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Ben Steiner

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist@jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Trump finally told the truth about Renee Good. She wasn’t murdered because Jonathan Ross feared for his life. She was shot because she was “highly disrespectful.” This is a symptom of the same virus driving Elon Musk—the brittle supremacy of weak men. www.mind-war.com/p/highly-dis...

“Highly Disrespectful”: The Brittle Supremacy of Weak Men

The President of the United States says disrespectful women should be shot.

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Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I haven’t had time to write this up properly, but it’s the 31st anniversary today of the bank robberies which gave the world the Dunning-Kruger effect, when two men concealed their identities by the brilliant method of smearing their faces with lemon juice. Anyway, here’s a press cutting:

The Invisible man At 5 feet 6 inches and about 270 pounds, McArthur Wheeler is an easily recognizable even when wearing lemon juice on man his face. That certainly came as a surprise to Wheeler, 45, of Versailles Street, McKeesport. He was incredulous in April when Pittsburgh robbery detectives told him that he had been identified in surveillance photographs as one of the two men who robbed two banks in Brighton Heights and Swissvale on Jan. 6. "But I wore the lemon juice. I wore the lemon juice," a puzzled Wheeler told the even more puzzled detectives. The detectives' confusion turned to incredulity as Wheeler explained about his would-be lemon aid. "Someone told him that if you put lemon juice on your face it makes you invisible tothe surveillance camera," recounted a still chuckling Cmdr. Ronald Freeman of the investigations branch. "He was skeptical at first but not so much as to not try it him-self." "He said the lemon juice was burning his face and his eyes, and he was having trouble [seeing] and had to squint," said Sgt. Wally Long of the robbery squad. But the pain was worth the pleasure Wheeler felt when he snapped a Polaroid picture of himself and he wasn't anywhere to be seen.. "When the Polaroid didn't show him, he thought it worked," Long said. All that detectives could figure was that either the film was bad, Wheeler hadn't ad-justed the camera correctly or he had point-ed the camera away from his face when he snapped the photo. "In any event, he went off and robbed the banks with lemon juice on his face," Free-man said. "He was shocked when we showed him the surveillance pictures." Detectives had been tipped to his where-abouts in Lincoln-Lemington by informants who recognized him in one of the surveillance photos taken during the robberies. The photo had been telecast during the Pittsburgh Crime Stoppers Inc. segment of the 11 o'clock news April 19. Less than anhour after the broadcast, he was arrested at 202 S. Fairmont St. Wheeler was convicted in federal court in the Swissvale holdup. Charges in the Brighton Heights case were dropped.
Richard Wells@slipperyjack.bsky.social · 9mo ago

As I'm sure you're aware, the fifth of January is the day of the Schnabelperchten, a creature of Austrian folklore who will check your house for cleanliness. If they decide you haven't done a good enough job, they'll slit open your belly and fill it with straw. Happy New Year..!

A copy of Tales Accursed a Folk Horror anthology defaced with a pen illustration of the Schnabelperchten.The Schnabelperchten sat at a spotlessly clean kitchen table.
Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 9mo ago

After an exhibition of John Nash's work in 1922, a critic wrote: 'A painting by John Nash is like a sentence spoken by a gentleman, perfectly enunciated, quiet, complete, yet with a certain reserve about it as of things left unsaid.'

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Ray Newman@raynewman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

BLOG POST: Another batch of spooky stories, mostly made for TV, that I think capture something of the vibe of the Lawrence Gordon Clark era of BBC ghost stories for Christmas. precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/12/11/a...

Another collection of vintage ghost stories for Christmas

If you’ve seen all of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, and want more of the same, I’ve got good news for you. Last year I put together a list of films, short films and TV episodes that seemed t…

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Miami DSA@miamidsa.org · 10mo ago

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Ben Steiner@steinerdrome.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Edward Burra exhibition at Tate Britain is mind blowing! He was already among my favourite artists, but seeing his work in the flesh for the first time was something else! Lots of the pieces are huge, and the technique is just gorgeous. Maximum score on PHWOAR-O-METER 😍💪🏻

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