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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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dole strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1907

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Eight months into their rent strike, Independence Towers Tenant Union held a two-hour bargaining session with their new landlord and signed an agreement which ensures that all current residents will receive new leases, among other things.

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Surprised the kids with this guy a year ago today.

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

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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.

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

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

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Bill Knott

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#nodraftkings

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Saw John Brown in Kansas today

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

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The market is just the truth of our inner selves

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Running thread of songs that I believe are perfect First entry

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#annotation

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

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

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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?

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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.

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"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."

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