Notices by RustyBertrand (rustybertrand@social.vivaldi.net), page 2

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Hmmm...
I need to read up on Shrödingers superpositioning and the observer effect.

Something seems off.

Interesting show.

But damn! Is Jennifer Connelly dying of cancer irl? That is a POW starvation body. Like whoa!

I thought maybe she lost weight for her role in SnowPiercer, but she's even smaller now. She'd also need lot's of face fillers to keep from looking like a junkie at that weight.

Please do not re-popularise the literal skeleton body for women.

Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent.

There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators erased from public memory. Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning met similar resistance; Andre Breton and Dalí both also being misogynistic megalomaniacs who vanguarded surrealism from women; Henry Miller writing to Anaïs Nin that her stories were garbage and should be disregarded, only for her to discover whole sections copied word for word in his novels years later, all while she financed his existence.

Francoise Gilot finally gets an exhibition after this hack successfully ruined her chances of success as an artist while she lived, and her name is still omitted.

Rebecca Solnit suggests that the fact that the question "what is your mother's maiden name?" is often used for security measures is a meaningful indicator of the extent of women's erasure. What's in a name? A lot. If one's claim of one's own name meant nothing then colonisers wouldn't need to strip them from the colonised, and men wouldn't need to erase them in marriage, from history books and from reportage.

via Freyja Howls

Was watching a documentary where they said " #CarlSagan inspired a handful of people to create the #Voyager spacecraft..."

Like WHAT?
His wife #AnnDruyan was the creative director of the mission and wrote most of his TV work. His books were co-written with her. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann_Druyan&wprov=rarw1

#NASA and #wiki don't even mention her unless you look up her name specifically. Above link.

Interesting pics, but no mention of her.
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/making-of-the-golden-record/

Coincidentally, the #Voyager finally started working again today.

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112467865648036150

“Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.”

–Charles de Lint, Someplace to Be Flying (1998)

Art to the rescue!

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

- Beryl Markham, West with the Night

"Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.”

-Joe Biden

#genocidejoe
https://theconversation.com/biden-says-the-u-s-would-have-to-invent-an-israel-if-it-didnt-exist-why-210172

Here I go Again on my Phone

- Whitesnake

#makeasongorpoemridiculous
#hashtaggames

“What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.”

–Virginia Woolf

@bmacDonald94

Only lucky fucks turn into fossils. The rest of us will just be a layer of plastic in the geological record.

#SkellyWars

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex."

- Frank Zappa

"Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk."

-Tom Waits

Does #StarTrek ever expound on the building of the Universal translator? Who? When?

Because if they dead. I believe I can be of assistance. Very outdated.

“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall – like seeking love in a whorehouse.”

–Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Photo by Diane Arbus

‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment

Childhood maltreatment includes physical, sexual or emotional abuse, and emotional or physical neglect experienced before the age of 18.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/huge-proportion-of-mental-health-conditions-in-australia-found-to-be-caused-by-childhood-maltreatment?CMP=share_btn_url

@bmacDonald94

Biden delayed a shipment of bombs to Israel last week. It's working #resist

Now he's stopped more shipments.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/08/us-signals-to-israel-more-arms-shipments-could-be-paused-rafah-offensive-gaza

American Arms Dealers shouldn't be building planes.

Front of #Boeing 767 scrapes along Istanbul runway after front landing gear failure

The Boeing 767, flying from Paris, told the traffic control tower at Istanbul Airport that its landing gear failed to open