Matthew Blanchette

@mattpb.bsky.social

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He/him. Physically disabled. Canadian-American; fond of rye toast, when he can get it. Dreams a little.

It's Warren Harding. His face is distorted in a gigantic close-up.
Mr. Mamdani has seen the letter and will continue working closely with Mr. Katz, whose irreverent, economic populist messaging was a core part of the mayor's meteoric rise. "Morris Katz remains a top political adviser to Mayor Mamdani," a spokesman for the mayor said Friday.
Screenshot of a post on Bluesky by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, handle @chanda.blacksky.app, reading "And yes the way people talk about Platner's tattoo and the antisemitism associated with Nazi symbols while never discussing Mills's racism is problematic and speaks to the way that racism is not treated as disqualifying and antisemitism is treated as uniquely bad Signed, A Black Jew in NH", dated to 11:21 PM on March 19, 2026.
Lime-yellow-green background leading down to a cartoon figure of a hardhat-wearing construction worker in a green uniform with a thumbs-up and a neutral expression on his face from "Futurama".
Glowing review of "EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY", entitled" Film exposes U.S. military as planets biggest enemy".
The "Basketball Patrick" meme, with text at top reading "300 Trillion Dollars" and text and bottom reading "To The "Invincible" Voice Cast".
The comedian Aamer Rahman said something powerful in London recently. He noted how white liberals are tensely saying this to Black and brown anti-genocide activists who can't and won't vote for Genocide Joe this year: "is that what you really want? You want Trump to come back? You want to Trump to win?...You think that's a good idea? Cuz its' your community that's going to suffer if Trump comes back. People like you are going to suffer. What do you think of that?" "What I want," Rahman told his audience, "is for you to not lecture us on how to respond to a genocide you didn't try to stop, okay? I think that a political system that ultimately makes you choose between genocidal dementia and cheeseburger-powered fake-tan Hitler is a system worth overthrowing, okay? Maybe that is the conclusion you should be coming to instead of lecturing Black and brown people on why they should worship the Democrats." Right on.
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Title Card: "Tatiana Maslany Is In This One"
Black-and-white image of General Zachary Taylor, who later became President and died of dysentery.
Black-and-white photograph of Caucasian man with black long-curled hair on top of head, shorter pulled-back hair on the sides, large eyes, a long, protruding nose, and a small black goatee with streaks of grey under the lip. He is John Wiles, producer of the lost Trojan War-set "Doctor Who" story "The Myth Makers".
Jeremy Culhane as Tucker Carlson. He looks suspiciously like Wes Streeting.
Spiro Agnew standing in front of G. Gordon Liddy at Richard Nixon's funeral, 1994.
Jane Wyatt, who would later play Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, in the second season "Star Trek" episode "Journey to Babel" and reprise that role in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", in the 1937 Frank Capra adaptation of "Lost Horizon".
Bosnian Croat war criminal drinking poison in open court after being found guilty.
A black-and-white photograph of the actor Sid James, studiously reading from a small booklet, in a nice tweet suit, wearing thick-rimmed glasses. He has a small cigarette perched between two fingers in his right hand.
Joseph Wheeler, Leonard Wood, and Theodore Roosevelt, "Alone in Cuba".
George Fouracres as the spitting, hissing, gurgling Great Big Crab Man "Sebastian" in SNL UK's parody sketch of "The Traitors", from its Riz Ahmed-hosted episode.
Horace Greeley, looking at this, VERY confused.
It's Horace Greeley, reading this.
The guy they call Satan in "Seven Footprints to Satan" (1929). He is wearing something like the inverse of a KKK robe, all black with large eyeholes. He stands before an ornate gold-looking throne, and is flanked on both sides by African-looking guards in gold headwraps, mantles, and hotpants. Satan raises a large white hand over his head in greeting.
FDR, during the election of 1944, looking absolutely death-like and haggard in the rain, behatted.
A painted portrait bust of the Emperor Caligula. He resembles strongly in features and colouring Barron Trump.
What Is to Be Done?
Screenshot of a tweet from: Haus of Decline @hausofdecline israeli kid watching star wars episode 1 and crying because before Watto he had never seen someone like him represented on film 7:53 AM • Mar 2, 2026 • 180.8K Views
Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft on Inauguration Day 1913. Taft, on the right, is visibly at his heaviest, but seems jovial; Wilson, on the left, is gesturing with his hat, and smiling, revealing something very nasty-looking on his teeth.
IT'S WILLIAM WIRT
In an episode of “Seinfeld,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s bedraggled Elaine sits at the Festivus dinner table next to Tracy Letts character, who wears his hair in disarray, and a spread collar patterned shirt over a jacket. The look is “sleaze”
1894 Judge magazine political cartoon cover, in full colour, depicting an exhibit in a "Political Dime Museum": An evidently dumb gentleman, seated atop a dais, his shadow in the form of a donkey, with a label behind him saying "The Business Man Who Voted for Grover Cleveland in 1892 and Is GLAD of It NOW". Being watched by Uncle Sam and a balding gentleman with a gold lapel ribbon.
General Zod from "Superman II" gently saying "Zod", thinking he is correcting the pronunciation of the President of the United States, who is kneeling before him, having just said, "Oh, god."
Paul F Tompkins: The people who didn't vote withheld their support not because they thought it was going to make something happen; people couldn't stomach casting a vote for someone they knew wasn't going to make anything happen but more death. I voted for the sad, demoralizing choice of harm reduction at home. I understand why people didn't vote and I don't hold it against them.
giant papier mache FDR head in parade
Leon Vitali as Lord Bullington in "Barry Lyndon" (1975).
Orson Welles, shirtless, gently trimming beard hair as he looks into a mirror, 1950.
A figurine of Tallulah Riley's character, "Miss Evangelista", from the "Doctor Who" episode "Forest of the Dead". She is deformed as a result of in the story being a screwed-up AI download that boosted her intelligence but messed up her appearance.
Russian Ambassador from Dr. Strangelove: "Our source was the New York Times"
Paul F Tompkins: The people who didn't vote withheld their support not because they thought it was going to make something happen; people couldn't stomach casting a vote for someone they knew wasn't going to make anything happen but more death. I voted for the sad, demoralizing choice of harm reduction at home. I understand why people didn't vote and I don't hold it against them.
Filipino-born day-player Joe Wong in orangutan makeup test, 1967. He will become the eventual uncredited model for the statue of the Lawgiver from the first two "Planet of the Apes" films.
A still from the 1960s television production "The Year of the Sex Olympics", in colour. Starring Brian Cox and Leonard Rossiter, among others; they have eye-catching gold makeup.
It's "Dewey Defeats Truman".
Paul F Tompkins: The people who didn't vote withheld their support not because they thought it was going to make something happen; people couldn't stomach casting a vote for someone they knew wasn't going to make anything happen but more death. I voted for the sad, demoralizing choice of harm reduction at home. I understand why people didn't vote and I don't hold it against them.
Paul F Tompkins: The people who didn't vote withheld their support not because they thought it was going to make something happen; people couldn't stomach casting a vote for someone they knew wasn't going to make anything happen but more death. I voted for the sad, demoralizing choice of harm reduction at home. I understand why people didn't vote and I don't hold it against them.
My personal, black leather, gilt-edged copy of "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story", by Douglas Adams.
It's Robert Moses.
Canadian actors Kristian Bruun and Tatiana Maslany wearing cheaply-made just-bought children's Ninja Turtle Halloween costumes at #SDCC in 2015, crashing a live #CBB recording with a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Canadian actors Kristian Bruun and Tatiana Maslany wearing cheaply-made just-bought children's Ninja Turtle Halloween costumes at #SDCC in 2015, crashing a live #CBB recording with a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
It's William Magear "Boss" Tweed.
It's Roscoe Conkling.
Jimmy Stewart standing between Ronald and Nancy Reagan; they are all holding hands.
It's Paul von Hindenburg.
Russian agent Sergei Barsov, having just been shot to death by James Bond while skiing, in "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977).
View from the Window at Le Gras, the earliest-surviving photograph.