Alt-X

Just reposting for the facial reactions.

Truly, fuck anyone and everyone claiming that the people and institutions doing this can be "reformed."

Indeed
This is very well said:

John Husted is the GOP Senator from Ohio who was appointed to replace JD Vance
He's now running to be elected to Vance's seat in this cycle

You can do better than this, Ohio

woman bundling a swan into a car, like some sort of avian kidnapping

William Vanderson, 1936
'The swan was named Leila and belonged to a Mrs. Watson of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. According to Mrs. Watson, Leila could open doors and acted as a guard dog'

Huntsman: Come, Gentlemen! come, all! let's go to the place where we put down the Otter. Look you! hereabout it was that she kennelled; look you! here it was indeed; for here's her young ones, no less than five: come, let us kill them all. Piscator: No: I pray, Sir, save me one, and I'll try if I can make her tame, as I know an ingenious gentleman in Leicestershire, Mr. Nich. Segrave, has done; who hath not only made her tame, but to catch fish, and do many other things of much pleasure. Huntsman: Take one with all my heart; but let us kill the rest. And now let's go to an honest ale-house, where we may have a cup of good barley wine, and sing "Old Rose," and all of us rejoice together. Izaak Walton (1653) The Compleat Angler. Chapter II – The second day On the Otter and the Chub – Piscator, Venator, Huntsman, and Hostess.

Otter fishing was known in Europe from as early as the 16th century. The Scandinavians trained otters for catching trout.
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Olga Morozova - "Godmother of Russian tennis"

Olga Morozova was first Soviet to win a tennis major, at the 1974 French Open.
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Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

There it is. “Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target” 3/6/26 … 1/

Red terra cotta decoration on a red brick building. In the center is a terra cotta ring with the face of a young boy, possibly African American, memorialized inside it. Around him are terra cotta leaves and branches. Bordering all of this at top and bottom are rows of square terra cotta tiles with a flower on each one.

Red brick two-story residence. It has a flat roof and many places where the brick has been patched, probably due to the removal of an oriel window that was once there and to put in replacement windows. There is a rough stone arch over the entryway. There are two unglazed red terra cotta panels on the top of the building. One is the one from the previous photo. The other is larger and includes only flowers and foliage. There is a smaller, similar panel above the entryway arch.

July 11 1890 Chicago, Tribune: "E. A. Fitcomb, two-story and cellar dwelling at No. 1378 Millard avenue, to cost $3,500." 1378 is the pre-1909 address for 2801.

For sale ad from December 1890: "FOR SALE-GREAT BARGAIN. New 2-story pressed brick 8-room house, with oriel bay window, colored class, concrete basement, furnace, laundry tubs, oak staircase, oak buffet, four mantels, reception hall with mantel, porcelain bath-tub, electric gas lighting fixtures, bells, and burglar alarms: woodwork finished in oak, mahogany, walnut, cherry, and natural Georgia pine." $5,500. price 55,500, including house, barn, and su-foot lot, No. 1318 Mlllard-av., corner 28th-st. Apply to owner, 383 West Madison-st.

I've wondered about this little boy for a while now because he doesn't look white, which seems very unusual for a 19th century building in Chicago. I wish I knew his story. 2801 S. Millard, Chicago. The building was built in 1890.

White-Collar Working-Class Home Office Soundtrack (2/27/2025 - 3/5/2026): "the Amazing James Brown" to "Wrestling Is Real, People Are Fake"

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

Ruth Lyons accidentally invented the daytime TV talk show.
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Arooj Aftab - Mohabbat YouTube video by Arooj Aftab

#AwardWinningWomen

@deborann.bsky.social @marksmusic1977.bsky.social @coinneachrooney.bsky.social @paulakeenan.bsky.social

D4

Arooj Aftab - Mohabbat

2022 Grammy for Best Global Music Performance

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Painting of a wedding party outdoors in a hillside everyone is dressed in kimonos and Japanese traditional dress the bride and groom are under a big red round umbrella all of the members of the party have Fox heads has a Japanese Yokai except in the back there's one tall guy with a black head of a jackal that being the Egyptian god Anubis

The Fox's Wedding (Anubis Meets Yōkai) — Joanna Karpowicz, 2022
acrylic on canvas

Male Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), in flight
UK
Z8 Nikon Z 180 to 600mm#ThePhotoHour #TonyBayliss #photography #art #birds #wildlifephotography #bird_planets

The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit
UK
Z8 Nikon Z 180 to 600mm
#ThePhotoHour #TonyBayliss #photography #art #birds #wildlifephotography #bird_planets

This dude thinks he’s in a video game.

Also - one question still: Why?

Herblock on the escalation and expansion of the war in Vietnam, WaPo, 1/21/71.

A photo of an owl standing on the grass. The owl's body is facing right, but its head is turned back, facing left. The owl has mostly adult plumage, but it has not developed much of its "horns" or tufts of feathers yet.

A juvenile great horned owl from the summer.

In the very early morning, the owls were sometimes hanging out on the ground before retiring to the trees to sleep for the day. (taken with Sigma 600mm lens and cropped)

#birds #owls #nature #wildlife

Tharunka, an Australian student publication, compared Kyuss favorably to Black Sabbath and Sonic Youth.
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How I arrived on Bluesky

I heard this on Fast Politics with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social this morning.

I think she’s right.

Trump’s war will easily cost more than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits.

Republicans are telling the American people—there is always money for war, always money for billionaire tax breaks.

Just never any money for health care or families here at home.

The new leader of Iran…we don’t want him. They can have him.

This is with...@ThiaBallerina "Israelis are fleeing Tel Aviv." Imagine if all the borders were shut and they were told to go north. No, south. No, north. No, south. By foot. Carrying all their belongings. Carrying their children. While dodging snipers. As 2000lb bunker bombs were dropping. Since 1948.

This hit the karma spot too... I can't even "feel" anymore 😒

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

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What do Americans think of Mr. Trump’s decision to attack Iran? We asked four voters in Texas for their answer ahead of Tuesday’s primary election

The Woman and the Puppet (France, 1929). It is a silent drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Conchita Montenegro, Tristan Sévère [fr] and Henri Lévêque.

Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wik...

#silentfilm #classicfilm #cinema #film #movie

Seems to be the pattern…