@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
The name is a joke from Shakespeare This account is for whatever I feel like posting about. Mostly pictures that strike my fancy, posts about politics, disability, art, literature, et cetera The Bronx one-legged juggler // he
"HENRY DARGER IS A TRANS ICON" I scream from the top of the Sears Tower
So many, including a large percentage of influential elites, came to believe that relative peace and stability with thriving commerce is the natural order of things.
Fools. Naive, complacent, often selfish fools. Peace and stability take immense work to create and maintain. And not much to disrupt.
MSNBC reveals dark money group "Democracy Unmuted" has been paying influencers $1,500 per negative post about Kat Abughazaleh
One post from TheWokeGinger, with over 1,000,000 followers, recited whole sentences from the Democracy Unmuted brief
Re the Hormuz, not saying I'm an expert on the sitch, but are we really too proud to try historically vetted measures like sacrificing a high ranking member of the royal family to propitiate the sea god
Just as it was other people who went broke in Trump's bankruptcies, it will be other people who die in his wars.
That's what matters to him, so why not think positive?
Gwennyth could never
I'm sure Starmer is drawing the obvious lesson from this: "if I help Trump now he will be grateful and loyal and I can count on his help in the future!"
I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.
I'm not kidding about the bond between Trump and Epstein. Look at the pictures of the two of them together. Trump looks happier and more relaxed than anywhere else. It may be the first time he ever experienced emotional intimacy.
Anita Page, 1929
Ansel Adams — Judy Dater, 1977
Jean Harlow for Iron Man (1931)
Richard Cardiff, 1952
L'X Noir (1916)
Where will it stop???
The most fitting name since Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein ended the most emotionally intimate relationship of either of their miserable lives over a mansion called Maison de l'Amitié (the House of Friendship).
Don't worry, the Harper's letter people are *all over* this.
We've spent $19 BILLION in TWO WEEKS. For a technology that's already dying. If we spent that much on solar & wind, we could reduce our energy dependency by 12.5% in a year.
We could be pollution-free and have electricity at a quarter of current prices in eight years.
Instead we have war.
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A beautiful sunset this evening.
I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.
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Peter Lorre
The Lady with a Fan — Diego Velázquez, ca. 1638—1639
Oil on wood
92.8 cm × 68.5 cm
In 1937, an organization that gave African American children art instruction sponsored a performance by Marian Anderson. #opera
When she was denied lodging at a hotel in Princeton, Albert Einstein invited her to stay at his home — an invitation he had extended to Paul Robeson two years earlier.
Do folks know Einstein spoke at the 1946 National Urban League Convention?
“There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.”
- Albert Einstein
I've been trying to get my version of the Bechdel Test to catch on called the Ballard Metric. It basically asks if the creator was able to work for free or for slave wages due to an invisible financial safety net and recontextualizes the work. (I'm kinda joking idk)
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
Six more days to enter my book preorder giveaway and win original art sites.prh.com/molly-crabap...
"EXPATS SAY SOUTH AFRICA MEANS LOWER COSTS, LESS TURMOIL"