everything about the wafd makes perfect sense psychologically despite their ultimate failings. if i became synonymous with the dysfunction of the political system despite that dysfunction being a direct result of people repeatedly ratfucking me out of power i would probably stop giving a shit too

as a lifelong democrat, i didn't know what to make of charlie kirk. i've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. the reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me Show more

Posting the Yes Minister bit on National Service again:

attributing egyptian student activism in the monarchy era to 'lack of sports activities' is maybe the most british thing imaginable

proudest moment of my time on twitter

Job praying https://www.wikiart.org/en/marc-chagall/job-praying-1960

which of the 'three greats' mexican muralists is your favorite

this website has the juice

the actual tweet was much, much worse and included “spit roasted”

I can’t login and see posts fantasizing about having a threesome with yourself, Hunter Biden, and RFK Jr. I can’t do it

theres this horrible trad account on twitter who responded to le pen's bloody nose last year by going 'this proves there are really only two parties, far right and not the far right, they pretend otherwise but every center-right politician and anarchist street-fighter is on the same side'

fuck she’s deploying her vision attack

this was a slatestarcodex post

Footpath in a Forest. Ferns. https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/footpath-in-a-forest-ferns

The Bible makes a huge point about how John the Baptist's whole deal was like "I'm pretty cool, right? But there's somebody EVEN COOLER coming, and then I'm just gonna fuck off forever" I always preferred the version where that's editorializing, and the relationship between the two was more like

Valse d'amour (sheet music cover) - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112371

Menswearguy doing a transphobia against a large trans account that has posters madness

The Annunciation https://www.wikiart.org/en/limbourg-brothers/not-detected-265534

i remember a specific youtube account--you know the one--make a video about how the tropes around 'deals with the devil' are really problematic because christian ideas of damnation yada yada yada (she also said that Jews dont believe in hell which. whatever.) and like im sorry

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Star Maker https://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/star-maker

'the thing you blame on victorians actually had more to do with the middle ages than your department would like you to believe'

Repeat after me: I am not luckier than the Rizzler. I am not luckier than Bashar al-Assad. I am not luckier than Hasan Piker. I am not luckier than the human pet guy. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be luckier than I am.

Whenever the Romans had a triumph, a slave would whisper "Memento homo" to the general being honored, to remind him that he was gay.

8th Sokol Festival https://www.wikiart.org/en/alphonse-mucha/8th-sokol-festival-1912

The Wall of the Kitchen Garden, Yerres https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-caillebotte/the-wall-of-the-kitchen-garden-yerres

The Complaint of the Giant Nimrod (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"); verso: slight black chalk sketch for recto https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297947

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Rebirth

who do you think william f buckley wouldve said best girl in eva was

Have been thinking about continuing relevance of Dada artist George Grosz's political critiques. His scathing 1926 painting "Eclipse of the Sun" portrays alliance between feckless political & military leaders and capitalist financiers. Grosz, branded "degenerate" by the Nazis, fled to the US in 1933

I built a machine that gives you ADHD. I think it'll really help people focus on tasks.

The Kant Car

Paul Klee, Comedian, 1904 collections.artsmia.org/art/58471/ko...

see also: "I would LOVE to pay more for mcdonalds if it means mcdonalds workers get paid more"

Character design work by Mary Blair for Cinderella (1950), dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney Productions

Testudo tabulata (Chelonoidis denticulata) https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-lear/testudo-tabulata-chelonoidis-denticulata-1836

virtually indescribable energies at work in this painting

keir starmer squats like a toad over a bunch of democrats for some fucking reason

Never in my life did I imagine that home cooked mini sausage rolls are the apex of culinary life.

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why is everyone evil now

the thing people dont understand about israeli politics is that the electoral threshold is actually too hihj

Mountain Torrent, 1918 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25968

Pretty much any pre-modern empire that was large enough to have to manage multiple minorities without committing too much genocide gets some absolutely ridiculous "behold a glorious melting pot" points that literally none of them deserve

2/2 Boom! A simply brilliant study of a pomegranate from Jacques le Moyne des MOrgues. I mean, color, composition, wow. Today is his day.