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But @bsky.app ,

-- 1. My dog died.

-- 2. @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social isn't a successful president.

-- 3. Listen to this record that nobody listened to sixty years ago

That's almost the entirety of the feed you feed me. It's like watching @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy

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In strong level flight Taken September 29, 2019; reprocessed April 1, 2026. The subject line comes from Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel,” and in the poem it refers to a flight of angels.

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Observe* *

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The Land of the Morning Calm: its ladylike laughter . . . The term “Land of the Morning Calm” was first applied to Korea by the astronomer Percival Lowell, in whose Boston family the stream of poetry ran.

The Land of the Morning Calm: its ladylike laughter #cat #Korea #culture #etiquette jonathanmorse.blog/2026/01/14/t...

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Appear’d the cloud, appear’d the long black trail Visit the post for more.

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Timely kinks Visit the post for more.

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Pat thoroly Visit the post for more.

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Make again: homage to the genius of conservatism https://jonathanmorse.blog/2025/12/29/make-again-homage-to-the-genius-of-conservatism/

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Try using a scanner.

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Who are these coming to the sacrifice? — At the image’s left and right margins are artifacts from 1906: a gasometer and a carbon-arc street light. Links to more from 1906 about the Lake Michigan resort town of Petoskey and its ove…

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Essentially, every cat is red Visit the post for more.

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Amsterdam, 1734: the black slab descends toward the ionosphere, Karajan’s brass and timpani prepare to sound Also sprach Zarathustra, and in volume 1 of his magnificently tinted Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus art…

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Behold In chapter 42 of Moby-Dick (“The Whiteness of the Whale”), Ishmael perceives at the heart of things a “dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows – a colorless,…

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Waldo’s Destruction Company Visit the post for more.

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Sensor Shostakovich:

Sensor: Shostakovich jonathanmorse.blog/2025/10/15/s... #cat #music #Shostakovich #photography

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Der Panther liest im Bett. * Readers under the sign of the orange, he’s reading Rilke’s “The Panther”: a poem about light in the lightspeeding moment when it rushes nevertheless in through our cage&#8…

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The alexandrite #cat #eye

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Shod forever in red: two modes of immortality 1. That which never can change: Its oriflamme is, “The red shoes dance on.” 2. That which refashions mother memory into statesmanship:Its talisman in words is, “Make [name of myth…

Pubescentrump jonathanmorse.blog/2025/10/01/s...

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In morning light, an American short-haired cat sits on a kitchen counter. His picture was taken with a wide-angle lens, so we see him surrounded by about half of the entire kitchen.

In morning light, an American short-haired cat sits on a kitchen counter. His picture was taken with a wide-angle lens, so we see him surrounded by about half of the entire kitchen.

The 20 mm lens #cat #photography

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Directions at sunrise You don’t want to know why I was waiting outside Castle Hospital’s emergency room at  six in the morning, but Uber had told me to expect a red Cadillac driven by a man named Willy. &#82…

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A way to reconcile #MAGA and #MAHA, #Trump's power base with #RFKJr's:

First, by executive decision, order the immediate death penalty for anyone who doesn't love Trump. Second, stipulate that the execution be carried out by #COVID immunization. @carlbergstrom.com @sanders.senate.gov

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Two brilliantly colored Java finches facing the camera and so close that they're touching, with one bird's head on top of the other's.

Two brilliantly colored Java finches facing the camera and so close that they're touching, with one bird's head on top of the other's.

Javafinchjavafinch

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Yes it is, you artist of the computer!

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A demonstration that an image from one part of the illustration has been pasted into another part, resulting in a pair of images where only one was before.

A demonstration that an image from one part of the illustration has been pasted into another part, resulting in a pair of images where only one was before.

The visual aid is by me, but the botanist Kim Bridges #kimbridges.com is the man who discovered this amazing tree that hops like a kangaroo and leaves duplicates of itself wherever it lands.

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Iste perfecit opus In Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi,” the artist who narrates the poem envisions a picture he is about to create: a painting filled to the margins with brilliantly illuminated images o…

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Topical but perennial as art is perennial: an anthem for Secretary Kennedy Visit the post for more.

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Trump doesn't consult @dieworkwear.bsky.social. Instead, he meditates on how he'd look wearing a crown.

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Terms of art, 1847 Footnotes in advance: 1. “Now exhibiting” means “now being exhibited.” It’s a progressive passive construction that now survives only in a few expressions such as &#82…

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Apparatus in housing Visit the post for more.

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#cat #portrait

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Sei mir gegrüßt, sei mir geküßt Visit the post for more.

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