evanston Having a nice Saturday in E town.
October 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The Tigers outscored the Tigers by 1 point to win the 1949 Gator Bowl.
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Program from the 1949 Gator Bowl, played in Jacksonville, Florida. An alligator has emerged from inside a football, holding a smaller football in its mouth.
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM