Michèle Plott
@micheleplott.bsky.social
Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
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Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 by Robert Motherwell, 1971
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137843
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137843
motherwell hitting harder w/this today.
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Remembering Maria Callas on her birthday 🎂
📷 Greguoli Venini, La Scala, 1957
"There are times when certain people are blessed - and cursed - with an extraordinary gift, in which the gift is almost greater than the human being."
- John Ardoin
📷 Greguoli Venini, La Scala, 1957
"There are times when certain people are blessed - and cursed - with an extraordinary gift, in which the gift is almost greater than the human being."
- John Ardoin
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Remembering Maria Callas on her birthday 🎂
📷 Greguoli Venini, La Scala, 1957
"There are times when certain people are blessed - and cursed - with an extraordinary gift, in which the gift is almost greater than the human being."
- John Ardoin
📷 Greguoli Venini, La Scala, 1957
"There are times when certain people are blessed - and cursed - with an extraordinary gift, in which the gift is almost greater than the human being."
- John Ardoin
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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C’è un che di magia.
(📸 mia)
(📸 mia)
December 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
C’è un che di magia.
(📸 mia)
(📸 mia)
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Today was World AIDS Day and I didn't post the most gutting piece of AIDS-related art, Keith Haring's Unfinished Painting. You all deserved better from me.
Unfinished Painting - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Today was World AIDS Day and I didn't post the most gutting piece of AIDS-related art, Keith Haring's Unfinished Painting. You all deserved better from me.
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Geoffrey O’Brien on the best films of postwar Britain
Magic from Elsewhere | Geoffrey O’Brien
The best of British postwar cinema portrays a country in the aftermath of catastrophe and uncertain about its future.
www.nybooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Geoffrey O’Brien on the best films of postwar Britain
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Month of December, killing of the pig
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Month of December, killing of the pig
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, #Umbria
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, 1278-80
#sculpture #MedievalArt
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Richard Pryor by Henry Diltz, 1968
Asked in 1968 if he worried about George Wallace becoming President, he replied, "Wallace is President. Wallace has always been President."
Asked in 1968 if he worried about George Wallace becoming President, he replied, "Wallace is President. Wallace has always been President."
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Richard Pryor by Henry Diltz, 1968
Asked in 1968 if he worried about George Wallace becoming President, he replied, "Wallace is President. Wallace has always been President."
Asked in 1968 if he worried about George Wallace becoming President, he replied, "Wallace is President. Wallace has always been President."
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the covid vaccine prevents many more cases of myocarditis than it potentially causes in kids and adults. this is a conclusive fact from dozens of massive rigorous studies.
vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.
vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.
Internal memo at the FDA claims 10 deaths in children as a result of Covid vaccines — but does not include data
Explosive story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
Explosive story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
the covid vaccine prevents many more cases of myocarditis than it potentially causes in kids and adults. this is a conclusive fact from dozens of massive rigorous studies.
vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.
vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.
This.
One of my heartfelt beliefs is that different teachers will be better at teaching different texts different ways w/in the same topic. To force a fixed curriculum is to intentionally elide that teachers are individual human beings w unique engagements w the ideas they communicate to students.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This.
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The charges here mattered, because the arresting officers admitted that she was arrested for violating the segregation ordinance and not for some ostensibly race-neutral charge like "disturbing the peace"
70 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The charges here mattered, because the arresting officers admitted that she was arrested for violating the segregation ordinance and not for some ostensibly race-neutral charge like "disturbing the peace"
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Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.
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Hoje é Wolrd AIDS Day
Ignorância = medo
Silêncio = morte
Arte: Keith Haring
Ignorância = medo
Silêncio = morte
Arte: Keith Haring
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Hoje é Wolrd AIDS Day
Ignorância = medo
Silêncio = morte
Arte: Keith Haring
Ignorância = medo
Silêncio = morte
Arte: Keith Haring
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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Today is World AIDS Day, originally called A Day Without Art, due to its impact on the Arts community. A generation of thought lost. I have the same anger now about the politics of the day as I did then. I will never give up the fight for right, for no matter our status, Silence still equals Death.
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today is World AIDS Day, originally called A Day Without Art, due to its impact on the Arts community. A generation of thought lost. I have the same anger now about the politics of the day as I did then. I will never give up the fight for right, for no matter our status, Silence still equals Death.
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Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
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This is a reminder that German Führer Adolf Hitler faced more public dissent and resistance than the current Russian President. The Gestapo arrested 800,000 Germans for resistance activities, whereas only about 20,000 people have been arrested for protesting the war in modern-day Russia.
More than 20,000 detained in Russia for anti-war views over the past three years, OVD-Info reports
In the three years since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 20,000 people in Russia have been detained for their anti-war stance, according to figures released by the independe...
theins.ru
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This is a reminder that German Führer Adolf Hitler faced more public dissent and resistance than the current Russian President. The Gestapo arrested 800,000 Germans for resistance activities, whereas only about 20,000 people have been arrested for protesting the war in modern-day Russia.
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Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
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I was just thinking about the slaves in Brave New World that are genetically engineered to love their slavery. Dumb down the populace, convince them that their suffering is righteous, and rob them blind.
“In the first US study looking at whether the recommended fluoride levels in drinking water affects brain function, researchers found that the hot-button mineral has no negative impacts on cognition – and may actually be giving it a boost.”
They are trying to dumb-down America.
flip.it/sH5foh
They are trying to dumb-down America.
flip.it/sH5foh
Fluoride and the brain: Largest US study ever unearths surprise new link
In the first US study looking at whether the recommended fluoride levels in drinking water affects brain function, researchers have found that the hot-button mineral has no negative impacts on cogniti...
flip.it
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I was just thinking about the slaves in Brave New World that are genetically engineered to love their slavery. Dumb down the populace, convince them that their suffering is righteous, and rob them blind.
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Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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Context: grad student instructor is trans - student’s essay and publicity generated is specifically designed to target trans people and eliminate them from public life
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Context: grad student instructor is trans - student’s essay and publicity generated is specifically designed to target trans people and eliminate them from public life
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This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | My Father Died of Hepatitis B Before the Vaccine. We Must Not Go Back.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
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Reminder: HEX Conference CfP deadline expires this week´s Friday 5 December. The 8th annual HEX Conference - Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures - will take place at Tampere University 9-11 March 2026. Full Cfp on conference webpage
events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...
events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...
Call for Papers | History of Experience | Tampere Universities
Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures 8th Annual Conference March 9-11, 2026 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere Univers...
events.tuni.fi
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reminder: HEX Conference CfP deadline expires this week´s Friday 5 December. The 8th annual HEX Conference - Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures - will take place at Tampere University 9-11 March 2026. Full Cfp on conference webpage
events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...
events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...
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“Rage bait” is Oxford University Press’s word of the year after a week-long public vote. Lexicographers say that although the phrase was first attested in 2002, usage has tripled over the last year. corp.oup.com/news/the-oxf...
The Oxford Word of the Year 2025 is rage bait - Oxford University Press
The Oxford Word of the Year crown for 2025 has gone to 'rage bait', with our experts noting that its usage had tripled over the past 12 months.
corp.oup.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“Rage bait” is Oxford University Press’s word of the year after a week-long public vote. Lexicographers say that although the phrase was first attested in 2002, usage has tripled over the last year. corp.oup.com/news/the-oxf...