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20002ist

@20002ist@thepit.social

Musings on DC, ancient Greek, incipient US fascism. Erstwhile Jeopardy! champion; Twitter escapee; just the beer light to guide you. ANC 6C04 Comm’r, but this not an official ANC account, in case you foolishly believed otherwise.

Lawful in the streets, chaotic in the … toots?? (Relative newcomer to Mastodon & still fumbling toward Masto competence.) William Hung and snow-white tan.

Ἕν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα.

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ElleGray , to random
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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

20002ist ,
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@ElleGray

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mattblaze , to random
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UN Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021.

All the constantly arguing pixels at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335/

20002ist ,
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@mattblaze I didn’t even have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier—his Carpenter Center at Harvard is a Brutalist abomination—until I visited Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut (Ronchamp, France) in 2016. Situated on a hilltop overlooking the French countryside, the chapel has both a graceful exterior appearance and an impressively conceived set of small, interconnected interior spaces. For me, it’s one of the very few modern churches (alongside Sagrada Familia) that provoke a deeply religious reaction.

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20002ist ,
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@mattblaze Funny you should say that. I was, to put it gently, a Gehry skeptic until a visit to the Bilbao Guggenheim in 2019. It fucking rocks.

ElleGray , to random
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it's not the heat, it's the humanity

20002ist ,
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@ElleGray Could be both.

ElleGray , to random
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listen I love him but bugs bunny is a menace

20002ist ,
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@ElleGray In “Rebel Rabbit” (1949), Bugs is so outraged by a measly 2c bounty on rabbits that he goes on a massive crime spree. (One visual gag shows him holding a set of large locks stolen in Panama.) It’s one of the rare episodes in which Bugs doesn’t come out on top.

Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqFmR5tpFfs

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ElleGray , to random
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honestly apple this is all we want

20002ist ,
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@ElleGray I’m thinking

  • Fiona Apple
  • Most ambitious crossover event in history
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Trump's not running for office so much as running from the law.

20002ist ,
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@rbreich Actually, he’s running straight at the law while waving a meat cleaver. If RL were a Dirty Harry movie, he’d get dropped before he hurts any more people or norms.

ElleGray , to random
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Personally I think we should go back to making beautiful hair accessories that have little swords hidden in them. I could have used this twice yesterday

(Designer Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Paris)

20002ist ,
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@ElleGray Or you could simply dazzle any assailant with one of these individually made pieces of jewelry—hair combs & diadems—created by his contemporary René Lalique (1860-1945).

These ridiculously beautiful items are on display at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.

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    20002ist ,
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    @ElleGray Her look is so ferociously happy that I half-suspect the “little list” is inscribed on the wall of a mausoleum somewhere.

    molly0xfff , to random
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    just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)

    related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.

    #domains #web

    20002ist ,
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    @molly0xfff @peblo IMO that last part was overdetermined.

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    20002ist ,
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    @ElleGray When a problem comes along, you must ribbit

    ElleGray , to random
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    dance like nobody's watching because no I am not coming to your adult tap recital georgia

    20002ist ,
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    @ElleGray I misread that at first as “rectal” and, well, was vexed.

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    20002ist ,
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    @ElleGray Anna Wintour, call your office.

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    20002ist ,
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    @ElleGray We don't kink-shame.

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    To absolutely no one’s surprise, Trump’s USD 175 million bond payment is a fraud too.

    In New York, a company which offers a bond, cannot offer a bond worth more than 10 percent of the company’s own value, and Knight Specialty Insurance does not live up to that requirement — in fact, if the company ends up having to pay the bond, the bond is worth more than the company, meaning they would not be able to pay.

    Trump now has 10 days to come up with a new solution.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-ag-questions-if-dollar175-million-bond-insurer-can-save-trump

    20002ist ,
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    @randahl Trump’s lender of last resort will end up being an obscure financier who goes by the name Pladimir Vutin.

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