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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 10h

Looking through old posts for some reason. Struck again by how weak Pacino's effort is here.
On the left is the face of a predator nearing the end of a life in which every day, without emotion, he has killed what he eats. On the right is the face of an actor startled by a damp fart.

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · Jul 3

It's the dead eyes isn't it.
Al Pacino gave it a go but even he was nowhere close.
Miller on the other hand looks more and more like him every day.

Roy Cohn at home in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1986, Vanity Fair.

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 11h

The news today, oh boy, the English army had just won the war

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 17h

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 13h

Rightly, not in their power.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 20h

It's framed as "given how things are, they might just get away with this". Requires near-total cynicism about the law and its permeability to politics, so forget about constitutional government if that's where you've ended up.
Not to acknowledge that explicitly is bad writing and bad editing.

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 20h

Who the fuck let this through? Can't be Micklethwait & Wooldridge, they're long gone.
And anyway at that '24 campaign event Micklethwait stuck to his free trade principles. Didn't pander.

The Economist @economist.com · 1d

There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles

Trump 2028

There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles

econ.st

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 1d

Velvet Underground and Nimrod

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw this. A Royal Society that took its values seriously would be burning him in effigy.
#Skum

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 1d

Seen this, Charlie? A response to his King Trump shitting video.
11 days ago. The crown a nice touch. Content from an actual kingdom, have a nice day :)

HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 13d

Trump in a coin operated kids plane ride wearing a Burger King crown and shitting himself profusely

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 2d

Eat shit, Geert

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 2d

(The spying case against Stonehouse, not the faking-your-own-death one)

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 2d

Czech military intelligence expense claims made up much of the case against John Stonehouse, with Stonehouse reasonably claiming that much of the case was made up.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 13d

Love the crown.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 15d

Spray it gold, send it round to the new Oval Office. It'll get a pair of Trump '28 MAGA hats on it, and him showing it off to guests

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · Sep 21

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 15d

Note the artist's sensitive rendering of Charlie Kirk's cum face as Jesus reaches round to use the flat palm of his unseen other hand as a fleshlight

bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 15d

This is incredibly homoerotic

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 17d

Gina in the park in the autumn sunshine
#DogsOfBluesky

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 19d

'A Place Called Hope'
iirc it was Hitchens who pointed out he actually grew up in the nearby town of Hot Springs

Bill Clinton: ‘Hope’| Campaign 1992

The Clinton campaign released this ad when Bill Clinton first ran for president in 1992.

www.washingtonpost.com

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 19d

The original Shepard Fairey poster: 'Progress'.
The campaign got involved and it was changed to Hope (with Fairey's cooperation). 'Hope' had been successful for Bill Clinton in '92, and tested well in focus groups.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 19d

From the summer:

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 23d

Before he got his current job his main grift was merch.
And the merch is *tragic*.
K$H Patel, on his way to a fancy dress party as an offensive racial stereotype: "Is it cos I is black?"

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 25d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 24d

Jacques Chirac introduced a language quota for records played on French radio. Rappers got the benefit. Accordion players, not so much.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 24d

Holbein, Dürer too.
He's twenty years old and WW1 is round the corner.

Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 24d

Known for his unforgiving and often critical depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic, this self-portrait by Otto Dix (1912) pays homage to the work of the Italian Old Masters - the carnation was a popular motif in northern Italian Renaissance painting.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · Sep 28

Choosing to address that audience as children. Grande ecole condescension. Quel con.

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