Je Shen (Chinese Artist, born 1973) "Meditation", 2026. Oil on Canvas, 160 × 120 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Actually it's the last picture of C3-PO before he was executed by the Empire

works for me, feel free to never vote again

in the postwar era and the civil rights era people discussed racism not just as immoral but as dangerous. they noted the role it played in WWII and said that for civilization’s sake we cannot afford to let a cancerous ideology spread. we need to talk more like that imo. racism as dangerous to all.

Instead of the article that dropped today, read this:

The Camp of the Saints is best understood as pornography. It’s a highly sexualized fantasy that doesn’t describe any part of the reality of immigration at any point in historical time.

this headline sounds like it was written by a chimpanzee to neg bonobos

The Chili Peppers doc on Netflix was good - lots of cool reflections, footage, etc. from the early years. Though I thought the treatment of Hillel Slovak's death was pretty abrupt - it was like Hillel's dead, next scene here's John Frusciante! (Esp considering that Hillel was the ostensible focus)

That time of year again.

social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet

2 Woke 2 Furious www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

I'm no lawyer or HR professional, so is it good when you print all the illegal stuff that will be tolerated at your company in your employee handbook or...?

He don't miss

This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"

full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life

Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

logging on

There should be a season of the Pitt that's just the night shift docs being chill and normal for 12 hours

I won't link to the stupid Free Press article, but man the "conservatives try to understand a single book" challenge remains impossible huh?

Eight children died in a mass shooting on Sunday EIGHT CHILDREN And the national conversation barely paused to notice My latest for @thebulwark.com looks at what happened, how it's devastated the community and why America accepts gun violence so casually www.thebulwark.com/p/america-ju...

I watched it at the time. Once or twice it resurfaced in later years. After the disaster, the floodgates opened on YouTube, and so I found it again. I shared it on Twitter; the post went viral. Those who had seen it, remembered well. Those who hadn't were amazed. It's still beyond words. It just is.

Very thoughtful piece on the role mainline Protestant churches are playing in the anti-Trump movement (and where they might go from here) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-untapped...

if this polling result surprises you, i am issuing emergency guidance for you to touch grass immediately

One of the initial selling points of the MCU was normal people could enjoy them without being steeped in decades of comics lore. Now the movies themselves have decades of lore

People have weirdly specific opinions about air travel

Alan Dershowitz wasn't already a Republican?

Michael B Jordan couldn't make the Fantastic Four work. Michael B Jordan. Think about that. And they keep trying

Avengers: Ouroboros

Glad the Western Civilization Defenders are in charge

Found the Emmaus story particularly moving today. "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us...?” always gets me

Germans are at it again

huge portions of media think they’re the refs in a Vatican VS White House MMA fight and they’re delusional. this is a one-sided beef where the Pope says something sensible like “war is bad” or “we should not bomb schoolchildren” and all the hit dogs on Capitol Hill and Fox News lose their marbles.

Things that will lift your spirits, an ongoing series: Go see a high school musical

It's Friday

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

this story is useful but also fucking ridiculous. i am genuinely tempted to write a post defending trump against these people. he was very clear about who he was and what he was going to do. they were told ad nauseam. they didn't listen. they *refused* to listen. and now they wanna claim victimhood.

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is declaring war on welfare queen sea lions

Nothing good is going to come out of this reframing of the political spectrum.

Look man, I think the teacher was onto something here.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

The McDLT was served at McDonalds from 1984-1991, so it lasted much longer than the Confederacy. And it gave us this ad. The Confederacy did not. youtu.be/vNCtGTvZj0c?...

nobody asked me but i actually strongly support the idea of a posting website that goes down for nights and weekends

How it feels to make a joke with the boys about how of course an orange man hates the pope

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