#Patrimoni

[2jota]

Valencians voladors

valència #landscape #patrimoni #mankindheritage #photography #promenade #birdlife #bird #birdwatching #garçetablanca #garceta #natura #nature #naturaleza #sky #albufera #parcnatural #arrossars #paísvalencià #colorsdelpaisatge #comarquesvalencianes #lariberadelxúquer #lhortasud #pndelalbufera #gvaparcsnaturals #igersvalencia #valenciagram #goldenhour #capvespre #vesprada

[ernestdescalsartwok]

ELS PRATS DE REI-PINTURA-ART-CARRER DEL FORN-MASIA-CAL LLOBET-PLUJA-CEL-FOSC-PAISATGES-ANOIA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS por Ernest Descals Por Flickr: ELS PRATS DE REI-PINTURA-ART-CARRER DEL FORN-MASIA-CAL LLOBET-PLUJA-CEL-FOSC-PAISATGES-ANOIA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS- Cielo oscuro por las nubes y la lluvia en el Carrer del Forn del pueblo de ELS PRATS DE REI, pueblos y paisajes de la Comarca del Anoia en la Catalunya Central. la imponente y antigua Masía de CAL LLOBET situada en la esquina, una alta pared de piedras la separa de la estrecha calle y oculta su jardín, en el ambiente lluvioso puedo percibir y Pintar las ventanas ojivales en su fachada que están enmarcadas por ladrillos anaranjados, la escena se hunde hacia la oscuridad climatológica aportando sensaciones especiales, arquitectura, historia y el tiempo se funden en una perspectiva audaz. Pintura de artista pintor Ernest Descals sobre papel de 50 x 70 centímetros, pintando para encontrar los ángulos complejos, sin concesiones, sólo lo que veo y siento en el momento presente, creo que los pintores tenemos que arriesgar y ser valientes en la elección de los temas pintados.

[saraw4ters]

[b0ringasfuck]

Come al solito si pensa di essere tutti "embarassed millionaires" o semplicemente che la patrimoniale finirebbe per punire la piccola borghesia così che appunto i grandi patrimoni trovino facili alleati non solo tra chi non muore di fame ma anche tra i pezzenti [*].

E il problema non sta nemmeno nell'invidia sociale dei consumi, perchè gente che ha i miliardi... manco riesce a consumarli, ma nella sperequazione di potere che poi si traduce in una democrazia disfunzionale dove lo 0.1% convince i rimanenti a fare quello che vuole.

[*] che un po' è già così... visto che per dire la no tax area parte da 8500 Euro e si passa da un 23% a un 43% nel giro di poche decine di migliaia di euro e poi è tutto piatto così che chi guadagna al lordo 51000 euro paga la stessa aliquota di chi guadagna 1000000 o 100000000 o 1000000000.

[photoclic64]

La forêt du Pignada au matin à ANGLET The Pignada forest one morning in ANGLET

Une forêt dans l'histoire L'Empereur Napoléon III dota la ville d'Anglet d'une importante somme d'argent pour créer une forêt de pins de 400 hectares. L'Empereur et l'Impératrice aimaient s'y promener. Le Pignada est le nom donné en gascon à cette forêt de pins. Source : Ville d'ANGLET

A forest in history Emperor Napoleon III endowed the town of Anglet with a large sum of money to create a 400-hectare pine forest. The Emperor and Empress loved to walk there. Le Pignada is the name given in Gascon to this pine forest.

_Un chemin d'accès à la forêt a path to the forest _ Au coeur de la forêt in the depths of the forest

[milkyfederation]

I just thought of a funny idea. Space archeologists vs space construction contractors.

You're happily doing your job colonizing a planet, making plans to terraform it for human habitability when, "Oh shit, not again...", ruins of an ancient alien civilization.

So of course the space archeologists stop the project until they can unearth the mysteries of unknown alien cultures. Typical!

[ombuarchitecture]

Remodelación Repensando Torres Blancas

Realizar un proyecto de reforma de una vivienda en el edificio Torres Blancas implica dialogar con las ideas originales de su arquitecto Francisco Javier Sainz de Oiza, el estado de sus elementos construidos y el valor de la preservación en su narrativa más contemporánea

By Studio.NOJU

Photos via Archdaily

[ikuudo]

Arcane Artober #3: Weapon

AOWrite-ober #3: Weapon

And the universe chose to make you its Champion.

Atop the podium stood a sword, its blade stabbed into crevices of rocks. For centuries it remained — even as heavens fell and the earth beneath swayed, it laid dormant as it waits for deployment.

You are the Champion, thou who wields the almighty blade shall slay all who stands in his way.

“Heed thine call,” chanted the crowd.

“For you shall vanquish all our woes.”

[francepittoresque]

PATRIMOINE | Chapelle du château d’Amboise : réouverture après restauration ➽ https://tinyurl.com/Chapelle-Chateau-Amboise Deux ans et demi de travaux, une dizaine de corps de métier différents mobilisés, plus de cinquante artisans à l’œuvre pour restaurer un joyau architectural et patrimonial de plus de 500 ans. La chapelle du Château d’Amboise s’est refait une beauté, au frais de l’État et de la fondation Saint-Louis (propriétaire du monument). Un projet d’ampleur pour une restauration exceptionnelle

[absurdlakefront]

To say, then, that Trump lacks the temperament or attention span to be a dictator offers little comfort. He is patrimonialism’s perfect organism. He recognizes no distinction between what is public and private, legal and illegal, formal and informal, national and personal. “He can’t tell the difference between his own personal interest and the national interest, if he even understands what the national interest is,” John Bolton, who served as national security adviser in Trump’s first term, told The Bulwark. As one prominent Republican politician recently told me, understanding Trump is simple: “If you’re his friend, he’s your friend. If you’re not his friend, he’s not your friend.” This official chose to be Trump’s friend. Otherwise, he said, his job would be nearly impossible for the next four years.

Patrimonialism explains what might otherwise be puzzling. Every policy the president cares about is his personal property. Trump dropped the federal prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams because a pliant big-city mayor is a useful thing to have. He broke with 50 years of practice by treating the Justice Department as “his personal law firm.” He treats the enforcement of duly enacted statutes as optional—and, what’s more, claims the authority to indemnify lawbreakers. He halted proceedings against January 6 thugs and rioters because they are on his side. His agencies screen hires for loyalty to him rather than to the Constitution.

In Trump’s world, federal agencies are shut down on his say-so without so much as a nod to Congress. Henchmen with no statutory authority barge into agencies and take them over. A loyalist who had only ever managed two small nonprofits is chosen for the hardest management job in government. Conflicts of interest are tolerated if not outright blessed. Prosecutors and inspectors general are fired for doing their job. Thousands of civil servants are converted to employment at the president’s will. Former officials’ security protection is withdrawn because they are disloyal. The presidency itself is treated as a business opportunity.

[2jota]

Mar d'argent

#landscape #patrimoni #mankindheritage #photography #promenade #natura #nature #naturaleza #albuferadevalencia #parcnatural #valenciaturisme #mediterranean #birdlife #aves #ocells #birdswatching #parcnaturaldelalbufera #vidarural #paisajesvalencianos #paísvalencià #colorsdelpaisatge #comarquesvalencianes #lariberadelxúquer #lhorta #pndelalbufera #albufera #agróblau #llacunadelalbufera #marjal

[ernestdescalsartwok]

ELS PRATS DE REI-PINTURA-ART-ESGLESIA-MARE DEU DEL PORTAL-CREU DE TERME-PAISATGES-PLOVENT-PLUJA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS por Ernest Descals Por Flickr: ELS PRATS DE REI-PINTURA-ART-ESGLESIA-MARE DEU DEL PORTAL-CREU DE TERME-PAISATGES-PLOVENT-PLUJA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS- En ruta por la Comarca del Anoia en el interior de la provincia de Barcelona en Catalunya, está lloviendo, estos días llueve con incierta frecuencia, quiero Pintar los paisaje del pueblo de ELS PRATS DE REI, me refugio bajo un balcón y he pintado la Església de la MARE DÈU DEL PORTAL, precioso edificio neoclásico, el cielo está oscuro cargado de nubes y forma una masa de tonos grises, la antigua Creu de Terme, Cruz de término, nos impresiona con su presencia, brillos en el suelo mojado, atmósfera de recogimiento, como lo estoy yo, recogido de la lluvia. Pintura del artista pintor Ernest Descals sobre papel de 50 x 70 centímetros, pintando los pueblos que han recibido poca atención de mis ilustres colegas pintores, si es que queda alguno.

[eiitsuya]

my favorite mexican jason todd hc is willis being his mexican punk dad (because jason canonically likes punk and he obviously pick it up after his dad) that was part of the epic battle emos vs punks in insurgentes (mexico city)

i love that video so much

[erik-even-wordier]

From the essay:

Trump is installing what scholars call patrimonialism. Understanding patrimonialism is essential to defeating it. ... "... In the premodern world,” [Stephen E.] Hanson and [Jeffrey S.] Kopstein write. “The state was little more than the extended ‘household’ of the ruler; it did not exist as a separate entity.” [Max] Weber called this system “patrimonialism” because rulers claimed to be the symbolic father of the people—the state’s personification and protector. Exactly that idea was implied in Trump’s own chilling declaration: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” ... Patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. It can be found in many countries, but its main contemporary exponent—at least until January 20, 2025—has been Vladimir Putin. ... Patrimonialism’s antithesis is not democracy; it is bureaucracy, or, more precisely, bureaucratic proceduralism. Classic authoritarianism—the sort of system seen in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union—is often heavily bureaucratized. ... By contrast, patrimonialism is suspicious of bureaucracies; after all, to exactly whom are they loyal? They might acquire powers of their own, and their rules and processes might prove obstructive. People with expertise, experience, and distinguished résumés are likewise suspect because they bring independent standing and authority. So patrimonialism stocks the government with nonentities and hacks, or, when possible, it bypasses bureaucratic procedures altogether. ... Even if authoritarianism is averted, the damage that patrimonialism does to state capacity is severe. Governments’ best people leave or are driven out.... Civil servants, contractors, grantees, corporations, and the public are corrupted by the habit of currying favor. ... As Hanson and Kopstein note, “Patrimonial regimes couldn’t compete militarily or economically with states led by expert bureaucracies.” They still can’t. Patrimonialism suffers from two inherent and in many cases fatal shortcomings. The first is incompetence. “The arbitrary whims of the ruler and his personal coterie continually interfere with the regular functioning of state agencies,” write Hanson and Kopstein. ... Corruption is patrimonialism’s Achilles’ heel because the public understands it and doesn’t like it. It is not an abstraction like “democracy” or “Constitution” or “rule of law.” It conveys that the government is being run for them, not for you. ... If [the Democrats] want to undermine Trump’s support, this model suggests that they should pursue a relentless, strategic, and thematic campaign branding Trump as America’s most corrupt president. Almost every development could provide fodder for such attacks, which would connect corruption not with generalities like the rule of law but with kitchen-table issues. ... Do the Democrats need a positive message of their own? Sure, they should do that work. But right now, when they are out of power and Trump is the capo di tutti capi, the history of patrimonial rule suggests that their most effective approach will be hammering home the message that he is corrupt.

Worth reading the whole thing. This is a gift link, so you do not need to be an Atlantic subscriber.

[ducavalentinos]

[...]In fact Orsino [Orsini] donated the castle of Carbognano to his wife in 1497, on condition that it would pass to his heirs. But in the case of his only daughter's demise, to secure its possession to Giulia Farnese would be free to dispose of it by sale or bequest. Moreover, two years later Orsino signed a marriage contract with Alessandro Farnese so that his daughter became betrothed to Federico Farnese, clearly intending that if his possessions could not be secured in the male line, they would at least end up as part of the patrimony of the Farnese. This was a noticeable divergence from the dynastic strategies normally used within the Orsini, which assumed that female Orsini offspring with a sizeable inheritance would marry into another branch of the family to keep the patrimony within the larger Orsini clan. The Borgia family: Rumor and Representation: Sexuality, Agency and Honor by Loek Luiten

[yuneu]

i need to read really corny but fun gay romance or i’ll implode do you guys have recs