The Echo of a Distant Time

ArthurNewhook@mastodon.world

*John 8:32* 'Wine, women and song'. Girly pics, history, nostalgia, Golden Age of Hollywood, music, sports, more. Massachusetts Bay Colony. 🇬🇧 Fed-up news blogger. Old-fashioned, sick of it all. Anti-populist, independent pragmatist. War, tyranny, collapse. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StopPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StopPutin</a> 🇺🇦 <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NeverTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NeverTrump</a> <a href="https://linktr.ee/arthurnewhook" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://linktr.ee/arthurnewhook</a>

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Post #4493191
Norma Shearer: Hollywood's First Lady in velvet. {The Echo of a Distant Time 11 August; photo: Alfred Cheney Johnston, c. 1924, colourised via ChatGPT} https://floydetcetera.blogspot.com/2026/08/norma-shearer-hollywoods-first-lady-in.html linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #4480640
A disaster all around...
Post #4479802
'Just a real chefs kiss' #NeverTrump
Post #4401828
White House declassifies 2016 FBI probe into whether Trump was a Russian asset. {Stop the Idiocracy 5 August; image generated via ChatGPT} https://stoptheidiocracy2020s.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-declassified-shadow.html linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #4399638
Iran-linked hackers target US water systems across at least twelve states, exposing years of cybersecurity neglect. {Stop the Idiocracy 5 August; image generated via ChatGPT} https://stoptheidiocracy2020s.blogspot.com/2026/08/no-safe-harbour-in-pipes.html linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #4396265
America’s emergency crude oil supplies are at a forty-five year low. {Stop the Idiocracy 5 August; photo: AFP/Getty Images} https://stoptheidiocracy2020s.blogspot.com/2026/08/running-on-empty.html linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #3586978
Bound by thirst: Lake Powell is running dry. {Stop the Idiocracy 26 June; image generated via ChatGPT} https://stoptheidiocracy2020s.blogspot.com/2026/06/bound-by-thirst-lake-powell-is-running.html linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845628
June, in sweater weather: June Cochran, Playmate of the Year for 1963. linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈 JOIN TODAY: Broken Dolls and Fallen Angels group on Facebook (18+ ONLY) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/886318992990373 https://imaglr.com/profile/brokendollsfallenangels
Post #2845627
Good riddance to Putin-loving skunk Tulsi Gabbard: she is resigning as Trump’s DNI, apparently citing husband’s cancer diagnosis. {CNBC 22 May; photo: Getty Images} https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/tulsi-gabbard-resigns-intelligence-trump-husband.html linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845626
Cuba’s collapsing government begins preparing citizens for war with the former United States. {Los Angeles Times 22 May; image generated via Gemini} https://www.aol.com/news/cuba-tells-citizens-prepare-war-100000379.html linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845625
1776, and somewhere in England a young wife realises history may take her husband before she ever hears why: “Long before the redcoats surrendered at Yorktown, the reasons for Britain’s political and military failures had been thoroughly aired in London.” {WP 22 May; image generated via Gemini} https://wapo.st/4f7ArKN linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845624
“I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.” — the runway goddess Naomi Campbell, born 22 May 1970. {photo: Vogue, circa 1994} linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845623
Fare thee well, Dick Parry — the great saxophonist, most celebrated for his long association with Pink Floyd and for a friendship with David Gilmour that stretched back to their teenage years. He departs at the age of 83. {NME 23 May; photo: Claude Gassian} https://www.nme.com/news/music/dick-parry-saxophonist-and-pink-floyd-collaborator-dies-aged-83-3947093 linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845622
Harry Kane pulls off the hat-trick, and Bayern Munich defeats Stuttgart to win the German Cup. {ESPN 23 May} https://www.espn.com/soccer/matchstats/_/gameId/401862315
Post #2845621
A nation crippled by ineptitude and red tape: Americans numb to crumbling infrastructure. {WP 23 May; image generated via Gemini} https://wapo.st/4tQnKaE linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845620
Yet again, superstitious ignoramuses set ablaze tents used to treat Ebola patients in the former Zaire. {AP 23 May; image generated via ChatGPT} https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-tent-fire-congo-9.7210001 linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845619
POTUS shares AI fantasy video assaulting late-night TV comedian, apparently has nothing better to do with his time. {Mediaite 23 May; image generated via Gemini} https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-drops-shocking-violent-ai-vid-showing-assault-on-late-show-host-stephen-colbert-so-did-his-white-house/ linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845618
CNN poll: 61% of Americans cutting groceries. Fox: 57% say Trump&#39;s policies have hurt the country. {NYT 23 May; image generated via Gemini} https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/us/politics/americans-groceries-inflation-affordability.html?unlocked_article_code=1.klA.kd04.DQ7_3egqTb62&amp;smid=url-share linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845617
A true totalitarian: at West Point graduation ceremony, Hegseth proclaims ‘Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength’. {The Independent 23 May; image generated via ChatGPT} https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hegseth-west-point-graduation-speech-b2982557.html linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845616
Salem Nocturne. {generated via ChatGPT} linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845615
A Village Afternoon, 1948. {generated via ChatGPT} linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845614
A Gatefold Sleeve for Lost Lovers. {generated via Gemini} linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845613
Sounding as though she is trying to convince herself that all will be okay, Dr Deborah Birx asserts the former United States is equipped to handle a potential Ebola outbreak under Trump 2.0. {The Hill 25 May; photo: Getty Images} https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5893722-trump-adviser-ebola-response/ linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845612
Losing control of the narrative: Putin can no longer conceal his catastrophe in Ukraine from Muscovites; the tyrant stands exposed. {The Atlantic 23 May; image generated via Gemini} https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/putin-lost-control-russia/687269/?gift=9FZn7jkTomfZUUZKAohjmjRgsc9GiC5RM75WJbAJsdg&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845611
#ETTD
Post #2845610
Robert Reich: “Trump and his allies have so undermined the US government that we need a new vocabulary to describe them.” {The Guardian 25 May; image generated via ChatGPT} https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/25/american-presidency-trump linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #2845609
#Murica&#39;s crumbling infrastructure: climate change causing longer, frequent blackouts; utilities consider burying lines. {NPR 19 May; image generated via ChatGPT} https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5734497/michigan-underground-power-lines-climate linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Post #1018284
Goddess beneath the waterfall at twilight. {generated via ChatGPT} Follow on IG: brokendollsfallenangels linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐 #Saturn 🪐 ♄ #SaturnsDay ♄ 🕈👸 #QueSeraSera 𓅨🕈
Post #1018283
“All dressed up and sitting pretty, just waiting for Daddy to notice… and maybe hold me a little closer when he does.” {generated via ChatGPT} Follow on IG: brokendollsfallenangels linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐 #Saturn 🪐 ♄ #SaturnsDay ♄ 🕈👸 #QueSeraSera 𓅨🕈
Post #1018282
Recent surveys suggest that far fewer than half of Americans today regard themselves as political centrists, a stark reversal of the post-war era, and a significant obstacle for outlets such as CBS News seeking to cultivate a ‘centrist’ niche in a rabidly partisan climate. {The Guardian 6 April} https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/06/paramount-ceo-david-ellison-american-centrist-survey linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐 #Saturn 🪐 ♄ #SaturnsDay ♄ 🕈👸 #QueSeraSera 𓅨🕈