Wolfgang Wassermann

THE RUFF - b&w pen and ink drawing of a beautiful 1570-90s dude (i can't remember sry), the subject is looking away from the viewer and we can see his magnificent lace-trimmed ruff, the askew cloak, and a hat with three trailing pheasant feathers

KNIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR - a close-up of a knight from behind. he is in resplendent armor from roughly the mid-16th century with a lovely sun and lots of italian filigree. He is looking over his right shoulder, his sword aloft, the moon looming large behind him.

KNIGHT OF THE TAPESTRY - a knight in late gothic armor from the waist down. he stands upon a tiled floor, his sabotons are crazy pointed and he's got the spurs. a heavily patterned cloak trails on the floor behind him.

SHIVERING - ST. SEBASTIAN - st sebastian tied up to a tree,innit. really tumultuous clouds with a lot of heavy shading roll in the background over a dark, dense line of mountains.

shout out to some of my favorite works from my ornament series, all of which are partly why my arm is so fucked up 😎
THE RUFF - KNIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR - KNIGHT OF THE TAPESTRY - SHIVERING (ST. SEBASTIAN)

My dad, a Certified Smart Guy, told me the same

I remember asking my dad when I was a kid what fascism was. He told me, essentially, that it's when authoritarianism gets in bed with business. It's more complicated than that, but that always stuck with me.

Text from the New York Times article in OPs post: Some critics also see a conflict of interest in Mr. Shumway’s role as a government adviser and his firm’s promotion of software used in data collection and case management for homeless people. The services board has recommended that the software, called Know-by-Name, be adopted statewide. Bill Tibbitts, who helps run a Utah food pantry called the Crossroads Urban Center, sent a letter to the governor and legislators this month highlighting the issue. “When he advocates for this use of taxpayer dollars, he is not a disinterested party,” the letter said.

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Jane Schoenbrun @sapphicspielbrg Babe wake up new lifelong dream project just dropped. Quote DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm Jane Schoenbrun is set to write & direct a series adaptation of ‘BLACK HOLE’ for Netflix.

Howie Ratner from UNCUT GEMS saying “Holy shit I’m gonna cum”

Could not pick a better creator/source material combo if you asked me. Like beyond my puny imagination …

Five million likes

Jaaaaaaaaaaaays!

Jays

True meaning of Transness

yess

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Mood

A zoom in of the original image where reference lines for in-place paving stones are visible through superimposed broken paving stones.

Some of the busted paving stones are … translucent?

No hate to His Girl Friday, but every time I read it I sing “his boy, Elroy” in the tune of The Jetsons theme

“…no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.”

“We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks…It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us.”

“…the aim isn’t debate but debasement.”

“An obscene amount of money has turned debate into a weapon, deliberately honed to punish good-faith participation by making us feel like fools for assuming the best of an ideological opponent who only wants to win.”

“Debate is a luxury of norms and institutional safety, two things that Trump’s second administration has systematically destroyed.”

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

“That anyone with a rudimentary understanding of history, politics, economics or even pragmatic common sense would call the way these provocateurs operate civil debate says just how poorly prepared any of us are for what lies in front of us.”

HARD agree

No, don’t!

hierophant by the band king woman

America’s finest living songwriter

…America’s … finest Hamilton? IDK receipts are still out

I want to see and engage with conversations here?

Okay okay. No longer following Tom Nichols. I want to see diversity of opinion, at least from folks who aren’t clamoring for state violence against me specifically. I don’t agree that a follow necessarily equals blanket agreement with a worldview or specific opinions. But ….

I know a lot of mainline dems read my work, so for those of you skeptical of my argument because of my role as a trans journalist, know that I _endorsed_ Harris for president.

The critiques I levy against Newsom are very particular to him and he poses a unique danger that I cannot stay silent on.

Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen.

The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words.
The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives.

Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.