@nothingsmonstrd
The name is a joke from Shakespeare This account is for whatever I feel like posting about. Mostly pictures that strike my fancy, posts about politics, disability, art, literature, et cetera The Bronx one-legged juggler // he
Black and white art. a man in distress down on his knees his arms spread wide looking upward
Sad Forebodings of What Is Going to Happen (plate 1 from The Disasters of War) — Francisco Goya, 1810-20
Black and white art of a rotting corpse in a trench
from the series The War — Otto Dix, 1924
Etching
Black and white art of citizens fleeing in Terror down a street in a bombed town. a biplane with allied insignia is flying low overhead Dix's series The War was made after the war but based on drawings that Dix made while serving in the trenches during World War I
Lens is Bombed (Lens wird mit Bomben belegt), from the series The War — Otto Dix, 1924
Etching
52 cm x 38 cm
Painting of a wounded soldier. From his right eye down to his jaw is a massive red open wound. plastic surgery was much earlier in its development, and it looks like attempts at reconstructing his face not even begun
Kriegverletzer (War Wounded) — Otto Dix, 1922
Black and white art. a bunch of small birds noisily chasing after a big eagle which is rushing away from them down towards the bottom of the page. This is bird mobbing: the behavior where small prey Birds en masse attack a predator like a hawk or an eagle. By rushing at the predator making lots of noise they can often scare the predator away and occasionally kill it. see the link in the next post. The link above is to the artist's shop if you want to buy a print of this art.
Neighborhood Watch — Drudenkreuz
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B&W art of King Louis Philippe I as a giant from Rabelais's 16th century novels Gargantua and Pantagruel. He is sitting on a close stool — it looks like an armchair, but it has no bottom and it is a toilet. He is "consuming a continuous diet of tribute fed to him by various bureaucrats, dignitaries, and bourgeoisie, while defecating a steady stream of titles, awards, and medals in return."
Gargantua — Honoré Daumier, 1831
salty_finns captured a ribbon eel off Bali: #AGoodPlace
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Thanks! I remembered the ostrich story, but I forgot that was how he got hooked on pills.
A 2012 depiction of Johnny Cash fighting an ostrich named Waldo. The background is yellow, and the foreground of a man in black and an ostrich, with Johnny grabbing the ostrich's neck and holding back a fist to punch, while the bird has both legs off the ground.
"If it hadn't been for fighting that ostrich, Johnny Cash would never have gotten addicted to pain pills."
Let me explain the story...
(CW: *attempted* violence against a bird)
(🧑🎨Erika Jane, www.erikajaneamerika.com)
I'm sure there are generals and admirals who said this was a bad idea -- but anybody who would say that has been removed from any position where they might say something Trump doesn't want to hear.
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
Painting of Johnny, dressed in black holding an angry ostrich by the neck and pulling his right fist back for a haymaker. This is NOT an accurate representation of the time Johnny was nearly killed by his own ostrich, but it is a fun painting.
Johnny Cash Ostrich Attack — Erika Jane Amerika
Acrylics
13 x 14 inches
www.erikajaneamerika.com/work
Color photo of the singer standing in an archway with a steel gate. He's leaning against the stone wall with one hand on the bars and his head bowed.
Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison - Dan Poush, 1968
Color photograph of Johnny Cash circa early 60s. Red background behind him. Proud stare
Digital art of a woman in black clothes taking a picture of herself in a bathroom mirror with her phone
Kate Ermolaeva
www.instagram.com/kateyermolae...
Cool!
"The U.S. Treasury’s borrowing showed no signs of slowing as the U.S. headed deeper into fiscal year 2026, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporting that another $1 trillion was added to the federal deficit in the first five months of the year."
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
11 kids dead in one week. Nearly all unvaccinated, like most US kids.
Flu kills.
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
Militaries being bureaucracies with guns means a good way to understand inter-service rivalries is imagine the dynamic if one dept at your job thought the incompetence of another got them killed. Like if the front end website people privately held the back-end team responsible for 30 of them dying.
Snoopy dancing for joy
Charles Schultz
heavy traffic on a blue road. taillights reflect off the slick roadway.
Rainy Night, - Jessica Brilli, 2021
Acrylic and oil on canvas
A painting of a painting of the artist in a round frame beside some books and a pallet. His dog sits on the right - breeders hadn't yet created the unhealthily flat face characteristic of modern pug dogs.
The Painter and his Pug - William Hogarth, 1745
imposing man in a big brown fur coat against a black background
Portrait of a Man in a Fur-Trimmed Coat - Unknown Italian (Lombard) Painter, ca. 1540
"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; ..."
An illustration of a black wolf decorated with pink, white, and light blue flowers. Hand-lettering around the wolf reads “Defend Trans Lives, Fight for Trans Rights.
I’ve been trying to use my art to be more visible in the world as a trans person, I hope it helps others know they aren’t alone.
Aspenhearted.com if you’d like this on a shirt or sticker ❤️🏳️⚧️
… and that the Trolley Problem represents an effort to force on us a way of thinking that is appropriate only to similarly dire situations and then pretend that it has broad application to normal life, when we have spent ages, rightly, trying to make normal life more humane.
If you think about these omissions, you realize that they’re constitute our collective effort to ensure that people are not confronted with trolley problems outside of very exceptional circumstances like wars and natural disasters …
