Given how many little "big animals on wheels" we've had from all over the world, I think the prehistoric equivalent of "Truck Kid" might be "Ox Kid."
(Ukraine, Crete, Maharashtra, Anatolia)
The 1991 documentary on New York City drag queen ball culture and their houses "Paris is Burning" is available on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7r...
Sigh. It's beyond me how these people think they're clever. #AntiAsian #Racism
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"Many of the performers sought lawsuits against [director Jennie] Livingston. Paris Dupree, whose name and annual ball originated the film's title and who is credited as a pioneer of vogue dance, filed suit unsuccessfully for $40 million."
- Legacy Russell, Black Meme via @versobooks.bsky.social
Maybe leave a comment so that objections are in the historical record.
AP: Workers started to remove Trump's name from the #KennedyCenter but left around 3:30 AM EDT. They put up tarps around the scaffolding so the public couldn't see, but a photographer found a gap and got a picture of a letter being removed.
Wishing you the joy of a really good treat this #Caturday
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"a gap in the tarps allowed a New York Times photographer to observe a worker pulling the letter "A" from the wall. There was no sound of power tools; the letter appeared to come off by hand." 😘
Co-painted Fragonard and Marguerite Gerard, his pupil, The Angora Cat, 1783-85, oil on linen. #Caturday #WomenArtists
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As the parent of a toddler... can confirm.
Which makes me wonder--historian bluesky, I know the whole concept of childhood used to be different and/but/also developmentally kids and have been kids forever, so what was the pre-industrial equivalent of loving garbage trucks? Do we know?
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one of my favorite things about tiny children is that it does not matter what their race, gender or culture is
they all love Garbage Truck equally
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I went to a two-year-old’s birthday party today and their parents booked an LA Waste Management trash truck to come park out front and the way these kids RAN to see this thing up close!!! The WM reps also had party favors and coloring books. Lowkey want to book it for my own birthday
