Flouting Thomas

@postbrechtian.bsky.social

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Playwright, organizer, seminarian, study group enthusiast, weird angel creature, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ AuDHD El camino caminando Vita regularis sine regula Left politics, spirituality, music, theatre. Estoy aprendiendo español Views exprsesed come directly from The Orb

A screenshot of a post by Disc Horse Bot saying, "Birdwatching is sizeism but we're not ready for that conversation." which is directly above André Carrington's post saying, "You want to see some birds?"
Screenshot of a some texts I sent "Home safe wallet found" "Sweet dreams" And then an AI suggestion that I "send a sleepy selfie" which I've incredulous circled in red and added some red question marks
A butterfly landed on the posters foot clad in a running shoe. It's probably a red admiral, mostly black with orange stripes and two sets of three white dots on each wing one larger than the other
Toshiro Mifune in Rashoman (1950).
A screenshot of search engine results. The headline says Anthony Bourdain CIA alumni bio. The publisher is the Culinary Institute of America
The sign for St. Clair Baptist Church with information about their programming. Their website is www. scab .church
Thomas taking a mirror selfie. They are slim, white transfeminine, non-binary cutie with bright blonde hair long enough to keep a pg-13 rating in a pinch. They're wearing a layered outfit in a pale pink to dusty rose pallete with midriff showing and a red cowboy banana rolled up and knotted at their throat
A screenshot of sn email reading, "Pre-order ‘Days’ - 250 signed postcards included at random with deluxe vinyl pre-orders at our store:"
Someone has stenciled the words, "This war cost a lot of money" on the sidewalks with the silhouette of three fighter jets flying in formation
The user I'm quoting created a generator which converts text into an image similar to the New York Knicks logo. Small blue font says, "The world is a" then large orange font reads "beautiful place and I am no longer afraid to die". Below the text is an orange basketball
A screenshot from Wikipedia reading, "There were some grand buildings and homes in the town including one of the few Opera Houses in Canada, the Lawrence House Mansion and one of the largest and finest brick schools in the region. All are now gone."
A pink thermal sticker reading "queers say free Palestine"
A screenshot from the article reading: "(Community pushback on Pride) included a social media comment from a local councillor who posted under an advertisement for a “dinner n’ drag” event at Beanie’s saying he would no longer enter the establishment. He was ultimately found to have breached the code of conduct for the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s and apologized. He did not win his district in the 2024 municipal elections."
A view of lake Ontario with blue sky, mixed clouds, and a double rainbow across the clouds
A meme showing two buttons beside each other. One is labeled "Not assuming people's pronouns" the other is labeled "Impulse to call everyone brother and sister". Then there is a figure, labeled "me" which is struggling to choose between them
Six figures with fists raised hold a banner on a pedestrian overpass over the highway reading, "Power to the Rent Strike"
A handmade cardboard sign reading, "A Healthcare worker brought you into this world"
A screenshot from poster @spinozylvannian on Twitter, "Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by God to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states" Originally posted Nov 5th 2024
The posted schedule for Dog Man: The Musical at the CAA theatre in Toronto, Canada. The schedule goes from Thursday to Sunday with one 7:00pm performance on Thursday, one 7:00pm performance on Friday, 3 performances on Saturday at 11:00am, 3:00pm, and 7:00pm and two performances Sunday at 1:00pm and 5:00pm. The show is 92 minutes with intermission and runs for six weeks in May and June
A screenshot of a notification on Instagram which says, in bold type "You've reached your daily limit" and in smaller type below says, "You've been on Instagram for 0 minutes today. Now's a good time to close the app."
Two Canada Geese float in a pond watching vigilently as goslings paddle and search for food
The phrase, "This board is cleared on Mondays" on a public bulletin board with remnants of hundreds of fliers which have been torn down after being stapled up (presumably the following Monday) over months and years
A dog in a chemistry lab saying "I have no idea what I'm doing"
Meme of an older white man in a red sweater on a white background with the text "guess I'll die"
A city of Toronto plaque which reads, Grace Bagnato 1891-1950 The Canada of today has been created by thousands of immigrants from every corner of the world. Some of these became leaders in their communities and co-creators of the national life. Grace Bagnato was one of them. She was born in the United States in 1891 to Italian parents, who immigrated to Toronto in 1905 . They lived in "The Ward", an area of struggling immigrant families, located near the courthouse and old city hall. Grace grew up in The Ward and in this neighborhood. At 14 married Joseph Bagnato, a leader in the Italian community. They had 13 children. Wanting to communicate with her neighbours, Grace learned their languages: Ukranian, Yiddish, Polish. Grace became the districts interpreter, building bridges of understanding between new immigrants and the Engkish speaking world of government, law courts, and society. In 1921 she became the first Italian Canadian, woman courthouse interpreter in Ontario and continued the task of weaving the culture of Toronto's ethnic neighborhoods into the fabric we now know as Canada.
A screenshot of the above post showing that it has 4 retweets and 20 likes
Screenshot of an @ dril tweet reading: "blocked. blocked. blocked youre all blocked. none of you are free of sins" but "sins" is crossed out and "eugenics" is written instead
A utility box with a bright pink sticker reading "workers for a FREE PALESTINE" with two olive branches
A screenshot from the paper shared in the quoted post which reads, "In addition to extensive lobbying of Canadian politicians, the organization launched a massive advertising and public relations campaign that has blanketed Canadian media with claims that the oil sands will achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Its nationwide advertising campaign, “Let's Clear the Air” promises to communicate “openly and transparently” and invites the public to “see our plan for net-zero emissions” [15]. We accepted their invitation."
A still from the film Playtime (1967) directed by Jacques Tati. Monsiuer Hulot, a tall man with an overcoat, umbrella and crumpled hat, stands on a second floor catwalk with his back to the camera looking down at a pool off office workers in cubicles. The cubicles fill the frame. They have steel grey exteriors and sickly green interiors. The workers inside mostly wear black. It's melancholic
St Basil's Catholic Church Toronto A grand Catholic sanctuary with colums and vaulted ceiling white washed to the colour of old bone while the red wood of the pews looks stained in blood. At the end of the aisle, a large white crucifix is suspended on a flowing white curtain.
A screenshot from the linked article reading: “The world is a forged reality. Forgery is what the state does. The state is a forged entity in itself. If Sweden issues 9,000,000 passports to define a nation called Sweden, why can’t I issue a hundred thousand passports to those who flee war, conflict, and violence and are in urgent need of help and movement? Based on what moral position, am I a forger, a criminal and the state is not? What is forgery? Forging is an act of making something out of nothing. It is bringing to existence something unnatural and presents it as natural, like the state, like the borders made by the state. They are forged; they are made; they are unnatural things that look or make us believe that they are natural. Making borders is a form of forgery too. Now, you tell me who is the ‘big forger’ here? The state or me?”
A science diagram showing hydrogen and antihydrogen
Alexander Louis Leloir's rendition of Jacob Wrestling With the Angel featuring two muscular mascs grabbing each other and pulling each other close
Simpsons screenshot reading "Say the Line Bart" as all his classmates and teachers stare at him
A BlueSky notification that the official Chiitan account (@/Chiitan.love) liked the tweet this tweet is quoting
A white non-binary person with long blonde hair and royal blue eyeshadow on closed eyes. They're riding the subway, wearing a KN95 and a black jacket. A white and powder blue keffiyah pokes out of their jacket
A map of Europe zoomed in on the countries around the Adriatic Sea. The modern Croatian coast is labeled "Realm of Nepos"
A screenshot of act 3 scene 2 of Hamlet by Shakespeare reading, "Enter the Players with recorders. Hamlet: O, the recorders! Let me see one. He takes a recorder and turns to Guildenstern. To withdraw with you: why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil? GUILDENSTERN O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly. HAMLET I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe? GUILDENSTERN My lord, I cannot. HAMLET I pray you. GUILDENSTERN Believe me, I cannot. HAMLET I do beseech you. GUILDENSTERN I know no touch of it, my lord.
A blood red sticker with a black border. The text reads, "I.C.E. drives what BRAMPTON supplies #closetheloopholes" The same hashtag is repeated several times on the border. Several heavily armoured vehicles drive diagonally behind the slogan. The sticker is on a public message board. There is a snowy city scape in the background
A poster from the Goethe Institute, a German language and culture organization, in a train. The poster has several German locations, Happy people and the phrase "Next stop: German"
An image of the queer Dutch anti-Nazi fighter Willem Arondeus, a twink with a wizened and wise visage, along with the text "Willem Arondeus was a homosexual Dutch artist, author, and anti-Nazi fighter, who bombed the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the identification of Jews by the Nazis. He was arrested within a week and later executed. His last words were, "Let it be known Homosexuals are not cowards."
656. January First - Octavio Paz Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bishop with the author The year's doors open like those of language, toward the unknown. Last night you told me: tomorrow we shall have to think up signs, sketch a landscape, fabricate a plan on the double page of day and paper. Tomorrow, we shall have to invent, once more, the reality of this world. I opened my eyes late. For a second of a second I felt what the Aztec felt, on the crest of the promontory, lying in wait for the time's uncertain return through cracks in the horizon.
A screenshot from the quoted article with the last line highlighted. The text reads "It's hard to overstate Robert's dedication to the Dungeon Master's art. The entire basement of his house – which he picked because it met The Game's needs as well as his family's – is dedicated to Dungeons & Dragons. In addition to the large room where sessions are held, there is also a model-painting workshop and storage rooms that contain every setting a storyteller might need. This includes huge modular town sets, each representing a different historical period or culture; terrain for everywhere from barren deserts to snow covered mountains; and grand set-pieces such as ancient ruined temples, gladiatorial amphitheatres or castles."
A screenshot of Google keep reading, I'm an artist but not a musician so I'll offer what I can. 1. Being on spotify is not just about money. It's one of the biggest music platforms in the world. As is so often the case with art, it's about that nebulous term exposure. Being on featured playlists, putting out songs with bigger artists, being an easily shareable format. 2. I've never encountered this idea before, which you must admit is counter intuitive. Can you share the study? I think we're both too anti-authoritarian to just hear someone say "studies show" and then simply shrug and assent 4. As other people here have said. Copywright is an extremely imperfect tool but it is one of our only tools and I would want to see something much more robust in its place before giving it up. Artists are already extremely exposed workers. If we give up copywright, what scenario is more plausible, a flowering of communal supported art or even more intense exploitation where our genius is harvested by tech companies?
A white dog with brown patches on her ears, face, and bum, lies on a dog bed snoring softly
A screenshot from the Science article. The image shows the back of hundreds of massive mirrors pointed at a tower that is blazing blindingly like the light of the sun. A caption reads, "At the focus of the Shouhang Dunhuang plant's mirrors, a tower set aglow by the concentrated sunshine holds molten salt at 565°C. The salt generates steam that powers a turbine-and because the molten material holds heat through the night, the plant can run non-stop"
A mapping of Bush, Obama, Trump term #1, Biden, and Trump term #2's use of drone warfare in Somalia. Length of line indicates numbers killed. It's low under Bush, more than doubles under Obama, then sky rockets to more than four times as high in Trump term #1, numbers are way down under Biden, higher than Obama but still less than 1/4 of Trump's, so far in Trump term #2 it's nearly doubled the previous, highest number of strikes
A handmade sign on a glass door reads, "WE DON'T SELL Cigarettes This is a *pharmacy* Sorry for any inconvenience"
A poster-sized image on a maroon background. The centre of the image are the words "Summon Your Courage" below that are a row of eight people facing away from the viewer with their arms linked, below them are three brown femmes with long hair, black whistles in their mouths, one has an "abolish ICE" button
A dramatic, black and white photo of Subcommandante Marcos, a man dressed for outdoor life with a balaclava and pipe, he's riding a roan horse
A Toronto subway map showing the University Line including connections to the Bloor Line and the new Eglinton crosstown LRT
Clarence Clemons, a Black man in a black tank top and white chinos, dips and kisses Bruce Springsteen, a white man wearing jeans and vest, while holding his saxophone aloft
A matted and tangled dirty blonde wig hangs on a traffic bollard in an urban landscape with buildings and trees. Cars drive past
An old photograph of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse a Black man perhaps in his 50's or 60's. He has a large frame and a round, solid face with a look that would wither fools. He has small square glasses, long white clothes with patterns that are almost invisible due to how washed out the the photo is. He's holding a set of prayer beads and looking at the camera.
George W. Bush standing in front of a chalkboard reading "Child Left Behind" which crops out the word "No"
Toronto city hall with a long, pink, and white banner with words reading, "English is a foreign language! Maintaining beauty requires resistance! Love revolution!"
A medieval book detail showing a wedding. Their are five figures. At the centre is a priest with a tonsure and light stubble on a full face. The Priest is joining the hands of two figures, they're both ambigously gendered with strong jaws, flowing robes and curly hair. One has light stubble. Beside them are two witness whose bodies are inclined towards the couple whose hands are joined. Everyone in the image has a mix of features that one might name as masculine and feminine. So while we know that the image likely depicts a male priest, a groom, his male witness, a bride, and her female witness, it could also depict four trans women and a trans man.
A page from the Tao Te Ching - #9 Being Quiet Brim-fill the bowl, it'll spill over. Keep sharpening the blade, you'll soon blunt it. Nobody can protect a house full of gold and jade. Wealth, status, pride are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of blessing.
The business card of a city of Toronto employee