Posts by Tarnport@mastodon.green
(DIR) Post #AzQq6qEUwL6jGW7wCe by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-10-21T10:52:41Z
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That feeling when you've passed decades thinking some magical place off the beaten path belonged only to you, and then you open up the news to a full spread on how your private secret is the new "unspoiled" global hotspot - that feeling is called being old. I remember it from earlier generations, stories from well-off hippies in Taos, the Keys, Holbox, Austin, but I didn't have sympathy at the time, when they bewailed how it used to be, all skinnydipping and no street lights. Now I understand.
(DIR) Post #AzqPEjdBosntaKKOHY by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-02T17:04:52Z
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A 17th-century strongbox - original steampunk. I've never seen anything else like it.
(DIR) Post #B06LuhkYGrUgNLSsTI by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-10T11:30:53Z
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I accidentally rented an actual medieval castle off-season last week for the price of a cheap motel room. Great views, but we peasants don't often appreciate how inflexible and cramped and cold medieval castles are. Anyway one oddly proportioned room was outfitted with a rig much like this. We were absolutely enamored with it and now I want one.https://www.yankodesign.com/2021/06/11/this-slim-wall-cabinet-opens-into-a-sleek-modern-functional-workspace/
(DIR) Post #B06M6RsB7w9wbodFQm by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-10T11:48:53Z
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@futurebird like... A phone booth!
(DIR) Post #B0X9EAd7UdE8E114Zk by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-22T16:15:47Z
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Gabriele Münter. Drei Frauen im Sonntagsstaat, Marshall, Texas (3 Women in Their Sunday Best, Marshall, Texas), 1899.I've been reading about the photographer, who is a fairly well-known painter, an early but important lover of Kandinsky's, and a founding member of The Blue Rider, too. A friend sent me a portrait today which she painted of a woman with a pipe. Independent wealth freed her at a young age. It makes you wonder what such wealth could do for any/all artists.#Photography #Painting
(DIR) Post #B0bLYoVODCYvrSjBzM by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-25T08:25:49Z
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I hate covid and don't believe it's over, but I want to say what's getting lost to history:I'm grateful for the lockdowns in 2020. I spent months in seclusion and came out with the clearest mind I've ever had. In my case it was a blissful reset, however shadowed in fear and even as it wrecked my business.It proved that whenever we want to, we can change the economy. It can be changed overnight. It already was. Neoliberal excuses are unmasked. It's one reason they support mass amnesia since.
(DIR) Post #B0db14Y22wtvLyoh04 by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-26T12:41:27Z
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@futurebird this is absolutely adorable.
(DIR) Post #B0dcAGf4ThFlU23dmy by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-26T12:54:20Z
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@futurebird far too much chance of spontaneous congress! And this way you can still share a garbage can.
(DIR) Post #B0fKatUNKafgZiWO12 by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-11-27T08:46:51Z
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@futurebird I totally want to submit this to youtube LanguageJones
(DIR) Post #B113ZA3fKfHldojbHs by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-12-07T18:10:36Z
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All the shrieking "If you don't like AI, don't use it, but quit trying to control others who do," is actually an ancient debate. It goes back to Hammurabi's Code and the Commandments of Ma'at: DO NOT POLLUTE THE COMMON WELL. It's the most ancient law we have. You can't pollute the river upstream and call it individual prerogative. Watch how fast you go down.
(DIR) Post #B113ZHEYeZ9ptcstjk by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-12-07T18:22:29Z
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Absolutely. This. "TNT for everybody!" Um, no. That's not good for anyone.
(DIR) Post #B1WVrfJ0yu20qq2R3g by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-12-22T23:46:53Z
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Adolf Wölfli. Australia is without Doubt the Habitat of the Giant Strawberry, 1911.I fear going insane, but this Swiss guy rubbed up against insanity after the most awful life, and created art like mandalas of the psyche. One of the first artists to be recognized as an "outsider artist," he was the product of horrific abuse, abandonment, and institutions, deprived of supplies, incarcerated in asylums - and still became a prolific painter, seemingly without antecedent. It's humbling.#Painting
(DIR) Post #B1iFEu3wukU3xK0PCK by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2025-12-28T11:15:22Z
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Touring the friends around.
(DIR) Post #B1upC7vQqSkOKOW4C8 by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2026-01-03T17:47:45Z
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I'm assuming USians here are hearing it, but Europeans are enraged against the USA today in a way that hasn't happened before. Even normally moderate voices are posting things that I didn't think you could say in public. People are scorching tepid politicians and most importantly are calling for a Canada-style boycott of everything American, including against those who "didn't vote for Trump" but are now letting this chaos spill onto the rest of us through inaction. It's a palpable new anger.
(DIR) Post #B1vQt5F2Ob7ulD27AO by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2026-01-04T00:10:55Z
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Glyn Philpot. Resurgam (I shall rise again), ~1929.He died relatively young, and a longtime lover, also an artist, killed himself the next day. Weirdly this picture predates their deaths by 8 years. They were pioneers of out gay proud culture, and in times like these I look at their early exits and can't be sorry. As much as they did not get to paint for us, what was WW2 going to mean for them? They lived in a liberated world coming swiftly to an end. So like us.#Painting
(DIR) Post #B211KDv6nzBHdSkfsO by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2026-01-05T13:00:18Z
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Please boost.Once again, I'm putting out the call: Anyone with contacts among Mexican, Central/S. American, Caribbean or Indigenous voices who may want to contribute (paid) to an anthology on poison plants focusing this issue on DATURA (prose, experiences, science, ethnobotany, ritual, art, folklore, interviews or anything else of interest to subscribers), please contact me privately. We are looking for Western Hemisphere material. Thanks.Image: Georgia O'Keeffe. Jimson Weed, 1932. #Painting
(DIR) Post #B211KMZ6f9veRpWjKa by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2026-01-05T16:25:02Z
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Yes they are opportunistic scrub plants and have naturalized all over, toxic in every part. Not unlike ourselves...
(DIR) Post #B2BI6Gxr0etIsSsuS8 by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2026-01-11T16:20:54Z
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Travel bloggers need to quit with the drones.
(DIR) Post #B2VlEVad1RBa7e37WS by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2026-01-21T13:42:26Z
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@futurebird best thread of the day.
(DIR) Post #B2baM6y2WCK1WiBLjU by Tarnport@mastodon.green
2026-01-24T09:04:39Z
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Alt-text images get more boosts because alt-text facilitates equal access, automatic translation, screen readers, low-bandwidth access, and searchability.#AltText