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I hate the sea.

Alain Delon, Monica Vitti L'Eclipse, Antonioni

#MusicHistory On this day 1972, the legendary Lou Reed released his 2nd album, Transformer. The songs that came from this masterpiece are some of Reed's greatest: "Vicious", "Andy's Chest", "Satellite of Love" and of course "Perfect Day" and finally Reed's signature song "Walk on the Wild Side."

Someone actually says to Victor Frankenstein “You are the monster.” THEY ACTUALLY SAY IT. (And he doesn’t reply “That’s a common misconception…”)

Does this milk bath make me look #Caturday?

The teddy bears thing has actually killed me I am beside myself.

I love her wire sculptures! Got to see these at LACMA in January.

Still thinking about her (Ruth Asawa's persimmons)

saw this. had to share.

Good to hear Lee Anderson on PM yesterday saying that he used to sit between Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway, making a "lunatic sandwich". Demonstrating that he either thinks he's a lunatic or doesn't understand the concept of a sandwich. I'm happy to believe either explanation

I actually think what ICE is doing under Trump 2.0 is shaping up to be a world-historic campaign of human rights violations in an advanced industrialized ~democracy I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.

Paramount is blacklisting actors opposing genocide in Gaza. What a world we’re living in.

These Tureen tests are getting crazy

Luchino Visconti and Alain Delon on the set of Rocco and His Brothers (1960). On Scorsese's list named “39 movies you must see before you die.”

Golden Crop - Narsiso Martinez, 2019

Whole Foods and Nosotr@s — Narsiso Martinez, 2023

Easy Grape — Narsiso Martinez, 2019 ink, gouache, collage, charcoal, and matte gel on recycled produce box

Frank Auerbach, Oxford Street Building Site I, 1959 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123528

🖤 This is one of Joseph Losey's - and Delon's - best films. Haunting and memorable

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Local firework displays are in full swing and upsetting my cat. He hates fireworks - not because of the noise - he just can't stand the thought of people enjoying themselves.

do you remember the post a while back where someone suggested a sitcom where Cuomo and Dershowitz are roommates in new york city and every episode Cuomo loses an election and Dershowitz is refused a pierogi?

Siri: show me a lie is half way round the world as truth gets its boots on.

Happy birthday, Eileen Margaret Evans. The graphic designer, remembered for co-founding the design studio Mount/Evans with Reginald Mount, and designing myriad quirky informational posters, was born today in 1921.

Drives me mad that people talk about Danish immigration policy as a *political* success without bothering to look at the polls.

🔴 Treasury Criticised by Leading Labour MP for ‘Short-Sighted’ Refusal to Back Rainforest Fund at COP30 Olivia Blake MP warns Government that “what happens in the global south affects the global north” and calls for ministers to prioritise taxing private jets open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

I really think what’s needed here is more gold.

Theoretically, this eventually turns into the “how do I ensure my doomsday bunker guards don’t eat me?” problem that all the “futurists” say is the number one question they’re asked by billionaires.

“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders. “At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”

‘Where’s your fucking poppy?’

Yeah, there's no way you could ever find any Christians who were involved with the pharmaceutical industry, or the spread of feminism, or the rise of pornography, or any of the other antisemitic conspiracies she's pushing here. Nope, Jews Are To Blame For Everything I Don't Like™

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

The agency behind the real work is a design coop called Forge and they did an absolutely incredible job https://www.forge.coop/

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

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Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung, 04, 1958 Cover illustration by Paul Rand. (From the picture book: “I know a lot of things” by Ann and Paul Rand. designreviewed.com/artefacts/gr... #paulrand #illustration #graphicdesign

The actual, dangerous, antisemitism that goes unpublished - indeed rewarded - in Trump's America

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Went to the disco on Sunday and copped off with Kevin.

Leon Trotsky, Diego Rivera, and André Breton. Photo by Fritz Bach in 1938.

“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba

"How can I break America? Let me count the ways" might as well be Trump's love song to a country whose agriculture, construction, foreign trade, air travel, energy/electricity, rule of law, education systems, and health he's savaged.

@lizfremantle.bsky.social I think you need these

UNESCO has recognised the Cyrus Charter at its conference in Samarkand. It is a clay cylinder from 539 BC with an inscription from the Iranian king which celebrated freedom, justice, and respect for cultural diversity. Currently it sits in Room 52 at the British Museum #HumanRights #Iran

Imagine shareholders willing to give a trillion dollars to a guy who says there are 20 million dead people getting Social Security, but is too incompetent to find any of them.

Huge numbers of Labour policy spads read @samfr.bsky.social’s Substack, where the exact scale of the repair job was written in black and white. What actually happened is those people were cowed into silence by a set-up that valued polling over policy.