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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/10/2026

if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans

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Nathalie B. @sednoid.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Agfa Optima 1035 / Lucky C200 #believeinfilm #filmphotography

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

i guess the idea of genius is appealing because it suggests there's a shortcut to the tedious experience of becoming good at something. and if there's no shortcut the time spent looking for a domain you're naturally gifted at is just more time wasted. ok happy monday everyone let's get this bread

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

i don't know if i have the capacity to articulate that thought more thoroughly than a glib tweet thread but i'll just say that that world built on instantaneous speed goes pretty badly for the humans who trap themselves in it

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 21/09/2026

manipulating your audience is good, actually. you should apply overwhelming force to them. give them no choice but to feel what you want them to

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Francisco Goya @franciscogoya.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tan bárbara la seguridad como el delito collections.artsmia.org/art/122047

image of a figure bound in chains, bent over with hands clasped together; ankles bound in heavy shackles; head with shaggy beard and hair turned to the L

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Francisco Goya @franciscogoya.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Three Men Carrying a Wounded Soldier, from the Images of Spain, Album F www.artic.edu/artworks/12030

Goya’s bold watercolor is very far from the emphasis on pure line of the restrained Classicism that characterizes many of the works from this period. Goya applied his washes with an abandon that verged on the abstract. Indeed, it can be difficult to separate the knot of individual figures, three of them carrying a fourth, in a scene that recalls images of the Deposition of Christ. Probably produced during the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleonic France (1808–14), Goya’s drawing unflinchingly treats the senseless violence and social chaos that defined the period.

Clarence Buckingham Collection

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

WV It was very quiet here ORWO 200 Kodak Hawkeye Brownie #filmphotography

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gambolloch @gambolloch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

November 2025

A wedge shaped apartment building in Chinatown

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

fuck it, I'm feeling honest today. It's not just highly successful ppl it's also moderately & mildly successful people. There's like 9 billion ppl on this planet, getting ahead is more a function of fortune and circumstance than personal achievement. roulette wheel stopped where we were, thats all

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Valentine @valent6228.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Aschermittwoch (с.1860) - Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885) #biedermeier #poetic_realism #genre_painting

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At the Little Village Mexican Independence Day parade. Little Village was a top priority for Greg Bovino and Operation Midway Blitz.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly

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ideal poster @ideal-poster.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"…emphasis on real time, on the live feed, instead of real space…there has been a reversal, destabilizing the relationship of human interactions and the time reserved for reflection, in favor of the conditioned responses produced by emotion. Thus the theoretical possibility of generalized panic."

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ideal poster @ideal-poster.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

[oct 2003] FROM: Donald Rumsfeld SUBJECT: Global War on Terrorism The questions I posed to combatant commanders this week were: Are we winning or losing the Global War on Terror?

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ideal poster @ideal-poster.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"One of the few predictions that can be made about the war on terror with some confidence is that it will end" - www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...

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Charm City Slicker @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Baltimore, one of our great civic orgs needs us. Asylee Women Enterprise, which helps asylum seekers, torture + trafficking survivors, and other forced migrants, rebuild their lives here, must rapidly leave their space of 10+ years. Please give to help them move to their own forever home in Hampden!

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A Forever Home for Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE)

We’re asking people who believe in our mission to help us reach our goal and build a permanent home for AWE and the communities we serve.

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Stig @stigofthedump.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A light touch of colour 📷 Nikon LiteTouch 70W 🎞️ Fujicolor C200 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Pausing from harvest labor on a hot summer afternoon, Pieter Bruegel’s Harvesters, in 1565. Today is his day.

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Alexander Cozens, A Low Coast Line with Ships, botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

a decade+ of intensive social media use can completely erode one's mental privacy. your thoughts shape themselves for consumption because your brain wants the reward of attention. for some, their interaction with apps mediates their interaction with the world almost completely, etc

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.

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Lucy 📷 @lucyphoto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Late summer in North Yorkshire #35mm 🎞️

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

everyone knows DC is my favorite place. so much glorious diversity packed into so little space. walk for an hour and you can pass through like six neighborhoods. great food everywhere, music everywhere, trees and parkland everywhere. past year's felt like i'm watching the cossacks burn down anatevka

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