Robert Raymond
@robertr369.bsky.social
Retired engineer from a National Laboratory and retired USAF NCO, Vietnam era Vet, Resistance, thefew, BLM 🇺🇸 FEEDING AMERICA ☮️ 🇺🇦 💙💙 unwanted DM and I will block you
fun fact: we have paid into medicare with every paycheck, but we're billed $200/mo once we're required to have it. And if we can't afford the $200/mo, there are PENALTIES!
Robert Raymond@robertr369.bsky.social · 23h ago
If you are familiar with his later work, this painting will surprise you. By Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944), Still life with oranges, ca. 1900, oil on canvas, 46 x 30 cm, photo: Christie’s Amsterdam, 1 Dec 1999. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #mondrian #stilllifepainting #art
Femme avec un chat.' Paintings made by Louis Anquetin in the 1880s and 1890s influenced a number of his contemporaries, especially van Gogh, Emile Bernard and Toulouse-Lautrec. Of these, it was Anquetin who received the first serious attention from art critics.
Local woman wakes up, extends the long weekend a day partly because some of the weekend was crap but also she’s so damn tired and barely knows what day it is, makes oatmeal.
Wishing the United States Coast Guard a happy 236th birthday! Semper Paratus.
It was Todd Blanche's idea to create a $2 billion taxpayer slush fund for insurrectionists who assaulted police officers. If Senate Republicans confirm him, he won't be America's top lawyer—he'll be Trump's.
4 August 1922 | A Polish woman, Halina Jasicka, was born in Tarnów. A laboratory analyst. In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942. No. 6898 She was evacuated to KL Bergen-Belsen and liberated there. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/3O8z0jF 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3ZokyXc
The Billboard Hot 100 was published for the first time on August 4, 1958, featuring "Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson as its inaugural number-one song.
4 August 1936 | A Romanian Jewish boy, Jacob Arye Katz, was born in Satu Mare. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
5 August 1900 | Dutch Jewish woman, Anna van Emden, was born in Amsterdam. In December 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- 📖 Jews deported to Auschwitz from the German-occupied Netherlands: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
