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the last of the lazarus brigade /// avi by @beatonna /// same @ on skuebly, come find me there

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(housekeeping thread of threads of my bizarre, wild-eyed quest to read the National Register of Historic Places listings for every state and territory in the US: relevant individual state threads will be added here. mute this if you can't handle how extremely cool i am)
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the building you keep seeing behind Zelenskiy is fucking insane, btw. it's called the House with Chimeras and it's just an inexplicable surrealist nouveau mansion that happens to be right opposite the President's office. the entablature has rhinos. Władysław Horodecki, 1902.
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my therapist: Clermont-Ferrand's ominous black cathedral can't hurt you Clermont-Ferrand's ominous black cathedral:
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did he...did he censor the punk's middle finger
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nyt publishing this on their front page so everyone can be like "ah, yes, i see. i see the problem"
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seeing a lot of people RTing this guy's threads lately, and can we not, please? 10 minutes on his profile makes clear he's another of the tedious fascist-adjacent trads and his threads are full of gross dogwhistles about nationalism. always another one of these guys popping up
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government strategy
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there's a Norse myth where the giantess Gjalp tries to drown Thor by pissing in a river he's crossing to raise the water level. @Marvel film this you cowards
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in the 1980s, after Thatcher closed the mines, the UK's chief export was "satire that people take seriously, with extremely bad results"
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i have discovered the emblems of the various units of the US Space Force and this knowledge has changed me
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regrettably this fucking slaps?! theresa may, secret german expressionism fan
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James Heale
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Theresa May’s parliamentary painting just dropped
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she is wearing the collar
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Nick Clegg there. of course, Facebook has had the right to send a representative to the ceremony since the signing of the treaty of norwich in 1304
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i kind of hated all the DALL-E stuff but i just figured out how to use midjourney and fed it "William Morris' Soviet Russia" and i'm in love
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a huge day for nerds everywhere. James Cleverly is the first openly Warhammer-painting person to hold one of the great offices of state
@JamesCleverly
James Cleverly🇬🇧
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I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/uAtclRMd How to paint Astorath The Grim? Warhammer 40000 | Blood Angels
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horses per se are boring but horse culture is... like, the fact that, for millennia, someone who knew how to do all this was a crucial figure in any community of more than a few hundred people and now it's a weird, near-useless stunt known by very few people weirds me out
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"time itself is a Soviet plot" is the Greatest Take Ever
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Peter Hitchens
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Thank you but I pay absolutely no attention to the 'New Year', an empty moment which I associate with the former USSR's (failed) attempt to abolish Christmas.
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a big mood is haunting Europe
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Fascist Traditional Architecture twitter and the the TradCaths have discovered the concept of "cursed images" and are using it to whine about a bunch of really extremely great modernist architecture and it's fucking hilarious
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Cursed Modernist Images
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This is a Cathedral in Tokyo I have a whole new appreciation for The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels now
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doing an architectural takedown thread of Le Corbusier using *checks notes* concept art from Wolfenstein: The New Order
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push the needle
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then theres albert speer’s plan for berlin had the nazi’s won world war ii. would have bulldozed a charming city for big ugly car centric infrastructure barf
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*pounding clipboard* FROG BATTLEMENTS! FROG BATTLEMENTS! (all pictures via wikimedia commons)
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[Labour party graphic designer awaking from a 10-year coma]:
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The Labour Party
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The Tories crashed the economy and you’re still paying the price.
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RIP Gottfried Böhm, great German architect who died yesterday at the exceptionally venerable age of 101. great, great work: the last of the High Brutalists leaves us
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Chilean Socialists Invented the Gooncave: The CIA Backed A Far-Right Coup To Destroy It Before It Could Become Operational.
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it's largely made out of concrete & cement, by the way - unusually for the time - and is thus Actually A Brutalist Building
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this man is visibly smoking a cigarette in his inflatable plastic house
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Federico Italiano
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Quasar Khanh (1934–2016)—Vietnamese engineer, designer, and pioneer of inflatable furniture—with his wife Emmanuelle and their children in the pneumatic house he designed in 1968
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Cillian Murphy's career is really funny. years of "his smouldering cheekbones and deep Irish soul evoke both pathos and sexual danger" and then he did Cheeky Blinders and accidentally became the favourite actor of every Help for Heroes facebook page
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sorry, the south korean president's twitter handle is *what*
@ZelenskyyUa
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
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Talked to 🇰🇷 President Moon Jae-in @moonriver365 . Informed about counteraction to Russia. About the crimes of the aggressor. Thanked 🇰🇷 for supporting 🇺🇦 and imposing sanctions. We will continue to work together building an anti-war coalition around the world.
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he also did one of Kyiv's other finest buildings, the Karaite kenesa (i.e. formerly a synagogue for Karaites, a kind of - i think? - schismatic Jewish sect). it's now the home of the Ukrainian Actors' Union.
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Diana S Truman orders use of nuclear weapons against Empire of Japan
@fleetstreetfox
fleetstreetfox
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Replace the word 'Harry' in every tweet with the word 'Diana', and then see how it sounds.
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THIS IS THE SICKEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN. 3rd Test and Evaluation Squadron
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Approved building styles for the colonization of the Solar System: Mercury - smoked-glass International Modern Venus - ultra-gloopy Art Nouveau Mars - hardline Brutalism Jupiter - high Baroque Saturn - Ruskinian Gothic Uranus - Constuctivism Neptune - Greek Revival
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why is nobody in the media asking why the queuers who go in to see the coffin don't reemerge from the building. why is nobody talking about this. where have they all gone
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today i learned that the "acoustic attacks" on US diplomats in Cuba a couple of years ago were almost certainly down to some grasshopper mating calls and then to mass paranoia inside the embassy causing an outbreak of purely psychogenic illness
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wow, the frontlines are moving quickly
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Very wholesome video of Ukrainian soldiers seeing Stonehenge for the first time.
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Horodecki - the architect - built it as his own home, with the animals (sculpted by Italian artist Emilio Sala) celebrating his love of hunting and fishing. it was an...ambitious project, though, and bankrupted him. he finished his life designing train stations in Iran.
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i want Diane Abbott to show up at her count being carried in a coffin and then rise from it with a machine gun in each hand
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american judicial overreach has gotten even worse
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Chris Green
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Breaking: Supreme Court to announce ruling on Scottish independence vote next week Weds 23rd Nov, 9.45am
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THE GRAND FINAL OF THE CATHEDRAL WORLD CUP, to forever and for all time decide which is everybody's favourite. Vote! Retweet! Debate! Post beautiful pictures! And go visit them! #cathedralworldcup ⛪️🏆
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the government owns it now and they use it for conferences and whatnot, i guess? here's the previous president shoing John Kerry around the equally gloopy interior
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my therapist: the boundaries of the historic Scottish county of Cromartyshire aren't real and can't hurt you the boundaries of the historic Scottish county of Cromartyshire:
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paris, 1855-1937
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the book-length edition of this tweet
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Waterstones
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What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired a double? Deftly following online threads, Doppelganger is the astounding new work from @NaomiAKlein tracking the extreme views of a woman she's frequently mistaken for. Signed Edition:
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comrades,
@olimould
Follow me on M@stodon: [email protected]
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Apparently, the new Microsoft flight sim has used AI to map the entire world. But it's not done it all that great, and turned Buckingham Palace into a generic 90s office block.
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[sighs for one thousand years]
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learning about Muhammad bin Salman's pad in France, which is a $300 million chateau built in 2011. McMansion culture has peaked
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weeks later one of them would be lying lifeless in Westminster, a spectacle that gripped the whole nation, and the other was the Queen, etc
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A year ago today…
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thinking about Christmas songs and was forcibly reminded of the most 2010s image ever produced
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22nd Space Operation Squadron. they had a bet with the 23rd about who could look more evil
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my boring westminster abbey fact is that the chandeliers in there were donated by the Guinness family. the light of god is filtered through thick irish stout
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Is your kid texting about English Gothic architecture? Know the signs: BRB Buildings Require Buttresses WTF Window Tracery Fandom BFF Build Fancier Facades OMG Only Magnificent Grandeur LMAO Lincoln Must Always Overawe GTG Gloucester's Tremendous Gothic POV Power Of Vaulting
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it's impossible to tell at the time if you're living in a golden age, and impossible to tell afterwards whether you're not just being nostalgic, but it has to be true that being a bookish 10-year old at the turn of the millennium was a uniquely lucky and wonderful thing
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thatcher herself was, of course, an elaborate piece of satire about conservatism that ran wildly out of control and became unironically popular (the comedians who invented the character were killed by MI6 in 1983 to conceal this fact)
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when i went to CBT there was an elderly woman there who had been told to go to the class because the government was trying to deport her to a country where she had no family and this had "caused her to be anxious", so, yeah actually, Matt
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@LincsCathedral LINCOLN CATHEDRAL IS OFFICIALLY AND FOR ALL TIME THE NATION'S FAVOURITE #cathedralworldcup 🏆⛪️
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a Soviet Bus Stops/Yugoslav Memorials-style coffee table book of shitty Millennium municipal features in British towns and villages
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62d Cyberspace Squadron. these are all real
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ENRAGE 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚌 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚜
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history's most careful tweet
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Michelle O’Neill
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Today I respectfully join leaders from Britain, Ireland & the international community at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as she is laid to rest. It is a sad day for her family who mourn her loss, and all those of a British identity from across our community who grieve also.
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23rd Space Operations Squadron
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is it racist to be racist
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"grandpa, do you remember Charles III's coronation?" "yeah, i did numbers on trans twitter with a reheated bit about liz truss day collar"
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614th Combat Training Squadron emblem. buying a van so i can airbrush this on the side of it
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ATTACK AND DETHRONE THE BLUE TICKS
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@leszy_ it's actual a kind of fungal growth from the scalp that is cauded by proximity to royalty
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incredibly misleading headline but it's also unbelievably funny so i'll allow it
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Biden DOJ recommends no jail time for trans vandal of Catholic church: 'F--- Catholics'
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My literal centrist dad voted Tory in south London "to stop the SNP", which I think is one for the all time centrist dad Hall of Fame
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is this the most deranged sentence you've ever read
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collarwatch: the prime minister is NOT wearing the day collar. we have finally found an event of sufficient gravity
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it is wild enough that Dennis Hof, a Nevada brothel owner WHO DIED LAST MONTH won his election race last night, but trying to imagine the party at which he died has fully broken me
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@JackTindale please do not put Actual Zhukov on my tl, i prefer to think of him only as Hot Yorkshire Zhukov
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Space Delta 5. getting this as a full back tattoo
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previous one was the Peterson-Schriever Garrison. this is the 533rd Training Squadron.
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devastated to learn that Alfons Mucha's batshit painting cycle THE SLAV EPIC is not presently on public display. here they are in a thread tho, with authentic batshit full titles 1: The Slavs in their Original Homeland: Between the Turanian Whip and the Sword of the Goths
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Today is the birthday of Amaza Lee Meredith: a black gay woman architect in the 1930s American South, she built this house -Azurest South, a small jewel of modernism- for herself and her partner in the grounds of Virginia State University, where she founded the Arts Department.
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i am constantly shrugging off chairs that women and non-binary people throw at me, striking me with the force of raindrops or poorly aimed paper planes
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Rory Stewart Brings You Breakfast In Bed (He Lives In Your Flat Now) [ASMR]
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12th Space Warning Squadron. googling "can UK citizens get a job with the US Space Force"
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@hannahrosewoods something extremely royal/posh aboit having tons of dogs and just going "yeah we can't be bothered to train them, they're psychotic, deal with it"
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analysts at the RAND Corporation readjusting their nuclear stand-off game theory simulations to account for blue tick idiots going "surely just one little nuke couldn't hurt that much"
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this sheep for Prime Minister in a government of...absolute unity
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we used to be, like, a symbiotic civilization in certain respects and then we just starting using dead dinosaur remains instead
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do you think Quentin Blake regrets creating Philip Hammond
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@Iron_Spike @WNFIV Dashcon was at least partly painful to watch cos the attendees were the kind of people you could feel for/with. These guys, though...
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difficult to explain how funny this is but oh my god
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Germany's ugliest and most expensive construction project, the faux Hohenzollern palace that replaces the psychedelic communist Palace of the people, is currently on fire
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Space Delta 7
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it's ya boi Frank Lloyd Wright's 154th birthday!! here is the smallest house he ever designed, which was a dog kennel. it is gone, RIP
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10th & 11th Space Warning Squadrons
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Franz Ferdinand was an Austro-Hungarian leader, his country was aligned against Russia, he wasn't just going to go randomly tour aroung there, that wasn't how any of it happened, you can't just see the words "Franz Ferdinand" and go "oh like in history lol", why am i so mad abou
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@broderick in a true anarchist society the tortoise would decide for itself
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buildings are nice, people are better. donate here or to a similar refugee organisation if you can
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bbc straight up just running met press releases as stories now
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Kane Tanaka - the world's oldest living person - died last week aged 119 (born January 1903), passing the title to Lucile Randon, who is 118 (born February 1904). as a result, an entire year passed out of living memory last week.
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