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Todd Alcott

@toddalcott.bsky.social

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Graphic artist, erstwhile screenwriter, dude with cats

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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 23h

Another gem from 2019, could have run any day of the past decade:

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait for the sequel, Two Battles After Two More

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I guess you can make literally any noun into a verb now.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 1d

Another golden oldie from 2019, the OTHER time Trump shut down the government.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 1d

I guess the next step at CBS is to take down all the videos of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how many man-hours are lost to the nation every year from people standing stock-still for minutes on end waiting for the dying smoke alarm to chirp

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 2d

John Carpenter covering current events:

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 2d

Drawing and quartering. There was a specific execution that Guillotin, Voltaire and some other important dudes were at that took all day and left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. It was the last public execution in France until the revolution.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 2d

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 3d

@aduralde.bsky.social reminded me of this golden oldie from five years ago.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 4d

Doesn't change his tweet.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 4d

He must have been thinking of some other Dems.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 4d

For those unaware, this is a long-standing white-supremacist meme, that Black people have it "better" here in the US than they would if they had remained in Africa, and they should be grateful to white people for rescuing them. So you can swap out "Joy Reid" for "All Black people."

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 4d

I give Project 2025 credit for being on schedule

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 5d

The guillotine was "too woke" for 18th-century France, until suddenly they had a need to execute a whole lot of rich people in a short amount of time, and the idea was resurrected and given the name "guillotine," after the schoolyard chant.

This post has nothing to do with current events. 4/4

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 5d

He was roundly ridiculed for his suggestion, and schoolchildren added an "e" to his name, feminsing it, making it a chant to humiliate sissies. 3/4

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 5d

He suggested that it would be more humane, for the condemned, the audience and the executioner. It would make the instrument of death an unemotional machine, a non-partisan tool of the state, administering justice without prejudice. 2/4

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 5d

Fun fact: the guillotine was invented by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, because executions in France were horribly violent, cruel and time-consuming. 1/4

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 5d

As a souvenir celebrating the end of democracy, why not pick up a pack of my Propaganda Posters of the Class War postcards? toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 5d

I've reached the stage of "Am I hungry, or is my stomach in knots because democracy has ended"

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 7d

Your periodic reminder to follow @wendyo.bsky.social.

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 7d

The Canadian Architect magazine, October 1966

Cover by László Buday

Geometric abstract design featuring interlocking cubes in primary colors against a shaded white background.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 7d

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 7d

I knew I'd heard it somewhere

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 7d