New house rule that every time you pass go you have to say LABOR UPON MOTHER EARTH PRODUCES WAGES

I knew the original Monopoly game was designed by a radical Georgist, but no one told me the “Go” square went so hard

I feel like the fact Elizabeth Gaskell’s “North & South” was published in the same year and about the same city as Engels’ “Condition of the Working Class in England” is very important to the foundation of RomCommunism

Scrooge McDuck leading a gang burning down a village in Central Africa, from the Comic “The Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck”

More nuanced for sure - but “No good billionaires” still includes Unca Scrooge

Two juxtaposed cats: one with narrowly dilated eyes labeled “looking at my faults”, other with widely dilated eyes labeled “looking at other people’s faults”

From my thrift store find of a book of Mao-era Chinese cartoons

I’d never noticed before how much speedrunning is a form of dance

Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon - SF that takes place over billions of years (&light years) and was loved by Borges, Virginia Woolf, and Arthur C Clarke alike? So beautiful, so bananas

His rival, Sunni Labeouf

A golden staircase ascends past statues against a starry background, from bottom past top of frame

A WWII Nurse and deceased historical personages look, with a heavenly judge, from a golden staircase onto a surgery in progress

Definitely also some notes of A Matter of Life & Death (1946) in the Tom and Jerry

Including the “why is this so hard for me” spiral

For me this phenomenon is linked to the paradoxical motivation problem of ADHD - if i try to motivate myself with a reward for a trivial task, the bigger the reward, the more friction in dealing with the initial task; same thing with how a task being more important makes it more daunting.

Beneath the Howl of Hunger “And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."

—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social

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Fear of Trains YouTube video by The Magnetic Fields - Topic

I don’t know if it’s a fair choice, since they have a whole album of quasi country ones, but I’m partial to this one by the Magnetic Fields (as well as of “Papa Was A Rodeo)

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Donald Trump Movie Review - Orson Welles' - " Citizen Kane " YouTube video by NewsHunter29

There’s something that really spooks me about the Errol Morris interview with him about the movie.

Watching someone walk right up to the threshold of the door he will never enter

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Pope? yes.

But it was the spear that gave him those ripped abs

“Listen all o’ yall this is SANTA CLAUS”

Drafted into the Dr Seuss mech war