Robert Dimmick
@rbdimmick.bsky.social
"Well, here I am girls, move over."
Blocking crypto accounts and anyone with "financial advisor" in their profiles.
Blocking crypto accounts and anyone with "financial advisor" in their profiles.
All I can say is, Belle Watling did it better.
August 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
All I can say is, Belle Watling did it better.
Just finished reading this masterful bio of #MagnusHirschfeld. The most heartbreaking moment came near the end. Unsuspecting, in a Paris cinema, Magnus saw a newsreel of the looting and burning of his Berlin institute — his life's work. "He descended into what he termed "the deepest psychic shock."
August 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just finished reading this masterful bio of #MagnusHirschfeld. The most heartbreaking moment came near the end. Unsuspecting, in a Paris cinema, Magnus saw a newsreel of the looting and burning of his Berlin institute — his life's work. "He descended into what he termed "the deepest psychic shock."
For #NationalBookLoversDay, the two most intact shelves of my library: #murder #truecrime, and overflow memoirs from American and English history.
#booklovers #bibliophile #books #mysteries
#booklovers #bibliophile #books #mysteries
August 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For #NationalBookLoversDay, the two most intact shelves of my library: #murder #truecrime, and overflow memoirs from American and English history.
#booklovers #bibliophile #books #mysteries
#booklovers #bibliophile #books #mysteries
August 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
June 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Last week I got to visit the Louvre. This is my photo of visitors viewing the Mona Lisa. Most of the first floor was crazy.
Reading today's news about the wildcat strike by Louvre staff, I don't blame them one bit. Solutions are needed NOW, not long term.
#museums #fineart #overtourism #tourism
Reading today's news about the wildcat strike by Louvre staff, I don't blame them one bit. Solutions are needed NOW, not long term.
#museums #fineart #overtourism #tourism
June 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Last week I got to visit the Louvre. This is my photo of visitors viewing the Mona Lisa. Most of the first floor was crazy.
Reading today's news about the wildcat strike by Louvre staff, I don't blame them one bit. Solutions are needed NOW, not long term.
#museums #fineart #overtourism #tourism
Reading today's news about the wildcat strike by Louvre staff, I don't blame them one bit. Solutions are needed NOW, not long term.
#museums #fineart #overtourism #tourism
Now this is the sort of juxtaposition I can get behind.
As seen at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Kehinde Wiley flanked by Gainsborough and Reynolds.
#fineart #portraiture
As seen at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Kehinde Wiley flanked by Gainsborough and Reynolds.
#fineart #portraiture
June 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Now this is the sort of juxtaposition I can get behind.
As seen at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Kehinde Wiley flanked by Gainsborough and Reynolds.
#fineart #portraiture
As seen at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Kehinde Wiley flanked by Gainsborough and Reynolds.
#fineart #portraiture
This is the energy we need for #priDEMONnth this year, Perseus Turning Phineus and his Followers to Stone, by Luca Giordano — as seen as the National, Gallery, London. #pride #fineart #speakout #accessorize
June 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is the energy we need for #priDEMONnth this year, Perseus Turning Phineus and his Followers to Stone, by Luca Giordano — as seen as the National, Gallery, London. #pride #fineart #speakout #accessorize
June 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
June 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Who knew, today is the anniversary of the death of the Marchesa Luisa Casati, which I learned when I found her grave yesterday at Brompton Cemetery.
Notorious party giver and eccentric bankrupt, I first learned about the "mad marchesa" from Cecil Beaton's The Glass of Fashion. #london #grave
Notorious party giver and eccentric bankrupt, I first learned about the "mad marchesa" from Cecil Beaton's The Glass of Fashion. #london #grave
June 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
May 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Actually how I arrived on Bluesky:
April 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Actually how I arrived on Bluesky:
Tonight being the anniversary of the sinking of the #Titanic, it's appropriate to post this #cenotaph that I discovered last week in the #cemetery near my home. Apparently Mr. Williams was awakened by his business partner by "didn't think it worthwhile to get up." #rmstitanic #foresthillscemetery
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Tonight being the anniversary of the sinking of the #Titanic, it's appropriate to post this #cenotaph that I discovered last week in the #cemetery near my home. Apparently Mr. Williams was awakened by his business partner by "didn't think it worthwhile to get up." #rmstitanic #foresthillscemetery
Why on earth shouldn't Daniel Craig play Lillian Hellman?
April 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Why on earth shouldn't Daniel Craig play Lillian Hellman?
#bookoftheday: #WhiteHouse Landscapes, by Barbara McEwan, a history of the grounds of the WH up to ~1980s. Who knew the President's Park used to be shaped like a guitar?
Bought at Tim's Used #Books, Provincetown, one sunny, windswept April day in the mid-1990s.
Sold in the book sale.
Bought at Tim's Used #Books, Provincetown, one sunny, windswept April day in the mid-1990s.
Sold in the book sale.
April 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#bookoftheday: #WhiteHouse Landscapes, by Barbara McEwan, a history of the grounds of the WH up to ~1980s. Who knew the President's Park used to be shaped like a guitar?
Bought at Tim's Used #Books, Provincetown, one sunny, windswept April day in the mid-1990s.
Sold in the book sale.
Bought at Tim's Used #Books, Provincetown, one sunny, windswept April day in the mid-1990s.
Sold in the book sale.
#bookoftheday: Story of the Wreck of the Titanic: The Ocean's Greatest #Disaster, 1912 Memorial Edition.
Seems appropriate given the news.
Sold in the book sale last month, but I still have many Titanic books left.
#iceberg #wecouldhaveavoidedthis #shipwreck #goodbooks
Seems appropriate given the news.
Sold in the book sale last month, but I still have many Titanic books left.
#iceberg #wecouldhaveavoidedthis #shipwreck #goodbooks
April 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#bookoftheday: Story of the Wreck of the Titanic: The Ocean's Greatest #Disaster, 1912 Memorial Edition.
Seems appropriate given the news.
Sold in the book sale last month, but I still have many Titanic books left.
#iceberg #wecouldhaveavoidedthis #shipwreck #goodbooks
Seems appropriate given the news.
Sold in the book sale last month, but I still have many Titanic books left.
#iceberg #wecouldhaveavoidedthis #shipwreck #goodbooks
#bookoftheday: Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker. Unjustly forgotten, his bio of Henry Luce in Timespeak includes the immortal line "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind."
A gift from a colleague in the 2010s. Sold in the book sale.
A gift from a colleague in the 2010s. Sold in the book sale.
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
#bookoftheday: Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker. Unjustly forgotten, his bio of Henry Luce in Timespeak includes the immortal line "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind."
A gift from a colleague in the 2010s. Sold in the book sale.
A gift from a colleague in the 2010s. Sold in the book sale.
#bookoftheday: The Complete Annotated #GilbertandSullivan, introduced and edited by Ian Bradley. A Christmas gift in the 1990 from one of my best friends. Alas, I have never once actually referred to it, so it's time to move it forward into the universe.
#operetta #books #oldbooks
#operetta #books #oldbooks
March 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#bookoftheday: The Complete Annotated #GilbertandSullivan, introduced and edited by Ian Bradley. A Christmas gift in the 1990 from one of my best friends. Alas, I have never once actually referred to it, so it's time to move it forward into the universe.
#operetta #books #oldbooks
#operetta #books #oldbooks
March 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM