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Mark Capps

@markcapps.bsky.social

Working class intellectual, author of novels nobody wants to read. Fan of art, books, movies, and music nobody else likes. Marxist. Ailurophile. Compulsive joke-cracker.

128 Followers  |  125 Following  |  257 Posts  |  Joined: 07.02.2025  |  1.7104

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Your daily snack-time:
茶碗と果実 ((Chawan to Kajitsu, Tea Bowl and Fruit), by Hayami Gyoshū, 1921

07.08.2025 13:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily picture of summer heat:
Tra gli ulivi a Settignano (Among the Olive Trees in Settignano), by Telemaco Signorini, 1885

06.08.2025 14:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily uneasy quiet time:
Nightfall, by Andrea Kowch, 2025

05.08.2025 13:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily beach party:
房州布良 (Mera in Boshu), by Kawase Hasui, 1949

04.08.2025 13:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily French tristesse:
l'Âne (The Forlorn Donkey), by Rosa Bonheur, c. 1881

03.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily insignificance before nature:
Lost Penny, by Thomas Hart Benton, 1941

02.08.2025 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily inspiration for Spın̈al Tap:
Stonehenge, by John Constable, 1835

01.08.2025 14:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily face:
Self-Portrait, by Edward Hopper, 1906

31.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily proletarian life:
Des glaneuses (The Gleaners), by Jean-François Millet, 1857

30.07.2025 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily face:
Zelfportrait (Self Portrait), by Charley Toorop, 1953-54

29.07.2025 14:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily brief encounter:
Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1886

28.07.2025 14:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily print:
お茶の水蛍 (Ochanomizu Hotaru, Fireflies at Ochanomizu), by Kobayashi Kiyochika, c. 1930

27.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily engraving:
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer, by Lucas Kilian, 1608

26.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily trouble getting up in the morning:
Sleeping, by John Everett Millais, c. 1865

25.07.2025 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily brilliant if problematic Futurism:
Crocifissione (Crucifixion), by Gerardo Dottori, 1927

24.07.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We didn’t know how good we had it with Stephen Colbert @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

Oh no, wait, we totally did.

24.07.2025 00:43 — 👍 5017    🔁 696    💬 125    📌 44
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Your daily domestic scene:
My Parents, by David Hockney, 1977

23.07.2025 14:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily cry of pain:
Al Mawt al-Tafl (The Death of a Child), by Mahmoud Sabri, 1963

22.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily elite bloodshedding:
Hofjagd bei Schloss Hartenfels (Hunting near Hartenfels Castle), by Lucas Cranach, 1540

21.07.2025 14:49 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily affirmation of self:
Melancholia, by Fernando Botero, 1989

20.07.2025 14:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily blues:
Les Amoureux en vert (Lovers in Green), by Marc Chagall, 1917

19.07.2025 14:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

On the other hand are we about to get ten months of unhinged Stephen Colbert with nothing to lose?

18.07.2025 00:50 — 👍 6904    🔁 852    💬 253    📌 108
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Your daily homage to Vermeer:
Black Girl with Pearl, by Jenny Boot, 2016

18.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily call of nature:
La Pause de Cupidon (Cupid's Break), by Gerhard Glück, 1999

17.07.2025 13:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily difficult heritage of Fascist Italian Futurism:
Marching (In Marcia), by Pippo Rizzo, 1929

16.07.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bonus painting (Danish remix), just a bit late for Bastille Day:
Modern parody of Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, by Peter Carlsens, 2009

15.07.2025 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily portrait of the artist as a young man:
Портрет Марка Захаровича Шагала (Portrait of Marc Chagall), by Yury Pen, c. 1914

15.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Be like Alan.

14.07.2025 15:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily, almost hyperventilatingly melodramatic, romanticism:
Storm In The Mountains, by Albert Bierstadt, 1870

14.07.2025 13:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Your daily end of the working week:
Possession, by Paula Rego, 2004

13.07.2025 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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