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Jess, Lord Pervert, c1956; Lord Calvert “Men of Distinction” advertisement from Life magazine, May 4, 1953; and Whittaker Chambers speaking before Committee on Un-American Activities, 1948—also from Life.

(Inspired by an email last night from Chambers’ grandson, who’d seen Julian’s mention of the Jess paste-up in his review of Pioneers (Wattis Institute, 2008) in Frieze.)

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legitimately worldview altering realisation and i'm not even employed right now

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Yaks at night By: Bruce Coleman, Ltd. From: Encyclopedia of the Animal World: Large Plant-Eaters 1988

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Or something woven from the filaments of the past that looked like her, Amy Friend

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hi everybody please reblog this and tell me your go-to coffee order right now and if you don't like coffee feel free to include your go-to tea order instead

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August is pretty lazy so far huh

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Everyone at work reallyyy wanted to know what i brought for lunch which is code for girl u stannnnkk up the office #congressionalrecess

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Everyone at work reallyyy wanted to know what i brought for lunch which is code for girl u stannnnkk up the office #congressionalrecess

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“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won’t have to process grief, because you’ll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it’s going to destroy humans, long before there’s a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people.”

Justine Bateman on AI in this article from The Guardian

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The aborted hiring manger would’ve hired me

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Age 31 pretending to be asleep in the back of the car so my crusty & dead as fuck grandparents carry me inside

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René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) 

Clock “Five swallows” also called  "Flight of Swallows" clock

Made by glazed black glass, 1920

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The problem is I always want to dm my mutuals some shit like "I consider you an ally to my cause"

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the average american doesn't cook with enough fresh herbs... we need to get more herby

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When I travel, it's usually to the country's capital but then sometimes I meet citizens of this country in different circumstances and they say they've never been there. I'm not judging because some capitals are far away and expensive but I'm wondering...