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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live.
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Surprised the kids with this guy a year ago today.

The Account Keeper by Nicolas Maes, 1657 Oil on canvas 66 cm x 53,6 cm Saint Louis Art Museum

Because of the kids, I saw The Greatest Showman last night. Mulling it over, I think it's about social media, and is both morally and aesthetically reprehensible.

Sir John Luttrell, diplomat, soldier, and courtier, painted in a remarkably odd allegory in 1550 by Hans Eworth, whose day is today.

John Steuart Curry "the missed leap" 1934. umsm006.its.iastate.edu/objects/7041...

Bill Knott

#nodraftkings

Saw John Brown in Kansas today

Street art in Ulaanbaatar. An outline of Mongolia, and autotranslation says: “Do we have humanity? We are human.”

The market is just the truth of our inner selves

Running thread of songs that I believe are perfect First entry

#annotation

CISNU propaganda from June 1972. See my translation in the image's alt text.

Untitled (Think/flag) by William N. Copley (1967) #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸

students asked for summer book club recommendations, examples of things they're interested in include on the road and kafka's metamorphosis, anything you loved at 16 or 17 that you'd recommend?

Is there a reason headlights don't just come on when the car is turned on and stay on until it's turned off? I ask this as a bicyclist who would love it if cars could just always have their headlights on.

"Content isn’t some subject matter that is especially interesting or information or but a way of thinking about the world: that everything exists only to be viewed within an algorithmically controlled environment."

here are 3000 words about MrBeast thought robhorning.substack.com/p/bananas-ar...