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Bronze shield of King Pharnakes of Pontus, 2nd century BCE
  • Probably mostly ornamental.

  • Several men and a PUG in a Saloon, Illinois, USA, ~1910s
  • Because the PUG is the most IMPORTANT part of the photo

  • Several men and a PUG in a Saloon, Illinois, USA, ~1910s
  • He's a fair boss, don't mind his grumbling.

  • Attire of Mastro Titta, executioner of the Papal States, retired 1864 AD
  • He executed and tortured some ~500 people, retired with a pension, and died peacefully in his bed at the age of 90. So no, probably not particularly remorseful.

  • Do you ever go back and reread your own posts and find yourself wondering how the hell you managed to say the words that you said?
  • Sometimes I'm surprised by how eloquent I can sound.

    I'm rarely surprised by how stilted and incoherent I can sound. I'm used to that.

  • An East German border guard passing a flower through a hole in the Berlin Wall, 1989
  • Upon this fine and hopeful day, you are excused 🌹

  • Teenager Danuta Siedzikówna, medic of the Polish resistance, executed by the postwar Communist government in 1946
  • This ends here. Apologia for Soviet secret police is not welcome here, nor is blaming North Korea's Juche system on outside forces.

    You've been warned.

  • A Columbia University protester says the NYPD made her remove her hijab—despite new policy
  • I'd be more giddy about that except it's not the cops who ever pay. It's just the city (and thus, by extension, the taxpayers and their non-policing interests). And the city will keep sucking on the department's toes.

  • State Department issues travel alert for LGBTQ people, events abroad
  • Even if it is referring to right-wing assholes, the US is one of the safer places in the world for LGBT folk. That's not high praise of the US so much as damnation for most of the rest of the world, but either way, one is definitely not in "FAR more danger" inside the USA than "almost anywhere else".

  • State Department issues travel alert for LGBTQ people, events abroad
  • You are in FAR more danger inside the USA than almost anywhere else. Projection to idiots.

    Fucking what

  • Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting after recommendation from pardons board | CNN
  • Abbott’s decision comes after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously Thursday to recommend a full pardon and the restoration of firearm rights for Perry

    Can we discuss how FUCKED the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is too?

  • Another view of the black cat casting line, USA, 1961
  • Peak color coordination

  • Another view of the black cat casting line, USA, 1961
  • As the previous pic mentions, the contemporary film 'Tales of Terror'

  • Kim's sister denies North Korea has supplied weapons to Russia
  • But let’s not blow air up [Russia's] asshole.

    That seems to be the favorite pastime of a concerning number of people on here, though.

  • I'll be sad when they're 100% gone one day
  • Well I've never done it on PURPOSE. But a lot of little scratches add up over time.

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