Reposted by Ernie Torrinco, o ornitorrinco
Again, it is ...odd that before Elon Musk bought Twitter, the regular refrain lobbed at people using the site was that it was not real life, and now that it is owned by the world's richest white supremacist, that same crowd finds it much more reflective of real life.
![peachtwigs-deactivated20230912 on tumblr:
[A photograph of a book page featuring a reproduction of Hans Memling's painting Vanity (labeled vertically "VANITY BY MEMLING 1435–1494"), with accompanying text reading: "The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure. The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight."]
"— excerpt from *ways of seeing* by *john berger*"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreiav5a6x7lu432a3cy7c2x2qgwya25y3m3zcksglt4bczb4pw6tw24)
