The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yeah, usually they stick graffiti on the monument at the Place de la République nearby, it's a better place to squat. Here's some magnificent examples from 2016: 0100
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Liberty on the Barricades [Discuss] The prestigious École du Louvre, one of the major elite educational institutions in France, dedicated to the formation of a cadre of art historians, has gone on strike. Could art critics be next? Dream on. 000
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026YESS! That's my old high-school, the snootiest of the snoot! Macron, tu es foutu! Henri IV est dans la rue ! 000
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A Fable of AI At the time when Braque and Picasso were producing their Cubist collages (moving from Analytic to Synthetic), a sycophantic hanger-on noticed they were both spending an inordinate amount of time duplicating the patterns of wallpaper. 100
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hanna Arendt makes a similar point (On revolution): 010
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Here's some weap...I mean, "meaningful contribution to the discourse." (Still needs a bit of re-editing): theorangepress.substack.com/p/fe70b418-1... 110
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Mamdani gets it theorangepress.substack.com/p/mamdani-ge... 000
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Derrida explains it all! That's not really a "p," it's an "n" with an extended leg, the "pas" of transgression, etc. 100
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You mean the artwork that shows the punishment that awaits those who protect sexual predators? 000
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"pill bugs, sow bugs, roly-poly bugs, wood lice, chucky pig, monkey pea, cheese log, daddy granfer, granny grunter." 000
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I like this one. It was requested by a French editor under the naive impression that I would use my position, like all the other contributors, to denounce the vulgarity of museum-goers rather than the elitism of museum administrators under Capitalism. Never heard from the editor again. Boo-hoo. 150
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 20/08/20261. There's an interesting switch in the first decades of printing. Printers like Jenson, who had 1st specialized in *luxury* printed books like the one below from my own collection, complete with illuminated initial, end up producing cheap editions for the universities, etc. 100
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If you can build housing under Capitalism, then housing remains expensive anyhow. 110
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 08/08/2026That one wouldn't work very well. It would cause considerable pain as the blade is placed too low and not sufficiently weighted to accelerate properly on release. Eh, what the hell... 000
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"Zo!?" You must be confusing Zohran with the nineteenth-century satirist Zo d'Axa: 100
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Wake up and smell the coffee. It's been brewing for 150 years. www.academia.edu/43376218/The... 000
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026On July 22, 1789 in Paris, the Minister of Finance Joseph Foulon--"a scoundrel; but of unmeasured wealth” according to Carlyle--was being led to prison under the protection of the "progressive" bourgeois authorities. He never made it: 100
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Well gol-darn shucks. (Some MAGA-brained slop from Hillsdale, uh "College.") 000
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 27/06/2026A great guy. I wrote an obituary: theorangepress.com/woid/woid20/... 120
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I first cut my paleographer's teeth on a ms. called the "Liber Scintillarum." Naturally my first step was to check the meaning of the title. I found a directive from an abbot encouraging the monks to step outside the refectory to produce their scintillas after a hearty meal of beans. 040
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"What about dinner? - Leave me alone, I'm reading Marx." Jossot, in the French Anarchist journal "L'Assiette au Beurre," 1906. 111
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The OL [Original Luigi] theorangepress.substack.com/p/the-ol 010
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I was in Rome today, and standing in front of Michelangelo's Moses. A dark-skinned woman in a hijab turned to me and asked, "why does he have horns on his head?" So I explained that the Christian (Vulgate) translation of the Bible misreads the Hebrew "rays of light" for "horns." 100
The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Part of the procedure was to take all images of the perp. and disfigure them. I've seen Roman statues that looked suspiciously like a Picasso. Y'all have fun with this. 000