It’s W. C. Fields's birthday. ‘If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.’ Think Samuel Beckett would have liked that.

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I license my footage, in which I don't speak at all, to places like CNN, CBS, and KARE 11. I'm working with Mother Jones. I am primarily a writer, who has broken real, investigative stories. I'm not an activist or a fucking content creator, nor am I working in the style of one, thanks. Fuck off.

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge 2. David Bowie - Starman Loved Ziggy Stardust in my teenage years. Then, during Covid, I played some music videos to my son (aged 3-4 at the time) and he loved this one so much he ended up phoning relatives to play it to them.

Mr M rode in an elevator with her once and was completely tongue tied.

Post your childhood radio

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Every time I talk to someone outside of Minnesota, we always spend time on *really* basic things they have don’t understand about what is happening here. So let’s do a Q&A. What are your most basic questions about what’s going on in Minnesota?

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Paul Newman with his cat, Louis XIV, at the zoo, 1956. © Sanford Roth.

🤣🤣🤣 only one ticket sold to UK launch of Melania movie.🤣🤣🤣

They tried to roll Tom Homan out back when this started—to Chicago, with his sidekick Dr. Phil. They were run out of town, Homan bitching that in Chicago people were too educated about their rights.

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Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

May he never know a moment’s peace.

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#MacroMonday #Inverts #Dragonflies

In Nashville we are in the wake of a historic snow/ice storm. Trees down on cars & houses, over 100 elec poles have snapped, impeding the Linemen working even as more trees are falling. I want to thank ALL Linemen! We appreciate all you do 4 us. Be safe we are thinking of you. x

Irrevocably and permanently damaging the civil rights of dozens of ICE guys by playing the Butthole Surfers' 1988 album "Hairway To Steven" from a boombox outside the Hilton Garden Inn in suburban Minneapolis where they're all staying. JD Vance does a tweet about it that starts "Wow. Really?"

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"They are forcing the public, and Supreme Court Justices, to have to rely solely on the Government’s inaccurate version of events. This Court has the power to shed light on the truth of what happened on October 4."

"Warm Leatherette" by Grace Jones Sly Dunbar on drums - RIP youtu.be/gi6VE5BaePY?...

a book light, italy, 15th century

Can’t leave out Sister Rosetta #5DebutAlbums50s60s youtu.be/3NFywQdeKSo?...

Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, by Ivan Albright American, 1897-1983 1940 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16718

2784 Dark night acrylic and oil on paper 20x12 inches £200 unframed. #Art #Painting #IndustrialArt www.facebook.com/@davidbezart... www.instagram.com/davidbezarti...

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Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

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someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

My #MathArt started as a typical pandemic pandemic project: "Deadly mutants are after us. What can give us hope? This innocuous-looking function is a sublime light in the dark. It proves you can always recover. If your perseverance is infinite." elkement.art/2021/01/24/m... #SciArt

Blue Shieldbug, Zicrona caerulea. #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem

She was six foot tall and whip-thin, apparently due to a diet of opium and gin, wore elaborate head-dresses to make herself even taller, and had outfits made by the costume designer from the Ballets Russes And she threw parties – wild, elaborate, frequent, extravagant parties

Made muffins with yesterday’s leftover porridge and put raspberries in

“Geographically inaccurate penguin memes sir. Thousands of ‘em.”

L1662 Trees acrylic and oil on paper 10x9 inches £80 unframed. #art #painting #trees www.facebook.com/@davidbezart... x.com/davidbezarti... www.instagram.com/davidbezarti...

Share one of your favorite lines from a horror movie 🖤

Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin), by Workshop of Dieric Bouts (Netherlandish, 1415–1475) c. 1490 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/110673

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Channel surfing with Albert Brooks on The Flip Wilson Show, www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_me...

The privileges of & whiteness & citizenship etc etc are all contingent and everyone involved needs to know that.