Benjamin de Groot
@blbdegroot.bsky.social
Art historian, cynic, camera monkey, mini ruiner
This image of a canadian turtle in a US helicopter type that isn't really used in the front, firing a Russian RPG, whose rocket doesn't line up and which lacks the backblast that would fry Franklin's squad just about sums up Hegseths concept of fighting: an hallucinated fantasy.
December 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This image of a canadian turtle in a US helicopter type that isn't really used in the front, firing a Russian RPG, whose rocket doesn't line up and which lacks the backblast that would fry Franklin's squad just about sums up Hegseths concept of fighting: an hallucinated fantasy.
Which is straight from the Nazi playbook. Poles and other Slavs were supposed to be mostly sterilised and then kept as a slave/cattle class to be used for labor, so that aryan landholders could reap the rewards of that. I'm sure Project 2025 folks drool at the prospect of it becoming reality.
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Which is straight from the Nazi playbook. Poles and other Slavs were supposed to be mostly sterilised and then kept as a slave/cattle class to be used for labor, so that aryan landholders could reap the rewards of that. I'm sure Project 2025 folks drool at the prospect of it becoming reality.
Audentes fortuna iuvat
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Audentes fortuna iuvat
Nothing sums up America like a bunch of barely trained racist fuckboys given weapons and a mandate by a fascist kleptocracy, arresting a first nations woman by disregarding her ID on a day where the nation celebrates a 19th century nation-building myth about its first contact with indidgenous people
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Nothing sums up America like a bunch of barely trained racist fuckboys given weapons and a mandate by a fascist kleptocracy, arresting a first nations woman by disregarding her ID on a day where the nation celebrates a 19th century nation-building myth about its first contact with indidgenous people
You might not wanna send her here. They don't have a good track record of preventing people from hanging themselves before sentencing.
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
You might not wanna send her here. They don't have a good track record of preventing people from hanging themselves before sentencing.
Canada and Mexico have land borders with the US . Something they want less than Narcos crossing the border is Mexican special forces raiding the US in a repeat of Pancho Villa, or Canada coming down to burn down the White House, again.
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Canada and Mexico have land borders with the US . Something they want less than Narcos crossing the border is Mexican special forces raiding the US in a repeat of Pancho Villa, or Canada coming down to burn down the White House, again.
When the Finns don't want Ivan to catch none of the Lähijuna and all of the Jumppaputki.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
When the Finns don't want Ivan to catch none of the Lähijuna and all of the Jumppaputki.
Zelensky started off under the gun. Trump loves exploiting such power over others; it makes his tiny toadstool tingle. Mamdami has tons nore charisma than Z, but is also a muslim who grew up in the GWoT era and was a housing lawyer: he's had to learn to wield his more expertly as matter of survival.
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Zelensky started off under the gun. Trump loves exploiting such power over others; it makes his tiny toadstool tingle. Mamdami has tons nore charisma than Z, but is also a muslim who grew up in the GWoT era and was a housing lawyer: he's had to learn to wield his more expertly as matter of survival.
It is generally accepted that Hitler had pretty advanced Parkinson's Disease and was also fairly out of touch with reality by 1945. I'm pretty sure we can draw some solid hypotheses from that.
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
It is generally accepted that Hitler had pretty advanced Parkinson's Disease and was also fairly out of touch with reality by 1945. I'm pretty sure we can draw some solid hypotheses from that.
Sloshed dudes at the club be like
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Sloshed dudes at the club be like
Not technically post-1900, but Mercato Centrale is more Beaux Arts and has pretty okay food.
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Not technically post-1900, but Mercato Centrale is more Beaux Arts and has pretty okay food.
There's a certain irony to how historical movies from the '60s and '70s we so much more a riot of color and how anything '00s and up suffers from the tactical shooter color palette syndrome.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
There's a certain irony to how historical movies from the '60s and '70s we so much more a riot of color and how anything '00s and up suffers from the tactical shooter color palette syndrome.
So if enough listeners see these photos, can you claim it as an audience engagement investment and thus a business expense?
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So if enough listeners see these photos, can you claim it as an audience engagement investment and thus a business expense?
Nah, dude got his foot in with one peak design, then started doing repetitive basic shit claiming it was in keeping with the hottest new treatises.
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Nah, dude got his foot in with one peak design, then started doing repetitive basic shit claiming it was in keeping with the hottest new treatises.
If you hadn't checked the mapquest/routenet printout against the highway map and made notes on bigger intersection for fuel stops like you're planning to move some WWII armored division up the rhineland, you basically doomed the holiday trip from the start.
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
If you hadn't checked the mapquest/routenet printout against the highway map and made notes on bigger intersection for fuel stops like you're planning to move some WWII armored division up the rhineland, you basically doomed the holiday trip from the start.
A trained or even just determined shooter with surpise on his side would have done more damage.
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A trained or even just determined shooter with surpise on his side would have done more damage.
Some context for possible uninitiated readers: De Speld is the Dutch equivalent of The Onion.
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Some context for possible uninitiated readers: De Speld is the Dutch equivalent of The Onion.
"We're all very disappointed Zohran didn't immediately upend his busy schedule to allow us to attempt to bribe or intimidate him and has the audacity to prioritize commitments he made earlier over the whims of petulent manbabies."
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
"We're all very disappointed Zohran didn't immediately upend his busy schedule to allow us to attempt to bribe or intimidate him and has the audacity to prioritize commitments he made earlier over the whims of petulent manbabies."
Ahw Stevie, is that a public record of admitting to criminal activity?
It's okay, we'll all remember it. Some might even save the video for future prosecution.
It's okay, we'll all remember it. Some might even save the video for future prosecution.
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ahw Stevie, is that a public record of admitting to criminal activity?
It's okay, we'll all remember it. Some might even save the video for future prosecution.
It's okay, we'll all remember it. Some might even save the video for future prosecution.
"Also, I'll constantly whine about the virtue signalling of all the people I disagree with, because I find it such a withering shutdown to brand them as dishonest."
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Also, I'll constantly whine about the virtue signalling of all the people I disagree with, because I find it such a withering shutdown to brand them as dishonest."
Didn't he with "highly fulfilling social life?". The wealthiest in NY are known for Met-gala (and similar) parties, dropping 10 grand on "business nights", and almost all big finance people having a pied a terre because it's the place they goes to see eachother. Where else would they have that?
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Didn't he with "highly fulfilling social life?". The wealthiest in NY are known for Met-gala (and similar) parties, dropping 10 grand on "business nights", and almost all big finance people having a pied a terre because it's the place they goes to see eachother. Where else would they have that?
Honestly the problem with stealing priceless, world-famous art is never so much the stealing itself, but rather what you do with it after the stealing.
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Honestly the problem with stealing priceless, world-famous art is never so much the stealing itself, but rather what you do with it after the stealing.
They hide the jewels in trashed Louis Vuitton paper carries that they picked up 'round the bins near Galleries Lafayette, but then get ushered out of the museum by staff for having brought in bags that should've gone into a locker.
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
They hide the jewels in trashed Louis Vuitton paper carries that they picked up 'round the bins near Galleries Lafayette, but then get ushered out of the museum by staff for having brought in bags that should've gone into a locker.