A putto blowing soap bubbles, sitting on a type case full of type, and the letters in the bubbles read as: VANITAS (vanity).
A beautiful reflection of human writing and publishing. This detail, printed in 1751 in a German speaking newspaper, is a beautiful reflection about publishing and media impact in general. Our words and news may be read, and do have sometimes a social impact, but most of our media and words will be gone tomorrow. So write today, #writingcommunity.
#vanity #instagram Elisabetta Canalis e Alvise Rigo: Segnali di Rottura?
Power always Sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon Foi, believes itself Right. Power always thinks it has a great Soul and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the Weak; and that it is doing God Service when it is violating all his Laws.
John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson
More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/27193/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #beneficence #cause #contempt #divinelaw #ego #patronizing #perspective #power #rectitude #righteousness #selfrighteousness #superiority #tyranny #vanity #virtue
#Vanity, geboren als #DeniseMatthews (1959-2016), overleed op haar 57ste aan de gevolgen van de zeldzame nierziekte.
Ze begon als model, tot ze ontdekt werd door #Prince.
In 1982 werd ze leadzangeres van het meidentrio #Vanity6, bekend van de hitsige hitsingle ‘Nasty girl’. Een jaar later al ging ze solo, speelde ze in B-films en viel ze een paar keer in Playboy te bewonderen. Eind jaren 90 bekeerde ze zich tot het christendom, wat meteen het einde was van de carrière van Vanity.
So many faces surfacing on her face.
Mami at Her Vanity
Julia Alvarez
#Poetry #JuliaAlvarez #Mother #Vanity #Makeup #Daughter #Trujillo #DominicanRepublic #SantoDomingo #1950s
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/mami-at-her-vanity-julia-alvarez-poem
Beautiful Art Deco woman doing make up in front of Emile Jacques Ruhlmann Vanity.
#artdeco #beautifulwoman #makeup #vanity #emilejacquesruhlmann #aiart #aigenerated #nightcafe #nightcafeArt #nightcafeCreation
The tunnel has been under construction for more than a year, with the #FederalGovernment expected to fund about $12 billion of its cost. But the #Transportation Dept said in October that it would withhold #funding until the project could be reviewed to make sure that its contracts followed with new federal rules targeting diversity, equity & inclusion [#DEI] programs — or you know until they serviced Trump’s ego 🙄.
#law #MafiaState #extortion #vanity #EgomaniacalSociopath #Trump
It includes the construction of a new two-track tunnel connecting #NewYork & #NewJersey, which are linked by 116-year-old tunnels in such poor condition that #trains are often delayed, creating a bottleneck.
The new tunnel will be crucial to avoiding a disruption in #rail service around New York City that would have drastic effects on the national #economy.
#law #MafiaState #extortion #vanity #EgomaniacalSociopath #Trump
But withholding money from the tunnel over the names of #PennStation, the busiest train station in the country, would be a significant escalation of the effort to ensure #Trump’s “legacy”, tying it to a project that would have massive ripple effects across the East Coast.
The project, known as #Gateway, sits at the heart of the Northeast Corridor #rail route that runs from Boston to Washington & is the most-used passenger line in the #US.
#law #MafiaState #extortion #vanity #EgomaniacalSociopath
Beyond the #KennedyCenter, #Trump & his allies have stamped his name on the US Institute of Peace & public-facing federal projects like investment accounts for American children & TrumpRx, a website that supposedly will help Americans buy medication directly from drugmakers. [He also added his name randomly throughout the State Department building.]
#Trump & Schumer met at the White House last month to discuss the frozen funds.
Though he is the top #Senate #Democrat, Schumer has NO direct #oversight over either transportation hub & rebuffed the request, acc/to 2 of the people.
Trump, known for affixing his name to NYC high-rises & Atlantic City hotels, has appeared to be undertaking a similar drive on a national scale during his second term.
Again I say, I bet he pees on everything too.
Officials Pressed Schumer to Rename #PennStation & #Dulles International Airport for #Trump
Admin officials told the top #Senate Democrat that Trump would release frozen #funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.
#law #MafiaState #EgomaniacalSociopath
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-schumer-penn-station-dulles-airport-renaming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
But there is in fact nobody who is so hostile to the Muses that he would not readily allow his own deeds to be immortalized in verse.
[Neque enim quisquam est tam aversus a Musis, qui non mandari versibus aeternum suorum laborum facile praeconium patiatur. ]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 9 / sec. 20 (62 BC) [tr. Guinach (1962)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #accolades #ego #glory #immortalization #poetry #praise #pride #publicity #renown #vanity #verse
Look upon my garish statue, ye crypto-loons, and cringe.
"At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer of gold leaf. For more than a year, the golden statue has been at the center of one of the stranger moneymaking ventures of the Trump era."
https://archive.ph/vXVwa
#vanity #luncacy #cryptobros #memecoin
Loth also invoked the vantage point from #ArlingtonNationalCemetery, where visitors often look across the river toward the Lincoln Memorial & the capital beyond — a view he said the proposed #arch would reshape.
“How does it impact the panorama of Washington?” Loth said, invoking a question that he said should guide designers of #monuments. “What is supposed to be doing the speaking?”
Local historians & architectural experts have said that a large #arch could change the relationship between several historic sites, including Memorial Bridge itself, which was intended as a bridge between North & South in the wake of the Civil War, & memorials for Lincoln & Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
“It’s a very somber corridor,” said John Haigh, the chair of Benedictine College’s architecture program….
#Trump told Politico in December that he hoped to begin construction of the arch within two months. Memorial Circle, the plot of land that the president has eyed, is controlled by the National Park Service.
“The one that people know mostly is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. And we’re gonna top it by, I think, a lot,” Trump said at a White House Christmas reception in December.
#Trump has considered smaller versions of the #arch, including 165-foot-high and 123-foot-high designs he shared at a dinner last year. But he has favored the largest option, arguing that its sheer size would impress visitors to Washington, & that “250 for 250”🙄 makes the most sense, the people said.
