Wednesday, February 26, 2025 →
Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) — The Public Domain Review
Microposts
Wednesday, February 26
Monday, February 24
Alnur Mussayev: In 1987, I worked in the 6th Department of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of work of the 6th Department was the acquisition of spies and sources of information from among businessmen of capitalist countries. It was in that year that our Department recruited the 40-year-old businessman from the USA, Donald Trump, nicknamed “Krasnov”.
Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novel - Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who’s a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he’s a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!
“In ancient Athens, the world’s first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The ‘winner’ was banished from Athens for 10 years.”
“I do not get mad. I get distant.”
Declaration of Independence: “A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
Sophie LaBelle: Being against the existence of an observable aspect of life won’t make it cease to exist.
Agnorant: “People who are extremely ignorant, yet are simultaneously extremely arrogant. Example: people who think they know more about science than scientists.”
Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones S3E10 “Myhsa”: “Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.”
**The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, Gustave Le Bon (1896): **“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify reror, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
Types of Irish folk songs: (1) screw the British Empire; (2) a hot girl got me sent to prison; (3) I’m having a nice time with my friends; (4) whiskey will cure all ills; (5) whiskey will ruin your life; (6) here’s everything that was on this one ship.
Saturday, February 22
List of plays adapted into feature films - Wikipedia
National Park Service in Turmoil After 1,000 Staff Abruptly Cut
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings | Electrek
Wednesday, February 19
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
White House tweets ‘ASMR’ video of immigrants in shackles
Anti-Trans Headers Placed On Websites Judge Ordered Trump To Restore
More Hospitals Resume Trans Care After Trump’s EO Temporarily Blocked In Court (AZ, VA)
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk’s Firings Are Dangerous
Elephants find us cute in the same way we think babies are cute.
The Case for Amy & Willow’s Relationship
US government struggles to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
I have fallen in love with a federal judge. Forgive the extended paste. It’s the last bit that’s chef’s kiss.
REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses ‘animus.’ Does that express animus?
DOJ: Not in any constitutional –
REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people … to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus?
DOJ: I don’t have an answer for you.
REYES: You do have an answer, you just don’t want to give it…People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn’t be in the military … We’re dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country … calling them liars.
(Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because “they’re all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can’t possibly meet the high rigors of being a lawyer for the government” She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
I was hungry
You cut my food stamps
I was thirsty
You let my water pipes rust
I was a stranger
You took me and put my child in a cage
I needed clothing
You made me sleep on the streets
I was sick
You denied me healthcare
I was in prison
So your friends could make a profit
Whatever you do to the least of my people you do to me. - Jesus
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
Whenever one person stands up and says “wait a second, this is wrong”, it helps other people to do the same.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
There exists a quantity of artificial butter flavor beyond which people begin to believe it’s not butter. This is known as the margarine of error.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
Marble sculpture of a frog, Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 B.C.)
Tuesday, February 18
Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan: “…You people don’t know what the truth is! It’s there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That’s what I hate most about this fucking city – lies are news and truth is obsolete!”
Monday, February 17
Trump Uses Supreme Court Immunity Ruling to Claim “Unrestricted Power”