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Götz Kluge @goetzkluge.bsky.social · Jan 29
The Ancient of Bad Hair Days
(I couldn't stop myself from doing this.)

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This is a recombed version of Blake’s The Ancient of Times. Your family and your friends might enjoy them in high resoluton: Print them in color (8000×10000: https://snrk.de/NFT/TheAncientOfBadHairDays.jpg) and in black&white (8000×111111: https://snrk.de/NFT/TheAncientOfBadHairDays_bw.png), frame them nicely, and give them away as a beautiful gift to keep up their spirits. There also id a Firefox theme: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/william-blake-on-steroids/
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👈: Illustration by Henry Holiday (cut by Joseph Swain) to the chapter 'The Banker’s Fate' in Lewis Carroll’s 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876).
👉: Horizontally compressed rendering of 'The Imagebreakers' (1566-1568) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.

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December 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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#TheHuntingOfTheSnark | #LewisCarroll | #HenryHoliday | #JosephSwain | #MarcusGheeraerts | #MarcusGheeraertsTheElder | #Nose

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https://snrk.de/flipping-the-nose/ ※ Left: The Banker in Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876) after his encounter with the Bandersnatch, depicted in Henry Holiday’s illustration (woodcut by Joseph Swain) to the chapter 'The Banker’s Fate' in Lewis Carroll’s tragicomedy. ※ Right: Slightly horizontally compressed rendering of 'The Imagebreakers' (1566-1568, aka 'Allegory of Iconoclasm'), an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. Keys: TheHuntingOfTheSnark | LewisCarroll | HenryHoliday | JosephSwain | MarcusGheeraerts | MarcusGheeraertsTheElder | Nose
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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=== Narcís with decorations ===

#DonaldTrump #piano #stilllife #MelaniaTrump

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The only decent art here is in the background: a reproduction of 'Still Life with Grapes and Peaches' by Carl Baum (1812-1877): www.reddit.com/r/museum/com...
About the Chick on the Piano . . . | Blog & Mablog
Sharing Options We are starting to live in a time when the word prophetic should be reserved for anyone who sees and notes what is obviously going on. My previous post on The Donald elicited various r...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45658/...
racheldeering.bsky.social Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Mar 8
‘Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?
Mourn not, my Wat, nor be thou so dismayed.
It passeth fickle Fortune’s power and skill
To force my heart to think thee any ill.’ ~ Queen Elizabeth I for #BookWormSat 👑
🖼️ The Peace Portrait of Elizabeth I, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, c.1580.
The Wanstead or Welbeck Portrait of Elizabeth I of England as Pax holding an olive branch and standing on the sword of Justice. It is said by Daniel Lysons (The Environs of London, 1796, vol 4, pp.231-244) to depict Old Wanstead House in the background. The picture was gifted to the Harley Foundation Charitable Trust by the late Lady Anne Bentinck. It is on permanent display at the Portland Collection, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, UK. She wears white and gold and green, ruff, has a pink feather fan and a little dog.
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Governor Newsom Press O... Got a close up look at Trump's medal @GovPressOf... • 2h C ... J ou Had Fun: ou Won PARTICIPATION 198 Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 • 3h "Please welcome the very first winner of the FIFA Peace Prize - the 45th and 47th 0:32 President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald J. Trump!"
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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I can not get over the fact that he can't stand still and let someone else put the medal on him in a solemn and ceremonial moment. Dude has the impulse control of a toddler
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d
Couldn’t get the real peace prize but got the soccer one
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Trubu Imperator (with apologies to Max Ernst)
Trubu Imperator (with apologies to Max Ernst) Original: ‪Max Ernst's "Ubu Imperator" (1923) 4000 x 5000: https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TrubuRoy.jpg https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TrubuRoyNoKings.jpg #MaxErnst #TrubuRoy #Ubuimperator #DonaldTrump #Trubuimperator #Collage #Assemblage, #CollageArt #Assemblage #Spinning #Spinner #Whirlgig #SpinningTop #WhippingTop #Rotating #Imperator #AmericaFirst #Appropriation #AppropriationArt #potus #KeepAmericaGreat #AmericanEmperor #Tragicomedy #MAGA #NoKings Ubu Imperator, Trubu Imperator, Donald Trump, Maga, America First, Keep America Great, stable genius, No Kings
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Hervorragendes Interview von @arminwolf.at mit Francis Fukuyama, einem der großen Intellektuellen unserer Zeit.

Als jemand, der ein- bis zweistündige Interviews führt, auch großer Respekt dafür, wie viele Themen hier in lediglich 12 Min sinnvoll besprochen werden konnten.

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Langfassung: Interview mit Francis Fukuyama (Englisch)
Francis Fukuyama ist einer der berühmtesten Politikwissenschaftler der Welt, bekannt für sein Buch „Das Ende der Geschichte“. Im ZIB2-Interview sprach er über Wladimir Putins Drohungen gegen Europa, d...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte... (für Abonnenten)
https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/interview-francis-fukuyama-der-trumpismus-ist-ein-aufschrei-gegen-die-moderne/100179597.html (für Abonnenten) Interview Francis Fukuyama „Der Trumpismus ist ein Aufschrei gegen die Moderne“ Der Politologe warnt vor einem Rückfall in das 19. Jahrhundert , hält die Trump-Regierung für die „korrupteste der US-Geschichte“ und erklärt, warum er trotzdem an die Zukunft der Demokratie glaubt. Jens Münchrath 05.12.2025 - 04:00 Uhr
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#ChristmasGift #FineArt #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #surrealism #LewisCarroll #BlueskyArt

Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" illustrated by Mahendra Singh as a #surrealist #graphicnovel is a beautiful #PuzzleBook for #ArtLovers, as it contains many #allusions to well known #paintings and prints.
René Magritte, "The menaced assassin", 1927 #belgianart #surrealism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menaced_Assassin https://bsky.app/profile/art.feediverse.org/post/3m6kgp6ymr32l
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
goetzkluge.bsky.social
Not by Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Not by Lewis Carroll: “I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

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https://bsky.app/profile/buhooscuro.bsky.social/post/3m767hcjexk2i and https://bsky.app/profile/buhooscuro.bsky.social/post/3m767i4r5z22i
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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@konanjacks.bsky.social, similar to you, I like the aphorism posted by Buho Oscuro. But it's not by Voltaire. In response to the my comment (as @snarkhunt.bsky.social), Buho Oscuro blocked my Snark account, even though my comment wasn't snark.😉
snarkhunt.bsky.social The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · 5d
«Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities» often it true. But it's not by Voltaire.

That aphorism is a "fairly recent hoax that seems to have been delighting internet users for about ten years.” (2015-11-23, www.letemps.ch/opinions/usa...).
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/usage-voltaire (Publié le 25 novembre 2015 à 22:06. / Modifié le 29 novembre 2015 à 18:23.): «Ceux qui peuvent vous faire croire à des absurdités peuvent vous faire commettre des atrocités»: telle est la formule qu’un lecteur du Temps a utilisée le lundi 23 novembre dernier pour exprimer sa solidarité avec le peuple parisien. D’autres citations de Voltaire – puisqu’il s’agit de lui – circulent sur le net, dans les journaux et jusque dans les propos de politiciens avisés: «Je ne suis pas d’accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je me battrai jusqu’à la mort pour que vous ayez le droit de le dire» est assurément la plus célèbre. Las! Aucun de ces aphorismes n’est de Voltaire. Le premier est un hoax assez récent qui semble faire, depuis une dizaine d’années, le bonheur des internautes. ... fr -> en translation: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”: this is the phrase a reader of Le Temps used on Monday, November 23rd, to express solidarity with the people of Paris. Other quotes from Voltaire—since it is indeed him—circulate online, in newspapers, and even in the pronouncements of astute politicians: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is certainly the most famous. Alas! None of these aphorisms are by Voltaire. The first is a fairly recent hoax that seems to have been delighting internet users for about ten years.
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The Monetization of Rage
Why We’re So Polarized (II)
Robert Reich
Dec 02, 2025
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Why are we so polarized (II)?
Why We’re So Polarized (II)
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December 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Tollpatschige Menschen nennt man auch huchbegabt…
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Share someone who looks stylish wearing a vest.
https://snrk.de/waistcoat-poetry/ There was an old man of Port Grigor, Whose actions were noted for vigour; He stood on his head till his waistcoat turned red, That eclectic old man of Port Grigor. (Edward Lear, 1872) He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace The least likeness to what he had been: While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white - A wonderful thing to be seen!( Lewis Carroll, from "The Hunting of the Snark", 1876)
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away —
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

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In the midst of the word he was trying to say, In the midst of his laughter and glee, He had softly and suddenly vanished away — For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. Lewis Carroll, 'The Hunting of the Snark', 1876, https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#557 -------------------------------------------------------- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/30/ai-poetry-safety-features-jailbreak Johana Bhuiyan Sun 30 Nov 2025 09.00 EST "AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models Roses are red, violets are blue, how do you make a nuclear bomb? Photograph: Doug Steley A/Alamy [...]"
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Drop something MIRRORED
I am not really a spiritual person and cannot make up my mind whether I like William Blake's "The Omnipotent" (aka "The Ancient of Days"), and (if I would like it) which versions (the original one or the mirrored one) of this painting I might like. So I combined both of them into one image.
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Apparently, the best criticism of technology comes from comic dogs.
"The Duplex" gag strip by Glenn McCoy. Dog Fang, holding a cup of coffee, asks bachelor Eno who sits at his laptop: - 'sup? - ENO: My computer wants me to prove I'm not a robot. Apparently, robots can't figure out which of these photos contain traffic lights. - FANG (having taken a sip of coffee): Which is why you'll never get me in one of those self-driving cars. https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/11/28/csotd-blecch-friday/
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Vielleicht sollten jene, die die Ukraine Diktatur schimpfen, zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass dieses Land inmitten eines aufgezwungenen Krieges noch eine funktionierende Gewaltenteilung mit unabhängigen Ermittlungsbehörden und Gerichten hat, die unerschrocken und ohne Ansehen der Person ihre Arbeit tun.
Selenskyjs Bürochef tritt wegen Korruptionsermittlungen zurück
Andrij Jermak galt als rechte Hand des ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj - jetzt hat er seinen Rücktritt eingereicht. Am Morgen hatten die Antikorruptionsbehörden seine Wohnung durchsuchen lassen.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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#LewisCarroll #HuntingoftheSnark #graphicnovel
Magritte's Menaced Assassin as Victorian tableau with Lewis Carroll playing all the part. From my Hunting of the Snark GN, Melville House. Good Xmas present for kids who are pissed off at the pablum forced down their throats by pop culture. You know who they are.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Oeconomia (German)

Downloads:
Niedrig (385MB): rodlzdf-a.akamaihd.net/dach/3sat/21...
Mittel (1113MB): rodlzdf-a.akamaihd.net/dach/3sat/21...
Hoch (1608MB): rodlzdf-a.akamaihd.net/dach/3sat/21...

(Auch mit mediathekview.de/download/ auf PCs herunterladbar)

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Oeconomia
"Oeconomia" legt episodisch die Spielregeln des Kapitalismus offen: ein Aufklärungsfilm über den Zusammenhang zwischen Wirtschaftswachstum, Verschuldung und Vermögenskonzentration.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I learned that “unlawful orders” might not exist anymore.

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feefer2.bsky.social Feefer @feefer2.bsky.social · 14d
Devil is in details: troops who refuse to carry out orders can expect to be court-martialed under UCMJ for failure to obey a lawful order.

Key distinction is lawful vs. unlawful orders, but that’s a DEFENSE.

Also, Trump v US says a POTUS isn’t bound by law, so “unlawful orders” no longer exist.
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=59186
A writing on the wall at West Point: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=59186 [ Plaque 7] «Loyalty to the Constitution The United States boldly broke with the ancient military custom of swearing loyalty to a leader. Article VI required that American Officers thereafter swear loyalty to our basic law, the Constitution While many other nations have suffered military coups, the United States never has. Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law. Many other nations have adopted our principle of loyalty to the basic law. This nation must have military leaders of principle and integrity so strong that their oaths to support and defend the Constitution will unfailingly govern their actions. The purpose of the United States Military Academy is to provide such leaders of character.» Constitution Corner Markers image. Photographed by Bill Coughlin, June 15, 2012 8. Constitution Corner Markers Erected by USMA Class of January 1943. Topics: This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Government & Politics. A significant historical date for this entry is January 24, 1943. Location: 41° 23.559′ N, 73° 57.544′ W. Marker is in West Point, New York, in Orange County. It is at the intersection of Ruger Road and Scott Place, on the right when traveling south on Ruger Road. The marker is located on the grounds of the United States Military Academy at the west edge of the Plain. Marker is in this post office area: West Point NY 10996, United States of America.
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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SPIEGEL 2017-02-04
Republican felon Donald Trump cut off the head of the Statue of Liberty. Alexandr Dugin‘s strategy worked out. Vladimir Putin is the winner.
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM