David Byron

Trump inconvenienced by circumjacent empathy

Pierrot, Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718

YouTube video by Vienna81 Torvill & Dean Bolero - 1984 Olympic Winning Routine

Best use of Bolero in a sporting event goes to legendary ice dancers Torville & Dean, whose winning performance in the 1984 Olympics violated a rule requiring a tempo change, which Bolero lacks, and avoiding running long by starting with 18 seconds of skates-off-the-ice:

youtu.be/E8obUdxnTlc?...

It’s the economy* as perceived by voters not in the top quintile, stupid†.

*economy != stock market
†Carville’s rhetoric, not mine

Tweet from Cuomo in which he boasts about his lineage and taunts his opponent

The collapse of “Do you know who I am?” isn’t always a humiliation, but it can be and sometimes it should be.

Totals by Candidate 11 Zohran Kwame Mamdani 1012850 50.32% 12 Curtis A. Sliwa 144123 7.16% | 13 Irene Estrada 2575 0.13% | 14 Eric L. Adams 6182 0.31%| 15 Joseph Hernandez 1228 0.06% 16 Andrew M. Cuomo 837398 41.61% 17 Jim Walden 2128 0.11% | 18 WRITE-IN 6163 0.31% | 2012647

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury

“I could smell the onions and mustard”
Is the Dumbest Timeline’s “whiff of cordite”.

Great example. I’ve often heard people say they believe medieval people discouraged or punished female literacy, whereas Mary is usually shown reading during the Annunciation, so every medieval person constantly saw images of the #1 female role model reading. The anti-learning Middle Ages is a myth.

Sometimes you have to bat the hard five.

Born this day in 1592, in Utrecht, Gerrit van Honthorst. Known in Italy as Gherardo delle Notti for his A+ nighttime scenes, as here in 1620.

The REAL road runner

The range increments of a full subway sandwich are only 10/20 so you have disadvantage on your throw more than a few paces away. You can double the range with a half-sandwich wrapped tightly and druis have a fifth-level subclass feature that removes disadvantage if the sandwich has sprouts

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

You can't make this up.

Miller a foe of degenerate art

—It’s hard to get people riled up about abstract “Rule of Law”
—What about rampant bribery?
—Boring
—Masked men demand your papers?
—Routine
—Dead fishermen?
—Foreign
—Ongoing shutdown?
—Partisan bickering
—Uh, I rent an excavator and use it to literally demolish the White House?
—It’s complicated

“A man who has been to another world does not come back unchanged.” -C. S. Lewis

“Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent— the Lord detests them both.” Proverbs‬ ‭17‬:‭15‬ ‭

A digital job announcement, with text above in yellow against a rust background, and below a medieval scene of an audience before a king or potentate seated on a throne.

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) whose scholarship focuses on histories of medieval (ca. 500s-1400s) European art and architecture in the world.

apply.interfolio.com/174923

“It’s funny how some things make you think of other things.”
~Carole Lombard as Irene, _My Man Godfrey_

Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase.
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John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa”

How is that different from expecting everyone else to reschedule around you and adapt to you as you improvisationally resolve your conflicting commitments?

can tell this isn't an actual press release because it's not credited to "Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University"

Do you reckon Patinir got there before Altdorfer?

“Would you rather fight 100 small birds or fight 1 bird the size of Bonaventure?”