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Georg Else standing defiant, with bruises under his eyes.

Georg Elser, after the interrogation by the Gestapo in 1939, following his assassination attempt on Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Hess, Rosenberg, Streicher & Ley.
If it weren't for the fog, Elser would have single-handedly prevented the greatest failure of mankind. (1/10)

Title: "Five Major Changes Trump Is Making to the White House" - key sentence: "Here is what we know about five key White House renovations"

The actual NYT coverage isn't far off.

I feel that way about Kafka, too. And also about people with "Do not resuscitate" tattoos. How can I be 100% sure that they held on to that belief till the very end? And how can they put it on me to watch them die and/or destroy their art?

They had the chance to x it any day, but not on my watch.

Screenshot of the order form on the website. If you buy a subscription of papers you only pay $104 instead of $135 for one whole year worth of single paper slips.

But did you save 23% on the subscription? And did you get the free shipping for orders over $200? Thought so!

Is there not such a thing as "level of invention" in American patent law? I swear some of these are just random shit someone stuck googly eyes on.

I think we also shouldn't underestimate the influence of Russian disinformation campaigns on the US government. Not only in the health department, but RFK's affinity to it is particularly striking, especially when you look back at his own presidential campaign.

I want to believe this so hard, and I know it's important to recognise and insist on the bright moments, but in the endless theatre of the grotesque that we're living through, I find it impossible to put any stock in it.

I feel the same way. Maybe because music was the last sanctuary, the only place to go to reliably get away from this shit.

We'll still find the good stuff, but traditional music platforms and streaming services will quickly become as unusable as Google Image Search.

Tweet from Steve Albini 2023/09/04: "Did 20 songs, tried not to include any I worked on but made an exception for Nina." Original alt text of the picture list he posted: List of 20 songs I like. I don't wanna go down to the basement - RAMONES, Rock Island Line - Johnny Cash, Barracuda - John Cale, Who is he and what is he to you - Bill Withers, Every Day - Buddy Holly, Mob Clash - Effigies, Rocket USA - Suicide, Superstition - Stevie Wonder, Mich Kriegt Ihr Nicht - Tommi Stumpff, Leeches - Naked Raygun, She is Beyond Good and Evil - the Pop Group, I had a Good Mother and Father - Washington Phillips, Der Mussolini - DAF, Showroom Dummies - Kraftwerk, Big Jesus Trash Can - the Birthday Party, That's When the Brick Goes Through the Window - the Oil Tasters, Hamburger Martyr - Killdozer, Stingray - Didjits, Let's Start Doing (what we came here to do) Clarence Carter, This is What it is - Nina Nastasia, 500 Miles - Proclaimers, Jolene - Dolly Parton, Hospital - the Modern Lovers, Follow That Car - MX-80, Neo-Fascist - Appliances SFB, Brand New Rambler - Smashchords, Romeo - Wipers

20 songs Steve Albini posted two years ago today exactly (plus a fortnight plus a day). Here as a playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Magritte's La trahison des images with "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" replaced with: "This is reminiscent of a pipe. It is certainly pipe-esque. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a pipe, or even a proto-pipe, but I'm beginning to notice a tendency of it sliding in that general direction. With the bowl and the shank and the mouthpiece, there are certainly echoes of something analogous to a pipe, but"

Shit, this really brought it back. Thought I'm over this.

R.I.P. moose 1
R.I.P. moose 2

:(

In 1993, fishermen in Alaska observed a pair of moose being attacked by killer whales. One moose was killed, the other then drowned in a kelp bed. Someone should make a movie about this, but also, condolences.

YouTube video by Nina Nastasia Official Nina Nastasia - No Communication

How am I only the 300th person to see this?

Nina Nastasia has released another wonderful album (and 3 music videos) and I'm only finding out about it 3 months later.

She's bypassing the streaming platforms, selling it only direct-to-fan via bandcamp: ninanastasia.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

They're gonna triple-paperwrap him and the grease will still ooze through.

Any gas station will do. Today, there's a McDonald's at the very spot, so it's only fair that you get a new trattoria soon.

It's all so garish and stagy and dumb that it's hard to take any of it seriously - even though it couldn't be more serious. If they were any smarter, you'd think it's by design.

Dreyfus is a perfect historical analogy, but it's hard to imagine that Zola's J'accuse would move the needle today. The political discourse today is wrestlemania theatrics and half of the country seems perfectly fine with the fact that it's all scripted.

In a Gallup poll taken the day after the Kent State shootings, 58% of the population blamed the students and only 11% blamed the National Guard. Republicans, today, would sell t-shirts to celebrate the event.

Was I just oblivious before or has The Atlantic completely gone to the dogs lately? You get the impression that they've outsourced half their journalism to the Manhattan Institute and other MAGA propaganda outfits.

Among great 20th century physicists, this is surely the most enviable character flaw.

Panorama picture of the Ligurian Apennines in the hinterland of Genoa, Italy. Soft green hills of woods and Maquis shrubland lined with mule tracks and topped with forts built between and 18th and the 19th century. You see villages nested between the hills, and parts of Genoa by the coast, with a few container ships dotted across the sea.

Today, Japan celebrates Mountain Day for the tenth time. The kanji character for "eight" (八) looks like a mountain, 11 like two trees, so naturally August 11 became a new public holiday dedicated to: appreciating mountains.

I just like that.

posted this upside-down for some reason.

Digital artifact ridden moon so big it dwarfs the majestic brigantine sailing by below in its rectangle.

I took a picture of it last night from yonder the Atlantic, so we got both sides of the moon now.

Die Liste der Gründe, warum Spahn zurücktreten muss, ist mittlerweile dreistellig.

Aber zum Rücktritt gehört ein Minimum an Integrität, die Spahn komplett abgeht. Schlimme Ironie, dass nur zurücktritt, wer seines Amtes jemals würdig war.

As a random example: screenshot of Khan Yunes in 11/2023 and 6/2024 - a densely populated town turned to ruins.

I'll invite everyone to open Google Earth, zoom in on Gaza City or Jabalya or Khuza'a or Rafah or most other larger towns and use the timeslider to see the historical imagery.

The most recent satellite images appear to be a year old, but even then the devastation was harrowing and near-ubiquitous.

On second thought, I could do with a few more >>> between Buttigieg and Booker.

Perfect ranking, perfect amount of greater than-signs, too. But I take some comfort in the fact that a year before the primaries Obama's name wasn't even on the roster.

At any rate, AOC would be a fabulous candidate. Even if your only metric is who'd be the likeliest to win.

Ace In The Hole, La Chimera, No Other Land, Swing Girls

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched (doing this by the book for once)

picture of an all-farted-up Portuguese man o' war stranded on the beach looking like an angry blue condom melted at the base waving its useless pink wing for a last goodbye

Seriously, how is there no movie of Sigourney Weaver hunting that fucker down?

No, I think it's like this bloated Portuguese jellyfish-like colonial organism with the long toxic tentacles, which floats by farting carbon monoxide into its air bladder which acts as a sail, because it can only move by wind and currents... but the jelly is their brains.