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crafting, mainly. confirmed autodidact.

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just a nut, a safety pin, a spring and a little over an inch

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Patchwork placemat https://t.co/PoUKwwNaqP

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Quilted placemat, 11" diameter, one of a set of four

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A very brief, nearly complete, history of homo sapiens: Consciousness began with a bang. Did it go out without a whimper, or even so much as a @#$F%!!? The answer will have to be supplied by ourselves, in authentic post modern (else post mortem i.e. in the last analysis) fashion.

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Reverse side of "scrapwork #1", a patchwork project I'm currently working on

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In that case, also scam, swindle, confidence trick. Also interesting might be a parsing of trompe-l'oeil in this regard.

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Companies using AI to generate fake people are committing an immoral act, and should be held liable, the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett argues: https://t.co/SROOrtz70b

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Not reproduction. But fake, forgery, maybe.

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Link to the spam video in the first tweet seems to be defunct. Here's another link to the Python sketch: https://t.co/2a0iXrKFQ8

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Apparently the term "spam" (which we tend to associate with unsolicited email messages sent to multiple recipients) derives from a Monty Python sketch. Here's a gentle reminder (see video) to not lose sight of the more discursive dimensions of "spam" ...
https://t.co/zs057LztMX

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#hyperredundancy

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... briefly as the driver of a little truck that skids out of control and crashes early in the film 2/2

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Absolutely Anything (2015) with Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale was one of Terry Jones's last directorial ventures. The Monty Python group provide the voices of the Intergalactic Council of Superior Beings, while Jones also appears ... 1/2
https://t.co/dXEqjWNncl

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"Topographies 1"
4″ x 6″ postcard-sized collage with newspaper, crumpled brown paper packaging, plastic food packaging, egg cartons, pages from a children’s comic magazine, and fabrics, along with a quilting-stitch element

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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition + The Galaxy Song (with Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox) from Monty Python Live (Mostly) 2014 https://t.co/Vf7QNCZ4Rv via @YouTube

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So much left/liberal political discourse seems to persist with this "enemy [still] at the gates" presupposition. Maybe the problem lies in continuing to posit an "outside" to the totalitarian text?

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Ram Guha in Scroll recently: "Totalitarian by instinct, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh seeks to control all spheres of social and cultural life in India." https://t.co/Vv3cqiqqoj

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I wonder though why a party/organization with "totalitarian instincts" that has now held official power with massive majorities for nearly a decade can still be described in terms of "instincts" that lead it to "seek" control of all spheres of life in India

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A gentle reminder. From ideology.

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Still on Netflix https://t.co/3MRu6FpEe0

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Neon Genesis Evangelion unconstituted the world for me when I first watched it a few years ago. Now I feel the need to revisit it to retrieve its more hopeful messaging. https://t.co/Z0b7VocOdl via @YouTube.

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Miriam Schapiro, "My History" (1997)
https://t.co/QVaOkZXEWw