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Watercolor by Joseph Mallord William Turner depicting the burning of the Houses of Parliament in London. In the center, warm tones of red, orange, and yellow evoke the intense fire consuming the building, enveloped in a diffuse haze. On the left and right, bluish and grayish areas suggest smoke and reflections over the river.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament.

Bowie and Bryan Ferry at a Roxy Music gig in NYC, Record Mirror

Bowie and Ferry summit in NYC, having agreed to align their hairstyles (April 1979)

The BBC has announced another Doctor Who series, but no longer in partnership with Disney.

Fingers crossed it begins with Peter Capaldi regaining consciousness on the floor of the TARDIS and saying “Oh, thank god! What a horrible dream!”

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.”

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social always.

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A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.

Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
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Unacceptable. They have an emergency fund. Use it.

After demolishing the East Wing for his oversized Vegas showroom, Trump now wants to extend his reach in the city with an arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetery.

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Head of a girl

Head of a girl https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci/head-of-a-girl

What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Maine in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us ...

"In a system that worked, a politician would not be an object of fandom; they could not afford to be this entitled or this reckless." defector.com/what-job-is-...

@beatgrrrl.bsky.social - Dylan Thomas and Lou Reed -https://allenginsberg.org/2025/10/m-o-27/

American has always been an act of faith.

Trump, quite simply, doesn’t have it.

You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.

An interior painting depicting a wide window with fluttering white curtains, revealing a landscape of green hills and a clear sky. A light-coated cat sits on the windowsill, gazing at the horizon. In the foreground, a rustic wooden table stacked with books of varying sizes and colors. A high-backed wooden chair sits beside the table.

Karen Hollingsworth

Vanessa Branda (@littlemissvrb) Less than a year ago..

This did not deserve its fate.

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orange streaked sunrise limns grey purple clouds above bay hills

you guys, i just had to climb the long shaky ladder to the roof, to catch this to share with you, omg
it's real.
it's unfiltered.
the rest of the day should be cloudy, love this streaking sunrise

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

a little black cat and a little white cat (with a halo) wearing pink wings

Good morning. Let's continue with our "cats with wings" Halloween series.

the needs of the anxious comfortable white male doing midcentury working class drag are at the very bottom of my list right now

©Alfred Stieglitz
Le Flatiron, 1903

ROSS DOUTHAT Why Trump's East Wing Demolition Needed to Happen The arguments against it illustrate a consistent problem with progressive stewardship of American cities. 1h ago

This mf again

Painting of a black and white cat sitting under a very red bush

Wild Rhododendron — Yoichi Nishino

New Aaron Sorkin pitch just dropped.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Arai Yoshimune, Japanese (1873-1945), Two Sailboats in Moonlight, woodblock print, 25.6 x 38.6 cm, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Dali from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalized by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected in Six Real Mirrors

Dali from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalized by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected in Six Real Mirrors
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Can’t wait until Cuomo goes away. A bully, racist, misogynist asshole, like Trump, all these toxic males belong in the ash heap of history.

Tom Waits (in low scratchy voice): "What's he DOING down there?"