Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.

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Dog Trolling:

Vanity (detail), 1907 - Frank Cadogan Cowper

Colleen Wallace Nungari - Dreamtime Sisters

Persone, Oil on Canvas, Felice Casorati, 1910

Winter Night, 1941. — Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)

John Frederick Lewis - The Harem (1876)

Joseph Farquharson - When the West with Evening Glows (1901)

Edward Okuń – "Portrait of Marshal Józef Piłsudski" (1919)

youtu.be/WNQdp-Kh_Ic?... One of my favourite songs of the last several years!

Dis Mine!

The Pie and the Patty-Pan 1905 Artist : Beatrix Potter

‘Admiration (Pompeiian Bath)’. Alexander Rothaug. 1870-1946.

Marcel RIEDER (1862-1942) - Jeunes femmes sur la lande au clair de lune

Liminal Communion, by Andy Kehoe

C. C. Barton

She Checked Her Hounds, And Stood Beside Endymion, from A Book of Myths by Helen Stratton (1915)

Wolff-Malm Ernst (detail)

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. - Steve Maraboli

Wishing You All A Merry Christmas, A Cool Yule, An Ecstatic Saturnalia!

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Theodor Severin Kittelsen

Frank Horvat. Paris, Gare Saint-Lazare. 1959 We Truly Are Liquid:

Scheggia [Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi](Italian, 1406–1486) The Triumph of Fame (c. 1449) This commemorative birth tray (desco da parto), celebrates the birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449–1492), the most celebrated ruler of his day as well as an important poet and a major patron of the arts.

A Fairy Ring, by Walter Jenks Morgan

Fukiya Kōji, 1898-1979 - Sasayaki (Whisper),1936

Richard Sargent - Anger Transference (1954)

The graceful , Apollon Probably of the Apollo Pythios period of marble Greek reliefs, ca. 5th - 7th century BC

Weird Take:

From San Diego:

Statue of Barbara Rose Johns, Virginia civil rights activist, replaces Robert E. Lee statue in the U.S. Capitol As a student, she organized the first ever protest against racial segregation in 1951: www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ba...

Sun Sprite/Ice Pillar - Austria

The Little Stars of Gold (1921) - Artus Scheiner

Jupiter’s South Pole, taken by NASA’s Cassini

Sidney Sime

Rajski ptak (Bird of paradise), ca. 1920s Tempera on glass Artist: Michalina Janoszanka

Antonio Fabrés (1854 - 1938) - Lighting the Lamp

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

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Narahara Ikkō (奈良原一高) Room No. 9, Women's Prison, Wakayama 1958 Gelatin silver print 12 3/4 × 19 3/16" (32.4 × 48.8 cm) Gift of the artist © 2025 Ikko Narahara #NaraharaIkkō

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Edmund Dulac, The Snow Queen, 1910