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Following advances in cellular, molecular & structural biology in a mercifully bot-free space.

A banner of Stalin is unfurled behind a chorus of singers performing to a packed theater audience. Black & white still from the 2018 film ‘Cold War’
Claudius admonishes Caligula at a chance meeting on the streets of Rome, “You depress me unutterably sometimes”. Still photo from BBC production of Robert Graves ‘I, Claudius’ (1976) featuring John Hurt as Caligula & Derek Jacobi as Claudius.
Black/white print of red-kerchiefed cow with text ‘NOT TODAY HEIFER’.
Still photo of Succession’s Logan Roy claiming that “Everything I’ve done in my life, I’ve done for my children.”
Movie still of theatre marquee advertising ‘Puppet Show And Spinal Tap’
Photo of Paul Bremer wearing the cosplay combat boots he was famous for as leader of the CPA during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
Somebody gave me this body—what do I do with it now? It's a very remarkable body, and nobody's body but mine. I'm alive and I breathe, I'm strong and tall- won't somebody tell me who to thank for it all? I'm the gardener and the flower, too, And in this prison of a world I'm not alone. When I move, when I breathe, I leave my mark on the everlasting windowpane that keeps out the dark. It's the mark of myself! And that mark will remain on the cold transparence of that windowpane. Life beyond the glass may darken, day to day, but my mark on that windowpane will never go away. —Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by Paul Schmidt (1909)
Photo of the moment mom rips off Lyle Menendez’s toupée in Netflix series ‘Monsters’
Image of a kerchiefed cow over ‘not today heifer’ text.
Photo of AbFab’s Patsy taking a drag on her cigarette & thinking “For Godsake just die.”
Still, color photo of the formerly camouflaged Childcatcher escaping with caged children from the 1967 film ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’.
Color photo of Elf-on-a-Shelf in a vacuum jar.
Color photo of statue of Saddam Hussein statue toppled on Firdos Square during US invasion of Iraq.
WordHippo antonyms for Cassandra fail:
Photo of a hooded mushroom resembling Trump’s suit jacket grappling with an obese torso perched over wasting legs.
Billboard ad for Fiat Palio reading ‘If it were a lady, it would have its bottom pinched’ with spray-painted message ‘If this lady was a car she’d run you down’
“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended - with words, with courage and with determination.“
Elon Musk mimics Marilyn Monroe’s ‘come hither’ look while sporting black negligée top.
Poem by Osip Mandelstam
Image of bored, smoking Patricia Lumley saying ‘For Godsake, just die’ from AbFab.
Derek Jacobi as emperor Claudius in his final year.
Banner ad of a white woman eating cheese & crackers with advert text “crackers love cheese!”
1998 Newsweek cover image of Newt Gingrich ‘the loser’. After Newt served divorce papers to his wife’s bedside in a cancer hospital, cancer-care nurses coined the term ‘gingrich’ed’ to describe husbands who similarly sued their their wives for divorce during cancer care.
Image of French national anthem music depicted as a Cocker spaniel & French anthem words as its wolf shadow.
Blanchett & Dench confrontation in ‘Notes on a Scandal’
Still image of a recreated choral performance praising Stalin from the film Cold War (2018)
Cow grazing a green Belgian pasture with a flowering tree
Somebody gave me this body—what do I do with it now? It's a very remarkable body, and nobody's body but mine. I'm alive and I breathe, I'm strong and tall- won't somebody tell me who to thank for it all? I'm the gardener and the flower, too, And in this prison of a world l'm not alone. When I move, when I breathe, I leave my mark on the everlasting windowpane that keeps out the dark. It's the mark of myself! And that mark will remain on the cold transparence of that windowpane. Life beyond the glass may darken, day to day, but my mark on that windowpane will never go away. Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by Paul Schmidt (1909)
Succession’s Gerri Kellman asks “How does that serve my interests?”
“If you see a horrid beast evolving, PUSH IT BACK IN!”
Elon attempting allure.
Image of Iraq’s Minister of Information ‘Bagdad Bob’
GW Bush’s CPA leader Paul Bremer wearing combat boots in Iraq
Translated recordings of ‘relaxing bird sounds’ reveal them to be threats or cries for help by different bird species.
Pictorial image of human greeting & earth coordinates from Voyager 1 probe
Questionnaire in which every answer is ‘my cat’
Image of April 30, 2025 news article reporting “New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar”
Woodblock print demonstrating ‘the swimming test’ to discover witches.
Cartoon identifying the progressive steps of maternal indulgence leading her son to a drunkard’s grave.
Photo of a small domestic dog (labeled French national anthem music) casting the shadow of a wolf (labeled French national anthem lyrics)
Kyle Rittenhouse at snack training camp
Photo of Tesla corner in NYC.
Pacifier
Powerpuff girls
Philip Seymour Hoffman holding a boom mike in ‘Boogie Nights’
Dinosaur reminding chicken of her noble ancestry
Americans standing in line for aid beneath a billboard celebrating America’s high standard of living.
Screenshot of Twitter site promoting ‘German Historical Education’ featuring photo of model Aryan family.
Joanna Lumley casually wishes you dead.
Arab countries watching early events in Gaza & giving them a high-five before watching them disappear beneath the waves. Now watching US government version of the same for its citizens.
Text definition of those eligible for birthright citizenship
Film still of surreptitious will-signing scene from ‘Double Indemnity’. Stanwyck, Powers, MacMurray 1944
Photo portrait of Henry Kissinger with pronounced eye asymmetry similar to Trump’s
Kerchiefed cow urges caution
Photo of Harris & Zelensky shaking hands.
Photos of TacoBell fast-food & of a child from Britain’s Victorian era
French national anthem as wolf
Chooks hoarding toilet paper
Example structural formula for cis and trans isomers