HAVING A GREAT TIME

my uninspired “art” and out to lunch thoughts

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Stewards of Savagery: Colonizers Consume Corpses

Bodies of colonized people (people of color) have historically been disrespected, abused, and removed of self-rule. From chattel to wage to…

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The universe’s oldest star is dying. Muffling its own mouth, embarrassed, stifling a sneeze, a supernova event, after antisocial eons, without a mother, it fades quietly. The universe cracks its neck.

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More than half a century before the Cubists supposedly “invented” collage, the sensational “blood collages” of Victorian businessman John Bingley Garland, ca. 1850–1860. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/garland-blood-collages

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Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cyanotypes-of-british-algae-by-anna-atkins-1843 #OTD

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105 yrs ago #onthisday, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/apollinaire-s-calligrammes-1918 #OTD

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woman talking about guy to her friend at the bar: he’s so fine…he doesn’t even have instagram.

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i’m hoping this isn’t just some glaring form of narcissism, but every time i look at my face i think about the…thousands(??) of generations of people that existed before me. not on some “i’m my ancestors wildest dream” shit but more of “damn, i’m really a culmination of all you motherfuckers (get it).”

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can you give me one more day..?

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person walking outside of bar: it smells good over here

person smoking outside: …it’s probably the four cigarettes we just smoked.

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