Sansu The Cat

Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1926

Vase https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487484

Three Women with Heads of Flowers Finding the Skin of A

Three Women with Heads of Flowers Finding the Skin of A
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20718

Tim Miller torches Megyn Kelly as she spins Epstein’s abuse of 15-year-old girls as “barely legal” types to protect Donald Trump.

Epstein thought trump was gross.

I don’t care how game breaking it is, every video game should let me co-op play with a buddy

Bequest of Julia W. Emmons, 1956

View of Vétheuil - 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/103915

Massive car interchange from the air

Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom.

What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?

Choices.

I've said this before, but Nintendo realized in like 2006 that the push for better graphics and frame rates was a creative and commercial dead end, and they zigged where everyone else zagged.

And now they get to reap the benefits of their being entirely correct

A business woman in a grey skirt suit, pointing a rifle at a boxy 90s PC

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.

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La petite mort

NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Summer Night (Inger on the Shore)

Summer Night (Inger on the Shore) 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/24921

Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the Contemporary Art Society 1940

The Inattentive Reader, 1919
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1113963

They don’t have to. But they are in fact now a military force and they are at war with Americans.

Seated Nude drying her feet

Seated Nude drying her feet
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/31113

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley, 1882–85
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/105222

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid

Signs and Portents by José Guerrero, 1956
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137457

reading epstein's emails and it's clear how far down the drain the republican party has gone to protect trump.

sure, they protected him when he was impeached twice. and now, hoo boy.

Notre Dame des Agnes

Notre Dame des Agnes
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/11665

If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.

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Belle Ile (Le Port De Palais)

Belle Ile (Le Port De Palais), 1896
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/14798

unsigned and without publisher seal Lord Enya was forced to commit ritual suicide to atone for having drawn his sword at court. His faithful retainers are disbanded, thus losing their livelihood. Their daily struggle to survive is worsened by the necessity of contributing funds to carry out their revenge plan. Act 5 describes such difficulties involving the retainer Hayano Kanpei and his wife Okaru. Trying to help his son-in-law, Okaru's father obtained money by promising to sell his daughter into prostitution. While returning home with the money, however, he is robbed and killed by Ono Sadakurø. Kanpei in a later scene mistakes Sadakurø for a wild boar and shoots him. Kanpei steals the dead man's purse without knowing the money was originally meant for him. Hokusai's dynamic rendering of act 5 is comprised of three different vignettes, including Sadakurø's murder.

Act V https://collections.artsmia.org/art/22809/

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.