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Chris Rusak
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Artist • Perfumer • "Difficult"
Las Vegas, Nevada
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🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank
Israeli settlers attack European delegation convoy in West Bank, beat French mayor
Israeli settlers have attacked a convoy carrying a European delegation in the occupied West Bank and beat up a French mayor, witnesses said Saturday.
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October 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.
October 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Keep in mind the oil majors are absolutely fleecing us all when they try to convince you that gas taxes that amount to pennies on the dollar to their margins (and provided necessary and popular government services) are why prices are high. bsky.app/profile/reut...
October 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Kv3-220
Kv3-220, 1/1 2026 cattle, night sky, intersection of red figure
October 14, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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Best art I have seen in a very long time.
tomflood.bsky.social Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 3d
One of these leaders is always dressed for success, especially when standing next to authorities.🔥🔥🔥
Lanrick Bennett Jr wearing black shirt that says POLIC_ y before e especially after c
October 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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“Glass Seed Game (Reflected Inboxes)”, c. 2019
Two shallow trays connected by hinges divided into 14 compartments for use in Mancala games. The 12 smaller compartments each contain 4 colored glass pieces. The tray is made of an orange, stony material. Another angle of the trays. Another angle of the trays. A chart showing different slider bars from different computer operating systems between 1991 and 2007. The following text accompanies this sculpture: “2 players face each other in Mancala games and move 48 pieces called ‘seeds’ between 2 rows of 6 pits called ‘houses’ in a counter clockwise motion. Capturing more than half of the seeds in the larger pit to the player’s right (called a ‘scoring house’) is the game’s objective. Seeds are often made of colored glass. They trigger strong youthful sense memories for me from the cusp of user interface design as the internet started to become what it would be. Fantasy slider bars on the screen scrolling through reams of new things were made to look like you could reach out and touch them. I imagined they would feel like a mancala seed in my fingers. Simulated illusionistic space as a means to acclimate users to the reality of a digital environment is called ‘skeuomorphism’. It’s gradually disappearing as graphic design trends skew towards flatness, but skeuomorphs linger on in dogeared paper, inbox tray, and folder icons. The phenomenon exists outside computers, too: many things are made with the hallmarks of materials that weren’t involved in their production. Plastic countertops and floors are made to look like stone or wood even if there’s no practical reason for them to have marbling or grain. When I played with the glass seeds, I knew the game as ‘Mancala’, but Mancala is a broad name. Growing up in New England I was probably more specifically playing Ouril, a variant from Cape Verde popular with the local Cape Verdean community. Spending time navigating the world online no longer seems exciting, novel, inspirational, or sensual through the prism of those glass seeds. I miss that naive feeling, but now I at least know what game I was playing.”
October 13, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Finally, long-sleeve t-shirt weather.

#LasVegas
October 11, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Took this last year with my Yashica MAT 124 on Portra 160. Still like it better than anything I've taken this autumn using my Olympus M43 camera.

#photography #filmphotography #landscape #utah #autumn #fall
October 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Bumping this piece I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social not only because Vance is in the news, but because if you read it and listen to Marco Rubio's remarks in Athens, you will hear the higher pitch of dogwhistles.
J. D. Vance’s Straussian Moment | Los Angeles Review of Books
The US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel.
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October 8, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Kv3-298, 1/1 2026
red figure
October 8, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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An orange square with a thin black border and rounded corners, containing twenty five white circles each interconnected with lines.
October 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Baseball Bat Catholicism bringing fastballs to the Mount.

#art #ontology #Pontifex
"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity." -- a post by Pope Leo from another social media platform.
October 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Scentmaxxing.
Smellmaxxing.
Stupidmaxxing.

#perfume #fragrance #maxxing
"Scentmaxxing or smellmaxxing focuses on "olfactory enhancement and attractiveness” and is taking social media by storm. From body mists to laundry care, younger consumers are curating a personal fragrance identity through layering multiple scented products across applications.  “Scent is no longer one bottle. It's a system. Consumers are moving from a single-spray habit toward context, routines, layering and personal scent management,” observes Curion Insights. Furthermore, 10% of 18,688 survey respondents believe scent is “a whole process,” and 9.5% layer scents to create a unique signature scent.  Scentmaxxing highlights how fragrance is moving beyond perfume to become an immersive, everyday expression of identity."
October 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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A black downward-pointing isosceles triangle with a carved-out tan section at the top that contains the word "SPECIAL".
September 29, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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An illustration of seven congruent rhomboids, colored black, blue, brown, red, brown, blue, black, respectively from left to right.
September 25, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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The word "BONUS" in white letters on a red background, whose baseline is contoured on a curve.
September 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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A black and white illustrated schematic of eighty rectangles.
September 23, 2026 at 7:07 PM