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Cute idea, but maybe better not to use Febreze:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
February 17, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Image of claymation character Wallace of Wallace and Gromit trying to walk in mechanized trousers. He looks afraid, very afraid.
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 AM
This is the problem with automated subtitles- whoever made this video needs to fix this, as it should read "legally on a work visa".
February 4, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Haitian scholar and author of Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995).
www.bostonreview.net/articles/rem...
A paragraph describing the work of Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Haitian scholar and author of Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995).
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
FYI: After 5 years, Congress members are vested in a pension program. They don't automatically get "full retirement" but are paid 1% of their salary for those with under 20 years of service. She can't collect her $8,717 per year until she is 62.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
December 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Here is the first stanza of "Total Landscaping: A Masque" by James Parker, a thing of genius.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
America is loose as a goose It avoided becoming Belarus. But that sulking Caesar, POTUS—where’s he gone? Is he watching Fox News with a big frown on? We’ll seize the cycle. We’ll make allegations. Reverse these numerical humiliations. A major press conference, that’s the thing.
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
As a set, should be bookended with this one from June 2019 taken during UK tour of Winston Churchill's sleeping quarters. Source: medium.com/@DrGJackBrow...
This image was captured on 4 June 2019, during President Trump’s recent visit to the United Kingdom. Here, Donald Trump is seen with his daughter, Ivanka, and others, while touring Winston Churchill’s sleeping quarters (a part of the Churchill War Room Museum) located beneath the Treasury building in the Whitehall area of Westminster.
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
From "Dickens knitting in code" by Paul Curzon:
cs4fn.blog/2022/06/02/d...
In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens describes his character, Madame DeFarge, as she creates a coded list of those executed in the French Revolution in her knitting: "Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun."
September 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
And there's also the amazing Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), a folklorist and writer-activist who infiltrated the KKK: www.stetsonkennedy.com/klan.html
August 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Perhaps you could consider a giant Westie, as it would give you more legroom.
Giant puppy sculpture covered with flowers displayed on grounds of Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
July 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The passage from Southern Man by Greg Iles continues:
July 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"The imperial need for control is so desperate because it's so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." From speech by Maria, the adoptive mother of Cassian Andor from TV show Andor. Shows 4 officials on a balcony as they oversee the takeover of a planet. Shows a scene of stormtroopers in formation in a city plaza.
July 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Reminds me of this headshot from David Lynch's Eraserhead:
May 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My sister used to call this my eat-shit-and-die-look.
Kitten has a very serious, if not pissed off look on its face.
May 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
These faces in the crowd of We The People look like a painting.
April 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Reminds me of this...
April 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Excerpts from Timothy Snyder's newsletter of 3/29/25 on what also may be behind the regime's aggression toward Greenland & Denmark and arctic area.
March 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I see no poll like this on the YouGov website. I suggest you post a link to the actual survey information. Found this image (but source not verified) of YouGov poll results from 2/2-2/4 for a general question about opinion of 16 names, many not political figures.
March 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
www.openculture.com/2016/12/when...
March 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM