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Teller mit fünf Libellen (Plate with Five #Dragonflies), designed by Karl Ducke, Vienna, c.1900 white metal, painted enamel; dia. 27.5 cm MAK - Museum of Applied Arts EM 504-4

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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

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maybe it's time to try religious psychosis

#me once a year or so

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The devouring mouth of Hell, circa 1150.

From Winchester Psalter manuscript. Winchester, England. [SOURCE]

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double exposure of the full moon on 35mm film

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A general history of quadrupeds - 1790 - via Internet Archive

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Christina Bothwell (American, born 1960) , While You Were Sleeping , 2007 .

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akindofhome 🪿

#wow….

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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library. Photo by Leah O’Connell Design.

https://www.instagram.com/leahoconnelldesign/

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JOSEP ROCA SASTRE

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John Clymer (1907 - 1989). Bear Drawings. Ink on paper.

National Museum of Wildlife Art

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[image description: several drawings of bears, some of which are in a void and some of which show them moving through a wooded, mountainous landscape. end description.]

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sometimes someone will casually mention using chatgpt or some other generative ai thing and I can actually feel the little

above my head

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“I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.”

J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla