Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Thank you to whoever did this one. 🤣👏

Robert Fripp & The League of Gentlemen - Inductive Resonance [UK, Post-punk, New Wave] (1981) Catchy drum beats juxtaposed with Fripp-esque guitar melodies.

Robert Fripp & The League of Gentlemen - Inductive Resonance [UK, Post-punk, New Wave] (1981) Catchy drum beats juxtaposed with Fripp-esque guitar melodies.
https://redd.it/tk7p6r
https://youtu.be/tsHVdNxlFYw

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

Three photos. Top: A group holding a large printed letter signed by over 100 media professionals supporting the Internet Archive. Middle A speaker stands alongside a lectern reading “Journalists ❤️ Internet Archive” as others listen. Bottom A screen displays “Journalists ❤️ Internet Archive”. Photos by Kenyatta Thomas.

3️⃣/3️⃣
They highlight the Archive’s role in preserving reporting, context, and accountability journalists rely on daily to verify history and track changes across the web 🗂️

These journalists are urging protection of independent archiving so today’s reporting remains accessible to future generations 📚

Looks like a very happy coffee cup!

Cat sat in sunlight.

Morning 🤣

Trump administration agrees to return rainbow Pride flag to New York’s Stonewall monument The Trump administration has agreed to keep flying a rainbow Pride flag on a federal flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, reversing course after removing the banner in February.

Hate will not win.

apnews.com/article/ston...

A little too realistic maybe?

Hillary Clinton was right about everything.

Kamala Harris was right about everything.

Both would’ve been incredible Presidents and I remain proud AF to have cast my vote for them.

22 People Connected To Jeffrey Epstein Have Died Under Mysterious Circumstances - uInterview "There were a lot of people entrapped and entangled through Epstein’s web, and many of those people are gone now - dead," private investigator Ed Opperman tells the National Enquirer earlier this week...

22 People Connected To Jeffrey Epstein Have Died Under Mysterious Circumstances
Article from August 16, 2025
uinterview.com/news/22-peop...

Painting with gold ground approximating a late Medieval or Byzantine (or early Renaissance) gold ground painting, with an image of Duchamp's Fountain and "Sant'Orinale" in all caps below

On the occasion of the opening of MoMA's sweeping Marcel Duchamp retrospective (now in member previews, opening to the public on Sunday), artist Kathleen Gilje's "Sant’Orinale (Saint Urinal)," 2017 kathleengilje.com/artwork/4886...

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

photography in the nature • a rapeseed field glowing in the sun, with a lone, leafless tree; blue sky ⬇️ großes rapsfeld, gelb leuchtend; links ein baum ohne neuen blätter, blauer himmel | foto copyright ©️RW26 unten rechts

#blueskyartshow
#new #yellow

And now for something completely different…

Come on soon as possible
these flowers are opening,
they fall.
This world exists
like the glitter of dew on flowers.
(Izumi Shikibu )

Brother Lindh (Swedish 1877-1941)

Cherry branch, 1910
oil on canvas, 181 x 130. cm.

When he launched this war, the President vowed regime change and “unconditional surrender.”

What has he gotten? We went from Ayatollah Khamenei to Ayatollah Khameini Jr. - and are now negotiating over a 10-point plan written by the Iranians.

DEI? Have the TrumpMAGA Orcs infiltrated Disney/Pixar?

Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .

(date of photo possibly 1958) man with a pensive look, holding his face with left hand dressed in dark wool coat and beret standing next to a large camera on tripod draped with black cloth, in a lush park or residential street full of tall trees with beautiful foilage and a sea of light-colored petals/leaves stewn along the ground - the Poet of Prague

Portrait of Josef Sudek
with his camera

Miloń Novotný
photographer

illuminated still life near an opaque window, tabletop objects, curved glass perfume bottles and pitcher, with tulip shaped stoppers are flanked by solid shiny objects like rocks, black coal, or even crinkled bits of paper - and are reflected on the mirror-like surface of the smooth table

Josef Sudek, 1968

Glass Labyrinths

Agnotology is the study of deliberate, culturally induced ignorance or doubt, often created to influence public opinion or protect vested interests. Coined by Robert Proctor and Iain Boal, it focuses on how misinformation or manufactured doubt—such as stalling climate action or promoting tobacco—is used to make scientific consensus appear uncertain

#Neoliberalism #auspol

Agnotology

Another day in the White House

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

Leaked emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein helped Israel build backchannel to Russia Notorious sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein facilitated efforts to open a backchannel between Israel and the Kremlin during the Syrian civil war, newly leaked emails have revealed. The documents, obt…

We need to fast forward to the part where the Epstein - Mossad - Soviet/Russia spy axis is a mainstream discussion. Trump is compromised and Putin and Netanyahu are his handlers

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251103-lea...

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200106-jef...

kyivindependent.com/was-jeffrey-...

Lovely! #ArtemisII #Lunar

Lovely! #ArtemisII #Lunar