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What the fuck have we become

Maurice Ravel - BOTD #Caturday

East German poster for MAMMA ROSA (1962) Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring Anna Magnani - BOTD in 1908

Critics dismissed Hopper’s Soir Bleu (1914), so he kept it for life. The rejection set his course early: crowds without comfort, company without connection—public solitude long before fame arrived.

Samedi soir. Jean-Pierre Léaud in La Maman et la Putain, Jean Eustache (1973)

Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris Maurice Zalewski, 1950

Twin Peaks: Donna Hayward.

The work of Gunta Stölzl (1897– 1983), influential German textile artist and designer who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop #WomensArt ##WomensHistoryMonth

March 7, 1963: Cassius Clay at The Bitter End in New York's Greenwich Village. Clay was chosen as the winner during a poetry contest with the Village's inner circle of poets competing.

Fantasy https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4797

5356-58 S. Indiana, Chicago. 1907, Robert S. Smith, architect. I didn't think the balconies were original, but they are present on the 1925 Sanborn map, so they are at least that old. 1926 ads from the Tribune and the Chicago Defender for contrast, plus a cutie pie.

God this shit is so ugly, just so, so ugly

The "five presidents" at Rev. Jesse Jackson's memorial service get another round of applause: "President Harris, President Clinton, President Bill Clinton, First Lady Jill Biden, President Biden, and Chicago's own southside President Barack Obama." This made me giggle. 😁

BREAKING- Emergency court filing is made to stop Trump’s closure and “gutting” of Kennedy Center youtube.com/shorts/gkxiq...

#BOTD 1923. Remembering Jazz guitarist John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery. (d.1968) #Jazzsky

Happy 80th birthday, guitarist and singer, songwriter David Gilmour. 🎂 #Floyd

Todd Webb, 1949

1950's Child sculpture terra-cotta, wood 1950 Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) b. Japan d. USA #isamunoguchi #1950schild #sculpture #terracotta #wood #oneofakind #handmade #modernart #modernsculpture #sculpture #art #noguchisculpture #circa1950

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Everyone needs to know the extent of what the U.S did. An unarmed Iranian ship invited to a joint Indian naval exercise paraded its sailors before the president alongside other participants, including the U.S. At the last minute, the U.S. withdrew from the exercise and torpedoed the Iranian vessel

Paraphrasing Justice Potter Stewart in his opinion on pornography, "I can't define in intelligible words who an asshole is but I Noem when I see 'em ." #KristiNoem

Zelenskyy holds the cards....

I love Francesca Woodman. I remember being incredibly moved by her work when I visited Tate Liverpool a few years ago. What a brave woman she was. So vulnerable.

Otro amanecer en Torres del Paine 👋👋👋

Stupid person voice: Multiculturalism has failed! Me: Well, you clearly haven't embraced the majesty of Sicilian-Norman-Arab-Byzantine-Jewish civilisation.

© Brassaï Autoportrait au boulevard Blanqui (1931-1932)

Hillary Clinton finding out Lauren Boebert is posting photos of her testimony: "If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. this is just typical behavior... We all are abiding by the same rules." Boebert: "I... I will take that down."

Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly. Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it

Yesterday, The Sheriffs, MPD and law enforcement brutally put down a peaceful anti-ICE protest outside of the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis. There has been little to no coverage of what is happening in Minneapolis since Trump's supposed stand down, which is why we need to spread the word.

Park https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28549

“Kaleidoscopic Forest” by artist Cedar Lee

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

In memory of Lou Reed, who would have celebrated his 84th birthday today. Lou Reed – A Walk On The Wild Side Live at Farm Aid – September 22, 1985 at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois #loureed #protopunk #punkrockhistory

Its Tree Frog Oclock at Mara Ted-o... turn up the volume...

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the arse of the free and the home of the brave

Light is built a brick at a time.

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

#Netherlands 🎼A Dutch artist protested against Moscow by playing the Ukrainian🇺🇦 anthem at full volume with 4 barrel organs simultaneously in front of the Russian Embassy in The Hague, during a rally to support #Ukraine. Russian diplomats were furious, report said. #StopRussia

Park Terrace Through Kelvingrove Park - view from the North Balcony Room in Kelvingrove Art Gallery - drawn with charcoal and soft pastels on paper - collhamilton.bigcartel.com/product/park... #glasgow #artist #glasgowwestend

Happy St David’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Feather plant (1919) by Paul klee

Quartier neuf 🏗️ cité moderne HLM 🏙️ Reconstruction de Marseille en 1951 Nous sommes nombreux à avoir joué dans des terrains vagues pendant que tout se construisait autour, aujourd'hui l'on voit tout disparaitre ^^

One disgusting aspect of all this is Trump fundamentally doesn’t care about it at all. He barely knows where any of these places are. He likes cash in brown envelopes and being on TV as Mr Big Important Guy. He’s just willing to pull any lever he thinks might keep that stuff flowing indefinitely.

Hurt. Or no impact. Watching the Talarico/Crockett debate Talarico came across as a polished machine politician with a canned message and stump speech. Crockett came across as an intelligent independent passionate fighter with integrity and ingenuity.

It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9