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James Wagner

@jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social

cranky radical, fussy aesthete, humanist, generalist, partner of @bhoggard

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Whale dies after collision with small boat off New Jersey shore A minke whale has died off the New Jersey shore after colliding with a small boat. The incident occurred Saturday in Barnegat Bay and the impact nearly tipped the boat and threw a person overboard.

They did that β€œperson collided with car and died” thing, but in the ocean.

No, the whale didn’t collide with a boat. A person driving a boat hit a whale and killed it.

04.08.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 763    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 5
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Reuters found that major US law firms, fearing political backlash, have pulled back or hidden pro-bono and civil-rights work that could conflict with the Trump administration reut.rs/4l8V7kE

03.08.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 691    πŸ” 293    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 89

silly us, we were wrong all along

it’s corporate America’s genius in maintaining its hegemony over our lives

after dramatically declining sales and revenues Tesla awards $30bn bonus to its most important worker

a former worker, I’d naively thought a bonus rewarded hard work that generated revenue

04.08.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Schooner Adirondack - Our Boats | Classic Harbor Line The Schooner Adirondack: an elegant, white-hulled, 80-foot, 1890s-style pilot schooner - the original in the Classic Harbor Line fleet!

the swift Schooner Adirondack, an 80-foot, wooden harbor pilot boat, a beautiful replica of an 1890’s original sail-nyc.com/our-boats/sc...

04.08.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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from the southwestern edge

the island of Manhattan

a river runs around it

04.08.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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For Melville’s birthday, Moby Dick and the Pequod, painted by one of my kids a couple of years ago as their Christmas gift to me.

01.08.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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cena veloce tardiva per uomini non piΓΉ giovani e non piΓΉ con nonne

Setaro spaghetti artigianali aglio olio e peperoncino

e acqua

04.08.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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detail

03.08.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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parboiled/griddled Brooklyn Cured duck and fennel sausage. thyme sprigs, Maille whole-grain mustard;

heirloom tomatoes w/dried Sicilian oregano/olive oil/unpeeled lightly-smashed early garlic cloves, a mix of garden herbs;

balsamic-braised cipollini onions, chopped parsley and French celery leaves

03.08.2025 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Portiuncula - Wikipedia

on August 2, Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, the feast of Feast of the Portiuncula en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portiun...

02.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Corpore et anima, by Musica Secreta 5 track album

and medieval music folks this one's free if you like but don't be a chump so
musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/corpor...

01.08.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and David Goodman - by Dennis Hopper 1963

02.08.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

good, but quaint

only a temporary wrench in the MAGA works, to be undone when SCOTUS reminds us that the supreme leader can do whatever he wants to anyone

02.08.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Americans truly do not understand that the rule of law is now being used to solidify and protect the fascist project and the speed with which they are dismantling basic rights far outstripped democratic societies ability to counter it.
America no longer exists outside of its name.

02.08.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Oil on canvas portrait of a woman looking to the side, her sweater and the background are similar shades of rusty sepia while her arms and face are luminous. The National Portrait Gallery describes the figure's expression as β€œcooly determined.”

Oil on canvas portrait of a woman looking to the side, her sweater and the background are similar shades of rusty sepia while her arms and face are luminous. The National Portrait Gallery describes the figure's expression as β€œcooly determined.”

When Charlayne Hunter-Gault arrived at University of GA in 1961, some white students responded with violence; she was suspended β€œfor her safety” but returned with a court order & earned a journalism degree. Portrait by Jospeh Schwarz, a professor who organized a faculty resolution to reinstate her.

07.07.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Black and white image of a woman in high collar and plumed hat. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Black and white image of a woman in high collar and plumed hat. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Pauline Hopkins (b. 1856) journalist, novelist, playwright, historian, daughter of a Civil War veteran. She edited the Colored American & the New Era in the early decades of the 1900s, authored 3 novels, & offered enlightened perspectives in national political & intellectual discourse.

29.07.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here are three tiny chickens drinking water under a peony bush, for morale

01.08.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2891    πŸ” 281    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 0
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crispy-skin pan-roasted Hudson River Valley Fisheries (responsible excellent high-tech farm www.hudsonvalleyfisheries.com) steelhead fillet, a Baden chef’s seasoning salt, our garden bronze fennel:
boiled baby German Butterball potatoes, butter, garden chives; Jamaican Burr cucumbers, garden mint

02.08.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh, just great

hadn't thought lately about how much permanent damage
our home-grown baby loud-mouth lardo idiot monster

could do to the entire world in only a matter of minutes

name-calling and nuclear missiels, not a good mix

01.08.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marsden Hartley Storm Down Pine Point Way, 1941–43

05.06.2024 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œNo person shall.. hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, ..having previously taken an oath, ..to support the Constitution of the United States, ..shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

01.08.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

far too common

always wrong

and dumb

01.08.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NY strip steak air-dried 12 hours, seared/cooked med. rare, w/lemon/English thyme;

green cherry tomatoes pan-roasted slowly w/olive oil/unshelled juicy early garlic/dried wild Sicilian oregano, French celery leaves;

escamillo peppers sautΓ©ed w/early red onion/dried Santa Fe pepper/fresh oregano

01.08.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œthe US says” no longer means anything on any subject

cooking the books is now
part of normal operations

31.07.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens ISLA VISTA, CAβ€”In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ...

12 years earlier.

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NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

30.07.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 42876    πŸ” 9597    πŸ’¬ 824    πŸ“Œ 607
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about that name
and more nerdherdtours.com/wp-content/u... nerdherdtours.com/the-sculptur...

30.07.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Transportation’

a sculpture of Mercury

triumphant above the clock
at the entrance to our truly
Grand Central Station

by sculptor Jules-FΓ©lix Coutan

here en suite with William Van Alen’s Chrysler Building, in a capture from below the glass roof of my chariot at n Tuesday

30.07.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ursula K. Le Guin: β€œThe exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”

15.05.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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having mistakenly bought skinless deboned chicken thighs instead of real ones, I looked around for a recipe, quickly found Melissa Clark’s β€˜Garlicky Chicken With Lemon Anchovy Sauce’ cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015...

also local okra, seared, finished in the pan with peperoncino Calabresi secchi

30.07.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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