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Today I’m wearing my keffiyeh jacket to show my solidarity with Gaza.
Hand-finished in cashmere-and-silk bouclé, £3,250.
This is one of two sizable portraits I did of my late great father in law. As you might guess, this isn’t a painting but zoomed closely you’ll see the hectic lines of 100% magic markers.
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Nothing is serious anymore
White House announces Melania Trump secured ceasefire in Russian-occupied Ukrainian city wcax.com/2026/10/23/white-ho…
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Japanese Bridge by Monet
Same bridge. Same painter. More than 20 years apart.
1899 vs. 1922
In 1912, doctors found cataracts in both of Monet’s eyes.
Researchers believe they helped push his greens and blues toward reds and oranges.
He painted what he saw.
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In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person.
‘Thon’ was short for “that one.”
It didn’t catch on.
ALT Definition of 'thon' thon | pronoun | a proposed genderless noun of the third person
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Anxiety is the truth of sexuality, that is, what appears each time its ebb tide washes back and lets show the sand beneath.
I also am like her. I don’t do crisis very well, I’d choose to walk away. Having given cpr a couple of times, we probably all have reservations. And yes! To dopamine.
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(ironically, I once met the legendary Scaramucci & unsurprisingly, the man was nothing much like the brash character he'd been impersonating so ineptly in the first T***p circus; so it seems, the public selves squeezed out like pus on the public screen of T***pDarkAge are not even accurate, mere caricatures of themselves as T***p is himself a caricature of an awkward bloviating faux-demagogue stumbling his way to the exit.)
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🚨 NEW: Analysis shows Khan is set to overtake Smith as the most popular English surname next year
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“The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded by [Stanford] in the humanities and arts has fallen 56% since 2003. This decline, from 324 in 2003-2004 to 143 in 2025-2026, has continued even as the overall number of undergraduate degrees granted has increased.”
