Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

The revolution will be supervised.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

I really should read my own blog.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

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The ‘irony’ here — you wouldn’t really need any artistic talent, just a dedicated (greedy) agent with the right art-world contacts…

Washington Crossing the Delaware — minimal photoshopping skills required to put a phone in Washington’s hand. Maybe give the frantic rowers headband GoPros, for additional marketing oomph?

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  1. 1.

    debbie

    Ophelia floating on the river, grateful she’s about to drown because she forgot to charge her phone. Again.

  2. 2.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    A bunch of these types of “art” pieces could be featured on r/phonesarebad subreddit

  4. 4.

    Kent

    According to Wikipedia:

    A 2018 study of news reports showed that there were 259 selfie deaths in 137 incidents reported globally between October 2011 and November 2017, with the highest occurrences in India, followed by Russia, United States, and Pakistan. The mean age was 23 years old, with male deaths outnumbering female about three to one

    More people die from selfies than sharks.

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    Barbara

    I did take a funny picture in the Rodin Museum of people checking their phones in front of a life sized statue of a couple locked in a passionate embrace. Just sort of highlighted for me the limits of art in the modern world.

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    bbleh

    Mona Lisa with her enigmatic smile and her phone tilted so you just barely can’t see what’s on it.

    Dali’s Persistence of Memory but with melted smartphones.

    The Discoboulos turning because he just heard a message tone.

    … seriously these would make MUCH better NFTs than a bunch of ugly monkey cartoons.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    Several years ago, in late October, there was a terrific New Yorker cover: tiny children in witch and pirate and princess costumes all running up to a big house for their treats, while their parents all hovered around the fringes, staring at their phones, which shone ghostly blue reflections on their faces. Put the spookiness where it properly belonged.

    ETA: And I’m pretty sure at some point there was a cover which had Eustace Tilley gazing at a smartphone (rather than the traditional butterfly) through his monocle.

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    Ken

    @SiubhanDuinne: Similar to the opening of the zom-rom-com Warm Bodies, with an airport full of people all staring vacantly at their phones as they wander around, which smoothly transitions to an airport full of zombies staring vacantly at nothing as they wander around.

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    Dangerman

    Recently seen on a T Shirt:

    ”It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s just I’d unplug your hospital ventilator if I need to charge my phone”

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    JWR

    I was thinking maybe I could put my limited artistic Art talents to work, then Googled “Mona Lisa with cell phone” and found out there’s loads of Mona Lisa selfies out there.

    But I once did some fun image manipulation for a friend’s online bookstore. I remember replacing the heads of the folks in Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People with his favorite authors, (James Joyce, etc.), with others holding up signs with the bookstore’s name. That was a lotta fun! Easy, too, though time consuming.

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    Misterpuff

    @Kalakal: THE DAWN OF MAN

    Apes circle giant black monolith, charge and bare teeth at it. One finally approaches and touches it.

    IT LIGHTS UP AND PLAYS Thus Spake Zarathustra ringtone.

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