Researcher and freelance writer/photog. “The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”—Orwell
Joined October 2012
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Musician Angel. Artist: Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo). Date: 1521 AD. Medium: oil on wood panel. Dimensions: 39.5 x 47 cm. Collection: Uffizi Galleries, Florence.
This angel wasn't originally alone. it's almost certainly a fragment,cut from a much larger, now-lost altarpiece. this 'putto' was likely just one small detail at the bottom or side of a major religious scene. the practice of cutting up larger paintings to 'save' the best bits for collectors was common.we are looking at a beautiful survivor of a destroyed work.
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my Teen Vogue obituary is up at @thefp! come for the Pauline Kael throwback, stay for the embarrassing revelation that no actual youths were harmed -- or even involved -- in the rise and fall of Teen Vogue
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Georges Seurat - Man Leaning on a Parapet, c. 1879-81
Pastel on cardboard
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Edward Hopper (1882-1967) American
“Soir Bleu”, 1914
Oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Detail from a Bestiary (Harley MS 3244), fol. 57v: De apibus (“Of bees”). England (probably Salisbury), c. 1236–1250. Ink with colour washes on parchment. British Library.
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When I was writing my book, someone I know asked what it was about. I explained - and they said "That can't be happening. If it was, it would be on the BBC." It's unforgivable that our national broadcaster hovered between pumping out propaganda and being missing in action.
🧵 Thread: How @BBC Became a National Vector for Gender Ideology (2005–2025)
1/ For two decades, @BBC hasn’t just reported on gender ideology; it has amplified and normalised it. This thread outlines how one of the most influential institutions in the UK adopted a belief system that remains legally and scientifically contested.
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For those of us who really care about the serious study of the arts, it is profoundly upsetting to see our disciplines being transformed in ways where the art itself is secondary to political concerns. And to see more "traditional" approaches and staff being pushed out.
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“Betwixt and betwizzled, I ‘twas! Caught somewhere between now and then, the sun and the rain, contentment and the other thing, joy and its absence, hate and damnation, and all the other things, dispossessed of outcomes and ends but furnished in folly by the haunting anxiety that precedes their inevitable deliverance, it wraps against the chest beat beat beat demanding attention, beat beat beat, demanding to be indulged, beat beat beat, until finally goddammit finally you say the thing and the thing is a question, will you die alone?”
—an orphan I served gruel to when I was volunteering at the shelter.
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“Man is condemned to be free; condemned, because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless free, because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” —my son, 3, who is much smarter than I am.
As the article below details, activist demands have led to a suspension of 7 continuing medical education courses in youth gender medicine. Based on SEGM's 2023 conference lectures, the courses feature European clinicians discussing Europe's shift away from youth transitions./1
Pressure by Transgender Activists Forces Washington State University To Suspend Courses Critical of Medical Gender Treatments for Minors
I report for The @NewYorkSun: @WSU’s med school accredits physician-education courses from a nonprofit that’s skeptical of this field but comes under scrutiny from transgender activist-journalists and a national accreditation body.
nysun.com/article/pressure-b…
