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QuoProQuid
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he / him, 🏳️‍🌈 ✝️. i mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. makes silly games about politics/history.
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glinda bids her supporters farewell and attempts to leave the ozdust ballroom through the kitchen
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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saw Heathers a few days ago and going in, i had this awful fear that this show that i loved as a kid, that i knew more from YouTube animatics than its actual staging, would be much less than i remembered

but nope! still had a blast. cast is great. songs great. audience excitement through the roof.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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my thoughts:
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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very tight script that has a lot of fun playing with the conventions of a Predator film. i think my biggest complaint is that the heavy use of CGI often leaves scenes looking pretty flat. very little pops out of the frame.
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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fascinating.
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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who the fuck writes a slash fic about a president and their irl wife. get this shit out of here
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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wow, i wonder who dies
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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stranger things kids don't look like kids, but they don't look old either. they look strangely ageless. you could tell me they're anywhere from their early 20s to their late 30s and i would believe you.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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kiss my ass, wallace
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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pretty close to canon for me. RFK leaves Vietnam, passes a supercharged version of Unruh's FAP while doing integration, and then just obliterates Reagan and Rockefeller as political forces. Entire Dixiecrat movement rendered pointless when George Wallace finishes third in his home state of Alabama.
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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this ad feels portentous
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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the executive cheesecake factory
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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the vice president attempted to do de-ba’athification of the federal workforce and now federal workers are acting like they’re riding in pick-up trucks about to capture mosul
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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it’s an age-old contrarian impulse that has taken a new form in the modern era. here’s gustav flaubert complaining about the exact same kind of person in a letter to george sand complaining
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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ultimately she receded from memory not to due to her horrendous misdeeds, but due to changing aesthetic preferences

she kept afloat by relying on a network of former Nazis that offered her “loans” and selling pieces to Nazi memorabilia collectors, including (potentially) Uganda’s Idi Amin.
one of her guests had wondered whether the statue "could be offered to [Idi] Amin, the president of Uganda, who currently wants to erect a Hitler monument in Kampala. Although he is black, he is an ardent admirer of Hitler and it seems to me that one should not have any scruples about selling to a Negro when one is not blessed with worldly goods. . . . We thought it a very good idea and it will not cost anything to try."36 There is no direct evidence that roost sold Amin the work, although the file she kept on the sculpture contains the business card of Gerhard Engel, Hitler's former army adjutant and Wehrmacht lieutenant general; Engel was then the head of a company selling German arms abroad, including to Africa, suggesting that she planned to make inquiries through him.37 Over the years, Troost sold other artifacts she owned from the Third Reich period, including letters from Hitler and Göring 138
October 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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despite being wholly unrepentant and ensconced in hitler’s inner circle, troost received a slap on the wrist

she was able to produce records that she helped a few jewish ppl she was personally friendly with, even as she used that same influence to ruin and terrorize others, particularly competitors
As a holder of the Golden Honor Badge, Troost was automatically classed as a "major offender," the highest of the five categories, the penalties for which included death, imprisonment, and hard labor, among other lesser alternatives. When asked in court how she would rank herself, she replied that she would create a new designation: "decent National Socialists who believed."i8 Clearly, Troost felt that she had done no wrong. In her closing words to the tribunal on February 24, 1950, she stated that "s always acted with human and moral sensitivity and thus even today pleads a clear conscience with regard to her earlier conduct."" When the tribunal members issued their verdict on March 2, 1950, they noted that Troost still had not managed to free herself from her bond to Hitler. 20 Insofar as the denazification procedure was intended by the Allies not only to punish, but also to rehabilitate, in the case of Gerdy Troost, it failed miserably. Troost was ultimately categorized as a "lesser offender," two levels below "major offender," and might have been ranked even lower had it not been for the 100,000-Reichsmarks gift from Hitler. Her punishment consisted of a two-year period of probation (beginning on the date of the verdict) and a fine of 5,000 Deutschmarks. During the probationary period, her earnings were capped at 200 Deutschmarks per month, she lost her entranchisement and the right to use her professor title, and she was forbidden to have an
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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gerdy troost—one of hitler’s favorite interior designers and architects—defends herself by insisting she did not see anything outside her studio except “bright and shining eyes and […] the most touching scenes.”

however, she was well-paid, influential. she benefited from concentration camp labor.
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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interesting detail that i had not quite realized about eva braun is that hitler often required braun to remain “hidden” from many visitors, which led to odd rebellions (such as her photographing said guests from the upper apartments as they stared confused at her)

also more details on renovations
If the terrace and teahouse images captured Braun in her element, her albums also offer glimpses of the restrictions on her domestic life at the Berghof. An arresting set of images from August 1939 depict the Italian foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, arriving and being greeted by Hitler on the front steps. As was the case when other official visitors were present, Braun was required to remain hidden upstairs. Linge claimed that Braun admired the stylishness of the handsome Ciano and had wistfully exclaimed, "If only the Führer could be a snappy dresser like Count Ciano." Forbidden to meet him, she rebelled through her camera, capturing the event from a second-floor window (fig. 32). The images explicitly include the frame and muntins of the window itself, emphasizing the constrained position of the photographer, as if she were a prisoner in a tower. A typed label she included below the images defiantly states: "... through the window you can see all kinds of things!" She then boldly opened the window and continued to photograph. Ciano noticed, and in one of the images he looks up curiously, to which Braun appended the label: "Up above there is something forbidden to see... me!" Hitler sent an SS man to order Braun to stop, which she also noted in a label. 6 When the Berghof was completed in 1936, it contained more than thirty rooms, at least twenty of which were furnished as bedrooms. When Hitler was in residence, the rooms were occupied by his staff, Braun, occasional guests, and thirty domestic employees, some of whom lived there." Hitler, however, did not seem to think the house was large or impressive enough. In 1939, he commissioned an expansion of the new wing that stretched it farther eastward and added a new bay window as well as a separate driveway and entrance for deliveries.® But it appears that originally he had had a far grander scheme in mind, which would have added a second, massive wing to the eastern side of the house.
October 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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“Comfort in the Great Hall was, in any case, secondary to its main purpose: to impress. In this room, Hitler greeted kings and princes, prime ministers […]. It was where he negotiated with the powers of Europe that stood between him and his vision of a greater German Reich.”
Comfort in the Great Hall was, in any case, secondary to its main purpose: to impress. In this room, Hitler greeted kings and princes, prime ministers and marshals, religious leaders, secretaries of state, and ambassa-dors.? It was where he negotiated with the powers of Europe that stood between him and his vision of a greater German Reich. Like the renovation itself, the Great Hall was meant to convey the "new" Hitler-not the ex-corporal who roused rebels in beer halls or the dictator who cut down his opponents in cold blood, but rather a powerful, cultivated, and, above all, trustworthy statesman. It was the stage on which he performed this new role and invited others to respond to him accordingly. Jones, describing the meeting between Lloyd George and Hitler, conveyed the intended effect of the room when he noted in his diary how it "made a great impression at once upon the visitors and gave a sense of dignity to the proceedings. "31 Beyond the Great Hall's impressive proportions and striking panoramic views, its contents also reinforced the image of a man of power, vision, and substance. The increased scale of the furniture in comparison with Hider's other residences is notable and cannot be attributed solely to the size of the room. Building a vast space did not simply require comparably large furnishings, but also made them possible.
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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albert speer on how many of hitler’s designs were poor, because while they absorbed much of his time, he lacked an ability to self-edit. as such, many of his renovations veered toward grandiose scale and demonstrated a refusal to accede to practicality
the design was undermined from the outset by the impulsive and overconfident nature of its creator: "Hitler did not just sketch the plans for the Berghof. He borrowed drawing board, T-square, and other implements from me to draw the ground plan, renderings, and cross sections of his building to scale, refusing any help with the matter." Although Speer noted that Hitler lavished great care on the design, he lacked the corrective habits Speer attributed to a trained architect: "Most architects will put a variety of ideas down on paper, and see which lends itself best to further develop-ment. It was characteristic of Hitler that he regarded his first inspiration as intuitively right and drew it with little hesitation." Speer described the numerous failings of the "impractical" ground plan, arguing that it "would have been graded D by any professor at an institute of technology. On the other hand, these very clumsinesses gave the Berghof a strongly personal note. The place was still geared to the simple activities of a former weekend cottage, merely expanded to vast proportions.
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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reading about adolf hitler’s renovation of the German Chancellory, which he claimed was decrepit and ill-suited for a Great Power and whose renovations he would pay for out of pocket, without burdening the German taxpayer
Hitler laid the blame for this stinking state of affairs on the Weimar Republic's turbulent democracy: "Since my predecessors in general could count upon a term of office of only three to five months, they saw no reason to remove the filth of those who had occupied the house before them nor to see to it that those who came after would have better conditions than they themselves. They had no prestige to maintain toward foreign countries since these in any case took little notice of them. As a result the building was in a state of utter neglect." The extension of the Chancellery with an adjacent office building, located at 78 Wilhelm Street, only made matters worse, in Hitler's view. The modernist design by the Berlin architect Eduard Jobst Siedler, constructed between 1928 and 1930, "gives the impression from the outside of a warehouse or municipal fire station, and from the inside of a sanatorium for consumptives." The new building housed the chancellor's formal office, which Hitler described as "the tasteless room of a sales executive of a mid-sized cigarette and tobacco company." And yet despite these repellent conditions, Hitler resolved to move into the residence and ordered its complete renovation, which, he emphasized, he had paid for out of his own pocket.? This extraordinary narrative appeared in the July 1939 issue of the Nazi art journal Die Kunst im Dritten Reich (Art in the Third Reich), which was devoted that month to the New Chancellery. In contrast to the overall celebratory tone of the other contributed essays, a good portion of Hitler's two-page article consisted of a litany of complaints and critical anecdotes about the Old Chancellery; he did not mention Speer's name until well into the second page. Even if we admit that, as patron and inhabitant, his perspective on and memory of the project would differ from those of others, Evidence supporting Hitler's claim to have financed the work himself is similarly lacking. As a multimillionaire who did not pay taxes, he could well have afforded to take on the burden. A letter dated November 28, 1934, from Gerdy Troost to Albert Speer, who acted as building project manager, mentions her willingness to forgo her fee for the part of the renovation not paid for by the state, while accepting a commission for the rest.? Troost no doubt made this offer in good faith, believing that Hitler was personally shouldering much of the project's costs and wanting to spare him further expense. (In a 1971 interview with Hitler biographer John Toland, Troost claimed that she had been far wealthier than Hitler, revealing her political naiveté and ignorance of his tremendous fortune.®) Nonetheless, the Troost Atelier's own records show that by the end of 1934, of the 172,000 Reichsmarks in invoices submitted for their interior design work, at least 100,000 Reichsmarks had been paid by the Reich Finance Ministry, with indications that this amount was even higher.' More than half of the tab was thus picked up by German taxpayers-and this at a time when the country was still suffering from the crippling effects of the Depression, with millions of Germans out of work. By contrast, when faced with the severe economic repercussions of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, the republican government had scaled back its plans for furnishing the new office building at 78 Wilhelm Street in order to spare its citizens unnecessary expenditures. ° A few years later, this was a sacrifice that Hitler was unwilling to make. But having presented himself to voters as a simple man with few material wants, he would have been well aware that his refusal to move into the Chancellery on aesthetic grounds—-based on an aversion to tacky chandeliers or fake wooden doors— would have destroyed that carefully cultivated image. He thereby pledged to pay for the renovations himself as a seemingly…
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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What’s it like inside your head?
October 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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there’s a very surreal “through the looking glass” quality to Biden’s Office when you realize it was designed to mimic the Oval of The West Wing, which was itself an idealized version of the Clinton Oval Office
Biden Oval Office The Oval Office from The West Wing The Clinton Oval Office
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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there’s a piece to be written about Oval design and how leaders want to be perceived

LBJ had a very large array of televisions in the Oval bc he both followed and wanted to be seen following the networks. Biden did not want ppl knowing he watched TV and hid his television in his picture frames
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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personally, the Oval in recent years has become dominated by bright colors and very visible icons of the presidency (the logo-like Great Seal in the carpet)

i tend to prefer the softer, subtler approach of earlier presidents. note that JFK has an impression of the seal that doesn’t draw attention
JFK’s office Biden’s office
October 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM