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Roof garden maker : Part time painter : MUFC : Latin records : Solo dad : Irish Francophile : NYC : Technically NorthBrooklynBranch tbf :

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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

08.03.2026 03:46 👍 1549 🔁 623 💬 51 📌 35
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Recently completed commission in walnut and maple. Made from 441 blocks this is one from a pair that took me 2 months to complete.

#art #sculpture #wood

06.03.2026 21:49 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Veep couldn't even come up with this level of satire

06.03.2026 19:19 👍 129 🔁 27 💬 8 📌 2

Over the last couple of weeks I have pulled together a comprehensive collection of my Six Towns Works. All in place; curated by Ruthie, and open to viewing as of tomorrow. An official opening will coincide with the 10th Birthday celebration of Two Doors Studio.
www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/post/city-of...

06.03.2026 19:22 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0

Whole heartedly agree with fees for on-street parking and I reckon the car heads on my block should give me a few hundred a month for not having a metal box in their way when they want to park. fair is fair

05.03.2026 19:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This crew, hahaha

05.03.2026 19:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

05.03.2026 04:43 👍 7335 🔁 2309 💬 182 📌 50
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Painting by Tomioka Sōichirō (富岡総一郎, 1922 - 1994)
‘Trees' (林, Hayashi) 1961.
Oil on canvas. Size 74 cm × 93 cm

05.03.2026 07:45 👍 166 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 0

Burn tested his range with the first one then smashed him! Unbelievable stuff that he wasn't sent off. No mention on halftime analysis here.

04.03.2026 21:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Landscape with Trees and Figures - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14575

19.02.2026 15:08 👍 161 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 2
Oil painting of tulips in a glass jar as they are loosing their petals

Oil painting of tulips in a glass jar as they are loosing their petals

Spring is coming isn't it?!? It's coming!!
Here is my tulip painting based on a photo one of my friends took. Feel like buying myself some flowers today.

Oil on smooth canvas.

01.03.2026 12:00 👍 85 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Was a bit of a buzz for newly arrived in NY me to hear "Lou Reed for you" over the phone intercom once. My boss hadn't a clue who he was.

02.03.2026 21:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I built a table for my garden from decking pallets we made for his roof garden that never got built because his neighbor was an arse.

02.03.2026 21:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"on a bright side this made several Polymarket traders very rich, so their sacrifice was not in vain"

01.03.2026 21:38 👍 665 🔁 118 💬 17 📌 2
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01.03.2026 11:26 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Proper Franco, Brazilian, Irish Brooklynites, technically tbf.

28.02.2026 17:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Proper Irish. ✊🇮🇪

28.02.2026 17:41 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The American dream. Used to be: big house by a highway, big car badly driven, 5 day vacations, retire and pester cousins in Ireland. Now it's: work until death and get that fucking liver inta ya and serve it with shots of horse de-wormer.

27.02.2026 17:30 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

the entire pitch of Cuomo was that sure he's a loathsome sex pest but he has what it takes to stand up to Trump, and then the hot leftist starts every phone call with "what's up big dog" and gets Trump to do whatever he wants.

26.02.2026 21:12 👍 2375 🔁 336 💬 7 📌 12

So basically, “don’t answer the door if it’s your local police department with a missing child flyer, because they’re here to drag you or your loved ones to an illegal gulag”

Great state of affairs for us

26.02.2026 17:37 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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🎥1: Kids joyride with an R46 and crash it into another on layup. Turn on 🔊 to hear what kids are saying.

24.02.2026 14:47 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 4
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Pretty crazy that kids continue to hack MTA subways with impunity throughout the system with seeming impunity. The videos are all over instagram. You would think that given the normal security theater in NYC we would be having city council hearings and such, but crickets.

🎥 in 🧵⬇️

24.02.2026 14:45 👍 58 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 7

80's Teen first drink in Ireland --> Flagon of Cider and a Naggin of Vodka (at the bridge up at the lake)

24.02.2026 00:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He was on WNYC at about the time Mark posted this, talking about improvements made based on lessons learned from the previous storm. No idea what he was wearing but he sounded like a man who knew what the hell he was doing.

24.02.2026 00:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Her flight actually got in yesterday but they wouldn't accept unaccompanied minors during a storm, kinda makes sense I guess. She spent the day at the beach with the two big sisters though so not all bad!

23.02.2026 23:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gutted that the youngest is stranded in Portugal, she would have loved it out there today.

23.02.2026 23:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

23.02.2026 21:05 👍 7095 🔁 1890 💬 56 📌 23

These thieves keep stealing blueprints from my theft empire!

23.02.2026 22:29 👍 2631 🔁 370 💬 60 📌 6

Big fan of WNYC news reader misreading 4-8” of additional snow as 48”, three times since 8am.

23.02.2026 13:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Grim photograph of blizzard addition to the pre-existing piles of ice in a Brooklyn garden.

Grim photograph of blizzard addition to the pre-existing piles of ice in a Brooklyn garden.

Managed to get home before they shut jfk down last night. Kids stranded in Portugal and currently at the beach with the big sister, lucky so and so’s

23.02.2026 12:22 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0