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R. A. Wadland

@misterman70.bsky.social

Retired insurance industry manager, occupational therapist, genealogist, salesman, runner. Pet dad. Art and culture connoisseur

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Trivia break

Who is this young actress from 1928?

19.11.2025 07:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Memories

Ordinarily, Iโ€™d say โ€œWe never had it so goodโ€ is going too far but when Iโ€™d just scored some Barry Manilow and Atlanta Rhythm Section and also get nine more 8-tracks for a friggin dollar thereโ€™s simply no denying I was living the seventies high life.

19.11.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Minimal surreality

Pink & Punk

๐Ÿ“ธ By M.Delcambre

19.11.2025 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Art to haunt a broken heart. Turkish, Istanbul-based illustrator Aykut AydoฤŸdu has developed a unique style to create surreal, enigmatic digital art. His work reflects the intense and incomprehensible feelings that haunt the souls of those who suffer being brokenhearted.

17.11.2025 05:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Sunday

โ€œvase of flowersโ€
By Morris Namdar
Ramat HaSharon, Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

17.11.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s starting to feel a lot like Christmas..

Her: What are you going to do with these empty wrapping paper tubes?

Me: What am I NOT going to do with them? El Kabonko for you

17.11.2025 00:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When what you haveโ€ฆ
is an appetite for silence
ph. unknown

17.11.2025 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the classics file

Jings and Crivvens๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜„

Outrage at the Oban Winter Highland Dancing Finals last weekend when local man Hugh Jorgan included the outlawed backwards summersault in his performance which has left attendees traumatised.

17.11.2025 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Simply Sublime

Josef Lorenzl cubist art deco lamp, 1920's

16.11.2025 07:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My Fortress
The Sacred Three
My fortress be
Encircling me
Come and be round
My hearth and my home.

Goodnight

16.11.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Crisp, clean, the color of growth, balance, and renewal. Green fashion aesthetics

16.11.2025 07:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™ll take strange noises for $50 Alex

16.11.2025 07:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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hunka hunka trunk o honkers
ph. unknown

16.11.2025 07:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oh she was a stunner.

Dorothy Dandridge photographed by Ed Clark for Life magazine, 1951

16.11.2025 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Combining figuration and abstraction; the work of Beata Chrzanowska

โ€œIntoxication; the first kissโ€

16.11.2025 03:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A blue aesthetic

.looking into the fuchsia.
print for NOISE Magazine
by Roxana Enache

16.11.2025 03:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Well you knowโ€ฆ

15.11.2025 02:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the classics file

courtesy @ MeredithFrost

On this day in 1966, Muhammad Ali knocked out Cleveland Williams. One of the best sports photos of all time, by the great @LeiferNeil

15.11.2025 02:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dynamism

โ€˜Passion And Perseveranceโ€™

One of Taiwanโ€™s Cloud Gate Dance Theatreโ€™s latest creations.
(Photo by Lin Suo-chi)

15.11.2025 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Raw power. The portrait photography of Brett Walker

15.11.2025 02:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Friday, weekend beckons

Ramzey Masri turns the world into a rainbow paradise

15.11.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hey polski ogorki. Iโ€™m not gherkin your chain.

Today November 14th is National Pickle Day.
What's your favorite pickle?

15.11.2025 02:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

China hasn't threatened to annex us. No but guess who has?

China hasn't insulted us. No but guess who has?

China hasn't attacked our economy. No but guess who has?

China likes oil and lumber too. Sell them a lot

14.11.2025 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reflect on this why donโ€™t you?

14.11.2025 07:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hard-boiled
โ€œMurder me for Nickelsโ€
1960 cover art by Robert McGinnis

14.11.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

โ€“ Ernest Hemingway, 1899โ€“1961, novelist

Flying Spinnakers, 1938, from the Rosenfeld Collection

14.11.2025 04:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The dynamic figurative sculptures of George Lafayette

14.11.2025 04:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Thursday

Sunburstโค๏ธ

A teddy bear sunflower patch

14.11.2025 04:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Times a passin

14.11.2025 04:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Classic toys

I had the whole shebang; dual guns with holster, cowboy hat, and a whistle and badge . Giddyup ya dirty sidewinder.

14.11.2025 04:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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