Charlayn von Solms

I used to live in CT's City Bowl. Our entire street became overrun with guest houses, boutique hotels and Air BnB's. These brought with them loud tourists with no regard for our need for sleep, prostitutes, and drug dealers. Just going to buy groceries became an expensive and time-consuming ordeal.

If you can't get it to work, you'll have no choice but to sleep in your UB40 shirt

"Still-life with water-melon and other things" (1985), by Penny Siopis Rembrandt Van Rijn Art Collection

"Still Life with Watermelon and other Things" (1985) by Penny Siopis

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The duck that did it

Composite portrait of four generations of Princes of Orange – William I (in role 1544–1584), Maurice (1618–1625) and Frederick Henry (1625–1647), William II (1647–1650), William III (1650–1702) – Willem van Honthorst, 1662

Composite portrait of four generations of Princes of Orange by Willem van Honthorst, 1662

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Some of us were only ever destined to be accidental gardeners

a person is holding a stuffed duck in their hands and putting it in a box . ALT: a person is holding a stuffed duck in their hands and putting it in a box .

posting gifs like this (at least it's not a recipe for Duck l'orange)

The terrifying sight of Curator Rob wearing a Roman helmet and surrounded by his Praetorian guard (bearing such frightful names as "Banking 2019" and "Cafe Invoices").

Um, count me out. This is their leader. The sight of him put the dread and fear of the palace upon all the nations under heaven. We have heard the reports of him making people stand in holes and tremble in anguish.

Also, can we please reclaim the em dash?
Tip: if an author uses em dashes and they're not patronizing you with psychotic levels of flattery, it means they're human.

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Wait, it's "Chariots of the GOD'S"?!!
This is embarrassing

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Aimed for Mars, ended up in Ur

Slept in my Rolling Stones shirt and got no satisfaction.

So what you are saying is that in the same way he feeds coyotes, you are single-handedly keeping a veterinarian in business

To nearly lose one cat, Mr. Fuzzybunny, may be regarded as a misfortune; to nearly lose two looks like carelessness.

Now it's a snake having a ball 🪩

Ironically, many galleries expect their artists to be grateful and compliant, but collectors don't want art made by people who are meekly submissive. Smart gallerists choose artists based not on how easy they are to work with, but on their ability to stand up for themselves and their work.

William Kentridge on Instagram: "Eurydice Animation for the forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” at @glyndebourne, to be conducted by @jonny_arcangelo, as part of the Glyndebourne Festiv... Get insight into the upcoming Glyndebourne Festival production of Monteverdi's

"Eurydice" by William Kentridge
Animation for the forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”

#ancientbluesky #classicalreception #art

Toughees

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In celebration of Pluto-is-a-planet-month let us sing the official Orphic hymn:

"please accept this sacrifice,
O Plouton, holder of the keys
to the whole earth.
To mankind you give
the wealth of the year’s fruits"

Nothing in here about not clearing the neighborhood

a large moplike trip hazard

But, dogfish are small, sleek and hunt in packs, while Huxley is a large moplike trip hazard.

If @romanpalace.bsky.social were Atlantis, would Huxley be a Tasselled Wobbegong?

@80incognito.bsky.social

10,000-year-old genomes from southern Africa reshape our understanding of human evolution | Daily Maverick

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.

😂 I'm six foot tall (and supposedly quite intimidating) so in the real world I have to restrain my instinct for participating uninvited in other people's business, for fear of causing fainting spells. But on here I get to play 🎈
Also, people who sow wild obliquities shall reap accordingly 🦆

I just barge in. Because DUCKS

Hard to find Holly cow JUMBO Cheshire Cat Disney Duck https://uo.zzkcloud.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=14223523

Hard to find Holly cow JUMBO Cheshire Cat Disney Duck https://uo.zzkcloud.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=14223523

Cheshire Duck